Woman Of The Phoenix Lyrics - Other Voices, Other Rooms - Nanci Griffith

Well I've listened to the words you lovers speak 

The sounds of the lover's song 

And I've dreamed all the dreams 

That the wayward girl dreams 

In a thousand places gone 

Dallas was my late night out 

Radcliffe's saved to roust me out 

And Houston lay like 

Cleveland with the color removed 

All I ever wanted 

Was to wander and be wooed 

Like a woman of the Phoenix 

Welcomed Waterloo 

I've seen the sun blaze 

The breast of the countryside 

I've seen her huddled in a winter freeze 

And I've run 'cross paths of a thousand lives 

Among the cactus and the white birch trees 

Avloc ran a waterfront bar 

Vito he was the king of thieves 

And Michael was a rock 'n roll 

Hood from the Odessa plains 

All of them were my kind 

Wild and damn near free 

But a woman of the Phoenix 

Is the medicine they need