Grace lyrics

There's the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Well it's my time coming
I'm not afraid to die
My fading voice sings of love
But she cries to the clicking of time
Of time

Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire

And she weeps on my arm
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow
Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow
Oh my love
And the rain is falling and I believe

Well I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music do you

Well it goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof

I lost myself on a cool damp night
I gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree

I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see
And be what I want to be

When I think more than I want to think
Do things I never should do
I drink much more that I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you

Lilac wine

Looking out the door I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water
And maybe I'm too young
To keep good love from going wrong
But tonight you're on my mind so (you'll never know)

I'm broken down and hungry for your love
With no way to feed it
Where are you tonight? Child, you know how much I need it

It's a song about a dream..

I'm lying in my bed
The blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
Touch my skin to keep me whole

If only you'd come back to me
If you laid at my side
Wouldn't need no Mojo Pin
To keep me satisfied

Don't want to weep for you
I don't want to know
I'm blind and tortured the white horses flow
The memories fire

Love, let me sleep tonight on your couch
And remember the smell of the fabric
Of your simple city dress

Oh
That was so real

We walked around til the moon got full like a plate
The wind blew an invocation
And I fell asleep at the gate
And I never stepped on the cracks
'Cause I thought I'd hurt my mother
And I couldn't awake from the nightmare
That sucked me in and pulled me under

This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this and then I'll go
you gave me more to live for
more than you'll ever know

This is our last embrace
Must I dream and always see your face
Why can't we overcome this wall
Baby, maybe it is just because I didn't know you at all

Kiss me
Please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, baby
And not consolation

Cold wind blow this waiting blood,
Flow into my ashen arms.
Ice stream prick my sleeping skin.
She is like the so black time,
Race on in and never go away.
She's just like this wind.

Black Car, with your creaking wheel,
Take away these thoughts of mine.

Once there was a crazy man
Staring from his drunken eyes,
Staring stony into her elbow's way
Stared at me and tellin' me,

Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat

An' cov'rin' the crossroads I'm standing at,

Or maybe it's the weather or something like that,

But mama, you been on my mind.

I don't mean trouble, please don't put me down, donât get upset,

I am not pleading or saying that "I can't forget you."

I do not walk the floor bowed down and bent, but yet,

Mama, you been on my mind.

(J. Buckley)

This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this and then I'll go :
you gave me more to live for,
more than you'll ever know.

This is our last embrace,
must I dream and always see your face
Why can't we overcome this wall
Baby, maybe it is just because I didn't know you at all.

Kiss me, please,
Kiss me

(J. Buckley)

Eternal Life is now on my trail
Got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail
While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games
There's a flaming red horizon that screams our names

And as your fantasies are broken in two
Did you really think this bloody road would
Pave the way for you?
You better turn around

(J. Buckley/M. Grondahl/M. Johnson)

There is a child sleeping near his twin
The pictures go wild in a rush of wind
That dark angel he is shuffling in
Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled

The love you lost with her skin so fair
Is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair
Her green eyes bloom goodbyes
With her head in her hands
and your kiss on the lips another

(B. Britten)
Originally performed by Benjamin Britten

He bear her off, he bear her down
He bear her into an orchard ground
Lu Li Lu Lay
Lu Li Lu Lay
The falcon hath bourne my mate away

And in this orchard there was a hold
That was hanged with purple and gold
And in that hold there was a bed
And it was hanged with gold so red

Lu Li Lu Lay
Lu Li Lu Lay

the other woman finds time to manicure her nails
the other woman is perfect where her rival fails
and she's never seen with pin curls in her hair

the other woman enchants her clothes with french perfume
the other woman keeps fresh cut flowers in each room
there are never toys that's scattered everywhere

and when her baby comes to call
he'll find her waiting like a lonesome queen

nobody nobody nobody nobody knows
how deep my love for you really goes

don't try to blow out the sun for me
i'm not hopin' for what i know can't be
all that i ask is for a smile or two
nothing in this world could be too good for you

i wouldn't ask you to lift up this great big world
yes i know you're not that kind of a girl
all I ask is for a kiss each day

and i will stroll the merry way
and jump the hedges first
and i will drink the clear
clean water for to quench my thirst
and i shall watch the ferry-boats
and they'll get high
on a bluer ocean
against tomorrow's sky

and i will never grow so old again
and i will walk and talk
in gardens all wet with rain
'hey, it's me, i'm dynamite
and i don't know why'
we shall walk and talk

southern trees bear strange fruit,
blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

pastoral scene of the gallant south,
the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

here is fruit for the crows to pluck,

i'm a rollin' stone all alone and lost
for a life of sin I have paid the cost
when I walk by all the people say
just another guy on the lost highway

just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
and a woman's lies makes a life like mine
all the day we met, I went astray
i started rolling down this lost highway

i was just a lad, nearly twenty two
neither good nor bad, just a kid like you

i'm gonna kick 'em out
well i feel pretty good
and i guess that i could get crazy now, baby
'cause we all got in tune
when the dress ing room got hazy now, baby

i know how you want it, child,
hot, sweet, and tight
when girls can't stand it
when you're doing it right
when they're up on the stand
and then they kick out the jams, yes
kick out the jams, i like to kick 'em out

nobody feels any pain
tonight as i stand inside the rain
ev'rybody knows
that baby's got new clothes
but lately i see her ribbons and her bows
have fallen from her curls.
she takes just like a woman, yes, she does
she makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
and she aches just like a woman
but she breaks just like a little girl.

queen mary, she's my friend

i used to know a little square
so long ago, when i was small
all summer long it had a fair
wonderful fair with swings and all
i used to love my little square
and at the close of every day
i could be found, dancing around
a merry-go that used to play

ah, mon amour
a toi toujours
dans tes grands yeux
rien que nous deux

all summer long my little fair
made everyday like a holiday

now i want someone badly
got a girl here tonight
wants someone new
someone new
a little cry wants someone badly
i wanna know if this is a bad lease on me

i want to know
i want to know
am i sure that i heard you right
i want to know
if you're leaving just do it tonight

now i want someone badly
to burn in here with me
but listen baby
'cause i cry all over madly

While this town is busy sleeping
All the noise died away
I walk the streets to stop my weeping
But she'll never change her ways

Don't fool yourself
She was heartache from the moment that you met her
My heart feels so still
As i try to find the will to forget her somehow
Oh i think i've forgotten her now

Her love is a rose dead and dying
Dropping her petals and man i know

if i had wings like noah's dove
i'd fly up the river to the one i love
fare thee well, oh honey, fare thee well

i've got a man, he's long and tall
moves his body like a cannon ball
fare thee well, oh honey, fare thee well

one of these days and it won't be long
call my name and I'll be gone
fare thee well, oh honey, fare thee well

i remember one night, a drizzling rain

a desert road from vegas to nowhere
some place better than where you've been
a coffee machine that needs some fixing
in a little café just around the bend

i am calling you
can't you hear me
i am calling you

a hot dry wind blows right through me
the baby's crying and I can't sleep
but we both know a change is coming
coming closer sweet release

i am calling you
i know you hear me

be your husband if you'll be my wife
be your husband if you'll be my wife

stick to the promise that you made me
you've gotta stick to the promise that you made me
stay away from johnny lee

ooh daddy gotta love me good
ooh daddy gotta love me good
ooh daddy gotta love me good

if you want me to, i'll cook and sew
if you want me to, i'll cook and sew
if you want me to, i'll cook and sew