What am I to do with my afternoons What am I to do with my evenings Without you, without you I've never gotten used to these endings You must have thought it b...

I turn the lights on in the hallway Walk down the stairs without a bit of grace TVs on and the weather man says It's just another sunny day Open the curtains in...

She's crying again You lay quiet on her chest She knows you're a dangerous comfort But you haven't broken her heart yet She wants to feel safe again She thinks...

Well the sky might fall and I'm Chicken Little yelling While I am floating out to sea Well I am tugging at your ear for some attention Don't you give a damn abo...

I should have told you I sold my soul to an angel I should have told you this world is not my own I should have wrapped you, wrapped you like a present I should...

No strangers in this town No one moves without making a sound You live and die within the borders and lines No one dies without paying their fines No lovers in...

This is cold and dark, this place You are broken, what will replace The hole that has been dug here Emptiness left where Once I was so aware Aware of you You a...

If I could buy this town I'd keep it small and rough Full of third shift dreamers And high school love I'd keep the Church of Christ And the bowling alley open...

The number to the house is on the door But every time you open it as if you are not sure If you even live here anymore, Anymore I know what you're about to say...

Praise the neon lights The store's not closed up yet Now everything's alright So get your cigarettes Leave me with the house Leave me with the kids Leave me to...

The ladies line up once they hear you are singing, Each batting an eye like they did long ago Now times moves so slow Veronica is still the one of your favor Yo...

I don't deserve anything I get Things just come easy to me Like the sun in the morning on a blanket of clouds And other things that you don't see And I don't d...

Don't tell her that I drink tea and not coffee I'd prefer if you didn't talk at all about me Even in a brief casual chat Don't tell her how I loved your smile, ...

Well, I've been thinkin', like you've been drinkin' But, I know thinkin' is the last thing on your mind But, I've been hopin', to get this out in the open And h...

I went to high school with that kid He was even strange back then The type whose eyes don't leave the floor - blend in with the cement Well, I felt so bad for ...

Saturday felt like October Red on the ground, blue in the sky We are on fire for the wrong reasons Fists in my hands, tears in my eyes But I should be off some...

Before you met me I was a fairy princess I caught frogs and called them prince And made myself a queen Before you knew me I traveled around the world I slept in...

You said you were leaving And it's time for you to go You tell me to just move on I don't understand You're saying it's over but I'm saying no I never claimed t...

Would you sell your soul for someone just to talk to? Would you close your eyes if I told you not to look? I don't deserve a single thing I want so Take it for ...

I was born a sickly little child, I nearly died just after my birth Five years I fought the illness, My mother prayed and prayed for what it's worth At that tim...

No one has to tell me that you're a good man He might be about as damn good as they come No one has to tell me to be thankful for what I have I'm as thankful as...

Well I know your life has been hard I see it in your eyes and I feel it in your heart When your eyes move down to the floor And your mouth changes shape, and yo...

Ain't going to sell my soul, well I'm not that dum Things are never what they seem Down at the cross roads I got better things to sell, I'm going to sell some o...

Well I don't sugarcoat the truth, My mouth is full of bittersweet The poison inside him Fuels all the fire inside of me He's a few drinks after work, The light ...

Well, Forget about Paris or the Pacific Ocean, The honeymoon lasted 24 hours And was a town away Then it was you and me In that little apartment Eight months be...

Don't judge me, I will judge myself I will lie in my bed at night Wide awake or asleep I will feel pain When I know I have given it Everything I put out to the ...

You knocked those pictures right off the wall I slammed the bathroom door so hard it doesn't close right at all Last week we broke my mother's favorite serving ...

You never woke up beside a stranger But you never spent the night alone In your jacket is a flask of Southern Comfort In your pocket you got a comb, I know you ...

I can fall in love in the middle of the afternoon With the TV blaring in the very next room I fall in love again at the end of a raging fight The kind that keep...

It's finally breaking me down To my credit I feel like I held on as long as I could I barely recognize myself now I'd teach my heart to lie if I thought that it...

Well I've come to know the look on your face When you're lying about where you've been Or how much you spent I know when you will raise your fingers to your mo...

Well I can hear you whisper as you're holding your breath I can crawl deep inside of you and bring out what is left Now I need to be grounded, how you need to s...

It's easy when you smile We can talk a while Just lie here in my arms Safe and warm Outside the night is so unclear Stay here And everything will disappear It'...

I know jealousy is a terrible roommate I know judgement's a hard friend I have seen the look of anger Again and again and again I want to be warm and happy, Don...

Hey Josephine, I loved you since the day you rolled inside of me Hey Josephine, I hope you have the heart Well I do not have a picture, I have never heard your...

I spend my whole life climbing ladders Playing catch with the stars A million miles away from disaster And invincible unbreakable hearts I spend my life floati...

I am 6 years old in the back of my mother's car And I will be 7 in December She will be gone by the beginning of next spring And I will be left to remember To r...

You tore down that old house But you left the barn right where it stood You said the bones of that building were strong And the space would do some good Well, I...

All the geeks from high school Go on to become rock stars All the others reach their peak And then don't know who they are You can always find them at The bar d...

The kitchen smells like orange peels Her stomach turns like a spinning wheel Put the baby down in her little seat You should rest now ma'am you should eat It ai...

Well don't waste your time Don't allow him distractions If you have to close your eyes But don't wait for a reaction Don't stop to breathe And don't wipe your ...

There's a hole wearing through this couch of mine And all the cushions are falling out One little piece at a time You might see yourself in me But I don't see n...

It's Monday afternoon and I'm drinking again And I know I promised you that the Lord would be my friend But the Lord and I don't get along so very good He doesn...

I'm on my way to the new storefront Just on the east side Ten bucks to renew whatever hope you lose first And then I'm alright And everyone there defends on th...

Everybody loves my sweetheart Everybody loves my man All the other girls wish they had his heart All the other girls do everything they can Everybody loves my ...

You and I for so many years It's just not that easy to pack up the tears and the pain And forget We just can't end it when I'm not through with it yet We build ...

When the angels came down did they give you a choice Would they have let you stay where you were? Not to live here in pain, should not bring you shame And the l...

It's cold for early June but the sun is rising fast There's a dew up on the quiet hill Where he lays in the grass Staring up at Heaven's gates To see if he can ...

The space between stars, A dark place that sometimes heavies a heart, I let it hold mine I didn't know what I would do But now I know you I put it behind me An...

Once you saw the sun following me You knew I'd never be the one to fulfill your prophecy How dare I love you, what gives me the right Baby give me one kiss good...

They're building up big houses Back behind the school Where we used to drink our beer on Friday nights And pretend that we were lovers in your car We can't aff...

"Mary is an angel," says a 5-year old's wide eyes "You are the oldest person I've ever seen," Mary sighs "These are the wings I made you so you can fly When you...

One thing I've never learned is how to give up So it's my destiny to bear this fate They say that I'm still young but I'd better hurry up And they're talking 'b...

I have been a poet all my life With really not too much to say So you can push me anywhere you like But you can't push me away My life is written down on paper...

Colors confuse you Light in your eyes will abuse you You are weak and hollow Blinded by beliefs that I cannot swallow The world will condemn you Your beliefs w...

In the depths of the deep blue sea There's a blue as blue as me Where a quiet symphony plays for the lonely I could just let it all go Sink down to the world b...

They say it ain't complicated Any fool can understand Until the fuse is lit and It blows up in your hand It all looks good on paper Step by step, you follow th...

Ruby's shoes would take her A mile or so to school every day Where the white people hated her They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away But Ruby's w...

Laundry hangs by a wire In our yard but I've no desire To go and pick it off one shoulder at time But I must, how it calls me Broomed out the rugs in the hallw...

It's late enough all you kids should be home The policeman says as he takes your beer for his own You remember wondering what his wife Thought about his occupat...

St Peter says "You picked a real good day" Your lungs fill back up with air - your worries float away Jesus smiles - he's a handsome man He's taller than you th...

You say you think you can help me Think of me as someone who bleeds Well I never told you to love me That's your sort of greed I can make my own decisions I can...

Next time he tries to leave I'm gonna help him to the door Won't be no sorrow from me cause there's no sorrow anymore I tried like hell to make him happy but lo...

When you take the train to midtown to have coffee by yourself Pull the pictures from the drawer and put them back up on the shelf When you hear the sound of ch...

Once you're up on the ledge There's only one way down So I'll keep you up there Where you're safe and sound My knuckles are white Your ankles are red As you da...

You know when I'm coming home You know when I'm coming to bed You know when I tell you that I love you I mean every word I said You know I'm a bit too proud Yo...

My life is a grocery store line A "We'll be just fine" Don't know how we survive, but we do My life is an early spring snow The last thread of hope That I just...

I had no warning I had my heart, my body, my head Life turned in that circle My heart had the say You were so pretty You were the boy with the smile all his ow...

I thought he'd love me forever How forever is easily said Oh, how love is like liquid Liquid over my head All I wanted was to love him So I gave him my heart Th...

Well now I can see the stars There's no difference between Jupiter and Mars There's a light between the garden And the sea Don't let it fall away from me You w...

Understated, overrated site - carnival ride Curtains faded, thread bill rugs real nice -the baby stayed up all night How wonderful rhinestones on black satin s...

There must be something in there And it's just stuck Sometimes I wish I didn't care half as much I stare and look at you And watch you close Your lips change po...

Forget the promises, Swallow the pain, Give ourselves our sins And learn to love again To look into new eyes is As hard as it gets Everybody lives with a little...

Tell me once that you love me, love me Tell me lies that you'll call but I know you won't I know you don't All you want is to meet discretely To make sure you d...

Someone was crying and the bells ring Then I don't remember a thing You were talking but the words came - from somebody else Someone said kiss her and so you di...

I can see clear through your thoughts some times I know I can When you say you need more time And you think that I'll under stand Well you can put your finger t...

Well, I left your life by the side of the road I got a clear conscience, decoded the code Your bags are packed, you're already gone That's the last you'll hear ...

I'll find you on a better day When wings of yours can fly away Sometime when my smile can say All a heart need say I can find you anywhere In every life I'll f...

When I woke up late, I overslept into my life So now it's 5pm But to me it feels like noon time I gotta get up, gotta go out Like some weird dream I just can't ...

Well, they ain't gonna make a movie About a couple of fools like us No one's gonna write a book About our little love You don't get your picture on the local fr...

Well, she lives a few doors down Says she wants you to take her out Have some coffee somewhere - just some coffee You saw her out in the parking lot And any pla...