Nanci Griffith Lyrics
Nanci Griffith Lyrics
"Michael's Song Lyrics"
Let's Get High Lyrics
Let's go out On an ocean ride Leave all your cares And the past behind Let's venture out To a deserted isle Let's get in touch With what is alive
Let's go out On an ocean ride Leave all your cares And the past behind Let's venture out To a deserted isle Let's get in touch With what is alive
(Nanci Griffith)
There's a light out on the freeway,says it's time to go
I'm wasting my time counting stains on a barroom floor
Thinking 'bout my hometown and the friends I'll leave behind
Mostly 'bout the man who writes his songs with smiling rhymes
And I'm holding on to a smokey view of his dreams in the midnight light
Mic
Villiers Terrace Lyrics
I've been up to Villiers Terrace To see what's a-happening There's people rolling 'round on the carpet Mixing up the medicine I've been up to Villiers
hael counts his songs in the years of wasted milesI've been up to Villiers Terrace To see what's a-happening There's people rolling 'round on the carpet Mixing up the medicine I've been up to Villiers
I used to think he was really part of that fantasy in rhyme
But looking back on all his tunes of butterflies and sunshine,
There was only one about the man he kept inside
About the time he crossed the line and let a tear come to his eye.
I used to hide out in his pretty smile,
And ho
ROCK ME ON THE WATER Lyrics
Oh people, look around you The signs are everywhere You've left it for somebody other than you To be the one to care You're lost inside your houses There's
pe it would shine me through the morrow.Oh people, look around you The signs are everywhere You've left it for somebody other than you To be the one to care You're lost inside your houses There's
Until I learned the way it feels to be the man
Who sings the world a smile without a soul to share his sorrow.
The light here at the freeway, well, it's turning green to gold,
The stains on that barroom floor ten miles back down the road.
Thinking 'bout how that old bar brought Michael back to mind
Never Be The Same Lyrics
She takes another morning drive She wonders if she's right this time She dreams about a life in other scenes She says it when I'm not around She drinks herself a
,She takes another morning drive She wonders if she's right this time She dreams about a life in other scenes She says it when I'm not around She drinks herself a
And how I can sing his blues and be smiling here inside...
I guess a weary soul will always sing Michael's smiling rhymes.
I used to hide out in his pretty smile,
And hope it would shine me through the morrow.
Until I learned the way it feels to be the man
Who sings the world a smile without a soul to share his sorrow.