- All I Ever Get for Christmas Is Blue
Strings of lights above the bed
Curtains drawn and a glass of red
All I ever get for Christmas is blue
Saxophone on the radio
Recorded 40 years ago
All I ever get for Christmas is blue
- All I Need Is Everything
Slow down Hold still
It's not as if it's a matter of will
Someone's circling Someone's moving
a little lower than the angels
And it's got nothing to do with me
The wind blows through the trees,
but if I look for it, it won't come
I tense up My mind goes numb
- Born
Pour me a glass of wine
Talk deep into the night
Who knows what we'll find
Intuition, deja-vu
The Holy Ghost haunting you
Whatever you got
I don't mind
- Desperate For Love
Are you feelin’ a little desperate
Get on your knees and confess it
Honey, please don’t second guess it
You’re desperate for love
Is this just a little fling
Or is it about a little bling bling
Either way, you feel the sting sting
- Entertaining Thoughts
I’ve been entertaining thoughts
Of what I wanna say to you
I’ve been entertaining thoughts
Of what I’m gonna do
I’ve been saving what I got
And wondering who to give it to
I’ve been entertaining thoughts all over you
- Faithfully Dangerous
Your paint dries, the canvas smiles
With two eyes you lift yourself up
Stroke your skin, there are teeth marks to be sure
Maybe we're best close to the ground
Maybe angels drag us down
I wonder which part of this will leave the scar
Dip your hands in colors
- Give Me Strength
sitting in the rain alone
looking at a place that's gone
boarded up my memories
but something's drawn me here again and i
i cannot leave the past alone
-hoped that i would never find
-all the shit i left behind
-now i find the child in me is going to remind me that i
- I Want You To Be My Love
I want you to be my love
I want you to be my love
'Neath the moon and the stars above
I want you to be my love
I want you to know me now
I want you to know me now
Break a promise make a vow
- I'm On A Roll
Black flamenco shoes
Dahlias in my hair
Garters on my stockings
The sidewalk bends to stare
I’m on a roll
I’m on a roll
Ambition may be blind
- If A Song Could Be President
If a song could be president
We’d hum on Election Day
The gospel choir would start to sway
And we’d all have a part to play
The first lady would free her hips
Pull a microphone to her lips
Break our hearts with Rhythm and Blues
- Let's Spend The Day In Bed
Let’s spend the day in bed
Yeah, that’s what I said
Let’s lie down draw the shades
Ditch the plans we made
Rest your lovely bones
And just stay home
Turn off the telephone
- Like A Radio
Dm__C_Dm
Confused
Dm________C
Ever since I spied you
______ Bb________C
In the rooms of my mind
__________Bb
Now I can't deny you
- Long Lost Brother
I thought that we'd be further along by now
I can't remember how
We stumbled to this place
I loved you like a long lost brother
On a bad day maybe I thought, why bother
I've seldom seen so much anger in a face
I wanna do better
I wanna try harder
- My Father's Body
My father's body lies beneath the snow
High on a hill in Holmes County, Ohio
From there you can look out across the fields
A farmer guides his horses home as day to darkness bends
And finally yields
Dad's gravestone holds the words Be Still My Soul
- Ohio
Hello Ohio
The back roads
I know Ohio
Like the back of my hand
Alone Ohio
Where the river bends
And it's strange to see your story end
- Sacred Ground
Love me like a memory held too long
Like the need to feel some forgotten song
Kiss me to chills like there’s only me
Like it’s hard to kill the last cottonwood tree
Love me later when the stars fall down
A burning light for a wedding gown
- Sharpest Blade
There was a time
I could sleep anywhere—
My feet on a chair,
My heart in the woods;
But love was aloof,
Just a beggar for tips
A mime on whose lips
- Sleep Baby Jane
suicide suicide
Katie's talking suicide
homicide homicide
mama killed my man
turpentine turpentine
potion for my valentine
take a ride and take it
- Snow Angel
Once upon a winter
It seems so long ago
My one and only love and I
Fell down upon the snow
And as the dusk was falling
From our gray and goose down sky
We heard the old cathedral bells
- Snowed in with You
When you come home and all the world is asleep
I'll close my eyes and breathe with sweet relief
This world has had you long enough for now
And when I get you home I'll show you how
- The Laugh Of Recognition
Em - C - G - Bm7
Come on boys
It's time to settle down
What do you think you'll gain
From all this runnin' around?
Come on boys
- The Trumpet Child
The trumpet child will blow his horn
Will blast the sky till it’s reborn
With Gabriel’s power and Satchmo’s grace
He will surprise the human race
The trumpet he will use to blow
Is being fashioned out of fire
The mouthpiece is a glowing coal
- The World Can Wait
if this should end tomorrow
all our best laid plans
and all our typical fears
am i running out of lifetimes
this is not the first time
something ends in just tears
but tomorrow i can't imagine
- Trouble
If you came to make some trouble
Better make it good
Your sexy cocktail hour stubble
Is doing what it should
Looks may be sweet and subtle
I think it’s trouble honey
I think it’s good
If you came to make trouble
- When I Go
It makes a difference
When you walk through a room
With that worrisome smile
Road weary perfume
But this isn't the place
And it isn't the time
For this beautiful delusion