Specters move like pilot flames Their widow's toast It's Saint-Angel Better times collide with now The tears were warm I feel them still Their heat to vapor and...

We met in the springtime When blossoms unfold The pastures were green and Meadows were gold Our love was in flower as summer grew on A love like the leaves has...

One, two, three, four Andy The summer's over I never noticed Did you really think you'd leave so fast This morning Was feeling colder One year older Did you r...

I can say that I've lived here In honor and danger But I'm just an animal And cannot explain a life Down this chain of days I wish to stay among My people Relat...

Fast train Where do your passengers wait? What's at the heart of your engine's rage? To what smooth place at the end of the line With crackling fires and quiet...

Lost love You're the one that lies in my arms You're the one that stole all my charms I let you in Misery You took everything young from me Burned it down righ...

Way down in Bowlin' Green Prettiest girls I've ever seen A man in Kentucky sure is lucky To love down in Bowlin' Green Bowlin' Green folks treat you kind They ...

He led you to this hiding place His lightening threats spun silver tongues The red bells beckon you to ride A handprint on the driver's side It looks a lot like...

So suddenly The madness came With it's whiskered wolven ether pangs He locked the door And shut the blinds He laid down on the floor And he slept like iron Whil...

In the wintertime keep your feet warm But keep your clothes on and don't forget me Keep the memories But keep your powder dry too In the summer by the poolside...

I'm a dreaming man Yes that's my problem (Dreaming man) I can't tell when I'm Not being real In the meadow dusk I park my Aerostar (Dreaming man) With a loaded ...

It's your bicycle bells And your Rembrandt swells You're children like And still breathing It's your look of loss When you're coming across Makes me feel like a...

Oh lie I thought you were golden I thought you were wise Caught you returning To the house you caught fire But I know that I was your favorite And I said Amen ...

In a open field at dusk To footfalls I awoke Marching ants acroos my temples, ooh Their feet had no intention, They followed some magnetic draw Prisoners of the...

Driving home I see those flooded fields How can people not know what beauty this is? I've taken it for granted my whole life Since the day I was born Clouds ha...

All night, all I hear, all I hear's your heart How come, how come I twisted you over and under to take you The coals went so wild as they swallowed the rest I ...

What happens at home since I've gone away Needles drop soft and sharp And the leaves gently sway Low ceiling moves in and circles the bay Rain rakes the trees T...

The voices that did comfort me At furthest from my sanity Come from places I had never seen Even in my darkest recollection There was someone singing my life ba...

When you hear me calling your name in the night Do you run to your window thinking a coyote might Be howling When you hear me knocking at your door again Do you...

I shine like the sun I'm on fire right now Your tears have come too late You break down the door There's already nothing I've only one heart to take I've got al...

The most tender place in my heart Is for strangers I know it's unkind But my own blood is much too dangerous Hanging round the ceiling half the time Hanging rou...

I got the honky tonk hiccups Ready steady go I got the honky tonk hiccups Ready steady go Honky tonk hiccups Ready steady go I found the cure on the hardwood fl...

I have lightning If the stars dry out to guide me I have soft clay To knit my bones astride What a miracle they say Dark clouds gather Velvet holes Gaping wide ...

Chimney falls and lovers blaze Thought that I was young Now I've freezing hands and bloodless veins As numb as I've become I'm so tired I wish I was the moon t...

You can say it's my instinct Yes, I still have one There's no time to second guess it Yes, there are things I'm still afraid of But my courage is roaring like t...

And if you knew what I know You wouldn't go to see her And least of all believe her when she says that she wants you Well you're just another puppet, she's not ...

In California I dream of snow And all the places we used to go With the night falling down With the night falling down Now I'm living in Korea Town Waking to th...

I didn't let go 'cause you hurt me I didn't let go so you'd stay I did let you go 'cause I love you so much And it kills me to see us this way Love saved my li...

Old John the baptist, old John divine Leather harness round his line His meat was locust and honey Wild honey lord, wild honey John saw that number Way in the ...

Oh, the path you walk is on fire, So wild and unashamed With a passion you inspire I'm gonna keep those men at bay Cowgirl you've got that something Of what al...

Knock loud, I'm home Just sleeping to pass the time Wondering if you'll come by to visit me Ten years have passed Since you walked out of my life But late last...

What? Stars can't fight city lights They've turned their backs on us It's true today, I saw it from the plane Aeroplanes were never built to fly Down down dow...

You're gone The trees are so quiet When your hand was in my pocket How they swayed from side to side Now the meddling sky And my snowy eye Sees a different nigh...

Sittin' here lost in my senses Drownin' in old memories Brought down from on high When you said goodbye Seems all that I lived for were lies Lonely old lies Yo...

When you tire of all the bright lights Haste that's killing and you're willing to stay home nights When your feet are back on the solid ground Look for me, I'll...

When I talk to Loretta Oh, boots, slacks and sweater Well she hugs me sweet and low And it's never let me go When I talk to Loretta, she makes me feel like numb...

Make your bed the river young girl Make your bed the river young girl La la la la la la: Make your bed the river young girl Did you come here to meet him my de...

Everything's so easy for Pauline Everything's so easy for Pauline Ancient strings set feet alight To speed to her such mild grace No monument of tacky gold They...

Maybe sparrow you should wait The hawks alight ‘til morning You'll never pass Beyond the gate If you don't hear my warning Notes are hung so effortless With th...

Baby, why'm I worried now, Did someone make a fool of me 'Fore I could show 'em how it's done? Can't give up actin' tough, It's all that I'm made of Can't scrap...

Don't you misfire to fill me up With the desire to carry on Don't you know honey that love's a game It's always hit or miss, so take your aim Gotta hold on tigh...

So many people live in my town And mind to my business but none of their own They're all so happy now that I've done wrong I'm surprised they don't come up and ...

When she's on her best behavior Don't be tempted by her favors Never turn your back on Mother Earth Towns are hurled from A to By arms that looked so smooth t...

Lie in bed and ignore the TV Watch the clouds sift through the aero And you'll be in my arms again There's no need to cry Of all the things so bittersweet You'...

How's hope feeling today Tired and sick of this place Red wine is fast At the lip of your glass Saying I'm going to ruin Everything Everything So it's better my...

An elephant never forgets Standing in the concrete cave Swaying side and? They walked over the ocean And thier dreams they dreamed awake Until the lights grew d...

Poor Ellen Smith, how was she found Shot through the heart lying cold on the ground Her body was mangled, and all cast around A blood marks the spot where poor ...

So far away Curses wild upon you Hungry and gaining Porchlight burns so far away Miles away Days have gone by and I've barely gone Safe on the road that speeds...

Oh pretty girls, you're too good for this How you break my heart in this cold waiting room Oh pretty girls, you're too good for this Don't let them tell you you...

Well if you've been a married woman and things didn't seem to work out Well Divorce is the key to bein' loose and free but you're gonna be talked about Everybod...

There's a smell here that stands my hairs on end Dog hair in the heater, gas pumps and cedar And jackknifes on the nine And seabirds choked on fishing line Clo...

Are you sure you got the right number Is it me you wanna talk to tonight Everyone in town's got your number Everybody's got you pegged right Is that why you go...

Want to get it all behind me You know everything reminds me I can't be myself without you Want to crawl down deep inside The springs inside the mattress Where I...

You'll come in with the sun in the mornin' Like you've done so often before But you won't find me asleep on the sofa Exhausted from walkin' the floor 'Cause wh...

Dressmaker, dressmaker, I'm singing at the hall next saturday night and he'll be there He's been gone for so long, I want him back again, Make me the sweetest d...

South Tacoma Way By Neko Case and her Boyfriends From Furnace Room Lullaby (NCase/BConnelly/JTrueblood/SBetts) I could do with the lyrics corrected I [F]put o...

My true love drowned In a dirty old pan of oil That did run from the block Of a Falcon sedan 1969 The paper said '75 There were no survivors None found alive T...

Rain falls, I fix my eyes Let go of the focus and I blur out all the lines Just to remember, remember Crying 'cause it's not my fault Water through my lashes l...

Thanks Thanks a lot I got a broken heart That's all I've got You made me cry Now I cried a lot I lost your love baby Thanks a lot You told our friend As I was ...

Now that we've met We can only laugh at these regrets Common as a winter cold They're telephone poles They follow each other One after another, after another N...

Here I am in traffic's slow flow (Where the needle touched down) Carbon planes draw a cage around the air force base (where the needle touched down) My foot on ...

They shot the tiger on his chain In a field behind the cages He walked in circles till he was crazy And he lived that way forever And he lived that way beside ...

When I was young, I knew a girl Who wouldn't love god as a test Or gamble with her happiness And so led astray So she did turn Her father would say, 'You're on...

Fluorescent lights engage Blackbirds frying on a wire Same birds that followed me to school When I was young Were they trying to tell me something Were they tel...

This little light of mine I'm going to let it shine This little light of mine I'm going to let it shine This little light of mine I'm going to let it shine Ever...

My love, I am the speed of sound I left the motherless, fatherless Their souls dangling inside out from their mouths But it's never enough I want you Carve you...

I want to tell you about my hometown It's a dusty old jewel in the South Puget Sound Well the factories churn and the timbers all cut down And life goes by slow...

[Neko:] This is a sad song, about tigers [Carolyn:] Let's champion the tigers [Neko:] Let's champion the tiger 'cause You know, I think that maybe I wrote ...

When I'm walkin' under stars I covet all the waning hours All the lonely houses stand like monuments To thieves When I'm walkin' in the dark I'm free to covet ...

My love was like a seed that you had planted The root was not as strong as it could be And as the years went on, you weren't enchanted So you fell it like a gre...

Baby, baby, please believe me I would never never do anything to hurt you Baby, baby, please believe me I would never never do anything to you to make you blue ...

Tenderly Tenderly Please take my breath from me Into the fountain And up from the graves Tearfully Joyfully Burn what is left of me I don't want these burdens ...

[Neko:] This is a sad song, about tigers [Carolyn:] Let's champion the tigers [Neko:] Let's champion the tiger 'cause You know, I think that maybe I wrote ...

I am a poor, wayfaring stranger Just travelling through this world below But there's no sickness, toil or danger In that bright land to which I go I'm going th...

Oh my darling, oh my darling How can you forget? All the love we had between us Now it's like we've never met Oh it kills me, how it kills me When I think I he...

Well it's hot in the yard And it's cool in the bed And I whip the blankets into cotton thread And I'll tear all the carpet up over my head 'Til my feet can go r...