• Haven’t heard the wind in such a long time,
    Or seen the white clouds painted lazy in the sky
    Outnumbered two hundred to one
    By golden ripples made of sun
    Slowly moving across the water

    No accidents, no turbulence
    No highway roar
    No powerlines, no grocery store

    No shopping malls, no concert halls, and never too much time
    I’ll take it all
    As a good sign

    Haven’t seen the stars shining so bright
    Heard the loonsong’s lonely echo in the night
    And when the morning comes I know a light will overtake me
    But in many it may not awaken

    No accidents, no turbulence
    No highway roar
    No powerlines, no grocery store

    No shopping malls, no concert halls, and never too much time
    I’ll take it all
    As a good sign

  • My sweet sweetheart
    Get yourself out of bed
    And get downstairs you little sleepyhead

    Brush your teeth, and don’t forget that hair
    Nobody’s gonna see you and think that I don’t care

    I can’t do this all alone, but somebody’s gotta stay home
    And I would do it all over again, for you my precious little sleepyhead

    Your fingers small, and your heart so wide
    If I ever lost track of you, I think I’d die
    You learned to walk before you learned to crawl
    And now I catch you drawin’ pictures on the kitchen wall

    I can’t do this all alone, but somebody’s gotta stay home
    And I would do it all over again, for you my precious little sleepyhead

    You were in the backseat cryin’, you’d never been more tired
    But if it put you to sleep, I’d drive a thousand miles
    And I don’t have any lessons planned,
    But if the point is to love you, then I know I can

    I can’t do this all alone, but somebody’s gotta stay home
    And I would do it all over again, for you my precious little sleepyhead

  • There’s heartache and being heartbroken
    There are two ways that this day could go
    And there are some days I feel like crying
    Then there’s others I could take on alone

    It’s true there’s nothing to do
    Sometimes except surrender
    It’s true there’s nothing to do, nothing to do

    I’m already there in my mind
    Already there in my mind
    Oh I’ll never treat you nothin' but kind
    I’m already there in my mind

    Brave hearts go unnoticed
    But they accentuate all that I want to see
    So take all the silent suffering and make it disappear
    Banish all the darkest hours
    To bring sweet relief

    'Cause its true, there’s nothing to do
    Sometimes except surrender
    It’s true there’s nothing to do, nothing to do

    I’m already there in my mind
    Already there in my mind
    Oh I’ll never treat you nothin' but kind
    I’m already there in my mind
    Already there

    credits

  • Came out to the lake to settle down
    Couldn’t see a single cloud
    Not a one soul around

    Found a plot of land to call my own
    Built it up with pine and stone
    Built it with a government loan

    Coulda been all in my head
    Coulda been all in my head
    Oh my memory has all but faded
    Coulda been all in my head

    Tried so many different pills and cures
    Not one of them has done their work
    Or not the way that I’d prefer

    Slowly floating down the four mile bay
    On a lovely Saturday
    Always searching for the queen of trout lake

    Coulda been all in my head
    Coulda been all in my head
    Oh my memory has all but faded
    This is just what I recall down at the lake, dear

    I find it easy to forget
    What I didn’t write down here
    But I don’t care what that doctor says
    I can’t recognize what’s yesterday

    It could have been all in my head
    It could have been all in my head

  • I saw you lookin' for a light
    Face painted cigarette white
    You asked the cleanest boy you found
    You couldn’t see me turned around
    His fingers stretched across your empty gaze
    That I just can’t escape

    As the red fades from your wrinkled dress,
    A picture of the people you’ve impressed
    Hangs on a wall around here
    Visions start to crawl when I’m near
    And the evening waits, as you get caught up to your own mistakes
    Made up of different lines,
    I wouldn’t want to keep in my mind

    I wondered why you’d come around,
    Remembering your little girl frown
    Your answers kept the crowd at bay,
    Compliments unwilling to pay
    I have some things I’d like to say to you
    But they just can’t be true

  • Seems like it was all a dream
    I thought I was the one to be your beauty queen
    But you cut me down piece by piece
    No matter who done it, it was always me

    My friends asked if I was okay
    I lied through my teeth for the first time that day
    And I come home to flying dishes
    And you tell me its you that “can’t go on like this”

    We started like a fairytale
    Yeah, you were prince charming from behind my veil
    And you told me we’d grow together
    But I don’t wanna be yours forever
    I don’t wanna be yours forever

    My friends told me to run
    I spent three more years
    circling round the sun
    When I held her in my arms
    I knew right then that I needed a fresh start

    We started like a fairytale
    Yeah, you were prince charming from behind my veil
    And you told me we’d grow together
    But I don’t wanna be yours forever
    I don’t wanna be yours forever

    Overtime

    You fed me things untrue
    I still don’t know what I learned from you
    I’m walking out that door
    I’m not coming back, doesn’t matter what for

    We started like a fairytale
    You were prince charming from behind my veil
    And you told me we’d grow together
    But I didn’t know I’d be yours forever
    I don’t wanna be yours forever

    Overtime

  • You got a heavier load, and you never got paid
    No, there is nothing in this world that makes it okay

    Now everything’s easy and no one’s afraid
    Still, there is no one in this world that makes it unscathed

    I wanted you badly but I couldn’t foresee
    That one night the moon saw you laying somewhere without me

    I wanted you madly and I wanted the truth
    I know it’s tough to come clean,
    But I counted on you

    You took out your best clothes, feelin’ misunderstood
    You found a cheap little lie and it made you feel good

    In the light of the moon, on white riverbank stone
    You got lost in the fleeting excitement of not coming home

    So let the orchestra come, let it lay at my feet
    You know, there is nothing in this world that I haven’t seen

    And you know I move slowly but you know I won’t stay
    No, there is nothing in this world that makes it okay

  • Changing colours and changing tides
    We made it back from the coast in three nights
    You told me, “Honey I gotta fly down to Mississippi, alright?”
    “Down to Mississippi, alright?”

    So I stood at the river’s edge, hoping that I’d never fall in
    Oh, the current. Oh, the water. Oh, the shape I’ve been in
    Oh, the shape I’ve been in

    I love you darlin’, show me your worst mistake
    I know it weighs on you, but I don’t see it that way
    I’ll love you, darling, until the seas run dry.
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time,
    Love you like we’ve run out of time

    I laid on a mountaintop under the prettiest tree in Austria
    Found a place that felt like home, and no one else was trying to get in
    I passed you on the roughest seas, where we both learned how to swim
    Oh, the current. Oh, the water. Oh, the shape I’ve been in
    Oh, the shape I’ve been in

    I love you darlin’, show me your worst mistake
    I know it weighs on you, but I don’t see it that way
    I’ll love you, darling, until the seas run dry.
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time

    I walked down in the ground with you by my side
    You read the writing on the wall from 1975

    I love you darlin’, show me your worst mistake
    I know it weighs on you, but I don’t see it that way
    I’ll love you, darling, until the seas run dry.
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time

  • Forever is where we’ll always be
    You didn’t mind the distance
    When I could barely see
    In a blizzard everything’s unknown
    You grab my hand and lead the way
    To the woods that we call home

    Cause you know that you’re my shining star
    Oh you know that you’re my shining star

    Together is what we’ll always be
    I didn’t know the difference
    Before you came and got me from the desert
    Turn around and see
    Back when you were always leaving
    For another galaxy

    Cause you know that you’re my shining star
    Oh you know that you’re my shining star

  • Just before our love got lost you said
    "I am as constant as a northern star"
    "Constantly in the darkness
    Where's that at?
    If you want me I'll be in the bar"

    On the back of a cartoon coaster
    In the blue TV screen light
    I drew a map of Canada
    Oh Canada
    With your face sketched on it twice

    Oh you're in my blood like holy wine
    You taste so bitter and so sweet
    Oh I could drink a case of you darlin'
    Still I'd be on my feet
    I would still be on my feet

    Oh I am a lonely painter
    I live in a box of paints
    I'm frightened by the devil
    And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

    I remember that time you told me, you said
    "Love is touching souls"
    Well surely you touched mine

    I remember that time you told me
    You said, love is touching souls,
    Well surely you touched mine
    'Cause part of you pours out of me
    In these lines from time to time

    Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine
    You taste so bitter and so sweet
    Oh I could drink a case of you darlin'
    And I would still be on my feet
    I would still be on my feet

    I met a woman
    She had a mouth like yours
    She knew your life
    She knew your devils and your deeds
    And she said
    "Go to him, stay with him if you can
    But be prepared to bleed"

    Oh you’re in my blood like holy wine
    You taste so bitter, and so sweet
    Oh I could drink a case of you, darlin’
    And I would still be on my feet,
    I would still be on my feet

    •

    Lyrics by Joni Mitchell

  • Dark has fallen on the tiny corners of my mind
    And I am blind
    Soon I’ll drift away to where I never feel afraid to keep on trying

    Hummingbirds hum single notes I’ve got an island and a boat to row
    The land provides for all of us and nobody gets left out in the cold

    Strength is not a skill, but rather something that’s instilled in us inside
    From every time you held your tongue or walked away in spite of feeling right

    If I ever found the fount of youth I don’t know if I’d turn back time
    For if I lose each bump and bruise I felt along the way, would that be right?

    Love seems so inevitable
    How could I have missed it for so long
    It was there, if out of focus, in every darkness every word and every song

    Now hummingbirds hum single notes I’ve got an island and a boat to row
    The land provides for all of us and nobody gets left out in the cold

  • Cross border lovers
    Cross border lovers

    Kiss me in the mist of the waterfall
    If this ain’t it, I wanna feel it all
    So elated, separated now

    Two years ago we both made a pact
    When I go all in, oh, I won’t go back
    Oh, I wanna see this through but I don’t know how

    Do you miss me, baby?
    Do you miss me, baby, baby?

    We are cross border lovers and we’re making up time
    Cross border lovers and we’re ready to cross the line

    Cross border lovers
    Cross border lovers

    Throw down the needle on our favourite song
    Sway with me over the telephone
    No matter what I do you’re still out of reach

    So listen to the sound of the fallin’ rain
    Let the headlights cover everything
    Reunited, all I want to be

    Do you miss me, baby?
    Do you miss me, baby, baby?
    We are cross border lovers and we’re making up time
    Cross border lovers and we’re ready to cross the line

    Cross border lovers
    Cross border lovers

    I go through the day and nobody knows
    That half my heart’s living in Colorado
    Unrequited, always out of reach

    Do you miss me, baby?
    Do you miss me, baby, baby?
    Do you miss me, baby, baby?

    We are cross border lovers and we’re making up time
    Cross border lovers and we’re ready to cross the line

    Cross border lovers
    Cross border lovers
    (Cross border lovers)
    Cross border lovers
    (Cross border lovers)
    Cross border lovers

  • I used to run and hide when anybody said something nice
    I used to walk away before they could say goodbye
    And I used to be scrappy — after all, I’m from the Steel City
    But now I’m tired of the fight, oh I’m too tired to fight

    Can’t get enough of you, you’re the kind of man that I want by my side
    Can’t get enough of you, you’re my kind of man, and I need you tonight

    Knowing what you know now, would you do it all again?
    Would you wait in that restaurant, when we were drunk off our faces,
    And I told you I loved you in a parking lot
    I let it slip in Milwaukee, when the pavement was hot

    Can’t get enough of you, you’re the kind of man that I want by my side,
    Can’t get enough of you, you’re my kind of man and I need you tonight

    Yeah you can hold the door
    And you can show me some courtesy
    Be honest and true
    And you can give up your window seat
    Treat my friends with respect
    And my family kind
    And even if I am wrong
    Let me think that I’m right

    Can’t get enough of you, you’re the kind of man that I want by my side
    Can’t get enough of you, you’re my kind of man and I need you tonight

    When I see you now, and everything that you’ve become
    Everything you’ve taken on, and then some

    Can’t get enough of you, you’re the kind of man that I want by my side
    Can’t get enough of you, you’re my kind of man and I need you tonight

    Can’t get enough of you, you’re the kind of man that I want by my side
    Can’t get enough of you, you’re my kind of man and I need you tonight

    Oh, I can’t get enough of you, oh I need you tonight

  • You gotta get it together
    You can’t tell when things are going right
    It’s true there’s been stormy weather
    But you’re sending water where there’s no fire

    You know who you wanna be
    But there’s no path to make it look easy
    And you’re playing it cool
    But you ain’t fine

    Here comes the only thing you’ve ever known as true
    You’ve been believing something that made you feel so second-rate

    And it’s a long way down
    And who hasn’t been there before
    When you’re all turned on
    And you’ve gotta get to something more, more, more

    You keep telling me
    That you’ve been thinking it over
    But I don’t sense any end in sight
    You’ve been giving up your precious time
    While you’re staring at a mountain to climb
    When are you gonna see, gonna see the light

    Here comes the only thing you’ve ever known as true
    You’ve been believing something that made you feel so second-rate

    And it’s a long way down
    And who hasn’t been there before
    When you’re a long time gone
    And you’ve gotta get to something more, more, more

    Here comes the only thing you’ve ever known as true
    You’ve been believing something that made you feel so second-rate
    And made you feel so second-rate

    And it’s a long way down,
    And who hasn’t been there before
    When you’re a long time gone
    And you’ve gotta get to something more
    You’ve just gotta get to something more
    Oh you’ve gotta get to something more, more, more

  • Someone else’s feelings, they came tumblin’ down the stairs
    And they’d never been more drunk
    They didn’t mean to break the table

    Someone else’s feelings followed me all the way home
    And they burst in through the door
    Left all the lights on, no one’s home

    Maybe it’s you that I’ve been waiting on, waiting on, waiting on
    Maybe it’s you that I’ve been waiting on

    Someone else’s feelings, they kept quiet in the car,
    All their politics and principles hidden where nobody could argue

    Someone else’s feelings stood there and took one for the team
    And the silence seemed to spread out over the lips of everybody

    Maybe it’s you that I’ve been waiting on, waiting on, waiting on
    Maybe it’s you that I’ve been waiting on

    You came walking down the street
    Asking if I could remember when was the last time I felt free
    And I said “Oh, I can’t remember”
    “Oh, I can’t remember”

    Someone else’s feelings hung that picture in the hall
    But now it’s not much more than shadow, a little darkness on the wall

    Someone else’s feelings, they came cryin’ on the wind
    Such a hollow, heavy sound, I never want to hear again

    Maybe it’s you that I’ve been waiting on, waiting on, waiting on
    Maybe it’s you that I’ve been waiting on

    Oh you came waltzing down the street
    Asking if I could remember when was the last time I felt free
    And I said “Oh, I can’t remember”
    (Someone else’s feelings)
    “Oh, I can’t remember”
    (Someone else’s feelings)
    “Oh, I can’t remember”
    (Someone else’s feelings)
    “Oh, I can’t remember”
    (Someone else’s feelings)
    “Oh, I can’t remember”

  • I coulda kept you in my pocket for another time, true
    I coulda waited for tomorrow, but I’m missing you
    If you had felt what I had burning inside
    You’d know that I’ve been reeling from a losing fight

    Why don’t you stay?
    Why don’t you stay?

    We coulda waited for the moment, but we didn’t have time
    I wanted you to feel it, just to know you’re mine
    You’re a rose of many colours and you’re keeping me in bloom
    Can’t stand another minute when I’m missing you

    Why don’t you stay?
    Why don’t you stay?

    Why don’t you stay?
    Why don’t you stay?

    (Why don’t you stay?)
    (Why don’t you stay?)
    (Why don’t you stay?)
    (Why don’t you stay?)
    Stay

    credits

  • I remember every piece of it
    You were looking out at the rain
    You jumped down the porch steps into it
    Onto the roof of the taxi cab waiting

    You walked away without a scratch
    After you crashed through the glass coffee table
    You raised your arms to the sky
    and said “Everybody wants to be this high”

    You are the only one of your kind
    Everybody laughed ’til everybody cried

    RSVP Please
    I read it on your birthday party invitation
    You told me we should dress up fancy
    And then you took us all for dinner at the Irving Gas Station

    You are the only one of your kind
    Everybody laughed ’til everybody cried

    Chelsea Ann
    You got married right to the wrong man
    And now that you’re a divorcée
    I’m pretty sure we all ought to be that way

    On Fairleigh Avenue
    We’ll talk in the car ’til our lips turn blue
    And I will always stand by you
    No matter how the years flow by

    You are the only one of your kind
    Everybody laughs ’til everybody cries
    You are the only one of your kind

  • “Take your hands off me,” she said
    “Unless you wanna wind up dead…
    You’ve been biting off way more than you can chew”

    “Keep your poison to yourself
    Yeah, leave it there on the shelf
    There’s no needle here you could push it through”

    You’ve been around for a little while
    You’ve been doing what you’re hoping is right
    You’ve been blue and green and in-between
    You might have just missed everything

    It’ll come back around
    It’ll come back around
    It’ll come back around
    It’ll come back around

    Were you shamed? Was it preordained?
    Is there someone else that you could blame?
    Scrolling through your address book to find another name

    And are they really worse off than you?
    Have they done things you would never do?
    Or are you just like them and so afraid you are the same?

    You’ve been around for a little while
    You’ve been doing what you’re hoping is right
    You’ve been blue and green and in-between
    You might have just missed everything

    It’ll come back around
    It’ll come back around
    It’ll come back around
    It’ll come back around

    You’ve been around for a little while
    You’ve been doing what you’re hoping is right
    You’ve been blue and green and in-between
    You might have just missed everything

    It’ll come back around
    It’ll come back around
    It’ll come back around
    It’ll come back around

  • When you gonna give up your love
    When you gonna say “It’s been hard enough”
    When you gonna admit defeat and say
    “Things were brighter when you were with me”

    I don’t wanna run in the other direction
    I don’t wanna play sleight of hand
    I was so young but I got recollection
    That I wasn’t part of your plan

    You wanted anybody, anyone but me
    You wanted anybody, anyone but me

    Am I gonna turn out the same? Am I the bird or am I the cage?
    Do I have my father’s eyes? Who’s gonna walk me down that aisle?

    I don’t wanna turn the page in your story
    ’Cause I don’t wanna be let down
    Nobody came when I got a new name
    Yeah, you did not make a sound

    You wanted anybody, anyone but me
    You wanted anybody, anyone but me

    You, you know I would have followed you
    but who could I expect to stand up and protect me
    When you wanted anybody, anyone but me
    You wanted anybody, anyone but me

    When you gonna give up your love
    When you gonna say it’s been hard enough
    I don’t wanna run in the other direction
    I don’t wanna pay that price
    But I never asked to stand in your reflection
    I don’t wanna keep playing nice
    When you wanted anybody, anyone but me
    You wanted anybody, anyone but me

    Anybody, anyone but me
    You wanted anybody, anyone but me

  • Racing through just one of many lessons
    But try as I might, I was not progressing
    Oh, I couldn’t keep up with what was right in front of me
    And I couldn’t stand up on the sidewalk in New York City

    All my houseplants were barely hangin’ on
    It was emergency rescue, each time I made it home
    And the sun it still streamed into that beautiful apartment
    But if I wasn’t there, then did it ever really happen?

    How did I let this get so out of hand?
    No plan for my flight, no place to land
    How did I let this get so out of hand?
    I turned in my key, and I fired my man

    Took a crosswalk picture of Hamilton skies
    but somewhere deep down, I knew that something wasn’t right
    And If I hadn’t stopped dead at the flashing yellow light
    Well on King Street, baby, I nearly died

    How did I let this get so out of hand?
    No plan for my flight, no place to land
    How did I let this get so out of hand?
    I turned in my key, and I fired my man

  • 600 stairs to the redwood sea
    The moon lights the way to the shipwreck beach
    Slow-moving hands under crisp white sheets
    Like the current moves under the waves so wide
    I still see you there by the Oceanside
    Rolling away with each pulling tide

    And it’s hard to get over
    It’s hard to get down
    It’s hard to give up
    And it’s hard to be around you
    You can tell me you’re sorry while you’re watching the ground and say
    You’ve got a penchant for love

    Like the spot on the floor that always creaks
    I remember the time we couldn’t keep
    I wanted to tell you but I could not speak

    It’s still 500 steps to that windowpane
    400 ways we’ll never be again
    Now I’m 300 miles down a memory lane

    And it’s hard to get over
    It’s hard to get down
    And it’s hard to give up
    And it’s hard to be around you
    You can tell me you’re sorry while you’re watching the ground and say
    You’ve got a penchant for love
    You’ve got a penchant for pushing me around
    You’ve got a penchant for love
    You’ve got a penchant for pushing me around

    It was different back then,
    But it’s just difficult now
    Now the touch of your hand
    Is only bringing me down
    You can tell me you’re sorry
    While you’re watching the ground and say
    You’ve got a penchant for love

    You’ve got a penchant for love
    You’ve got a penchant for love
    You’ve got a penchant for love

  • I had you put up on a pedestal
    ’Cause you were keeping me fed
    And I don’t wanna get too sentimental
    No, I mean it
    No, I mean it

    Let it sink in
    Just let it sink in

    You left your scraps upon the table
    You told me that I was just dreamin’
    It took me years to dry those tears before I
    Stopped believing ya and started leavin’ ya

    Let it sink in
    Let it sink in

    You don’t get me now
    You don’t get me now
    It don’t matter how
    But I’m doing better without you
    I’m doing better without you

    I keep replaying the movie
    And I’m not the superhero.
    I pray the villains that I know
    In their conclusion, find resolution

    Let it sink in
    Let it sink in

    You don’t get me now
    You don’t get me now
    It don’t matter how
    But I’m doing better without you
    I’m doing better without you

    You don’t get me now
    You don’t get me now
    You don’t get me now
    You don’t get me now

    I’m doing better without you
    I’m doing better without you
    I’m doing better without you
    I’m doing better without you

  • Changing colours and changing tides
    We made it back from the coast in three nights
    You told me, “Honey I gotta fly down to Mississippi, alright?”
    “Down to Mississippi, alright?”

    So I stood at the river’s edge, hoping that I’d never fall in
    Oh, the current. Oh, the water. Oh, the shape I’ve been in
    Oh, the shape I’ve been in

    I love you darlin’, show me your worst mistake
    I know it weighs on you, but I don’t see it that way
    I’ll love you, darling, until the seas run dry
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time
    Love you like we’ve run out of time

    I laid on a mountaintop under the prettiest tree in Austria
    Found a place that felt like home, and no one else was trying to get in
    I passed you on the roughest seas, where we both learned how to swim
    Oh, the current. Oh, the water. Oh, the shape I’ve been in
    Oh, the shape I’ve been in

    I love you darlin’, show me your worst mistake
    I know it weighs on you, but I don’t see it that way
    I’ll love you, darling, until the seas run dry
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time

    I walked down in the ground with you by my side
    You read the writing on the wall from 1975

    I love you darlin’, show me your worst mistake
    I know it weighs on you, but I don’t see it that way
    I’ll love you, darling, until the seas run dry
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time
    I’ll love you like we’ve run out of time

  • Called out your name while I was sleeping
    And I couldn’t explain, I could not erase it
    I toss and turn, I get no relief
    While somebody else lays there with me

    Holding onto another man, well, I couldn’t help myself
    Holding on for tomorrow night, where in dreams, I’ve got you
    Oh, I’ve got you
    I’ve got you
    I’ve got you

    Called out your name, did you hear me say it?
    We had so much time, but you chose to waste it
    Called out your name inside of a dream
    Now my love is all gone, I’m setting you free

    Holding onto another man, well, I couldn’t help myself
    Holding on for tomorrow night, where in dreams, I’ve got

    There is no use
    In trying to forget you
    I call out your name
    Call out your name
    Call out your name
    Call out your name

    Oh, I’ve got you
    Oh, I’ve got you
    Oh, I’ve got you
    Oh, I’ve got you, got you

  • Gray concrete road whispers
    Underneath the spinning wheels and autumn leaves
    You were right, oh when your lips, so tight,
    Said they would always love me

    It's over now, ex-lover
    Can’t figure it out
    You can’t have what’s left
    It's over now, ex-lover

    You and me, we were a masterpiece
    That never found a gallery
    And if no one knows about the broader strokes
    Then how can we be history?

    It's over now, ex-lover
    Can’t figure it out
    You can’t have what’s left
    It's over now, ex-lover

    Ex-lover
    Ex-lover
    Ex-lover

    You and me, we were a masterpiece
    That never found a gallery

    It's over now, ex-lover
    Can’t figure it out
    You can’t have what’s left
    It's over now, ex-lover

    Ex-lover
    Ex-lover
    Ex-lover

  • You’re my midnight snack
    My morning glory
    Baby, without you, I’m in purgatory
    A big newspaper without a story
    Chasing headlines down

    I’ve been wafer thin
    I’ve been waiting ages
    You’re the ink and I’m the pages
    All I really want to say is
    Please don’t leave me now

    When you’re gone, I’m up for rent
    I am an empty house again
    When you’re gone, I’ve got nothing left
    I am an empty house again

    Take my car and half my wages
    Take me to your favourite places
    Hold me in those long embraces
    That I can’t do without

    You’re my midnight snack
    And my morning glory
    Baby, without you, I’m in purgatory
    A big newspaper without a story
    Chasing headlines down

    When you’re gone, I’m up for rent
    I am an empty house again
    When you’re gone, I’ve got nothing left
    I am an empty house again

  • You had young blood, heatin’ up
    You travelled hard and you played rough
    Did you find where you belong
    In the greatest chord of your favourite song?

    You were helpless, kneeling with a diamond stone
    I was selfish, happy on my own

    Oh, oh
    Oh, oh, I love you so
    Oh, oh
    Oh, oh, I love you

    Come stay with me and be my love
    With streets below and stars above
    And I will sing this song to you
    Each morning, each night, each afternoon

    You are selfless, walking through the violet light
    I am helpless, caught inside your eye

    Oh, oh
    Oh, oh, I love you so
    Oh, oh
    Oh, oh, I love you

    Love is not a thing that I could bring to you, but I would try to
    I’d do anything with you, go anywhere, if it was with you

    Because you were helpless, kneeling with a diamond stone
    I was selfish, happy on my own

    Oh, oh
    Oh, oh, I love you so
    Oh, oh
    Oh, oh, I love you

  • You’ve got me all twisted up inside
    My body’s desire, my heart in denial
    It’s alright, I’ve got a better disguise
    Run, run, run free
    Consider the speed
    At which you are falling for me

    The truth is real, I’m gonna miss you when I’m
    Laying it down, I’m twisted inside, it’s alright
    I’ll be okay for the night
    Run, run, run free
    Consider the speed
    At which you are falling for me

    Dreams are coming true as I’m getting closer to you
    I know there’s nothing wrong, and I’m barely holding on to you
    To you, to you

    You’re my American big star boy
    My lovin’ baby, my heart is your toy
    Come and see
    I think you’re better with me
    Run, run, run free
    Consider the speed
    At which you are falling for me

    You got me all twisted up inside
    My body’s desire, my heart in denial
    It’s alright, we’ll be okay for tonight
    Run, run, run free
    Consider the speed
    At which you are falling for me
    One, one, one, three
    Consider the speed
    At which you are falling for me
    Run, run, run free
    Consider the speed
    At which you are falling for me

  • We drove 26 states In 42 days
    We fell in love every night
    We made every show
    And I played every solo
    Then I slept in the back seat until we got home

    Strong ocean surf, the achin’ got worse
    I told you I’d never be yours
    We crossed over the border out of California
    Pulled off on the shoulder to stand in the sun

    Knowing that I could have lost you forever
    Nothing could drag me away from you now
    Nobody tells you “it’s now or it’s never”
    So take what you want before the going gets gone

    I gave all my change to a man with no name
    Under glowing New Mexico moon
    And you were still riding so high in my mind
    Coming in like a train through the cold desert night

    New York it came true, and I waited to find you
    You told me you’d do what you could
    And you left in the morning, no word and no warning
    In a taxi that cost you far more than it should

    Knowing that I could have lost you forever
    Nothing could drag me away from you now
    Nobody tells you “it’s now or it’s never”
    So take what you want before the going gets gone

    Take what you want before the going gets gone
    Take what you want before the going gets gone

    We drove 26 states In 42 days
    We fell in love every night
    We made every show
    And I stared out the window
    Then I slept in the back seat until we got home

  • I’m alone, not so much as stoned
    No dark time, living in a straight line
    And I don’t wanna go back now
    I don’t wanna go back now
    I don’t wanna go back now no more

    I was up singing shapes
    With a midnight choir
    I was lost in LA with the young and wild
    Got a ride back home in your pickup truck
    'Cause you know I had to run
    And it feels so good
    And it feels so good

    Wide awake, seven in the morning
    Waking free, sunrise never seen
    And I don’t wanna go back now
    I don’t wanna go back now
    I don’t wanna go back now no more

    I was up singing shapes with a midnight choir
    I was lost in LA with the young and wild
    Got a ride back home in your pickup truck
    'Cause you know I had to run, yeah
    And it feels so good
    And it feels so good

    I was up singing shapes with a midnight choir
    I was lost in LA with the young and wild
    I got a ride back home in your pickup truck
    'Cause you know I had to run
    And it feels so good
    And it feels so good

  • You grew up like a flower in the wrong place
    And all could see the beauty of your rose
    But the autumn browned its leaves
    And the petals fell to pieces
    They were shiverin’ in between two sidewalk stones

    Time has let those petals wash away
    And now I know what you were trying to say

    So I’ll let you go as long as you are leaving
    I’ll stay with you as long as you have left
    When it comes to your time
    No reason and no rhyme
    I know that I won’t find you here again
    I know that I won’t find you here again

    I was Mississippi-bound, hell-bent on leavin'
    I was cryin’ tears I prayed you’d never see
    For all our seasons lost, all the courage in your blood
    Oh, you couldn’t see past living without me

    Time has never offered guarantees
    The more I carry on, the less I need

    So I’ll let you go as long as you are leaving
    I’ll stay with you as long as you have left
    When it comes to your time
    No reason and no rhyme
    I know that I won’t find you here again
    I know that I won’t find you here again

  • My heart is a hole in the road
    In the wilds of Ontario
    You’re the wind lickin’ the window
    Of a car just passing through

    Your heart is a firefly
    I’m chasing after in the summertime
    It's so pretty when I see the light
    But then it goes out again

    Paper thin walls
    I heard you on the other side
    When you’re done talking
    Tell me who was wrong and who was right?
    When you’re driving all your points so far home
    Tell me who was right
    And who done you wrong?

    Your heart is a cherry tree
    And I am trying to learn to speak Japanese
    So I can tell you how it looks to me
    When you’re blooming in the spring

    Your heart is a firefly
    I’m chasing after in the summertime
    So pretty when I see the light
    But then it goes out again

    Paper thin walls
    I heard you on the other side
    When you’re done talking
    Tell me who was wrong and who was right?
    When you’re driving all your points so far home
    Tell me who was right
    And who done you wrong
    Who done you wrong?


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    Can’t sleep at night, I’ve been dreaming strange
    No guiding light, no path to take
    There’s no honesty in rock ’n’ roll
    All lovers and leaders, bought and sold

    Oh, flash flooding, rain is coming
    Underneath the pine

    If I ring you up,
    Will you tear me down?
    We left it all on one high note
    Can you hear me now?

    No purpose, power, will ever last
    No promises can heal the past
    No bullet flies back to its gun
    No woman can control what’s done

    Oh, flash flooding, rain is coming
    Underneath the pine

    If I ring you up
    Will you tear me down?
    
We left it all on one high note
    Can you hear me now?

  • Two wild horses on Saturday night
    They got loose near the Franklin Pike
    Mother and baby, just mindlessly grazin’
    They were blind to the cars that flew by
    I was knockin’ on doors of the gold-gated mansions
    Slipping on silk and champagne
    Nobody knew what the right thing to do was
    So two wild horses ran away

    Five long days later, I’m troubled about
    Where I was when this all began
    I was strumming my fate in a little apartment
    I played to my heart’s content
    I was a spectre who stumbled all over this city
    I haunted the barrooms ’til dawn
    In misty white mornings, I faded to dust
    While the birds sang a sunrise song

    If you want the truth babe, I’ll give it to you
    I have never felt so close to grace
    Lucky don’t even come close
    To the feeling I get when I see your face
    There’s nothing that I wouldn't give to be near you
    To be there when you need a friend
    We are two wild horses on Saturday night
    I will wander with you 'til the end

  • We dance the night away
    We don’t have to break the chain
    Darling please just do what you need
    You don't have to explain your mistakes

    We can try, try, try
    To keep ourselves up high, high, high
    There’s no reason why, why, why
    We’d give up on paradise
    Yeah we’re dancing in the rain and we don’t feel it

    You give me just enough
    But I’m still using you all up
    With one more hour and some higher power
    We’ll be the fortunate ones with our love

    We can try, try, try
    To keep ourselves up high, high, high
    And there’s no reason why, why, why
    We’d give up on paradise
    Yeah we’re dancing in the rain and we don’t feel it
    We don’t feel it

    Our love is not a race
    We give back what we take
    Darling I know we’ve got nothing to show
    For every plan that we’ve made
    It’s okay

    We can try, try, try
    To keep ourselves up high, high. High
    And there’s no reason why, why, why
    We’d give up on paradise
    Yeah we’re dancing in the rain and we don’t feel it
    We don’t feel it

  • In our nation’s capital, you took me out
    and we played pinball games on shiny old machines
    You had your quarters rolled
    The high score bells just kept on ringing
    Ringing, ringing, ringing

    I could feel the heat
    As we stepped out to the street
    And the band played way too loud

    And I said “hey, hey, hey, I’m never leaving this town,”
    and you say, say, say “just kiss me on the river canal”
    Hey, hey, but what are we supposed to do now?

    A California dream, I was your red-eyed queen
    This morning I got in at half past eight
    And you my pinball king, you stole my heart
    And made it sing each time you got another replay

    I could feel the heat as we rolled across the city
    Like a speeding silver ball

    And I said “hey, hey, hey — I’m never leaving this town”
    And you say, say, say, “just kiss me on the river canal”
    Hey, hey, but what are we supposed to do now?

    So when this game is done, just start another one
    Oh pinball king, I know you’ll never lose

  • You call — late night in the middle of the road
    You know somehow I will pick up the phone
    You talk softly but you know I’ll hear
    Whispered wonders, I tell you about
    How late everybody else stayed out
    You say you miss me, then fall asleep

    Yeah we were ruthless, bound for trouble
    We were picking ourselves from the rubble
    We’d been disappointed, and we’d been cheated
    But I knew you were all I needed

    Sometimes when my message don’t get through
    I know you worry, I know you do
    But keep faith — you know I’ll always come back home
    ’Cause deep down, you know we have loved each other 

    longer than we’ve known about one another
    There’s something to be said for kindred souls

    Yeah we were ruthless, bound for trouble
    We were picking ourselves from the rubble
    We’d been disappointed, and we’d been cheated
    But I knew you were all that I needed
    You’re all I think about, that’s all

    Now I’m singing to streetlights
    ’Cause you know that I can’t walk home all alone

  • You were spinning yarn,
    When I was sweetest sixteen
    And you drove your mother’s car
    To pick me up at eight fifteen
    But I was always running late
    And this was just like any other day

    When you caught my eye
    You were just twenty three
    But you left me cold and cryin’
    For the girl of your teenage dreams
    All was fair in love and war
    My broken heart possessed your love no more

    You get high while everyone around you is getting low

    I was walking empty streets
    In the town where we were made
    With my heart still incomplete
    And I knew you felt the same
    I was still just running scared
    Every door I opened led to nowhere

    Then Steven Street was ours,
    But you kept me far away
    And when I could not entertain you
    You would show your other face
    Suffering was all you did
    when the morning light came streaming in

  • The stars over Dakota have been calling out your name
    I’m lost inside their glowing twilight flame
    Because I’m thinking of you, wondering if you are alright
    I’m lost inside the stars again tonight

    The blues boys in Chicago, they play loud and they play busy
    The salty gin martinis made me dizzy
    You know I’m sweet as honey, but my love it don’t come cheap
    And each line on this road cries out for speed

    And I pray for the sun to take these stars away
    And I wait for you to tell me that you’re here to stay

    I stop the car in Fargo, take a picture with the sign
    I wonder if you’ll make it here sometime
    Each constellation dancing far above these yellow lines
    I’m lost inside the stars again tonight

    Oh these fields in Iowa they grow fast and they grew tall
    As summer season dies into the fall
    My love it don’t come cheap
    and sometimes it don’t come at all
    I’m lost inside the stars again, that’s all

    And I pray for the sun to take these stars away
    And I wait for you to tell me that you’re here to stay

  • We stayed in White River
    And we drank it dry
    Did you feel as lost as I did
    In that maze of old motel rooms and living room floors
    When I walked Toronto down to Nashville

    I knew I had to keep on going

    I was an angel every morning
    And I was a devil in the night
    Did you feel as lost as I did
    When your father left us lonely
    When the money ran too low
    When I knew the bar was empty
    I knew I had to keep on going

    I wanted to believe in every promise that I made
    I was working every night while you were picking up the change
    And I sang to you my darlin’, each time I walked away
    Oh you know I had to go, I couldn't stay

    In a brilliant flash of silver
    I saw my life inside a gun
    I know you felt as lost as I did
    You cried half the way to Graceland
    In the middle of the night
    With your head upon my shoulder
    I knew I had to keep on going

  • Won’t do no fortune telling
    No writing on my palms
    Am I a ghost in your cemetery
    Or am I painted on your walls?

    I forgive your transgressions
    For I know you are blind
    I’m stuck in your neighbourhood
    And I am turning on a dime

    I wanna hold you
    I wanna love you
    I wanna kiss you
    I wanna love you
    But you’ve gotta reach out
    Put your hands out
    And I will be there
    I will be there

    I see you in the rivers
    I see you in the lakes
    The lakes they turn to ocean
    And the ocean turns to rain
    Oh it turns to rain

    I wanna hold you
    I wanna love you
    I wanna kiss you
    I wanna love you
    But you’ve gotta reach out
    Put your hands out
    And I will be there
    I will be there 

  • I’ve been trying to make some new mistakes
    So I’ve been out looking for you every day
    But I’m tongue-tied, no I don’t understand your way
    So I’ll meet you down and out, down in the Mojave

    You’re just a slick back kid with a backbone slip
    Said we’re gonna get free
    And I don’t know what it is, I don’t know where to get it, 

    but it’s growing on me

    West coast, baby I know you wanna go
    And if you had your way I know you’d never go back home
    You’ve got to slow down, you know this ain’t Hollywood
    The desert heat got to us long before I thought it would

    You’re just a slick back kid with a backbone slip
    Said we’re gonna get free
    And I don’t know what it is, I don’t know where to get it, 

    but it’s growing on me

    With your wings so wide, let your backbone slide,
    Come looking for me
    ’Cause you’re a slick back kid with a backbone slip
    And we’re gonna get free
    And I don’t know what it is, I don’t know where to get it, 

    but it’s growing on me

  • I am drifting on a sea
    of the million words you said so sweetly
    So I wrote you a letter
    and hid it inside the public library
    in the pages of a book
    about a girl called Sainte-Marie

    There are so many roads to travel down
    So many places we might never be found
    And you thought it’d be easy to get away
    Maybe we could find somewhere we’d wanna stay
    But I guess that I understand
    That you couldn’t love only one woman

    I don’t know if these words can turn back time
    and I don’t know if your fingers recall mine
    or if the store on the corner
    is still selling bottles
    of the cheap white wine
    that we drank into the night
    with nothing on the mind

    There are so many roads to travel down
    So many places we might never be found
    And you thought it’d be easy to get away
    Maybe we could find somewhere we’d wanna stay
    But I guess that I understand
    That you couldn’t love only one woman

    Do you recall when you and I
    Saw the northern lights dancing in the sky

    There are so many roads to travel down
    So many places we might never be found
    And you thought it’d be easy to get away
    Maybe we could find somewhere we’d wanna stay
    But I guess that I understand
    That you couldn’t love only one woman
    Oh you couldn’t love only one woman
    Oh you couldn’t love only one woman

  • He was the one, my tried and true lover
    He held me so close, ‘til I found another
    Now I’ve got two hearts, 

    one for each man I’ve been lovin

    He was the one, ‘til you cut me in two
    Now I’m laying beside him, 

    while I’m dreaming about you
    And I’ve got two hearts, 

    and I don’t know what I should do

    Oh I’m no cheater, but I’m no saint
    I’ve got that old feeling, and I can’t make it fade
    Oh I’m no cheater, but I’m no saint,
    I take true love and I love in vain

    On a telephone wire, that night in Berlin,
    The moon unforgiving, filled me up with temptation,
    And I’ve got two hearts, 

    and I don’t know when to give in

    Oh I’m no cheater, but I’m no saint
    I’ve got that old feeling, and I can’t make it fade
    Oh I never did find a reason
    to stop going looking for more

    Now there’s nobody left,
    and no one can say
    why at midnight in Paris
    I was drowning in champagne
    I’ve got two hearts,
    and I don’t know who I can blame

    You know I’m no cheater, but I’m no saint,
    I’ve got that old feeling, and I can’t make it fade
    Oh I’m no cheater, but I’m no saint,
    I take true love and I love in vain
    I take true love and I love in vain
    I take true love and I love in vain

    I’ll tell you how broken I feel at the end of the day 

    I’ll tell you how sorry I feel at the end of the day

  • Heard the music from under the trees
    The orchestra made its way through the green tapestry
    Workin’ up for a night on the town
    And I wonder, I wonder, I wonder
    How long you’ll stick around

    When Bleecker street runs dark
    And John Prine fills the hall

    Now it’s three, three, three in the morning
    We just have to keep on going
    We’ve got people to see, we’ve got places to go
    Don’t you know

    I long for the lover I thought you might be
    But I can’t tell you I’m letting go without leaving you empty
    So we stumble our way toward a party
    And you tell me, you tell me, you tell me
    You tell me you love me
    As the J train rattles on,
    We hear John Prine through the wall

    Now it’s three, three, three in the morning
    We just have to keep on going
    We’ve got people to see, we’ve got places to go
    Don’t you know

    Oh it's three, three, three in the morning
    We just have to keep on going
    We've got no one to see, we've got nowhere to go,
    Don't you know

  • Prairie sky shifted, orange into dusk
    Stars have been sifted over us
    Eyes on the highway, our bodies asleep
    Holes in the road permeate our dreams

    But you’re always changing hands
    Wishing you were somewhere else
    Or with somebody new
    Don’t know what to do

    Frost on the window, I use it to trace
    All of my memories of your face
    We needed to learn, babe, about loving ourselves
    Oh we don’t need nobody else

    But you’re always changing hands
    Wishing you were somewhere else
    Or with somebody new
    Don’t know what to do 

    When you say you love me, I’m sorry
    Don’t know what to do and I sit here cryin’

    Lonesome eyes light up Saskatchewan skies
    In the past I might have been tempted

    But you’re always changing hands
    Wishing you were somewhere else
    Or with somebody new
    I don’t know what to do 

    When you say you love me, I’m sorry
    Don’t know what to do and I sit here cryin’

  • All alone and this house is not a home
    Just a work of wood and wire
    Pace the halls, I could swear I hear your call
    But when I run downstairs
    There’s no one there

    And it may be all my fault
    And it may be my downfall
    Oh and it’s hard to go on
    Hard to go on all alone

    Cut from gold, such a treasure to behold
    In your gaze my heart was lost
    But I fell behind, your words turned sour overnight
    And you packed your things in record time

    And it may be all my fault
    And it may be my downfall
    Oh and it’s hard to go on
    Hard to go on all alone

    Darlin’ say that you’ll stay, don’t go away for another day
    Oh just tell me the truth, tell me you’ll be true for another day

    And it may be all my fault
    And it may be my downfall
    Oh but it’s hard to go on
    Hard to go on all alone

    Darlin’ say that you’ll stay, don’t go away for another day
    Oh just tell me the truth, tell me you’ll be true for another day

    And it may be all my fault
    And it may be my downfall
    Oh and it’s hard to go on
    Hard to go on all alone

  • I am burdened by a blindness to your flaws
    You're the only problem I can't seem to sleep off
    And I hear trouble every time you call my name
    But I wouldn't have it any other way

    And now I'm suffering the consequences
    Running out of breath

    Every time my mind runs wild
    You are always where it goes
    And I like to waste my time
    With you, there's no hurry
    No hurry

    I think I've got to see it to believe
    'Cause you and I, we fit together perfectly
    And I hear trouble every time you call my name
    But I wouldn't have it any other way

    And now I'm suffering the consequences
    Running out of breath

    Every time my mind runs wild
    You are always where it goes
    And I like to waste my time
    With you, there's no hurry
    There's no hurry
    No hurry

    And now I’m suffering the consequences
    Running out of breath
    Every time my mind runs wild
    You are always where it goes
    And I like to waste my time with you

    And I know you feel the same
    Cause you paint me in a light
    Where you can’t see how I’ll change
    With you there’s no hurry

    No hurry
    No hurry
    No hurry

  • In the house where you live
    With the lights in the basement so dim
    I pulled you aside
    Just to tell you what I found out tonight

    All our friends danced and clapped
    And the night seemed to go by so fast
    I can't take it all in
    But this feeling I've got is building

    Oh I can't write you a good song
    I never will, never will, never will
    And this tired old melody
    Is just for me, just for me, just for me
    Just for me

    I've never been, never been quite so evil as I have tonight
    Oh my intentions were good, but they didn't come out come out right
    And though I know you're all wrong
    I can't help myself from going along
    With all that ink on your skin
    Well, I've never been so interested

    Oh I can't write you a good song
    I never will, never will, never will
    And this tired old melody
    Is just for me just for me just for me
    Just for me

    Oh I can't write you a good song
    I never will, never will, never will
    And this tired old melody
    Is just for me just for me just for me

    If I can't write you a good song
    Well, write your own, write your own, write your own
    And I'll listen close to see
    How you sing all the words about me

    'Cause this party will die down
    All our friends, they will dance their way out
    And we'll clean up your house
    And I'll try not to think much about it
    And I'll try

  • Sure as a rose is red, and lily’s fair
    Sure as a rose is red and lily’s fair
    You will always leave me waiting here
    Sure as a rose is red and lily’s fair

    Oh how the wind blows long and cold and low
    Oh how the wind blows long and cold and low
    And every night, I shiver here alone
    The wind blows long and cold and low

    I'll keep searching in vain for any path you might have made
    When you took my heart and walked away
    I'll keep searching in vain for any path you might have made
    When you took my heart and you walked away

    Our long gone love lays low in misery
    The best parts of you and I are memories
    And when you’re lookin’ down the road, do you see me
    Our long gone love lays low in misery

    I'll keep searching in vain for any path you might have made
    When you took my heart and walked away
    I'll keep searching in vain for any path you might have made
    When you took my heart and you walked away

    Sure as a rose is red and lily’s fair
    Sure as a rose is red and lily’s fair
    You will always leave me waiting here
    Sure as a rose is red and lily’s fair

    I'll keep searching in vain for any path you might have made
    When you took my heart and walked away
    I'll keep searching in vain for any path you might have made
    When you took my heart and you walked away

  • I have seen your face washed in the dawning light
    We stayed up too late but the moon’s still in the sky
    Light the fireplace and close the curtains tight
    We can make believe that we can stay up all night

    Laughing, talking now, we choke the whiskey down
    Just a good old-fashioned crush we’ve both got to work out
    We fall too easily, we both fall in love too fast
    If it's any consolation, I don’t see how this can last

    We'll fight our tired eyes with uncertain hearts, playing shy

    Then I see you in the morning
    Peaceful Paradise, you’re such a lovely sight
    I don’t stay because I have to
    I wouldn’t want to sleep through the sweetest of sweet dreams

    Now your hungry hands are searching me up and down
    I'll give you all I can, I'll give you the runaround
    'Cause what I get from you could never be quite enough
    I’m insatiable when it comes to your love

    We'll fight our tired eyes with uncertain hearts, playing shy

    Then I'll see you in the morning
    Peaceful Paradise, you’re such a lovely sight
    I don’t stay because I have to
    I wouldn’t want to sleep through the sweetest of sweet dreams

    And if our love dies in the morning
    Oh, I won't question it
    Just kiss you and walk away
    And I don’t stay because I have to
    I wouldn’t want to sleep through the sweetest of sweet dreams

  • Must have passed by you one hundred times before
    Fresh from the coast, this city can't hold you anymore
    You've got a face for the movies, a smile for a silver screen
    Oh emerald eyes, you're stuck here in between

    Came through the back gate, the patio talk too loud
    Sometime past midnight we lost track of those in the background
    Shoulder to shoulder, the patio empty and still
    Oh emerald eyes, if you want me to I will

    Get in the taxi and drive around our fair steel town
    Stand in the kitchen and all four walls are spinning 'round

    You had a lover, I think I've seen her around
    But you keep your lips tight, praying that I won’t find out
    This gets older and older each time your lips shape the excuse
    But emerald eyes, it's nice to be with you
    Oh emerald eyes, it's nice to be with you

  • Fillin' up vacancies, the rooms in your heart
    Using you up to keep from falling apart
    We were made in the moonlight, tracks in the sand
    The planets aligned like the grooves in our hands
    The planets aligned like the grooves in our hands

    We go without stopping, we’re the talk of the town
    Candlelight visions, we sleep upside down
    Since I’ve been lovin' you, I’m feeling so fine
    Don’t matter to me you’re gone half of the time
    Don’t matter to me you’re gone half of the time

    You get your hands dirty, you’ve got no money to save
    You work in the morning, I sleep through the day
    I’m walking down Wilson to meet you again
    Your love took a turn
    Where mine, it stayed straight

    There’s smoke in my bedroom in new hollows I’ve found
    You’re looking away and the record’s too loud
    So I didn’t hear you above the crackling sound
    When you said you were thinking 'bout somebody else
    You said you were thinking 'bout somebody else

    You get your hands dirty, you’ve got no money to save
    You work in the morning, I sleep through the day
    I’m walking down Wilson to meet you again
    Your love took a turn
    Where mine, it stayed straight

  • If you had told me, oh all those years ago
    You could have helped me understand
    I wouldn't have bothered with all those other boys
    Knowing that you would be my man
    And I feel renewed each time
    I come home to you

    I can't sugar-coat it sweet enough for you
    We've got nothing to do
    But sit and stare into each other's eyes for all time
    Each time that I come home to you
    Each time that I come home to you

    A knock at the door, the telephone rings
    And rings and rings and rings
    Messages we don't need to hear
    Your capable hands fulfill all of my demands
    Don't have to ask you to
    Darlin' I always want you near

    And I feel renewed each time I come home to you
    I can't sugar-coat it sweet enough for you
    We've got nothing to do
    But sit and stare into each other's eyes for all time
    Each time that I come home to you
    Each time that I come home to you

    Now I walk through the door and I don’t want to go
    Come hell or high water
    Oh I don’t want to leave you, my sugar so sweet,
    I just want to hold you

    Each time that I come home to you
    Each time that I come home to you
    Each time that I come home to you
    Each time that I come home

  • Oh, I’d like to take you to the National Film Board in the afternoon
    I’d spend all my dollars just to watch the movie screens with you
    We could stay there all day cause we don’t have nothin' else to do
    All this summer lovin’ has got me in a place I can’t handle
    Oooh

    What if we stayed way too late and then got locked in overnight
    Would we keep on watching movie screens until the next day’s morning light
    Would you be my last action hero and jump into the fibres of the screen
    When all of the bad guys came would you be runnin' to save me

    We don’t have the courage to act this out now
    Oh, I need some time to learn my lines
    We don’t have the courage to act this out now
    Oh, I need some time, I need some time

    Take me to your apartment and show me your father's old guitars
    Tell me how he died and all the ways he lives on in your heart
    Tell me why your mother never did forgive him all that time
    Tell me why you’re telling me all these things you tend to keep inside

    We don’t have the courage to act this out now
    Oh, I need some time to learn my lines
    We don’t have the courage to act this out now
    I need some time, I need some time
    I need some time, I need some time

  • When you ask me how long I have felt this way
    I reply so sweetly in the numbered months and days
    I count ’em
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

    When I ask you how long it might take to see
    Through the glass of all these drinks you’re pouring me
    Count ’em
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

    But the truth of it is, that you’re the only one
    The truth of it is
    You’re the only one that I have wanted so,
    The only one that I have wanted so

    I’m sure that I echo all the sentiments
    Of all those girls that you let into your apartment
    Let’s count ’em
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    Count ’em
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

    But the truth of it is, that you’re the only one
    The truth of it is
    You’re the only one that I have wanted so
    You’re the only one that I ever wanted so

    And the truth of it is that you’re the only one
    The truth of it is
    You’re the only one that I ever wanted so
    You’re the only one that I ever wanted so

  • Every time that your eyes line up with mine
    We stay so quiet, for that minute we lose our minds
    And every kiss could go on and on
    We can only exist within waves of light and sound

    I wrote it all out but I can’t send you a word
    We both had our doubts but I can’t send you a word

    Our love is a splinter, so hard to remove
    It’s been stuck here all winter
    And now nothing improves my mood
    No nothing improves my mood

    Walk on the plane, and I’ll leave you on the ground
    And I won’t be the same
    Won’t be seeing you around
    I will cross a great sea
    And stay on the other side
    It’s better to be lonely
    You built your home and now I will build mine

    Wrote it all out but I can’t send you a word
    We both had our doubts but I can’t send you a word

    Our love is a splinter so hard to remove
    Been stuck here all winter
    And now nothing improves my mood
    No, nothing improves my mood