SHE WEARS GREEN

She wears silver and gold,
In case she gets old
Purple and gray to pull her astray
A room it is red the color of her hair,
Her beige and white, she drags through the night

She wears green oh green
Green cloth the dagger scatter they clatter
She wears Green, Oh Green
Green to remind her  I'll always be with her

She wears violent pink to vouch for the stink
The rasp of the gutter and all hallows clutter
Yellow and twine to soften the line
Her Sunday best a flower church dress

She wears Green, Oh Green
Green cloth the dagger scatter they clatter
She wears Green, Oh Green
Green to remind her I'll always be with her

Black for the day  pull her away
Dapple for the horses a Cold cuts and torches
A cream keeps her strong when a man sings his song,
plum gives a reason when he's fitted for treason

She wears green, Oh green
Green cloth the dagger , scatter they clatter
She wears green, Oh Green Oh Green
Green to remind her I'll always be with her
Green to remind her I'm laying beside her


THE BACKING SINGER

Running through chairs that rose sizing up the meaning
Smiles for the camera and cries her pot was always steaming
But he won’t ask her again for to him she is numbered
Storms on that horizon have blown her lips rest on the tumbler
She decides to head down below to omit the danger
Flowers in her dressing room again and all from a stranger
To bite the bullet and moan would take to much pain
She is leaving to do it all on her own and out in the (street rain?)

But now that your out on your own
For the needs you once had they have grown
The lights and applause were your home
This will all go away
You pulled your own weight all the same
With your hunger your voice had a chain
Your talent was never the thing
This will all go away

There’s nothing more pure than love
She said in a drunken fling
Three years later your back with your mother
You know what she brings
Your making your living in bars and tied to street corners
Your heroin and junkie’s (are clean?) is one for the mourners

Your voice never clutches at straws you can bury the morning
But things were never the same after you left without fair warning
But things should have not turned out this way
Not even in your deepest fears
You can’t ever go back to the crowds or to the good old years

But now that your out on your own
For the needs you once had they have grown
The lights and applause were your home
This will all go away
You pulled your own weight all the same
With your hunger your voice had a chain
Your talent was never the thing
This will all go away
This will all go away
This will all go away
This will all go away


THESE BOATS

There's nothing in the bird that makes it sing
There's nothing in the sun who give it light
There's nothing like a ship to help me float
Or the docks that keep me awake a night

Time is gonna roll if we stand still
Earth is gonna move if we lie down
There's nothing like a ship to help me float,
or tidal wave to help me drown

But I'll wait for you here
Since you cannot stand in fear
And if I've left or if I'm gone,
These boats will take you home

I shredded up the copies of your Bible
I had the words in my head
Noah had the flood and you had your demons,
everyone's got something coming around

Nothing like the phone calls you gave to me
Woken up early with the early bird
There's nothing like a ship to help me float,
or a tidal wave to help you drown

But I'll wait for you here
Since you cannot stand in fear
And if I've left or if I'm gone
These boats will take you home

But I'll wait for you here
Since you cannot stand in fear
And if I've left or if I'm gone
These boats will take you home

These boats will take you home


THE RIVER IS LONG

I walked home empty with a sultry dream
I tossed a coin onto the icy pond
I tripped and fell upon the icy curve
The road is short but the river's long

I drew my eye onto a woman's smile
Told her man that I was running her down

We told his friend that I was speaking out,
So they put me into the ground

On and on they will go
Destroying me cruelly
Taking off all my my clothes
Way back in the day
Turn me on upside down
Screaming in laughter
I was screaming in pain
I didn't want to be there

They found me covered in it head to toe,
wild and rived like some bound up ghost
And any day I will lose the fight,
But it would hurt my family the most

She was heavy and her voice were grim
A shaven head-case with a smile turned foul
Who didn't know that they were bad and wrong
The road is short but the river's long
On and on they will go
Destroying me cruelly
Taken off all my my clothes,
way back in the day
Turn me on upside down,
Screaming in anger
I was screaming in pain
I didn't want to be there

There turns themselves like some western film
there's another highway that they cant walk down,
a sailing over on a misty gorge
The road is short but the rivers long


WHERE YOU LAY

Now go to sleep close your eyes,
until the world doesn't turn
I'll be here right by your side,
just as long as you heal

You've been away but so have I
But the change is in our hearts
Drums may beat kings may fall
The blood don't wash off your clothes

You may feel the roads are a better way to go
You may feel like you haven't got a place to call home
And the time is all you when you sleep
Oh Darling
Every face around will make you weep, your not alone
Oh it's time to lay down where you play
I'll be the one to watch you lay
I'll be the one to watch you lay

Someday I'll find you pure of heart,
It's easy on your core
Beyond yourself and in your mind
I'll flutter through your garden
You come for me, like I came for you
And carry me home to my bed

You may feel there's a better way to go
You may feel like you haven't got a place to call home
And the time, is all you when you sleep
Pretty pretty darling, every face around
will always make you weep , your not alone
Now it's time to lay down where you play
I'll be the one, to watch you lay
I'll be the one to watch you lay
I'll be the one to watch you lay