You gas her up You're behind the wheel Your arm around your sweet one In your Oldsmobile Barrelin' down the boulevard Looking for the heart of Saturday night G...

You got a lot of tenderness And so much love, you can get no rest If you‘re willing to waste a little time I don't wanna all of it All I need is a little bit ...

Lord I must be strong now I don't belong now In this world anymore I'll say a final prayer for Those I care for Who've kept my company My destiny is clear I'm...

Maybe ain't no use in sayin' what I want it to be Maybe ain't no use in playin' a tune Maybe ain't no use in singin' my blues But there's always a use in you an...

(by Billie Holiday) That bird with feathers of blue Is waiting for you Back in your own backyard You'll see your castles in Spain Through your window pane Bac...

I remember what my daddy taught me 'Bout how one risky is in a cold ditch And one more thing about good and evil You can't tell which is which Well, if the res...

( Elliott Smith ) Drink up, baby Stay up all night Things you could do You won't but you might The potential you'll be You'll never see Promises you'll only m...

There's perfume burning in the air Bits of beauty everywhere Shrapnel flying, soldier hit the dirt She comes so close You feel her then She tells you No and No...

California rain is falling I can hear the summer calling Far away, far away A song that's fading Put me on a plane tomorrow I'll try to run from all my sorrow ...

( Bessie Smith ) Love, oh love, oh careless love, You've fly though my head like wine You've wrecked the life Of many a poor girl And you nearly spoiled this l...

My heart is like a hand-me-down Made soft by older brothers My body's like my father's house The sin of generations Damn the circumstances Life is hard enough ...

( Leonard Cohen ) Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my h...

Honey please don't cry Listen to me There's no reason why We shouldn't agree If i hurt your feeling I apologize You're the only one That I idealize Don't cry b...

You can cry a million tears You can wait a million years If you think that time will change your ways Don't wait to long When your morning turns to night Who'l...

Dreamin' Makin' my way Dreamin' Won't let me stay in your arms In your warm In your love Sleepin' Away the day Hopin' That we two could stay All alone On our o...

Everybody's talkin' at me I don't hear a word they're sayin' Only the echoes of my mind People stopping, staring I can't see their faces Only the shadows of th...

When we want to love, we love When we want to kiss, we kiss With a little petting, we're getting Some fun out of life When we want to work, we work When we wan...

I love you, baby Wouldn't tell you no lie I always want you by my side Oh baby, give your mama one smile Come here, papa, let's talk awhile You know I love you...

(Joe Thomas & Howard Biggs) I've got you on my mind I'm feeling kind of sad and low Got you on my mind Feeling kind of sad and low I'm wondering where you are...

Every night he'd come to me I'd cook for him, I'd pour his tea I was in my thirties then Had made some money Lived with men We'd lay us down to give and get Be...

(Ron Miller) Heaven help the child who never had a home Heaven help the girl who walks the street alone Heaven help the roses when the bombs begin to fall Heav...

(Billie Holiday) When I hear them say There's better living Let them go their way To that new living I won't ever stray 'Cause this is heaven to me Long as fr...

Hey sweet man Who you give your lovin' to? Hey sweet man Who you give your lovin' to? I gotta mind to love you I'll love you through and through Hey momma's ch...

Broken windows, empty hallways A pale dead moon in a sky streaked with grey Human kindness is overflowing And I think it's going to rain today Scarecrows dress...

I'll look around Until I've found someone Who laughs like you I know somewhere Spring must fill the air With sweetness just as rare As the flower That you gave...

He made me laugh He made me cry He smoked his doggies in bed But I'm all right I'm all right I've been lonely before I asked the boy for a few kind words He gav...

I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter And make believe it came from you I'm gonna write words, oh, so sweet They're gonna knock me off my feet Kiss...

On dit qu'au dela des mers La-bas sous le ciel clair Il existe une cite Au sejour enchante Et sous les grands arbres noirs Chaque soir Vers elle s'en va tout mo...

J'avoue j'en ai bave pas vous mon amour Avant d'avoir eu vent de vous mon amour Ne vous deplaise En dansant la Javanaise Nous nous aimions Le temps d'une chanso...

( Frank Sinatra ) Look down, look down That lonesome road Before you travel on Look up, look up And seek your maker Before Gabriel blows his horn I'm weary o...

I put on my gloves tonight, pull onto the road to San Berdu They remind me of hustlers, confidence, men and you My hands are warm beneath them and easy on the w...

I've got a lovesick tale to tell to you Though it ain't no fail of mine It's about a gal named sue And a boy named lou They were fightin' all the time Sue came ...

( Bessie Smith ) Dixie moonlight, Swanee shore Headed homebound just once more To my Mississippi delta home Southland got that grand garden spot Although you ...

( Billie Holiday ) You ain't gonna bother me No more Nohow Love just goes so far No more Woke up this morining and found I didn't care for you No more Not now ...

From bad luck I'm walking away I'm not getting stuck I'm not gonna stay To good things I'm moving ahead I'm tired of dying I'm living instead Once in a while ...

Can I buy you something, can I stroke your hair Can I hold your hand and then take you somewhere? You're a young nobody, you're a perfect soul You're an empty a...

(Galison/Peyroux) Playin' Stuck on the corner of the afternoon I hear the sound Some heart-aching Oh just the same old tune Playin' Playin' Autumn falling in m...

( Bessie Smith ) When I wasn't nothing but a child When I wasn't nothing but a child All you men tried to drive me wild Now I'm, now I'm growing old Now, now ...

(feat KD Lang) It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could ...

Stop all this talk, turn off the telephone Open up another bottle, send those people home Let it get real quiet, turn that lamp way down low I'm gonna float dow...

Smile though your heart is aching Smile even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by If you smile through your fear and sorrow Smil...

Wide awake, breath taken I'm shaken by my sight Couldn't sleep, couldn't keep Quiet secrets on the wind I hear There's something grand comin', cool drummin' Th...

You got palatial mansions; I got rented flat. You got Persian kittens; I got tabby cat. You got art collections; I got comic books. You use plastic surgery; I ...

The summer wind Came blowing in From across the sea It lingered there So warm and fair To walk with me All summer long We sang a song And strolled on golden san...

Some day When I'm awfully low When the world is cold I will feel a glow Just thinking of you And the way you look tonight You're lovely With your smile so warm...

( Billie Holiday ) When I hear them say There's better living Let them go their way To that new living I won't ever stray 'Cause this is heaven to me Long as ...

I go out walkin' After midnight Out in the moonlight Just like we used to do I'm always walkin' After midnight Searching for you I walk for miles Along the hig...

Sweet young thing of sixteen Thought I'd step out one night I longed to get the thrilling life i've missed I met a youth A bit uncouth Although he seemed alrigh...

( Hank Williams Sr ) Weary blues from waitin' Lord, I've been waitin' so long These blues have got me cryin' Oh, sweet daddy please come home The snow falls '...

You can't do me, you can't do me You can't do me the way you did before You can't do me, you can't do me You can't do me the way you did before 'Cause when you...

I've seen love go by my door It's never been this close before Never been so easy or so slow Been shooting in the dark too long When something's not right it's ...