• 44 Stories
    Baptize her with bitter tears till she knows your pain is real Next time you see her on her knees, don't try to make a deal Don't stare her into silence, with f...
  • 500 Miles
    If you miss the train I'm on you will know that I am gone You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles A hundred miles a hundred miles a hundred miles a hundre...
  • Ain't No Money
    (Rodney Crowell) Everyday now I hear people say My ship is sailin' could be any day Any day now it might not feel so blue My baby tells me stop and look around...
  • All Come True
    Someone was 'round here asking questions About somebody who looks like you I said I don't know where you are Sounded like he was gonna be back someday So I told...
  • Anybody's Darling
    (Rodney Crowell) I treat him like a stallion I treat him like a lam I treat him like a pot of gold He treats me like a clown It's daggers when he looks at me B...
  • Baby, Better Start Turnin' 'em Down
    (Rodney Crowell) In this modern world we're livin' in The rules ain't like they've ever been Speakin' of spreading it thin That's what you do, flashing your so...
  • Baby, We Can Be Friends
    (Rosanne Cash) Sometimes it's hard to find words And sometimes the words seem too hard Maybe we're feeling insecure Vecause we're still not used to our parts B...
  • Beautiful Pain
    Do you wanna be honest, or do you wanna win? You could have it all if you could gracefully give in Like when a martyr go sees a martyr Lookin' in the mirror mak...
  • Beautiful Pain (Feat Sheryl Crow)
    Do you wanna be honest, or do you wanna win? You could have it all if you could gracefully give in Like when a martyr go sees a martyr Lookin in the mirror make...
  • Beautiful Pain (featuring Sheryl Crow)
    Do you wanna be honest, or do you wanna win? You could have it all if you could gracefully give in Like when a martyr go sees a martyr Lookin' in the mirror mak...
  • Black Cadillac
    Rosanne, baby come on It was a black Cadillac drove you away Everybody's talkin' But they don't have much to say There was a black sky of rain None of it fell ...
  • Burn Down This Town
    This hills are burning, fields turn to steel The big house is haunted with what we don't feel The streets are empty, no one ever comes around So you know they w...
  • Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
    Well my heart is sad and I am lonesome For the only one I love When shall we meet? Oh no never till we meet in heaven above So bury me underneath the willow Un...
  • Can I Still Believe In You
    (Rosanne Cash) You showed up on my doorstep late last night Said he didn't want to fight no more But going back is near impossible I cried You should had thoug...
  • Change Partners
    In the middle of my life When my fate was sealed and tied The heavens rain down fire The earth and moon conspire To open up my eyes Make me face my lies I crawl...
  • Closer Than I Appear
    Lock all the doors an' turn out the lights Work this thing through till we get it right But if I seem angry an' cold, Or I don't speak at all, It's just that ol...
  • Closing Time
    (Rosanne Cash) I was a fool to say it was over I was concerned with my pride The words are crazy and fall out of place From this heartache I can't hide I hear...
  • D-I-V-O-R-C-E
    our little boy is four years old and quite a little man so we spell out the words we don't want him to understand like T-O-Y or maybe S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E but the wo...
  • Dance With The Tiger
    In every woman and man lies the seed of the fear Of just how alone are all who live here Denying the fear is the name of the game To stare at the fear is going ...
  • Down On Love
    (Gordon Payne - Don White) You say you like my lovin' You say you like my style But you're too quick with your fast talk And you're too quick with your smile I...
  • Dreams Are Not My Home
    The waves are breaking on the wall The queen of roses Spreads her arms to fly, shed falls If I had wings I'd cut them down Live without these dreams So I could ...
  • Feelin' Blue
    (J Fogarty) Hey look over yonder out in the rain Soaking wet, fever in my brain I ain't certain which way to go But I got to move for sure Feelin' blue, blue,...
  • Fire Of The Newly Alive
    (Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal) We are awakened, restored and renewed The bounds of desire have led me to you The heat of the questions that linger and stir Is...
  • From The Ashes
    (Rosanne Cash) I don't have to carry this load alone Someday I'll stop crying and it won't be long My eyes to the distance, baby My hands on the wheel And I'm ...
  • Girl From The North Country
    If you're traveling to north country fair Where the winds hits heavy on borderline Remember me to the one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Hope...
  • God Is In The Roses
    God is in the roses The petals and the thorns Storms out on the oceans The souls who will be born And every drop of rain that falls Falls for those who mourn Go...
  • Good Intent
    I sailed in on the good intent With all intentions clear A man without a mystery A vision brought me here The ocean gave me room to roam But the shore is callin...
  • Halfway House
    (Rosanne Cash) The summer was the killer Between our hearts and minds Every day a drama Dragging by in quarter time By summer it was over I couldn't see it th...
  • Hold On
    If you want to keep a woman like me, you got to hold on If you want to see how good it can be, baby, hold on All my friends think that I'm a fool I tell you som...
  • Hometown Blues
    Baby can't wait, baby gotta go Got to do a number on the late, late show Do a little song, do a little dance Want some make the best of her big chance Don't re...
  • Hope Against Hope
    It's all coming back to me now But try as I have to keep, The taste of you off of my tongue; Your face from my fitful sleep An' I wait and hope against hope li...
  • House On The Lake
    Well, I miss the sounds of Tennessee And the smell of heavy rain The roses in the garden Laugh before the pain But I hear his voice close in my ear I see her sm...
  • I Count The Tears
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, late at night Na, na, na, na, na, na, late at night I sit and count the tears I have counted everyday since you've been away It seems l...
  • I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me
    It's the right time you know I feel fine tonight (I don't why you don't want me) It's the right place I've got my new face tonight (I don't why you don't want m...
  • I Look For Love
    (John Hiatt) Why did she wear that dress tonight? Why did she bring that stranger She looks put out in party lights Which leaves us all in danger When she drop...
  • I Want A Cure
    (Rosanne Cash) Distance makes the heart start wondering Absence makes the anger grow The world may just be spinning through us And seperation lets it show I w...
  • I Was Watching You
    I Was Watching You – Rosanne Cash Headlights on a Texas road Hank Williams on the radio Church wedding, they spent all they had Now the deal is done to become M...
  • I Wonder
    (Leroy Preston) Every time I'm near you My heart jumps all about My mind can't figure out what to do Cause I've been disillusioned Enough by love turned blue Y...
  • I'll Change For You
    I'll change for you I'll change for you I'll change for you I'll turn night into day An' I'll change for you (I don't care what the books say) I'll change for ...
  • I'll Change For You (Feat Steve Earle)
    I'll change for you I'll change for you I'll change for you I'll turn night into day An' I'll change for you (I don't care what the books say) I'll change for ...
  • I'll Change For You (Featuring Steve Earle)
    I'll change for you I'll change for you I'll change for you I'll turn night into day An' I'll change for you (I don't care what the books say) I'll change for ...
  • I'm Movin' On
    That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track Means your true-lovin' daddy ain't comin' back 'Cause I'm movin' on I'll soon be gone You were flyin' too high for...
  • I'm Ragged, But I'm Right
    (George Jones) I've come here to tell you boys I'm ragged, but I'm right I'm a tramp and a gambler I stay out late at night Got a porterhouse steak Three time...
  • If There's A God On My Side
    (Rosanne Cash) I walk through the wind, the snow and the rain And no one is there when I fall The sound of my heartbeat Is all I have left me But you know I on...
  • If You Change Your Mind
    If you change your mind And leave the past behind You know where you'll always find me And if she breaks your heart And tears your world apart You can always c...
  • It Hasn't Happened Yet
    (John Hiatt) You said that I would be sorry If you went away You said I wouldn't be happy Without hell to pay You said the teardrops would fall Between the bed...
  • Land Of Nightmares
    I love you till I just can't feel I need you till it makes me num We hang on a noose of subtle abuse like there's nothing to fear Living in the land of nightmar...
  • Last Stop Before Home
    I am the keeper of a very old flame It's long been ignored, but it's not been completely in vain And all that I was, I gave that to you And if it's not enough, ...
  • Like A Wave
    My memory is filling with smoke Such a relief not to know Except for the body and soul There's nothing here I want to own But I gave my love and it rolls like ...
  • Like Fugitives
    The priest is prayin' for your soul And the doctor for your heart Someone tell me how to live Now that we must live apart Once we had a mother But that's all ov...
  • Long Black Veil
    Ten years ago on a cold dark night, Someone was killed 'neath the town hall lights There were few at the scene, but they all agreed, That the slayer who ran loo...
  • Looking For A Corner
    (Rosanne Cash - Rodney Crowell) Trouble when you're searching And you ain't so very young You don't fit into table talk But you can't hold back your tongue You...
  • Man Smart, Woman Smarter
    (K Radio) Let us put men and women together To see which one is smarter Some say men I say no Women got the men like a puppet show It ain't me It's the people...
  • Miss The Mississippi And You
    I'm groing tired of the big city lights Tired of the glamour, tired of the size I'm alway dreaming of roaming once more Back to my home on the old river shore ...
  • My Baby Thinks He's A Train
    It's three am in the morning, The train whistle is blowin' It sounds like some lonesome song got in my soul, In my soul My baby spent the bank and he won't be b...
  • My Old Man
    (Rosanne Cash) The old man is laughing tonight He's young beyond his fears But then the smile drops from his eyes And we all wind up in tears The old man's cr...
  • My Secret Life
    In the shadow of my Empire In the dimness of my realm I am rolling like the heavy thunder And tolling like a bell This is how I live outside the body This is f...
  • Never Alone
    (Rosanne Cash - Vince Gill) You were like a lost kid looking for home You found what you wanted right in my arms So if you walk out on me Leave your memory Tak...
  • Never Be You
    Take a look at my eyes It's been a long, long time I used to feel so strong When I knew you were mine But since you let me down I'm hard to be around I don't k...
  • Never Gonna Hurt
    (Rosanne Cash) You give me no reason to cry but I do You tell me you don't tell me lies, is that true? I can't stand your strange emotion I don't like your mee...
  • Oh Yes I Can
    (Susanna Clark - John Reid) Rain, rain Lord watch it rain Wash away the dirt Can't wash away the pain I feel as empty As a paper cup Gonna take that thing Gonn...
  • On The Inside
    We crawled night and day through the tears and debries Now I'm reaching out to you but I'm keeping my hands clean The tables are turning the tempo slows down An...
  • On The Surface
    On the surface everything seems right no one notices the dimness of the light For the world outside our door our smiles are oh so bright On the surface everythi...
  • Paralyzed
    (Rosanne Cash) I picked up the phone, you were both on the line Your words to each other froze me in time A lifetime between us just burnt on the wires Dissolv...
  • Pink Bedroom
    (John Hiatt) She paints her fingernails forbidden tones She wants nervous youth on the telephone He don't call She sticks another pin In her doll And puts it n...
  • Price Of Temptation
    (Rosanne Cash) Standing on the edge of tonight Don't know if I'll fall or fly But that's the price you pay for temptation There's no other way through temptati...
  • Radio Operator
    Radio operator, in a tiny foreign room We can hear you now and later Calling out and coming through Radio operator, you're a voice so far from home With a sign...
  • Real Woman
    I don't want to be a star I don't want to talk through glass I don't want to check my appearance in your eyes I don't need a million bucks baby it don't take mu...
  • Right Or Wrong
    (Keith Sykes) You don't ever worry where I've gone When I'm not at home I'm the lonely one You don't talk about it In the way what you use to say Couldn't be u...
  • Roses In The Fire
    (Rosanne Cash) I throw your roses in the fire To make the flames a little higher I watch your roses turn to dust I know no man that I can trust I throw your r...
  • Rules Of Travel
    Now that you've made your mistake Now that you know how the heart bends and breaks Just throw away the book, and take a second look, Behind the door: a guided t...
  • Runaway Train
    I'm worried about you I'm worried about me The curves around midnight Aren't easy to see Flashing red warnings Unseen in the rain This thing has turned into A r...
  • Second To No One
    (Rosanne Cash) I don't want to be the sole survivor I don't want to close it down I don't want to know what goes on between you Whenever I ain't around I don'...
  • September When It Comes
    There's a cross above the baby's bed a savior in her dreams but she was not delivered then and the baby became me There's a light inside the darkened room a foo...
  • September When It Comes (featuring Johnny Cash)
    There's a cross above the baby's bed, A Saviour in her dreams But she was not delivered then, And the baby became me There's a light inside the darkened room, A...
  • Seven Year Ache
    You act like you were just born tonight Face down in a memory but feeling all right So who does your past belong to today? Baby, you don't say nothing when you'...
  • Seventh Avenue
    The world keeps getting smaller 'til it closes 'round my room and everything I feel now is hard and fast and true My window is a spotlight on the madness down b...
  • Sleeping In Paris
    (Rosanne Cash) I'll send the angels to watch over you tonight And you send them right back to me A lonely road is a bodyguard If we really want it to be There'...
  • So Fine
    (Gribble) So fine, so fine, so fine yeah My baby is so doggone fine He sends cold chills up and down my spine Whoa whoa yeah yeah so fine Thrills me, thrills ...
  • Somewhere In The Stars
    (Rosanne Cash) Halfway 'round the planet And the telephone won't do I'm starin' up at midnight But lookin' just for you If you're aching in the starlight And l...
  • Summer I Read Collette
    That was the summer that followed the spring The sad anniversary of a thousand old things I was letting them go The words of Collette and a strange new perfume...
  • Take Me, Take Me
    (Keith Sykes) Take me, take me in your heart tonight And make me think these things I say are right In the morning I ignore the dawn With a bag of dreams to a ...
  • Take These Chains From My Heart
    Take these chains from my heart and set me free You're grow cold and no longer care for me All my faith in you is gone but the heartaches linger on Take these c...
  • Tears Falling Down
    (Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal) It's the ghost of a dream That awakens me In the night When no one's around But I don't hear the sound Of those tears falling d...
  • Tennessee Flat Top Box
    In a little cabaret in a South Texas border town Sat a boy and his guitar, and the people came from all around And all the girls from there to Austin Were slipp...
  • That's How I Got To Memphis
    (Tom T Hall) If you love somebody enough You'll follow wherever they go That's how I got to Memphis That's how I got to Memphis If you love somebody enough You...
  • The Summer I Read Collette
    (Rosanne Cash) That was the summer that followed the spring The sad anniversary of a thousand old things I was letting them go The words of Collette and a stra...
  • The Truth About You
    (Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal) I know the truth about you babe I know the stories you tell I can feel your heart locked up inside you I swear I know you so we...
  • The Way We Make A Broken Heart
    Just one more kiss she'll have to miss this night with you Now you're guilty of this secret love as I am too You'll get used to telling lies feeling sorry when ...
  • The Wheel
    How long was I alseep? When did we plan to meet? Have you been waiting long for me? When did the sky turn black? Do you still want me back? I'll pick it all up ...
  • The World Unseen
    I'm the sparrow on the roof I'm the list of everyone I have to lose I'm the rainbow in the dart I am who I was and how much I can hurt So I will look for you i...
  • Third Rate Romance
    (Russell Smith) Sittin' at a tiny table in a ritzy restaurant She was satrin' at her coffee cup He was tryin' to keep his courage up By applyin' booze Talk was...
  • This World
    I read about this baby she got beat up by her dad She was nine months old and he was a full grown man She may have been learning how to crawl and he put a fist ...
  • Thoughts From The Train
    (Bashan - Neale) From the train I watch the tracks go by They look the same mile after mile from my pain I watch the time go by Things seen to change Though I'...
  • Three Steps Down
    Three steps down below the city streets In our private room, the colour all runs out An' not a sound, the smoke curls in the air An' I can feel a sliding peace,...
  • Three Steps Down (Feat Teddy Thompson)
    Three steps down below the city streets In our private room, the colour all runs out An not a sound, the smoke curls in the air An I can feel a sliding peace, c...
  • Three Steps Down (featuring Teddy Thompson)
    Three steps down below the city streets In our private room, the colour all runs out An' not a sound, the smoke curls in the air An' I can feel a sliding peace,...
  • Understand Your Man
    (John R Cash) Don't call my name out your window when I'm leaving I won't even turn my head Don't send your kinfolk to give me no talking I'll be gone like I s...
  • We Can Do What We Like
    (Rosanne Cash) If I don't make promises will you stay around I won't let you hurt me I know better by now It's hard to control it It hurts to decide if we trus...
  • Western Wall
    I stand here by the Western Wall, Baby, look at that wall, standin' silent an' tall An' I shove my prayers in the cracks Got nothin' to lose, no-one to answer b...