(Marcia Ball). . Now we're down to saying our goodbyes. And you still don't see the truth. All I did was try to make life better for you. But a woman just gets tired of being used.
where were you when the train left town. I was standing on the corner, my head hanging down. I be crying hey, train carried my girl away. I be crying hey, that train carried my girl away from town.
If I ran so far that my life can't follow me. Would it keep the world from up and swallowin' me?. Well, there's so much to weigh me down that I can hardly breathe.
Tommy had a watch, a good kind of watch. It wouldn't tell time if you asked it. Didn't have a face, just an ear and an eye. To see him with. . Tommy stole candy from the corner store.
I want my mind to pull me through. 'Cause up until now that's been hard to do. How could I know, yeah, how could I know. That it'd be easy. . I want my heart to stand alone.
See the black crow fly. Flyin' through the sky. Yelln'and the wind is howlin'. Won't you tell me why?. . See the black crow flyin'. Flyin' through the sky.
(John Hiatt). . I didn't say we wouldn't hurt anyone. That's how you learn, you just get burned. But, we don't have to feel like dirt anymore. Though love's not earned baby, it's our turn.
That's alright, that's alright.... My soul gonna sit up in the kingdom, that's alright. . Some say Peter , some say Paul. But one God made us all. and my soul gonna sit up in the kingdom, that's alright.
My hands are down, I can no longer masquerade. You're just like poison in my veins killing me inside. I know you tell everyone, I'm, what's her name. But you're story tends to change when you look in my eyes.
Last night you said you'd pick me up at eight. Take me into town baby for a date. Well I'm still waitin' here and it's half past two. And I don't want to love you, but I do.
History runs pretty deep with you and me. There were times we thought it ended. Times we fought out in the street. . And baby, we, we knocked each other upside down.
Taylor had a wife, she was married to the mirror. Make her glass-eyed lover buy a drink and then another round. 'Round the kitchen table lined with cigarettes from years ago.
Some boys with warm beds and cold, cold hearts. Can make you feel nothing at all. They'll never remember and they'll never mind. If you're counting the cracks in the wall.
What can I say. You got me good. Swallow me up, spit me out. Like you should. . What can I do. But play the pool. And wait around for you to come. You never do.
Someone To Save Me. . Well I ain't got room. For all this misery. Yeah well I ain't got no room, no room. For all this misery. Well I ain't got room. Yeah, for all this misery.
Take my love and take a chance life will never be the same. I can show you true romance be with me don't be afraid. . Don't be afraid of love give your heart what it needs.
How can anybody ever change. When the whole world wants you to stay the same?. I guess you just take the blame. Of being someone who had to find her own way.
Calculated entry in the class of circumspection. Reasoning, bargaining the last few drams of spirits. The serum of one's foolishness, oh, and truth be told in a cold pint head.
Oh baby you look tired and baby you look beat. Seems like you've been working eight days a week. Baby take a break from all you've been thinking of. Come into my cradle of love.
Well there's one kind of favor I'll ask you. Well there's one kind of favor I'll ask you. There's just one kind of favor I'll ask you. You can see that my grave is kept clean.