I Will Write My Book Joe Henry

If anybody asks what's new I say, "not much," and it's mostly true, But when my stars align with you Then I will write my book.

Windows Of The Revolution Joe Henry

What can I write home about? The waters cold, the pilots out. I keep my children out of sight And my man never came home last night What will I learn to tell myself?

Widows Of The Revolution Joe Henry

What can I write home about? The water's cold, the pilot's out. I keep my children out of sight And my man never came home last night. What will I learn to tell myself?

Leaning Joe Henry

I cant stay here in my room I cant hold my own against the heavy Lean of your perfume That tries to keep your pillow down and low Across my face As if what lingers here of you could Take my breath

Heaven's Escape Joe Henry

of your face In the battles we've won, lost or misplaced In the promise of heaven and the hold of its gates Oh, I can see it now But tell me how, my love, will we escape?

After The War Joe Henry

A dog-eared mind sniffed my heart Like a pocket full of German marks Long after the war was through Stood me on a rusted rail Turned my face and kicked my tail Up toward the yonder blue … Threw a fish

Room At Arles Joe Henry

Just behind that wall, I think, She pulls her stockings on: The creaking floor speaks through the door Of one foot then the other The curtains wave a flag to say This afternoon is done And giving in to

Our Song Joe Henry

was close enough That I heard him when he said out loud This was my country And this was my song Somewhere in the middle there Though it started badly and it's ending wrong This was my country This frightful

Wave Joe Henry

"I waved to you as my boat was leaving Hats flew up and everybody cheered, But you turned as I guess someone spoke to you, And in a sea of arms you disappeared.

Time Is A Lion Joe Henry

Here you go If you fear the angels above while you sleep Then I'll be the blood, you paint on your door Your dream is a worry that nothing will keep But time is a story and there will be more Your dream

Odetta Joe Henry

Whose chickens are those in my yard?

Strung Joe Henry

I keep wooden boxes like traps strung with wire In the light of old tires, piled on the fire Wearing their smoke like a flower in bloom Cut like the thread in a pipe fitter's room; I dig in the dirt and

Love Is Enough Joe Henry

Headlights fake a prison break Of snow that rages and dies, It's lost its will upon this hill As one time so did I.

Parker's Mood Joe Henry

Where's my sock? Where's my other shoe?

Loves You Madly Joe Henry

O, God loves a sinner God loves a crook, God loves you frail And splayed out like a book.

Flag Joe Henry

Take that noise out in the street, This rubble out from under my feet. No rest for the weary in here, And make a fuss, youre a volunteer.

Tomorrow Is October Joe Henry

And sirens sing one song for hours Here begins the fitting end To what we'd started over When tomorrow is October Tomorrow is October A masquerade of civility Had stood the test of time of me: I

Unspeakable Joe Henry

You tug at my sleep, A tangle of thread, That knots at the lock At the foot of my bed Swinging the door To a perilous view Where all my unspeakable dreams Fall to you, All my unspeakable dreams Fall to

Eyes Out For You Joe Henry

A fence is stretched across my brow A divided country: then and now, And you the border guard My caravan waved off the track With dusty miners hid in back, Their faces glowing hard … Bruised and black

Dirty Magazine Joe Henry

And what am I supposed to do with you?

You Can't Fail Me Now Joe Henry

I know that fan is moving air, I can see it in your hair But I can't bear to breathe it in somehow I'll rise and fall with you 'cause you can't fail me now I'll rise and fall with you 'cause you can't

Dark Tears Joe Henry

My camera doesn't lie to me, I see dark tears behind its eye, My camera doesn't lie to me, I see dark tears behind its eye It looks backwards on my future, Already in the sweet by-and-by The rambler vines

Flesh And Blood Joe Henry

Come speak my name, Fill my head with all such foolish dreams My flesh and blood is no more real to me Than what they seem My love for you is burning Like a spark along a fuse, I feel your mark upon

Your Side Of My World Joe Henry

Thought that bell was in my dream, All in my head, Until the trucks were in the yard And the fire was in my bed. Oh, can you hear the ringing bell, Telling time like time was to tell?

Animal Skin Joe Henry

I see in you an animal trace Thats quick in your blood and deep in your face, Mine has been tamed Im shamed to pretend When Im this close to your animal skin I remember when love was something I craved

God Only Knows Joe Henry

Time has turned an angry face And throws a dark eye back to see That what will pass for mercy now We practice unforgiving.

Sold Joe Henry

Please dont speak another truth out loud Whatever else you do, I only want you keep me lost in your cloud And Ill do the same for you.

Grand Street Joe Henry

His foot held the door, To the alley in back Where the hotel's kitchen let out And the night butcher stood 'Neath a dim iron moon And spoke to himself right out loud Spoke to himself right out loud I gave

The World And All I Know Joe Henry

The dark great river bends below me, A void of light now tells me so Where tiny towns crowd its shoulders, Between the world and all I know … Thunder rolls beneath my feet And mountain clouds slide just

This Afternoon Joe Henry

On the afternoon That the revolution began, I was in a hotel pool with another kid And an Australian business man.

Scare Me To Death Joe Henry

as breath And you move up behind me And scare me to death You're fragile but wicked And fleeting as breath And you move up behind me And scare me to death At war between All good intentions and greed My

Lighthouse Joe Henry

Oh, my dear, Ive swallowed the moon, And left it dark like a ring Burned on a spoon.

Shut Me Up Joe Henry

The word wants just to leave my tongue, To turn your face, and when that's dope I've got no use for what it proves, It only means the way you move.

Henry Keb' Mo'

Remember if you can When cotton was picked by hand Down in Dixy under southern sky Working from sun to sun Remember if you will Lightening from a whiskey still The blues and the breese The sweet magnolia

Civil War Joe Henry

I don't know you to wear a hat But I came home late and there it sat, You rose to show what hats are for When living through a civil war, When living through a civil war Christmas mornings and New Years

Tiny Voices Joe Henry

They set fire behind them I see it burning into view, High upon the mountain where Im Falling for you All manner of abandon Is just the thing we need, Get ready for the country, boys, The town has

Piano Furnace Joe Henry

the fires of the world A clanging black train cuts through the song Connecting the fears along for so long Leaves them in ribbons strewn out on the lawn Tangled as ever we sing let your iron lungs My

Rant And Rave Joe Jackson

I'm gonna rant and rave I'm gonna lose control if they get me mad I'm staring at the TV screen They're staring right back I got a bottle in my hand I think I'll blow them up I'm gonna weep and wail I'm

He Made A Woman Out Of Me Bobbie Gentry

I was born on a levy A little bit south of Montgomery Mama worked in the big house And daddy he worked for the County I never had no learnin' Until I turned 16 When Joe Henry come up the river, yonder

Deathbed Versions Joe Henry

How do you like your blue-eyed boy?How do you like your blue-eyed boy?Now the rabble have been jailed,The moon is up, had hung and paledThe horses spooked, the fences failed …How do you like your b...

Civilians Joe Henry

The carriage horses stamp and fumeUntil all color's goneThey leave the street in black and whiteAnd bring the eventing coming onLovers tug their way out of glovesOut of shoes, and gray chiffonThe d...

I'm Henry The Eighth I Am Joe Brown, The Bruvvers

I'm Henry the eighth I am Henry the eighth I am I am I got married to the widow next door She's been married seven times before And every one was an Henry Henry She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam no Sam

I'd Like To Have A Problem Like That Joe Diffie

"I'm not a wealthy man, don't pay for my suntan I work out in the heat and the cold Sometimes I'd like to be the big, bad wolf 'Stead of just another sheep in the fold I hear the rich man holler 'bout

Dear John Joe Walsh

I started out to write you this letter, But it ended up another song. I am sorry that the news can't be better, dear John.

When I Write The Book Rockpile

to be And when I write the book about my love It will be about a man who's torn in half About his hopes and ambitions wasted through the years The pain will be written on every page in tears When I write

When I Write The Book Nick Lowe

to be And when I write the book about my love It will be about a man who's torn in half About his hopes and ambitions wasted through the years The pain will be written on every page in tears When

It Ain't Like That Joe

I swear to god it wasn't me that's my word. I don't care what they say no. [Chorus] I'm not the only one with a cranapple benz. Drop stop sitting on. I was a player.

John Henry Sonny Terry

, now steel's gonna be the death of me, Lord, Lord, steel's gonna be the death of me" John Henry told his captain one day, "A man ain't nothin' but a man, before I will let you steam drill beat me

Sense Of Henry I Mother Earth

There they are/ Alive, on the move, pretty young,/ Still unproven though they love/ Restless young zeroes in a haze/ Of reckless blind faith taking their/ Own sweet time to write and rhyme/ Their ending

LOVE HENRY Bob Dylan

LOVE HENRY "Get down, get down, Love Henry," she cried, "And stay all night with me. I have gold chains, and the finest I have I'll apply them all to thee."