It's the kind of night that's so cold, when you spit It freezes before it hits the ground And when a bum asks you for a quarter, you give a dollar If he's out t...

Atlanta's a distant memory Montgomery, a recent birth Tulsa burns on the desert floor Like a signal fire And I got Willie on the radio A dozen things on my min...

(Robert Johnson) If I send for my baby and he don't come If I send for my baby, man, and he don't come all the doctors in Hot Springs they sure can't help him ...

A COMMON DISASTER (Michael Timmins) A candle burning for everything I've ever wanted A tattoo burned for everything I've ever wanted and lost I had a long list...

[Previously unreleased song Lay It Down outtake] Transcribed by TVRoosmalen What does he see in those mashed potatoes? what secrets does he hold that can be ...

He searched for those wings that he knew that this angel should have at her back And although he can't find them he really don't mind because he knows they'll g...

Have you ever seen a sight as beautiful as that of the rain-soaked purple of the white birch in spring? Have you ever felt more fresh or wonderful than on a wa...

Again, At the end of the rainbow Again, No gold to be found Just this cold unmade bed The last 3 words you said And this buzzing on the telephone line Paris, w...

Now, baby, please don't go Now, baby, please don't go Now, baby, please don't go back to New Orleans You know I love you so, you know I love you so You got me w...

A bad little boy moved into the neighborhood He don't do nothin' right, just sits around and looks so good He don't wanna go to school to learn to read and writ...

Speed River at my feet running low and flat I'm sitting here burning daylight, Thinking about the past And that distance out there Where the earth meets the sky...

She was found beneath the gate, Forsaken at the gate Who would have thought that so much love Could be so carelessly misplaced Found Beneath the gate We gazed ...

I only want to say That if there is a way I want my baby back with me Cause he's my true love, my only one don't you see? And on that fateful day Perhaps in th...

Where'd you go my blue eyed saviour Where'd you go my darling one Lying on that field of honour Not sure what you're waiting on And she won't let him through th...

Mouths to feed, shoes to buy Rent to pay, tears to dry Brand new world I can't relate Let us choose To not participate Open up Let me wander in Your heart is n...

Well I'm lyin' in my bed, a tangle of arms and legs, But the one that I'm with is not the one bouncing 'round my head I could turn this into song or cheap fanta...

[Bruce Springsteen cover] Saigon, it was all gone The same coke machines as the streets i grew on Down a mesquite canyon we come walking along the ridge Me and...

My name was captain kidd, when I sailed, when I sailed My name was captian kidd, when I sailed, when I sailed And so wickedly I did God?s laws I did forbid I r...

Down along the railroad track I ran into my old friend Jack He was dressed in his Sunday best But his face was mad and his eyes was a daze He said `I lost Marin...

It's the kind of night that's so cold, when you spit It freezes before it hits the ground And when a bum asks for a quarter, you give a dollar If he's out tonig...

I want to walk away Like Judas from the table Turn my back And walk away I want to close my eyes Like that novice at the altar Bow my head And close my eyes S...

If I pour your cup That is friendship If I add your milk That is manners If I stop there Claiming ignorance of taste That is tea But if I measure the sugar To ...

(Michael Timmins) The stillness here, Like what he sometimes finds inside her, Hits so hard it can steal your breath forever He sometimes wonders Is the sum of...

Reach a hand to the crescent moon Grab hold of the hollow If she sits in the palm of the left That moon will be fuller tomorrow If she sits in the palm of the r...

If you've gone and made your mind up About leaving tomorrow Take it all, but leave My cutting board behind I can see my way ahead I reach this closed doorway T...

Stuck in that dark hole again Someone throw me a ladder On which I can depend Someone give me a handhold To help me ascend Someone give me a reason To start up ...

The beautiful is not chosen The chosen becomes beautiful The beautiful is not chosen The chosen becomes beautiful Please do not forsake me now, Sparkling gone ...

September skies, Bodies falling Never again will you catch me admiring Those vast september skies October skies, Hate is flying Crimson leaves slowly falling F...

Can't lose the taste of this river mud Black water in my lungs They say you can't step in the same river twice Well I've been steppin' in this river Seems like ...

Michael Timmins Stuck in that dark hole again Someone throw me a ladder on which I can depend Someone give me a handhold to help me ascend Someone give me a re...

Michael Timmins She hugged his head so hard to her heart it made her gasp for air If this was not the way Love felt then for Love she did not care "I want to r...

The way you kissed me this morning It told me that you would soon be going You didn't even look in my eye When you said goodbye And last night in your sleep yo...

My first recollection is a day in December Black iron steam engine covered in ice Like some Precambian monster moaning and snorting Nothing is going to beat tha...

I am a man I am self-aware And everywhere I go You are always right there with me I flirted with you all my life Even kissed you once or twice And to this day I...

Check under his floorboards, Mama I don't trust his silly grin He's got a beat-up Rambler, Nebraska plates I ain't getting in I don't like the way his pinky ri...

My father's stories fell upon us Filled us with his light Gospels, fertile minds Taking root, taking root His pocket change would jingle Sacramental bells Head...

They tell me God forgives you for almost anything you do They tell me God forgives you for almost anything you do Well, if that's the case, that's the case I th...

To Hunting Ground from City That's where my baby took me with her smile To Hunting Ground from City I never thought that I'd have to retrace those miles It's be...

[Richie Havens cover] You can talk about your neighbor You can grab him by the collar You can hurt him only if he hollers "let me go?-let me go" But we all kn...

He will call you baby But will he listen when you cry? He will call you sweetheart But always seem apart He will tear all your fences down, Trample all into the...

If you offered me a shade of blue Would I return it saying that it was too Dark or light? Or would I see it for the precious thing That it might one day be? Hol...

(chris etheridge & gram parsons) You may be sweet and nice But that won't keep you warm at night 'cause i'm the one who showed you how To do the things you're ...

Emma's in a part of town Where she can't recognize the streets Named for famous native sons And out of every crevice comes creeping A threat in her direction L...

To Hunting Ground from City That's where my baby took me with her smile To Hunting Ground from City I never thought that I'd have to retrace those miles It's be...

(robert johnson) I'm getting up soon, in the morning, I believe I'll dust my broom I'm getting up soon in the morning, baby, I believe I'll dust my broom Yeah,...

(I did it all for you) She took his dentures from his mouth And placed them in her own Took a shovel from the shed And then dragged him from their home (I did ...

Breaking away to the other side I wanna make sense of why we live and die I don't get it, I don't get it I ask my friends if they understand They just laugh at...

[John Lennon cover] Well i don't wanna be a soldier mamma, i don't wanna die Well i don't wanna be a sailor mamma, i don't wanna fly Well i don't wanna be a fa...

I don't want to be no patch on no quilt (I just want to see) Tear-stained stitching linking memories to guilt (I just want to see) I don't want to be no hair on...

I saw your shoes by the kitchen door and I knew I missed you I saw your shoes by the front door and I began to miss you more I saw your shoes on the landing and...

I'll never get out of these blues alive No, I'll never, I'll never get out of these blues alive Well he gone and left me I don't know what I'll do the rest of m...

Hear the lonesome whippoorwill His song's too blue to fly The midnight train is a-winding low I'm so lonesome I could cry I've never seen a night so long When ...

Just outside they're waiting Just outside the circle Waiting for that finger to point your way Just keep runnin' Just keep runnin' Young ones quickly burning ...

If you were the woman and I was the man Would I send you yellow roses, would I dare to kiss your hand In the morning would I caress you like the wind caresses t...

[George Harrison cover] Isn't it a pity Now, isn't it a shame How we break each other's hearts And cause each other pain How we take each other's love Without ...

The singer brought her to tears But they were my words not hers What I said, or didn't say It doesn't really matter anyway Beside me, you looked so small So I'...

Michael Timmins I don't want to be no patch on no quilt (I just want to see ) Tear-stained stitching linking memories to guilt (I just want to see ) I do...

He left his dead in the cottonwood trees The ground grown too hard with the years Falling down was not what it used to be The ground grown too hard with the yea...

(Beth Slater Whitson/Leo Friedman) Copyright Rigel/Skyvision-Partners [From the soundtrack to the movie "The Sadness of love"] Let me call you sweetheart I'm i...

[Bob Dylan cover] Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth He can do with it as he please And if things don't change soon, he will Oh, man has invented his doom Fi...

Door slams, car starts, he's on the road She's left there sitting, angry and alone Thinking what she should have said Well, maybe she should have gone to bed No...

The last of man's great unchained beasts lies lapping at my door The last of man's great unchained beasts lies lapping at my door I would give it what it wants,...

Early this morning, he knocked on my door I said, early this morning, he knocked on my door I said, "Hello Satan, well I believe, it's time to go" Me and the D...

Well, I said, "Mama, he's crazy and he scares me But I want him by my side Though he's wild and he's bad Sometimes just plain mad And I need him to keep me sati...

You speak your love You turn, are gone What kind of love You thinking of Can you tell me how this mountain got so high Moments worth The price of myths Liftin...

Murder, tonight, in the trailer park Mrs Annabelle Evans found With her throat cut after dark Her pockets turned inside out Her dresser drawers turned upside do...

(bruce springsteen) Last night I dreamed that I was a child Out where the pines grow wild and tall I was trying to make it home through the forest Before the d...

My little boy on the kitchen floor (my little basquiat) Stick men fighting stick dinosaurs (my little basquiat) Colours leaping all over the mat (my little basq...

Keep it coming I've got your back Do not fear When I'm on deck A bigger lie I've never told A bigger story yet to unfold My only guarantee: i will fuck you up ...

Betrayed? It's the question That I am asking Or just a lucky one deceived by too much love Confused Is the issue I'm in need of high rescue Another lucky one s...

This ain't no long journey home This ain't no trip across the tracks This ain't no dead end street There ain't no turning back This ain't no long journey home ...

[Traditional] No more my lord No more my lord Lord i'll never turn back, no more I have found in him Many resting place And he has made me glad No more my lo...

My love swears that he is made of truth I do believe him though I know he lies I've caught him creeping 'round darkened holes I've caught him staring at distant...

Now I know, now I know what it means to be broken Now I know, now I know what it means to be bared You in the chair perceptibly sinking I?m on my knees once aga...

[U2 cover] Is it getting better Or do you feel the same Will it make it easier on you now You've got someone to blame You say one love one life When it's one ...

Abandon all those precious things One soul now Carry only what twilight brings One soul now Watch the colour drain from the sky One soul now Stillness settles, ...

(Gram Parsons/Rik Grech) Copyright Wait & See Music [From "The Reurn Of The Grievous Angel - Tribute to Gram Parsons" Thanks to Andrew, Linda, Amy and Ralph for...

The hoods are up on Pine Street, rear ends lifted too The great-grandsons of General Robert E Lee Are making love with a little help from STP Their women on the...

Fifty miles from Dakota territory Cheyenne scalp hangs from his belt Found him alone washing in the Bighorn A steady aim and he bagged his game Pale sun falls ...

Eyed it, dried it, untied it Chilled it, spilled it, refilled it Taste it, traced it, erased it He's my post to lean on And I just cut him down So I'm out to l...

Especially with my head poundin And lyin helpless on my bed I long for you and your expert hands To ease this white heat from my head And you would boast that ...

She placed her ring on the sill Dishes piled high She's on the front porch step And the air smells like snow She's thinking of the siege to come And how she'll ...

I'm going to find me a dying river and strike a deal with her I'll say "I'll fold you in two and I'll carry you away to a place where your headwaters will flow ...

She captured both rock and bird Tied one to the leg of the other Kept them as prisoners Until they knew who was master Then she threw them to the sky Bird with...

(Michael Timmins) [First released on the "30-Hour Famine" benefit album] Transcribed by Jason Go Hollow boned and feathered she fell to him, wriggling perditio...

Haven't seen the sun for seven days November's got her nails dug in deep Haven't seen my son for seven years And the chances are we'll never again meet If trut...

Time slips away And the light begins to fade And everything is quiet now Feeling is gone And the picture disappears And everything is cold now The dream had t...

Jesus was a carpenter he died nailed to a wooden cross Irony oh irony upon me it is never lost Gather 'round now people, I'm here to tell a tale About a man wh...

I've been told that it's just the way life goes Once the wildest river is now a trickle to the sea The peak we risk our lives to scale becomes dirt beneath our ...

Someday soon I'm going to find myself a saviour Sit him on the naugahide And make him tell me the answers Someday soon He'll look at me With the word in his eye...

Someone Out there Kneeling No one Out there Listening But what I want to know Before you save my soul Is who gave this power to that fucker up there? Someone...

Speaking confidentially The fire that burnt inside of me Has turned to ash the tortured tree That grows beside the anguished sea Speaking confidentially Speaki...

Now it all begins Or continues to Spiral down Spiral down I've laid it out on paper Instructions of what to do As my mind begins to waver Losing contact with y...

Sitting in a square room My voice is freezing And the beams that are bouncing off the moon Are hanging from my window like icicles Just a tired old alcoholic, ...

Stars of our stars Dreams of my dreams You come to me Singing " The Stars Of Our Stars" The stars of our stars Came up the first day The moon did set The sun c...

Settling now Once again What was begun Will meet it's end Running now Time to hide Go inside It's time to hide Here we stand at the end of paths taken (guidin...

Up on the bluff, where I wish I was Twistin' up the pages of history My cold feet danglin', my bony arms gesturin' To summon up little chunk of that history In...

Another note afloat upon this paper sea Explain to me How this can be Another face erased From this tidal pool Found one day Then swept away I will carry you ...

Sun comes up, it's Tuesday morning Hits me straight in the eye Guess you forgot to close the blind last night Oh, that's right, I forgot, it was me I sure do m...

Anyone who's ever had a heart Wouldn't turn around and break it Anyone who's ever played a part Wouldn't turn around and hate it Sweet Jane -2x Ah, sweet, sweet...