There were seventeen cars out in my back yard, The boys in blue are calling my name, Semi-automatic up on the rooftop, They just to want to talk to me, I told t...

Eyes wide mine, suddenly everything Flies by fine, mind goes on holiday In it's stead, clicking along the cur Clucking tongues, how could they have the nerve T...

your slim frame your eager eyes and your wild mane oh they keep me where i belong all wrapped up in wrong you're to blame for wasted words of sad refrain oh le...

I think of your room I think of you there I think of you dragging Your body upstairs With your bed and your chair And your stale perfume Never knew anybody As l...

Blackie and the Rodeo King They were just good friends Been to every rodeo And they rode on every old train Blackie lived out her life every night Trying to sor...

I seen a girl With a guy With hair like yours From what I remember He took her hand And smiled her name Her face like yours She smiled the same From what I re...

From the depths I called you, Ma For your breath and breast so warm and fabled Your hands reached inside Grabbed my heart, enlarged, disabled Hailed for your m...

Bomb your country Oh shed no tears TV dinner overfed your fears So make your money And spread your seed Better lap up luxuries But acknowledge need You've made ...

Her bed was made of feathers Her heart was made of gold My boots are made of leather I walked out, left her alone CHORUS Boots and hearts What's the differenc...

(Fearing/White) I was born to be a traveler, I must have landed on my head I used to dream that I was flying, I was falling out of bed Then the family started ...

Tonight she's climbing up the hill To rip the lights down from the cross And crash landing again Through the barstools again I heard her cry out loud CHORUS S...

Turn my back on no man's gun Likewise with anyone It's not so dangerous It's not a smart thing to do But if I had my choice I'd take away his voice and tell him...

Baby if I'd have been a gambler it might have turned out a different way But lately everywhere I go I have to use the highway and if I'd been born sometime else...

Laugh in the face of death under masthead Hold your breath through late breaking disasters Next to news of the trite Codes, feelings meant global Like coke in ...

He's a what? He's a what? He's a newspaper man And he gets his best ideas from a newspaper stand From his boots to his pants to his comments and his rants He kn...

Oh there is a murderess amongst us Her love is a violent spiral Hurling in upon us, conjured up At the birth of the world Durga is a dancer Mindless questions ...

Congratulations on the mess you made of things I'm trying to reconstruct the air and all that brings And oxidation is the compromise you own But this is beginni...

Oh simple girl Oh foolish man Trying to bend these lovers rules Into a simple plan Oh aching bones on sleepless bed They toss and turn and roll away From words...

I don't want to know about evil I only want to know about love I'm waiting for the plains to tumble I'm waiting for the sky to fall I'm waiting for the cities t...

All your dreams are over now And all your wings have fallen down Oh all your dreams are over now And all your wings have fallen down She's just like you So why ...

I came down from Thessalon Toronto's not my home I miss the north country so much No longer will I roam Driftin' snow around my window Driftin' snow around my d...

baby boy dieing under hot desert sun, watch your colours run did you believe the lie they told you, that christ would lead the way and in a matter of days hand...

Performed by Pretenders) Trudging slowly over wet sand back to the bench where your clothes were stolen this is the coastal town that they forgot to close down...

She never thinks about me when I'm here She only dreams about me when I'm gone My heart rises to my mouth as she passes by me and I can't make a sound She give...

Once there was a miner who held down his job 'til one day he died from the fate of his God Now his wife she did mourn him 'til the collectors came around and st...

Oh, the light in your eyes Is not shining the way it used to And I feel our love is dying After all the years The laughter and the tears Baby please, don't tel...

(Wilson/Potvin/Vulama) I'm ugly, I'm lazy I'm always there to take the blame I'm a drag but you'll never find out Just push me around and I'll walk away I'm a...

The lazy way they turned your head Into a rest stop for the dead And did it all in gold and blue and gray The efforts to allay your dread In spite of all you k...

There's a storm raging over the city Lightning flashing, cars racing everywhere In the distance you can hear the sirens screaming And the thunder wakes a dead m...

(Wilson/Cripps/James) You became one of the lonely When all your heroes turned to dust Stirring up ghosts of courage baby So far away You pick up the pieces an...

I wish you could swim Like the dolphins- like dolphins can swim Though nothing- nothing will keep us together We can beat them for ever and ever Oh we can be he...

You walked around, thought yourself beautiful Just too bad they stared, Just too bad they stared Broke up your crown, called you unusuable See how well you fare...

(Linden/Powers) Stand up and take it like a man You're spitting out teeth and sinking in the sand Crawling on your knees through the promised land Your barbed-...

Performed by Melissa Etheridge) Past the devil's own temptation Beyond where angels sleep To the holy invocation Of a neon city street I feel your hand I hold ...

I was a lover, before this war Held up in a luxury suite, behind a barricaded door Now that I've cleaned up, gone legit I can see clearly: round hole Round whol...

(Fearing/ White) A masterpiece She's a masterpiece She's a masterpiece She's gone Everything She took everything Everything She's gone If I catch you crying ...

well if you have to choose take the one you love, the best not the one who wants you just to hold you to her breast well she'll treat you fine she'll be great ...

(Linden) Jackie Washington rode the rails way back in World War II Playing his guitar in the sleeper car to lullaby the lucky few He worked the Canadian Pacifi...

Working at the hotel All night long Shucking this jive Singing this song You ask me how I feel I need a connection When the sun don't shine I need your affectio...

We had never planned to go so far There was a fire that night in the dark And as her hand reached out to mine It was a feeling like the very first time The nigh...

Performed by Sheryl Crow) I was laughing, playing in the streets, I was unknowing; I didn't know about things Then he came along, but never really showed me, I...

All men condemned by men to die Damned by blind bitch in hallowed halls Hear it, heed this call: Oh fucking eternal Infinity's hourglass will measure all meas...

Let's go King of love ooh it's ugly falling into love everybody does it everybody knows it a a a oh (a a a oh) sound off (sound off) the king of love? the powe...

You got lace and pretty flowers to give your baby to get her under your powers You got silk and sweet perfumes You know she might come She might come up to your...

On sleepless nights down in the laundrymat Watching the clothes, ghosts playing tit for tat We light a joint, talk about our old friends Dead or alive our stori...

Beg the bee's forgiveness as it's falling from your sleeve Watch it's guts pump poison into sting Watch it reach completeness, see it fall asleep Legs above fol...

(Linden/Angelo) There's a long list of whys You're not here tonight It's dark outside You couldn't find a ride Things were loose Time got tight Must've been an...

Lonely little love dog that no one knows the name of I know why you cry out desperate and devout Timid little teether your eyes set on the ether Your moon in Be...

So many men have held her hand Only one held her attention He put her pride on a downhill slide Faster than she cares to mention Her feelings are all out of fo...

I can see the way you're looking at her I can tell you're makin' plans But I know the woman waiting home for you And she would never understand Cause she's give...

Oh, but the longing is terrible A wanton heart under attack I wanna love you all the way off I wanna break your back And color off all that's hysterical Travel...

It was ten years ago last Sunday Feels like it was only yesterday Some will say time drags on forever But for you and me, doesn't seem that way Makin' real goo...

hope everything is alright hope everything is alright what's that floating in the water oh neptune's only daughter i believe in mr grieves pray for a man in the...

When I was younger in the days of my youth I used to sit down and watch the river go down and send my dreams there around the bend hoping they'd come back again...

Why so pathetic? Never thought you, I Every heavenly light Such a sinister way Roll your eyes all day At all the people kickin Golden girls, stop and stare Doub...

I tried to be someone else Pick my own pockets for a change Nickels and dimes - Shelly I told ya This town's killing you and me We could just drive to Californ...

Today's the day, I'm gonna make it Across that borderline I'm on You might not see which way I'm going till I'm gone I'll be following my heart You'll be seein...

I'm laying it on the line to show you I'll never let you go, On the line for your love There's nothing I want more Another dead-end street, another love gone w...

I don't need to be all things to everyone but to you I can't try any harder holding my half up in this arrangement keeps landing me in hot water oh to bring goo...

last ones at the party no place left to go you sit and watch the seaside I'll try to get some dough you know I don't need no reason to understand I got all the ...

Playhouses Swept away by the river now Confounded Sound it out now Vodka cran in your hand and whose litte girl are you now? Oh I'd ask for this dance but I kn...

I'm not looking for a mommy Don't seem like you need a poppy Plenty of time till you're an old lady And the same for me before I'm an old man We could celebrat...

Performed by Indigo Girls) Now the parking lot is empty Everyone's gone someplace I pick you up and in the trunk I've packed a cooler and a 2-day suitcase Caus...

Suddenly, all your history's ablaze Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change Holding tenderly to what remains And...

She's a queen with a broken crown She's a star searching for the sky A songbird that can't find a sound She's an apple waiting for an eye She's a queen with a b...

Rainy days I don't seem to care People talk to me when I'm not there Vacant lot with a fancy view I need to talk but I can't find my shoes It's on me Rains on ...

run and get your red dress on babe we're going to a dance tonight you know it might seem unusual but to me it feels so right CHORUS because I got you here ther...

Now it's so cold in your doorway I can hardly breathe You know I want to lay down but I'm afraid I'll freeze I spent my last cold dollar Getting the way I am R...

i could not help but noticing all these robots fucking in the middle of the mini mall robots fucking in the middle of the mini mall robots fucking in the middle...

We got married in high school, had a baby when we turned eighteen I bagged groceries in the daytime, at night I learned to fix TV's When you come by things the ...

Your voice was a satellite spinning next to me Now I can't hear Over the radio, someone said a satellite just went down into the sea So I go I fathom leagues I ...

Stone, cast me out So I can feel it in another way, I won't talk about Warned, passenger's hide If I could feed it for another day it might run me dry I know t...

people all arising in the morning bright and breezy thinking back to yesterday when life seemed to be so easy CHORUS and is it just imagination pictures in my ...

Performed by Stevie Nicks with Melissa Etheridge) I stood at the door and watched while you drove away driving my car, in the rain, in the dark Well, every dog...

(Fearing) Talking with my friends around a bottle of red wine We laugh a lot, telling jokes, telling lies Money in the bank is knowing people that you like Kno...

cross the street from your storefront cemetary hear me hailing from inside and realize i am the conscience clear in pain or ecstacy and we were all weaned my d...

It's not the pain you bring me Or the presents you lay at my door Or the kind of love you try to show me That makes me want you anymore Love ain't one thing th...

(Wilson/Fearing) Last night out in the dark I was watching werewolves in the park Stoned, uh huh I used to run with the pack "?Til they broke my balls and crac...

Faceless fall from this life and oh If you can't see the stars you've probably gone too far Like the voice that cried on the lonesome tide Like the wave was the...

(Wilson/Fearing) I built a little love nest we set it on fire Down came the tree that held our desire Now there's no one home on this broken branch so I'm movi...

The hardest part baby is smiling when your plans don't work out still count yourself a lucky one with a God so smart we were born with 2 hands reaching out a h...

Wake up in a magic nigger movie With the bright lights pointed at me As a metaphor Teachin' folks the score About patience, understanding, agape babe And sweet ...

(Bruce Cockburn) Chorus Tie me at the crossroads when I die Hang me in the wind til I get good and dry And the kids that pass can scratch their heads And say w...

It's impatience that's holding back the clocks It's a life of dates and documents The soul searchers wheel and deal If you're looking for repentance They'll han...

My mind is like an orchard Clustered in frozen portraits Of blossoms that bloomed so fine Just to drop from the vine I've seen 'em all tonight Could keep it si...

I learned back when I was six Teachin' my stick horse to do tricks Puttin' on a backyard rodeo If I'd make him buck, hoop and holler Grandma'd laugh and give me...

I've been waiting a long time holding my tongue studying the situation run and get the turnkey tell him to release the ill for every man must have a chance to s...

she's laying in a vale of tears laying in a vale of tears he left her in the valley after 20 years laying in a vale of tears he met her when the moon was dry m...

Jenny ran along beside me With a handful of roses And a red petal caught in her hair She said some never know When their last friend is gone You look out and th...

Little flightless metal birds High above in limbless tree Echoes from their tiny box Ring out into the atmosphere Creating beauty inadvertently It was a techno...

(Linden/Gordon) On a pencil-lead grey afternoon Rain makes the stray dog shine I got a feeling stinging like a new tattoo Black across my mind You said somethi...

I can barely move For want of room And I'm forgettin' to breathe But the sight of you Has me instantly Remember my needs Oh the lights spin And the beat break...

Cold and lonely on the road Lord I wish I had a hole to climb in Summer's warm rain sure ain't coming and it seems to me that I'm thumbing again Standing by a ...

Performed by Annie Lennox) Why Why How many times do I have to try to tell you That I'm sorry for the things I've done But when I start to try to tell you Tha...

Performed by Joan Armatrading) May not be you're best You know good ones don't come by the score You've got something missing I'll help you look you can be sur...

Say say my playmate Wont you lay hands on me Mirror my malady Transfer my tragedy Got a curse I cannot lift Shines when the sunset shifts When the moon is roun...

So we wait beside the desert Nothing left to give away Naked as the Hanged Man's secrets Nothing left to do but pray You don't have to play the horses Life's a...

Performed by Bonnie Raitt) Everytime I look into your lovely eyes, I see a love that money just can't buy One look from you, I drift away I pray that you are he...

(Wilson/Titcomb) I've got lucky charms A heart-shaped tattoo A door wide open With nothing to lose So c'mon baby Move a little closer Just give me the green l...

Well, it's cold and it's quiet, and cobblestone cold in here Fucking for fear of not wanting to fear again Lonely is all we are Lovely so far, but my heart's st...