Time goes by so quickly now On this freight train line Through my hometown There are days I wait for night to come When I fall asleep just to wake again Oh to ...

A turn upon the hill As the sun reclines I lie upon the grass And your eyes meet mine Then I run as fast As my legs will carry me From a camera's lens And a str...

I should have known why I loved Driving through the cactus fields Or wearing white leather gloves Admiring the virgin As she stands upon the moon Waltzing behin...

Hush-a-bye, don't you cry Go to sleep my little baby When you wake, you shall see Coach and six-a-little horses Blacks and bays, dapples and grays All the pret...

There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With...

You write about a place so dear In all it's good and evil A loving cup, an aching scar You need no thread and needle To sew your name into your clothes Or hem a...

Different and good Easy to please A cheerleader's skirt on the backseat A childhood worth forgetting Her twenties damn depressing She eyes another age She turns...

When I lay my burden down There'll be no mourners outside my window Put my body in the ground Because my spirit will be free at last And I'll be flying in the d...

Ten years ago, on a cold dark night, Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light There were few at the scene, but they all agreed That the slayer who ran look...

Looking for a hand to hold There to pull and push against Even now we're dancing Longing for a place to know Where branches reach, lantana grow And butterflies ...

I never thought much of that fancy dancin, With my two left feet and my rovin eye But when the band plays so well in that 3/4 time, I could dance with my darlin...

A little girl A lust, a life Hoping one day to be some man's wife Early school mornings Cold bathroom floor You brushed my hair And pushed me out the door Oh, ...

Small town stars shine bright for a day The moon lights up a watery grave Woods move in the nighttime breeze That lifts from the lake through the trees On the n...

Well See, See See Rider Just see what you have a-done Yeah, yeah yeah yeah See See Rider See what you have a-done Wo-wo yeah Well you made me love you And now y...

Sun comes up in the morning See that sunrise forming All the pretty colors Shining down on the water I don't know about heaven But I put in my dollar Let's see...

I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the ...

Shall we walk the narrow way Crooked straight, rough places plain Raised up in the yin and yang Takes her around and back again She's got her act down A shadow ...

I'm a selfish girl In a selfish world Each town has her selfish ways And each girl has her selfish days Especially me Longing to be free From all the old compla...

Tales of the islander Tales of you and me Floating on our raft Down the Mother Mississippi Caught myself a fever Took a hospital stay Tied some sheets together ...

I had a few more questions I never knew to ask You were feeling downhearted The last time we parted With a shock of white hair Life has changed a lot you know A...

Just get in there Gas up the car If you're gonna go You'll need fuel for the road But if you stay Forget the past Things that haunt you They never last Oh but c...

When you are hidden from me When I cannot feel the beating of my heart Walk me where wild things grow Where grace and light surround me There I'll see my wild,...

You with the sad eyes Don't be discouraged Oh I realize It's hard to take courage In a world full of people You can lose sight of it all And the darkness inside...