If you believe You are light as air If you believe You will fly There is no tear that is stronger than The faith that's in your eye Look now at my body Broken...

i know what it takes to be loved by you talk like you talk think like you do you never were human so how could you know? we fall so hard, we can't let go i am ...

Oh, he's a lucky guy Oh, he's a lucky guy He doesn't worry about me When I'm gone He goes to sleep at night He don't turn off the light And wonder how to find m...

Rickie Lee Jones Oh, he's a lucky guy Oh, he's a lucky guy He doesn't worry about me When I'm gone He goes to sleep at night He don't turn off the light And wo...

Summertime and everything is sweet Walking barefoot to the circle k On the burning street Summertime and everything's on fire This town is a drive-by for the Wh...

Rickie Lee Jones Oh, he's a lucky guy Oh, he's a lucky guy He doesn't worry about me When I'm gone He goes to sleep at night He don't turn off the light And wo...

there is a tree on allenford I drive by it each day on my way to and from work and there are always flowers left there each day left for a child who died there ...

All the gang has gone home Standing on the corner All alone You and me, streetlight We'll paint the town - grey Oh, we are so many lamps Who have lost our way ...

Rickie Lee Jones) All the gang has gone home Standin' on the corner All alone You and me, streetlight We'll paint the town - grey Oh, we are so many lambs Who...

A monk with a hard on in a lavender robe That scratches his thighs for the height that he strode As he follows a path filled with harried desire And mimics his ...

Maybe you want another world One where heaven doesn't weigh so much Maybe you'll find another girl One you can feel when you do not touch Well I've got somethin...

C'est une chanson, Qui nous ressemble, Toi qui m'aimais, Et je t'aimais, Nous vivions tous les deux ensemble, Toi qui m'aimais, Moi qui t'aimais, Mais la vie s...

For all that it cost him He never did complain The chicken-headed man Feathering the rain But the last bus is tired And everybody's gone The horses are waiting...

Begging round the sun beaten streets I can't make me no connections Locals here no speak no English Where is my woman, well no one knows Ah well, some girls jus...

Pack up all my care and woe Here i go, swinging low bye, bye, blackbird where somebody waits for me sugar's sweet so is she bye, bye, blackbird no one here ca...

i know that lizards like jelly, because i have fed wild geckos on the roof of my hut in the seychelles islands she was called the morning lizard, and i would dr...

How come he don't come and PIP with me Down at the meter no more? And how come he turn(ed) off the tv And hang(ed) that sign on the door? Well we call and we ca...

How come he don't come and PIP with me Down at the meter no more? And how come he turn(ed) off the tv And hang(ed) that sign on the door? Well we call and we ca...

The sun's goin' down I'm goin back to my cave I've got no one to meet No one to save I like the music In my head I think I'll go away For her instead, yeah I ...

So he dropped the webs of the spider of heaven down through the clouds, All the way into the pool of blood at the bottom of hell Far above in heaven a bird flys...

( Jefferson Airplane ) The summer had inhaled and held it's breath too long The winter looked the same as if it never had gone And through an open window where...

I'll remember you too clearly But I'll survive another day Conversations to share When there's no one there I'll imagine what you'd say I'll see you in another...

I and Braggar, and Junior Lee, well that's the way we always thought it would be In the wind-strewn leaves of September, how we met IN THE WINSTON LIPS OF SEPT...

( Gayle Caldwell ) So I'm down and so I'm out So are many others So I feel like tryin' To hide my head 'Neath these covers Life is like the seasons After winte...

Downstairs at danny's all-star joint They got a juke box that goes doyt-doyt The vice is nice, they stay in the back all day But when the nighttime comes, hey-h...

Hey mama, what's that there? And what's that doing there? Hey mama, up here! Mama, hey look at that over there! And what's that doing there? And where're they g...

These stars No one else can see Trapeze the height of thee Vanish as they call These blues No one else can hear No one else can sing This one for you Can they,...

You're coming into town on your donkey tonight You're coming into town on your donkey You're coming into town on your donkey tonight You're coming into town, co...

Don't let the sun catch you cryin' The night's the time for all your tears Your heart may be broken tonight But tomorrow with the morning light Don't let the su...

the man in the starry tie led me talking backwards across the waving chips i spoke fantastic, like a prophet like a piece of blood where no doors are and weary...

in my featherless, sagging, saffron wings, i dance my Phoenician, waterlogged, orchestrated and forty foot wings wave in the air i am drunk laying against the s...

There was a Joe Leanin' on the back door A couple Jills with their eyes on a couple bills Their eyes was statin' They was waitin' To get their hands on some eas...

Wrote a letter to my father I thought I'd tell him where I am I knew that he was hoping I'd come home again I'm standing in the doorway But I'm happy living he...

Honey-skinned girl She's light on her feet Twirling on Apollo But she's going down there for something to eat On the corner We see him coming Followed by the r...

Julie got some ectasy She laid down on the steering wheel Love comes to the first thing love sees Love comes to the first thing that makes it real Makes it real...

Down there by the river is a man Whose horn is twisted into shapes Unknown to the wicked and the wise And he bears the look of an animal Who's seen things no an...

( Lennon/McCartney ) Your day breaks, your mind aches You find that all the words of kindness linger on When she no longer needs you She wakes up, she makes u...

Now we went up to the garden Beneath the olive tree The bells were ringing The rooster crows The men were standing all around Other men are laying on the groun...

Saving all my money all week long So I can go out driving with you Down on Hollywood Boulevard On friday night, dressed right I don't take no trouble smoke at t...

Well I decided to take the bus It was about 6:05 Cuz I could hardly walk In fact, I was just barely alive Under the bridges and over the street Now every shadow...

Ghostyhead, ghostyhead, standing in the door You think if you don't answer I can't hear you anymore Chains you hung from ear to ear Finally drug your head But I...

She come around here about midnight She come around here about midnight Make me feel so good Every night about midnight Come around Make me feel alright Walking...

There are wounds that stir up the force of gravity A cold that will wipe the hope from your eyes Young girl standing underneath the "L" train Standing there, wa...

(Written by Rickie Lee Jones) I would call him, Hey Bu He had a little place he kept for me And he would tell me - (poof) Boy, we were so in love He moved us t...

The song of love is a sad song Hi Lili Hi Lili Hi lo The song of love is a sound of woe Don't ask me why I know The song of love is a sad song For I have loved ...

The spirits of her abortion had manifested The spirits of all her abortions manifested themselves into the furniture in the room There would be a chair waiting,...

( Ira Gershwin / Vernon Duke ) Iv'e been around the world in a plane I've settled revolutions in Spain The North Pole I have charted But man I can't get starte...

Take my advice It doesn't get easier watching the golden orbs floating out of the bars And into space there's Frank Sinatra on the Juke box Pause in the ketchup...

I won't grow up I don't wanna go to school Just to learn to be a puppet And recite a silly rule If growing up means it would be Beneath my dignity to climb a t...

Cathedral bells were tolling And our hearts sang on, Was it the spell of Paris Or the April dawn? Who knows, if we shall meet again? But when the morning chimes...

It makes me laugh When I think about us The way we light up the way home It's you for us And one for all It caught me in its ray But it hurts to be here It hur...

It must be love that whispers in my ear It must be love that we keep trying to hear Cuz I imagined this kind of vvonderful choice I imagine you hear the very sa...

what you are you can never erase it's here til the end of time what you lost you will never replace still you're trying to find you dont do it for god you dont...

Jolie, jolie, pretty little thing All I want you to do is just be happy And we went on a walk and we went on a hill And come back up again, you know I will Jus...

Polly and I went to the circus Polly got hit with a rolling pin We got even with the circus We bought tickets but we didn't go in You won't like it here When I...

Once your journeyed into the wilderness To listen to John the Prophet You called "The baptiser" He spoke to you of truth He was a burning, shining light And yo...

lap dog lap dog where you gonna go? if i put you out in the rain and snow if i put you out in the rain and snow where the sun dont shine and the cold wind blow ...

In the dominion of pillars of faith her nest toppled by the march winds she set out through the forest on a cloudy day the dower sky whining over tea, the weake...

And when I see the sign that points one way The lot we used to pass by every day Just walk away Renee You won't see me follow you back home The empty sidewalks...

a gypsy boy came up to you with a newspaper spread across his arm to hid his fingers in your pocket meanwhile, in another part of town i buy a ticket for a gam...

Low tide tonight, low tide little yellow town Green life teems up from the underground Glows in the dark, sifts the sands of garbage Reach hard in for the ragge...

Rickie Lee Jones Eddie's got one crazy eye that turns him into a cartoon wahen a pretty girl comes by and there's nothin' here to do anymore he sits on the sto...

Love's gonna bring us back alive Love's gonna bring us back alive Over mountains where no one goes Oh yeah, yeah, yeah We've been runnin' Yeah, yeah, yeah Gotta...

Dented bodies, broken souls Wilted roses, hearts grow cold Unhappy endings and shattered dreams Where's the candlelight, where's the smiles Man this place goes...

(written by Billy Strahorn) I used to visit all the very gay places Those come-what-may places I used to visit all the very gay places Where one relaxes on th...

Homeboys Calling from the corners Station to station For the magazine But her pages are turning Out the lights in the windows And all that you're reading Is the...

What you wish for, what you think The photographs you carry around What whispers to yourself when you're finally gone What you take when you go Adds up to the b...

wearing her new mink coat and it's already 85 degrees she looks like she's about to give up hope i look at the people sitting at the bus stop people need digni...

downtown i walk for about a mile in squares there were short and thick men behind bars They are never clean, these men And their dirtiness makes them objects of...

(Written by Rogers-Hart, some ad lib by RLJ) My funny valentine, Sweet comic valentine, You make me smile with my heart Your looks are laughable, they're un-ph...

The very thought of you makes My heart sing, Like an april breeze On the wings of spring And you come to me all your splendor, My one and only love The shadows ...

Rickie Lee Jones) Here I'm going Walking with my baby in my arms Cuz I am in the wrong end of this eight ball black And the devil, see, he's right behind us An...

For a thousand years I've lay upon the Lake Victoria I was winged and many-colored And nobody knew my name For a thousand years I fell out of the sand into the...

The most as you'll ever go Is back where you used to know If grown-ups could laugh this slow Where as you watch the hour snow Years may go by So hold on to you...

( AJLerner, FLoewe ) I have often walked Down this street before But the pavement always stayed Beneath my feet before All at once am I Several stories high Kn...

( Bernstein & Sondheim ) Make of our hands One hand, Make of our hearts One heart Make of our vows One last vow, Only death will part Us now Make of our live...

outside the great divide the dogs racked up about wild hangers the fleshy neighborhood is still the city the wire bled into chairs the chairs eaten by dogs wait...

Dan and I like Las Vegas, never seen the sea Where the river, where the river bed runs dry She closes his eyes, puts her ear to his shirt And listens to the who...

Come on - Joey get out of school We got places to go A '57 Lincoln you got a radio that hurts And the girls like to touch it Just to find out if it works But do...

(Written by Tom Waits) You used to dream yourself away each night To places that you'd never been On wings made of wishes That you whispered to yourself Back w...

Got your mother in a whirl 'Cause she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl Hey, babe, your hairs alright Hey, babe, let's stay out tonight You like me, and I li...

What's the matter with it? why's it look that way? What's the matter with it? what's it trying to say? What's that on its back? where's it trying to go? A mysti...

What's the matter with it? why's it look that way? What's the matter with it? what's it trying to say? What's that on its back? where's it trying to go? A mysti...

Out on the range The quiet, endless still Where the wild SSI Whispers from these hills It's a petrified forest Trailer parks and fords And there ain't no goin' ...

My baby's alvvays crying, My baby wants to see me cry, too Chain on my heart is going to break Cuz every tear that falls in here Is a dime for the Juke Box Fu...

My babys alvvays crying, My baby wants to see me cry, too Chain on my heart is going to break Cuz every tear that falls in here Is a dime for the juke box fur...

oh the ship i'm on time is what i ride forty winds, the captain and the tide oh a sailor boy stole me from my home and this sea of joy is the only life i've kno...

We were born forever We are twinned in a fugitive mind Friends should stay together and Light the world with the fugitive kind So you keep talking in many lang...

And my hands are flickering and the water turns to tracing paper and I watch you dry I'm an army of stills like you flick between your fingers You will always m...

summertime and everything is sweet walking barefoot to the circle k on the burning street summertime and everything's on fire this town is a drive-by for the wh...

now the birds speak in secret rhythms and the trees bark in secret sounds and the people rush in secret thought and they push the thoughts into the shape of wor...

( WBecker, DFagen ) After closing time At the country Fair I detect the El Supremo In the room at the top of the stairs Well I've been around the world And I'...

Rickie Lee Jones She was pregnant in May Now they're on their way Dashing thru the snow To St John's, here we go Well, it could be a boy But it's okay if he's ...

(Charlie Chaplin) 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 f...

(Written by Larsen-Hall) You'll always find what you're after, baby You'll find the sun and laughter So Long My Darling So Long You're alone Can't seem to fin...

( George & Ira Gershwin ) There's a saying old, says that love is blind Still we're often told, "seek and ye shall find" So I'm going to seek a certain lad I'v...

Written by Barnes) Something cool I'd like to order something cool It's so warm here in town And this heat gets me down And I'd like something cool My, it's ni...

Spring this year has got me feeling Like a horse that never left the post I lie in my room Staring up at the ceiling Spring can really hang you up the most Mor...

Hold me love, I can't sleep again Ooo, I have to kiss your lips I wanna lay here next to him, love I remember walking in the rain Rain was falling on my hands I...

Walking down my street Here's the room where I live Here's the neighbor children, sometimes they bother me Here's the window where you left How can I forget to ...