the sun beats hot on the roof
the air stands still in my room
the city's slow on the move today

so pour yourself a glass of something cold and sweet
water the flowers in the yard for me
listen to your records in the dark and think of us

1000 miles
don't seem like

i keep your photograph in a book
pressed in with roses and clover
in between pages that i wrote for you
i wrote for you

i keep you voice safe inside a box
i hear it when i am dreaming
in a whisper it's the same sweet thing
the same sweet thing

i'll always be</

i heard from you the sky broke through today
smoked out the sun and blackened the blue away
you said you saw souls rain down
stream past the glass and cling to the clouds
before you laid your heart on the ground
could you hear the angels call?

i heard from you the groun

well the road to Memphis is long and flat
from the heart of the city to the west of the river
you can see the heat rise from the sun shine down
and I'm rollin' out, yea I'm rollin' out

and the road to mobile is dust and dirt
on the side gas pumps dry and kudzu covers
I'

noone's gonna take me for a sad girl
cause mama didn't raise me to cry
and everybody's waiting for the good girl
to smile

noone's gonna take me for a blue pearl
cause mama didn't raise me to open inside
and everybody's waiting for the good girl
to smile

waitin

It's too cold to go outside with the snowflakes a-blowin'
And the temperature droppin' with every breath
It's too cold to go outside
I just wish I could just stay in and wait for the springtime to come

To come, to come for the springtime to come

It's too dark to go outsid

In the candle glow, it's a velvet red kiss
Promises like diamonds and pearls seem to drip from your lips
And oh the heavy spin that you've got me in will not let go
Cause you've got me tasting heaven dressed in its glory and gold

Don't you do me
Don't you do me that way

i will find my way back to you
and the place that we left
i'll have thought it all through
And left nothing behind

will you come out to meet me there
now that memory's dead
will we walk hand in hand
and let words fall away

and the sun, it will set
and the

The words that I spoke
Came out crooked and broke
Before I could straighten them out
The curses I cried came out harsher this time
Than the last time I cried out

But I just want everything right
Rosebud lipped kisses in lullaby light
So when everything I say seems w

You come and gone
Washed on up and run along
Like the dream you dreamed on

You like the light
Given up to goodbyes
Flicker fade into night

Is it you I'm countin' on

You come undone
Ribboned thing, half strung
Can you carry me up like that

You come

hold me
wrap your arms around me
give your shoulder to me
so i can bury me inside you

closer
so i can hear you breathing
so i can hear your heart inside
beating like it's mine

let me lose me in you

let me
be the one who knows you
be the only one

long after midnight has fallen
and the dew settles still on the ground
after night birds come callin'
callin' out

and long after the moon stops its risin'
it's a slow and a hazy affair
before sleeps starts its climbin'
climbin' out

love sings her sweet song ti

love is snow
a dream coming down
cold on your skin and dark on the ground
but i would give anything
anything at all

sure as the shore is a safe place to land
soft on your feet as it slips through your hands
but i would give anything

to hold on

boxes of p

late at night in the still moonlight
the bedsheets settle on the floor
and i fall to sleep in the midnight things
and dream of you once more

will you love me in the morning
or is waking only dreaming come true
will you love me in the morning
will you love me like i

i pick up all the pieces, baby
when you drift off to sleep
i heal your scars and bruises for you
all you've left for me

cause i know your love is broken, baby
fallen to its knees
so let's untie the ties that bind it tightly
free it up like it freed me

let it g

darlin darlin watch me sleep
comb my hair and watch the water
wash me down across my back
like you did when i was new

daddy dear it's all so far
so take my hand, we'll walk together
you'll tell the tales that speed my step
like you did when i was new

take good

I like to listen to the late-night sounds
Of lonely train whistles and the mockingbird call
The wheels on the cars as they turn in the street
I like to listen to the in-between

I like to listen to the curtains breathe
The hush of the kitchen as the back door creaks
The

look out for thieves
who will take what you've won
give it to me and i'll keep you
safe from the smiles with their charm in the dark,
if you let me

i remember the time
when love was what it seemed
i remember the time
when you and i

i've heard enough
fr

It was seven years ago that I last saw your town
New buildings were up and the old torn down
And I was missing the old man who used to sit out on the street
With music in his eyes and rhythm in his feet

And the house that you were born in
It was crushed by the snow
And

Too much for me
You're the sun caught up in the shape of a maple leaf
You're the sweet love some in the breath of the breeze
You the touch i think i feel when i'm so far away
You're the cool come down in the rhythm of the rain

But it's all so, all so complicated
Yeah it