Jimmy died on his couch yesterday, a friend of his x-wife Called me to say, he just gave it to god and slipped from the Living' with bills piling up and a back ...

(Emily Saliers) She won't recover from her losses, She's not chosen this path, but she watches who it crosses Maybe move to the right, maybe move to the left So...

Words and Music: Amy Ray Note: This song is a reincarnation of Problem Child Through the dustbowl through the debt Grandma was a suffragette Blacklisted for he...

raise your hands raise your hands high don't take a seat don't stand aside this time don't assume anything but go go go i am a problem child i've been wild all ...

"Half-Moon Cafe" is an Emily Saliers song, written during her sophomore year at Tulane (the same year she wrote "Play It Again, Sam") The sole performance I ha...

At the Half-Moon Cafe, we drink to our lives Like pseudo-believers in love We've been through our holes-in-the-walls and the dives Where you drink to recall wha...

(Emily Saliers) 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 l...

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 face on the surface i look a lot like na...

The sky is crying The streets are full of tears Rain come down Wash away my fears And all this writing on the wall Oh, I can read between the lines Rain come do...

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...

How many nights for Hanukkah? Happy joyous Hanukkah Nights and days, days and night, Happy joyous Hanukkah Chorus: Eight are the nights of Hanukkah Happy joyou...

Thought you were one who wouldn't run Who wouldn't do me wrong But the song that you were singing Was the same old heartache song You treat me fine and you wine...

You spent five years saying you'd come my way That's a little more wait than a heart can take Yeah now that I know it's just a fantasy I feel a hard time coming...

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 so...

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 someti...

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 kno...

"High Horse" is an Emily Saliers song, presumably written in 1987, as it appears on the original release of "Strange Fire" Though they used to perform the song...

You had your chance to show affection You had your chance to give me more And now that she's found new direction You make your way to my back door What makes yo...

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 con...

I want to live in a holy city I want to drink from a holy vine I want to be where the people are pretty Just because they feel it deep down inside Chorus: I don...

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 thoug...

When we tried to rework all of this Each to her rendition Painted ourselves in a corner Lost for ideas blindly fishing For a compliment or kindness Just to brin...

Emily: I walked into my favorite place one night Id just gotten back from a lecture And I was feeling kind of uptight And at the edge of the bar there was this ...

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 hid? cause i don't know for sure, i don't wan...

Hey, 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? 'Cause I don't know for sure I don'...

I can tell by your eyes That youve probably been crying forever And the stars in the sky Dont mean nothing to you theyre a mirror I dont wanna talk about it How...

Author: Indigo Girls Album title: Strange Fire I Don't Wanna Know you followed me this far, did you find out what's inside? can you tell me what i'm doing? is ...

I can tell by your eyes That youve probably been crying forever And the stars in the sky Dont mean nothing to you theyre a mirror I dont wanna talk about it How...

Michelle ---> 1 They say everything can be replaced Yet every distance is not near So, I remember every face Of everyone who put me here Everyone ---> Chorus I...

It was you who walked into my life You were the one You hear my cries of loneliness Through my cool cautious eyes Cant you see me reaching out for you Cant you ...

Looking out across suburban yards to the construct of our Days through the thinning of the trees Whay can I only Build a house of cards? Than gets blown to iece...

Well you You can sit in your highchairs Highchairs are for children You can sit in your highchairs and laugh Ill give you my best face Ill give you my freedom I...

I'll Give You My Skin" is a song written by both of the girls with Michael Stipe I kinda suspect that the lyrics are mostly Stipe Anyway, I'm told that it was ...

You say you want to live for today Before today is lost But when the returns come in Do they balance the cost? I can see your four wheels spin I can smell smoke...

My grandma and your grandma Sittin' by the fire My grandma told your grandma, "I'm gonna set your flag on fire" Talkin' 'bout, Hey now! Hey now! Iko Iko un day...

It's alright forty days of rain My skin stretched out from the growing pain It'd be nice to have an explanation But it's alright And it's alright if you hate th...

They said some men would be warriors Some men would be kings Some men would be owners of land And other man-made things False love as the eternal flame Would mo...

They said some men would be warriors Some men would be kings Some men would be owners of land And other man-made things False love as the eternal flame Would mo...

It's alright forty days of rain my skin stretched our from the growing pain I'd be nice to have an explanation, but it's alright And it's alright if you hate th...

Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time Theres something wrong here there can be no denying Now one of us is changing Or maybe weve just stopped trying ...

It's alright forty days of rain My skin stretched out from the growing pain It'd be nice to have an explanation But it's alright And it's alright if you hate th...

We are climbing Jacob's ladder We are climbing Jacob's ladder Out of these boxcars And out of these chambers Out of the bed where we lay With ten strangers We a...

Go will i Over yonder I will see my mother And my sister And my father Oh but my brother is going to hell Well they hung him From the gallow As the sun turned ...

you said the world was magic i was wide-eyed and laughing we were dancing up to the bright side forget about your ego forget about your pride and you will never...

You said the world was magic, I was wide eyed and laughin' We were dancin' up to the bright side Forget about your ego forget about your pride And you will neve...

you said the world was magic i was wide-eyed and laughing we were dancing up to the bright side forget about your ego forget about your pride and you will never...

I left my anger in a river running near Highway 5 New Hampshire, Vermont, bordered by, Cottage farms, hubcaps, and falling rocks Voices in the woods and the mou...

i left my anger in a river running highway 5 new hampshire, vermont, bordered by college farms, hubcaps, and falling rocks voices in the woods and the mountaint...

"Jonas & Ezekial" is an Amy Ray song from about Spring 1991, I believe Amy says that she wrote it while biking in Vermont The lyrics, that is It's tough to r...

Junkies lament Rikkis been kicking the gong Lickety split didnt take too long A junkies sick a monkeys strong Thats whats wrong Well I guess hes been messing ...

for you i would tattoo me with lines crossing into a hand and a heart that would never bleed with the twilight and the horse drawn on my arm standing for an add...

Pain from pearls - hey little girl - how much have you grown? Pain from pearls - hey little girl - flower for the ones you've known Chorus: Are you on fire, fro...

"Killing Time" is a song by Atlanta musician DeDe Vogt DeDe is a true Atlanta musician - a major part of the local music scene She has played bass for a numbe...

Who is counting sleepless nights? Who is counting letters I meant to write? Who is counting at all? If you are, I look pretty small -chorus- But no matter what ...

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a Bob Dylan song from 1973 The girls have been doing it now and then since at least 1988 There's something about the girls' ver...

Mama take this badge off of me I cant wear it anymore Its getting too dark, too dark to see And I feel like im Feel Im knockin on heavens door Knock, knock, kno...

you can go to the east to find your your inner hemisphere you say we're under the same sky babe your bound to realize honey it's not that clear i'm not your pro...

You can go to the East, find your Your inner hemisphere You say we're under the same sky, babe You're bound to realize, honey, it's not that clear I'm not your...

You can go to the east to find your, your inner hemisphere You say we're under the same sky babe Your bound to realize honey it's not that clear I'm not your pr...

i don't know if it was real or in a dream lately waking up i'm not sure where i've been there was a table set for six and five were there i stood outside and ke...

I don't know if it was real or in a dream Lately waking up, I'm not sure where I've been There was a table set for six and five were there I stood outside and k...

These are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you My cryin's through I'm moving on I don't regret and won't forget A single thing that we went through But there ar...

Oh the party's kicked up a few notches look at us getting loose She leans back against the wall and she watches tugging her collar like it might be a noose And...

i sit two stories above the street it's awful quiet here since love fell asleep there's life down below me though the kids are walking home from school some lon...

it's dark at 4 pm in leeds the steeples pierce the skylight till the last of it bleeds the absent sound of another day as it recedes into the shadows until it's...

everybody loves you, and they want to know your story, you go riding out a mystery, concealed in all your glory, but when it comes to flesh and bones, you remin...

everybody loves you and they want to know your story you go riding out a mystery concealed in all your glory but when it comes to flesh and bones you remind me ...

sticks and stones battle zones a single light bul on a single thread for the black sirens wail history fails rose-colored glass begins to age and crack while th...

Come pleasure me again I'm so tired of digging in I've done my share, don't need to win, just let me go easy For two years my body fights At this point it don...

Come pleasure me again I'm so tired of digging in I've done my share, don't need to win Just let me go easy For two years my body fights At this point it don't...

"Lifeblood" is an Emily Saliers song from the 1986 Indigo Girls EP I think the last time I heard it performed live was March of 1990 I'm transcribing the lyrics...

"Life's So Strange" is an Emily Saliers song The only performance I have of it is from Carboro, North Carolina, on 21 March 1988 Stylistically, it seems to fit...

Cold black coffee Incessant stream of cars Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fistful of grey stars Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ground Today the...

another night in a succession thinly glued with beer and wine it's a precarious profession every day at work sees your heart on the line maybe i should have gon...

Cold black coffee, incessant stream of cars Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fistful of grey stars Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ground Today th...

Back in the long stretch of loneliness I have come to call a living, I'm getting something for all this love's labor, Even when I am forgetting Oh we oh oh lit...

Long ago a young man sits And plays his waiting game But things are not the same it seems As in such tender dreams Slowly passing sailing ships On sunday after...

long ago a young man sits and plays his waiting game but things are not the same it seems as in such tender dreams slowly passing sailing ships on sunday after...

"Losin' Touch" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey" Losin' Touch Here I am, shooting for the sky You say you've settled in Yeah, well, I guess that's good fo...

Anybody looking on, they can see you're not so good People in the know, they can see I miss you In the night with no one to hear me, I'm afraid and I cry Season...

I open my hands up to see what I've got My days slip like coins into a slot they are gone And the shadows lie long I've been banking on a broken machine, left u...

Living on free food tickets There's water in the milk from a hole in the roof Where the rain came through What can you do? You've got tears from your little sis...

Love the one youre with When youre down and confused And you dont remember who youre talking to Consentration gonna slip away Cause your baby is so far away Ho...

guess i wasn't the best one to ask me myself with my face pressed up against love's glass to see the shiny toy i've been hoping for the one i never could afford...

Guess I wasn't the best one to ask me myself with my face pressed up against love's glass to see the shiny toy I've been hoping for the one I never could afford...

During the time of which I speak it was hard to turn the other cheek To the blows of insecurity Feeding the cancer of my intellect the blood of love soon neglec...

Author: Indigo Girls Album title: Indigo Girls Love's Recovery During the time of which I speak it was hard to turn the other cheek To the blows of insecurity ...

i'm in search of greener pastures, don't like my garden's what i said, although i'm working harder than last year, i'm still deep in the red, i am rowing as har...

"Make This House a Home" is a song by Amy Ray and Michelle Malone, from early 1987 Make This House a Home Well, there's something in us living There's something...

Well, there's something in us living There's something you should know There was a time for us to fall Now it's time to grow But you know it's not the way That ...

Eddie said the beat was wrong Tom didnt like the tune The boy with a beard in the corner Laughed in the middle of a song He didnt stay very long Eddie said the...

Crossroads seem to come and go The gypsy flies from coast to coast Knowing many, loving none Bearing sorrow, having fun But back home he'll always run To sweet ...

Melissa" is an Allman Brothers Band song from 1972 A live IG version appears on "Shades of Indigo" Melissa Crossroads seem to come and go The gypsy flies from ...

Well I guess that I was lonely, that's why I called you on the phone 'Cause in a moment of forgiveness, I didn't want to be alone And I guess that I was willin...

and now i know spanish harlem aren't just pretty words to say i thought i knew but now i know that rose trees never grow in new york city until you've seen this...

So money made you mean and that's not how it's supposed to be You're ready to challenge and defend yeah, but for all the wrong reasons How much do we really nee...

(handed down and made by hand) each time you'd pull down the driveway i wasn't sure when i would see you again yours was a twisted blind sided highway no matter...

Each time you'd pull down the driveway I wasn't sure when I would see you again Yours was a twisted blind sided highway No matter which road you took then Oh y...

as i drive from your pearly gates i realize that i just can't stay all those mountains they kept you locked inside and hid the truth from my slighted eyes i ca...

You say she's a very good friend, Circumstances I should understand But like recurring tide she comes on to you And looks as though she's looking for a man Hone...