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Sometimes I know that it's never enough
Survival is fine but satisfaction is rough
I try with an angel tonight
Spread these wings and I'm on for the ride
Cruise these streets where my innocence hides
There's some things you can't deny
What is it about this human condition
I need some kind of promise

Ummm I got a sugar pie honey comb,
I got a sunny day honey stick
It's like Saturday honey's home
I like the feeling that it's gonna give

Ride around town with a girl, hair all messed up
Guess what, I've been known not to care
I woke up after two shots of whiskey

She wakes up in the morning
With a pain in her jet black head
A decaf coffee in her hand
And a Marlboro red
She drives down to the office
In her Japanese car
With the radio blasting
She dreams of taking it too far

I want to find me a car
With only one headlight
A straight six Ford
On a good luck night
I want to roll down the windows
And teach you to fly
I want to give you a thrill
The kind you can't buy

First time I saw you
Back in 1982
An LA bar
I've come so far
In my Kansas dancing shoes
I'm just a singer
And I'm looking for a song
Do you want to sing along?

It's 1:25 a.m. I think I've seen that look somewhere before
1:25 a.m. I thought that you were headed for the door
Then something touched my skin
I won't ask you to leave here any more

Was it the talk or the drink or the dance that led to this
Was I so naive presuming the innocence
Well it's 1:54 and it's such an unusual kiss

They holy roll you in bed
Give you a hole in your head
Just when you think you're alright
They change the scene overnight
Don't be afraid to survive, yeah
'Cause you're just as cool as you try

You're just as cool as you try

It feels like everything is broken
It feels like love is far away
So many unkind words were spoken
I wish I could erase

You think that I don't understand you
I think that you're not being fair
You think I just don't want to listen anymore

I played the fool today
I just dream of vanishing into the crowd
Longing for home again
Home, is a feeling I buried in you

I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe

Tonight I feel so weak....But all in love is fair
I turn the other cheek
I feel the slap and the sting of the foul night air
And I know you're only human.... And I haven't got talking room
But tonight while I'm making excuses....Some other woman is making love to you

CHORUS:

When I was a child
I dreamed like a child of wonder
With my back in the grass
My eyes to the sky to see
I believed in the stars
I knew they cast a spell that I was under
With my fingers in the dirt
I was part of the earth

You woke me up at 3:00 a.m.
To tell me about the fire
You said that she was more than a friend
You were consumed by your desire

And so it goes
This too shall pass away
It cuts so strange

I got a chrome-plated heart
I got wings on these fingers trying to tear it apart
I got angels crying from up above
And they got rust in their eyes
They got rust on their love
But I have learned to leave no stone unturned
And keep the wall against my back
And the love is real as the day is long

Альбом "Lucky" 2004 г.

"This song is about meeting Tammy for the first time, in a bar, and about my ego. I would go to that bar with Ellen [DeGeneres]; we'd be Sinatra and Dean, and we'd sit there and go, 'We the most famous lesbians.' And Tammy came up and asked me out; she had a certain amount of fame and success, yet she wasn't out. It's about, 'Yeah? You want to come on up to #1? Well, are you ready for the spotlight, because you're going to have to come out.'" - Melissa Etheridge

Well you got some tips and you learned some licks
You want to try and teach this old dog a new trick, huh
Well you told your friends you'd have a little bit of fun
You want to walk on up now to number one, huh

m.ode
Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light of the moon
Come to my window I'll be home soon

I would dial the numbers
Just to listen to your breath
And I would stand inside my hell

If you hear a voice,
It the middle of the night,
Saying it'll be all right,
It will be me.

If you feel a hand,
Guiding you along,
When the path seems wrong,

I don't want to talk about it
I've done enough I think
I don't want to spend more money
Don't want another drink
I would scratch out all the images
If I had the chance
Don't ask me what I'm thinking
Can't you see I only want to dance

I had a dream late last night
The water was running low
And my fields were on fire, burning my sky
My body was moving slow
And when I awoke I tasted the sweat of desire in my mouth
And I realized my heart had abducted my mind
And they were last seen headed south
Now I can't sleep I'm so wired

Did you think I was leaving
My ticket was just one way
The angels I believed in
Were gonna carry me away
Did you think that I would simply
Give them my last breath
Well honey you've got me wrong
I'd never leave you for death

We were all wounded in some domestic war
I found you to settle my score
You looked like father
You felt like mother
My mind told my heart
There is no other

And I gave you my soul

When I woke up I was 17
You kissed my lips in a bad bad dream
Showed me things aren't what they appear to be
Called me angel and set me free
You gave me life in the cold cold dark
But you ran away in the mornings spark
Made me think that reality
Is not where I want to be

I'ma turn it up
Alright, ladies and gentlemen
I'm gonna sing a song here now
This song was written back in a time when
Things weren't as beautiful as they are today
Things weren't as
Ha, you know, nice, you know?
Things were gettin' hard and there was

When my soul crashed into my body
Falling into consciousness
That's when my mind began this illusion
Of taking it step after step
I looked into mother's eyes
I said tell me what I should believe
She drew me a room with a light and said
just turn it off when you leave

We keep thinking
Life is what it's not
We keep building
This impossible facade

Why do wee keep trying
To turn people into gods

The bones get broken
And the skin gets torn
And the scars, they bleed
Like the day they were born
When the mouth gets wise
To the haunt's disguise

Here comes the pain

You do not touch me as you rise
Your silent footsteps on the floor
Could you be believing the harsh words and the cries?
All the weapons from the night before

Oh no, no, oh no
I think I know you

Have I been sleeping?
I’ve been so still
Afraid of crumbling
Have I been careless?
Dismissing all the distant rumblings
Take me where I am supposed to be
To comprehend the things that I can’t see

It's been years since they told her about it
The darkness her body possessed
And the scars are still there in the mirror
Everyday that she gets herself dressed
Though the pain is miles and miles behind her
And the fear is now a docile beast
If you ask her why she is still running
She'll tell you it makes her complete

I have climbed the highest mountain
I have sailed across the sea
I have wrestled with my demons
And woke up with only me
I have been around the block
Three times maybe four
And I think I deserve just a little more

I know you're home
You left your light on
You know I'm here
The night is thin
I know you're alone
I watched the car leave
Your lover is gone
Let me in

Gonna put my boots on, pull back my hair
There’s a heartbreak in the night but I don’t care
Got to find me an angel one that’s just a little mean
In cheap sunglasses and low-rise jeans

I’ve had enough of a stuffed up wall
I’m breaking out tonight that’s all
Don’t owe nobody money as far as I can recall

Please baby can't you see
My mind's a burnin' hell
I got razors a rippin' and tearin' and strippin'
My heart apart as well
Tonight you told me
That you ache for something new
And some other woman is lookin' like something
That might be good for you

When I think of how you know me,
No doubts no thinking twice.
When your smile can be so soothing,
A familiar paradise.
When there's no one else that makes me whole
I am never needing more
I get this feeling that I have loved you before

If I wanted to I could do anything right
I could dance with the devil on a Saturday night
If I wanted to I could turn matches to gold
I could smoke drink swear and I would never grow old
I wouldn't have to be in love with you
If I only wanted to
If I only wanted to

Альбом "Lucky" 2004 г.

"I wrote that after the first sessions with David Cole. I was in my I-want-to-stand-on-my-rock-&-roll-ground mood, I want a guitar rock song with a chorus/hook, and I want to see everybody jumping down on the floor when I sing that song.

"Tammy gave me her number and I said, 'I'll get back to you in a couple of days.' I didn't call her back for a week. When I called her, she was like, 'Where I come from in the Midwest , a couple days is a couple days.' She started giving me a hard time. It was that time of, 'I've been so busted and broken, and do I really want to get back out there.' A lot of songs are from that place: 'Mercy,' 'Secret Agent'.the themes were different, but the emotional depth was still there." - Melissa Etheridge

Hello yes that's what I said
I guess I thought that I was dead

A mother was grieving her loss
Her soldier the ultimate cost
She went to the man
Who has been told he's a king
Waited outside of his compound
To ask him a few things

Ya-I-ya-a-wayy

She came to this world on a cold night
Papa turned his head and said
I don't believe she's mine
Single momma raised her in a place where
You can look but never touch
Cause we don't have enough
Don't let your hopes get high
Cause girls like you can't fly

There were stairs, there were steep
I was falling, falling deep
You were there, you were small
There was screaming down the hall

I've been here sleeping all these years

There comes a time we all know

Если ты услышишь голос посреди ночи
Говорящий, что всё будет хорошо
Это буду я
Если ты почувствуешь руку, направляющую тебя
Когда кажется, что путь неверен
Это буду я
Нет таких гор, которых я не могу покорить
Для тебя я проплыву через реки времён

What if we could create peace on Earth?
I wonder what that would look like
I wonder if heaven and nature would sing
Hallelujah

What if we all stopped believing the line
That happiness comes from a stork?
What if we looked at the damage we've done

Hey you watching as this light bleeds all over me
Shadows rise and fall listen as I call is this reality
I will be with you tonight
and tomorrow be 1,000 miles away
I will be with you tonight
I will be with you as long as you say stay

One little piece of my soul

They say the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away
Well it was definitely gone when I woke up today
I walked up to the mirror to see
It's only me

I got out of the kitchen I couldn't stand the heat
Back into my skin and out on the street
Lookin' for a little salvation

You brought me to trust you brought me to tears
In one tender touch the pain disappears
I have been to the sword seen it come seen it die
As we enter the dark I beseech you to try
In prophecy all good things must end
So take care my love my friend
Keep it precious
Keep it precious

Альбом "Lucky" 2004 г.

"'Kiss Me' is one of the first songs I wrote for the album. It's about as simple a song as one can get. I think it was a real freeing experience for me to just write a simple, sexual song. It's a fun song; it's about pretending and having fun with your partner. It was nice to be able to get up in front of a crowd and sing and be frisky." - Melissa Etheridge

Baby whatcha doing tonight
I'll go anywhere that you wanna go
I'll jump into my car
Go down to that bar

Are you lying there on the cold dark ground
Your skin and bones are bare you stare without a sound
What is it in your mind that lights the fuse this time
What do you want so bad that you have never had

Could it be dangerous to light the flame and just
Feel the warmth again make it rise again
Remember your last time you tried to let it in

Is it so hard to satisfy your senses
You found out to love me you have to climb some fences
Scratching and crawling along the floor to touch you
And just when it feels right you say you found someone to hold you
Does she like I do, baby

Tell me does she love you like the way I love you
Does she stimulate you attract and captivate you

Альбом "Lucky" 2004 г.

"'Lucky' took me a little while to get to the arrangement. The song is about finally settling into being okay, and 'I want to see how lucky, Lucky can be'; Lucky is a nickname for myself. The feeling of the song is very up. With that old guitar lick from James Harrah, that Andrew Gold feeling, '70s guitar, it's just fun." - Melissa Etheridge

I want to see how lucky Lucky can be

I saw you through my blind intoxication
My shock induced insane self medication

What's this little lie
They keep on telling me
It's just another high
They keep on selling me
I was only five
They fed me so much jive
They said just have a ball Just be a Barbie doll
They churned and burned me out

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train
And I's feelin' near as faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained
It rode us all the way to New Orleans

I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna
I was playin' soft while Bobby sang the blues, yeah
Windshield wipers slappin' time, I was holdin' Bobby's hand in mine

Meet me in the back
Don't make me wait too long
I could change my mind
And tell you that it's wrong
So meet me in the back
Where the light don't shine
First show me yours
Maybe I'll show you mine

Keep your eyes down, keep your head lowered
Keep to your self dear, do not tell a soul
You know it's wrong what they've been sayin'
And you knew all along that I would have to go

Find the place where light shines on my reflection
A place where I can stand upon my own
Not down on my knees

Альбом "Lucky" 2004 г.

"'Mercy' is probably one of my favorite songs, and it was one of the first ones I wrote. I was looking for inspiration, and one inspiration for me is rhythm. I was working with a guy named Jon Taylor-not the Duran Duran guy. I said, 'Dude, can you put me some rhythms together? I want to write while I go to Europe .' So he made some rhythm loops for me, and on one loop he put this little guitar riff and he sang, 'It's going to be alright, it's going to be okay.' That was all he sang, just those two lines. I'm digging the groove, and he comes in every now and then, singing, 'It's going to be alright, it's going to be okay,' and I started singing around it. His voice was just so relaxed, so laid back, and I wrote this chorus all around it. All of a sudden someone else is singing the hook, the chorus.

"I worked on it with the band at the time, and James Harrah and Mark Browne would sing, 'It's going to be alright, it's going to be okay.' I even brought David Crosby down, but it didn't quite fit his voice. Then C.J. Vanston [who played bass and keyboards on the album] brought this girl in to sing backgrounds, which I never do. Her name is Bernie Barlow and I love the way her voice sounded. I thought, 'Oh, that's sexy, it feels good.'" - Melissa Etheridge

Well I have lived ten years plus ten
And ten and ten again

I'm sending out a message to myself
So that when I hear it on the radio
I will know that I am fine
I will know that I am love

I warned myself of the blackness in my chest
The razors in my heart would never rest
It's funny, how you find just what you seek

Miss California what did I do wrong
It seems I've loved you
For just a little too long
You've gone and left me
For some preacher's way
Now you act like you never knew me
And you can't hear a word I say

You tell me not to call you up
Cause it ties you down
Don't tell your friends
You've been hangin' round
You must be crazy for me

You say you'll see me once or twice
Every week or two

They don't much care for you
No, they don't like your kind
The way you look walk or the way you talk
The way you always speak your mind

But you want to be my friend
You're not anything like them
You can show me things I've never seen

Hello, hello this is Romeo
Calling from a jackpot telephone
Shame, shame, but I love your name
And the way you make the buffalo roam
Oh, oh, oh, fly, fly I guess this is goodbye
Oh you packed up your heart
And you left no souvenirs

I know a place
Down past an old shack
On a road that goes to nowhere
Ain't nobody coming back
We can go there tonight
We can talk until dawn
Or maybe something else
I'll leave the radio on

I saw you with your new friends
You wear them so well
Broken shoes and loose ends
Gee you look swell
Me I'm drinking my coffee
And I'm smoking cigarettes
I'm a deputy of habit
I just can't forget

I takes me so long to understand sometimes
Why it's so hard to understand, sometimes
It takes me two or three times sometimes
To try to get it right sometimes
To get it right
I've got some coins in my pocket
I've got a colored T-V
It's gotten so complicated now

Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are
Everybody clings to their own fear, everybody hides some scar
(CHORUS)
Precious pain, empty and cold but it keeps me alive
I gave it my soul so that I could survive
Keeping me safe in these chains, precious pain
Everybody's got a reason to abandon their pain
How can I think of tomorrow with my sorrow in hand

We got somethin', we both know it, we don't talk too much about it
Ain't no real big secret, all the same, somehow we get around it
Oh listen, it don't really matter to me, baby
You believe what you wanna believe

You see, you don't have to live like a refugee, no

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some

The sign says do not enter
No trespassing allowed
With visions of redemption
I walk against the crowd
The sun is white with envy
Confusion on the ground
Breathing soft and holy
Temptation's only sound

Come on down to the corner
Come on across the border
See where the night begins
Can you feel it, some kind of danger
Spreading out over the street?
Hard as I try, deep down inside
I cannot make the two ends meet

I’ve been silent for much too long
Now I’m telling everybody what’s been going on
It’s time to shout now it’s time to scream
It’s time to wake up from this bad dream

[Chorus]
I’m gonna shout till the devil gets on his knees
Shout 'til my angels say pretty please

I wonder what you're doing
In the night out there
Is a sad summer breath tangled in your hair
Can you hear the lonely engines
Screaming through the town
There's no where to run
When the darkness comes down

Go on and close your eyes go on imagine me there
She's got similar features with longer hair
And if that what it takes to get you through
Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

You never had to wait for nothing in your life
I guess wanting me must have been a steel blue knife
And when night after night the scent of passion would linger

After your laughter like thunder
After your skin like coffee and cream
After it takes our bodies into the night
After we've come to the extreme

I want to lay down on your shoulder
Just inside your arm
I want to listen to your heart beat

So you closed your eyes in the morning
You said you want to start smoking again
You said you had that dream last night
Of the stranger in your room
You said you want to start making new friends
Well I'd found some peace
You want release
You must be stronger than me

EKR Top 100 2014 - 80th position

Do you mind if I sit down next to you?
Yeah, I remember you from school
You seem to have a good heart
Way back then, you were gonna make it big
But it's divorce, now with a couple kids
That brings you back to these parts

Don't be afraid
Close your eyes
Lay it all down
Don't you cry
Can't you see I'm going
Where I can see the sun rise
I've been talking to my angel
And he said that it's alright

Morning's hard coffee's cold
Pretending that the days mean more than getting old
Stale headlines, others drenched in pride
Marching to their drum with fear standing beside

But if I close my eyes and throw back my head
I can see his face and I hear the words he said
And my memories ache and my senses burn

You say that you don't know me
You never saw my face
And if you’ve never been there
Can you be sure there's such a place?
You think if you don't answer
The world will pass you by
There’s a fire in your kitchen
And the water's three feet high and risin'

You've never been to the moon
But don't you want to go
Under the sea in the volcano
You've never looked into my eyes
But don't you want to know
What the dark and the wild
And the different know

Tell me, sweet sister
Tell me, why are you cryin'?
Did you think this world was a bitter place
And that love must be dyin'?
Well, I stand before you now
Humbled, with a message from a higher law
Telling us that we can have it all
Just let this old world crumble

"The Kingdom Of Heaven"

A suffering soul on the way to the Kingdom of Heaven
Held up a sign that says "God hates America"
A child has been lost
A mother is shocked and is grieving
And turning away, turning away

We do our best
We stay in step
As time goes marching by
But there's something wrong
We don't start living
Until we almost die

Yeah yeah yeah

She's got her sweet children
She's got her house, she's got some land
Her earthly possessions
She's got a ring upon her hand

She tried to be a good girl
She tried to make everything right
She tried to kill the voices

I’m not the sort of person who falls in and quickly out of love
But to you I gave my affection right from the start
I have a lover who loves me
How could I break such a heart
It's still you get my attention
Why do you come here
When you know I’ve got troubles enough
Why do you call me

Bravely you let go of my hand
I can't speak yet you understand
Where I go now I go alone
This path I walk these days of stone

And the angels are calling

[Chorus:]

Welcome to the planet earth
Welcome to the heroes fall
This is a thing called birth
The forgetting you knew it all
This is called your first step
This is called your first time
This is called your first break

10:03 on a Tuesday morning
in the fall of an American dream
a man is doing what he knows is right
on flight 93

Loved his mom and he loved his dad
loved his home and he loved his man
but on that bloody Tuesday morning

My eyes are wide-open recognizing change
It feeds the fires of the fear
Where human love seems strange
I'm gonna rise above
I believe that love is love
I'm gonna raise my hands
With every woman child and man

Wait a minute, (wait a minute)
Wait a minute, (wait a minute)
Wait a minute, (wait a minute)
Now don't you move, (wait a minute)
Wait a minute, (wait a minute)
Wait a minute, (wait a minute)
Wait a minute, (wait a minute)
Now don't you go, (wait a minute)

What did you want
How could I guess
You wanted more
I gave you less
A miracle is all I need
A bush to burn
A stone to bleed

We're dreaming from the bottom of the well
We're curled up in the corner of our cell
Freedom's just a story that we tell
I say give me liberty or give me hell
I know life is just a song
If I can get the world to sing along
Brothers and sisters

Альбом "Lucky" 2004 г.

"I wanted to wrap up the whole experience of the album somehow in a nice little exclamation mark, and 'When You Find The One' is a very simple song, a simple story about how my life was, what my experiences were. I had many emotional experiences in my life, many relationships, and now I've come to a part of my life, finally, when I'm 42, where I've actually found the one . When you find the one there's no questioning the silence, it's just really simple. It's just a simple statement of truly, truly being in love, and I wanted to end with that." - Melissa Etheridge

I was a slick Midwestern gal
On the long hard road into Southern Cal
Didn't find any crime
In filling up all my time

I did not fall when you found me I was face down
My confidence small pushed off the merry go round
Wishes and horses and all the kings' men
Could not put my heart back together again
I'm through with love isn't it clear my friend

You said
Who are you waiting for

Take your hands from your face
Watch the hero fall from grace
You lost your way, little child
You come to me

Wild,  wild, wild in the morning every day
Wild,  wild, wild roll it over, let it play
That's the number you dialed

In these days and these hours of fury
When the darkness and answers are thin
Lovers come and check out in a hurry
Shallow and hollow again
Come lay your body beside me
To dream to sleep with the lamb
To the question your eyes seem to send

Come on baby let's get out of this town
I got a full tank of gas with the top rolled down
There's a chill in my bones
I don't want to be left alone
So baby you can sleep while I drive
I'll pack my bag and load up my guitar
In my pocket I'll carry my harp
I got some money I saved