(Mary Gauthier) I felt the flames on my face When I found the nerve to meet your eyes, so green I stumbled towards your elegance I tumbled, wide awake
There's knots in your stomach Tightness in my throat Half the things we say these days Get hurled back as a quote We came together easily But something
Tell me that you love me one more time Before you leave, before you leave Wrap your arms around me hold me tight Before you leave, before you leave Whisper
Well, the grasses are swaying, sun's going down Music is playing, you?re weaving through town Pull into the drive way, toss it in park You stare out
He's lying on the double bed acting self-assured In his T-shirt and his underwear he's barely said a word She pours a cup of coffee, lights the day's
Clouds are spreading like bruises on the evening sky I walk the streets alone again tonight It starts to rain still I search each passing face Blood is
Davey stole a Christmas tree from K-Mart last night Red ribbons and silver bells, angels dressed in white He tied, it to the bridge rail so passing cars
I hated high school, I prayed it would end The jocks and their girls, it was their world, I didn't fit in Mama said, "Baby, it's the best school that
Mary Gauthier This is not my street This is not my house That is not my bed This is not my town Another day another night Another night another day
She said, "You are not my lover" So don't look at me that way Just 'cause I let you touch me Don't mean I'll let you stay She said, "Lovers try to change
Happy anniversary, baby It's been a year now since you moved away And even though I asked you to go I miss you every day I miss you in the evenings Alone
Silly me, what was I thinking I could've sworn you still loved me But I'm a fool born to chase rainbows I could never hold you to what you said with your
(Mary Gauthier) Born a bastard child in New Orleans to a woman I've never seen I don't know if she ever held me All I know is that she let go of me
Broken on the inside, that?s what I used to say Then I?d pack my bags, raise a white flag, drive away I thought that?s what made me strong But I was young
(Jonathan Pointer) A warm wind blows Across my windowsill tonight Like a ghost, like a ghost Soft and low In this other- worldly light I dream of Rose
It's a cheap hotel, the heat pipes hiss The bathroom's down the hall and it smells like piss It's another night in another town And I'm another blues
I shook my fist at my father's rage I cursed my mother's sadess Whatever home I tried to call my own Washed in to that river of madmness The raging surge
He'd get home at 5:30 Fix his drink, sit down in his chair Pick a fight with mama Complain about us kids getting in his hair At night he'd sit 'lone
