Rosanne Cash

fox69 · 12.10.2016

"The Long Way Home"

"The Long Way Home"

Dark highways and the country roads
Don't scare you like they did
The woods and winds now welcome you
To the places you once hid
You grew up and you moved away
Across a foreign sea
And what was left was what was kept
Was what you gave to me

You thought you'd left it all behind
You thought you'd up and gone
But all you did was figure out
How to take the long way home

The Southern rain was heavy
Almost heavy as your heart
A cavalcade of strangers came
To tear your world apart
The bells of old St. Mary's
Are now the clang of Charcoal Hill
And you took the old religion from
The woman on the hill

You thought you'd left it all behind
You thought you'd up and gone
But all you did was figure out
How to take the long way home

You thought you'd left it all behind
You thought you'd up and gone
But all you did was figure out
How to take the long way home

The long way home

fox69 · 12.10.2016

"The Real Me"

"The Real Me"

I don't know what you feel no more when you look in my eyes
I know I'm the same girl who walked out that door,
But I'm brand new inside,
Maybe what I'm sayin' ain't true after all,
I take it a minute at a time,
Maybe all I want is to hold you right now with no compromise,

This is the real me, breakin' down at last,
Hey, it's the real me, crawlin' out of my past,
Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad

The numbness overcomes me now like alcohol and fear,
And I want to crawl inside you, baby, but I don't want you near,
A woman's her own mystery, not a shadow of her man,
But I'm not a queen inside a mirror no more,
I'm not a guard to hold hand,

This is the real me, breakin' down at last,
Hey, it's the real me, crawlin' out of my past,
Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad

Well, I've got no answers now,
And I don't expect them of you
Thank God for second chances, baby,
Cause there's something I can give to you,

And it's the real me, breakin' down at last,
Hey, it's the real me, crawlin' out of my past,
Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad,
Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad

fox69 · 12.10.2016

"The Summer I Read Collette"

"The Summer I Read Collette"

That was the summer that followed the spring
The sad anniversary of a thousand old things
I was letting them go
The words of Collette and a strange new perfume
The drenching my senses and filling the room
The heat from my body is the light in our eyes
Word is surrender and then we can fly
We were letting it go

We are blinded to the beauty in our own lives
The hours taken are all that we'll get
For five or six hours in the month of July
The summer I read Collette

The time were align and we learnt how to crawl
The bones were prison and memory of old
A word from the past I feel nothing at all
And now I'm letting it go
It's more than survival the lesson I have learnt
When I found salvation quite a surprise
That was the summer that followed the spring
A new way of feeling a million and one things

We are blinded to the beauty in our own lives
The hours taken are all that we'll get
For five or six hours in the month of July
The summer I read Collette

I found Paris a hundred years late
Calling it sleeping in.....
My ear to the stone I can hear her sing.....
I sold my silver to get myself there
To a room with a candle up three flights of stairs
That was the summer I let it all go
Filling my body with my heart and soul

We are blinded to the beauty in our own lives
I was taking all I can get
For five or six hours in the month of July
The summer I read Collette

fox69 · 12.10.2016

"The Sunken Lands"

"The Sunken Lands"

Five cans of paint
And the empty fields
And the dust reveals

The children cry
The work never ends
There's not a single friend

Who will hold her hand
In the sunken lands?

The mud and tears
Melt the cotton bolls
It's a heavy toll

His words are cruel
And they sting like fire
Like the devil's choir

But who will hold her hand
In the sunken lands?

The river rises
And she sails away
She could never stay

Now her work is done
In the sunken lands
There's five empty cans

fox69 · 12.10.2016

"The Truth About You"

"The Truth About You"

I know the truth about you babe
I know the stories you tell
I can fell your heart locked up inside you
I swear I know you so well

When the wind blows out across the water
And we stand here in this light
All our secrets fall like
raindrops between us
And I know the truth tonight

I know the truth about you babe
I can feel it through your hands
I can touch it when I'm sleeping
I can love it when you can't

And if our ships sail on to distant places
And our memories burn and fade
I might say I loved a man just like you
But I know the truth today

I know the truth about you babe
Where you've fallen, where you stand
Where your walls still come between us
Where you take it like a man

fox69 · 12.10.2016

"The Way We Make A Broken Heart"

"The Way We Make A Broken Heart"

Just one more kiss, she'll have to miss this night with you
Now you're guilty of this secret love, as I am too
You'll get used to telling lies, feeling sorry when she cries
Now that the strings aren't attached, you'll catch on, we've done our part
Oh, and this is the way we make a broken heart

Lesson number one, we've just begun to hurt her so
And with lesson two she'll long for you when lights are low
And we get to lesson three when she gets down on her knees
And begs you to stop at the door just before she comes apart
Oh, this is the way we make a broken heart

Now we've made a trail of tears for her to follow
And we've thought of every line that she might swallow

And with lesson four, there'll be no more for her to bear
And on some dark night we'll dim the lights on this affair
Then she'll find somebody new and he'll likely hurt her too
'Cause there must be millions just like you and me, practiced in the art
Oh, and this is the way we make a broken heart
Oh, and this is the way we make a broken heart

Ay yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi
This is the way we make a broken heart
Ay yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi
This is the way, this is the way, this is the way, this is the way
Oh, this is the way we make a broken heart

fox69 · 12.10.2016

"The Wheel"

"The Wheel"

How long was I alseep?
When did we plan to meet?
Have you been waiting long for me?
When did the sky turn black?
Do you still want me back?
I'll pick it all up piece by piece.

And the wheel goes round and round.
And the flame in our souls will never burn out.
And the wheel, and the wheel goes round.

I am a river with a voice.
I came into your life by choice.
And none can judge just how that feels.
You are a messenger from God.
You are the angel I forgot.
And who's to say that it isn't real?

And the wheel goes round and round.
And the flame in our souls will never burn out.
And the wheel, and the wheel goes round.

I'm not looking for the answers.
Oh, darling don't you see
That just to know the question
Is good enough for me.

Take up the hearts you came to heal.
Put down your dagger and your shield.
You need fear nothing now from me.
I see the essence of the man.
I stand before you as a friend.
The truth moves through us even when we sleep.

And the wheel goes round and round.
And the flame in our souls will never burn out.
And the wheel, and the wheel goes round.

fox69 · 12.10.2016

"The World Unseen"

"The World Unseen"

I'm the sparrow on the roof
I'm the list of everyone I have to lose
I'm the rainbow in the dirt
I am who I was and how much I can hurt

So I will look for you
In stories of the kings
Westward leading, still proceeding
To the world unseen

I'm the mirror in the hall
From your empty room I can hear it fall
Now that we must live apart
I have a lock of hair and one-half of my heart

So I will look for you
Between the grooves of songs we sing
Westward leading, still proceeding
To the world unseen

There are no gifts that will be found
Wrapped in winter, laid beneath the ground
You must be somewhere in the stars
'Cause from a distance comes the sound of your guitar

And I will look for you in Memphis and the miles between
I will look for you in morphine and in dreams
I will look for you in the rhythm of my bloodstream
Westward leading, still proceeding
To the world unseen

fox69 · 12.10.2016

"Third Rate Romance"

"Third Rate Romance"

Sittin' at a tiny table in a ritzy restaurant
She was satrin' at her coffee cup
He was tryin' to keep his courage up
By applyin' booze
Talk was small, if they talked at all
They both knew what they wanted
There was no need to talk about it
They were old enough to know about it
And keep it loose

She said, "You don't look like my type
But I guess you'll do"
Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous
He said, "I'll even tell you that I love you
If you want me to"
Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous

When they left the bar they got in his car
And they drove away
They drove to the family inn
She didn't even have to pretend
She didn't know what for
Then he went to the desk
And he made his request
While she waited outside
Then he came back with the key
And she said, "Give it to me,
I'll unlock the door"

She kept saying, "I've never really done this kind of thing before, have you?"
Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous
He said, "Yes I have,
But only a time or two"
Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous

fox69 · 12.10.2016

"This World"

"This World"

I read about this baby she got beat up by her dad
She was nine months old and he was a full grown man
She may have been learning how to crawl and he put a fist in her face
And the doctor said this baby's gone she can't be replaced
Now you read a lot of things in the daily news
But I'm laying awake at nights wondering what to do
I pray the Lord her soul to keep cause all down here are fast asleep
But I want to say this baby belongs to me and you
So we gotta wake up this baby belongs to me and you

Everyday when I wake up in this world and it's spinning out of control
Who's at the wheel seems no one knows
We're all just like a baby frightened and so sad
Feeling beat up by someone who looks like dad
Now you read a lot of things...
So we gotta wake up this baby belongs to me and you