Indigo Girls

[fox69]

"Share The Moon"

"Share The Moon"


I can go one day without calling
Two days without bawling
Three days without missing
But a lifetime of no kissing you
Is something that I just can’t do.
I wish I could be there to share the moon

I got more back for the breaking
More callous for making
A lifetime for the aching
I got no need to run this battery down.
I’m just trying to get the stains out.
I wish I could be there to share the moon

Hey la la
I’m gonna love to you till it hurts
I don’t mind if I do
Hey la la
I’m gonna love you till it works
I’ve got no mind to lose

There’s one trash heap burning
Fireflies are returning
Nightfall is softly chirping
One trailer light is staying on till dawn
I wonder who it’s waiting on

Hey la la
I’m gonna love to you till it hurts
I don’t mind if I do
Hey la la
I’m gonna love you till it works
I’ve got no mind to lose

 

[fox69]

"She's Saving Me"

"She's Saving Me"


We were sitting round a dying fire, somebody lit incense somebody lit a cigarette and passed the bottle around
It was just strawberry season, backbreaking pickers in the patches everything's burning down to ashes and down to the ground
She's saving me I don't even think she knows it
It's a strange way to show it as distant as last night's dream unravels
She's saving me I'm a very lost soul I was born with a hole in my heart
The size of my land locked travels
I try to put it aside but it's too much bigger than me there's a big brown hawk in the tree
Lighting and leaving
There's tea leaves tossing, heads up pennies in my pocket, dead star like a rocket, the arc of my grieving
She's saving me I don't even think she knows it
It's a strange way to show it as distant as last night's dream unravels
She's saving me I'm a very lost soul I was born with a hole in my heart
The size of my land locked travels
The sky pours out biblical rain
Then days so still the beauty gives you pain
The heatwave kills the green and she remains unseen
But colors up my dream with all things blooming
This is not all there is it's not a kingdom it's not an angry god
It feels like her
It feels like no fear, it feels like no doubt, it feels like inside out
The ashes stir
She's saving me I don't really think she knows it
It's a strange way to show it as distant as last night's dream unravels
She's saving me I'm a very lost soul
I was born with a hole in my heart as wide as my land locked travels

 

[fox69]

"Shed Your Skin"

"Shed Your Skin"


115 you are 17 Itchy trigger venomous
You growing longer
You growing strong
You shed your skin
Now shed this
Come on over baby
You tell me it's holy holy I don't know what that is
Come on over Let's call it the fullness of time I don't know what that is
Hey holy console me some power control me
Remorse it I force it can't free it so be it I'm speaking in tongues handling you I got religion now look at it
The days grow longer
As we grow stronger
So shed your skin baby Let it rip
Now tell me it's holy holy I don't know what that is I want to call it the fullness of time
But I don't know if it is
Hey holy console me some power control me
Remorse it I force it can't free it so be it I got the hangman I got Milagro I got the celebration too
The flesh is strong
The spirit stronger
So shed your skin baby
Let it through
Come on over

 

[fox69]

"Sister"

"Sister"


Sister, I'm heading out of Alabama
So you better think fast.
The wind is gonna pick me up now
And the rain won't slack.
I'm headed down to Georgia
So don't lose track
Of where you been and where you're going now,
Who you've seen and what they lack,
And why you come undone, every time you go there,
You come undone.

I know your heart's in danger
And so is your life.
I said you learn to trust a stranger,
Stop and rest for the night.
Set your site up in the headlight
The moon won't be enough.
Light the embers of another
And the night won't seem so rough,
Sister.

There was a bloody beast of burden
On a dark Texas road,
A woman in the family way
And a car that lost control.
Now I'm studying the distance
Between the blanket and the gun,
I got ten miles to Natchez and another ten home.

I know your heart's in danger
And so is your life.
I said you learn to trust a stranger,

Stop and rest for the night.
Set your site up in the headlight,
The moon won't be enough.
Light the embers of another
And the night won't seem so rough.
Sister, go ahead, come on.

I said it's trust that brought me here
And trust will bring me home

 

[fox69]

"Something Real"

"Something Real"


I've seen the sun on a funeral, the full moon in a midday sky
Tactician politician hold his head and wonder why
I'm always struck that much harder by the power of suggestion
By now I know the answer's always in the question
Now that we're done with that why don't you warm the car
All of the fields are filled with fresh boys playing football
More than the weather chills, the bands practicing their drills
I've got to get back to something real with you
I had to call your parents to get your number again
I was either gonna be the prodigal or the banished friend
We were standing against an outside wall, I was afraid of what you'd say
It took me ten years to call you back but here we are today
Now that we're done with that why don't you warm the car
All of the fields are filled with fresh boys playing football
More than the weather chills, the bands practicing their drills
I've got to get back to something real with you
So life has brought you this: two marriages and three kids
And me life as slick as ice that finally hit the skids
You're as sweet as you ever were
A slight sickness of regret washes over me
And in the end that's all I get
Now that we're done with that why don't you warm the car
All of the fields are filled with fresh boys playing football
More than the weather chills, the bands practicing their drills
I've got to get back to something real
I've got to get back to something real
I've got to get back to something real with you

 

[fox69]

"Soon Be To Nothing"

"Soon Be To Nothing"


Kelly Mountain road saw a heavy load
With a sagging heart and a break apart
Voices in me stood as thick as thieves
With no sympathy for the beggars art
I have passed these pines 'bout a million times effortlessly
Now I grip the wheel fear is what I feel
At the slow unraveling of me

You tell me it's temporary it's a matter of time
By God don't you think I know it's in my mind
It's right over left and healing the then
I'll soon be to nothing but I don't know when

Well the way I flee on my crooked feet
Barn happy horse on a one-track course
Then I self despise cryin' out my eyes
'Cause the happy trail led me to remorse
But the road is long and the song is gone
I blow empty in my cicada shell
If I saw my choice I might find my voice
But I don't know when and I just can't tell

You tell me it's temporary just a matter of time
By God don't you think I know it's in my mind
It's right over left and healing the then
I'll soon be to nothing but I don't know when

Deep behind my face is a safer place
But old gears are hitched tight to the gate
It's a daily grind waiting to unwind
Till I hear that click that unlocks my fate

So tell me it's temporary it's a matter of time
By God don't you think I know it's in my mind
It's right over left and healing the then
I'll soon be to nothing but I don't know when
I'll soon be to nothing but I don't know when
I'll soon be to nothing but I don't know when

 

[fox69]

"Southern California Is Your Girlfriend"

"Southern California Is Your Girlfriend"


I caught every red light on the way to catch you
But that train’s pulled out, been long gone anyway
There was no note in frost on the window
Second thoughts or hidden signs
It’s not like you stole off in the night
From the weight of something you just couldn’t bear
You were never trying to elude me
You just had your plans and they didn’t include me
Southern California is your girlfriend
The sunny twist of Venice Chez-Jay some gay not all the way
Here I stand Midwestern corn fed squinting down the track
It’s time to unpack
I know what it means now, that je ne seis quoi
It means something taught you not to tell
Soon enough the air of your mystery
Is choked with the poisonous mix of your history
Southern California is your girlfriend
The sunny twist of Venice Chez Jay some gay not all the way
Here I stand Midwestern corn fed staring down the track
It is time to unpack
The ferris wheel were the tourist go
The late night deals behind the Loews
The hopeful stunner who takes your order
Your last chance mojo south of the border
There’s a soldier on leave in a foreign land
There’s a girl who dreams of lands across the sea
The postcard pictures are rare and exotic
The hum of the engines is deep and hypnotic

 

[fox69]

"Southland In The Springtime"

"Southland In The Springtime"


Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning
Light the bayou with our tail lights in the night
800 miles to el paso from the state line
And we never have the money for the flight
I'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel
Played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans
I'm dirty from the diesel fumes, drinking coffee black
When the first breath of Texas comes in clean
And there's something 'bout the Southland in the springtime
Where the waters flow with confidence and reason
Though I miss her when I'm gone it won't ever be too long
Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season
When God made me born a yankee he was teasin'
There's no place like home and none more pleasin'
Than the Southland in the springtime
In Georgia nights are softer than a whisper
Beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand
With the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations
And the peach trees stitched across the land
There'll be cider up near Helen off the roadside
And boiled peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers
And the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky
With a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers

 

[fox69]

"Spread The Pain Around"

"Spread The Pain Around"


She packs her bags to leave everyday
And you just wait for it to pass
You hear that patience makes a better man
So you just wait to understand

'Cause you don't want to write that song
Where you done her wrong
She can't take you back
One where she just can't forgive
And you can't live without her

What you gonna do when you're out of hands?
What you gonna do when you're out of mind?
What you gonna do when it can't go on and hide
Spread the pain around

Sometimes late at night out in your yard
You count your faults
Just like the stars
You know it all adds up but you don't know
What to change
What to own

'Cause you don't want to write that song
Where you done her wrong
She can't take you back
One where she just can't forgive
And you can't live without her

What you gonna do when you're out of hands?
What you gonna do when you're out of mind?
What you gonna do when you can't go on and hide?
Spread the pain around

What you gonna do now that company's coming?
What you gonna keep it humming?
Spread the pain around
Spread the pain around
What you gonna do when she packs her bags to leave?
Every day now
You just wait
For it to pass

 

[fox69]

"Starkville"

"Starkville"


If you were here in Starkville, the townie boys would love the way you stare.
If you were here in Starkville, the local girls , they wouldn't have a prayer.
I spent a reckless night inside the wonder of your everlasting charm,
now I'm haunted by geography, and the flora and the fauna of your heart.

At the dawning of some road worn day,
I called you on a whim just to say-
"The morning birds are singing",
but I could not do them justice, so I hung up and fell back to sleep.

I'm in love with my mobility, but sometimes this life can be a drag;
like when I noticed your nobility and how my leaving only held you back.
I remember one occasion- you were drinking,-when you asked me to the coast,
but I was hell bent on agony back then, so I missed the boat.

At the dawning of a road worn day,
I called you a whim just to say,
"My regrets become distractions when I can not do them justice",
then I hung up and fell back to sleep.

When I was down in Starkville, I was hiding out inside some Comfort Inn
from a local gang of troubadors, when the homecoming queen -she come riding in.
I slipped out of my room into the rain and I went running for my health.
The headlights turned to moonlight, and finally I was running by myself.

At the dawning of this road worn day,
I call you a whim just to say,
"The morning birds are singing".