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 H...

Never Stop" is an Emily Saliers song from the 1986 EP The last time I heard it performed was in March of 1990, I think The lyrics are transcribed directly fro...

When I walked you to the door, I was feeling mighty fine I was thinking "Hey, I've got love to ease my mind" Then I got to the car, and I was staring at your sc...

We had our day, and now it's over We had our song, and now it's all sung We took our stroll through summer's clover But summer's gone, baby, and the walking's d...

Well we blew off immigration, the moon was sitting high, as we drove from the Lacandon into Comitan Gloria was singing and Cecilia closed her eyes, and I saw t...

Now we can say that nothing's lost and only change brings round the prophecy Where now it's melting, the solid frost was once a veil on greener landscapes we wo...

now we can say that nothings lost and only change brings round the prophecy well now it's melting the solid frost was once a veil on greener landscapes we would...

"Passin' Time" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey" Passin' Time She was grasping for a way to tell us all The hurt she felt inside "We're all too happy," sh...

Now, everybody's looking for a little peace of mind We're a generation running out of time There's a bomb, there's a man, there's a gun in his hand, yeah Well, ...

I meet you for coffee We get together periodically I got a bad case I can't shake off of me The fevered walking round wondering how it ought to be You work in t...

We get to be a ripple in the water We get to be a rock that's thrown We get to be a boy on the bridge Standing over the reservoir I see the water lapping on th...

Welcome to why the church has died And the heart of the exile and the kingdom of hate Who owns the land and keeps the commands And marries itself to the state ...

Well, we read best selling novels so we can talk between the lines And we often close our eyes just to hide the dollar signs And we're suddenly pretentious, and...

Well, evening fell just like a star Left a trail across the sky You spit as you walked out the door If this is love we're crazy As we fight like cats and dogs I...

well evening fell just like a star left a trail across the sky you spit as you walked out the door if this is love we're crazy as we fight like cats and dogs i ...

now the parking lot is empty everyone's gone someplace i pick you up and in the trunk i've packed a cooler and a 2-day suitcase cause there's a place we like to...

Now the parking lot is empty Everyone's gone someplace I pick you up and in the trunk I've packed A cooler and a 2 day suitcase 'Cause there's a place we like ...

I saw a vision Little boy You covered up your own insights But I may have held your hand Or seen the ghost you tried to fight Oh a vision Little boy You straye...

My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark I do not feel the romance I do not catch the spark I don't know when I noticed life was life at my expense ...

my place is of the sun and this place is of the dark and i do not feel the romance i do not catch the spark my place is of the sun and this place is of the dark...

well i woke up this morning grey dawn with a prayer on my breath see i lost something precious and god'll save me from losing myself i said i think i know what'...

Well I woke up this morning, gray dawn With a prayer on my breath I lost something precious, God'll save me From losing myself I think I know what's wrong I th...

dog at the window still looks all day never gets her fill cause a glance means a chance to break the birds out congregating I have seen a look like that you lic...

it's coming on christmas they're cutting down trees putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace i wish i had a river i could skate away on but it do...

It didn't happen for you no one wants to hear the truth coming from three political queers Plucking the punk rock bloom So you break up the band and leave us al...

Theres colors on the street Red white and blue People shuffling their feet People sleeping in their shoes Theres a warning sign on the road ahead Theres a lot o...

A love struck Romeo Sings the street a serenade He's laying everybody low He's got a love song that he made Finds a convenient streetlight and he says somethin'...

You don't want me calling you up All melancholy sick from love You prefer it uncomplicated Things are tricky now I bet you hate it Your mind's eye finds the exi...

I took off last night with my coat and my intention To make connections with the eyes that left me blind Left my mouth for the strength of that white, white lin...

Mister pull up a chair I got time for tears Tell me all the stories that you never did Of the salty south The Seminoles held out While Geronimo died in a lonely...

scooter boys and argentineans europe shed the blood of the indians here i sit in the land of plenty crying about my own virginity hey blue blood you're nothing ...

The second time around, you know it really got me down Sister don't you judge it, just keep it to yourself now and if You ain't got nothing good to say don't sa...

In the ink of an eye I saw you bleed; through the thunder I could hear you scream, solid to the air I breathe, open-eyed and fast asleep Falling softly as the r...

My friends they wash the windows and they shine in the sun They tell me wake up early in the morning sometime See what a beautiful job we done I say let's put o...

I can go one day without calling Two days without ballin' Three days without missing But a lot of time with no kissing you Something better just can't do I wish...

We were sitting round a dying fire, somebody lit incense somebody lit a cigarette and passed the bottle around It was just strawberry season, backbreaking picke...

115 You are 17 Itchy trigger Venemous You growing longer You growing stronger You shed your skin Now shed this Come on over baby You tell me it's holy holy I do...

115 you are 17 Itchy trigger and venomous You're growing longer you're growing stronger So shed your skin babe now shed this Come on over now Come on over baby...

I've seen the sun on a funeral, the full moon in a midday sky Tactician politician hold his head and wonder why I'm always struck that much harder by the power ...

kelly mountain road saw a heavy load with a sagging heart and a break apart voices in me stood as thick as thieves with no sympathy for the beggars art i have p...

(Emily Saliers) Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning Light the bayou with our taillights in the night 800 miles to El Paso from the state line And we never hav...

i come to you with strange fire i make an offering of love the incense of my soil is burned by the fire in my blood i come with a softer answer to the questions...

there's love in the corners and love down the straight highway there's danger in the outskirts of town and in what you don't say you're either sinking or thinki...

If you were here in Starkville, the townie boys would love the way you stare If you were here in Starkville, the local girls , they wouldn't have a prayer I spe...

i come to you with strange fire i make an offering of love the incense of my soil is burned by the fire in my blood i come with a softer answer to the questions...

I come to you with strange fire I make an offering of love The incense of my soul is burned By the fire in my blood I come with a softer answer To the question...

All the fur and fin will lose again Cause our better is their worst reckonin' And our fine-feathered friends will sing until they bleed And how will we replace ...

"Summertime" is a George Gershwin song To be more accurate (admittedly, only slightly more - I don't actually know what I'm talking about - haven't y'all figur...

summertime and the living is easy fish are jumping the cotton is high oh your daddy's rich your mama's good looking i said hush little baby don't you cry one o...

early one morning the sun was shining i was laying in bed wondering if she'd changed at all if her hair was still red her folks they said our lives together sur...

Whatever it was, is wasn't manumission To spill the blood, to pull the weed You can bury the past, but it's a mausoleum With the ghost of a fist that won't let ...

I'm scared as hell, 'Cause Squeaky's out of jail I can feel her close behind me, Like the devil on my heels They say she's heading for California, Or maybe for ...

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 we can all see her...

I tried my best to get over you Kept my distance so I wouldn't have to show That the things which I kept hidden By my casual smile Were the things that I needed...

The water is wide, I can't cross o'er And neither I have wings to fly Give me a boat that can carry two And both shall row - my love and I Now love is gentle, a...

the thin horizon of a plan is almost clear my friends and i have had a tough time bruising our brains hard up against change all the old dogs and the magician n...

I brought my tree down to the shore The garland and the silver star To find my peace, and grieve no more To heal this place inside my heart On every branch I l...

i thought the time was passed when i could find beauty in a birds i set the stage and the scenery rehearsing every word yeah but when i tried to make it more we...

it's a fish white belly a lump in the throat razor on the wire skin and bone piss and blood in a railroad car 100 people gypsies queers and david's star this tr...

We are climbing Jacob's ladder We are climbing on Jacob's ladder Out of these boxcars and out of these chambers Out of the bed where we laid with ten strangers...

I drive a three county highway and every one of them town's got a firework show It's 4th of July and I'm just now getting home, on the horizon, I can see 'em al...

three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion one could send you down the river three's a strange way to be delivered would you trade your words for fre...

Words and Music: Amy Ray (Dedicated to the memory of a great poet, Frank Stanford) Three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion One could send you dow...

all skate now reverse I'm waking from a dream the neighborhood is green all the sounds I've missed all the years come down to wedding death and fear I'll I've h...

"The Untitled Song" is an Emily Saliers composition It originally appeared on "Blue Food," and it has been performed as recently as 1989 Actually, I seem to r...

Baby, I got the best intentions, But I just can't do it Baby, I got the truest aim, But I just can't win Baby, I got a good vibration, But I just can't play it...

Tuesdays children Were falling short of time Lets hope we never fall short of love Memories linger like the fog on the sea Keeping me out of touch with my reali...

Well the first days are the hardest days Dont you worry anymore Cause when life looks like easy street There is danger at your door Now think this through with ...

"Up in Smoke" is an Emily Saliers song, dating from early 1987, I believe I think that it's one of the most pop-oriented tunes Emily has written, and it would ...

They took away my garden To make room for a chemical plant I feel my country's arteries harden With the aid of a government grant Chorus: We are not a bunch of ...

some will strut and some will fret see this an hour on the stage others will not but they'll sweat in their hopelessness and their rage we're all the same the m...

some will strut and some will fret see this an hour on the stage others will not but they'll sweat in their hopelessness and their rage we're all the same the m...

we use to walk in each other arms, "one on one," that's what you said now the moon is a sliver in our eye, we stumble bleeding on the broken glass chorus: there...

It's over, hang your gun down And eat this simple fare What you need is to feed on something Warm and hand prepared The ice at the edges Waters, change is near...

War rugs in the hallway Prayer rugs on the wall Who's walkin' tall? I should be kneelin' [Bridge] Soldier girl, oh, soldier boy Tell me what to say When I see...

The water is wide I can't cross o'er And neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat that can carry two And both shall row, my love and I O love is handsome lov...

thought i knew my mind like the back of my hand the gold and the rainbow but nothing panned out as i planned and they say only milk and honey's gonna make your ...

My, my... how time flies. First time I met you - had to shade my eyes. Cuz staring into the sun can make a girl blind. Now here we sit in a shady spot. Got what...

(Amy Ray) Welcome me to the city of angels, devil prophets still hold my hand I walked your stillborn streets for hours, ethnic echoes spitting out their trials...

"What Was Really Me" is an Emily Salier song from around 1987 The version I'm transcribing is from Carboro, North Carolina, on 21 March 1988 What Was Really Me...

I should have never crossed your path Funny how the things you want the most Should soon be taken back Slap my own hands like a child Stealing from the candy st...

I wrote a letter to my senator It came back "The Address Unknown" Put a call in to the President He wouldn't come to the phone Now, how in the hell can a person...

So So you think you can tell Heaven from hell Blue skys from grey Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail A smile from a veil Yeah do you think you ca...

I'm coming home with a stone, strapped onto my back I'm coming home with a burning hope turning all my blues to black I'm looking for a sacred hand to carve int...

I'm coming home with a stone strapped onto my back I'm coming home with a burning hope turning all my blues to black I'm looking for a sacred hand to carve into...

I'm coming home with a stone strapped onto my back I'm coming home with a burning hope turning all my blues to black I'm looking for a sacred hand to carve into...

Wysteria Did you change your face again Those of us who loved you when Can?t even find you Wysteria Did you lose another man Did you make him understand That h...

I was downstairs in the greenroom waiting for you to appear I said hello to your family, I said hello to your friends, I said hello to this situation that never...

I found the binding of the yoke That connects us here, in this herd of hope Escort me to your kingdom come From the gallows' hold, and the things we've done You...

You and me of the 10,000 wars, dividing life into factions of pleasure and chores - a bed to be made and a bed to lie in, a hand in the darker side and our sigh...

You and me of the 10,000 wars Dividing life into factions of pleasures and chores A bed to be made and a bed to lie in A hand in the darker side And our sights ...

you and me of the 10,000 wars dividing life into factions of pleasure and chores a bed to be made and a bed to lie in a hand in the darker side and our sights s...

when i let you go, i cursed myself with empty hands strong enough to watch you walk, but not enough to understand with spiteful eyes you burn for my grace i was...

when you're down and troubled and you need some love and care and nothing, no nothing is going right close your eyes and think of me and soon i will be there to...

Yes it's true I've gotten very moody over you Don't think I don't sense your caution way across the room Or across the phone lines, big black ocean, or conversa...

when i let you go i cursed myself with empty hands strong enough to watch you walk but not enough to understand with spiteful eyes you burn for my grace i was t...