Underneath the swirling light of jasmine tea and smoke You traced my face up on the barroom wall And you tried to intimidate me as you drank your drinks and jok...

Written by: Patti Scialfa They say there's a light Through darkness shines If two hands protect that light Against the change of time You can have your gold an...

Written by: Patti Scialfa Baby don't put the sugar on me Don't talk me up so sweet Baby don't dress me in your kisses When they're not mine to keep Some boys t...

Written by: Patti Scialfa You promised me there'd be no denials When I was weak under your spell When I feel thirsty you would not let me Take water from your ...

Written by: Patti Scialfa You know I got a string of kisses Tattooed down my arm From the love of lonely men That always came to harm Tattooed down my arm To m...

Daniels by the jonny pump Hes drunk on cheap wine Hes got a monkey wrench in his hand Saying hell be prepared next time Everything seemed so right Who would hav...

My Auntie Mabel 1953 Left her Minnesota dirt farm to see what she could see In a letter to her mother telling her what she enjoyed Said there's nothing in the w...

Written by: Patti Scialfa From the first time that I saw you I wanted nothing but to make you mine Now there's this girl with milk white hands And on her finge...

So all that loneliness for a moment is through And now it's going to take time To find some faith for you Youve got a history of crash landings Coming down on n...

Written by: Patti Scialfa When I was young I believe in everything I turned my rag man into king And I carved him a soft world from hard stone With a laurel cr...

Warm black asphalt South of nowhere I'm going there under a dirty cotton sky When the rain comes round I roll my window down I lift my face to heaven And wash t...

Love… you're the one the well known pleasure… under my tongue my holy water… my gypsy rain come and find me… once again because you are everything I wanted I n...

Written by: Patti Scialfa Oh baby tell me stories About those pretty worlds Who will deliver us from blame Who will walk free Who will walk in chains And when ...

Written by: Patti Scialfa & Mike Campbell I never wanted nothing Baby you know it's true I never wanted nothing The way I wanted you I kept me hands clean I wa...

Standing at your doorstep darlin What can I do Youre a part of me forever Like a troublesome tattoo I lay awake at night Curse your name into the dark While the...

Rose was a waitress for twenty years or more Bringing in the change, she was heaven sent She taught me how to balance trays when I didn't know what to do And I ...

Written by: Patti Scialfa Baby take a walk in toy land Be my hero play the part I'm falling down hard from salvation Come protect this china heart Though my pa...

Written by: Patti Scialfa Oh mama there's this Spanish dancer Whose steps I follow when he comes near The red dress of temptation Over a long black slip of fea...

Check your time plan station master And bless the 3:45 Shes rolling fast and free And don't she look just like me Spitting off smoke And all empty inside I left...

I was doing time in Salvation Park Up on the high rope me your ace of hearts Just when I thought I was so special I thought I had it all You take a wrong step B...

Written by: Patti Scialfa The night is falling Under the vesper bells lonely chime And I ain't nobody's valentine But I ain't sorry for wanting the things That...

Written by: Patti Scialfa To the east the factories stand Like fire-breathing dragons against the sky And from their throats a scarlet river Burns itself into ...

Anna in a foreign blue Yesterday I saw someone Who reminded me of you And I Held my breath and called your name And though I knew it was not you I followed just...

New York City, 1988 Standing in the Chelsea rain With a small suitcase I used to walk invisible And the only time I felt recognized Was when I saw myself reflec...

I ferried my dreams across the water Underneath a faceless moon I woke to find myself uncovered In this dark and dusty room Take me up the wooden stairs Where t...