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from Indigo Girls - Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (1990)
from the bowery to the brimstone i tried to find your heart with drugs of initiation the bottom of a barrel that drops i understand your causes sympathize the motivation but all the details of this war are just self-infatuation and it's 1 2 3 nothings for free 4 5 6 pick up the sticks and go home manic blood runs thick my friend are you looking for a clean escape what's left when the locks have all been broken young children of authority now how long can you be agile dancing between the alter and the mercy seat yeah now here's a chance to make a choice are you aware of the fire beneath your feet 1 2 3 nothings for free 4 5 6 pick up the sticks and go home the basement lies within us our fear comes through the door now there's nothing left between us as the fear becomes a roar once that wheel is in motion don't you lose what you have found i'm talking about that burning wheel of tongues everything that makes it go round and round we're all born in the devils scorn they want to see you die i'm asking you are you true everything they say is a lie it's a lie 1 2 3 nothings for free 4 5 6 pick up the sticks and go 1 2 3 nothings for free 4 5 6 pick up the sticks and go 1 2 3 (we're all born) nothings for free (in the devils scorn) 1 2 3 (we're all born) nothings for free (in the devils scorn) everything they say it's a lie (we're all born) it's a lie now (in the devils scorn) everything they say it's a lie it's a lie now pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) -aca |
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from Indigo Girls - Back On The Bus, Y'All (1991)
From the bowery to the brimstone I tried to find your heart
The drugs of initiation, the bottom of a barrel that drops I understand your causes sympathize with motivation All the details of this war are just self-infatuation 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go home Your manic blood runs thick my friend are you looking for a clean escape What's left when the locks have all been broken young children of authority Tell me how long can you be agile dancing between the alter and the merci seat Now here's a chance to make a choice are you aware of the fire beneath your feet 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go home You better own up to me Yeah Yeah Go home The basement lies within us Our fear comes through the door Now there's nothing left between us As the fear becomes a roar Once that wheel is in motion don't lose what you have found We're talking bout the burning wheel of tongues everything that makes it go round and round We're all born in the devil's scorn he wants to see you die I'm asking you, "are you true", and everything they say is a lie is a lie now 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go 1 2 3 (we're all born) Nothing's for free (in the devil's scorn) 1 2 3 (we're all born) Nothing's for free (in the devil's scorn) And everything they say is a lie it's a lie now Everything they say is a lie it's a lie Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks |
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from Indigo Girls - Back On The Bus, Y'All (1991)
from the bowery to the brimstone i tried to find your heart with drugs of initiation the bottom of a barrel that drops i understand your causes sympathize the motivation but all the details of this war are just self-infatuation and it's 1 2 3 nothings for free 4 5 6 pick up the sticks and go home manic blood runs thick my friend are you looking for a clean escape what's left when the locks have all been broken young children of authority now how long can you be agile dancing between the alter and the mercy seat yeah now here's a chance to make a choice are you aware of the fire beneath your feet 1 2 3 nothings for free 4 5 6 pick up the sticks and go home the basement lies within us our fear comes through the door now there's nothing left between us as the fear becomes a roar once that wheel is in motion don't you lose what you have found i'm talking about that burning wheel of tongues everything that makes it go round and round we're all born in the devils scorn they want to see you die i'm asking you are you true everything they say is a lie it's a lie 1 2 3 nothings for free 4 5 6 pick up the sticks and go 1 2 3 nothings for free 4 5 6 pick up the sticks and go 1 2 3 (we're all born) nothings for free (in the devils scorn) 1 2 3 (we're all born) nothings for free (in the devils scorn) everything they say it's a lie (we're all born) it's a lie now (in the devils scorn) everything they say it's a lie it's a lie now pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) pick up the sticks and go home |
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from Indigo Girls - Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (1990)
From the bowery to the brimstone I tried to find your heart
The drugs of initiation, the bottom of a barrel that drops I understand your causes sympathize with motivation All the details of this war are just self-infatuation 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go home Your manic blood runs thick my friend are you looking for a clean escape What's left when the locks have all been broken young children of authority Tell me how long can you be agile dancing between the alter and the merci seat Now here's a chance to make a choice are you aware of the fire beneath your feet 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go home You better own up to me Yeah Yeah Go home The basement lies within us Our fear comes through the door Now there's nothing left between us As the fear becomes a roar Once that wheel is in motion don't lose what you have found We're talking bout the burning wheel of tongues everything that makes it go round and round We're all born in the devil's scorn he wants to see you die I'm asking you, "are you true", and everything they say is a lie is a lie now 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go 1 2 3 (we're all born) Nothing's for free (in the devil's scorn) 1 2 3 (we're all born) Nothing's for free (in the devil's scorn) And everything they say is a lie it's a lie now Everything they say is a lie it's a lie Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks |
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from Indigo Girls - Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (1990)
From the bowery to the brimstone I tried to find your heart
The drugs of initiation, the bottom of a barrel that drops I understand your causes sympathize with motivation All the details of this war are just self-infatuation 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go home Your manic blood runs thick my friend are you looking for a clean escape What's left when the locks have all been broken young children of authority Tell me how long can you be agile dancing between the alter and the merci seat Now here's a chance to make a choice are you aware of the fire beneath your feet 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go home You better own up to me Yeah Yeah Go home The basement lies within us Our fear comes through the door Now there's nothing left between us As the fear becomes a roar Once that wheel is in motion don't lose what you have found We're talking bout the burning wheel of tongues everything that makes it go round and round We're all born in the devil's scorn he wants to see you die I'm asking you, "are you true", and everything they say is a lie is a lie now 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go 1 2 3 (we're all born) Nothing's for free (in the devil's scorn) 1 2 3 (we're all born) Nothing's for free (in the devil's scorn) And everything they say is a lie it's a lie now Everything they say is a lie it's a lie Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls/ Strange Fire/ Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (2003)
From the bowery to the brimstone I tried to find your heart
The drugs of initiation, the bottom of a barrel that drops I understand your causes sympathize with motivation All the details of this war are just self-infatuation 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go home Your manic blood runs thick my friend are you looking for a clean escape What's left when the locks have all been broken young children of authority Tell me how long can you be agile dancing between the alter and the merci seat Now here's a chance to make a choice are you aware of the fire beneath your feet 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go home You better own up to me Yeah Yeah Go home The basement lies within us Our fear comes through the door Now there's nothing left between us As the fear becomes a roar Once that wheel is in motion don't lose what you have found We're talking bout the burning wheel of tongues everything that makes it go round and round We're all born in the devil's scorn he wants to see you die I'm asking you, "are you true", and everything they say is a lie is a lie now 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go 1 2 3 (we're all born) Nothing's for free (in the devil's scorn) 1 2 3 (we're all born) Nothing's for free (in the devil's scorn) And everything they say is a lie it's a lie now Everything they say is a lie it's a lie Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks |
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from Indigo Girls - Rites Of Passage (1992)
Up on the airplane
Nearer my God to Thee I start making a deal Inspired by gravity (inspired by gravity) If I did wrong, I won't do it again Cause I can be sweet and good and nice And if I had enemies, they're friends I hold on, to my life, with the grip of a vice... And I'm up the airplane (up on the airplane) Nearer my God to Thee (nearer my God thee) (count on the plane) I start making a deal Inspired by gravity (inspired by gravity) That little spot on the ground is my home town Like to call it my home and it's sweet I'd rather take a seat down there than a throne up here Up above 30,000 feet... And I'm up on the airplane... I never should've read my horoscope Or the fortune on the bubblegum strip Saying, "what you think won't happen will" Great thing to read before a trip... On an airplane... Thought says the big blue sky's like a swimming pool Big fluffy cloud's like a feather bed But I'd rather have a real pillow underneath my head Lying in my bed, which is in my hometown Which is on the ground Far from an airplane (My bed, my hometown) Far from an airplane (On the ground. My bed, my hometown) Far from an airplane (On the ground. My bed, my hometown) On the airplane [On the ground] [I'll be making a deal] I'm up on the airplane (On the ground) (I'll be making a deal) On the airplane (I'll be making a deal) (I'll be making a deal) (I'll be making a deal) |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
Words and music by Emily Saliers
Oooooooo Oooooooo Oooooooo Dust in our eyes our own boots kicked up Heartsick we nursed along the way we picked up You may not see it when it's sticking to your skin But we're better off for all that we let in Lost friends and loved ones much too young So much promises and work left undone When all that guards us is a single centerline And the brutal crossing over when it's time Oooooooo (I don't know where it all begins) Oooooooo (And I don't know where it all will end) Oooooooo (We're better off for all that we let in) One day those toughies will be withered up and bent The father son the holy warriors and the president With glory days of put up dukes for all the world to see Beaten into submission in the name of the free We're in a nevolution I have heard it said Everyone's so busy now but do we move ahead The planets hurting and atoms splitting And a sweater for your love you sit there knitting Oooooooo (I don't know where it all begins) Oooooooo (And I don't know where it all will end) Oooooooo (We're better off for all that we let in) See those crosses on the side of the road Tied with ribbons in the median They make me grateful I can go this far Lay me down and never wake me up again Kat writes a poem and she sticks it on my truck We don't believe in war and we don't believe in luck The birds were calling to her what were they saying As the gate blew open the tops of the trees were swaying I've passed the cemetery walk my dog down there I read the names in stone and say a silent prayer When I get home you're cooking supper on the stove And the greatest gift of life is to know love Oooooooo (I don't know where it all begins) Oooooooo (And I don't know where it all will end) Oooooooo (We're better off for all that we let in) |
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from Indigo Girls - Dispite Our Differences (2006)
I wasn't looking to shift my direction
My eyes straight ahead hands ten and two The gravity of our first connection Veering off the road and into you All the people drive by slowly gawking at the scene Of the smoldering inevitable spark and gasoline All the way I met you head on full speed At the heart the blue flame burns All the way I took the crash course impact But have I learned all that I'm supposed to learn No amount of playing safe could save me from this day The head seeking path of my trajectory Didn't we coolly divest of predestination Slamming into futures we can't see I know what can happen when there's more than meets the eye But there's no way to avoid it just get in the car and drive All the way I met you head on full speed At the heart the blue flame burns All the way I took crash course impact But have I learned all that I'm supposed to learn It makes me laugh, we're talking over tea When I can still smell the smoke on my sleeve Steaming like gun smoke the wreckage of our past The scene of a crime I still can't leave Oh you and me, we should let well enough be But each revisitation points to clues There's the oil slick of uncertainty And warning signs back there we didn't use At least we laugh about it now how we escaped alive It's remarkable the mess we make and what we can survive (repeat chorus) |
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from Indigo Girls - Dispite Our Differences (2006)
I wasn't looking to shift my direction
My eyes straight ahead hands ten and two The gravity of our first connection Veering off the road and into you All the people drive by slowly gawking at the scene Of the smoldering inevitable spark and gasoline All the way I met you head on full speed At the heart the blue flame burns All the way I took the crash course impact But have I learned all that I'm supposed to learn No amount of playing safe could save me from this day The head seeking path of my trajectory Didn't we coolly divest of predestination Slamming into futures we can't see I know what can happen when there's more than meets the eye But there's no way to avoid it just get in the car and drive All the way I met you head on full speed At the heart the blue flame burns All the way I took crash course impact But have I learned all that I'm supposed to learn It makes me laugh, we're talking over tea When I can still smell the smoke on my sleeve Steaming like gun smoke the wreckage of our past The scene of a crime I still can't leave Oh you and me, we should let well enough be But each revisitation points to clues There's the oil slick of uncertainty And warning signs back there we didn't use At least we laugh about it now how we escaped alive It's remarkable the mess we make and what we can survive (repeat chorus) |
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from Indigo Girls - Come No Now Social (1999)
andy do you love me do you think about it will you say turning brushwood into blazes turning summer grass into hay turning sharply past the graveyard to the lakefront with the black waves licking up the stones to the swayed back screened in front porch who could ever stay the weight of flesh and bones andy aren't you tired from the sun and rain and river soaking you from the beer cans on your dashboard and the bullet hole glass spiderweb staining your rear view i have watched you watch an empty road is it only her upon which you all of you is depending to fill your twenty hour work day while all the fences in this county still need mending hey and in the night i do my checking and fix the broken parts with visions of rare beauty but in my heart i know i'm second forever fixed in your pursuit it is my duty hey andy will you toss me a little scrap of something that i can taste instead of dust from all the leaving and the smell of summer lying here to waste under the burnt pyre of all the cast away the tiny shoots will spring like questions will you take me out to the fenced hill sprinkled with horses wild in resistence to the taming will you break me will you break me |
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from Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews (1996)
Leaving ain't fair you know
Parting ain't just People got to move on People got to do what they must And we're back together again And I'm never gonna lose you as a friend Growing up free Growing up wild If you want to know the secret behind the smile You got to ask a Tuesday's child And we're back together again And I'm never gonna lose you as a friend Well I guess that highway got a hold of me Thinking crazy thoughts like it was going to set me free This ain't my place you know This ain't my home And I'm not going to feel right Til you get us back behind the microphones And we're back together again And I'm never gonna lose you as a friend No I'm never gonna lose you as a friend No I'm never gonna lose you as a friend |
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from Indigo Girls - Becone You (2002)
I heard you sing a rebel song, sung it loud and all alone. We can't afford the things you save, we can't afford the warranty. I see you walking in the glare down the county road we share. Our southern blood, my heresy, damn that ol' confederacy. It took a long time to become the thing I am to you. And you won't tear it apart without a fight, without a heart. I'm sorry for what you have learned, when you feel the tables turn. To run so hard in your race, now you find who set the pace. The landed aristocracy exploiting all your enmity. All your daddies fought in vain, leave you with the mark of Cain. It took a long time to become the thing I am to you. And you won't tear it apart without a fight, without a heart. It took a long time to become you, become you. The center holds, so they say. It never held too well for me. I won't stop short for common ground that vilifies the trodden down. The center held the bonded slave for the sake of industry. The center held the bloody hand of the executioner man. It took a long time to become the thing I am to you. And you won't tear it apart without a fight, without a heart. It took a long time to become you, become you. |
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from Indigo Girls - Becone You (2002)
tonight i'll be sleepin on a mountain top i got a billion stars for my witness in the morning i go down and the sun comes up and i take a drink from the bitterroot river have you been lonely yes i've been lonely i've been lonely too have you been lonely yes i've been lonely i've been lonely too tonight i'll be sleepin on a mountain top i got a billion stars for my witness in the morning i go down and the sun comes up i take a drink from the bitterroot river have you been travelin' yes i've been travelin' i've been travelin' too (that girl can play) have you been travelin' yes i've been travelin' i've been travelin' too (lordy help me (unknown)) tonight i'll be sleepin on a mountain top i got a billion stars for my witness in the morning i go down and the sun comes up i take a drink from the bitterroot river i take a drink from the bitterroot river i take a drink from the bitterroot river |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (1989)
i have spent nights with matches and knives leaning over ledges only two flights up cutting my heart, burning my soul nothing left to hold nothing left but blood and fire you have spent nights thinking of me missing my arms but you needed to leave leaving my cuts, leaving my burns hoping i'd learn but blood and fire are too much for these restless arms to hold and my nights of desire they're calling me back to your fold and i am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away won't you whet my fire with your love babe i am looking for someone who can take as much as i give and give back as much as i need you know and they still have the will to live ah no cause i am intense, i am in need i am in pain, i am in love and i feel forsaken you know like the things i gave away and blood and fire are too much for these restless arms to hold and my nights of desire they're calling me back to your fold and i am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away won't you whet my fire with your love babe, babe, babe i am intense, i am in need, i am in pain, i am in love you know i am intense, i am in need, i am in pain, i am in love i am intense, i am in need, i am in pain, i am in love and blood and fire are too much for these restless arms to hold and my nights of desire they're calling me back to your fold and i am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away won't you whet my fire with your love babe won't you whet my fire with your love babe now whet my fire with your love |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls/ Strange Fire/ Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (2003)
I have spent nights with matches and knives,
Leaning over ledges, only two flights up. Cutting my heart, burning my soul. Nothing left to hold, Nothing left but, blood and fire. You have spent nights, thinking of me, Missing my arms, but you needed to leave. Leaving my cuts, leaving my burns, Hoping I'd learn. Blood and fire Are too much for these restless arms to hold. And my nights of desire are calling me, Back to your fold. And I am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe? I am looking for someone, who can take as much as I give, Give back as much as I need, And still have the will to live. I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love. I feel forsaken, like the things I gave away. Blood and fire Are too much for these restless arms to hold. And my nights of desire are calling me, Back to your fold. And I am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe? I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love. I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love. I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love. Blood and fire Are too much for these restless arms to hold. And my nights of desire are calling me, Back to your fold. And I am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe? |
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from Indigo Girls - SHAMING OF THE SUN (1997)
i am sorry that i set my sights
on the things i read something meant for your husband maybe you left it under the bed once upon a love those words blew free and secret the pages lay around drifted to the hands of the publisher and the greedy generations on down burn all the letters (someone is always watching) the government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly) burn all the letters (now breathe life) send them on (into your story) to a safer home (i said burn it to secrecy) burn all the letters brand them in you before you go soldiers are coming to plunder but there are some things they will never know we made our love out of dignity dug our nails in the dirt (hung our towel soaked souls out on the line) hung our towel soaked souls out on the line we loved so hard that it hurt to ease my pain i took a pen and paper incarnate came the bleeding send it back before the public eye perverts it in the reading and burn all the letters (someone is always watching) ah the government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly) burn all the letters (now breathe life) send them on back (into your story) to a safer home (i said burn it to secrecy) burn all the letters brand them in you before you go the soldiers coming to plunder but there are some things they will never know burn all the letters ah the government's on the phone on the phone burn all the letters (all the letters) send them on to a safer home (send them on to a safer home) burn all the letters to you and you to to me coming to take what they can they cannot read what they cannot see mmm |
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from Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews (1996)
Indian legislation's on the desk of a do right congressman
And he don't know much about the issues so he picks up the phone And asks the advice of the senator out in indian country A darling of the energy companies ripping off What's left of the reservation I learned the safety rule I don't know who to thank Don't stand between the reservation And the corporate bank They're sending federal tanks It isn't nice but it's reality Bury my heart at wounded knee I said deep in the earth Won't you cover me with pretty lies Bury my heart at wounded knee We got these energy companies Who want to take the land And we got churches by the dozens Trying to guide our hands And turn our mother earth Over to pollution war and greed No no Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee I said deep in the earth Bury my heart at wounded knee Won't you cover me with pretty lies Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee We got the federal marshalls We got the covert spies We got the liars by fire And the fbi They lie in court and get nailed And still leonard peltier goes off to jail (the bullets don't match the gun) Bury my heart at wounded knee An eighth of the reservation Bury my heart at wounded knee Was transferred in secret Bury my heart at wounded knee We got your murder and intimidation Bury my heart at wounded knee My girlfriend anna may Talked about uranium Her head was full of bullets And her body dumped The fbi cut off her hands And told us she died of exposure To bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee I said deep in the earth Bury my heart at wounded knee Won't you cover me with your pretty lies Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee Talk about a revolution They stole my land They won't steal my soul We had the gold rush wars Why didn't we learn to crawl? And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl They tell me "don't be so uptight I mean honey you can still be an indian Down at the y on saturday night Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee I said deep in the earth Bury my heart at wounded knee Won't you cover me with your pretty lies Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart It was an eighth of the reservation Bury my heart Yeah was transferred in secret Bury my heart Got your murder, murder, murder and intimidation Bury me Bury me Bury me Bury my heart Bury my heart Bury my heart Bury my heart |
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from Indigo Girls - SHAMING OF THE SUN (1997)
Cara Mia
blank notebook and a back pocket fade you used to mock me sometimes i would cry when i was home later cause you hurt my feelings why why why (why why why) you said write it down in your notebook my wanna be Harriet the spy and some say your genius (genius) is in your madness (madness) will you get better (will you get better) and then will you leave us (will you leave us) how you mixed with the darkness at such a young age (until in your chemistry) until in your chemistry (silence and violence) silence and violence (silence and violence) turned silence to rage (turned silence to rage) ah why are dreaming this one shoe off and a bridge to cross over and where is your taxi fare are you left by yourself or left by your lover (are you left by your lover) for three nights straight now i dream i kept both of my shoes but I've forgotten my lines and I've misplaced my cues and there's a sea full of faces and a show to go on but I'm struck mute at entrance with nothing to draw from there were the secrets the big bang and the bigger joke you seem to know all of them that's why injustice makes you red with choke yeah but you love like you're desperate you don't know what love is (if there was one thing) and i thought if there was one thing i could give you one thing i could give you (if there was one thing) well maybe it was this the head on the bed board (sadness) the anguished repeat (sadness) the sweat of our sadness (sweat of our sadness) and the twist of the sheets (twist of the sheets) i don't want whats best for you where will i be when you've found it (where will i where will i) you know i pray a lot about these bad feelings inside (where will i where will i be) i can't pray my way through or around it hey why are dreaming this one shoe off and a bridge to cross over (and a bridge to cross over) and where is your taxi fare are you left by yourself (are you left) or left by your lover (by yourself) for three nights straight now (left by your lover) you know i keep both of my shoes (I've got bad feelings inside) but I've forgotten my lines (i can't pray through) I've misplaced my cues (i can't pray my way around it) and there's a sea full of faces and a show to go on I'm struck mute at entrance with nothing to draw from nothing to draw from |
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from Indigo Girls - Rites Of Passage (1992)
You dug a well
You dug it deep For every wife you buried You planted a cedar tree The best... The best you ever had... I stand where you stood I stand for bad or good And I am green And you are wood The best... The best he ever had... I dig a well I dig it deep And for my only love I plant a cedar tree The best... The best we ever had... |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (1989)
laughing in a crown of jewels numbness from a scepters wound toss and turn, i spin and learn catch yourself before you burn a joker's dance before the king jangling beads, and silver rings close your eyes and bare the sound jumping up - falling down falling, falling, falling, falling down look yourself in the eye before you drown royal rebels discover you trust you turn there is no truth and circle, circle, why are you scared why a smile instead of tears i'm gulping smoke i fade away figures floating down to lay i meet the joker and the thief the king and queen but - no relief falling, falling, falling, falling down look yourself in the eye before you drown falling, falling, falling, falling down look yourself in the eye before you drown i cross myself before i die and the leaping man, he asks me, why well your rhythm is off i reply now you must dance the dance that you imply your actions will follow you full circle round the higher the leap, i said the harder the ground! |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (1989)
Laughing in a crown of jewels,
Numbness from a scepter's wound. Toss and Turn, I spin and learn, "Catch yourself before you burn." A joker's dance before the king, Jangling beads, a silver ring. Close your eyes and bare the sound, Jumping up-falling down. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Royal rebels discover you. Trust? you turn there is no truth. And circle, circle, why are you scared? Why a smile instead of tears? I'm gulping smoke to fade away. Figures floating down to lay. Meet the joker and the thief, The king and queen but-no relief. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. "The king is in the counting house, counting out his money" {Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.} Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. "The queen is in her parlour, eating bread and honey" {Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.} Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. [instrumental] "Mary had a little lamb" I cross myself before I die The leaping man, he asks me, "why?" "Well your rhythm is off" I reply, "Now you must dance the dance That you imply!" "Your actions will follow you full circle round, Your actions will follow you full circle round, Your actions will follow you full circle round, Your actions will follow you full circle round, The higher the leap, I said, The harder the ground!" |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls/ Strange Fire/ Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (2003)
Laughing in a crown of jewels,
Numbness from a scepter's wound. Toss and Turn, I spin and learn, "Catch yourself before you burn." A joker's dance before the king, Jangling beads, a silver ring. Close your eyes and bare the sound, Jumping up-falling down. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Royal rebels discover you. Trust? you turn there is no truth. And circle, circle, why are you scared? Why a smile instead of tears? I'm gulping smoke to fade away. Figures floating down to lay. Meet the joker and the thief, The king and queen but-no relief. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. "The king is in the counting house, counting out his money" {Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.} Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. "The queen is in her parlour, eating bread and honey" {Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.} Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. [instrumental] "Mary had a little lamb" I cross myself before I die The leaping man, he asks me, "why?" "Well your rhythm is off" I reply, "Now you must dance the dance That you imply!" "Your actions will follow you full circle round, Your actions will follow you full circle round, Your actions will follow you full circle round, Your actions will follow you full circle round, The higher the leap, I said, The harder the ground!" |
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from Indigo Girls - Rites Of Passage (1992)
i am an only child
born of the wild riddled to spend my time defending my land you are my only one born in the sun riddled to spend your time defending my plan dead dog on the highway median cats are growling at me i turn my lights on brighter counting through the night ride and it's one more life for the taker chickenman one more song for the maker chickenman on the road to Athens i saw a dead deer on the highway i slipped into a desert five prairie dogs and a rabbit i was running down on queen street i saw a woman on the sidewalk she was beaten by a stranger danger danger danger nd it's one more life for the taker chickenman chicken-man chickenman hold my hand one more life for the maker hold my hand chickenman i was on the road to Austin i met a man on the highway he sold me junk and conversation he was wise and dirty from the weather i said darkness into darkness all the carnage of my journeys makes it hard to be living he said it's a long road to be forgiven and one more life for the taker chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand one more song for the maker chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand i am an only child born of the wild riddled to spend my time defending my land you are my only one born in the sun riddled to spend you time defending my plan i went looking for a car found myself beneath the stars i went looking for a girl found a man and his world chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand i am an only child hold my hand chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand |
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from Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews (1996)
i am an only child
born of the wild riddled to spend my time defending my land you are my only one born in the sun riddled to spend your time defending my plan dead dog on the highway median cats are growling at me i turn my lights on brighter counting through the night ride and it's one more life for the taker chickenman one more song for the maker chickenman on the road to Athens i saw a dead deer on the highway i slipped into a desert five prairie dogs and a rabbit i was running down on queen street i saw a woman on the sidewalk she was beaten by a stranger danger danger danger nd it's one more life for the taker chickenman chicken-man chickenman hold my hand one more life for the maker hold my hand chickenman i was on the road to Austin i met a man on the highway he sold me junk and conversation he was wise and dirty from the weather i said darkness into darkness all the carnage of my journeys makes it hard to be living he said it's a long road to be forgiven and one more life for the taker chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand one more song for the maker chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand i am an only child born of the wild riddled to spend my time defending my land you are my only one born in the sun riddled to spend you time defending my plan i went looking for a car found myself beneath the stars i went looking for a girl found a man and his world chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand i am an only child hold my hand chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand |
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from Burning London : The Clash Tribute [omnibus] (2000)
taking off his turban they said is this man a jew
cause they're working for the clampdown and they put up a poster saying we earn more than you when we're working for the clampdown we will teach our twisted speech to the young believers train our blue-eyed men to be young believers judge said five to ten - i said double that again i'm not working for the clampdown well no one born with a living soul could be working for the clampdown kick over the wall cause governments to fall how can you refuse it let fury have the hour, anger can be power don't you know that you can use it the voices in your head are calling stop wasting your time there's nothing coming only a fool would think someone could save you the men at the factory are old and cunning you don't owe nothing so boy get running it's the best years of your life they want to steal you grow up and you calm down cause you're working for the clampdown and you start wearing the blue and the brown cause you're working for the clampdown so you got someone to boss around does it makes you feel big now and you drift until you brutalize you've made your first kill now i say in these days of evil presidentes working for the clampdown i said lately one or two have fully paid their dues working for the clampdown working for the clampdown hey you are now working for the clampdown hey you are now (working for the clampdown) kick over the wall (working for the clampdown) cause governments to fall (working for the clampdown) how can you refuse it (working for the clampdown) hey get along now (working for the clampdown) giving away no secrets |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (1989)
i'm trying to tell you something about my life maybe give me insight between black and white and the best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously it's only life after all yeah well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable and lightness has a call that's hard to hear i wrap my fear around me like a blanket i sailed my ship of safety till i sank it i'm crawling on your shores i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less i seek my source for some definitive (the less i seek my source) the closer i am to fine the closer i am to fine and i went to see the doctor of philosophy with a poster of rasputin and a beard down to his knee he never did marry or see a b-grade movie he graded my performance, he said he could see through me i spent four years prostrate to the higher mind got my paper and i was free i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line the less i seek my source for some definitive (the less i seek my source) the closer i am to fine the closer i am to fine i stopped by the bar at 3 a.m. to seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend and i woke up with a headache like my head against a board twice as cloudy as i'd been the night before and i went in seeking clarity. i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains yeah we go to the doctor, we go to the mountains we look to the children, we drink from the fountains yeah we go to the bible, we go through the workout we read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line the less i seek my source for some definitive (the less i seek my source) the closer i am to fine the closer i am to fine the closer i am to fine |
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from Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews (1996)
I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white The best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable And lightness has a call that's hard to hear I wrap my fear around me like a blanket I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I went to see the doctor of philosophy With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee He never did marry or see a B-grade movie He graded my performance, he said he could see through me I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper And I was free. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m. To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend I woke up with a headache like my head against a board Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before I went in seeking clarity. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. We go to the bible, we go through the workout We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine The closer I am to fine The closer I am to fine |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls/ Strange Fire/ Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (2003)
I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white The best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable And lightness has a call that's hard to hear I wrap my fear around me like a blanket I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I went to see the doctor of philosophy With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee He never did marry or see a B-grade movie He graded my performance, he said he could see through me I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper And I was free. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m. To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend I woke up with a headache like my head against a board Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before I went in seeking clarity. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. We go to the bible, we go through the workout We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine The closer I am to fine The closer I am to fine |
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from Indigo Girls - Come No Now Social (1999)
all of my days have been misspent stuffing out the sofa and the antenna's bent inside my heart's bustin' out at the seams i work for the impossible american dream i got a job at the grocery store a few bucks an hour and not much more the world comes in just to take things away they eat it all up and then they sleep into day i try not to care i would lose my mind running 'round the same thing time after time only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control now once upon a time i was nobody's fool (once upon a fool) two jobs and showing up for school i guess it comes apart so little by little you don't know your there till your stuck in the middle i try not to care i would lose my mind running 'round the same thing time after time and only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control sit down (sit down sit down) the room is dark (the room is dark) the blurry graffiti on the benches across at the public park the plastic's black and buttoned (the plastic's black) the haze is blue (the haze is blue) and all i want is nothing to do 'cause it's a long walk to the bus stop it's a long wait for the turning clock it's a two-tired car sitting up on the blocks and things i put aside like that pile of rocks i try not to care i would lose my mind running 'round the same thing time after time and only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control yes i try not to care i would lose my mind (all of my days have been misspent) running round the same thing time after time (stuffing out the sofa and the antennas bent) and only two things bound to soothe my soul (inside my hearts busting out at the seams) cold beer and remote control (i work for the impossible american dream) yeah cold beer and remote control (i said i guess it comes apart so little by little yeah) yeah beer and remote control (i said i guess it comes apart so little by little yeah) yeah |
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from Indigo Girls - Cold Beer And Remote Control (2000)
All of my days have been misspent
Stuffing out the sofa and the antenna's bent Inside my heart's bustin' out at the seams I work for the impossible American dream I got a job at the grocery store A few bucks an hour and not much more The world comes in just to take things away And eat it all up and then they sleep into day I try not to care I would lose my mind Running 'round the same thing time after time Only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control Once upon a time I was nobody's fool Two jobs and showing up for school I guess it comes apart so little by little You don't know you're there till you're stuck in the middle So I try not care I would lose my mind Running 'round the same thing time after time Only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control Sit down the room is dark the blurry graffiti on the benches across at the public park The plastic's black and buttoned the haze is blue And all I want is nothing to do 'Cause it's a long walk to the bus stop It's a long wait for the turning clock A two-tired car sitting up on the blocks And things I put aside like that pile of rocks I try not to care I would lose my mind Running 'round the same thing time after time Only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control I try not to care I would lose my mind Running 'round the same thing time after time Only two things bound to soothe my soul Cold beer and remote control |
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from Indigo Girls - Becone You (2002)
I could paint you in the dark Cause I've studied you with hunger like a work of art These are very secret days I collect my information then I stowe it all away Call me when you breeze through to your appointments The work you do Call me, I'm collecting you The pleading prayer and hairshirt sting My hair-trigger love and faulty spring Motivation smokes a name, but I don't like that smell applied to me so Blindly just the same call me When you breeze through to your appointments the work you do Call me I'm collecting you Turning up my collar to an unseasonal chill you ask a favor, you know I will The rain comes a surprise we fly across the railroad ties I feel the danger the foolish thrill oh yes I will What it will or won't be then The shutter pre development the ink full in the pen Mind the mind's eye's trickery You might picture killer beautiful much more than it might be Call me tell me what you're up to what you'll do Call me I'm collecting you I would be foolish to think that I could turn it off and stay alive The way I live when you switch on hand on the dimmer, give me just a glimmer Give me just a shadow hope around the edges, agony and rapture forever uncaptured Take these secrets to your grave Drug across your landscape and buried in your cave You're piling up and out of sight But trying to add it up just feels like counting shades of light Call me when you breeze through to your appointments what you must do Call me I'm collecting you Hang it in my window let it complicate my view The separation the glass of you But I can paint this picture any way that I see fit The art of pain the subject sits unmoved |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
Dark clouds are comin’ in like an army
Soon the sky will open up and disarm me You will go just like you’ve gone before One sad soldier off to war, with enemies that only you can see. Dishes stacked, the table cleared It’s always like the scene of the last supper here You speak so cryptically, but that’s not news to me The flood is here it will carry you And I’ve got work to do. Come on home, the team you’re hitched to has a mind of its own But it’s just the forces of your past you’ve fought before Come back here and shut the door I’m stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles. There is fire there is lust Some will trade it all for someone they could trust There’s a bag of silver for a box of nails It’s so simple the betrayal Though it’s known to change the world and what’s to come. Just come on home, the team you’re hitched to has a mind of its own But it’s just the forces of your past you’ve fought before Don’t you recognize them anymore I’m stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles. There’s the given and the expected I count my blessings while I eye what I’ve neglected Is this for better is this for worse You’re all jammed up and the dam’s about to burst. I hear the owl in the night I realize that some things never are made right By some will we string together here Days to months and months to years What if everything we have adds up to nothing. Come on home, the team you’re hitched to has a mind of its own But it’s just the forces of your past you’ve fought before Come back here and shut the door I’m stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles. |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
Dark clouds are comin’ in like an army
Soon the sky will open up and disarm me You will go just like you’ve gone before One sad soldier off to war, with enemies that only you can see. Dishes stacked, the table cleared It’s always like the scene of the last supper here You speak so cryptically, but that’s not news to me The flood is here it will carry you And I’ve got work to do. Come on home, the team you’re hitched to has a mind of its own But it’s just the forces of your past you’ve fought before Come back here and shut the door I’m stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles. There is fire there is lust Some will trade it all for someone they could trust There’s a bag of silver for a box of nails It’s so simple the betrayal Though it’s known to change the world and what’s to come. Just come on home, the team you’re hitched to has a mind of its own But it’s just the forces of your past you’ve fought before Don’t you recognize them anymore I’m stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles. There’s the given and the expected I count my blessings while I eye what I’ve neglected Is this for better is this for worse You’re all jammed up and the dam’s about to burst. I hear the owl in the night I realize that some things never are made right By some will we string together here Days to months and months to years What if everything we have adds up to nothing. Come on home, the team you’re hitched to has a mind of its own But it’s just the forces of your past you’ve fought before Come back here and shut the door I’m stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles. |
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from Indigo Girls - Come No Now Social (1999)
you wear the cloth of finest lands the touch of women the toil of hands undress me now before i bend from the weight of everyman when i'm walking through this world i need to hold your hand let me take you on this ride i hope you understand i'm not asking for a compromise now you defend exhume begin again it's the riddle of a skeleton we're all diseased so count the coup i can't image stopping you when i'm walking through this world i need to hold your hand let me take you on this ride i hope you understand i'm not asking for a compromise so the earth we scorch we breath find some comfort on our knees you find your worth in words that wind pleasures i don't comprehend when i'm walking trough this world i need to hold your hand let me take you on this ride i hope you understand i'm not asking for a compromise asking for a compro asking for a compromise |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
words and music by amy ray
The volunteers come for your prayers and some souvenirs, With ivory skin and boycott lessons Year after year. Well I'm tracing your face up in the space of the bottom bunk, Oh Cordova. Where I cried and I cried, I knew I was trading on things that I didn't have, The things that I didn't have. Now you come to me With revolution's infidelity, With blacklisted friends and tupperware kin, And your big history. Well I'm tracing your face up in the space of the bottom bunk, Oh Cordova. Where I cried and I cried, I knew I was trading on things that I didn't have, The things that I didn't have. I memorize the lullabies of dwindling lives. The lay of the land, the touch of each hand We lose by and by. I'm tracing your face up in the space of the bottom bunk, Oh Cordova. Where I cried and I cried, I knew I was trading on things that I didn't have, The things that I didn't have. |
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from Indigo Girls - Strange Fire (Expanded Edition) (1989)
crazy game
i never should have started to play but now you couldn't tear me away love is sweet sweet baby so good to you and so bad and i fear the situations clear before my eyes confusion wants to break me and it tries i've been a little bit stronger from the start listen to my heart cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true i'll wait for you you dry your tears don't be thinking grey is here to stay sometimes everything is in the way you're wanting to look at it turn your view around dry your eyes eyes like yours should carry a smile i haven't seen them sparkle in a while give it one more try dry your eyes cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true i'll wait for you |
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from Indigo Girls - Strange Fire (Expanded Edition) (1989)
crazy game
i never should have started to play but now you couldn't tear me away love is sweet sweet baby so good to you and so bad and i fear the situations clear before my eyes confusion wants to break me and it tries i've been a little bit stronger from the start listen to my heart cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true i'll wait for you you dry your tears don't be thinking grey is here to stay sometimes everything is in the way you're wanting to look at it turn your view around dry your eyes eyes like yours should carry a smile i haven't seen them sparkle in a while give it one more try dry your eyes cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true i'll wait for you |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls/ Strange Fire/ Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (2003)
crazy game
i never should have started to play but now you couldn't tear me away love is sweet sweet baby so good to you and so bad and i fear the situations clear before my eyes confusion wants to break me and it tries i've been a little bit stronger from the start listen to my heart cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true i'll wait for you you dry your tears don't be thinking grey is here to stay sometimes everything is in the way you're wanting to look at it turn your view around dry your eyes eyes like yours should carry a smile i haven't seen them sparkle in a while give it one more try dry your eyes cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true i'll wait for you |
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from Indigo Girls - SHAMING OF THE SUN (1997)
sitting in darwins theory
and you're down in the 48 i'm practicing politics your practicing guitar and staying out late how'd we get so turned around why did we make it so hard why can't we cut it out tender give us something good to remember hey my my my my rock star saw your feet leave the ground you said all i wanted to be is loud i was ushering your friends in i was i was i was trying to clear the aisles how'd you get so turned around why did you make it so hard why can't you cut it out i'm tender give me something good to remember i said cut it out cut it all out so it's alaska in the summertime in the wintertime i'm free the days are short cold and wasted nowhere is warm enough for me baby you tell me what happened why did i make it so hard can't i cut it our you're tender give you something good to remember baby you tell me what happened (why did we make it so hard) how did i make it so hard (can you tell me what happened) i wonder oh cut it out i'm tender (why did we make it so hard) give me something give me something good to remember (why did we make it so hard) (why did we make it so hard) (can you tell me what happened) (why did we make it so hard) (can you tell me what happened) (why did you make it so hard) (can you tell me what happened) (why did we make it so hard) (can you tell me what happened) i said cut it out cut it all out cut it out cut it all out hey my my my rock star cut it out how did we get so turned around cut is all out hey my my my rock star cut it all out now cut it all out now hey my my my rock star how did we get so turned around cut it all out now cut it all out now hey my my my rock star cut it all out now cut it all out now hey my my my rock star how did we get so turned around cut it all out now cut it all out now hey my my my cut it all out out |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
I heard that you were drunk and mean
down at the dairy queen. there's just enough of you in me, for me to have this sympathy and take it in stride. I know I had mine, and you were as kind, I am told. ain't it funny how we lose one day and a lifetime slips away. I'm looking back on us that way- something I never thought I'd say. I take it in stride. I know I had mine, it was good for a time, I am told. it was good for a time, I am told. the love you gave was not for free, but the price was truly fair. I never felt so glad to be so well spent and so beyond repair. I take it in stride. at least you were mine, if not for all time, enough to hold. or at least, enough for me to hold you. now take good care that you are true- you said you found it hard to do. and find that bit of faith that sets you free from having everything to prove. and you take it in stride and know you got mine, and it's good for a lifetime or more. I love you more and more. hey I love you more and more. |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
I heard that you were drunk and mean
down at the dairy queen. there's just enough of you in me, for me to have this sympathy and take it in stride. I know I had mine, and you were as kind, I am told. ain't it funny how we lose one day and a lifetime slips away. I'm looking back on us that way- something I never thought I'd say. I take it in stride. I know I had mine, it was good for a time, I am told. it was good for a time, I am told. the love you gave was not for free, but the price was truly fair. I never felt so glad to be so well spent and so beyond repair. I take it in stride. at least you were mine, if not for all time, enough to hold. or at least, enough for me to hold you. now take good care that you are true- you said you found it hard to do. and find that bit of faith that sets you free from having everything to prove. and you take it in stride and know you got mine, and it's good for a lifetime or more. I love you more and more. hey I love you more and more. |
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from Indigo Girls - Swamp Ophelia (1994)
we were down at dead man's hill
smoking vines like cigarettes looking through the trashy mags trying to feel what's coming next you told me of crashing cars older brothers and late night bars i told you what i feel most and you kept it like a ghost forever don't you write it down remember this in your head don't take a picture remember this in your heart don't leave a message talk to me face to face talk to me face to face lying on the bright blue jumping mat dinner bell is ringing barking dogs and model planes and the sound of passing trains we watch for bonfires in the sky on the beach in july spin the bottle steal the kiss postcards to the one i miss forever the one i miss forever don't you write it down remember this in your head don't take a picture remember this in your heart i'll leave a message when everything comes apart (talk to me face to face) [talk to me face to face] (everything comes apart) i'll leave a message when everything comes apart i remember cats on fire gasoline a burning spiral standing underneath the night fighting back with all my might empty cans and charred remains find them in the heat of day on the top of dead man's hill this is what i know of shame forever |
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from Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews (1996)
we were down at dead man's hill
smoking vines like cigarettes looking through the trashy mags trying to feel what's coming next you told me of crashing cars older brothers and late night bars i told you what i feel most and you kept it like a ghost forever don't you write it down remember this in your head don't take a picture remember this in your heart don't leave a message talk to me face to face talk to me face to face lying on the bright blue jumping mat dinner bell is ringing barking dogs and model planes and the sound of passing trains we watch for bonfires in the sky on the beach in july spin the bottle steal the kiss postcards to the one i miss forever the one i miss forever don't you write it down remember this in your head don't take a picture remember this in your heart i'll leave a message when everything comes apart (talk to me face to face) [talk to me face to face] (everything comes apart) i'll leave a message when everything comes apart i remember cats on fire gasoline a burning spiral standing underneath the night fighting back with all my might empty cans and charred remains find them in the heat of day on the top of dead man's hill this is what i know of shame forever |
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from Indigo Girls - Becone You (2002)
We talked up all night and came to no conclusion We started a fight that ended in silent confusion And as we sat stuck you could hear the trash truck Making its way through the neighborhood Picking up the thrown out different from house to house We get to decide what we think is no good We're sculpted from youth, the chipping away makes me weary And as for the truth it seems like we just pick a theory The one that justifies our daily lives And backs us with quiver and arrows To protect openings cause when the warring begins How quickly the wide open narrows Into the smallness of our deconstruction of love We thought it was changing, but it never was It's just the same as it ever was A family of foxes came to my yard and dug in I looked in a book to see what this could possibly mean Cause there is fate in the breeze and signs in the trees Possible tragic events When forces collide with the damage strewn wide And holes blasted straight through the fence The sky starts to crash the rain on the roof starts to drumming And laid out like cash your take on my list of shortcomings The show starts to close, I know how this goes The plot a predictable showing And though it seems grand it's just one speck of sand And back to the hourglass we're going Back to the smallness of our deconstruction of love We thought it was changing, but it never was Our deconstruction of love |
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from Indigo Girls - Dispite Our Differences (2006)
You're looking at foreclosure
and doing time, and it don't sound good this time. They found the meth and the scales, and the wife that made your life Hell. All that time you were telling me you were fine. Silly man. So I got your dog. How is that? I made it nice, I wrote a check. You cut the weeds back on my drive, 'cause you're a good guy, deep down inside. What makes a boy like you go bad? What makes a man so lonely and sad, that he's poison all he knows and in one year, just let it go? And all that time you were telling me you were fine, Silly man, you're a silly boy. It's been you and me on this frontier trying not to be suburban pioneers. Fightin' off the pavers and the associations, and the covenants against the trailers. I remember how we use to laugh at all those rotten men in camo' drag- with their advantage and their guns, up in the deer stand, shooting up a storm. And all that time you were telling me all those lies. Silly man, I'm a silly girl. You and me- we used to hibernate like bears and when we finally came up for air, everything's all marked and cleared, survey flags flying everywhere. Once you told me what, what I'll miss the most is just being the only ones- with our dirt and our dead ends and no one to turn us in. Once you told me what, what I'll miss the most is just being the only ones- with our dirt and our dead ends and no one to turn us in. |
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from Indigo Girls - Dispite Our Differences (2006)
You're looking at foreclosure
and doing time, and it don't sound good this time. They found the meth and the scales, and the wife that made your life Hell. All that time you were telling me you were fine. Silly man. So I got your dog. How is that? I made it nice, I wrote a check. You cut the weeds back on my drive, 'cause you're a good guy, deep down inside. What makes a boy like you go bad? What makes a man so lonely and sad, that he's poison all he knows and in one year, just let it go? And all that time you were telling me you were fine, Silly man, you're a silly boy. It's been you and me on this frontier trying not to be suburban pioneers. Fightin' off the pavers and the associations, and the covenants against the trailers. I remember how we use to laugh at all those rotten men in camo' drag- with their advantage and their guns, up in the deer stand, shooting up a storm. And all that time you were telling me all those lies. Silly man, I'm a silly girl. You and me- we used to hibernate like bears and when we finally came up for air, everything's all marked and cleared, survey flags flying everywhere. Once you told me what, what I'll miss the most is just being the only ones- with our dirt and our dead ends and no one to turn us in. Once you told me what, what I'll miss the most is just being the only ones- with our dirt and our dead ends and no one to turn us in. |
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from Indigo Girls - SHAMING OF THE SUN (1997)
she's got a case against me
a jury of my peers and the rage of the righteous screaming in her ears i'm not dignified anymore i can't say i didn't call i say i love you she don't hear me anymore and don't give that girl a gun i said now don't give that girl a gun she's already won/one she's already won/one i made a bad connection she says i went astray i jumped ship abandoned my post i didn't think i lost my way but oh how the mighty fall i saw her crack a smile i don't got a chance for redemption she don't believe in the miracle mile so take the first shot baby it'll be real clean i'm your girl strong and mean second shot baby it'll be real cool i'm your fool i said now don't give that girl a gun i said now don't give that girl a gun (give that girl a gun) she's already won/one she's already won/one yeah i said hold me closer cause something's happening why can't we come together she said "i doubt we ever will ever will again" i said don't give that girl a gun i said now don't give that girl a gun she's already won/one she's already won/one i said now don't give that girl a gun i said now don't give that girl a gun (give that girl a gun) already won/one she's already won/one yeah (give that girl a gun) yeah (give that girl a gun) yeah yeah the first shot baby it'll be real clean i'm your girl strong and mean second shot baby it'll be real cool i'm your fool i'm your fool i'm your fool don't give that girl a gun yeah yeah yeah |
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from Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews (1996)
be on my side
i'll be on your side there is no reason for you to hide it's so hard staying here all alone you could be taking me for a ride she could drag me over the rainbow send me away down by the river i shot my baby down by the river dead take my hand i'll take your hand baby together we may get away this much madness is too much sorrow it's impossible to make it today oh baby she could drag me over the rainbow send me away down by the river i shot my baby down by the river dead be on my side i'll be on your side baby there ain't no reason for us to hide it's so hard staying here all alone you should be taking me for a ride oh baby she could drag me over the rainbow and send me away down by the river i shot my baby down by the river i shot my baby you take my hand (down by) i'll take your hand baby (the river) together we may get away (i shot my baby) this much madness is too much sorrow (down by the river) it's impossible to make it today (i shot my baby) this much madness is too much sorrow (down by the river) it's impossible to make it today (i shot my baby) down by the river |
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from Indigo Girls - Strange Fire (Expanded Edition) (1989)
Through the wind and the rain I hear my mother's cry
She says, "I know my baby's out there Just couldn't bear to ask her why From my womb into the world Lord, I wish the child would call You know, I'm needing some company She makes my life so full" Take my advice, go ahead and live your own life Everybody's waiting for someone to come home Like the fire waits for the sand This world is burning with the tension of human hands Waiting to be cleansed, waiting for their ace of spades They say, "I sure hope he's coming 'Cause I feel like I've just been saved" Take my advice, go ahead and live while you're alive Everybody's waiting for someone to come home Come to me and cleanse my soul (I'm free, I'm free) Only with you am I whole (Can't you see that I am me?) I'll be waiting by the window (I'll be heading for the door) I was driving down highway 85, yeah Had to pull off the road just to hear my radio coming in clearer Lord, this life's so full, I said, "Why do we ask for more?" While we're waiting for the man to come We forgot what he's coming for Won't you take my advice, go ahead and live while you're alive Everybody's waiting for someone to come home (I'll be waiting by the window) Everybody's waiting for someone to come home (I'll be waiting by the window) Everybody's waiting for someone to come home Come home |
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from Indigo Girls - SHAMING OF THE SUN (1997)
remember everything i told you
keep it in your heart like a stone and when the winds have blown things round and back again what was once your pain will be your home all around the table the white haired men have gathered spilling their sons' blood like table wine (spilling their sons' blood) remember everything i told you everything in its own time the music whispers you in urgency hold fast to that languageless connection a thread of known that was unknown and unseen seen dangling from inside the fifth direction (dangling from inside the fifth direction) boys around the table are mapping out their strategies kings all of mountains one day dust a lesson learned a loving god and things in their own time in nothing more do i trust we own nothing nothing is ours not even love so fierce it burns like baby stars but this poverty is our greatest gift (nothing is ours) the weightlessness of us as things around begin to shift (the weightlessness as things begin to shift) remember everything i told you (remember everything i told you) keep it in your heart like a stone (keep it in your heart like a stone) and when the winds have blown things round and back again (when the winds have blown things round) what was once your pain will be your home everything in its own time everything in its own time oh oh oh oh |
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from Indigo Girls - Swamp Ophelia (1994)
Fare thee well my bright star i watched your taillights blaze into nothingness but you were long gone before i ever got to you before you blazed past this address and now i think of having loved and having lost you never know what it's like to never love who can say what's better and my heart's become the cost a mere token of a brighter jewel sent from up above fare thee well my bright star the vanity of youth the color of your eyes maybe if i'd fanned the blazing fire of your day to day of if i'd been older i'd been wise to thick the heat of those long summer evenings for a cool evening i began to yearn but you could only feel upon the things which feed a fire waiting to see if i would burn fare thee well my bright star it was a brief brilliant miracle dive that which i looked up to and i clung to for dear life had to burn itself up just to make itself alive i caught you then in your moment of glory your last dramatic scene against a night sky stage with a memory so clear it's as if you're still before me my once in a lifetime star of an age so fare thee well my bright star last night the tongues of fire circled my around this strange season of pain will come to pass when the heating hands of autumn cool me down
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from Indigo Girls - Come No Now Social (1999)
on the night they killed faye tucker
i was gambling away my last dime yeah well i pulled down the lever and i sent up a prayer that my luck would not be denied my luck would not be denied so roll out the head of faye tucker yeah well never you mind what they say well you may be reborn but it's all just for scorn and that's what you'll take to the grave that's what you'll take to the grave well the minister wants you to live now and the governor wants you to fry and whatever it was that you thought might occur well they got something else on their minds they got something else on their minds if you live they gonna make you a campaigner (if you live they gonna make you a campaigner) if you die they gonna make you a grave (if you die they gonna make you a grave) either way it goes down (either way it goes down) your life's not your own and that's why killin' don't pay (hey your life's not your own) that's why killin' don't pay oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh i thought i heard the angels bells but they were just the hounds of hell i thought i heard the angels bells but they were just the hounds of hell what did you learn faye tucker yeah what will you take from this world yeah well mercy could prove us but nothing would move us to rise above just being cruel to rise above just being cruel |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
won’t have you see me as your sad sack
lost my something and i can’t get it back or a kill on your trophy rack i checked my schedule now my train is rolling down a track past the sadness of the salt flats to the prospect of the land fat or just a lazy orange house cat on the sofa where i’ll be put up you’ve been the hole in my sky you’re my shrinking water supply before my well runs dry i’m going round round round the bend fill it up again i’d like to say that it was clear to me love triangle geometry but in the end it’s still a mystery the placement of affection and the disarray i gathered up the courage that it took made that bed i took one last look and you could hear the pages flapping (you could hear them flapping) in the wind blown book of my days (in the wind) my days you’ve been the hole in my sky you’re my shrinking water supply before my well runs dry i’m going round round round the bend fill it up again one tank gone seconds thought are on my mind what’s this trip gonna cost me this time the devil i know is starting to look awfully kind but the new road is an old friend i fill it up again hole in my sky my sky my sky hole in my sky my sky my sky hole in my sky my sky (my sky) you’ve been the hole in my sky (hole in my sky) you’re my shrinking water supply (shrinking water supply) before my well runs dry you’ve been the hole in my sky (i’m going round round round the bend) you’re my shrinking water supply (to fill it up) before my well runs dry (before well runs dry) before my well runs dry (well runs dry) i’m going round round round the bend fill it up again |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
won’t have you see me as your sad sack
lost my something and i can’t get it back or a kill on your trophy rack i checked my schedule now my train is rolling down a track past the sadness of the salt flats to the prospect of the land fat or just a lazy orange house cat on the sofa where i’ll be put up you’ve been the hole in my sky you’re my shrinking water supply before my well runs dry i’m going round round round the bend fill it up again i’d like to say that it was clear to me love triangle geometry but in the end it’s still a mystery the placement of affection and the disarray i gathered up the courage that it took made that bed i took one last look and you could hear the pages flapping (you could hear them flapping) in the wind blown book of my days (in the wind) my days you’ve been the hole in my sky you’re my shrinking water supply before my well runs dry i’m going round round round the bend fill it up again one tank gone seconds thought are on my mind what’s this trip gonna cost me this time the devil i know is starting to look awfully kind but the new road is an old friend i fill it up again hole in my sky my sky my sky hole in my sky my sky my sky hole in my sky my sky (my sky) you’ve been the hole in my sky (hole in my sky) you’re my shrinking water supply (shrinking water supply) before my well runs dry you’ve been the hole in my sky (i’m going round round round the bend) you’re my shrinking water supply (to fill it up) before my well runs dry (before well runs dry) before my well runs dry (well runs dry) i’m going round round round the bend fill it up again |
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from Indigo Girls - Dispite Our Differences (2006)
Fly away little bird
Any place in this open mouthed world Begs to be fed like a bed that beckons you, but you won't rest Everyone's got a need to go Most of us stick with our row to hoe But not you, you're the black crow With a straight line, and no time For the birds of prey who wreck your nest Twice your size steal your best They set you on this course of your collision I am a stop along your way I am the words you'll never say I crossed the great beyond of fear I opened my eyes and saw us there, what a view You went there too Fly away little bird Find the song in you that no one's heard Strengthen your wings as you sing your solo flight Through this short life Everyone's got a deep regret We try to ground ourselves to forget But your race to the end is neck and neck You love them, you love them not The birds of prey who wreck your nest, Twice your size steal your best They set you on this course of your collision I am a stop along your way I am the words you'll never say I crossed the great beyond of fear Opened my eyes and saw us there, what a view And you went there too But all along your chosen path are Window panes and sheets of glass That you won't see You fly too fast One day it will be over Fly away little bird The saddest song I ever heard Was the one that I wrote you in my heart That never made it to the world |
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from Indigo Girls - Dispite Our Differences (2006)
Fly away little bird
Any place in this open mouthed world Begs to be fed like a bed that beckons you, but you won't rest Everyone's got a need to go Most of us stick with our row to hoe But not you, you're the black crow With a straight line, and no time For the birds of prey who wreck your nest Twice your size steal your best They set you on this course of your collision I am a stop along your way I am the words you'll never say I crossed the great beyond of fear I opened my eyes and saw us there, what a view You went there too Fly away little bird Find the song in you that no one's heard Strengthen your wings as you sing your solo flight Through this short life Everyone's got a deep regret We try to ground ourselves to forget But your race to the end is neck and neck You love them, you love them not The birds of prey who wreck your nest, Twice your size steal your best They set you on this course of your collision I am a stop along your way I am the words you'll never say I crossed the great beyond of fear Opened my eyes and saw us there, what a view And you went there too But all along your chosen path are Window panes and sheets of glass That you won't see You fly too fast One day it will be over Fly away little bird The saddest song I ever heard Was the one that I wrote you in my heart That never made it to the world |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
A hard knock
A cold clock Ticking off my time A long look But no luck Couldn't seem to find Or unwind Into peace of mind While I was trying A quick glance A big chance My heart beat like a drum I saw you And I knew Chances just don't come Round again Not like this First a laugh Then a kiss And I'm free in you I've got no worries on my mind I know what to do That's to treat you right And love you kind Thank you ever on my mind Love is just like breathing When it's true And I'm free in you The lost time And self pride Are my big mistakes A clear voice A bad choice Sounding like an ache In my day Not too bad But too real To go away But now I'm free in you I've got no worries on my mind I know what to do That's to treat you right And love you kind Thank you ever on my mind Love is just like breathing When it's true And I'm free in you And I don't know How you show Such gentle disregard For the ugly in me That I see That for so long I took so hard (I took so hard) And I truly believe (I truly believe) That you see the best in me (That you see the best in me) I'm enough for your love And that thought Sets me free Free in you Got no worries on my mind I know what to do That's to treat you right And love you kind Thank you ever on my mind Love is just like breathing When it's true And I'm free in you Yes I'm free in you |
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from Indigo Girls - Swamp Ophelia (1994)
I'm harboring a fugitive a defector of a kind she lives in my soul drinks of my wine and i'd give my last breath to keep us alive are they coming for us with cameras or guns we don't know which but we gotta run you say this is not what i bargained for so hide yourself for me all for me we swore to ourselves we'd go to the end of the world but i got caught up in whirl and the twirl of it all a day in the sun dancing alone baby i'm so sorry now now it's coming to you the lessons i've learned won't do you any good you've got to get burned the curse and the blessing they're one in the same baby it's all such a treacherous gain hide yourself from me i said hide yourself from me all for me i stood without clothes danced in the sand i was aching with freedom kissing the damned i said remember this as how it should be baby i said it's all in our hands got to learn to respect what we don't understand we are fortunate ones fortunate ones i swear so hide yourself for me i will hide myself for you all for you i stood
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from Indigo Girls - Rites Of Passage (1992)
Galileo's head was on the block
The crime was looking up the truth And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode I try to trace them to my youth And then you had to bring up reincarnation Over a couple of beers the other night And now I'm serving time for mistakes Made by another in another lifetime How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight And then I think about my fear of motion Which I never could explain Some other fool across the ocean years ago Must have crashed his little airplane How long 'til my soul gets it right? Could any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight I'm not making a joke, You know me, I take everything so seriously If we wait for the time 'til all souls get it right Then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation In my lifetime, I'm still not right I offer thanks to those before me That's all I've got to say 'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime Now i have to pay... But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration To let the next life off the hook But she'll say "look what I had to overcome from my last life I think I'll write a book!" How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach the highest light? Except for (the resting soul) Galileo, God rest his soul (of Galileo) King of night vision, king of insight... How long...? (until my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long...? ('til my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long... |
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from Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews (1996)
Galileo's head was on the block
The crime was looking up the truth And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode I try to trace them to my youth And then you had to bring up reincarnation Over a couple of beers the other night And now I'm serving time for mistakes Made by another in another lifetime How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight And then I think about my fear of motion Which I never could explain Some other fool across the ocean years ago Must have crashed his little airplane How long 'til my soul gets it right? Could any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight I'm not making a joke, You know me, I take everything so seriously If we wait for the time 'til all souls get it right Then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation In my lifetime, I'm still not right I offer thanks to those before me That's all I've got to say 'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime Now i have to pay... But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration To let the next life off the hook But she'll say "look what I had to overcome from my last life I think I'll write a book!" How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach the highest light? Except for (the resting soul) Galileo, God rest his soul (of Galileo) King of night vision, king of insight... How long...? (until my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long...? ('til my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long... |
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from Folk, Gospel & Blues: Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1999)
Galileo's head was on the block
The crime was looking up the truth And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode I try to trace them to my youth And then you had to bring up reincarnation Over a couple of beers the other night And now I'm serving time for mistakes Made by another in another lifetime How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight And then I think about my fear of motion Which I never could explain Some other fool across the ocean years ago Must have crashed his little airplane How long 'til my soul gets it right? Could any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight I'm not making a joke, You know me, I take everything so seriously If we wait for the time 'til all souls get it right Then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation In my lifetime, I'm still not right I offer thanks to those before me That's all I've got to say 'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime Now i have to pay... But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration To let the next life off the hook But she'll say "look what I had to overcome from my last life I think I'll write a book!" How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach the highest light? Except for (the resting soul) Galileo, God rest his soul (of Galileo) King of night vision, king of insight... How long...? (until my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long...? ('til my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long... |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
Galileo's head was on the block
The crime was looking up the truth And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode I try to trace them to my youth And then you had to bring up reincarnation Over a couple of beers the other night And now I'm serving time for mistakes Made by another in another lifetime How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight And then I think about my fear of motion Which I never could explain Some other fool across the ocean years ago Must have crashed his little airplane How long 'til my soul gets it right? Could any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight I'm not making a joke, You know me, I take everything so seriously If we wait for the time 'til all souls get it right Then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation In my lifetime, I'm still not right I offer thanks to those before me That's all I've got to say 'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime Now i have to pay... But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration To let the next life off the hook But she'll say "look what I had to overcome from my last life I think I'll write a book!" How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach the highest light? Except for (the resting soul) Galileo, God rest his soul (of Galileo) King of night vision, king of insight... How long...? (until my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long...? ('til my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long... |
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from Indigo Girls - SHAMING OF THE SUN (1997)
GET OUT THE MAP
words and music by Emily Saliers I'm gonna clear my head, I'm gonna drink that sun. The saddest sight my eyes can see Is that big ball of orange sinking slyly down the trees, Sittin in a broken circle while you rest upon my knee. This perfect moment will soon be leaving me. Suzanne calls from Boston, the coffee's hot, the corn is high And that same sun that warms your heart will suck the good earth dry. With everything, it's opposite enough to keep you crying Or keep this old world spinning with a twinkle in its eye. Get out the map, get out the map and lay your finger anywhere down, We'll leave the figuring to those we pass on our way out of town. Don't drink the water, there seems to be something ailing everyone. I'm gonna clear my head, I'm gonna drink that sun, I'm gonna love you good and strong while our love is good and young. Joni left for South Africa a few years ago And then Beth took a job all the way over on the West Coast. And me, I'm still trying to live half a life on the road. Seems I'm heavier by the year and heavier by the load. Why do we hurtle ourselves through every inch of time and space? I must say around some corner, I can sense a resting place. With every lesson learned, a line upon your beautiful face. We'll amuse ourselves one day with these memories we'll trace. Get out the map, get out the map and lay your finger anywhere down, We'll leave the figuring to those we pass on our way out of town. Don't drink the water, there seems to be something ailing everyone. I'm gonna clear my head, I'm gonna drink that sun, I'm gonna love you good and strong while our love is good and young. |
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from Indigo Girls - Strange Fire (Expanded Edition) (1989)
love is but a song we sing
and fear's the way we die you can make the mountains ring or make the angels cry though the bird is on the wing you may not know why come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now some may come and some may go we will surely pass when the one that left us here returns for us at last we are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass yeah come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now if you hear the song we sing you will understand you hold the key to love and fear all in your trembling hand just one key unlocks them both it's there at your command come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now try to love one another right now try to love one another right now |
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from The Wonder Years (캐빈은 12살) [ost] (1994)
Get Together. Love is but a song we sing And fear's the way we die. You can make the mountains ring Or make the angels cry. Tho' the bird is on the wing And you may not know why. - - C'mon, people now Smile on your brother Ev'rybody get together Try to love one another right now. Some will come and some will go And we shall surely pass. When the one that left us here Returns for us at last. We are but a moment's sunlight Fading in the grass. - - If you hear the song we sing You will understand. You hold the key to love and fear In your trembling hand. Just one key unlocks them both It's there at your command. - |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls/ Strange Fire/ Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (2003)
love is but a song we sing
and fear's the way we die you can make the mountains ring or make the angels cry though the bird is on the wing you may not know why come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now some may come and some may go we will surely pass when the one that left us here returns for us at last we are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass yeah come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now if you hear the song we sing you will understand you hold the key to love and fear all in your trembling hand just one key unlocks them both it's there at your command come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now try to love one another right now try to love one another right now |
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from Indigo Girls - Rites Of Passage (1992)
There's a letter on the desktop
That I dug out of a drawer The last truce we ever came to From our adolescent war And I start to feel the fever From the warm air through the screen You come regular like seasons Shadowing my dreams And the Mississippi's mighty But it starts in Minnesota At a place that you could walk across With five steps down And I guess that's how you started Like a pinprick to my heart But at this point you rush right through me And I start to drown And there's not enough room In this world for my pain Signals cross, and love gets lost And time passed makes it plain Of all my demon spirits I need you the most I'm in love with your ghost I'm in love with your ghost Dark and dangerous like a secret (don't tell a soul) That gets whispered in a hush When I wake the things I dreamt about you (don't tell a soul) Last night make me blush Then you kissed me like a lover Then you sting me like a viper I go follow to the river Play your memory like the Piper And I feel it like a sickness How this love is killing me But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly And dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close In love with your ghost Unknowing captor You'll never know much you Pierce my spirit But I can't touch you Can you hear it, a cry to be free... Oh, I'm forever under lock and key As you pass through me Now I see your face before me That would launch a thousand ships To bring your heart back to my island As the sand beneath me slips As I burn up in your presence And I know now how it feels To be weakened like Achilles With you always at my heels And my bitter pill to swallow Is the silence that I keep It poisons me, I can't swim free The river is too deep Though I'm baptized by your touch I am no worst at most In love with your ghost (In love) You are shadowing my dreams (with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) |
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from Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews (1996)
There's a letter on the desktop
That I dug out of a drawer The last truce we ever came to From our adolescent war And I start to feel the fever From the warm air through the screen You come regular like seasons Shadowing my dreams And the Mississippi's mighty But it starts in Minnesota At a place that you could walk across With five steps down And I guess that's how you started Like a pinprick to my heart But at this point you rush right through me And I start to drown And there's not enough room In this world for my pain Signals cross, and love gets lost And time passed makes it plain Of all my demon spirits I need you the most I'm in love with your ghost I'm in love with your ghost Dark and dangerous like a secret (don't tell a soul) That gets whispered in a hush When I wake the things I dreamt about you (don't tell a soul) Last night make me blush Then you kissed me like a lover Then you sting me like a viper I go follow to the river Play your memory like the Piper And I feel it like a sickness How this love is killing me But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly And dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close In love with your ghost Unknowing captor You'll never know much you Pierce my spirit But I can't touch you Can you hear it, a cry to be free... Oh, I'm forever under lock and key As you pass through me Now I see your face before me That would launch a thousand ships To bring your heart back to my island As the sand beneath me slips As I burn up in your presence And I know now how it feels To be weakened like Achilles With you always at my heels And my bitter pill to swallow Is the silence that I keep It poisons me, I can't swim free The river is too deep Though I'm baptized by your touch I am no worst at most In love with your ghost (In love) You are shadowing my dreams (with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) |
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from Indigo Girls - Come No Now Social (1999)
through the dust bowl through the debt grandma was a suffragette blacklisted for her publication blacklisted for my generation go go go raise your hands raise your hands high don't take a seat don't stand aside this time don't assume anything just go go go feed the fire and fan the flame i know you kids can stand the rain i know the kids are still upsetters 'cause rock is cool but the struggle is better go go go and raise your hands raise your hands high don't take a seat don't stand aside this time don't assume anything i said this time now don't assume anything just go the truth is i was afraid i felt inferior i felt i excelled in competing with others and i knew instantly that these people were not competing at all, that they were acting in a strange, powerful trance of movement together and i was filled with longing to act with them and with the fear that i could not did they tell you it was set it stone that you'd end up alone use your years to psyche you out you're too old to care you're too young to count did they tell you, you would come undone when you try to touch the sun undermine the underground you're too old to care you're too young to count i said go go go i said this time don't assume anything just go go go go go go go go go |
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from Indigo Girls - Come No Now Social (1999)
Think I'll bag that trip for two Pack it up for Kakadu Honey it's not for the weather Or a lack of lovin' you I got all this in between Something I could not foresee And all the deals I made don't matter if I can't just let you be Gone again, gone again There ain't no way that I'm gonna' let this heart mend Gone again Walked in King's Cross for awhile Gave a junkie girl a smile We both traded in for danger Or the company of strangers She said all her family Was at the welfare agency then she swindled my last twenty for a kiss and some poetry Gone again, gone again There ain't no way that I'm gonna' let this heart mend Gone again If I don't make Kakadu I'll be at the Rainbow Room I'll be courtin' some disaster With the Melbourne wrecking crew Honey all this is to say Every dog don't got its day If we take the love we're given And we throw it all away Gone again, gone again There ain't no way that I'm gonna' let this heart mend Gone again |
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from Indigo Girls - Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (1990)
Clearing webs from the hovel
A blistered hand on the handle of a shovel I've been digging too deep, I always do. I see my fate on the surface I look a lot like Narcissus A dark aabyss of an emptiness Standing on the edge of a drowning blue. I look behind my ears for the green Even my sweat smells clean Glare off the white hurts my eyes. Gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail Learn how to use my hands, not just my head I think myself into jail Now I know a refuge never grows From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose. I had a lot of good intentions Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension, Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts But my life is more than a vision The sweetest part is acting after making a decision I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts My life is part of the global life I'd found myself becoming more immobile When I'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything. A distant nation my community A street person my responsibility If I have a care in the world I have a gift to bring. |
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from Indigo Girls - Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (1990)
Clearing webs from the hovel A blistered hand on the handle of a shovel I've been digging too deep, I always do. I see my fate on the surface I look a lot like Narcissus A dark aabyss of an emptiness Standing on the edge of a drowning blue. I look behind my ears for the green Even my sweat smells clean Glare off the white hurts my eyes. Gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail Learn how to use my hands, not just my head I think myself into jail Now I know a refuge never grows From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose. I had a lot of good intentions Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension, Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts But my life is more than a vision The sweetest part is acting after making a decision I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts My life is part of the global life I'd found myself becoming more immobile When I'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything. A distant nation my community A street person my responsibility If I have a care in the world I have a gift to bring. |
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from Indigo Girls - Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (1990)
i've taken so many down
i've helped them all to dismount i've followed so many down i take their hand me downs all with hope all with hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness all with hope all with hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all everything that i believe crawls from underneath the streets everything i truly love comes from somewhere far above everything that i believe is wrong with you is wrong with me everything i truly love i love in you and i love in me so give me hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all you swear you can't swim the river (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) but i saw you running to jump in (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) i swore i'd never be your sinner (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) til i held your sin hand me downs now you ask me why i'm here the same as you i'm scared - it's fear i've become the beggar now and you've become the saint somehow twist the words and place the blame and tell me now aren't we the same tripping in our yellow feet checking underneath our sheets for some hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness give me hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all |
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from Indigo Girls - Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (1990)
i've taken so many down
i've helped them all to dismount i've followed so many down i take their hand me downs all with hope all with hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness all with hope all with hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all everything that i believe crawls from underneath the streets everything i truly love comes from somewhere far above everything that i believe is wrong with you is wrong with me everything i truly love i love in you and i love in me so give me hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all you swear you can't swim the river (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) but i saw you running to jump in (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) i swore i'd never be your sinner (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) til i held your sin hand me downs now you ask me why i'm here the same as you i'm scared - it's fear i've become the beggar now and you've become the saint somehow twist the words and place the blame and tell me now aren't we the same tripping in our yellow feet checking underneath our sheets for some hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness give me hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all |
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from Indigo Girls - Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (1990)
I've taken so many down, I've helped them all to dismount. I've followed so many down, I take their hand me downs. All with hope, all with ope that Emptiness brings fullness and Loss of love brings wholeness to all. Everything that I believe crawls from underneath the streets. Everything I truly love comes from somewhere high above. Everything that I believe is wrong with you is wrong with me. Everything I truly love I love in you I love me. So give me hope, give me hope that Emptiness brings fullness and Loss of love brings wholeness to us all. Swear you can't swim the river, I saw you running to jump in. I swore I would never by your sinner, Until I help your sin. Now you ask me why I'm here. The same as you, I'm scared, it's fear. I've become the beggar now, you've become the saint somehow. Twist the words and place the blame, tell me now, aren't we the same? Tripping in our yellow feet, checking underneath our sheets, For some hope, give me hope that Emptiness brings fullness and Loss of love brings wholeness to us all. |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls/ Strange Fire/ Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (2003)
i've taken so many down
i've helped them all to dismount i've followed so many down i take their hand me downs all with hope all with hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness all with hope all with hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all everything that i believe crawls from underneath the streets everything i truly love comes from somewhere far above everything that i believe is wrong with you is wrong with me everything i truly love i love in you and i love in me so give me hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all you swear you can't swim the river (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) but i saw you running to jump in (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) i swore i'd never be your sinner (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) til i held your sin hand me downs now you ask me why i'm here the same as you i'm scared - it's fear i've become the beggar now and you've become the saint somehow twist the words and place the blame and tell me now aren't we the same tripping in our yellow feet checking underneath our sheets for some hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness give me hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all |
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from Indigo Girls - All That We Let In (2006)
you spent five years saying you'd come my way
well that's a little more waiting than a heart can take yeah but now that i know it's just a fantasy i feel a hard time coming around for me i said oh oh oh oh oh there's a heartache for everyone oh oh oh oh there's a heartache for everyone i spent two years saying give me a chance (oh oh oh) yeah clean it all up and i'll take your hand (oh oh oh) but not forever it was understood (oh oh oh) yeah but just for a while, it would do us some good (oh oh oh) i said oh (i'm waiting) oh oh (to restore) oh oh (my love) there's a heartache for everyone (i'm waiting) oh oh (to restore) oh oh (my faith) there's a heartache for everyone i'll wait for you until i know there's a heartache for everyone ... hey valentine i'm just a stumbling around who knew that paris was such a lonely town i'll meet you at the bridge where we wanted to kiss or take the high road and be done with this hey valentine i'm just a stumbling around who knew that paris was such a lonely town i'll meet you at the bridge where we wanted to kiss or take the high road and be done with this i'll give you six more weeks baby just in case you can change your mind, you won't be replaced are we looking at a lifetime of regret (are we looking at a lifetime of regret) or just the one little moment that i'll never forget (or just the one little moment that we'll never forget) i said oh (i'm waiting) oh oh (to restore) oh oh (my love) there's a heartache for everyone (i'm waiting) oh oh (to restore) oh oh (my faith) there's a heartache for everyone i'll wait for you until i know there's a heartache for everyone i'll wait for you until i know there's a heartache for everyone |
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from Indigo Girls - Strange Fire (Expanded Edition) (1989)
hey jesus it's me
i don't usually talk to you but my baby's gonna leave me and there's something you must do i am not your faithful servant i hang around sometimes with a bunch of your black sheep but if you make my baby stay i'll make it up to you and that's a promise i will keep hey jesus it's me i'm the one who talked to you yesterday and i asked you please please for a favor but my baby's gone away went away anyway and i don't really think its fair you've got the power to make us all believe in you and then we call you in our despair and you don't come through hey jesus it's me i'm sorry i don't remember all i said i had a few, no, too many and they went straight to my head and made me feel like i could argue with god but you know it's easy for you you got friends all over the world you had the whole world waiting for your birth but now i ain't got nobody i don't know what my life's worth i'm not gonna call on you any more i'm sure you've got a million things to do all i was trying to do was to get through to you get through to you because when i die and i get up to your doors i don't even know if you're gonna let me in the place how come i gotta die to get a chance to talk to you face to face |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls/ Strange Fire/ Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (2003)
hey jesus it's me
i don't usually talk to you but my baby's gonna leave me and there's something you must do i am not your faithful servant i hang around sometimes with a bunch of your black sheep but if you make my baby stay i'll make it up to you and that's a promise i will keep hey jesus it's me i'm the one who talked to you yesterday and i asked you please please for a favor but my baby's gone away went away anyway and i don't really think its fair you've got the power to make us all believe in you and then we call you in our despair and you don't come through hey jesus it's me i'm sorry i don't remember all i said i had a few, no, too many and they went straight to my head and made me feel like i could argue with god but you know it's easy for you you got friends all over the world you had the whole world waiting for your birth but now i ain't got nobody i don't know what my life's worth i'm not gonna call on you any more i'm sure you've got a million things to do all i was trying to do was to get through to you get through to you because when i die and i get up to your doors i don't even know if you're gonna let me in the place how come i gotta die to get a chance to talk to you face to face |
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from Indigo Girls - SHAMING OF THE SUN (1997)
hey kind friend
i don't know when i'll see you again on a ferry boat bound to victoria laying down to hide from the wind big dipper hangin over the city you know everything now is different for me and it ain't no use in explainin the scenery i said kind friend help me forget where i been kind friend remember who i am i was too late in spokane so i caught a ride through the cascade range i saw the sun die in olympia running down on capital lake now i ask you for some relief it's one true root that you bring to me it's 3 am and it's good company i said hey kind friend help me forget where i been hey kind friend help me remember who i am hey kind friend don't know if i'm gonna see you again it's okay friend it's okay friend (it's so hard when they all have to face going away) so i'll meet you in new orleans or i'll see you around cause i don't know if it's worth coming down hey i'm calling you from a goldrush town and i say hey kind friend help me forget where i've been hey kind friend help me remember who i am hey kind friend i don't know if i'm gonna see you again it's ok friend i'm ok friend i said i'm ok friend i'm ok friend (see ya later) |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (1989)
I went all the way to Paris to forget your face Captured in stained glass, young lives long since passed Statues of lovers every place I went all across the continent to relieve this restless love I walked through the ruins, icons of glory Smashed by the bombs from above Chorus: So we must love while these moments are still called today Take part in the pain of this passion play Stretched our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust Until time makes history of us. Jeu de Paume's full of faces knowing peace, knowing strife Leisure and toil, still it's canvas and oil There's just no medium for life In the midst of the rubble I felt a sense of rebirth In a dusty cathedral the living God called And I prayed for my life here in earth Chorus There are mountains in Switzerland, brillian cold as they stand From my hotel room, watching the half-moon Bleeding its light like a lamb And the town is illuminated, its tiny figures are fast asleep And it dawns on me the time is upon me To return to the flock I must keep. Chorus Originally submitted by ? Reformatted and extracted to a single lyric file by Doug Henkle |
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from Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls/ Strange Fire/ Nomads/ Indians/ Saints (2003)
I went all the way to Paris to forget your face
Captured in stained glass, young lives long since passed Statues of lovers every place I went all across the continent to relieve this restless love I walked through the ruins, icons of glory Smashed by the bombs from above So we must love while these moments are still called today Take part in the pain of this passion play Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust Until time makes history of us Jeu de Paume's full of faces knowing peace, knowing strife Leisure and toil, still it's canvas and oil There's just no medium for life In the midst of the rubble I felt a sense of rebirth In a dusty cathedral the living God called And I prayed for my life here on earth So we must love while these moments are still called today Take part in the pain of this passion play Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust Until time makes history of us There are mountains in Switzerland, brilliant cold as they stand From my hotel room, watching the half-moon Bleeding its light like a lamb And the town is illumined, its tiny figures are fast asleep And it dawns on me the time is upon me To return to the flock I must keep So we must love while these moments are still called today Take part in the pain of this passion play Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust Until time makes history of us |
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from Indigo Girls - Becone You (2002)
Let's not drag this out, everything's in motion Though I've only ever loved you kind and with devotion I remember when I met you and even from the start I thought one day you'd probably just come home and break my heart It's funny what you know and still go on pretending With no good evidence you'll ever see that happy ending You were looking for your distance and sensing my resistance you had to do your will I had to learn the hard way We were just an empty dream too big for hope alone to fill I know I'm a dreamer, so I'll give you that Still I hope I'm more than just a place you laid your hat You're a land of secrets, its only citizen And though I paid my dues I was never allowed in And so I am a stranger but especially today As I get sad and lonely and you get your way You were looking for your distance and sensing my resistance you had to do your will I had to learn the hard way We were just an empty dream too big for hope alone to fill Holding out for change I know we never stood a chance So I could only wait and watch you slip right through my hands |
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from Indigo Girls - Dispite Our Differences (2006)
When we tried to rework all of this
Each to her rendition We painted ourselves in a corner Lost for ideas blindly fishing For a compliment or kindness Just to bring us into view But you could not interpret me and I could not interpret you I remember that cold morning when the trees were black with birds I tried to make out some connection We were at a loss for words After all that we've been through I could not see giving up Despite the picture of our coffee growing colder in the cups I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough And I believe in you and I believe in love So we went rolling on down through the years Taking time off we could steal Until the thief of things unreconciled Stuck it's stick into the wheel Now we're tumbling in a freefall No one's gonna go unscathed But it's not because you held back and its not how I behaved I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough I believe in you and I believe in love There are avenues and supplements and books stacked on the shelf Labyrinths of recovery in search of our best self But most of what will happen now is way out of our hands So just let it go and see where it lands I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough I believe in you and I believe in love I believe in you and I believe in love |
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from Indigo Girls - Dispite Our Differences (2006)
When we tried to rework all of this
Each to her rendition We painted ourselves in a corner Lost for ideas blindly fishing For a compliment or kindness Just to bring us into view But you could not interpret me and I could not interpret you I remember that cold morning when the trees were black with birds I tried to make out some connection We were at a loss for words After all that we've been through I could not see giving up Despite the picture of our coffee growing colder in the cups I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough And I believe in you and I believe in love So we went rolling on down through the years Taking time off we could steal Until the thief of things unreconciled Stuck it's stick into the wheel Now we're tumbling in a freefall No one's gonna go unscathed But it's not because you held back and its not how I behaved I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough I believe in you and I believe in love There are avenues and supplements and books stacked on the shelf Labyrinths of recovery in search of our best self But most of what will happen now is way out of our hands So just let it go and see where it lands I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough I believe in you and I believe in love I believe in you and I believe in love |
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from Indigo Girls - Strange Fire (Expanded Edition) (1989)
well you followed me this far
did you find out what's inside can you tell me what i'm doing is it something i should hide i don't know for sure i don't wanna find out what i left there for i'm not scared and i'm not lonely saving all my money or my breath i'm not looking for an answer or anyone to second guess no you told me all your secrets and i filled you up with lies now i'm living honestly because i said goodbye i can't go home anymore i don't wanna find out what i left there for i'm not scared and i'm not lonely saving all my money or my breath i'm not looking for an answer i'm not asking anyone to second guess i was losing all my senses i was losing all control it was getting so offensive now you want me back for more and i just won't go if you think you know the answers you've got a lot of gall cause it gives you satisfaction knowing nothing at all i don't care anymore and i don't wanna find out what i left there for what i left there for i'm not scared and i'm not lonely saving all my money or my breath i'm not looking for an answer i'm not asking anyone to take a second guess no i'm not scared and i'm not lonely saving all my money or my breath yeah i'm not looking for an answer i'm not asking anyone to take a second guess no take a second guess yeah take a second guess yeah (hey) take a second guess yeah (hey) take a second guess yeah take a second guess (i can't talk to you) take a second guess (yeah, yeah i know) take a second guess (well i gotta go okay) take a second guess take a second guess (over one billion served) take a second guess oh yeah |
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