Jann Arden

[fox69]

"Best Dress"

"Best Dress"


Drinking whiskey from an open toe shoe
Farm hand and an evening glove
Puttin' on a kiss that will last until dawn
I'm going to town with my best dress on

Bare buttin' on an apple crate bench
Do my face in the loft of the barn
I touch myself on the old chaise lounge
I'm going to town with my best dress on

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so pretty
Gonna ask myself to my prom
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm all sexy
Going to town with my best dress on [2x]

Double clutching in my high heel shoes
Check the mirror and I blow myself a kiss
Turn up the radio 'cause they're playing my
favorite song
I'm going to town with my best dress on
Going to town with my best dress on

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so pretty
Gonna ask myself to my prom
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm all sexy
Going to town with my best dress on [2x]

I'm going to town with my best dress on [2x]

 

[fox69]

"Bring The Boys Home"

"Bring The Boys Home"


Fathers are pleading,
lovers are all alone,
mothers are prayin,
send our sons back home.
Oh you marched them away,
on ships and planes,
to a senseless war,
facing death in vain.

[Chorus x4]
Bring the boys home
Bring them back alive

Turn the ships around,
lay your weapons down.

Can't you see them marchin across the sky,
all the soldiers that have died,
trying to get home,
can't you see them trying to get home.
Tryin to get home,
tryin to get home.

Cease all fire,
on the battlefield,
enough men have already,
been wounded and killed.



-Chorus-[x4]
Bring the boys home
Bring them back alive

Turn the ships around,
lay your weapons down.

-Break-
Ya ha ha ya, ya ha ha ya.
Trying to get home[x4]

-Chorus-[x4]
Bring the boys home
Bring them back alive

Whater they doin over there now,
when we need 'em over here now.
What they doin over there now,
when we need them over here now.
bring 'em bring 'em bring 'em home,
(bring them back alive)
bring 'em bring 'em bring 'em home,
(bring them back alive)
bring 'em bring 'em bring 'em back back home
(bring them back alive)
bring the boys home
(bring them back alive)

 

[fox69]

"California Dreamin'"

"California Dreamin'"


All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray
I've been for a walk on a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A.
California dreamin' on such a winter's day

Stopped in to a church I passed along the way
Oh, I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray
You know the preacher likes the cold now
He knows I'm gonna stay
California dreamin' on such a winter's day
(California dreamin' on such a winter's day)

All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray
I've been for a walk on a winter's day
If I didn't tell her I could leave today
California dreamin' on such a winter's day

California dreamin', dream on
California dreamin', dream on
California dreamin', dream on

 

[fox69]

"Calling God"

"Calling God"


Every leaf on every tree
And every drop of water in the sea
Every grain of weathered sand
That smashes itself onto dry land
Every stone and every petal, everything that's elemental
You are never gone

Calling God, calling out

Folded hands and bended knees
I pray for life's catastrophes
Oh hallelujah, save us all
Rock of ages fire fall
Holy-roller roll away, send salvation, send a saint
I am not alone

Calling God, calling out
Calling God, calling out

Every leaf on every tree
And every drop of water in the sea
Every grain of weathered sand
That smashes itself onto dry land
Every stone and every petal, everything that's elemental
Every tear that hits the ground
Everything that's lost and never found
Every hill dreams of a mountain
Every heart a bleeding fountain
Every wish and every prayer
That always seems to disappear

Every leaf on every tree, and every drop of water in the sea
Every drop of water in the sea

 

[fox69]

"Cherry Popsicle"

"Cherry Popsicle"


I love you more than anything
I loved you more than anyone
You were the peaches in my cream
You were my setting sun

You were my favorite hockey card
You were my smoky little bar
You were my cherry popsicle
You'll never ever know

I was so in love I had lost myself
I was so far gone I could not get out
I had disappeared I had slipped away
I was so in love with you baby

You were my chocolate covered heart
You were my sweetest honey bee
You were my flashlight in the dark
You were my cherry tree

I took you in like oxygen
I let you drive my brand new car
You were like no one I'd ever seen
Oh baby, you became my arms

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Comin' 'Round For Us"

"Comin' 'Round For Us"


When the stars go out
When my sky falls down
When the sea breaks the shore
If I have to crawl
Through the fire fall
Nothing will keep me from us

Moving on is everything I've got
Lettin' go is everything I'm not

He waits, sting race, heartbreak
Runnin' down the freeway
Can't say if I'm gonna be alive or dead
I'm a broken mess
Earthquakes fix me, salt lakes,
Each and every mistake
Nothing's ever gonna hold me down
I'm comin' around for us

When the moon falls down
When the fish all drown
When the nice bleeding fire
If the Earth stops
And everything seems lost
Nothing will keep me from us

Moving on is everything I've got
Lettin' go is everything I'm not

He waits, sting race, heartbreak
Runnin' down the freeway
Can't say if I'm gonna be alive or dead
I'm am a broken mess
Earthquakes fix me, salt lakes,
Each and every mistake
Nothings ever gonna hold me down
I'm comin' around for us

 

[fox69]

"Could I Be Your Girl?"

"Could I Be Your Girl?"


Hide your heart under the bed
And lock your secret drawer
Wash the angels from your head
Won't need them anymore
Love is a demon and
You're the one he's coming for
Oh my Lord

He's bringing sweet salvation
Let temptation take him in
He's every fear and every hope
And every single sin
He is the universe the love
You've been imagining
Oh my Lord
Oh my Lord
Oh my Lord

And I am ashes
I am Jesus
I am precious
Could I be your girl?
Could I be your girl?

Put a chair against the door
And turn the lights down low
Write a letter to yourself
No one will ever know
Tell them all about the girl
Who just refused to fall
Oh my Lord

He is the very breath
You feel inside your lungs at night
He is the bitter wind
Who's drying up your appetite
He is the darkness
That seeps into your fading light
Oh my Lord
Oh my Lord

And I am ashes
I am Jesus
I am precious
Could I be your girl?
Could I be your girl?

I am worthless sounds
Compared to all your perfect words
Could I be your girl?
Could I be your girl?

Wash the angels from your head
Won't need them anymore
Hide your heart under the bed
And lock your secret drawer
Love is the demon
And you're the one he's coming for
Oh my Lord
Oh my Lord
Could I be your girl?
Could I be your girl?

 

[fox69]

"Counterfeit Heart"

"Counterfeit Heart"


Devastatingly complimentary stay
Far away from me
With your counterfeit heart

I'm in misery
Irreversibly
Come and rescue me
From your counterfeit heart

This catastrophe won't be the last of me
If you asked me I wouldn't give it back
Who knew butterflies could ever compromise
I shouldn't be surprised at how I love you

I can't find content
I don't know where it went
Has it all been spent
On your counterfeit heart

Oh, oh, oh, oh

This catastrophe won't be the last of me
If you asked me I wouldn't give it back
Who knew butterflies could ever compromise
I shouldn't be surprised at how I love you

So take your chivalry
Fold it carefully
It wasn't meant for me
Love your counterfeit heart
Love your counterfeit heart
Love your counterfeit heart

 

[fox69]

"Counting Mercies"

"Counting Mercies"


When we’ve been though, all this?
It goes to prove, how much we fit
We’ve made mistakes, we fail a lot
But here we are, look what we’ve got

Count the mercy, count the pain
Summer’s running from my shame
All the blessings, all the falls
Count the days when, we almost had it all

Nobody said, that life was fair
You do your best, and hope like hell
You grit your teeth,
And bite your tongue,
You hold your heart, out to the sun

and Count your mercies, count your pain
Summer’s running from my shame
All the blessings, all the falls
Count the days when, we almost had it all

If this is it, and now it’s done
I’m more than glad, for all I’ve won
To feel your love, has been my life
I hope you know, that I’ll be fine.

I’m counting mercies, counting pain
Summer’s running from my shame
All the blessings, all the falls
Count the days when, we almost had it all.

 

[fox69]

"Daughter Down"

"Daughter Down"


If I had only one, one more day to live
I’d sit in the sun and trace my fingertips around everyone
Every heart that ever lost and found me

I’d sleep in the shade
I’d watch my mother make her pink lemonade
While my father gives the garden a spray
And I’d look at how his face had weathered
His life’s been tethered

[CHORUS:]
Down, like a stone, like a nailed shut window waiting for a storm
For a hope, for a hand to come and cut the rope away
Oh, will I ever be that brave if I had one more day

I’d eat some ice cream
Lick the bowl ‘til it was perfectly clean
Have one last hurrah on the old tire swing
Dip my toes in as I cross the water
Only daughter

[REPEAT CHORUS]

Down like a stone, like a nailed shut window waiting for a storm
For a kiss, for a second chance to feel