Rosanne Cash

[fox69]

"Like Fugitives"

"Like Fugitives"


The priest is prayin' for your soul
And the doctor for your heart
Someone tell me how to live
Now that we must live apart
Once we had a mother
But that's all over now
So wish her well and let her go
Just as soon as you know how

It's a strange new world we live in
Where the church leads you to hell
And the lawyers get the money
For the lives they divide and sell
And the only truth believed in
Is the one upon the screen
So we live our lives like fugitives
And we were born to live like queens

Once we all were daughters
Now we'll never hear thy name
I never think I could have learned
I just turned into the game
Don't send me no more letters
With your ignorance and rage
I don't want your tired religion
Not a soul you need to save

It's a strange new world we live in
Where the church leads you to hell
And the lawyers get the money
For the lives they divide and sell

It's a strange new world we live in
Where the church sends you to hell
And the lawyers get the money
For the lives they divide and sell
And the only truth believed in
Is the one upon the screen
So we live our lives like fugitives
And we were born to live like queens

 

[fox69]

"List Of Burdens"

"List Of Burdens"


I'm coming home today, to hear the trucks roar,
And lock my front door, and stare into your face.
Coming home today, to sleep in my bed,
And clear round my head and wander round this place.

So don't put my love on your list of burdens,
When I'm bringing it home to you.
Don't put my love on your list of burdens,
'Cos I'm bringing it home to you.

I walked around this world, bathed in neon,
And needing no one, empty and disturbed.
You ran around this world. It nearly killed me,
But you can fill me till I cry like a little girl.

So don't put my love on your list of burdens,
When I'm bringing it home to you.
Don't put my love on your list of burdens,
'Cos I'm bringing it home to you.

If I can just get there,
Lay the whole damn world at your feet.
I'd do anything to please you baby,
To save yourself for me.

So don't put my love on your list of burdens,
When I'm bringing it home to you.
Don't put my love on your list of burdens,
'Cos I'm bringing it home to you.

So don't put my love on your list of burdens,
When I'm bringing it home to you.
Don't put my love on your list of burdens,
'Cos I'm bringing it home to you.

So don't put my love on your list of burdens,
When I'm bringing it home to you.
Don't put my love on your list of burdens,
'Cos I'm bringing it home to you.

 

[fox69]

"Long Black Veil"
(originally by Lefty Frizzell)
(feat. Jeff Tweedy)

"Long Black Veil"
(originally by Lefty Frizzell)
(feat. Jeff Tweedy)



Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
Someone was killed 'neath the town hall lights
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

The judge said: Son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

Now the scaffold is high, and eternity's near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night, when the cold wind moans
In a long black veil, she cries over my bones

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
Nobody knows but me

 

[fox69]

"Looking For A Corner"

"Looking For A Corner"


Trouble when you're searching
And you ain't so very young
You don't fit into table talk
But you can't hold back your tongue
You have what they all desire
So you must want it too
I'm looking for a corner
To back my heart into

Trouble when they know you
Your face or just your name
They count the times you stumble
When you barely know the game
You know you never asked for this
Someone who looks like you
I'm looking for a corner
To back my heart into

I just want to find while there's still time
Some peace of mind that I can hold on to
I ain't lookin' for no magic door
Then waiting for someone to push me through

Trouble when the ones you love
Don't know how to love you back
You're forever climbing icy walls
Forever falling back
You're not even lying
And they don't believe it's true
I'm looking for a corner
To back my heart into

Trouble when the heartaches
Don't hurt you anymore
There's nothing like the passion
That you felt so long before
You have what they all desire
But you want it to
I'm looking for a corner
To back my heart in to

 

[fox69]

"Man Smart, Woman Smarter"

"Man Smart, Woman Smarter"


I say let us put man and a woman together
To find out which one is smarter
Some say man but I say no
The woman got the man de day should know

And not me but the people they say
That de man are leading de women astray
But I say, that the women of today
Smarter than the man in every way
That's right de woman is uh smarter
That's right de woman is uh smarter
That's right de woman is uh smarter, that's right, that's right

Ever since the world began
Woman was always teaching man
And I you listen to my bid attentively
I goin' tell you how she smarter than me

Samson was the strongest man long ago
No one could a beat him, as we all know
Until he clash with Deliah on top of the bed
She told them all the strength was in the hair of his head

You meet a girl at a pretty dance
Thinking that you would stand a chance
Take her home, thinking she's alone
Open de door you find her husband home

I was treating a girl independently
She was making baby for me
When de baby born and I went to see
Eyes was blue it was not by me

Garden of Eden was very nice
Adam never work in Paradise
Eve meet snake, Paradise gone
She make Adam work from that day on

Methusaleh spent all his life in tears
Lived without a woman for 900 years
One day he decided to have some fun
The poor man never lived to see 900 and one

 

[fox69]

"Mirror Image"

"Mirror Image"


A cold night and the wind keeps blowin' a cold heart here but no one knows it
I look at you and I see myself down that lonely road
A woman frozen and a man still on fire the crime of fear and the pain and desire
You and me and the mirror between us that begs to explode
No one feels better now no one really tries no one gets to the truth past these eyes

Old memories linger still a cup of coffee and a dollar bill
Lay on the table like a fortune waiting for us to read
But no news seeps in today the old blues decide to stay
No passion breaks this train running through my mind
No one feels better now no one really cares no one takes time to look they just stare
No one feels better now no one makes it through
No one gets past these eyes to the truth

 

[fox69]

"Miss The Mississippi And You"

"Miss The Mississippi And You"


I'm groing tired of the big city lights
Tired of the glamour, tired of the size
I'm alway dreaming of roaming once more
Back to my home on the old river shore

Days are dark and dreary everywhere I roam
How I long for Mississippi and you
Nothing seems to cheer me under heaven's door
How I miss the Mississippi and you

Roaming the wide world over
Always alone and blue, so blue
I am sad and weary, longing to go home
Yes, I miss the Mississippi and you

Mockingbirds are singing 'round the cabin door
While I dream of Mississippi and you
And my memories are bringing happy days of yore
I have spent in Mississippi with you

Roaming the wide world over
Always alone and blue, so blue
Longing for my homeland on that muddy watershore
Yes, I miss the Mississippi and you
The Mississippi and you

 

[fox69]

"Modern Blue"

"Modern Blue"


I went to Barcelona on the midnight train
I walked the streets of Paris in the pouring rain
I flew across an island in the northern sea
And I ended up in Memphis, Tennessee

I keep my head down, I keep my eyes on you
It's a big wide world with a million shades of modern blue

Everybody 'round here moves too fast
And it feels so good but it's never gonna last
Everything I had is twice what I knew
But I don't have nothing if I don't have you

I keep down my head down, I keep my eyes on you
It's a big wide world with a million shades of modern blue

Will you still be there when I round the curve?
Will you hold my hand when I lose my nerve?
I went to Barcelona and my mind got changed
So I'm heading back to Memphis on the midnight train

I keep my head down, I keep my eyes on you
It's a big wide world

I keep my head down, I keep my eyes on you

I keep my head down, I keep my eyes on you
It's a big wide world with a million shades of modern blue

 

[fox69]

"Money Road"

"Money Road"


I was dreaming of the Tallahatchie Bridge
A thousand miles from where we live
But the long line at the pearly gate
The keepers of our fate
None of them will congregate
Out on Money Road

A lonesome boy in a foreign land
(Out on Money Road)
And a voice we'll never understand
(Out on Money Road)
One lies in the Zion yard
And one sleeps on the river bar
Neither one got very far
Out on Money Road
Out on Money Road

I was dreaming about the deepest blue
But what you seek is seeking you
You can cross the bridge and carve your name
But the river stays the same
We left but never went away
Out on Money Road
Out on Money Road
Out on Money Road
Out on Money Road

 

[fox69]

"Motherless Children"

"Motherless Children"


Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone
Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone
Motherless children have a hard time
There's all that weeping and all that crying
Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone

Father will do the best he can when the mother is gone
Father will do the best he can when the mother is gone
Father will do the best he can
But there's so many things he just don't understand
Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone

People say a sister will do when the mother is gone
People say a sister will do when the mother is gone
People say a sister will do
But she'll get married, turn her back on you
Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone

Friends will treat you like your mother will when your mother is gone
Friends will treat you like your mother will when your mother is gone
Friends will tell you what to do
Then they'll turn their back on you
Motherless children have a hard time when their mother is gone