At nine o'clock each morning down on Charlotte Avenue The bus driver stops and lets her off Before the first shampoo Alice started working there when she was ju...

If love is like a roller coaster Pretty as a circus poster Would you pay for a day at the fair I'd like to sit in the very last car Baby, don't hold onto the ba...

He came into town in the early springtime To work with my daddy down in the mines It was hot in the summer when he said goodbye And he left me a secret I can no...

Oh no, here we go, and there you go again, When we disagree, you leave when you don't win Honey, your sidewalk babytalk don't get it with me no more The next ti...

I came down from the Cadillac dude ranch, health spa Nestled on the edge of town For fourteen days I've been herbal wrapped, mud packed Now I'm bustin' out Well...

I guess you had to be there, she said, you had to be She handed me a yellow photograph and then said, see This was my greatest love, my one and only love and th...

Here we are Clinging to what left of a broken heart It's gone too far but I don't think you know it It ain't over yet We were walking out the door when our ey...

Sweet Abilena looked out at the midwestern sky Sweet seventeen with a far away look in her eyes She said "I feel like a bird in a cage, "But come September I'm ...

If the sun Ain't shining bright And the moon, the moon Won't shine for you tonight And you feel Feelin' real low down today And the stars in the sky gone away I...

If the sun Ain't shining bright And the moon, the moon Won't shine for you tonight And you feel Feelin' real low down today And the stars in the sky gone away I...

(matraca berg/gary harrison) Spent my life looking for Happiness like it was buried treasure Somewhere behind the secret door Surely there were riches beyond m...

Spent my life looking for Happiness like it was buried treasure Somewhere behind the secret door Surely there were riches beyond measure I would take my sanity...

I go to work from 10:30 until 6 am Raking up those dimes and quarters Slinging eggs and ham Scrambled, poached, or over easy Coffee black and strong Jukebox of ...

The world is waiting in the drive, another day begins We wake up barely half alive, here we go again We pay our bills and we don't complain We just drive faster...

She fixes her hair every morning Long before seven o'clock She'll tell you with her hair that piled up She feels closer to God And she fires up that old Chevy ...

The world explodes in violence While the angels cry in vain 'Cause they know the enemy is silent And knows us all by name -- all by name She's living in the sub...

Blackbird shivers on the old clothes line When I oughta be hanging out my sheets Just when I get to thinking that the sun's gonna shine Well, here you come Here...

I can't eat, I can't sleep, I got nubs where my fingernails used to be And my cat is lookin' kinda worried 'bout me The phone rings and I pounce I'm like OJ Si...

Well, I like to walk my dog in the middle of the night You can hear us howling in the silvery light Of the lamp post in the alley, dancing in the rain And when ...

I hear an echo through the aching distance I know your injured voice You stand behind this wall of ice between us I guess you had no choice You had to save you...

They say I latched onto you Like you was the last train leaving town But you just kept on moving, boy Left me here to live you down Momma said she'd send a wire...

Walking on a cloud Lighter than air Don't know where I'm going My heart doesn't care I'm swept by the feeling I'm under your spell Just look in my eyes It's ea...

Chorus: Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I'm begging of you Please don't take my man Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Please don't take him just because you can Yo...

It's over, baby, let's face it, baby I'm seldom on your mind It's over, baby, let's face it I won't think you unkind Go softly when you, go easy when you Go som...

I watch the sun going down While I stand on sacred ground Where once the night found us In the twilight of our love You said you'd meet me here But I'm all alo...

All aboard The ship is waiting All aboard, you know I've finally learned That I don't need no farewell party I'm just gonna let my bridges burn Cause I'm going ...

Why do I lie here like this Paralyzed by the truth in your kiss You think that I don't know there's someone else I should get up and go, but I'm not feeling wel...

It was a long, hard road It was all up hill We nearly lost our way We nearly lost our will So we clung to the rocks Where the cold winds blow Till love gave us ...

Sunday morning, a quarter past ten The congregation says amen The friends and neighbors come rolling in Amazing grace and original sin The preacher said one of ...

You can't run from your blues You can't waltz across Texas in a beat-up Subaru So I sat at a bar down the street from Pete's garage Then you walked in, a long-l...

All aboard The ship is waiting All aboard, you know I've finally learned That I don't need no farewell party I'm just gonna let my bridges burn Cause I'm going ...

He ran hard, he ran fast A fallen angel on a weekend pass Never looked forward, never looked back A blaze of glory down a one way track I hear the whistle I hea...

Where'd you get the number Where'd you get the matches In a motel room Were they lying in a drawer with your old boyscott badges I think I know the truth CHORU...

I walked the streets of this little town Late last night when it all shut down Feeling stuck between lost and found and nowhere Using my memory for a map I wen...

Saturday, I drove into town In the co-op where your friends hang out I heard one say "What's she doing here?" Well, I held my head up high, swallowed my bitter ...

There's a firefly in love with a distant star Looking longingly up through the atmosphere Tiny beacon flies, finds his wings too soon I watch him make his way, ...

(Matraca Berg/Gary Harrison) I've been living on the wrong side of Memphis I'm really breaking away this time A full tank of gas and a '69 Tempest Taking me to...

I saw you standing there Outside the windows of my heart So cold and shivering There in your world that is so dark I wish that I could set you free >From all yo...

(Matraca Berg/Jim Photoglo/Harry Stinson) You turn around Then you ask me behind tears of doubt Just what do I see in you Please don't cry I know sometimes it ...