well i found a bunch of letters that were written for the fella who broke your momma's heart and the envelope folds, smelled of her ancient perfume i'll bet she...

Lord, I miss that girl On the day we met the sun was shining down Down on the valley Riddled with horses running Crushing them with flowers I would have picked ...

Two pictures laid on an amp I'm broken like strings on guitars I can't sell I saw your car parked next to a bridge I think it was yours, I don't know, I can't t...

Sonny Curtis Breakin rocks in the hot sun I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won I needed money and I had none I fought the law and t...

We belong here, we belong here There ain't nobody than I can tell this to Hear me say, say this to you I'll stand by your side, see you through I promise you th...

Baby, I know you cannot hear me now 'Cause you're fast asleep But I love you now Colors inside your head go spinning around Like a ferris wheel Exploding and fa...

Poor little rose, beaten by the rain In the wind in the hail, thunder and the gale Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane Without the numbness or the pain, so i...

Oh my baby I'm so very tired And I wanna come home Everything inside me, it cant hide me I'm expired I got nothing to show Whatever's on the outsides knocking, ...

I'm coming over, darling Don't leave the doors unlocked I'm coming over, doll It's something you can't stop Nobody taught you how to cry Well you won't even hav...

Hang a picture up on your wall Tighten all the nails so it don't fall In this picture, could have been a picture of my face Something painful, went and took its...

For all the hours here that move too slow There's all this letting go, that don't pass If all this love is real, how will we know? If we're only scared of losin...

Will you comfort me, in my time of need? Can you take away the pain of a hurtful deeds? Cause when we need it most, there's no rain at all And the dust just set...

parking lot movie screen i can't feel anything cigarette beat up tv i can't feel anything now that i'm i'm in town i feel fine fine for now hang around with t...

You can't stand still for a moment You can't stand still for a night Your feet just starta move when it's boring But you gotta stick around to get it right So g...

well the banks of the river run through my hometown born on the dirt roads, and i scraped my knees well they paved the roads eventually with neon signs and car ...

Broken like the windows in the house that loved to harm She's staring into the glass And I need conversation like I need another drink Knowing these rivers are ...

In California Forever summer and hot Into the ocean You're smiling a lot On sandy beaches And the blankets are hot You're in my arms And I kiss your heart Jesus...

Turned on the radio Sounded like a disco Musta turned the dial for a couple of miles But I couldn't find no rock n' roll This computerized crap ain't gettin' me...

If you're so kind Can you let down your hand Can you let down your hand If you're so kind If you're so strong Can you shelter the weak Will you listen as the st...

Moving like the fog on the Cumberland River I was leaving on the Delta Queen And I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go 27 of nothing but failures and promi...

In all my life mercy Hasn't known my name this well Like how every sea filters out And leads us gently to a creek We sit around Some of us are strong But the r...

You plant a rose And if the rose comes up You're thankful to God And when it doesn't you cuss him You raise a child And when the child grows up You got to learn...

I am just staring At the moon Like it was yesterday See my face reflecting In the lights In the window In the window pane Trees outside and hills With a belly f...

The telephone's bin ringin' - ringin' off the wall It's your Las Vegas lawyer - another long distance call He says you get the house and the car And I get the c...

losering losering patiently losering losering i could tell she could tell everything losering patiently losering losering losering losering patiently losering...

There's strange weather in the back of the room And she's pretty, Jesse's spinning the tunes Eyelashes, and some white leather boots God, what have I been drink...

I don't remember were we wild and young All that faded into memory I feel like somebody I don't know Are we really who we used to be Am I really who I was The l...

Nobody with no one to call And all this time Hot metal as her clothes dissolve Emergency lights It's genocide It's sucide I'm spinning around the room in awe I...

Someplace in a picture of you Is the person you want to become Dying at the movies alone You're just dying for nothing but bullets from nobody's guns Fame and ...

oh where, oh where were you last night? looked for you at the county fair you were nowhere you were nowhere and i looked for you on the macon, georgia county li...

You're like a rain cloud If it rained mushroom clouds Everybody hits the ground Arms folded, head down You're like a missile strike Government goes underground...

I want to go to Magnolia Mountain And lay my weary head down Down on the rocks On the mountain my savior made Steady my soul and ease my worry Hold me when I ra...

Mara Lisa waves her hand at the car With a stick and a rose-colored shawl Fighting of tears of a dull and a deafening pain They'll repay every senseless act The...

Well, I'm saving this dress for my wedding day Momma wouldn't have it any other way She says when she married, her waist was twenty three I guess I'll never wea...

There's something about you That reminds me of all those times When I wasn't sorry, when I wasn't blue The cherry moon it shone down on us Under the stars shini...

Ride with you tonight, I'll ride forever There's no way to predict this kind of weather Ashes fall to earth, words are severed Feathers turn to weighted iron pi...

Said you came from a mining town But they closed the mining down Said your daddy was a drinker He had a picture of Jesus on his sinker Maybe I maybe I'm coming...

mirror, mirror up on the wall in the back of her room as i walk down the hall in the house where we stayed tell me something about what i saw in the face of a m...

Mockingbirds sing Sing me what the Lord was singing On the day He made the water The color of the blues Sing me that song Sing me to till the heavens rising On ...

I was a bad idea on a Saturday night Roll through your fingers and I made you uptight Little boy blue with my laser on stun Couldn't dodge the bullets from your...

My blue Manhattan She's angry like a child, but how sweet Fire and rain on the street It's you against me most days It's me against you, doll Ah, the snows comi...

My heart is broken My love is gone I lay without you Your pillow cold I am forsaken I can't go on My heart is broken My love is gone If I hadn't cheated While...

On back down in my hometown Everybody's feelin' it bad No new breaks, whatever it takes Not to have to sway it on a classified ad Hey there Ma and Pa here I am...

well nighttime let her through yeah i'm talking to you I wanna see her oh precious little thing with eyes that dance around without their clothes so buy a pret...

Well, I was waiting around for somebody to die Nobody did but a part of me died I suppose from all that waiting These things they pass in time But the moments ...

i'm about to have a nervous breakdown my head really hurts if i don't get the hell outta here i'm gonna go berserk, cause i'm crazy and i'm hurt head on my shou...

Out under the stars, dodging them night cars, baby 'Cause when you gotta move, you gotta move Whatever that it was, you were thinking of, lady You're certainly ...

Well, the night makes moves And it shatters like broken glass Better play it cool better let it pass Have you been screening your smokes? And whispers in an all...

Who are you to say that I'm wrong? Who are you to say I'm crazy? Ain't a crime of passion comin' on strong I'm only trying to treat ya like a lady And I can't h...

i slept in our room and i swore and i slept with our ghosts painting the walls and our happiness hung there like a mistake or a light truly you are gone ghosts ...

I'm as blue I'm as blue as the ocean is true, it's just refelctions of the sky I'm as cold I'm as cold as the stories you told but never sick enough to die Not...

I ain't afraid of hurt I've had so much it feels just like normal to me now I'm alone and I'm dancin', with you now, in your old room, in your old house I'm al...

This is where the summer ends In a flash of pure destruction, no one wins Go nuclear Nuclear The violets in my eyelids goin' red Sentimental geek Shut up and go...

Hanging around Broadway, and I think I saw your face Cars speeding by me, reminding me of us Shuffle down to the watering hole Getting tired and I want to go ho...

Something's beating on the wall on the other side Strange lovers moan each others names on by-hour sheets for the very first time One of them's james The other'...

I went down to Houston And I stopped in San 'Antone I passed up the station for the bus I was trying to find me something But I wasn't sure just what Man I ende...

see old mabel walk on down the house pickin flowers for someone else see old mabel walk down the house said son, better go on back inside storm brewing from th...

I've got lists of enemies Walks the window at night when it screams The howling wind and the pouring rain Sha la la la Sing us a song One by one we all fall One...

You're the silent type And you caught my eye But I never thought that I'd be touchin' you How was I to know I'd let my feelin's go And that I'd be yours before ...

Operator, operator gets low And she can't find the number Cryin' on the telephone It's hard, it's harder when she knows Newscasters don't watch the news Like op...

Pa drove to town yesterday to pick up a friend He found the locker she lay in He drove to old man Ed Somerton's place To finally disappear He got there round ab...

i go walking under a paper moon all the birds are singing singing you a pretty tune all the constellations and all the stars above they all start to whistling t...

pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring six months from now, what will that money mean? you shop around looking for memories somehow satisfaction don't come...

Lord take me home To the peaceful valley Down the winding river To your city your soul I've grown so tired And my hearts grown heavy To walk any longer To your ...

Blue eyes for miles Pretty as a peach Glorious kind and always on the time never far out of reach Tomorrow's on its way And there's always new songs to sing Glo...

If the walls in the room could talk I wonder to myself would they lie It's like some kind of jail Fall from the curtains onto the bed I'm all alone now, I can d...

He is drinking water from the faucet from the river From the tributary it comes through rusted pipes Outside his window he sees the water that's supposed to be ...

i get so tired of missing you i get so tired of wanting to compared to things that are easy to do like the reasons you lie to me the reasons i lie to you and i...

He made his way back to the old town And everything looked just the same The shops and the schools and the factories were there But somehow the faces had change...

He destroys his pretty face Emptier than outer space Trees grow arms and eyes Outside my window witches sharpen knives For the car crash comes Red lights Red li...

Pardon me, Have you got the time To let me say hello Couldn't help but see That you look like a lady I used to know A long time ago Remember the time we spent t...

What ever happened to you, you're trashed And I'm still wrong I know you wanted to stay so long And I'm still wrong And there were no secrets, there were no st...

I can name the people i know that don't know themselves Without talking to nobody I can count to people i know that want to fix themselves Without taking my han...

Everybody's cool playing rock n roll Everybody's cool playing rock n roll I don't feel cool at all I don't feel cool at all Send all of my best out to the hand ...

I knew a girl named Rosalie, We used to hang out in the park, We used to score the system grease, From the fellas after dark We used to sail the streets at nigh...

When I pick up my guitar This is the song that always comes Don't know what I'm singing 'bout and Don't know what for I think about you And I think about Rosebu...

What am I doing here In the setting sun With the windows down? What am I? Like a breaking bell Ringing like a sigh What am I doing here? What am I? Somebody sav...

Cold, yeah, why you so cold? You're so very Cold, yeah, why you so cold? It doesn't matter Cold, yeah, why you so cold? Your teeth chatter Cold, yeah, why you s...

Laura lays on the foot of the bed Mimics a noose with a telephone cord Doctor's on the phone Then she hangs up and says "I ain't never gonna see the winter aga...

God, please bring the rain Yeah, and bring it soon Let it flood right through the houses Into Judy's room With a father on amphetamines Her mother hides the pe...

Head on down to 9th street gal Let's go out kickin' with the boys and the gals Wear your dress and bring my ring Someone's gonna get it, and it ain't gonna be m...

Girl, don't tell me how you want me Tell me how to get through Girl, don't tell me how you want me Tell me how to get through 'Cause I gotta know I gotta know ...

I am a broken toy For a lonely girl Use once and destroy And go find some more Back home, kids play in the leaves in the park She wants to play a game of hearts...

So much for the days of glory It's not like your idols died and are holy now You cross the street and count to ten And everyone that mattered went to bed Or may...

I can't find the gun It's only getting worse So I get loaded up On silver bullets And I can't see the sun I know it's gone away I can't be the one If you won't...

silver wings shining in the sunlight roaring engines headed somewhere in flight they're taking you away leaving me lonely silver wings slowly fading out of sigh...

Sunlight falls on your hands as you type Just something in my head Standing in this empty space Your desk is gone The wall's still dark from where it went This...

sit around, dream away the place i'm from used to feel so much, now i just feel numb could go out tonight, but i ain't sure what for call a friend or two i don'...

Today I watched the boats Moving through the harbor Walking on water In your arms I'd stay Forever if I could Forever if I may Keeps me in your thoughts, don't ...

Don't be an idiot You can't let it go Till it won't come back And you can't move forward It's somethin' like a discord It was so slow That it crushes all the at...

somebody remembers the rose while the other forgets how it grows would all the dangers would all the dangers of love am i still a stranger? somebody remembers ...

I want to tell you something That I should've, long ago I wish that you and I had those kids Maybe bought us that home I wish that we were stumbling fast Down o...

Sitting round thinking 'bout Keith all day long Getting stoned thinking 'bout how he played the guitar Ain't nothing like getting stoned to The Rolling Stones C...

It's midnight, at the Starlite Diner You said meet me at a quarter to twelve Now I'm standing in the corner Wishing you was here in my arms, Fare thee well my o...

It's a long way down, but I feel alright It's a long way down, but I feel alright And the cops get in, and the crowd gets tight Take your tomorrow, pain and you...

I know a sickness So ancient and cross No crucifix Could ever fix enough In the basement of a church These people, they talk There is a line That must be walked...

(Brian Adams, Eric Kagna) I could start dreaming but it never ends As long as you're gone we may as well pretend I've been dreaming And that's straight from the...

Last night in the street collapsed on itself In fact, it broke right in two And I fell in The strawberry vines Into a pool of strawberry wine Strawberry wine an...

Ain't it like the sun to never shine And leave you in the dark Ain't it like the ones we left behind Or were they moving on Getting used to all alone Just prete...

Sweet black magic coming down the line Sweet black magic coming down the line Don't worry little honey, 'Bout the money you'll be feelin' fine Cause I'm gonna s...