My mind is racing, And my feet are moving slow Look all around me, Don't see anything I know I'd like to answer you, But I can't clarify, If I'm 100 miles ahead...

I had a bicycle named Heaven and I painted it blue When I lived next to you You would come knocking every afternoon Want to take it out, spinning with you If H...

It's your big day in the north It's your big day in the north - love Sha-sher sha-shy pinapple When you smile en coeur le Big Apple Attention - get up charge yo...

Why do I bother, that's what you say And I know you're tired but don't fade away It's been a long year, it's been a long day You can't remember when it was not ...

Crocodile tears, that's what you cried When I wanted to leave your side And you said, "hey baby, look at me Don't you have no sympathy?" Well, I should have kno...

I'm not made for this, I'm not in shape My heart don't bend like that, it just breaks When we bring your bags down to the track To take you back I'm no good at ...

It's got an old chair that's got no seat Cracked snowshoes and warped wooden skis Hardcover books, pages all turned brown Dad has a reason for everything he kee...

I'm not made for this, I'm not in shape My heart don't bend like that, it just breaks When we bring your bags down to the track To take you back I'm no good at ...

I don't know why I cannot reach you I've tried and tried and still Every time it kills me I don't know why I cannot reach you You've written on the back Of your...

Don't lay down if you're gonna fall asleep Don't lay down if you're gonna lose me I'm with you pulling for a miracle I'm with you pulling for a cure I know tha...

I talk to you on the telephone At least two times a day From hotels and truck stops When I've been too long gone away And I can see Cincinnati From the Kentucky...

She runs right out to the very edge Then takes a step back to clear her head She got married at twenty-one After thirty years it's hard to jump It's hard to jum...

Will you pull me up if I am slipping? Throw down a rope if I can't hold on I miss you so much, here's what I'm trying I'm writing to say, don't let me fall away...

You kept an eye on me I ran from the blue men out on the beach I saw you everywhere I did not know why you'd still care I was push You gave me love I was shove...

When I was with you, I thought I knew you so well Now when I see you, it's like I can't tell You from anybody on the street, it's so strange, the way I feel Got...

I've got my grandmother's name, but she don't remember who I am He can't sleep in the bed, 'cause every time she wakes him up: "What time is it? What time?" And...

When I was with you, I thought I knew you so well Now when I see you, it's like I can't tell You from anybody on the street, it's so strange, the way I feel Got...

You used to save your sister You used to be the boy You cannot say your cap gun To you was just a toy And I'm still hoping that you Are not made of steel Super...

I went down to the city and I found myself a jo Working for the people who do need some helping out But then in truth I found there was so little left to give T...

We didn't know what to call it We were just sixteen I kept your picture in my pocket Though you were always with me And we thought no one would notice If we fo...

I've fallen off of bicycles I've fallen out of trees I've fallen through the ice And I have fallen to my knees But I still want to, I'd still love to I still n...

I come home, don't know where you are You must be working pretty hard I feed the cat half a can of food And I sit at the table and I wait for you And I don't li...

If I could right now I'd like to be your mother So I could give to you and not have to explain I would brush your hair and tell you you'll be alright And if you...

I knew that I loved you the first time you got into my car Your cheeks were flushed and I felt a hush come over me in the dark I got us lost but at the next cro...

No one comes down our road So how would they know If we had a saint here? My mother said "Well, they could just tell" But I would not stop there I said, "Larr...

There were times there Didn't look like any way out And we'd all cry when there was no more That we could talk about None of us knew what we could do Mostly we ...

I didn't know your mother But this is what I have been told That she cried and she cried When she gave you up at three days old She was from the countryside In...

My mother cleans Elvis' house Yeah she and everybody else Moved to Memphis for the King She used to work at the Motel 6 Now she gets free guitar picks That's ho...

My mother cleans Elvis's house Yeah she and everybody else Moved to Memphis for the King She used to work at the Motel 6 Now she gets free guitar picks That's h...

I woke up this morning, blankets thick like my tongue My thinking still tangled, couldn't get the words to come Yesterday I could fly, forgot to come back to th...

I come home, don't know where you are You must be working pretty hard I feed the cat half a can of food and I sit at the table and wait for you I don't like dou...

Long nights, no sleep Let's not turn alarm clocks on Calls on the machine Papers piling up on the front lawn Love and happiness ruined my ambition Love and hap...

I turn on the hallway light I am up again at night I've got my window seat Got a light that shines down to the street In the day I think I can But at night I th...

Why didn't you tell me that the only reason Why you walked away Is you were afraid I might leave you? And why didn't you tell me that the only reason For the t...

I am the preacher, I'm on TV God has cable and he is watching me Tune in on Sunday mornings at then I can save you if you just send in: Five hundred dollars to ...

It's all right, we're gonna be fine But let's give my mama and my daddy a little time 'Cause I've been good up 'till now They see you and they think that I have...

River winding through this mill town My hometown is dark by four Winter coming, the mills have long shut down No one's working anymore I drove by McDonalds and...

Am I the kind of brother who would leave you Standing on this lonesome railroad track? That's what I told you on the way to America I swore by our God I'd be co...

You're not afraid of the water You're not afraid to go in You're not afraid of going under But I don't know how to swim When the time has nearly come I remembe...

It's all right, we're gonna be fine But let's give my mama and my daddy a little time 'Cause I've been good up 'till now They see you and they think that I have...

TV nights and radio days We all get the same news, all from the same place We're going to war, they say it's for peace So watch a few bombs drop and have a good...

Watch me at the window from your place on the couch Watch me pretending that I am really looking out You say "come here, I can't see you in this light" But I'm ...

I'm a slave to my belly, 'cause I've got to be fed Every morning, well, it lifts me out of bed Says, "Go to work for me, baby, buy me some bread and some wine" ...

I wanna live where soul meets body And let the sun wrap its arms around me And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing And feel, feel what it's like to be new...

I woke up at five o'clock and i couldn't get back to sleep I kept myself from calling you by watching the TV But al the faces that i saw they just turned into t...

I've been getting down About all the runaround About all the questioning And the standing in the night But like my friends say You got to do it anyway And it ju...

I may die a poor and restless girl I may not leave a mark on this world But I'd reconcile my mortality if you Would stay up all night with me When my baby walk...

Strange as it seems, I don't want to leave Crazy dream been living in my bones When I've got no words to spare gotta be love that will take me there Complain, c...

I don't give a damn what those people say Cane smoke can't be good for you Day after day, every year at harvest time Black smoke fills the sky Get the kids and ...

The church went down And it didn't go gently The burning steeple fell right onto Main Street The old stained glass Exploded Pieces of Jesus at my feet Molten br...

The partys over the clocks long struck twelve Now you can be you and I can turn into myself My sisters will ask me, How was the ball? Ill say, I don't want to t...

When my daddy lived here, I never worried When my daddy lived here, he read me stories And I never was afraid when the endings were scary 'Cause my daddy would ...

She spent the summer in Chicago Spent the winter in LA She can run faster than a river Sometimes I still hear her say You can always be gone But you can't alwa...

Long nights, no sleep Let's not turn alarm clocks on Calls on the machine Papers piling up on the front lawn Love and happiness ruined my ambition Love and hap...

Time tells a lot Sometimes things I never thought would be said And you just spilled a drop Pretty soon you were in over your head (chorus:) And I am waking con...

I can wash my plate, put my things away Ain't no shame to be alone But when I stop, I can hear time walk, come to find me at home Without you in my home I'll be...

I love this town you can See the stars at night Even from downtown 'Cause there are no city lights This town was my biggest fan 'Til I was who I am What's the ...

I am wise to the ways of the world The one that cries in its sleep at night That comes up to me posing as you Asking for something it can never use Falling on i...

The world don't owe me nothing Though I always want it to The world don't owe me happy The world don't owe me a love like you The world don't owe me nothing ev...

She spent the summer in Chicago Spent the winter in LA She can run faster than a river Sometimes I still hear her say: You can always be gone, but you can't alw...