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Never Knew No Love 3:380:00/3:38
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Whisper My Name 3:520:00/3:52
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You Don't Need 3:540:00/3:54
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0:00/3:52
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Boxcars 5:290:00/5:29
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Dublin Blues 5:090:00/5:09
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Summertime 3:130:00/3:13
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Lullaby 3:180:00/3:18
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0:00/4:49
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Lonesome Whistle 4:370:00/4:37
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Lie to Me 4:460:00/4:46
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0:00/2:56
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Light In Your Window 3:490:00/3:49
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Secrets 2:560:00/2:56
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The Story of Us 2:420:00/2:42
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Blackwing Butterfly 4:010:00/4:01
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Blood Like Yours 3:050:00/3:05
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When We're Gone 3:440:00/3:44
Lyrics
Many have asked, so here they are:
Several albums’ worth of original lyrics
Listed alphabetically
easy living
When I was born, I came out
Fully dressed in springtime green
I had a silver spoon right in my pocket
And the strongest legs you’ve ever seen
It didn’t take long before I learned
My words could take down a full grown man
And the lies ran out of my mouth
Before I knew it, and they flew faster than Superman
Easy living in the wings of a giving papa
Easy riding along in the slow car of my mama
Easy finding my way down so many one way streets
Easy losing my heart to the first one who’d take it from me
Comfort only goes so far
When it comes in the shape of a brand new dress
And sorry don’t mean much
When he turns around just to hurt you again
It didn’t take long before I learned
To pretend it didn’t happen and I was fine
And as long as I believed it
Everyone would follow me in line
Some things that come so easy
Ain’t easy after all
Some things that come so cheap
Ain’t free if you have to fall
Forever
First vision of her a revelation
Heavens opened and shone down
He’s still waiting for another divine inspiration
To make him sure of what he found
No one ever loved her better
She longs for something different just the same
Sometimes, she wonders whether
She shouldn’t have taken his name
Blanket of night hides the ache in their souls
Two bodies huddle with love that’s grown cold
That old twisted cedar taps
A familiar refrain on their window
She’s thinking of painting the gray in her hair
She looks in the closet at nothing to wear
Will he notice when she starts Coming home later
This ain’t no love tale like Johnny and June
This ain’t ever after, the fire died too soon
This ain’t no lullaby, no one will sleep well tonight
He’s remembering that morning
They fell to their knees and asked
Will you let me love you forever?
Get Clean
Been nursing dust on my shoes
Didn’t want to shake these blues
Been fighting better judgment
Fighting what I know to be true
This darkness burning a hole
Heart wants to shake it, skin wants to hold on
Be better if I quit it
I’ve never done what I was told
It’s time to get clean
It’s time to get clean
Take what’s hidden and make it seen
Say love’s like shotgun spray
One pellet kills the snake
I’m not picking up that gun
Sometimes I like to hear rattles shake
Pull the curtains down
Throw the doors open
Strip the bed, turn every light on
Step in the river, let it cover
Let go when you go under
Goodbye
Say goodbye to the end of the story
You thought would come with all love’s glory
Say goodbye to the “happy ever” end
Learn to smile when they say you’ll still be friends
Say goodbye to the horse and its prince
To big castles and the corpse of a witch
Say goodbye to the promise of gold
Just for doing more than you were told
Say hello to this is real life
Say hello to working for a living
Say hello to cleaning your floors
And only salesmen knock on your door
Say goodbye to getting straight A’s
Never knew your smarts would leave someday
Say goodbye to gas in your car
Twenty bucks won't take you that far
Say goodbye to your favorite dress
You haven’t been that size since God knows when
Say goodbye to that diamond ring
You lost the only man who made enough to bring one
Say hello to yes that’s really you in your mirror
Say hello to driving this car till it dies
Ain’t as romantic as it sounded 6 years ago
Say hello to mildew in your shower
And mom isn’t there to power out the stains
Bye, goodbye, goodbye to sweet desperation
Bye, goodbye, goodbye to old fashioned denial
Bye, goodbye, goodbye to my fairy tale other self
Bye, goodbye, Hello to me
Hold Tight
When love shatters
Shards, fragments fly everywhere
Splintered hearts, wounded pride
Black powder shame hanging in the air
Casings fall soft on carpet
Next to the bags by the door
Every move is in slow motion
Pull the pin and hit the floor
It’s your pattern of disruption
Striking everything within your sights
I’m steeling for destruction
You’re lighting the fuse, you’re ready to fight
Waves pulsing in my bones
Bells pealing in my ears
Since when did this living room
Become a battlefield
Pressure pressing down
Pressure pressing down
Pressure pressing down
Hold tight hold tight hold tight
If You Fall
If you fall will I be strong enough
To help you find your feet to stand?
Well that’s the same question I ask myself
Every morning when I wake up holding your hand
If you were taken from me would find a way
Find a way to live on my own?
Well that’s the same question I ask myself
Every time I’m a long way from home
I would learn to fly
If it meant I could stay by your side
Forever
And I would learn to swim to distant lands
If it meant I would find you
When my fingers reached the sand
If you couldn’t find anything that made you happy
Would I change, would I change who I am?
Well that’s the same question I ask myself
Every time I don’t know where I stand
Josephine
Another night he’ll be home late
Lipstick smear still on his face
And the morning will be hell
When she won’t want him to tell
But when the lights go down on the room
And the spot shines on the bright blue plume
Tucked in a band around a delicate wrist
Floating in the dark til the hand cues the pianist
And it’s Skylark
Sweet falsetto rings in the air
Catch your breath while you stare
His face like an angel singing a lover’s prayer
Every Tuesday after he locks the office doors
Pulls the tie over his head and onto the floorboard
Cruises out of the suburbs to the emptying city
Everyone’s going home but his day’s beginning
His brown cropped hair drowned by raven curls
Porcelain skin stark against a string of black pearls
Good old Joe becomes lovely Josephine
Still every eye closes when he starts to sing
And it’s Skylark
The melody drawing you in with every tone
The longing that you hear feels like your own
Til you find your heart’s true home
Just Another Lover
Am I just another lover to you?
Another piece of skin you could get close to
Someplace warm where you once fit in
Invisible, expendable as oxygen
Am I just another lover to you?
Am I a well you once drew from?
Just a place to wet your tongue
Not quite good as a spring
Enough to get you by not enough to cling to
Am I a well you once drew from?
Am I a dirt road you left behind?
Leading to a place you don’t want to find
Not paved and pretty but I took you through
Why did you decide to pick up and move
Am I a dirt road you left behind?
Am I just another lover to you?
Another piece of skin you could get close to
Someplace warm where you once fit in
Essential but forgettable as oxygen
Am I just another lover to you?