- Lighting Candles
Trying not to hope too hard for what I want
Trying not to go too far with all the dreaming
Oh, the disappointment, so hard to handle
I'm still in the dark, lighting candles
Late at night I lie awake, think I should go
Catch a train to stranger towns
- Add My Effort
Well I know that life is hard,
you make it all right
And I know how dark you get
late in the night
I'm gonna add my effort to you
I'm gonna add my effort to you
Try and love you
- All That I Want
Out in the harbor
The ships come in, it's Christmastime
The kids all holler carols 'cross the water
Stars that shine
All that I want, all that I want
Above the rooftops
- All This Beauty
All this beauty;
You might have to close your eyes
And slowly open wide
All this beauty;
We traveled all night
We drank the ocean dry
And watched the sun rise...
- Antarctica
Left behind everything I knew
All the colors but bone-white and sky-blue
Hit the continent running
Engines were humming just to break through
Antarctica, my only living relative
Antarctica, I can't wait anymore
- Be My Thrill
Be my thrill, my little white pill, my unpaid bill, the one who will
Be my love, my little grey dove, my push and my shove, my heaven above
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And we tumble down like Jack and Jill, and I miss all of the joy you kill
But I love you still, be my thrill
Be my one, my day in the sun, my little pop gun, the best thing I've done
- Boys Who Want to Be Girls
Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by
I think they were girls
Standing on the corner
Kinda makes you wonder why boys would be girls
Boys who want to be girls live for another world
Boys who want to be girls live so hard,
- Comfort
When everyone has gone to sleep
And you are wide awake,
There's no one left to tell your troubles to
Just an hour ago, you listened to their voices
Wilting like a river over underground
And the light from downstairs
Came up soft like daybreak
- Crooked Smile
You can't get up
Cause you've been down and you are reeling
You catch you breath
by counting cracks upon the ceiling
It makes it somewhat less appealing
to be feeling like you're stealing
someone else's broken heart
Do do do do
- Does Not Bear Repeating
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh
This is not the way I thought it would be
Thought it would be much lighter
This is not the way I thought it would be
Thought it would be much brighter
I thought I saw stars, but it was a rain falling
- Empty Your Hands
16 balloons against the blue
they're red, they're red like a dream come true
Sure it was enough to give them to you
to watch you let them go, let them go
Empty your hands
of overheard conversations
Empty your hands
- Fancy Things
You will meet him on a train
You will meet him on a plane
You will meet him on the way
to somewhere you have never been
You've got to get on board
You've got to spread your wings
You've got to take a chance
- Gotta Have You
Gray, quiet and tired and mean
Picking at a worried seam
I try to make you mad at me over the phone.
Red eyes and fire and signs
I'm taken by a nursery rhyme
I want to make a ray of sunshine and never leave home
No amount of coffee, no amount of crying
- Hard To Please
Maybe if you came about
Maybe if you turned this ship around
If you waited this one out
and just put your head down
Oh, in your dreams you find out
Though it's not quite how you remember
In your dreams you find out
- How You Survived the War
You never change your mind once it's made up
Unless it's to crawl back on your knees
Is that the way you want it?
You get back to the wall
And put your hands up
It's a holdup
You give up like every time before
- Hummingbird
Always been like a hummingbird
and I can’t sit still
Listen up, lover listen up, I never will
Wings move faster than the human eye
And if you could see my heart
well, if you could see my heart,
Kept from flying outwards
- Just Blue
Red dirt road in Tennessee
Red dirt mud, slow wet feet
Red dirt clay stuck in my heart
Clogging up the way
The tears come through
I'm blue, just blue
Pale gray sky above my head
- Keep it There
Got three dollars burning in my pocket, I know I know
Got three dollars burning in my pocket, I know I know
I got, I got, I got to keep it there.
Got an old ghost locked in my closet, I know I know
Got an old ghost locked in my closet, I know I know
I got, I got, I got to keep it there.
- Lighting Candles
Trying not to hope too hard
For what I want
Trying not to go too far
With all the dreaming
All the disappointment
So hard to handle
I am still in the dark
- Little Bird
Sometimes it's hard to say
Even one thing true
When all eyes have turned aside
They used to talk to you
And people on the streets seem to disapprove
So you keep moving away
And forget what you wanted to say
- Living In Twilight
You look darkly on the day
With memories to light your way
A little sad but it's all right
We are always living in twilight
No one knocks upon your door
Until you don't care anymore
A little alone but it's all right
- No amount of coffee, No amount of whiskey..
Gray, quiet and tired and mean
Picking at a worried seam
I try to make you mad at me over the phone.
Red eyes and fire and signs
I'm taken by a nursery rhyme
I want to make a ray of sunshine and never leave home
No amount of coffee, no amount of crying
- No Trouble
I don't need no trouble
But sometimes trouble needs me
I don't need no trouble
But it's plain to see
Sometimes trouble needs me
A couple of my friends, and a couple omnivores
Adjust me in my rain and I say oh yes of course
- Not A Lullaby
This is not a lullaby,
one that makes you close your eyes
Here's a song that will not try
to hold you in my arms
This is not a true love song,
one that lifts your heart along
Because you know it's being sung
- Orbiting
You named me judge the day that I was born
You asked too much to fix what you had torn
Things got out of hand, now I understand
And I'm out of your range
Now it's kind of strange
How we change orbit in our lives
You were kind of a moon outside of my room
- Painting By Chagall
Thunder rumbles in the distance, a quiet intensity
I am willful, your insistence is tugging at the best of me
You're the moon, I'm the water
You're Mars, calling up Neptune's daughter
Sometimes rain that's needed falls
We float like two lovers in a painting by Chagall
All around is sky and blue town
- Please Speak Well Of Me
I've been away a year and a day
You recognize love after the fact
You did what you did and that was that
Don't say words that you don't mean
When I'm gone, please speak well of me
Looking back now
- Red Red Rose
Don't know why you do the things you do do do
Holding it together with some glue glue glue
Your favorite color isn't red it's blue blue blue
No one knows a red red rose
So you never get the things you need need need
Where it's hurt you cover up
with weeds weeds weeds
- Riga Girls
Are your friends really your friends?
Are you still waiting for the end of the day?
Hey, hey, when will you learn to love what's sent from up above?
Riga girls go like this
Make me wish I was someone else
Oh, Riga girls, are you sad?
Oh, I wish I had someone
- Same Changes
Arms around my body
Kisses on my skin
I walk away
I walk away
But he lingers
Maybe it should matter
More to be myself
- Somebody Loved
rain turns the sand into mud
wind turns the trees into bone
stars turning high up above
you turn me into somebody loved.
nights when the heat had gone out
we danced together alone
cold turned our breath into clouds
- Takes So Long
I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know why it takes so long
I cut my hair, I grow it back
First the thought and then the act
To think a plant up towards the sun
It can't be done, it can't be done
- wish i could forget
Do you disapprove
Alright you've made your point
You don't have to choose right now
I don't have the time to step into that joint
No one wants to see my face there anyhow
Monday come like Tuesday
You were something else I will admit
- World Spins Madly On
Woke up and wished that I was dead
With an aching in my head
I lay motionless in bed
I thought of you and where you'd gone
and let the world spin madly on
Everything that I said I'd do
Like make the world brand new