- All The Pretty Horses
Hush a bye, don t you cry
Go to sleep little baby
When you wake you shall have
All the pretty little horses
Blacks and bays, dappled and grays
Coach and six white horses
Blacks and bays, dappled and grays
- Broken Bottle
Once I was a broken bottle
Lying in a crowded bar
Waiting for the band to start again
And from the floor I'd stare up
At the bright lights and the silhouettes
Cast along the wall behind your head
Oh I would wait
- Certainty
Carve your frozen lips around the words you meant to say
I swear I heard you closing in
The weight of every conversation ends in someone wondering
If they were in the wrong
Take one more honest look I would apologize I'm sure
It seems nothing ends in certainty these days
- Country, Country
Everybody in the country knows
I always sing them country songs
And always fall for country boys
Well, I've got myself a country horse
So ride me to the country boy
We'll find ourselves a country home
- Funeral Song
If these bare walls could sing
They would sing us a funeral song
Push their wooden words into your mouth
They would not wish to be
A burden to your tongue
Would not wish to carry on
Too long
- Hands In Pockets
Up with the sunrise you'll be staring
Out through the window on the day
I'll be another waking shadow
Cast on the covers of your bed
Give me another waking moment
To shine against the solemn gray
Tell me the season's almost over
- In A Constant Rain
Not a single word was spoken
As we made the silent drive
If I'd have known that you'd leave this soon
I'd stay closer to your side
And all the waiting silent pleading
Couldn't prepare me for your leaving
This quiet room
- La Grande
When the moon carves a trail down the pine-bearded hills
And a ghost-wind hollers to the early morn
And the starlings return to the old sugar mill
Stealing their corn from the grower's field
Oh, I'll be no more
When we've covered our hands in the bone-white clay
- Little Red Riding Hood
Hey there Little Red Riding Hood
You sure are looking good
You're everything a big bad wolf could want
Little Red Riding Hood
I don't think little big girls should
Go walking in these spooky old woods alone
- Nightwatch
Sometimes I pretend I am a nightwatch
And stare up from the roof of my apartment
I'll watch the stars and the satellites
And I'll pretend I'm watching angels in white chiffon
And lace trace the midnight sky
And the night might take me back
They say that love can take you back
- Small Town Parade
If you could leave it all, would you drive me out West?
We could settle down in some second-hand place
We can make up stories of our childhood days out there
And I could be the queen of a small town parade
You could be the leader of a bold marching band
You could play the drums and I could wave my hand for the crowd
- The Longest Day
So much for the longest day
The subtle glow slowly fading
And so goes another year of seasons change
I've seen the glow of the view up on Alameda drive
But here in my empty room only candles glow tonight
Tell me again, press my hands to your lips
As you sing of love and life
- This Is Not The End
Forget, forget about the end
Forget about what may have been
In your hand the smoking gun
Thin red line across your palm
Forget about the end
This is not the end
- Wintering
In the coming days I may take to flight
Circling the trees like a bird bound south
But I always float back down on my lazy wings
To the frozen ground, to my apathy
And just as sure as the days grow short
Somehow we're always waiting