a dove settled on the sill and I called my cat love if looks could kill and that was that the glass of the windowpane and away she flew over the grass gliste...

you won't find me here i'm far away far away and even though i'm lying here i'm far away far away riding on my bicycle my heart's up in the air i'm everywher...

by Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche I don't feel that great today I have never felt that great Don't tell me to exercise Don't tell me it's what I ate There's go...

do you love me i'm confusing never free i am asking now you don't have to make me beg you marry me it's my birthday thanks for calling nothing's new no one lov...

am i alone in this world can somebody hear me or be near me am i blind to the love the beautiful love of god here i am standing before a crowd trying to belong...

I was on a TV show That everybody said Would change the course of my life that night By the time I went to bed Tinkling glass and candlelight Your look of tende...

Here comes the blabbermouth everybody hold on to your secrets You better not let 'em out or the blabbermouth's gonna tell Here comes the blabbermouth everybody ...

Think he's got a crush on me I saw the whole scene What makes you think He's got a crush on you Cause he played his song for me I was sitting there too What ma...

i was born yesterday don't know nothin' eyes open wide seem to be on a funny farm guess i'll go on the nanana you got to roll roll roll roll you got to roll ro...

what's wrong hold it a minute i'm happy send up a flare some of the dreams i forgot they came true i'm happy just to see you breathing fifteen years old we ma...

did you know me long ago were we close before the sorrow if you thought of leaving any traces I'll be sifting through the broken places did I know you once upo...

woke up alone in a strange bed lookin' around shakin' my head pulled my boots on went downstairs she was sitting in one of the chairs can we go home now was wh...

He wants to be Christlike and never be jealous So he lets her go on about all the other fellas But the animal in 'em awakes with a growl and a skin 'em cannibal...

Every morning I get up Beautiful as the Goddess Of Love in Enchanted Mountain Every night I go to bed Seductive as Yang Kuei-fei, The imperial concubine My slen...

you can't reason with a cold hard wind all you can do is not let it in when i'm with you i can never win you can't reason with a cold hard wind when i met you ...

since he's gone away i'm a sad dog lie around all day no bowl of water for me i'm asleep let me be train on the railroad track singing oo oo oo as if i didn't k...

(Words & Music by Margaret A Roche) Do I wanna be a dog? any diddlin' male would do if I was a damned old dog I wouldn't be fussy for you Do I wanna be a hous...

If I think I'm gonna have a chocolate sundae but it's Sunday And when I get to the door of the ice cream store it says closed Sitting down on the sidewalk I fee...

meow meow hey let's dance well i know one it's so much fun it's the kookiest dance under the sun it's called the boodanee do the boodanee 123 let's do the booda...

i guess i'm a little bit afraid of you i'm not exactly sure what i should do does not seem to be a right or wrong sittin by the kitchen table from dusk till daw...

i live in an eggshell sometimes, if i'm careful, i can make a pinpoint through the shell and see the light i'm too big to fit through the hole, though, and that...

I would like to be a person who does not judge Free to be me whatever that might be I don't want to hold a position, don't want to hold a grudge 'Cause it seems...

All my life I've wanted your love Travelled all over the world looking for your love Your love would free me from my darkest pain If you loved me I would never ...

by Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche Face down at Folk City When you came in here your were looking so pretty With your dracula cape and your bat what a pity Now y...

As I went out walkin' one fine summer's mornin' the birds in the branches they did gaily sing the lad and the lasses together were sportin' goin' down to the fa...

the feeling is mutual is what you will say if things turn out okay if I were writing a play love will open our eyes maybe love will be a surprise maybe then a...

(Song of gratitude to St Francis of Assisi) My patron saint's a man who went From town to town and paid no rent The things he owned besides his soul Were shoes...

everybody writes a rain song everybody writes what's done 'em wrong everybody writes the same pain song and as long as it's gonna sound just like everybody else...

GIMME A SLICE by Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche Money position and power Flashing back to the first impression Hurrying year and slow hour Are you ready to make...

once upon a time there was a very friendly princess who was captured by a big, grumpy, invisible wizard he locked her in the tippy top of his tower and late at ...

there's a train going by and the railroad cars rush away like the days in the year and i'm waving goodbye cause something is leaving but things are not how they...

(Words & Music by Margaret A Roche) If you go down to Hammond you'll never come back In my opinion you're on the wrong track We'll always love you but that's n...

There's a magic in our little room Floating up like a colored balloon It goes right to the top Just so it can pop And sprinkle down the sound of a tune Hey yea...

she's the kind of girl who pays for herself and the money don't come rolling in been living here outside of fifteen years say how do you do where does she begin...

is it love or is it hate i'm a stand there fence you're a swinging gate if i were a shoe i would walk away walk away i threw at you a book of love it said that...

she was twenty six when she came to the burbs where the family secrets stop at the curbs i was nine when she moved next door she had married a republican he was...

(by Terre and Suzzy Roche) I know there was something about you that I liked yeah But I only realized it when I spied you At your mother's house last week I...

I like it here don't wanna move Just wanna stay here in this same old groove No need for growth now or any adventure No need to be shown how to pay attention or...

mommy help me i can t hear there is a pain in my ear i am afraid and i need your love and i love my mom mommy why are you really angry i don t know what is the...

What if your father has a stroke When you are ten Then sits like a rag doll Wheelchair in the den You start failing school Breaking every rule Pretty soon you'r...

in the world is a town small and proud there i live and there i ll die head in a cloud i had dreams long ago of the love i would surely know but it didn t tur...

This changes everything Why is it happening I got a feeling And you're changing The sky was darkening When we went out wandering It got confusing And I started...

It came upon the midnight clear That glorious song of old From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold Peace on the earth, goodwill to men Fr...

Your words go through and through me And leave me totally dazed For they do such strange things to me They nearly make me gloomy For you dear are so clever So o...

(by Terre and Suzzy Roche) Nobody around here knows what happened to ;you No one will ask you to explain You have your arm around a drastic measure All of your...

(by Terre and Suzzy Roche) Nobody around here knows what happened to ;you No one will ask you to explain You have your arm around a drastic measure All of your...

(Words by Suzzy Roche) a little scratch heals but this one is not so small I can tell because it feels as if there is no scratch at all when the cut is deep it...

(Words by Jesse Fauset) On summer afternoons I sit Quiescent by you in the park, And idly watch the sunbeams gild And tint the ash tree's bark Or else I watch...

on the plane ride home i said why o why are we bouncing up and down in the sky it's a beautiful frightening lightning storm i held you close with the heart of ...

little bitty betty you're a baby little bitty betty could you maybe go to sleep now your mama's so tired little bitty betty little lady underneath the tree coo...

i'm looking for god go to a book read the words of a story but the lover dies and the woman is left in the bedroom with a shadow of herself on the wall she fal...

high moon, old mountain headlights are hurting my eyes i must be tired road after road after road i am aching it happened somebody died i love road after road ...

It's just a job that fell through I'm sure that you will find another I'll make a special dinner tonight Don't worry darling it'll be alright I don't believe t...

(by Margaret A Roche) I'm losin' you fading from view aging and aching and raging and faking I'm losin' you losin' true last time I saw you I wanted to paw you...

Louis has money Just at a time in his life when he thought he was hopeless You see him a lot these days On the cover of this, on the back of that Looking a hund...

love comes to town on a blue jeaned leg in a pick up truck and a plastic crate it's an act of god hits you in the face stands you on your head puts you in your ...

by Mark Johnson Beyond this world came a power Struck into me I don't know how It happened slow I want you to know Her love is true music and it Radiates aroun...

by Suzzy Roche It may be what I wanna do But I won't fall in lover with you You are never gonna be mine But I just love to see you Old moon shining starlight ...

i love somebody named lovey please don't tell anybody lovey has no money or hope of a jo yeah, take a look at the room that pearl is a slo why o why do I love l...

I wanted to take your face in my hands and kiss you on the mouth At the funeral There was a quake in the place where love demands to be noticed and found out Ma...

the yoke the yoke upon the yoke upon the neck of the disciple that neither our fathers nor we are able to bear merciful god this is a prayer I can i cannot i ...

by David Roche He's not dead or alive He's not off with some other guy He's not lost track of the time He's just Missing People say hey it'll never happen to...

sunday cold weather home, that's where i'll stay ok i admit it i've been drifting dreaming the hours away dreamin' of love the gentle kind i don't have to prov...

( Words & Music by Terre Roche ) O Mr Sellack Can I have my job back? I've run out of money again Last time I saw ya I was singing Hallelujah I'm so glad to be...

my my broken heart well, i wake up every morning and i just crack up without warning i would be as good as maybe grandma but i must get a grip on my my broken h...

my new bicycle is race car blue it used to belong to my big sister sue she grew a little too tall then traded it to me for my old basketball riding that thing ...

Listen to the people talk Listen to the people talk She's such a good girl She's such a good girl No Nobody knows Nobody knows; Not even your best friend knows...

the fit is generous and loose the coat is filled with down of goose should I feel guilty about that? I wouldn't wear the fur of a cat the coat is black so in ...

I'm gonna work a couple a years here then I'm gonna go home where they treat women with respect and don't make 'em go out of the house and work That's how the h...

there was a man in a hat and a vest riding on the train with a moustache and glasses too thick to see his eyes tucked up next to him a fat overnight bag with a ...

(Maggie Roche, Andy Block, & Mark Johnson) why are you coming so close? you might erase the line which no one crosses aren't you afraid you'll disappear witho...

Nobody's doing the job they want to be doing Don't you see that's the whole problem? The waiter wants to be an actor And the dentist wants to be a violinist Th...

you ask me why we cannot make love I have been ransacking you for the answer side by side we lay not touching listening to rain falling in the darkness where ...

I'm so glad I am one Nurds When I was a young girl I went to Catholic school Hung around all the nuns That was so uncool All the other girls were wearing Make...

by Terre and Suzzy Roche They have a language all their own It has an I can make it overtone Conversation never stops Throw the ball up it never drops Older G...

(by David Massengill) o once I loved an outlaw he came and stole my heart o how I count the hours since we were torn apart on the road to Fairfax County I spie...

One season I was born fell down like an acorn I am the only tree and everybody leaves I've got to get away from you Bud growing up at me resentful face I see ...

you gave me a flower you gave me a ring you're making me feel like i have everything now what i gotta do is baby be true you're making it easy you're making it...

looking in the mirror what do you see from another era a face baby a waste maybe of a chance never had a history of romance gone bad who can be a lover how lo...

I was kind of hoping you'd ask me to dance But you were groping for change in your pants We grew apart too soon after all was said done in advance If what you'r...

pink ballet slippers two dollars for a pair must have been made by the guy in the store they're strange on i don't care i'm gonna buy them they might be too sma...

If you happen to live on Mars Then I'm from Outer Space Where we drive around in cars And talk right out of our face We walk around on feet And we fly around i...

She came on the stage In a dress like the sky She had painted a sunset Around her eyes And all of the people Were charmed and surprised At how pretty and high a...

(Words & Music by Margaret A Roche) She came on the stage in a dress like the sky she had painted a sunset around her eyes and all of the people were charmed a...

(Words & Music by Margaret A Roche) Money is not the problem you have enough of that now you must close your office put on your coat and hat put on your coat a...

someday i'm gonna get a dog and the dog's gonna run free and i won't need a collar or a leash cause i'll be living in the country and when somebody doesn't wan...

you did everything you could you had to go away from your home i never realized when i was a kid how alone, how alone yeah well back in your neighborhood they k...

(Words & Music by Terre Roche) I can't get over what I saw And I can't change the law of averages I'm going down My uncle did it; my daddy did it I'm beginning...

O Timothy Tim Has ten pink toes And ten pink toes Has Timothy Tim They go with him Wherever he goes, And wherever he goes They go with him O Timothy Tim Has tw...

So maybe another way would have been better if you had been older or had known a thing or two before you set sail for the New World Sail for the New World, mat...

Never mind the words of love I have heard them before Skip over that part I am waiting for Somebody to pull through for me Somebody's gonna have to be me Here ...

the time has come for me to speak uh oh the time has come and while the silence picks on me I pray to not be dum so I am hunting for the words just wait til I ...

(by George Gerdes) she goes steady with the maestro and she rosins his baton but when he goes out on a binge-o she's been known to carry on when the maestro go...

I woke up on a mountain I had walked around the world My family would have been so proud I never had that kind of courage when I was a girl Of all the children ...

Easy baby no fightin tonight Time to watch the sun go down You could put your slippers on Im in my nightgown Please the breeze is blowin our way Lets forget let...

easy baby no fightin' tonight time to watch the sun go down you could put your slippers on i'm in my nightgown please the breeze is blowin' our way let's forget...

sweetie pie sweetie pie bet no one ever called you that standing there disheveled in your tattered coat and cowboy hat put your arms around me say good byesay g...

(Terre Roche and Andy Bloch) You may be sorry But I don't want you to be sorry I see the open air What a paradise and you And me go there That won't happen he...

by Terre and Suzzy Roche He goes to the window to see He can't help it he's got to look away aaah So many sweethearts strolling in the park again today Days a...

O god gilbert When you said that I'm afraid i'll have to jump across the gorge Like in this book i'm reading When you read it back You need a painkiller But i m...