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From the bowery to the brimstone I tried to find your heart
The drugs of initiation, the bottom of a barrel that drops I understand ....
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From the bowery to the brimstone I tried to find your heart
The drugs of initiation, the bottom of a barrel that drops I understand ....
Airplane
up on the airplane nearer my god to thee i start making
a deal inspired by gravity if i did wrong i won't do it ....
All Along The Watchtower
There must be some kinda way out of here Said the joker
to the thief I want to tell you now You know there's just ....
All That We Let In
Oooooooo Oooooooo Oooooooo Dust in our eyes our own boots kicked up
Heartsick we nursed along the way we picked up You may not see ....
Always Be There
Always Be There is an Amy Ray song from Color Me Grey.
Always Be There. It was you who walked into my life You were ....
American Tune
American Tune is a Paul Simon song. The girls have been performing
it since at least 1985. A live version of it appears on the ....
Andy
Andy, do you love me? Do you think about it, will you
say Turning brushwood into blazes Turning summer grass into hay Turning sharply past ....
Anyone But Myself
Anyone But Myself is an Amy Ray song from Color Me Grey.
Anyone But Myself. If you ever feel you'll lose your dreams Or your ....
Anyway I Love You
Anyway, I Love You is an Amy Ray song from Color Me
Grey, her solo demo tape / album from around 1985. Anyway, I Love ....
Back Together Again
Leaving ain't fair y'know parting ain't just But people move on people
got to do what they must And we're back together again And I'm ....
Beauty To Disaster
Author: Indigo Girls Album title: Indigo Girls Blood and Fire ----- ---
---- I have spent nights with matches and knives, leaning over ledges, only ....
Become You
I heard you sing a rebel song Sung it loud and all
alone We can't afford the things you say We can't afford the warranty ....
Bitterroot
Tonight I'll be sleepin on a mountain top I got a billion
stars for my witness In the morning I go down and the sun ....
Blister In The Sun
When I'm a walking I strut my stuff then I'm so strung
out I'm high as a kite I just might stop to check you ....
Blood And Fire
I have spent nights with matches and knives Leaning over ledges only
two flights up Cutting my heart, burning my soul Nothing left to hold ....
Burn All The Letters
I am sorry that I set my sights on the things I
read Something meant for your husband maybe you left them under the bed ....
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Indian legislation's on the desk of a do-right Congressman He don't know
much about the issues So he picks up the phone and calls the ....
Caramia
Caramia Blank notebook in a back pocket fade You used to mock
me sometimes I would cry When I was home later Cause you hurt ....
Carry Me Away
Carry Me Away is an Amy Ray song from Color Me Grey.
Carry Me Away. I called you up today to breach my sorrow Carry ....
Cedar Tree
Author: Indigo Girls Album title: Indigo Girls Center Stage ------ ----- Laughing
in a crown of jewels, numbness from a sceptors wound. Toss and Turn, ....
Center Stage
Laughing in a crowd of jewels Numbness from a sceptors wound Toss
and turn, I spin and learn "Catch yourself before you burn" A joker's ....
Chickenman
I am an only child born of the wild Riddled to spend
my time defending the land You are the only one born in the ....
Closer To Fine
I'm trying to tell you something bout my life Maybe give me
insight between black and white And the best thing you've ever done for ....
Clues To You
Clues to You is an Amy Ray song from Color Me Grey.
I honestly have no clue what the first half of the first line ....
Cold As Ice
Color Me Grey is an Amy Ray song, from Color Me Grey.
Go figure. Color Me Grey. Her life is a show One act follows ....
Cold Beer And Remote Control
All of my days have been misspent Stuffing out the sofa and
the antenna's bent Inside my heart's bursting out at the seams I work ....
Collecting You
I could paint you in the dark Cause I've studied you with
hunger as a work of art And these are very secret days I ....
Color Me Grey
Color Me Grey is an Amy Ray song, from Color Me Grey.
Go figure. Color Me Grey. Her life is a show One act follows ....
Compromise
You wear the cloth of finest lands The touch of women the
toil of hands Undress me now before I bend From the weight of ....
Crazy Game
Crazy game I never should have started to play But now you
couldn't tear me away Cause love is sweet, sweet darling It's so good ....
Cut It Out
I'm sitting in Darwin's Theory You're down in the 48s I'm practicing
politics You're practicing guitar an staying out late How'd we get so turned ....
Daddys All Gone
Daddy's All Gone is a James Taylor song. A live IG version
appears on Shades of Indigo. If you ask me, that song alone is ....
Dead Man's Hill
We were down at Dead Man's Hill Smoking vines like cigarettes Looking
through the trashy mags Trying to feel what's coming next You told me ....
Deconstruction
We talked up all night And still came to no conclusion We
started a fight That ended in silent confusion And as we sat stuck ....
Devotion
I pulled out with the mountain laurel blooming On a dirt road
that is soon to be paved Down to the site of my original ....
Don't Give That Girl A Gun
She's got a case against me a jury of my peers And
the rage of the righteous screaming in her ears I'm not dignified anymore, ....
Dont Give Up On Me Baby
Don't Give Up on Me, Baby is an Emily Saliers song, which
was probably written in 1986. They performed it live for WRFG's What the ....
Dont Know Your Name
Don't Know Your Name is one of the few songs that the
girls co-wrote. In this case, Amy wrote the music, and Emily wrote the ....
Dont Think Twice
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right is a Bob Dylan song from
1963. The girls have performed it a few times with Joan Baez. It ....
Down By The River
Be on my side I'll be on your side There is no
reason for you to hide It's so hard staying here all alone You ....
Draw The Line
Draw the Line is an Amy Ray song. A studio version of
it appears on Blue Food. (Additionally, there's a live version of it on ....
Erase The Pain
Erase the Pain is an Amy Ray song from Color Me Grey.
Erase the Pain. Time, where have you left me? Here - without a ....
Everybodys Waiting
Fallin' Star is an Amy Ray song. It appears on her early
demo/ solo album, Color Me Grey. It was probably written around 1984-6. Fallin' ....
Everything In Its Own Time
Remember everything I told you Keep it in your heart like a
stone And when the winds have blown things round and back again What ....
Falling Star
Fallin' Star is an Amy Ray song. It appears on her early
demo/ solo album, Color Me Grey. It was probably written around 1984-6. Fallin' ....
Fare Thee Well
Fare thee well my bright star I watched your tailights blaze into
nothingness But you were long gone before I ever got to you Before ....
Faye Tucker
On the night they killed Faye Tucker I was gambling away my
last dime Well I pulled down the lever and I sent up a ....
Finlandia
Free Through Eternity is an Amy Ray song from Color Me Grey.
Free Through Eternity. Soft in the morning Love without warning Peace 'cause there's ....
Free Through Eternity
i'm harboring a fugitive defector of a kind and she lives in
my soul drinks of my wine and i'd give my last breath to ....
Fugitive
I'm harboring a fugitive a defector of a kind And she lives
in my soul and drinks of my wine And I'd give my last ....
Galileo
Galileo's head was on the block The crime was looking up the
truth And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode I try to ....
Get Out The Map
I'm gonna clear my head I'm gonna drink that sun The saddest
sight my eyes can see Is that big ball of orange sinking slyly ....
Get Together
Love is but a song we sing And fear's the way we
die You can make the mountains ring Or make the angels cry Though ....
Ghost
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a
drawer The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war And ....
Go
through the dust bowl through the debt grandma was a suffragette blacklisted
for her publication blacklisted for my generation go go go raise your hands ....
Go Go Go
Half-Moon Cafe is an Emily Saliers song, written during her sophomore year
at Tulane (the same year she wrote Play It Again, Sam ). The ....
Gone Again
Think I'll bag this trip for two pack it up for Kakadu
And honey it's not for the weather or the lack of loving you ....
Half Moon Cafe
Half-Moon Cafe is an Emily Saliers song, written during her sophomore year
at Tulane (the same year she wrote Play It Again, Sam ). The ....
Hammer And A Nail
Clearing webs from a hovel blistered hand on the handle of a
shovel I've been digging too deep I always do I see my face ....
Hand In Hand
Hand in Hand is yet another Mark Knopfler song, also from their
1980 album Making Movies. And, yet again, it's a song that Amy only ....
Hand Me Downs
I've taken so many down I've helped them all to dismount I've
followed so many down I take their hand me downs All with hope ....
Heartache Central Time
Thought you were one who wouldn't run Who wouldn't do me wrong
But the song that you were singing Was the same old heartache song ....
Hey Jesus
Hey Jesus it's me I don't usually talk to you But my
baby's gonna leave me and there's something you must do And I am ....
Hey Kind Friend
Hey kind friend Don't know when I'll see you again On a
ferryboat bound to Victoria Laying down to hide from the wind Big Dipper ....
High Horse
High Horse is an Emily Saliers song, presumably written in 1987, as
it appears on the original release of Strange Fire. Though they used to ....
History Of Us
I went all the way to Paris to forget your face Captured
in stain glass, young lives long since passed Statues of lovers every place ....
Holy City
well you followed me this far did you find out what's inside
can you tell me what i'm doing is it something i should hide ....
Hope Alone
Let's not drag this out Everything's in motion Though I've only ever
loved you kind And with devotion Remember when I met you You were ....
House At Pooh Corner
christopher robin and i walked along as the branches lit up by
the moon posing our questions to owl and eyore as our days disappeared ....
I Don't Wanna Know
Well you've followed me this far, did you find out what's inside
Can you tell me what I'm doing, is it something I should hide ....
I Shall Be Released
I Shall Be Released is a 1967 Bob Dylan song that the
Girls have been doing on occasion for several years now. It usually functions ....
If You Live Like That
I'll Give You My Skin is a song written by both of
the girls with Michael Stipe. I kinda suspect that the lyrics are mostly ....
Ill Give You My Skin
I'll Give You My Skin is a song written by both of
the girls with Michael Stipe. I kinda suspect that the lyrics are mostly ....
It's Alright
It's alright forty days of rain My skin stretched out from the
growing pain And it'd be nice to have an explanation But it's alright ....
Joking
You said the world was magic I was wide-eyed and laughing We
were dancing up to the bright side Forget about your ego forget about ....
Jonas And Ezekial
i left my anger in a river running highway 5 new hampshire,
vermont, bordered by college farms, hubcaps, and falling rocks voices in the woods ....
Jonas Ezekial
I left my anger in a river running highway five New Hampshire,
Vermont border by College farms, hubcaps, falling rocks Voices in the woods and ....
Keeper Of My Heart
For you I would tattoo me with lines crossing into a hand
and a heart that would never bleed With the twilight and the horse ....
Kid Fears
Pain from pearls, hey little girl How much have you grown Pain
from pearls, hey little girl Flowers for the ones you've known Are you ....
Killing Time
Killing Time is a song by Atlanta musician DeDe Vogt. DeDe is
a true Atlanta musician - a major part of the local music scene. ....
Knockin On Heavens Door
Knockin' on Heaven's Door is a Bob Dylan song from 1973. The
girls have been doing it now and then since at least 1988. There's ....
Land Of Canaan
You can go to the East to find your inner hemisphere You
say we're under the same sky baby don't you realize honey it's not ....
Language Or The Kiss
I don't know if it was real or in a dream Lately
waking up I'm not sure where I've been There was a table set ....
Least Complicated
I sit two stories above the street It's awful quiet here since
love fell asleep There's life down below me though the kids are walking ....
Leaving
Jet fuel and traffic lines Pulling up to the delta signs Distant
shape of my hometown Black stain where the wheels touch down I pick ....
Leeds
It's dark at four p.m. in Leeds The steeples pierce the skylight
till the last of it bleeds The absent sound of another day as ....
Left Me A Fool
Everybody loves you and they want to know your story You go
riding out a mystery concealed in all your glory But when it comes ....
Let It Be Me
sticks and stones battle zones a single light bulb on a single
thread for the black sirens wail history fails rose-colored glass begins to age ....
Letter To Eve
Oh Eve, where is Adam? I see you've been kept out of
the garden And I said Oh, Eve, where is Adam? Now you've been ....
Life Blood
Lifeblood is an Emily Saliers song from the 1986 Indigo Girls EP.
I think the last time I heard it performed live was March of ....
Life's So Strange
Cold black coffee, incessant stream of cars Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like
a fist full of grey stars Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ....
Losin Touch
Losin' Touch is an Amy Ray song from Color Me Grey. Losin'
Touch. Here I am, shooting for the sky You say you've settled in ....
Love By You
Love of the Common People is a song credited to Hurley/ Wilkens.
I honestly have no idea who these people are. I DO know that ....
Love Of The Common People
Love of the Common People is a song credited to Hurley/ Wilkens.
I honestly have no idea who these people are. I DO know that ....
Love Will Come To You
Guess I wasn't the best one.. to ask me myself with my
face pressed up against love's glass to see the shiny toy I've been ....
Love's Recovery
During the time of which I speak it was hard to turn
the other cheek To the blows of insecurity Feeding the cancer of my ....
Make It Easier
I'm in search of greener pastures don't like my garden's what I
said I'm working harder than last year but I'm still deep in the ....
Make This House A Home
Make This House a Home is a song by Amy Ray and
Michelle Malone, from early 1987. Make This House a Home. Well, there's something ....
Melissa
(handed down and made by hand) each time you'd pull down the
driveway i wasn't sure when i would see you again yours was a ....
Midnight Train To Georgia
LA proved too much for the man (too much for the man)
(he couldn't make it) So he's leaving the life he's come to know ....
Moment Of Forgiveness
Well I guess that I was lonely That's why I called you
on the phone Cause in a moment of forgiveness I didn't want to ....
Mystery
Each time you'd pull down the driveway I wasn't sure when I
would see you again Cause yours was a twisted blind sided highway No ....
Nashville
As I drive from your pearly gates I realize that I just
can't stay All those mountains they kept you locked inside And hid the ....
Never Stop
No Way to Treat a Friend is an Amy Ray song, probably
written around 1985 or earlier, even. A live version of it appears on ....
No Way To Treat A Friend
When I walked you to the door I was feeling mighty fine
I was thinking "hey I've got love to ease my mind" Then I ....
None But The Rain
Well, in honor of this being my last regularly scheduled post for
a while, I thought I'd go with tradition and post some kind of ....
Nuevas Senoritas
We blew off immigration The moon was sittin high We drove from
la candona into comentine And gloria was singing And cecelia closed her eyes ....
Our Deliverence
Now we can say That nothings lost And only change Brings round
the prophecy Well now it's melting The solid frost Was once a veil ....
Ozilline
Oh, Ozilline, the moon is almost full And you don't need a
torchlight to see into these woods Sister, bring the medicine to keep you ....
Passin Time
Peace Song is an Emily Saliers composition, probably written in 1985, as
it appears on Blue Food. If you're intersted in a more definite terminus ....
Peace Song
Play It Again, Sam is an Emily Saliers song, written during her
sophomore year at Tulane, when she was really depressed. She says that it's ....
Peace Tonight
Honey pick the red corner shoes The ones that hardly ever get
used I knelt in front of my whole collection I'm picking you a ....
Philosophy Of Loss
Welcome to why the church has died In the heart of the
exiled, in the kingdom of fate. Who owns the land and keeps the ....
Play It Again Sam
Play It Again, Sam is an Emily Saliers song, written during her
sophomore year at Tulane, when she was really depressed. She says that it's ....
Please Call Me Baby
Please Call Me, Baby is an Emily Saliers song - I know
very little about it, but the one tape I have of it sounds ....
Power Of Two
Now the parking lot is empty Everyone's gone someplace I pick you
up and in the trunk I've packed A cooler and a two-day suitcase ....
Prince Of Darkness
My place is of the sun and this place is of the
dark I do not feel the romance, I do not catch the spark ....
Problem Child
Note: this song was reincarnated as Go I am a problem child
I've been wild all my days All my anger and my rage My ....
Pushing The Needle Too Far
I woke up this morning, grey dawn, a prayer on my breath
I lost something precious, God will save me, from losing myself I think ....
Reunion
I had guards like watchdogs, dogs in a manger I could feel
the protection, possession and anger I drove out of there with no one ....
River
It's coming on Christmas they're cutting down trees Putting up reindeer and
singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I ....
Romeo And Juliet
a love struck romeo sings the streets a serenade now he's laying
everybody low he's got a love song that he made he finds a ....
Romeo Juliet
A love struck Romeo sings the streets a serenade He's laying everybody
low He's got a love song that he made He finds a convenient ....
Scared To Say Were Friends
Scared to Say We're Friends is an Amy Ray song from Color
Me Grey. Scared to Say We're Friends As I was wading through your ....
Scooter Boys
Scooter boys and Argentinians Europe shed the blood of the Indians Here
I sit in the land of plenty Crying about my own virginity Hey ....
Secure Yourself
Secure yourself to heaven hold on tight the night has come Fasten
up your earthly burdens, you have just begun In the ink of the ....
Shame On You
My friends they wash the windows they shine in the sun They
tell me wake up early in the morning sometimes see what a beautiful ....
She's Saving Me
We were sitting round a dying fire Somebody lit incense Somebody lit
a cigarette And passed a bottle around It was just strawberry season Backbreaking ....
Shed Your Skin
115 you are 17 Itchy trigger and venomous You're growing longer you're
growing stronger So shed your skin babe now shed this Come on over ....
Sister
Sister I'm heading out of Alabama so you better think fast The
wind is gonna pick me up now and the rain won't slack I'm ....
Southland In The Springtime
Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning Light the bayou with our
tailights in the night 800 miles to El Paso from the stateline And ....
Squeaky Fromme
The Ballad of Squeaky Fromme is an Amy Ray song from about
1987. (Since it's subject is topical, I'm sure that anyone who wants a ....
Starkville
If you were here in starkville Towny boys would love the way
you stare If you were here in starkville Well the local girls they ....
Strange Fire
I come to you with strange fire, I make an offering of
love The incense of my soul is burned by the fire in my ....
Summer Time
Summertime is a George Gershwin song. To be more accurate (admittedly, only
slightly more - I don't actually know what I'm talking about - haven't ....
Tangled Up In Blue
Early one morning the sun was shining I was laying in bed
Wondering if she'd changed at all if her hair was still red Her ....
The Ballad Of Squeaky Fromme
I'm scared as hell 'cause Squeaky's out of jail But I can
feel her close behind me like the devil on my heels Well they ....
The Girl With The Weight Of The World In Her Hands
She won't recover from her losses She hasn't chosen this path but
she watches who it crosses Maybe move to the right maybe move to ....
The Weakness In Me
the thin horizon of a plan is almost clear my friends and
i have had a tough time bruising our brains hard up against change ....
The Wood Song
The Wood song The thin horizon of a plan is almost clear,
my friends and I have had a tough time bruising our brains hard ....
Thin Line
I thought the time was passed when I could find beauty in
the birds I set the stage and the scenery rehearsing every word Yeah ....
This Train Revised
It's a fish white belly A lump in the throat Razor on
the wire Skin and bone Piss and blood In a railroad car One ....
Three Hits
(Dedicated to the memory of a great poet, Frank Stanford) Three hits
to the heart son and it's poetry in motion One could send you ....
Touch Me Fall
I'm waking from a dream The neighborhood is green All the sounds
I've missed all the years Come down to wedding, death, and fear All ....
Tried To Be True
From baby to best, there's no second test Little storms destroy you
Here is the fame they promised to give you Taking the place of ....
Trouble
Trouble came around here Here in the South we fix something to
eat Steam risin' up off the greenery and We welcome the strangers we ....
Untitled Song
I tried my best to get over you Kept my distance so
I wouldn't have to show That the things which I kept hidden By ....
Up In Smoke
some will strut and some will fret see this an hour on
the stage others will not but they'll sweat in their hopelessness and their ....
Virginia Woolf
Some will strut and some will fret See this an hour on
the stage Others will not but they'll sweat In their hopelessness in their ....
Walk Away
We used to walk in each others' arms It was one on
one , that's what you said And now the moon is a sliver ....
Water Is Wide
The water is wide I can't cross o'er And neither have I
wings to fly Give me a boat that can carry two And both ....
Watershed
Thought I knew my mind like the back of my hand The
gold and the rainbow and nothing panned out as I planned They say ....
We Are Together
The girl's known trouble the wind's to blame It blew her to
Anytown, USA and that's my middle name And where we go remains nameless ....
Welcome Me
Welcome me to your city of angels Devil prophets still hold my
hand I walked your stillborn streets for hours Ethnic echoes spitting out their ....
What Was Really Me
What Was Really Me is an Emily Salier song from around 1987.
The version I'm transcribing is from Carboro, North Carolina, on 21 March 1988. ....
White House Blues
Subject: Cover: White House Blues. White House Blues is a song by
Atlanta singer/songwriter Caroline Aiken. The girls have been doing it now and then ....
Wood Song
The thin horizon of a plan is almost clear My friends and
I have had a tough time Bruising our brains hard up against change ....
World Falls
I'm coming home with a stone strapped onto my back I'm coming
home with a burning hope turning all my blues to black I'm looking ....
Yield
I was downstairs In the green room Waiting for you to appear
I said hello to your family I said hello to your friends I ....
You And Me Of The 10,000 Wars
You and me of the 10,000 wars Dividing life into factions of
pleasures and chores A bed to be made and a bed to lie ....
You Left It Up To Me
When I let you go I cursed myself with empty hands Strong
enough to watch you walk but not enough to understand With spiteful eyes ....
You've Got To Show
Yes it's true I've gotten very moody over you Don't think I
don't sense your caution Way across the room Or across the phone lines ....
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