Barricades & Brickwalls

Barricades and brickwalls won’t keep mefrom youYou can tie me down on the railroad trackYou can let that freight train loseIron bars and big ole carsWon’t run me out of townI’ll be damned if you’re not my manBefore the sun goes down You can chain me downOn the edge of […]


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Don't Talk Back

Well it’s half my heart and a little bit of soulThat makes me feel I’ve gotta ride this roadI wouldn’t change it if I couldAnd me and this road youYou know we’ve got an understandingIt won’t leave me at home and I amToo tired to do just what I shouldAnd […]


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On A Bad Day

Everytime my tearsHave ever fallenI keep ’em in my pocketFor a rainy day So when it’s pouringI take them outsideI let the rain start washin’My tears away But on a bad dayWhen hearts are breakingThere’s not enough rain to carryAll the tears away Everytime I’m blueI take my feelingI hold […]


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Cry Like A Baby

Well I never lived through the great depressionsomethimes I feel as though I didAnd I don’t have answers for every single questionBut that’s OK ‘cos I’m just a kid Well I’ve seen pictures of my motherWhen she looked exactly like meAnd I’ve seen all my friends running for coverRunning from […]


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Ignorance

Don’t wanna read the paperI don’t like bad newsLast night a man got shotOutside the house of bluesI’d like to ignore itI’d like to just pretendThat the reason for itIs something I can comprehend I don’t listen to the radioLast time it made me cryTwo boys went crazyFifteen kids diedAnd […]


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Not Pretty Enough

Am I not pretty enoughIs my heart too brokenDo I cry too muchAm I too outspoken Don’t I make you laughShould I try it harderWhy do you see right through me I live, I breathe, I let it rain on meI sleep, I wake, I try hard not to breakI […]


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A Little Bit Lonesome

I’m a little bit lonesomeI’m a little bit blueI can’t stop cryingSince I lost youThere’s a pain in my heartLike a lightening boltI’m a little bit lonesomeIt’s all your fault Well everytime I wake up, I got you rolling in my headYour eyes are lookin’ at me but they’re seeing […]


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Runaway Train

I’m gonna take you down to the railway lineI’m gonna take you down to the railway lineI’m gonna take ya where your heart won’t break yaAnd the water tastes like wineI’m gonna take you down to the railway line We won’t take money, we won’t take the long way roundWe […]


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Crossfire

I found the answer but I never liked itI took my baby to the 10 step platformI tied a reef knot on twice with the blindfoldI whisper 20 steps and point direction Crossfire doesn’t burn youIt only hurts when it gets you in the heartIf you don’t hate me you’ll […]


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Last Hard Bible

I sold my last hard bibleJust to pay my billsI called my mother To reserve me in her willAnd the pay I’m getting every Thursday nightWell it just don’t seem enoughWell money can buy me a hell of a lotBut it sure won’t buy me love Well I brought me […]


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Still Feelin’ Blue

Time can pass and time can healBut it don’t ever pass the way I feelYou went away a long time agoAnd why you left I never knew The lonely days and lonely nights I guess the world knows I aint feeling rightAnd when your gone the hours pass so slowAnd […]


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Don’t Go

As your disappearing I’m hearingAll I wanted you to sayI should focus more on the thought ofletting you just slip awayBut I get this strange feeling your not revealingEverything you wanted to saySo it’s just a little harder for me to play the part ofWatching you walk away So before […]


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Freight Train

Well I just came down from ChippewaI had a station wagon and a hundred dollarsI was thinkin’ about the girl I’d lost a year beforeI hadn’t seen her for some timeI thought that I might go on byWhen your memory came floodin’ inAnd you closed that door [CHORUS:] Wish I […]


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Mr Baylis

Put it into gear we’ve got a long way to goYou can play your DylanWhen we have to take it slowAnd everytime you lose your mindFrom driving in your bedThere’s another world just waiting up ahead So you just drive Mr BaylisDon’t you worry ’bout the weatherI asked the rain […]


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Falling Into You

I’ve been crushed like paperI’ve been washed like rainI’ve been scared of sleepingIn case I wake up the same I’ve been broken and batteredI’ve been lost in my homeI’ve been cryin’ a riverI’ve been cold as a stone But falling into youIt carries me far enough awayAnd everything you doIt […]


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