Ooooo I'm just trying to get by I'm just buzzin on a sugar high Yeah Everybody moves so fast, No Time to wonder why Yeah I'm just trying to get by Is it all in ...

She gets high She gets low She lives her life straight Just like Serpico She starts to sneeze And announces "bless me" And wipes her nose On the shirt that says...

I am in motion I am blue Love is an ocean I'm anchored in you But I am a dreamer So you sent me away Sometimes we dreamers Just get in the way But i've always k...

February rain smoky mountain fire Like a hummingbird to cane Just following desire Watch the firelight Throw shadows across the room Many miles away Not far fro...

Another look into her might just free me now I feel the drowning pounding of her pain And her dreams like eyes, As she looks into my sin So knowing where and wh...

I'd like to hike the appalachian I've tossed it around in my mind But then I say to myself Boy you must be crazy Don't you know you'll never have the time I'd l...

I can see the pictures of me and ask "do I look so different than anyone else? " I can hear them marching near and feel The steady pounding of a heart With ever...

My name's billy jo mckay I just turned 16 yesterday I'm gonna get the nerve one day To get outta here My ma passed on 3 years ago they said It was cancer and it...

I've lost count of the times I given up on you But you make such a beautiful wreck, you do There's a tavern on the corner called the Milky Way And you look so a...

I've got a suitcase packed full of memories And evening's drawing near The mountain smiles upon me now It's all down hill from here An anchorage of silence, a p...

Lover, there will be another one Who'll hover over you beneath the sun Tomorrow see the things that never come Today When you see me Fly away without you Shado...

Look away, Look away from the past Think ahead, Think ahead so you'll last another day And the days are so long And you'll get by But gettin' by is just another...

New like smoky mornin' Cool like heaven glow Meet me on the mountain I've got no place to go I like my daylight to be silver I like my night skies to be blue B...

What I'd give to be you for an hour or two Oh tell me a story of fortune and glory things i Never knew for I am the hungry and I am the Poor I've got one foot o...

on a mantle made of oakwood there's a photograph from my childhood it was taken in the desert early light i look a lot like a leprechaun with a mexican vest and...

Casey joins the hollow sound of silent people walking down The stairway to the subway in the shadows down below; Following their footsteps through the neon-dark...

I still don't know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild, A million dead-end streets And every time I thought I'd got it made It seems the taste w...

I once had a true love, her name was Maggie Brown Her eyes they were the color of the sun burning down And she had hair that smelled like jasmine, I loved her f...

Let me touch you Put my hands on you I'll kiss you And we'll see things through Would you lay with me Would you lay with me Till the sun peaks through the blind...

See the ruin on the hill Where the smoke is hangin still Like an echo of an age long forgotten There's a story of a home Crushed beneath those blackened stones ...

As the lights go down The drumming clown Whistled a melody And as the rain pours down His happy face Turned into a sad one The autumn wind reminded him That the...

She slees with the windows open Yet she's still locked safe inside And to block out the sounds of the city's commotion She turns her fan up on high Yea she live...

A young man sits by the riversied Watching the sunset over the blueridge And the mountain lurel reminds Him of his bride so he flings himself Over the burning b...

Verse 1 A good bit of me sleeps underneath in the bed of my soul lying next t o belief if I toss where I lay I might turn her away So I try to still fall dreami...

He's a walkin' contradiction when he sings his verse He's got a caffeine fix addiction but it could be worse And he is loved by many understood in time But it's...

Pain, come no more Don't you come knockin' on my door Love, dry your tears You have lived a life way beyond your years And faith, when you're gone All my demon...

Stop regretting all the years inside your head Not forgetting there's some truth to what you said And you know now that I gotta keep rollin' on Here we go now, ...

It's four o'clock in the mornin', I hate to call you when it's stormin', But I didn't have a choice I know you must be sleepin', Don't wanna wake you from your ...

Now my old friend Harry Never slowed down to marry He's in sales He's gone most of the year And he smiles through all those lies With dollar signs in his eyes ...

I see her up there, She is dancing on the wind with her lover, And maybe one or the other sees me smiling In the sun's summer light at their perfect flight She ...

We are the children of god wherever he may be whoever she may be We go through life feelin odd like a bird inside a cage nowhere to pour the rage Its a mystery ...

The funniest girl I ever knew Had hair as orange as Halloween The bluest eyes that saw right through All the BS and everything She was an artist from the start...

There is old homeless Joe, he's a one man show You can catch him down in 'Five Points' where everybody knows He can pick and sing you anything from 'Muddy Water...

Sixty miles from El Paso Feelin' lonesome as can be Driving further from the heartache That was slowly killing me I left at 4 am last monday Filled my tank at ...

There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun It's been the ruin of many a poor girl Me, oh God, I'm one My mother was a tailor She sewed these new ...

(Listen to the rhythm) Your in your mind half the time Trying to find someone to hide behind But still they poured right in on you And everyday you try to walk...

Hold on to your love, But don't hold on too tight And death is just a word we use to counter life We blame it on the dove, When we cannot be free We curse the s...

Joshua was an old man his beard like mountain snow And when I was a boy we'd have jam sessions I'd sneak off to old Sharptop with my guitar I would go When I sh...

She seemed almost demented As she frantically repented For the crime in which she filled her empty bowl, It was empty like her soul She kneeled inside the confe...

Lately I've felt deep inside myself maybe something ain't right I feel like I've been turned and put on the back burner And there's no rescue in sight maybe I h...

"Lay Down Your Swords, Boys" Well lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns A new day's a comin' first sight of the sun It'll shine like a beacon on whoev...

Jenny, you are the frightened kind But you're leaving all your troubles behind today You never thought you'd turn that curve You never thought you had the nerve...

Sometimes it's hard to stay sane Dogtags like shackles on my brain We've got a language of our own You learn to talk bad When you're far from home Dusty books ...

Capo 4th It's 3am and the snakes have moved in, I'm playing to 4 drunks and me, but the beer is cold and the memories old and the lights are so bright I cant s...

She grew up with The children of the stars In the hollywood hills and the boulevard Her parents threw big parties Everyone was there They hung out with folks li...

My ship up here is sinkin' but this is what I am and I'd tell you what I'm thinkin' if I thought you'd give a damn and I don't know a single one of you but you ...

Headed north on 95 It would be good for you yeah I was feelin very much alive And if i don't come back read a little kerouac Now im stuck inside a line For a di...

We opened pandora's box just to see if she was Home she had an apple pie a jaundiced eye and A big red telephone she said "boy's I know why You are here, you wa...

I had a dream I was in school Reading your autograph Pages of green in seventh grade Now like an epitaph Alone in your room With and artist inside of you You di...

She grew up with the children of the stars in the Hollywood hills and the boulevards Her parents threw big parties Everyone was there They hung out with folks ...

Ruth and Mary Threw a party everyone was there Baby Ruth she got a new tatoo and Mary braided an orchid in her hair their friend had a farm and in that same fri...

Mormon's are everwhere Battalions of bicycling bachelors With dark suits And well cropped hair We're mormons too Have been since '72 I'm riding between my broth...

You've got your mind made up Your heart's in a song No pot to piss in But a voice of your own You can take it anywhere This road leads you down Any old ghost to...

She was sittin' in the corner of a cafe In the burnin' heart of downtown Sante Fe Pickin' on a Gibson And singin' "baby, can't you see" She was buzzin' like a ...

This song was mostly written on a train ride Down the west coast while on tour Hadn't Ridden a train since I was a kid September in seattle Waiting on a train ...

She never loses She never chooses I don't know which way is up I drink her down She fills my cup again I'm always changin' While she's rearrangin' I can't tell ...

Here I am and once again I've come this far for everywhere you go you never know you're right there where you are I thought by now you'd surely shoot a differen...

Shimmer (Single) - Shawn Mullins Sharing with us what he knows Shining eyes are big and blue And all around him water flows This world to him is new This world...

Don't tell me about the nature of desire I sit and watch you Twisted, tangled in the wire I'm on the road now And you're glad to see me go I guess you'll sit ou...

I've never been the one who had my head on straight So i gave myself this job now I'm waitin' at the gate For my bag to inspected For some crazy reason i am alw...

Be good to you Take care of you Shake loose of those self-help blues You gotta lot of livin' to do Can't be givin' up on you Sometimes the stars or the moon gon...

Like fallin rain The days go by Can't kill the pain And you wonder why Be strong Hold on Lotta love to go around Stay wild Soul child Don't you let 'em bring yo...

Written by Kris Kristofferson One of the first songs I ever heard and loved Well I woke up Sunday morning With no way to hold my head That didn't hurt And the b...

Maria lays in the tannin bed And reads the tuesday news She's down there every week at the Same time with the same ol' blues She reads the funny papers And then...

If I take this opportunity to tell you what happened, Will it destroy our unity? Will there be nothing left to tap into? I hate to lay this on you, but I've bee...

I fell aslep about 12:30 last night With the remote held in my hand I drifted off and I could see the light I was dreaming of the promised land Oh I had a drea...

She cooks him ham and hocakes At 5:30 in the morn She does the dishes And irons his uniforms And she thinks she might have loved Him once but that was long ago ...

There are blackberry brambles down where the railroads cross And old timer trees wearing the spanish moss No better place for a boy to get lost in a dream He wo...

If the timing's right No need to worry about what's right and what is wrong And if the market's right We can sell the livin' hell out of your song Cause I know ...

My time is your time after all that you've been through can you hear me calling you and this line that I'm walking time it's pointing write to you I'm living my...

I'll open my arms out wide, Welcome you into my heart Hopin' that you understand, Girl I Love You Tell you I'll never give up, no matter which rock comes betwee...

I met him on the cliffs of Twin Rocks Oregon he was sittin on his bedroll lookin just like Richard Brautigan I thought he was an old man he wasn't but 37 he sa...

Well Johnny Mae And William J Hitched a ride From sunny LA With a soldier who'd gone AWOL Stockade bound And they got off In the Texas rain And they hopped a so...

From all that is in me, I say these words with freedom on my tongue I give to you all of me, In this crazy world, life has just begun No one can take that away,...

In the town that Iwas born in There rides a boy and a girl in love And the answer came without warning Just like an angel from heaven above They run down morel...

What I feel, I can't saybut my love is there for you anytime of day But if it's not love that you need Then I'll try my best to make everything succeed Tell me,...

Young johnny He really had a way He did his homework on the schoolbus And always got an a And the girls like johnny More than anyone except maybe elton john Lat...

There is a young man Driving an old man's car Down the Pennsylvania Turnpike Where the treetops meet the stars There is a warm wind Blowin' down the lost highwa...

I've been on the road too long And i've been stuck inside a song And you know our love has been Through rougher weather But our passion's like a rose The season...