Indigo Girls

[fox69]

"Happy In The Sorrow Key"

"Happy In The Sorrow Key"


As I lay my burden down
In the cradle of an elegy
In the shotgun shape of this life
I'm happy happy in the sorrow key

Hadrian's wall was mighty
Not so mighty it didn't fall
Ii roamed among its sod and stone
To wonder how we come apart
The earth it holds the human toll
The heavens bow to the gravity
The bursting heart the bleeding brain
In grief we shift tectonically

As I lay my burden down
In the cradle of an elegy
In the shotgun shape of this life
I'm happy happy in the sorrow key

Three days moored in Singapore
The ancient lure of currency
The rain came down the trade winds blew
And held me anchored to my dues
Slumbering I felt a tug
I ran to little India
To find a beggar's clarity
And eat the spice of deities

When I close my eyes
Imagine us dead and gone
The bright light of kingdom come
But I can't see
Take it out of my hands
I want to know the truth
The eye of the eagle
To deliver me
I'm happy in the sorrow key
I'm happy in the sorrow

 

[fox69]

"Heartache For Everyone"

"Heartache For Everyone"


You spent five years saying you'd come my way
That's a little more wait than a heart can take
Yeah now that I know it's just a fantasy
I feel a hard time coming around for me
I said oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
I spent two years saying give me a chance
Hey I'd give it all up and I'll take your hand
Yeah but not forever it was understood
Yeah baby just for a while it would do us some good
I said oh
(I'm waiting to restore my life)
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
(I'm waiting to restore my faith)
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
I'll wait for you until I know
There's a heartache for everyone
Hey valentine I'm just a stumbling around
Who knew that Paris was such a lonely town
I'll meet you at the bridge where we wanted to kiss
Or take the high road and be done with this
Hey valentine I'm just a stumbling around
Who knew that Paris was such a lonely town
I'll meet you at the bridge where we wanted to kiss
Or take the high road and be done with this
I'll give you six more weeks baby just in case
You can change your mind you won't be replaced
Honey looking at a lifetime of regret
(looking at a lifetime of regret)
Oh just one little moment that I'll never forget
(Just one little moment that I'll never forget)
I said oh
(I'm waiting to restore my life)
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
(I'm waiting to restore my faith)
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
I'll wait for you until I know
There's a heartache for everyone
I'll wait for you until I know
There's a heartache for everyone

 

[fox69]

"Hey Jesus"

"Hey Jesus"


Hey, jesus, it's me. i don't usually talk to you but my baby's gonna leave me, and there's something you must do. i am not your faithful servant, i hang around sometimes with a bunch of your black sheep, but if you make my baby stay, i'll make it up to you and that's a promise i will keep, hey, jesus, it's me. i'm the one who talked to you yesterday and i asked you please, please for a favor but my baby's gone away, went away anyway and i don't really think it's fair, you've got the power to make us all believe in you and then we call you in our despair, and you don't come through. hey, jesus, it's me, i'm sorry. i don't remember all i said, i had a few, no, too many and they went straight to my head, made me feel like i could argue with god but you know, it's easy for you, you got friends all over the world, you had the whole world waiting for your birth but now i ain't got nobody, i don't know what my life's worth. i'm not gonna call on you any more. i'm sure you've got a million things to do, all i was
trying to do was to get through to you, get through to you because when i die and i get up to your doors i don't even know if you're gonna let me in the place, how come i gotta die to get a change to talk to you face to face?

 

[fox69]

"Hey Kind Friend"

"Hey Kind Friend"


Hey kind friend don't know when I'll see you again on a ferry boat bound for
Victoria laying down to hide from the wind
Beg dipper hangin over the city you know everything now is different for me ain't no use in explainin the scenery
Hey kind friend won't you help me forget where I been
Help me remember who I am I was too late in Spokane
So I caught a ride through the Cascade range I saw the sun dying in Olympia running down on Capitol Lake
So I ask you for some relief and it's one true root that you bring to me 3am it's good company
Hey kind friend help me forget where I been Help me remember who I am
Hey kind friend I don't know when I'll see you again
It's OK friend So I'll meet you in New Orleans or I'll see you round cause
I don't know if it's worth coming down now I'm calling you from a gold rush town I'm OK friend

 

[fox69]

"History Of Us"

"History Of Us"


I went all the way to Paris to forget your face
Captured in stained glass, young lives long since passed
Statues of lovers every place
I went all across the continent to relieve this restless love
I walked through the ruins, icons of glory
Smashed by the bombs from above
So we must love while these moments are still called today
Take part in the pain of this passion play
Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust
Until time makes history of us
Jeu de Paume's full of faces knowing peace, knowing strife
Leisure and toil, still it's canvas and oil
There's just no medium for life
In the midst of the rubble I felt a sense of rebirth
In a dusty cathedral the living God called
And I prayed for my life here on earth
So we must love while these moments are still called today
Take part in the pain of this passion play
Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust
Until time makes history of us
There are mountains in Switzerland, brilliant cold as they stand
From my hotel room, watching the half-moon
Bleeding its light like a lamb
And the town is illumined, its tiny figures are fast asleep
And it dawns on me the time is upon me
To return to the flock I must keep
So we must love while these moments are still called today
Take part in the pain of this passion play
Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust
Until time makes history of us

 

[fox69]

"Hope Alone"

"Hope Alone"


Let's not drag this out, everything's in motion
Though I've only ever loved you kind and with devotion
I remember when I met you and even from the start
I thought one day you'd probably just come home and break my heart
It's funny what you know and still go on pretending
With no good evidence you'll ever see that happy ending
You were looking for your distance and sensing my resistance you had to do your will
I had to learn the hard way
We were just an empty dream too big for hope alone to fill
I know I'm a dreamer, so I'll give you that
Still I hope I'm more than just a place you laid your hat
You're a land of secrets, its only citizen
And though I paid my dues I was never allowed in
And so I am a stranger but especially today
As I get sad and lonely and you get your way
You were looking for your distance and sensing my resistance you had to do your will
I had to learn the hard way
We were just an empty dream too big for hope alone to fill
Holding out for change I know we never stood a chance
So I could only wait and watch you slip right through my hands

 

[fox69]

"I Believe In Love"

"I Believe In Love"


When we tried to rework all of this
Each to her rendition
Painted ourselves in a corner
Lost for ideas blindly fishing
For a compliment or kindness
Just to bring us into view
But you could not interpret me and I could not interpret you

I remember that cold morning when the trees were black with birds
I tried to make out some connection
We were at a loss for words
After all that we've been through
I could not see giving up
Despite the picture of our coffee growing colder in the cups

I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend
And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again
I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough
And I believe in you and I believe in love

So we went rolling on down through the years
Taking time off we could steal
Until the thief of things unreconciled
Stuck it's stick into the wheel
Now we're tumbling in a freefall
No one's gonna go unscathed
But it's not because you held back and its not how I behaved

I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend
And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again
I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough
I believe in you and I believe in love

There are avenues and supplements and books stacked on the shelf
Labyrinths of recovery in search of our best self
But most of what will happen now is way out of our hands
So just let it go and see where it lands

I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend
And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again
I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough
I believe in you and I believe in love
I believe in you and I believe in love

 

[fox69]

"I Don't Wanna Know"

"I Don't Wanna Know"


You followed me this far, did you find out what's inside? can you tell me what I'm doing? is it something i should hid? cause i don't know for sure, i don't wanna find out what i left there for.

I'm not scared and i'm not lonely. i'm not saving all my money of my breath. i'm not looking for an answer, i'm not asking anyone to second guess.

You told me all your secrets, so i filled you up with lies. now i'm living honestly, because i said goodbye. i can't go home anymore, i don't wanna find out what i left there for.

I'm not scared and i'm not lonely. i'm not saving all my money of my breath. i'm not looking for an answer, i'm not asking anyone to second guess.

I was losing all my senses, i was losing all control, it was getting so offensive, now you want me back for more, i just won't go.

If you think you know the answers, then you've got a lot of gall, cause it gives you satisfaction, knowing nothing at all. i don't care anymore, i don't wanna find out what i left there for.

I'm not scared and i'm not lonely. i'm not saving all my money of my breath. i'm not looking for an answer, i'm not asking anyone to second guess.

 

[fox69]

"I'll Change"

"I'll Change"


Looking out across suburban yards to the construct of our days through the thinning of the trees.
Why can I only build a house of cards?
That gets blown to pieces with the fall's first fickle breeze.
When I feel that stirring, the illicit kiss.
That's just the cool tongue of the devil with a sucker in his midst.
[Chorus:]
One day I'll change you'll be the first one that I call.
I owe you an apology too many thanks and that's not all.
I've been running long before I learned to crawl.
My calendar lies crumbled laid to waste.
It's been scrawled on, thumbed through and changed.
Will this be the measure of my days?
Dinners and appointments and deadlines I can't make.
And when I start to see I start to see it making sense for me.
That's just hope springing eternally.
[Chorus]
Outside the summer's gone for good.
Dying impatiens stacked up wood.
My friend will get together to cook.
To talk about what happened to take a second look.
The master loves the servant who blind heeds him.
The husband the obedient wife.
The snake will always bite the hand that feeds him.
Even if you love him even if you save his life.
[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"If I Don't Leave Here Now"

"If I Don't Leave Here Now"


They say if it ever was it's in there still
You can dig and fill and never will be full
Trying to get that good again

Your last fifth of jack or cigarette
The time you bet the farm before you lost it all
You want that feeling

Back you go against the wind and good advice
Killing yourself to stop from running out of life

But if I don't leave here now
I will never get out of this place
Baby believe me now
There's no dragon to chase
Even looking at your face
In front of me

If there ever was one there could be two
You and you and you a blue sky could be bluer
A whiter shade of white
But while you pour it on you pour it out
You empty everything you might have saved instead
For your loneliest night

Back you go against the wind and good advice
Killing yourself to stop from running out of life

But if I don't leave here now
I will never get out of this place
Baby believe me now
There's no dragon to chase
Even looking at your face
In front of me

And when it hits the papers
The tongues start wagging like it can't be happening
The doctors giveth and they taketh away
And when they do you'll find you stand up everyman
Goes looking for his heroin
It happens every day
Around every bend
Again and again