Melissa Etheridge

[fox69]

"This War Is Over"

"This War Is Over"


Take off my shield
Carry my sword
I won't need it anymore
Find me a sky
Give me my wings
Frozen and broken but free

Tell them I'm all right
I'm coming home
Tell them I'm all right
I am alone
This war is over
I'm coming home

Take off my shame
Bury it low
I won't need it anymore
Find me the sun
Give me it whole
Melt all the chains in my soul

Tell them I'm all right
I'm coming home
Tell them I'm all right
I am alone
This war is over
I'm coming home

Take off my pain
Carry me slow
I won't fight here anymore
Tell them I'm all right
I'm coming home
Tell them I'm all right
I am alone
This war is over
I'm coming home

 

[fox69]

"Threesome"

"Threesome"


Some people try to keep somethin' alive
After it's gone
After it dies
They try all kinda things
Like takin' off rings
Swappin' up keys
Seein' who swings
I'm happy to say that you and I got no problem
Baby, I just wanted you to know

I don't want to have a threesome
I don't want to sleep with nobody else
I don't want to be a swinger
I'd rather keep you all to myself

sometimes at night after the kids are in bed
I'm changin' the channels and you're surfin' the web
I stumble on that show
With all of those ladies
Doin' all of those things
and Actin' all crazy
I don't know how they manage to do all that damage
Barely find enough time to kiss

I don't want to have a threesome
I don't want to sleep with nobody else
I don't want to be a swinger
I'd rather keep you all to myself

Oh I got enough spice in this family life
I don't need an affair with a friend
I don't want to have a threesome
Ever again

So I'll get away
If you can slip away, too
I'll meet you at 3
Alright I'll meet you at 2
We know just where to go
We know just want to do
It's perfect that way
Just me and you

I don't want to have a threesome
I don't want to sleep with nobody else
I don't want to be no swinger
I'd rather keep you all to myself

I've got enough spice in this family life
I don't need an affair with a friend, uh uh
I don't want to have a threesome, no
I don't want to have a threesome, no
I don't want to have a threesome
Ever again

Yeah!
Woooo-oooo-oooo!

 

[fox69]

"To Be Loved"

"To Be Loved"


Welcome to the planet earth
Welcome to the heroes fall
This is a thing called birth
The forgetting you knew it all
This is called your first step
This is called your first time
This is called your first break
The one that locks your mind
The one where you thought you had died
The one where you screamed and cried

[Chorus:]
I'm still waiting to be loved
I'm still hoping there's enough
Constant wanting to be loved
To be loved to be loved to be loved

Welcome to the race of rats
Welcome to eternal blame
The key is to stay asleep
The trick is to play the game
But don't let them see you cry
Cover the hole inside

[Chorus]

Welcome to the planet earth
Welcome to the heroes call
This is a thing called birth
Come on remember you knew it all
There's no love from someone else
If I can't love myself

And I'm still waiting

 

[fox69]

"Touch And Go"

"Touch And Go"


In a room full of silver shadows
A customary kiss goodnight
And it slips through your tightened shoulders
It reaches your heart and dies

And the sadness is bound to kill me
But I'm too far away to care
And I'd just like to know if you will
Oh could I even get there

Oh
Back to the touch and go
When not a soul could know
When your lovin' was slow
We lived every night for the touch and go

Now there's no one in the night to blame you
No one in your glasses of wine
I never won I only tamed you
Foolishly I called you mine
And your pacing in your cage every morning
And you rattle your chains every night
And you stare past the bars never knowing
With nothing left to put up a fight

Oh
Then we would touch and go
When not a soul could know
Oh your lovin' was slow
And we lived every night for the touch
Oh I remember
The touch and go
When not a soul could know
Oh your lovin' was slow
We lived every night for the touch and go

Are you still breathing

Tonight the scent is in the city
Tonight it's on the radio
Tonight I'll leave the key beside the door
Tonight I'm gonna touch and go

Touch and go

 

[fox69]

"Truth Of The Heart"

"Truth Of The Heart"


I hear your questions
I see your face
Your life before you
Is full of grace
What can I tell you
To let you know
Your angel's eyes
Will watch you grow

Come listen close
And I'll try to let you know
It's all I know

There is no magic
There are no secrets
We all begin this race at the start
But I have come this far
With a truth of the heart

Deep down inside
I think we're all the same
Try not to judge someone
And never shame
I do believe that people are good
They just want hope and respect
And to be understood

Sometimes it hard sometimes it's strange
But the truth of the heart is people can change

Yes there is danger and there are shadows
And there is fear inside the dark
It has powered countries and borne religion
Fear can never rule the heart

My father's burden
My mother's rain
My own desire
My sister's pain
All souls have traveled along this road
Each one has carried their own heavy load

 

[fox69]

"Tuesday Morning"

"Tuesday Morning"


10:03 on a Tuesday morning
in the fall of an American dream
a man is doing what he knows is right
on flight 93

Loved his mom and he loved his dad
loved his home and he loved his man
but on that bloody Tuesday morning
he died and American

[Chorus:]
Now you cannot change this
You can't erase this
You can't pretend this is not the truth

Even though he could not marry
Or teach your children in our schools
Because who he wants to love
Is breaking your God's rules

He stood up on a Tuesday Morning
In the terror he was brave
And he made his choice and without a doubt
A hundred lives he must have saved

[Chorus]

And the things you might take for granted
Your inalienable rights
Some might choose to deny him
Even though he gave his life

Can you live with yourself in the land of the free
And make him less of a hero than the other three
Well it might begin to change ya
In a field in Pennsylvania

[Chorus]

Stand up America
Hear the bell now as it tolls
Wake up America
It's Tuesday Morning
Let's roll

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Walking On Water"

"Walking On Water"


What did you want
How could I guess
You wanted more
I gave you less
A miracle is all I need
A bush to burn
A stone to bleed

Walking on water
Water to wine
Love lasts forever
Wish you were mine

What did I take
That took away
Desire's spark
A lover's blaze
Stone cold skin
A bitter breeze
A miracle is all I need

 

[fox69]

"Watching You"

"Watching You"


That's a good question
Why am I standing out here alone
I guess I don't know enough to come in from the rain
I was watching your window
From here below
I think I just might stay here all day
Cause I gotta do something

If I can't love you
I don't want to love you
If I can't hold you
I don't want to be thinking of you
And if you don't want me
I don't want to want you
And if you won't see me
I don't know what to do
But oh keep watching you
Until I see right through
Oh I keep watching you

You could throw me down a cigarette
I smoked my last one quite a while ago
No, I gave it to the man that swore he had no need
You know sometimes if I listen real close
I can hear the dark side of the moon
And there's always yesterday's Times if I care to read
And I gotta do something

If I can't love you
I don't want to love you
If I can't hold you
I don't want to be thinking of you
And if you don't want me
I don't want to want you
And if you won't see me
I don't know what to do
But oh keep watching you
Until I see right through
Oh I keep watching you

Sure I'm alright
No I'm not very cold
Every now and then I can feel the subway heat
So go on inside
I'll leave you alone
Anyway Bogart's on in the window down the street
And I gotta do something

If I can't love you
I don't want to love you
If I can't hold you
I don't want to be thinking of you
And if you don't want me
I don't want to want you
And if you won't see me
I don't know what to do
But oh keep watching you
Until I see right through
Oh I keep watching you

 

[fox69]

"We Are The Ones"

"We Are The Ones"


We're dreaming from the bottom of the well
We're curled up in the corner of our cell
Freedom's just a story that we tell
I say give me liberty or give me hell
I know life is just a song
If I can get the world to sing along
Brothers and sisters

[Chorus:]
We are the ones we are the ones we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for

There are differences we cannot hide
Yet we are all one spirit deep inside
Finding out our past has been denied
Now we can tell our story and start to question why
Climbing out from under fear
We'll know what we're doing here
Brothers and sisters

[Chorus]

Who built this pyramid
One hundred years ago
Cause we're trapped inside a grid
While they feeds us what we need to know
The scientists keep telling me
That we are all what we agree
So I agree to let you be
Anyone you want to be

[Chorus]

Every stranger you see is a part of you
Teaching we are the ones

We are all there is
We are the all that is
We can get through this
We are the ones

I feel you
You feel me
We are the ones

 

[fox69]

"What Happens Tomorrow"

"What Happens Tomorrow"


I believe if I look hard enough
I will see
That there can be enough
I believe I can think clear enough
To conceive
A place where there's enough

If not now, when
If not today then
What about tomorrow
What happens tomorrow

I believe a woman can work hard and succeed
And we could be content
To believe that she could be in charge
Of the free
And be the president

If not now, when
If not today then
What happens tomorrow
What happens tomorrow
If you become the change
You want to see you change
What happens tomorrow
What happens tomorrow

I believe that we are waking up from the spell
That those that profit from the fear
Cast so well
And good people of the earth now can tell
There is no us and them

If not now, when
If not today then
What happens tomorrow
What happens tomorrow

All is love
All is choice
Everyone and every voice
All of life that you see
All are possibilities
As above so below
To wed the sense into the soul
This is truth I believe
I believe I believe

Truth is of the people
By the people
For the people