Lucinda Williams

[fox69]

"Stop Breaking Down"

"Stop Breaking Down"


I can't keep walkin' down the street
'Fore some pretty daddy start breakin' down with me
Stop breakin' down
Please, please, stop breakin' down
I got the stuff that'll bust your brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

These no good men love to ape and clown
They don't do nothin' but tear my good reputation down
Stop breakin' down
Please, please, stop breakin' down
I got the stuff that'll bust you brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

I can't walk the streets now, I can't consolate my mind
'Fore some no good man starts breakin' down
Stop breakin' down
Please, please, stop breakin' down
I got the stuff that'll bust your brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

I give my baby the ninety-ninth degree
Then he rose up and brought a pistol down on me
Stop breakin' down
Please, please, stop breakin' down
I got the stuff that'll bust your brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

I can't keep walkin' down the street
'Fore some no good man start breakin' down with me
Stop breakin' down
Please, please, stop breakin' down
I got the stuff that'll bust your brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

I got the stuff that'll bust your brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

 

[fox69]

"Stowaway In Your Heart"

"Stowaway In Your Heart"


Thank you for giving me a place to keep my love
I don't need anything special, none of that stuff
I'm a stowaway in your heart and that's enough
Thank you for giving me a place to keep my love

Thank you for giving me a place to close my eyes
You don't have to promise heaven or paradise
I'm a stowaway in your heart and that's the prize
Thank you for giving me a place to close my eyes

Thank you for giving me a place to take my blue
You don't have to say Hail Marys or Hallejuh
I'm a stowaway in your heart and that will do
Thank you for giving me a place to take my blue

Thank you for giving me a place to hang around
You don't have to be an angel or wear a crown
I'm a stowaway in your heart, I won't make a sound
Thank you for giving me a place to hang around

Thank you for giving me a place to keep my love
Thank you for giving me a place to close my eyes
Thank you for giving me a place to take my blue
Thank you for giving me a place to hang around

I'm a stowaway in your heart
I'm a stowaway in your heart
I'm a stowaway in your heart
I'm a stowaway in your heart

 

[fox69]

"Sundays (Live)"

"Sundays (Live)"


I can't seem to make it through Sunday
I can't seem to make it through Sunday

Monday through Saturday
I get by just fine
Every other day of the week
I feel alright
I don't know why, I don't know why

I can't seem to make it through Sunday
I can't seem to make it through Sunday

Sunday's supposed to be the day
For kicking off your shoes
So how come that's the day
I always get the blues
I don't know why, I don't know why

I can't seem to make it through Sunday
I can't seem to make it through Sunday

Ever since you had to go
I just carry on
But deep down inside I know
There's something wrong
I don't know why, I don't know why

 

[fox69]

"Sweet Love"

"Sweet Love"


Who would have ever guessed
I would be here where
I am like this
With you, my dear
My sweet, sweet, sweet love
To drink my words in
And make each moment become
A celebration
My breath is yours to share
Everything in me
And of me is yours forever
If only for your blue eyes
I would choose never
To live a day without you
Here is my love letter
My love, so true

My sweet, sweet, sweet love
My sweet, sweet, sweet love
My sweet, sweet, sweet love
Sweet, sweet love

[repeat]

 

[fox69]

"Sweet Old World"

"Sweet Old World"


See what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world
See what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world
The breath from your own lips, the touch of fingertips
A sweet and tender kiss
The sound of a midnight train, wearing someone's ring
Someone calling your name
Somebody so warm cradled in your arms
Didn't you think you were worth anything
See what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world
See what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world

Millions of us in love, promises made good
Your own flesh and blood
Looking for some truth, dancing with no shoes
The beat, the rhythm, the blues
The pounding of your heart's drum together with another one
Didn't you think anyone loved you
See what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world
See what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world
See what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world
See what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world

 

[fox69]

"Sweet Side"

"Sweet Side"


You run yourself ragged tryin' to be strong
You feel bad when you done nothin' wrong
Love got all confused with anger and pride
So much abuse on such a little child
Someone you trusted told you to shut up
Now there's a pain in your gut that you can't get rid of
No one heard your screams when you were nine
When bad dreams filled your summertime
So you don't always show your sweet side
You don't always show your sweet side
You don't always show your sweet side
You don't always show your sweet side

You're tough as steel and you keep your chin up
You don't ever feel like you're good enough
You've had the blues ever since you were six
Your little tennis shoes and your pick-up sticks
You were screamed at and kicked over and over
Now you always feel sick and you can't keep a lover
Every Christmas there were presents to unwrap
But the things you witnessed when you were five and a half
So you don't always show your sweet side
You don't always show your sweet side
You don't always show your sweet side
You don't always show your sweet side

Someone deserted you, the damage is done
Now you don't deserve to be loved by no one
Hands that would feed you when you were two
Were the same hands that beat you black and blue
You get defensive at every turn
You're overly sensitive and overly concerned
Few precious memories no lullabies
Hollowed out centuries of lies
You don't always show your sweet side
You don't always show your sweet side
You don't always show your sweet side
You don't always show your sweet side

I've seen you in the kitchen cookin' me supper
I listened to you bitchin' and I watched you suffer
I still love you baby 'cause I know you
Don't mean to do the cruel things you do
I've seen you sewin' buttons on your shirt
I've seen you throwin' up when your stomach hurt
I stick by you baby through thick and thin
No matter what kind of shape you're in
'Cause I've seen your sweet side
I've seen your sweet side
I've seen your sweet side
I've seen your sweet side

I've seen your sweet side Baby
I've seen your sweet side
I've seen your sweet side Baby
I've seen your sweet side

 

[fox69]

"Tears Of Joy"

"Tears Of Joy"


One, two, one two three
I rode around restless
I paid the cost
I've been a mess
Misguided and lost
But I've been so blessed
Since our paths have crossed
That's why I'm cryin' tears of joy

In my own little world
Since I was sixteen
Little miss playground
Making a scene
And you took this girl
And you made her your queen
That's why I'm cryin' tears of joy

I used to play games with my boyfriends
Fashion and fame, hippo trance
Now I have a real man
Don't have to pretend
And that's why I'm cryin' tears of joy

I'll be your woman
Be your everything
You be my baby
You'll be my king
You give my life meaning
That's why I wear your ring
And why I'm cryin' tears of joy (tears of joy)
And that's why I'm cryin' tears of joy (tears of joy)
That's why I'm cryin' tears of joy

 

[fox69]

"Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing)"

"Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing)"


Afraid to love and afraid to give
Just because of what it might cost us
But love can never, never live
Without the pain, the pain of loss

Life's never fair and it can be rough
And it can turn and play cruel tricks on us
And just when we think we've had enough
There's always one more river to cross

The temporary nature of any precious thing
That just makes it, just makes it more precious
But not easier, not easier to lose
To lose somebody as precious as you

We don't have an answer. God only knows
Why we are made to weather these storms
But God knows I love you and you're always been precious
Since the day, the day you were born

And it's always the sweetest reddest roses
That kiss the sharpest thorns
And it's always the deepest saddest joys
That prove to be the richest ones

The temporary nature of any precious thing
That just makes it, just makes it more precious
But not easier, not easier to lose
To lose somebody, somebody like you
To lose somebody as precious as you
To lose somebody as precious ss you

 

[fox69]

"The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan"

"The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan"


The mornin' sun touched lightly
On the eyes of Lucy Jordan
In her white suburban bedroom
In her white suburban town
As she lay there, neath the covers
Dreamin' of a thousand lovers'
Til the world turned orange
And the room went spinnin' round

At the age of thirty-seven
She realized she'd never ride
Through Paris in a sportscar
With the warm wind in her hair
And she let the phone keep ringing
As she sat there softly singin'
Pretty nurs'ry rhymes she'd memorised
In her daddy's easy chair

Her husband he was off to work
And the kids were off to school
And there were on so many ways
For her to spend the day
She could clean the house for hours
Or rearrange the flowers
Or run naked down the shady street
Screamin' all the way

The evenin' sun touched gently on
The eyes of Lucy Jordan
On the rooftop where she climbed
When all the laughter grew too loud
And she bowed and curtseyed to the man
Who reached and offered her his hand
And led her down to the long white car
That waited past the crowd

 

[fox69]

"The Ghosts Of Highway 20"

"The Ghosts Of Highway 20"


I know this road like the back of my hand
Same with the stations, only FM band
Farms and truck stops, firework stands
I know this road like the back of my hand

Southern secrets still buried deep
Rooting and restless 'neath the cracked concrete
If you where from here, you would fear me
To the death along with the ghost of highway 20

I went through hell when I was younger
Deep in the well you'll see the hunger
To find the strength I got within me
To wrestle with the ghost of highway 20

Been sixty years, I don't want for nothing
But my tears, they keep on coming
And my fears continue to haunt me
Along with the ghost of highway 20

I know this road like the back of my hand
Same with the stations, only FM band
Farms and truck stops and firework stands
I know this road like the back of my hand

No doubt about it a Mexican
To... the ghost of highway 20

Run down motels, faded billboards
Used cars for sale, the rusty junkyards
This two lane blacktop will never let me
Let go of the ghost along highway 20

And I have seen the signs that say
We're closing in on the final days
But I got nothing to repent
The saving grace is worth the ghost of highway 20

I know this road like the back of my hand
Same with the stations, only FM band
Farms and truck stops and firework stands
Yeah I know this road like the back of my hand

Every question and every breath
Every exit leaves a little death
In this way a memory
That will wander with the ghost of highway 20

Yeah I know this road like the back of my hand
Same with the stations, only FM band
Farms and truck stops and firework stands
I know this road like the back of my hand

And I have seen the signs that say
We're closing in the final days
But I got nothing left to report
A saving grace is with the ghost of highway 20
That my saving grace is with the ghost of highway 20
Yeah my saving grace is with the ghost of highway 20