(Elvis Costello) Oh I used to be disgusted And now I try to be amused But since their wings have got rusted, You know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes But w...

(Mack David/Al Hoffman/Jerry Livingston) A dream is a wish your heart makes When you're fast asleep In dreams you lose your heartaches Whatever you wish for, y...

(Dan Messe/Steve Curtis) Overland Through the rye Gun in hand Bird in sky Calling out to the world below A-hunting we will go Every field Ripe and fine Every ...

(Dan Messe) Leave my station where I stood To lay for a while with you I got shadows snapping at my tail Who say I'm no damn good But that's just halfway true ...

Almost home, birds come by But I still can't see the shore The only thing I know for sure The ocean has in store Every night, open eyed I wait for the sun The ...

(Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) Here's an easy one Since it's getting late Since you're half asleep And I couldn't wait For the tired sun With it's tired light To wake...

(Dan Messe) Someone's waving Someone's counting Someone's leaving There's fifty dollars on this pony Chase him down these tracks Well won't nobody take my bus...

(Dan Messe) We were raised in the nettles And they showed us how they grow-- Where a poison comes to settle And what a poisoned man comes to know So me and Je...

(Dan Messe) Poppy said something clever Something clever, though he's old Some lies like children, they last forever Lies like family last until, til they're t...

(Dan Messe/Steve Curtis) In the sawed off light Shooting down across the quarrel Onto Lee They will rise and fight On the Bay and on the Sorrel To the North a...

(Ralph Mooney/Charles Seals) Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel There's a storm brewin' in this heart of mine This ain't no crazy dream, I know th...

(Steve Curtis) Dance with me, now darling - make me late I've been hanging 'round this barroom, and I can wait I can wait, now darling, don't you know Dance wi...

(Dan Messe) I am holding half an acre Torn from the map of Michigan And folded in this scrap of paper Is the land I grew in Think of every town you've lived i...

(Traditional) Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light Next year all our troubles Will be out of sight Have yourself a merry little Chri...

(Steve Curtis) He came to meet me On some July morning He said he missed me He came without warning We walked for half a day Got lost in my neighborhood Came b...

(Steve Curtis) Sometimes when I lay down at night I swear I can see to heaven For it's in dreaming that the things I always knew Are the only thoughts I have A...

(Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) Blue sky and yellow sun Paint the streets and the avenues You float over everyone In your rings and your wing-tip shoes Well I can't s...

(Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) Ten dollars for the room Torn blankets smell like old perfume Then love checks in, trips a wire, Skips the bill, sets a fire And leaves...

(Steve Curtis) I lay my head in a stranger's town All on a summer's day A tangled web when the lights went down And the sun came up far away And so over the g...

(Dan Messe) Broken moon in the sky Enough to pull up our eyes From the ground where we hide From the ground where we hide Gonna waste some time with you and l...

(Jerry Lieber/Billy Edd-Wheeler) We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout, We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out I'm goi...

(Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) There's a lazy eye that looks at you And sees you the same as before When you lay beside me every night Though now you are with me no m...

(Dan Messe) I should wake up this town - my heart's on fire Main road and no one's around as the flames climb higher I have been here before and I know the way...

(Randy Newman) The milk truck hauls the sun up And the paper hits the door The subway shakes my floor And I think about you Time to face the dawning gray Of an...

(Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) There's a man in a cutaway Buying drinks for the room All the cheer raining down on the day Comes to nothing and leaves by the broom O...

(Dan Messe) Forty years since you washed ashore Carried out of the sea On the mast of a man-o-war That once brought you to me Throw your overcoat over a chair...

(Steve Curtis) Night like a river, banks are steep Carry my burden, bury my worry deep It's like she told me some time ago There's plenty for harvest, then the...

(Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) Who's the girl inside of the blue-screen light The sun is just pouring out And everything is out of sight Turn around the room is just...

(Traditional) Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky Now the darkness gathers, Stars begin to peep, Birds and...

(Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) Mean are the winds that tear at the palms A tiny baby is crying then calms And curses ring out instead of the psalms I don't know And ...

(Bob Hoffnar/Dan Messe) Old Adam the crow He's building a home in your field Where bitter weeds grow all around the corn Will you be the father That drives the...

(Dan Messe) Let's go out walking, I know where to meet The corner of Pacific Street Because I feel restless and I can't sleep I need to show you something See...

(Adam Schlesinger/Chris Collingwood) Are you alone now Did you lose the monkey He gave you backaches And now you slouch He didn't mean it He's just a dumb ape...

(Tony Joe White) Hoverin' by my suitcase Tryin' to find a warm place to spend the night Heavy rain a-fallin' Seem to hear your voice callin', It's all right R...

(Dan Messe) Hey Dear, You know I hate to go Just lay here Listening to the radio Upstairs Hiding from the world below The day fading on the dial Downstairs Wa...

(Dan Messe) Hey, was that you floating past the tree-line? Hey, was that a feather in your hand? No I don't mean to ask these questions No I don't mean to rush...

(Steve Curtis) Late last night, I missed my train I walked back to the car and drove home again Just outside of Pittsburgh, it's really not that far Saw a ligh...

(Dan Messe) I'm not a sailor I'm not so strong out of my shoes Dragging like anchors Over the ocean Pearls in the sky are strung round the moon Pointing to yo...

(Bill Berry/Peter Buck/Mike Mills/Michael Stipe) Did you never call? I waited for your call These rivers of suggestion are driving me away The trees will bend,...

(Dan Messe) Traded my last favor For a map of St Charlene All these ghosts and angels Friends and strangers Ask me where I've been The engine seemed to trembl...

(Dan Messe) In the summer of my wedding As the corn burned in the field Oh I lay down for my Baby And let the sweet smoke stain my heels Well I lay there til ...

(Dan Messe) In the summer of my wedding As the corn burned in the field Oh I lay down for my Baby And let the sweet smoke stain my heels Well I lay there til ...

(Dan Messe) The sidewalk bends where your house ends Like the neighborhood is on it's knees You're surrounded by a chain-link fence That keeps me out but lets ...

(Redd Stewart/Pee Wee King) I was dancing with my darling to the Tennessee waltz When an old friend I happened to see I introduced her to my loved one And whil...

(Dan Messe) Me I imagine places That I have never seen The colored lights in fountains, Blue and green And I imagine places That I will never go Behind these ...

(Dan Messe/Steve Curtis) When I saw a light Carve a crown into the quarry Over me I'm a king at night And a poor man in the morning How will anybody know me? ...

(Traditional) Gonna build me a log cabin on a mountain so high So I can see my darling as she goes passing by Oh the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird and she warble...

(Dan Messe) Wouldn't be the first time love made a fool of me Wouldn't even care but now you're here to see It comes as no surprise Just leave the light on Wh...

(Traditional) The Golden Day is dying beyond the purple hill The Golden Day is dying beyond the purple hill And when the wood is dark yes the nightingale will...

(Gary Maurer/Dan Messe) Ain't holding out for a miracle now Just holding out for the water Across the bridge that will carry me down To the center of the Spani...

(Dan Messe) When I saw him by the river He just smiled and closed his eyes He said you know that you're gonna give her One more present - one more lie I didn'...

(Dan Messe) When I saw him by the river He just smiled and closed his eyes He said you know that you've got to give her One more chance - one more lie I didn'...

See all the numbers getting larger See all the streets are getting stranger with the crowd You know we both been feeling reckless Since we crashed into the come...

(Bruce Springsteen) I'm driving a big lazy car rushin' up the highway in the dark I got one hand steady on the wheel and one hand's tremblin' over my heart It'...

(Steve Curtis/Dan Messe) Go easy now Go easy now Later on the road I'm gonna lay my body down We'll meet along the way I know Grow straight and true Grow stra...

(Dan Messe) When I was drinking When I was with you Living it up when the rent was due With nothing and no one to live up to You and me dying on the vine Hold...