Grant Lee Phillips - Ladies Love Oracle (2005) by Grant Lee Phillips (보컬) on maniadb.com

You're a pony that's OK
I don't need to see you
Tied up to a hitching gate
That would only break you

The light pours in
Onto our skin
We have the power to begin
When all we want is the world

I'm a zebra that's all right
All I see is black and white
When it comes to being gray
Well I won't stand in the way

The light pours in
And out of our furnace
We have the power just to turn
Turn into gods turn into heroes

The light pours in
Onto our skin
We have the power to begin
When all we want is the world

Heavenly heavenly what other words
Could I use to describe
The heavenly ivory touch of your hand
As it covers my eyes
Hushing me off to sleep
Putting my mind at ease

Lovingly lovingly every caress
That you ever gave
All of you knowing me like no one else
At the end of the day
Brushing my fears away
Knowing just what to say

Heavenly heavenly no other love
Was meant to be mine
The perfectly heavenly stars up above
Were duly aligned
I had to wait for you
Now that my search is through

Heavenly heavenly

I've been seeking affirmations
All night long oh and
What I'm feeling in my heart it
Can't be wrong no Sir

I keep squinting for something I might have
Done hair different it's all up for grabs
Lord I've been squinting as though through a keyhole
Just like Clint Eastwood for a few dollars more

I done read all of the cards and I
Saw my fate waiting
Like a chauffeur down at the airport it
Holds my name up but

I keep squinting for something I might have
Just overlooked but there ain't no turning back
I've been squinting as though through a keyhole
Just like Clint Eastwood for a few dollars more

Folks around me they keep stepping
In my shoes oh but
They don't fit right and they don't walk
The way I do oh and

All the garbage trucks a rolling
Down my street slowly
I can barely strain away to
Hear myself think ah

I keep squinting for something I might have
Done hair different it's all up for grabs
Lord I've been squinting as though through a keyhole
Just like Clint Eastwood for a few dollars more

Mmm mum is the word
Numb is a better word
So haven't you heard

Luke the Drifter and me
Who wrote us a song
Too lonesome to sing

Not on this side of the dial
Not on this short wave

Buster Keaton and I
Danced down on the window seal
Ten stores high

If one night you take to walking
Way up off the ground
Do yourself a favor
Don't look down

I keep falling back to earth
Just as I am floating high

Luke the Drifter and me
Thumbed us a ride
Down the highway of dreams

Once you're out beyond the city
This old road gets dark
Lose your barrens
And forget where you are

I keep falling back to earth
Just as I am floating high
Very high high high

All these rats are swimmin' for the land
They ain't goin' down with the captain
Same old rats that took a bite outa' me
Darling way back when the word was mutiny

Nothin' but a raft to carry me and my girl
They just wrote us off
Till we turned up blazing torches on their docks

One night we're gonna' burn 'em down

And the same goes for those who underestimate
Said the love of my life was just another blind date
You know I hardly had a single word edgewise
Before the true believers started to drop like flies

But I don't see 'em out parading arm in arm
I see 'em dodging cars in harm's way
You think with so many words of wisdom they could fill up a library

But one night I'd have to burn it down
One night I'd have to burn it down

I can think of at least fourteen ways to disappear
No I don't need to be told when it's plain as day I'm in the minority here
But why must all the horrible people have all the cheer

Blue green grass is standing somewhere still
I know it is even if it's over landfill
I got to think that there's still a tiny patch
To raise some hens and watch those chickens hatch

Browsing through the almanac I watch the stars
That plummet now and then
And I'm waiting for a flamin' shoe to drop on us again

One night gonna burn it down
One night we're gonna burn it down

(One two three
One two three)

Oh what a colorful lie
Leading me on
Without ever batting an eye
How many pecks on the cheek
Before I get wind
That I'm on a losing streak
Yeah too many for me
Too many for me

Darlin' I'm folding
I'm tired of holding
Onto a love untrue
Darlin' I'm folding
I lay down my hand
And walk away from you

Oh what a painful lament
Knowing what was
And not knowing where it went
Destiny beckoned my name
Drew me to you
But destiny loves to play games
Yeah loves to play games

Darlin' I'm folding
I'm tired of holding
Onto a love untrue
Darlin' I'm folding
I lay down my hand
And walk away from you

I'll walk away it's true
For I keep breaking this promise
Breaking this promise

Darlin' I'm folding
I'm tired of holding
Onto a love untrue
Darlin' I'm folding
I lay down my hand
And walk away from you

World you are a mill
Do you grind away until
Every grain of life is tilled

Girl you're like a running stream
And every line I've tossed you've washed it clean
Upon the shore you're headed for the sea

There's a peace that I've always found
In a lonesome serenade
Such a piece of mind overwhelms
As my every desire's replayed
Oh oh oh in a lonesome serenade

Rowed on paddle boats
In a past of mine I've never known
On a lake of polished stone

Take us far away
To an island where she can't be swayed
By another man's embrace

There's a peace that I've always found
In a lonesome serenade
Such a piece of mind overwhelms
As my every desire's replayed
Oh oh oh in a lonesome serenade

Warmed when you become
Reckon all that growin' pains you some
Still you smile what's done is done

There's a peace that I've always found
In a lonesome serenade
Such a piece of mind overwhelms
As my every desire's replayed
Oh oh oh like a lonesome serenade

There's a tug at my heart
Like a rope it's pulling
Out on the horizon
But I've no way of knowing
Where to start

Nothing is for sure no sleep still in my eyes
Fumbling for the door oh she doesn't like to face the morning light
Nothing is for sure oh as I begin my day
Glasses are a blur as my world's about to spin the other way

Staring at the ceiling
I can see to heaven
But only when I'm willing
So I pray for the strength
To begin again again

Nothing is for sure no sleep still in my eyes
Fumbling for the door oh she doesn't like to face the morning light
Nothing is for sure oh as I begin my day
Glasses are a blur as my world's about to spin the other way

Spin me the other way
I've got to learn not to say always
Spin me the other way
People on the other half got no worries

Nothing is for sure no sleep still in my eyes
Fumbling for the door oh she doesn't like to face the morning light
Nothing is for sure no as I begin my day
Glasses are a blur as my world's about to spin the other way

Nothing is for sure oh
And nothing is for sure
Spin me the other way
I've got to learn not to say always

Watching the clock over Jackson Square
I could feel my life drifting away
Loosing my hold like the muddy banks
In eleven straight days of rain

I want to call on the St. Expedite
I better call on that St. Expedite

Hung on the carousel took me a while
To see that it just goes 'round
I kept a thinking your name rings a bell
You resemble someone when you smile

And I wanna say it's that St. Expedite
Honey you got a face like St. Expedite

My spirit grows heavy and I wonder at times
What keeps it from floating up higher
The hatred of people that I might have crossed
Or the gravity of our desires

It's hell either way callin' St. Expedite
Hell either way callin' St. Expedite