Song Lyrics Ani Difranco - Non Album Tracks    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> A>> Ani Difranco Singer Lyrics [Ani Difranco other resources]>> Non Album Tracks Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Ani Difranco Music Title/Track: Non Album Tracks Theme ID: 24865 Album: N/A Aids everywhere she looks she looks through the corner of her eye every time she left she never turned to say goodbye swaying in the corner of the ballroom alone by the music she looked like a spiderweb fresh from the war he complements her bedroom decor she crawled in there like water she drowned in there on the floor she left him gasping for air and crying for more. and the morning sun was embarrassed to find them lying together neither could remember the other's name he stepped out of her mind and into the hall and they never saw each other again. whoa... and someone gave her a manual of love in the world today and that page is not pulpy because there is no proper way it's so easy for those with the unclenching eye to find some unfulfilled human being to fry she is looking for the kisses that she never got at home her lips are puckered and she is walking alone and if she ends up with some dirty hot disease its a small price she pays for the need to be pleased. and there are too few who open both eyes we sit back in our easy chairs and try to sympathize but whether from the point of a needle or the edge of her bed our heroine like too many others now is dead and lisa is lucky, she ended up with a baby boy she's 16 years old, doesn't know her body's not a toy joel is hungry, he is doing the town andrea is on the rebound. walk to the corner and run from what you find we have to abort our cannibalistic state of mind. everywhere she looked she looked through the corner of her eye and every time she left she never turned to say goodbye swaying in the corner of the ballroom alone by the music she looked like a spiderweb. fresh from the war he complements her bedroom decor she didn't know this time she was the victim he had nothing to lose anymore... Asked You First things can't get much weirder this can't get much worse don't know why you wouldn't kiss me but it's a good thing i asked you first. you were a big strapping boy with a boner. and i felt it in your goodbye you gave me an evening i'll never forget no matter how hard i try. yeah you were just mister flirtatious all night just workin' that ass well you know it's uncool to bring it to school if you don't want to share with the class i am just mrs. embarrassed i feel like a dirty old man i've got my eye on a guy that just moved out of mom's house with his pretty head stuck in the sand you've earned yourself a place in my memory by being the one who said no where are my fucking car keys i think i'll just go surprise surprise now you miss me now that i'm not in your face surprise surprise now you're calling me now that you feel safe do you think that i could be your prom date you could do us a stiff little dance except that this isn't high school, baby and you had your chance you had your chance you've earned yourself a place in my memory by being the one who said no now where are my fucking car keys i think i should go hey look! car keys... bye!] things can't get much weirder this can't get much worse don't know why you wouldn't kiss me but it's a good thing i asked you first. you were a big strapping boy with a boner. and i felt it in your goodbye you're leaving i'll never forget no matter how hard i try no matter how hard i try Boys In Blue i shut my mouth cause they are the law and i am alone ohhh, the boys in blue have decided i need a good talking to though i've done nothing wrong he is less than polite i guess i'm not his type and while he has his fun the whole time he has his hand on his gun my friends, they say you'll have to grow your hair and watch what you wear if you want them, to go away otherwise, stay out of sight and be thankful that you are white i shut my mouth cause they are the law and i am alone ohhhh, the boys in blue have decided i need a good talking to Cold And Mean you are listening to the phone ring, like a church bell sounding out the hour and the ringing cuts the silence like a knife leaving little pieces left of your life you are watching the night shadows grow tall swallowing you in terror like the phone on the wall shake me now to the sorrels(soils) of a dream take me whole and take me clean take me from this reality cold and mean, cold and mean but i can't answer i can't speak to anyone not until i witness the next rising of the sun its this darkness like a leadweight in my shoe i couldn't rise to answer even if i wanted to shake me down to the soils of a dream take me whole and take me clean take me from this reality cold and mean Find A Fire i am wading through the waters wanting you i don't dare look cuz i'll see right through i tried to warn myself to sleep, but now i'm waiting, wading deep i can't scream my sirens any higher, cuz i'm bound to find a fire i can smell your closeness though you hide in your tower, the peasant boy plagued by the princess of power and out of the struggle of your isolation, comes a redemption of innocence by association i can't scream my sirens any higher, cuz i'm bound to find a fire so i will play your game, cuz it's my game too a stranger's arthmetic where one and one don't make two i can sense a softness there, can you imagine the lifenessness that we could share, i can't scream my sirens any higher, cuz i'm bound to find a fire.. Garden some crazy fucker carved a sculpture out of butter and propped it up in the middle of the bonanza breakfast bar. and i am stuffing toast and sausage into my pockets under a sign that says "grand opening" while my dog is waiting in the car. i check out, wake up, yeah. i fill the tank and wash the windshield clean and then I'm back out on the highway. and bang, that's when i remember my dream. we were standing in the garden and i had a machine that played silence. just sucked up the whole opinionated din. and there were no people on the payroll and there were no monkeys on our backs. and i said, "baby, show me what you look like without skin." science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation can't make bail. but the bacteria are coming to take us down, that's my prediction. it's the answer to this culture of the quick fix prescription. but in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me. and you know they never really owned you, you just carried them around. and then one day you put 'em down and found your hands were free. so now it's early in the morning at the longitude of memphis and the sun is setting sweetly on hong kong. and the big planets just keep spinning, 'cos the big bang is just beginning and sometimes it's all that we can do just to hang on. and what i meant to say is "mwah!", which means I'm thinking of you... which means I've been thinking of you all along. Handsome Musician he was a handsome musician but he had an ugly scar you could not see it on him but you could hear it when he played guitar naked and nervous silence therefore conversation to abuse stood between us like a parent like a game we had to lose he kept an eye on the door and his back to the wall his walk told of the time it takes for a man to fall and i welcomed him into my closet to meet the skeletons living there in my twilight vacancy i didn't care we knew each other namelessly as the rhythm came of age he knew me like a blue note and the lights went down on stage he was a handsome musician but he had an ugly scar you could not see it on him but you could hear it when he played guitar i welcomed him into my closet to meet the skeletons living there in my twilight vacancy i didn't care he was a handsome musician but he had an ugly scar you could not see it on him but you could hear it when he played guitar Heart Break Even it's a heart break-even situation, nothing lost and nothing gained. so i'm 10 years old again, standing in the backyard waving at a train. and i feel you make love to me slightly every time you let a little laugh slip too soon. and the moment passes over us all lightly that feels like sand blowing over a dune. and i try not to let my emotion show, but it ain't a balloon that i can just let go. it's an ice cream cone dripping in the sun. sticky hands, sticky arms, sticky situation. it's a heart break-even situation. one part powerful elation, one part petal falling free. so i'm trying to feel my way around a book, of promises written in braille. there's pressure from within. there's pressure from above. there is pressure on my tenuous strain. you were slowly a wet wall of blankets. one, two, three piled onto my chest till i just can't breathe. and i try not to let my emotion show but it ain't a balloon that i can just let go. it's an ice cream cone dripping in the sun sticky hands, sticky arms, sticky situation. How Long Can It Last two years ago before you felt so familiar before i could remember your last name i remember now how our bright spring green deepened with the years the seasons changed and we were lush as the underside of august the streets looked like water they swelled and they shimmered and they stretch like the sea and dressed in my best shining skin and my squinty eyes i put the miles behind me and it took us so long to get here you gotta write between lines you gotta read between the years and fleetingly we see ourselves pass driving a good thing and wondering how long can it last how long can it last how long can it last how long can it last and there was much to forgive and there was much to forget it seems we both stood by while the record was set and now when i look at you and when you look at me it's a much different view we are both decked out in our history and it took us so long to get here you gotta write between the lines and read between the years and fleetingly we see ourselves pass driving a good thing and wondering, how long can it lost how long can it last etc. I Loved You, So What? who's gonna give a shit? who's gonna take the call? when you find out that the road is painted on the wall and you turn up to top volume you're just sitting there in pause with your feral little secret scratching at you with its claws and you're trying hard to figure out just exactly how you feel before you end up parked and sobbing forehead on the steering wheel and who are you now and who were you then that you thought somehow you could just pretend that you could figure it all out the mathematics of regret it takes two beers to remember now and five to forget that i loved you so yeah i loved you so what how many times undone can one person be as they're careening through the facade of their favorite fantasy you just close your eyes slowly like you're waiting for a kiss and hope some lowly little power will pull you out of this but none comes at first and little comes at all and when inspiration finally hits you it barely even breaks your fall and who are you now and who are you now that you can pretend that it'll all work out subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get so here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget that i loved you so yeah i loved you so what Imagine imagine that i'm on stage under a watchtower of punishing light. and in the haze is your face bathed in shadow and what's beyond you is hidden from sight. and somebody right now is yawning and watching me like a tv. and i've been frantically piling up sandbags against the flood waters of fatigue and insecurity. and that's when i hear my guitar singing and so i just start singing along. and somewhere in my chest all the noise just gets crushed by the song. imagine that i'm at your mercy, imagine that you are at mine. just pretend that i've been standing here, watching you watching me all of this time. imagine that you are the weather in the tiny snow globe of this song. and i am a statue of liberty one inch long. so here i am at my most hungry, and here i am at my most full. and here i am waving a red cape, locking eyes with a bull. imagine that i'm on stage under a watchtower of punishing light. and in the haze is your face bathed in shadow and what's beyond you is hidden from sight. North Main Street the warmth of north main street shows me how i took myself through illogical landscapes with you scribbling on napkins in foreign ports all sorts of sidewalks i don't traverse anymore all kinds of people i don't write into the score well i see you drive your car past my house you're so far from admitting i've emerged from under your deep weather you may never hear the future i have heard oh the sound rebounds off the highest plateau of the people i will love and the things i will know if i go the utility of lipstick escapes to a styrofoam cup the coffee gone, the conversation strong oh though leaving's never easy sentiments like shadows grow long your tears collect outside my bedroom window like the winter's last little snow and i am still the worst company that i have ever kept i just didn't want you to witness my weakness as i wept and i still define myself by the places that i've been i just didn't want you to see me traveling in between it seems to me i'm not doing anything new i'm just not doing what i used to the warmth of north main street shows me how i took myself through illogical landscapes with you scribbling on napkins in foreign ports all sorts of sidewalks i don't traverse anymore all kinds of people i know right into the score well i see you drive your car past my house you're so far from admitting i've emerged from under your deep weather you may never hear the future i have heard oh the sound rebounds off the highest plateau of the people i will love and the things i will know if i go No Reason To Come Home don't know what you are going to do with this time on your own is the question on your mind ain't it a funny thing to accept that you are the worst company that you have ever kept. what are you gonna do you are living all alone there's no place to go out and no reason to come home. then, oh its so ironic here's this girl with all her friends sitting in such solitude trying desperately to mend and suddenly the four walls are closing in around the daily defenses are all falling down. what are you gonna do you are living all alone there's no place to go out and no reason to come home. and you just can't seem too follow through with anything that you start to do you leave the television talking to the empty air you leave your plate half full and you comb half your hair. what are you gonna do you are living all alone there's no place to go out and no reason to come home. One More Night i come to your town like thirsty lips to a cup i come to your town and i wanna call you up i don't know how you feel but i hope you feel the same i've broken every speed limit in your name sometimes i just wanna bury my head in a hole tell me do you have the kind of touch that can console i wanna hold my hands over my eyes during the scary scenes will you stay with me at night and stand guard over my dreams will you stand guard over my dreams you feel like you're out on a long limb like you've risked it all but i'll go out there with you and when the bough breaks the cradle will just fall i'd rather go down knowing what it was like than to keep myself company one more night one more night and i've got something new something i didn't have before you were a big dark room a room without a door if you will shelter me i will fill your vacancy we don't even need the walls, the ceiling, or the floor and i've got something for you too something you probably don't need you can buy it for the pictures, baby find out its a real good read i just hope you still want it cause i'm bringing it to you i'm gonna come to your town i'm gonna call you up then i don't know what i'm gonna do you feel like you're out on a long limb like you've risked it all and if the bough breaks the cradle will just fall i'd rather go down knowing what it was like than to keep myself company one more night one more night i come to your town like thirsty lips to a cup i come to your town and i'm gonna call you up i don't know how you feel but i hope you feel the same i've broken every speed limit in your name and sometimes i just wanna bury my head in a hole tell me do you have the kind of touch that can console i wanna hold my hands over my eyes during the scary scenes tell me will you stay with me at night and stand guard over my dreams will you stand guard over my dreams will you stand guard over my dreams.... One Times One Times One do you ever wonder when the damage will be done? do you ever feel like one times one times one? do your eyes scrape the pavement as you shuffle from the sun? does your breath walk behind you when the dialogue is done? are you somewhat uninhibited? are you somehow unfree? are you like me? are you a pile of loose brown leaves waiting to be blown, ready to disown? are you grounded by the comforts of home? are you covered in a strangling snow? are you somewhat uninhibited? are you somehow unfree? are you like me? do you ever wonder when the damage will be done? do you ever feel like one times one times one? do your eyes scrape the pavement as you shuffle from the sun? does your breath walk behind you when the dialogue is done? are you somewhat uninhibited? are you somehow unfree? are you like me? Subdivision white people are so scared of black people they bulldoze out to the country and put up houses on little loop-di-loop streets and America got its heart cut right out of its chest and the Berlin wall still runs down main street separating east side from west and nothing is stirring, not even a mouse in the boarded up stores and the broken down houses and they hang colorful banners off all the street lamps just to prove they got no manners no mercy and no sense and I'm wondering what it will take for my city to rise first we admit our mistakes and then we open our eyes the ghosts of old buildings are haunting parking lots in the city of good neighbors that history forgot. I remember the first time I saw someone lying on the cold street I thought "I can't just walk past him; this can't just be true" but I learned by example to just keep moving my feet its amazing the things we all learn to do so we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water and the old farm road's a four lane that leads to the mall and my dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall and I'm wondering what it would take for my country to rise first we identify our mistakes then we open our eyes till nature succumbs to one last dumb decision Submerged well your arms hang parallel to the curtains your gaze falls perpendicular to the floor your resign yourself to the hurting the lines in your brow are deeper than before don't misunderstand i just wanna be your friend well a phone call is a phone call is not a means to an end your t-shirt's white across your chest loose around your neck your eyes come to rest on my face indirect, there's been tears shopping here? in the market for solutions, you know, its so hard to find clear answers these days i think that a thing of the past they just don't make them to last anymore and it seems to me i'll miss love in the effort it confers and her legs are longer but mine are stronger than hers and i told you i wouldn't hold you down i would only make you happy and i wouldn't let you drown now you say you're submersed in me well i'm out here writing dirges can't you see i need to be free? you laugh and you smile and you say you'll agree but you continue with your kisses oh you love those near-misses can't you see the only thing i ask the only slant is the only thing you won't grant me just turn out the light unlock the door tell me you feel alright, even better than before show me you can be strong its all i wanted all along Subway the subway car smells like an animal's cage and don't you feel like the captain riding in a rage oh the city's sweet as cider sours with age the toss between fear and freedom looking for a familiar sign and the man sitting next to you says "hey baby, can you spare a dime?" oh the city's sweet as cider... sours in time you turn to see his pants from 1965 with the holes in the pockets and the fly open wide and just when he starts to make you nervous, suddenly he starts to cry oh the city's sweet as cider passes some people by and on the other side of the darkness where the tunnel closes inside you can only come out even in this town but girl, you have come out alright oh the city's sweet as cider isn't sweet at night no the city's sweet as cider isn't sweet at night This Little War you can doubt anything if you think about it long enough. cause what happened always adjusts to fit what happened after that. and it's hard to feel like you are free, when all you seem to do is referee, baby. i remember when it was just you and me steppin' up to bat. and win or lose, just like you choose, this little war is what kills you. and either or it's that this little war is maybe also what thrills you. we thought we left possession behind. the truth is i was yours and you weren't mine and i am ??. i've replayed a thousand times exactly what was said. cause nothing is as it appears. and the fun house mirrors of your fears on a roller coaster of all these years with your hands above your head. and win or lose, just like you choose, this little war is what kills you. and either or it's that this little war is maybe also what thrills you. and you know i don't care how fast you run just tell me baby that when you're done with your little marathon that you still have cab fare home. cause the finish line is a shifty thing and what is life but reckoning? and baby you are still the song i sing to myself when i'm alone. and win or lose, just like we choose, this little war is what kills us. and either or, it's that this little war, is maybe also what thrills us. To Be Free on the underside of your salutation i can hear you turning inward hello is such a thin word you're going to have to hide double-time from me cuz i read our poetry, and i can see when it doesn't rhyme you said you either wanted me home or you wanted to be alone[?] or you wanted to be alone and i felt you decide i have heard all the words you hold inside we were knitted like yarn in the morning you were the snooze button on my alarm and now goodnight is just the gesture of an arm well i think i understand but i don't think i agree sometimes i want to amend and sometimes i just want to be free if we can try forgiving if we can try to go on living like some kind of amateur team anyone can see that love is waiting us more than me that's for me please Waiting For Susan susan is a connotation at less than arms length she has the strength of an opinion her promises are like the night overcast like the stars she doesn't show and when she does, she doesn't last you can see her goodness like her breath on a window pane and then she turns her head and it is gone again and while i'm left waiting she'll wax and she'll wane and maybe she'll come here again and susan was at the other end of the line and she received me just in time and i lean to her like a preference of mine like a reference to friendship she defined my time now i'm waiting for susan i don't know where i am in line i'm waiting for susan i wonder where i am in line Hurricane Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall. She sees the bartender in a pool of blood, Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!" Here comes the story of the Hurricane, The man the authorities came to blame For somethin' that he never done. Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been The champion of the world. Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously. "I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands "I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand. I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops "One of us had better call up the cops." And so Patty calls the cops And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin' In the hot New Jersey night. Meanwhile, far away in another part of town Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around. Number one contender for the middleweight crown Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road Just like the time before and the time before that. In Paterson that's just the way things go. If you're black you might as well not show up on the street 'Less you wanna draw the heat. Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops. Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates." And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head. Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead" So they took him to the infirmary And though this man could hardly see They told him that he could identify the guilty men. Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in, Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs. The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!" Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane, The man the authorities came to blame For somethin' that he never done. Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been The champion of the world. Four months later, the ghettos are in flame, Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame. "Remember that murder that happened in a bar?" "Remember you said you saw the getaway car?" "You think you'd like to play ball with the law?" "Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?" "Don't forget that you are white." Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure." Cops said, "A poor boy like you could use a break We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow. You'll be doin' society a favor. That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver. We want to put his ass in stir We want to pin this triple murder on him He ain't no Gentleman Jim." Rubin could take a man out with just one punch But he never did like to talk about it all that much. It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way Up to some paradise Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice And ride a horse along a trail. But then they took him to the jailhouse Where they try to turn a man into a mouse. All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance. The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger. No one doubted that he pulled the trigger. And though they could not produce the gun, The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed And the all-white jury agreed. Rubin Carter was falsely tried. The crime was murder "one," guess who testified? Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride. How can the life of such a man Be in the palm of some fool's hand? To see him obviously framed Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land Where justice is a game. Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell An innocent man in a living hell. That's the story of the Hurricane, But it won't be over till they clear his name And give him back the time he's done. Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been The champion of the world. Do Re Mi Lots of folks back East, they say, is leavin' home every day, Beatin' the hot old dusty way to the California line. 'Cross the desert sands they roll, gettin' out of that old dust bowl, They think they're goin' to a sugar bowl, but here's what they find -- Now, the police at the port of entry say, "You're number fourteen thousand for today." CHORUS: Oh, if you ain't got the do re mi, folks, you ain't got the do re mi, Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee. California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see; But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi. You want to buy you a home or a farm, that can't deal nobody harm, Or take your vacation by the mountains or sea. Don't swap your old cow for a car, you better stay right where you are, Better take this little tip from me. 'Cause I look through the want ads every day But the headlines on the papers always say: If you ain't got the do re mi, boys, you ain't got the do re mi, Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee. California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see; But believe it or not, you won'?t find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi. Midnight Train To Georgia L.A. proved too much for the man (too much for the man, he couldn't make it) So he's leaving a life he's come to know (He said he's going) He said he's going back to find (Going back to find) What's left of his world The world he left behind not so very long ago He's leaving on that midnight train to Georgia (Leaving on that midnight train to Georgia) Said he's going back to find (Going back to find) A simpler place and time (Whenever he takes that ride, guess who's going to be right by his side?) I'll be with him (I know you will) On that midnight train to Georgia (Leaving on that midnight train to Georgia...whoo whoo) I'd rather live in his world than live without him in mine (one world, it's his, his and hers alone) He kept dreaming (Dreaming) That one day he'd be a star (A superstar, but he didn't get far) But he sure found out the hard way That dreams don't always come true (Dreams don't always come true, uh-uh, no, uh-uh) So he followed his hopes and he even sold his own car For a one-way ticket back to the life that he once knew Yes he did...he said he would I know he's leaving (Leaving) On that midnight train to Georgia (Leaving on the midnight train) Said he's going back to find (Going back to find) A simpler place and time (Whenever he takes that ride, guess who's going to be right by his side?) I've got to be with him (I know you will) On that midnight train to Georgia (Leaving on the midnight train to Georgia...whoo, whoo) I'd rather live in his world (Live in his world) Than live without him in mine (one world, it's his, his and hers alone) He's leaving (Leaving) On the midnight train to Georgia (Leaving on the midnight train) He said he's going back to find (He's going back to find) A simpler place and time (Whenever he takes that ride, guess who's going to be right by his side?) I've got to be with him (I know you will) On that midnight train to Georgia (Leaving on the midnight train to Georgia...whoo, whoo) I'd rather live in his world (Live in his world) Than live without him in mine (One world, it's his, his and hers alone) All aboard, one world, her man, his girl I've got to go, I've got to go, I've got to go... All aboard, one world, her man, his girl I've got to go, I've got to go, I've got to go... Most Of The Time most of the time i'm clear focused all around, most of the time i can keep both feet on the ground, i can follow the path, i can read the signs, stay right with it, when the road unwinds, i can handle whatever i stumble upon, i don't even notice she's gone, most of the time. most of the time it's well understood, most of the time i wouldn't change it if i could, i can't make it all match up, i can hold my own, i can deal with the situation right down to the bone, i can survive, i can endure and i don't even think about her most of the time. most of the time my head is on straight, most of the time i'm strong enough not to hate. i don't build up illusion 'till it makes me sick, i ain't afraid of confusion no matter how thick i can smile in the face of mankind. don't even remember what her lips felt like on mine most of the time. most of the time she ain't even in my mind, i wouldn't know her if i saw her she's that far behind. most of the time i can't even be sure if she was ever with me or if i was with her. most of the time i'm halfway content, most of the time i know exactly where i went, i don't cheat on myself, i don't run and hide, hide from the feelings, that are buried inside, i don't compromised and i don't pretend, i don't even care if i ever see her again most of the time. Wishin' And Hopin' ani covers dusty springfield on the soundtrack to my best friends wedding. wishin', and hopin', and thinkin', and prayin', planning and dreamin' each night of his charms. that won't get you into his arms! so if your're looking for love you can share! all you gotta to is hold him, and kiss him, and love him, and show him that you care. show him that you care, just for him. do the things that he likes to do. wear your hair just for him, 'cause, you won't get him, thinkin' and a prayin', wishin' and a hopin'. 'cause wishin', and hopin', and thinkin', and prayin', planning and dreamin' his kisses will start. that won't get you into his heart! so if you're thinking how great true love is! all you gotta to is hold him, and kiss him, and squeeze him, and love him. yeah, just do it! and after you do, you will be his. you gotta show him that you care just for him. do the things that he likes to do. wear your hair just for him, 'cause, you won't get him, thinkin' and a prayin', whishin' and a hopin'. 'cause wishin', and hopin', and thinkin', and prayin', planning and dreamin' his kisses will start. that won't get you into his heart! so if you're thinking how great true love is! all you gotta to is hold him, and kiss him, and squeeze him, and love him. yeah, just do it! and after you do, you will be his. you will be his. you will be his! When Doves Cry dig if you will the picture of you and i engaged in a kiss the sweat of your body covers me can you my darling can you picture this? dream if you can a courtyard an ocean of violets in bloom animals strike curious poses they feel the heat the heat between me and you how can you just leave me standing? alone in a world that's so cold? (so cold) maybe i'm just too demanding maybe i'm just like my father too bold maybe you're just like my mother she's never satisfied (she's never satisfied) why do we scream at each other this is what it sounds like when doves cry touch if you will my stomach feel how it trembles inside you've got the butterflies all tied up don't make me chase you even doves have pride how can you just leave me standing? alone in a world so cold? (world so cold) maybe i'm just too demanding maybe i'm just like my father too bold maybe you're just like my mother she's never satisfied (she's never satisfied) why do we scream at each other this is what it sounds like when doves cry how can you just leave me standing? alone in a world that's so cold? (a world that's so cold) maybe i'm just too demanding (maybe, maybe i'm like my father) maybe i'm just like my father too bold (ya know he's too bold) maybe you're just like my mother (maybe you're just like my mother) she's never satisfied (she's never, never satisfied) why do we scream at each other (why do we scream, why) this is what it sounds like when doves cry when doves cry (doves cry, doves cry) when doves cry (doves cry, doves cry) When You Were Mine when you were mine i gave you all of my money time after time you done me wrong cause just like a train you let all my friends come over and eat and you were so strange you didn't have the decency to change the sheets oh girl, when you were mine i used to let you wear all my clothes you were so fine (so fine) maybe that's the reason that it hurt me so i know (i know) that you're going with another guy i don't care (don't care) 'cuz i love u, baby, that's no lie i love you more than i did when you were mine when you were mine you were kinda sorta my best friend so i was blind (so blind) i let you fool around i never cared (didn't care) i never was the kind to make a fuss when he was there sleeping in between the two of us i know (i know) that you're going with another guy i don't care (don't care) cuz i love you, baby, that's no lie i love you more than i did when you were mine when you were mine u were all i ever wanted to do now i spend my time following him whenever he's with you i know (i know) that you're going with another guy i don't care (don't care) cuz i love you, baby, that's no lie i love you more that i did when you were mine when you were mine, yeah, oh no love you, baby love you, baby when you were mine My Name Is Lisa Kavelage my name is lisa kalvelage, i was born in nuremberg and when the trials were held there 19 years ago it seemed to me ridiculous to hold a nation all to blame for the horrors that the world did undergo a short while later when i applied to be a gi bride an american councilor official questioned me he refused my exit permit, said my answer did not show that i learned my lesson about responsibility then suddenly i was forced to start thinking on this theme and later when i was permitted to immigrate i must have been asked a 100 times where i was, what i did in those years when hitler ruled our state i said i was a child, or at most a teenager but that only continued the questioning they'd ask where were my parents, my father, my mother and to this i could not answer a thing a seed planted there in neurenberg '47 started to sprout and grow gradually i understood what that verdict meant to me when there are crimes that i can see and know and now i also know what it is to be charged with mass guilt once in a life time is enough for me no i couldn't take it for a second time and that's why i'm here today the events of may 25th, the day of our protest put a small balance weight on the other side and hopefully some day my contribution to peace will help just a bit to turn the tide perhaps i can tell it to my children 6 and later on, their own children and at least in the future they need not be silent when they're asked, where was your mother when my name is lisa kalvelage (i wonder, where was my mother then) Lord, I Have Made... Oh Lord, I have made you a place in my heart, Among the rags and the bones and the dirt. There's piles of lies, and love gone from her eyes, And old moving boxes full of hurt. Pull up a chair there's one over there. I got whiskey, you're welcome to some. Oh Lord, I have made you a place in my heart, But I didn't reckon you were gonna come. Tried to fix up the place, I know it's a disgrace, You get used to it after a while. With the flood and the drought and old pals hanging out, With their IOU's and their smiles. Bare-naked women keep comin' in And they dance like you wouldn't believe. Oh Lord, I have made you a place in my heart, So please close the door when you leave. Lord, why does the cold get colder each year? Why can't I learn to love? Lord, if you made me, then it's easy to see That you all make mistakes up above. 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