Five Years lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
(originally by David Bowie)
Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing
News just come over
We had five years left to cry in (Cry in)
News guy wept and told us
Earth was really dying (Dying)
Cried so much his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying (Lying)
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat, skinny people
And all the tall, short people
And all the nobody people
And all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the Black hadn't have pulled her off
I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour
Drinking milkshakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
I don't think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained, I felt like an actor
'Til thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race
The way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful
I want you to walk
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years
Five years, that's all we've got
Five years
We've got five years
Ooh Las Vegas lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
(originally by Gram Parsons)
Ooh, Las Vegas
Ain't no place for a poor girl like me
Ooh, Las Vegas
Ain't no place for a poor girl like me
Every time I hit your Crystal City
You know you're gonna make a wreck outta me
Well, the first time I lose I drink whiskey
Second time I lose I drink gin
Third time I lose I drink anything
'Cause I think I'm gonna win
Ooh, Las Vegas
Ain't no place for a poor girl like me
Every time I hit your Crystal City
You know you're gonna make a wreck outta me
Well, the Queen of Spades is a friend of mine
The Queen of Hearts, she's a bitch
Someday when I clean up my mind
I'll find out which is which
Ooh, Las Vegas
Ain't no place for a poor girl like me
Every time I hit your Crystal City
You know you're gonna make a wreck outta me
Well, I spend all night with the dealer
Tryin' to get ahead
Spend all day at the Holiday Inn
Tryin' to get out of bed
Ooh, Las Vegas
Ain't no place for a poor girl like me
Ooh, Las Vegas
Ain't no place for a poor girl like me
Ooh, Las Vegas
Ain't no place for a poor girl like me
Ooh, Las Vegas
Ain't no place for a poor girl like me
Ooh, Las Vegas
Ain't no place for a poor girl like me
No Expectations lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
(originally by the Rolling Stones)
Take me to the station
And put me on a train
I've got no expectations
To pass through here again
Once I was a rich man
And now I am so poor
But never in my sweet short life
Have I felt like this before
Your heart is like a diamond
You throw your pearls at swine
And as I watch you leaving me
You pack my peace of mind
Our love was like the water
That splashes on a stone
Our love is like our music
It's here, and then it's gone
So take me to the airport
And put me on a plane
I got no expectations
To pass through here again
Don't Let It Bring You Down lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
(originally by Neil Young)
Old man lying by the side of the road
With the lorries rolling by
Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load
As the buildings scrape the sky
Cold wind ripping down the alley at dawn
And the morning papers fly
Dead man lying by the side of the road
With the daylight in his eyes
Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning
Find someone who's turning
And you will come around
Blind man running through the light of the night
With an answer in his hand
Come on down to the river of sight
And you can really understand
Red lights flashing through the window in the rain
Can you hear the sirens moan?
White cane lying in a gutter in the lane
If you're walking home alone
Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around
Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around
Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around
Love In Mind lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
(originally by Neil Young)
Woke up this morning with love in mind
It was raining outside but my love still shined
Kept me warm until my plane touched the sky
And I've seen love make a fool of a man
He tried to make a loser win
But I've got nothing to lose
That I can't get back again
Man made rules been holdin' back my love
Can't hold it back no more
Churches long preach sex is wrong
Jesus where is nature gone?
What am I doing here?
What am I doing here?
Woke up this morning with love in mind
It was raining outside but my love still shined
Kept me warm until my plane touched the sky
And I've seen love make a fool of a man
He tried to make a loser win
But I've got nothing to lose
That I can't get back again
Man made rules been holdin' back my love
Can't hold it back no more
Churches long preach sex is wrong
Jesus where is nature gone?
What am I doing here?
What am I doing here?
Woke up this morning with love in mind
It was raining outside but my love still shined
Kept me warm until my plane touched the sky
The Way I Feel lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
(originally by Gordon Lightfoot)
The way I feel is like a robin
Whose babes have flown to come no more
Like a tall oak tree alone and cryin'
When the birds have flown and the nest is bare
Now a woman Lord is like a young bird
And the tall oak tree is a young man's heart
Among his boughs you'll find her nesting
When the nights are cool she's warm and dry
Your coat of green it will protect her
Her wings will grow, your love will too
But all too soon your mighty branches
Will cease to hold her and she'll fly from you
Now the way I feel is like a robin
Whose babes have flown to come no more
Like a tall oak tree alone and cryin'
When the birds have flown and the nest is bare
When the birds have flown and the nest is bare
I've Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
(originally by Bob Dylan)
I'm sittin' on the terrace
Lost in the stars
Listening to the sounds of
The sad guitars
Been thinking it all over
And I've thought it all through
I've made up my mind
To give myself to you
I saw the first
Fall of snow
I saw the flowers
Come and go
I don't think that anyone
Ever really knew
I've made up my mind
To give myself to you
I'm giving myself to you, I am
From Salt Lake City to Birmingham
From East L.A. to San Antone
I don't think I can bear to live my life alone
My eye is
Like a shooting star
It looks at nothin' here or there
Looks at nothin' near or far
No one ever told me
It's just something I knew
I've made up my mind
To give myself to you
If I had the wings
Of a snow white dove
I'd preach the gospel
The gospel of love
A love so real
A love so true
I've made up my mind
To give myself to you
Take me out traveling
You're a traveling man
Show me something
I don't understand
I'm not what I was
Things aren't what they were
I'll go far away from home
With her
I've traveled
A long road of despair
I've met no other
Traveler there
Lot of people gone
Lot of people that I knew
I've made up my mind
To give myself to you
Well, my heart's like a river
A river that sings
Just takes me a while
To realize things
I've seen the sunrise
I've seen the dawn
I'll lay down beside you
When everyone's gone
I've traveled
From the mountains to the sea
I hope the gods
Go easy with me
I knew you'd say yes 'cause
I'm saying it too
I've made up my mind
To give myself to you
Marathon lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
(originally by Vic Chesnutt)
To-do lists on a long yellow legal pad
Blue Windsor knots framed by basic black
Resplendent table
Great forests of paper plates
Carrying the weight of the world
Saps every ounce of your strength
In training to run a marathon
Miles and miles and miles
With your Sunday shoes on
In training to run a marathon
Miles and miles and miles
With your dress shoes on
But all these recurring dreams
Will increase and then peter out and cease
Tears do evaporate
But oh so slowly
Like piss on a toilet seat
In training to run a marathon
Miles and miles and miles
With your Sunday shoes on
In training to run a marathon
Miles and miles and miles
With your dress shoes on
Seventeen Seconds lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
(originally by The Cure)
Time slips away
And the light begins to fade
Everything is quiet now
Feeling is gone
And the future disappears
Everything is cold now
The dream had to end
The wish never came true
The girl starts to sing
Seventeen seconds
A measure of life
Seventeen seconds
A measure of life
Seventeen seconds
Seventeen seconds
Seventeen seconds
Seventeen seconds
Seventeen seconds
Seventeen seconds
Seventeen seconds
Seventeen seconds
Seventeen seconds
Seventeen seconds
Seventeen seconds
The Possessed lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
I found the devil
Disguised as air
Charged with electric current
I opened my mouth
He entered and said
You are mine
You are mine
You are mine
I found the devil
Disguised as light
And hindered by a passin' shadow
I opened my eyes
He glared and said:
You are mine
You are mine
You are mine
I found the devil
Disguised as water
Clean as my desire
I cupped my hands
He gathered and said
You are mine
You are mine
You are mine
No talk of deals for souls
No dickerin' over details
No contracts sealed with blood
No legends born, no folktales
You found me waiting
Disguised as the devil
Burdened with false intentions
You opened your arms
I came, you said
You are mine
You are mine
You are mine
I found the devil
All That Reckoning, Pt. 1 lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
I once slept
With my arms around you
My legs once bound you
And I'd wake with my heart so full of you
And then I found
That this bed was poison
That my life was frozen
And I lay afraid of ever touching you
I took my heart and lay it on the floor
You took my hand and softly asked for more
I once felt
That keeping it sealed inside
Would free me from the fear I hide
Of ever losing you
And then I found
That the blooming
All that reckoning
Has lead me back to you
I took my heart and lay it on the floor
You took my hand and softly asked for more
Now I sleep
With my arms around
My limbs become you
And I wake with my heart so full of you
When We Arrive lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
Welcome
To the age of dissolution
To the days of death and anger
Old ideas becoming stronger
Welcome
Welcome to the days of wine and roses
To the time of lost pursuits
New ideas are taking root
Welcome
Welcome
Everything unsure
Everything unstable
Above all else
Keep your actions faithful
But above all else
Keep your actions faithful
But what if they cast us seaward
To find new land
What if we lose each other
Will we be holding hands
When we arrive
What if they cast us seaward
In search of land
We may lose each other
But let's be holding hands
When we arrive
Welcome
To the world of self delusion
Where the pain stays sealed inside
Fearing what might lie inside
Welcome
To the days of death and anger
Old ideas becoming stronger
To the age of lost pursuits
New ideas taking root
To this place unsure, unstable
You must keep your actions fateful
To search for common ground
Where our love will be found
Welcome
Welcome
And let's be holding hands
When we arrive
The Things We Do To Each Other lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
Fear is not so far from hate
So if you get the folks to fear
It only takes one small twist
To kick it up a gear
Oh oh oh
And you can control hate
But only for so long
And when you lose control
Ooh man
The things we do to each other
Oh my sister
And you can control hate
But only for so long
And when you lose control
Ooh man
The things we do to each other
Oh my brother
Oh oh oh oh
The things we do to each other
Oh the things we do to each other
Fear is not so far from hate
So if you get the folks to fear
Oh my brother
Oh my sister
The things we do to each other
It only takes one small turn
To kick it up a gear
The things we do to each other
Ooh man
Fear is not so far from hate
So if you get the folks to fear
It only takes one quick turn
To notch it up a gear
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh...
Wooden Stairs lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
Hold your arms out to me
And I will come eventually
I'm hopin' for some time on the other side
"Some things just aren't meant to be"
That's the line that sets me free
Free of all those maybes, buts, inside
If we could sit upon those wooden stairs again
Bury myself in your skin and hair again
Feel myself fall into you again
If we just could sit on those wooden stairs again
Save the place next to you
And I will come back very soon
Once I pick the briars from my eyes
"Some things just aren't meant to be"
That's the line that handcuffed me
There it sits, glowin' deep inside
If we could sit upon those wooden stairs again
Bury myself in your skin and hair again
Feel myself fall into you again
If we just could sit on those wooden stairs again
Come and whisper in my ear
On second thought, let's make it clearer
Tie me to my mast and sing your song
Some things just aren't meant to be
But here's the part that puzzles me
Why we never choose to sing along
If we could sit upon those wooden stairs again
Bury myself in your skin and hair again
Feel myself fall into you again
If we just could sit on those wooden stairs again
Hold your arms out to me
And I will come eventually
Sing Me A Song lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
Sing me a song about life in America
Sing me a song of love
Sing me a song about life in your neighbourhood
Sing me a song of love
I know a man who dropped to his knees
Clasping his hands in prayer
Beside him, she said:
"It looks more like grief"
But mostly she just didn't care
Tell me a tale about the one you keep near
Sing me a song of joy
Tell me a tale about those that are dear
Sing me a song of joy
She veiled her days in pale hues of gray
The brightness of her children an undoing
She spent all her days in a cold burning rage
The brightness of her children was galling
Unburden your hearts, let loose your fear
Sing me a song of forgiveness
Make a fresh start, face all your fears
Sing me a song of forgiveness
He came to that moment in every man's life
He confronted the path before him
Betrayed by the emptiness days without light
He turned and he made a decision
Sing me a song of love
Sing me a song of joy
Beside him, she said:
"It looked more like regret"
But mostly she would like to forget
Sing me a song of love
Sing me a song of joy
Mountain Stream lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
I had a dream I was a king
A king of empty things
I had a queen, she lit my way
And she wiped my tears away
My kingdom was broad and vast
I ignored it as it passed
As I walked
She left me, did my queen
Alone to think and dream
As I walked my mountain streams
I dried tears and all my fears
With ten thousand shields and spears
My queen came back again
But I was ready to defend
My heart now hard and cold
She left me without hope
With gray hair upon my head
My queen and youth had fled
My youth and queen, my mountain stream
Had been stolen by the years
I had a dream I was a king
A king of empty things
Alone to think and dream
But not to hope, or so it seems
But not to hope, or so it seems
But not to hope, or so it seems
Missing Children lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
We only see them briefly
Perhaps just one edition
Their end-of-year photo stares out
We only see them briefly
And it's mugging politicians
Cock-eyed, their faces stare out
But for some their image still burns bright
Like the glow of a tiger or a light
Switched-off, but once stared-at
With such intense concentration
We only see them briefly
Then it's idle conversation
Their perfect frozen bodies surfacing
We only see them briefly
Then it's fear and degradation
Their dusty, bloodied bodies lie limp
But for some their image still burns bright
Like the glow of a tiger or a light
Switched-off, but once stared-at
With such intense concentration
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat
What dread hands and what dread feet?
What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil, what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terror grasp?
We only see them briefly
Then it's shame and flagellation
Their end-of-year photos stare out
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears
Did he smile, his work to see
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
We only see them briefly
Then reach to change the station
Their frozen perfect faces stare out
Shining Teeth lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
I don't wanna see your shining teeth
Show me your bruised and battered heart
Prove to me that you'll be true
Let me touch the wounds that have haunted you
Share with me the wounds that still haunt you
I'm goin' down to the river
It's a place where I can breathe
Splash the waters, miss my daughters
Focus on my retrieve
Work on my reprieve
I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more
She screams as she flies across the floor
I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more
This life becomes a thin stream
And thinner with each day
I'm goin' down to the river
It's a place where I can play
It's a place where I can pray
I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more
She screams as she flies across the floor
I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more
And over time we become that line
And bow and drift and fray
I'm goin' down to the river
And wash the blood away
Wash my pain away
I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more
She screams as I'm backin' out the door
I don't wanna see those burned-out empty eyes
I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more
Nose Before Ear lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
I'm gonna start this song on a dark low [?]
Out of respect for the story that it tells
It all begins with the prick of a finger
A man and his fear, with nose before ear
So many ways to love him
So little time to choose among them
I'll stick with the ones whose hearts are torn
Broken, that's why the blues were born
A man and his life and his race to the finish
And the moments infused with dread
All in the service of tryin' to diminish
Disappointments that lay in ambush
Upon the path ahead
I'm not tryin' to stitch this heart to that sleeve
It's simply a case of mutual need
A grief more dance than hearts can bear
That's the way it goes, with nose before ear
This is the story of the land-locked sailor
Who cried himself to sea
This is the tale of the sleeping princess
Who found her way back to me
What we love will kill us
That which won't don't thrill us
I'm gonna tell you a story about the ones that I love
And a life lived, nose before ear
All That Reckoning, Pt. 2 lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
I once slept with my arms around you
My legs once bound you
And I'd wake with my heart so full of you
And then I found that this bed was poison
That my life was frozen
And I lay afraid of ever touchin' you
I took my heart and laid on the floor
You took my hand and softly asked for more
I once felt that keepin' it sealed inside
Would free me of the fear I hide
Of ever losin' you
And then I found that the blooming
All that reckonin'
Had lead me back to you
I took my heart and laid on the floor
You took my hand and you softly asked for more
I took my heart and laid on the floor
You took my hand and you softly asked for more
Now I sleep with my arms around you
My limbs become you
And I wake with my heart so full of you
The Possessed lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
I found the devil
Disguised as air
Charged with electric current
I opened my mouth
He entered and said
You are mine
You are mine
You are mine
I found the devil
Disguised as light
And hindered by a passin' shadow
I opened my eyes
He glared and said:
You are mine
You are mine
You are mine
I found the devil
Disguised as water
Clean as my desire
I cupped my hands
He gathered and said
You are mine
You are mine
You are mine
No talk of deals for souls
No dickerin' over details
No contracts sealed with blood
No legends born, no folktales
You found me waiting
Disguised as the devil
Burdened with false intentions
You opened your arms
I came, you said
You are mine
You are mine
You are mine
I found the devil
Bad Boy lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
A bad little boy moved into the neighborhood
He won't do nothin' right just a-sittin' got to look so good
He don't wanna go to school and learn to read and write
Just sits around the house and plays that rock n' roll music all night
Well, he put thumbtacks on teacher's chair
Put chewing gum in li'l girl's hair
Now Junior, behave yourself!
Buys every rock n' roll book on the magazine stand
Every dime that he gets, oh is off to the juke box man
Well, he worries his teacher till she's a-ready to poop
From rockin' and a rollin' spinnin' in a Hula-Hoop
Well, his rock n' roll has gotta stop
Junior's head is hard as rock
Now Junior, behave yourself!
Gonna tell your mama you'd better do what she said
Get to the barber shop and get that hair cut off your head
You shoot the canary and you fed it to the neighboor's cat
You gave the cocker spaniel a bath in mother's laundromat
Well, your mama said it's gotta stop
Junior's head is hard as rock
Now Junior, behave yourself!
Cold Evening Wind lyrics - Cowboy Junkies
There's a cold evening wind coming down from the north
Bringing with it cruel words of hard days ahead
Of thieving gray skies and lost desperate mornings
Of days when my voice will not turn you around
And I've been watching the waves entranced by the sound
By the gathering green turmoil, by the evil intent
It's time I take all I know and run it aground
There's a cold evening wind coming down from the north
Bringing with it cruel words of hard days ahead
Of thieving gray skies and lost desperate mornings
Of days when your voice will not turn me around
And I need you right now, I need you to bend
Into the teeth of that cold evening wind
I need you to bend into that cold evening wind
I need you to bend into that cold evening wind
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