Spyboy

(boudleaux bryant)

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars
Any heart not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud holds a lot of rain
Love hurts, mmm, mmm, love hurts

I'm young i know but even so
I know a thing or two i learned from you
I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Love is like a stove burns you when it's hot
Love hurts, mmm, mmm, love hurts

Some fools think of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves i guess
But they're not fooling me
I know it isn't true, know it isn't true
Love is just a lie made to make you blue
Love hurts, mmm, mmm, love hurts

(jesse winchester)

Songbird in a golden cage
She'd prefer the blue
How i crave the liquor of her song
Poor bird who has done no harm
What harm could she do
She shall be my prisoner her life long
My songbird wants her freedom
Now don't you think i know
But i can't find it in myself
To let my songbird go
I just can't let her go

O lord, when your jeweler's eye
Peers into my soul
O lord, i am overcome with shame
Take me lord and purify
Heal me with a word
Lord, i beg a gift i dare not claim

(dave ohey/daniel lanois/emmylou harris)

The sun burned hot, it burned my eyes
Burned so hot i thought i'd died
Thought i'd died and gone to hell
Lookin' for the water from a deeper well
I went to the river but the river was dry
I fell to my knees an i looked to the sky
I looked to the sky and the spring rain fell
I saw the water from a deeper well

Well...lookin for the water from a deeper well
Well...lookin for the water from a deeper well

I was ready for love i was ready for the money
Ready for the blood and ready for the honey
Ready for the winnin', ready for the bell
Lookin' for the water from a deeper well
I found some love and i found some money
Found that blood would drip from the honey
Found i had a thirst that i could not quell
Lookin' for the water from a deeper well

Well...lookin for the water from a deeper well
Well...lookin for the water from a deeper well

Well i did it for kicks and i did it for faith
I did it for lust and i did it for hate
I did it for need and i did it for love
Addiction stayed on tight like a glove
So i ran with the moon and i ran with the night
And the three of us were a terrible sight
Nipple to the bottle to the gun to the cell
To the bottom of a hole of a deeper well

Well...lookin for the water from a deeper well
Well...lookin for the water from a deeper well

I rocked with the cradle and i rolled with the rage
I shook those walls and i rattled that gage
I took my trouble down a deadend trail
Reachin' out a hand for a holier grail
Hey there mama did you carry that load
Did you tell your baby 'bout the bend in the road
'bout the rebel yell 'bout the one that fell
Lookin' for the water from a deeper well

Well...lookin for the water from a deeper well
Well...lookin for the water from a deeper well

(emmylou harris/rodney crowell)

I heard the train
In the tulsa night
Calling out my name
Looking for a fight
She's come a long, long way
Got a longer way to go
So tell me how a train from tulsa
Has got a right to know

She sings a song
So sad and high
And the tulsa queen
Don't ever lie
And she don't care where she goes
Don't care where she's been
And the tulsa queen ain't crying
'cause i won't see you again

And i want to ride
Like a tulsa queen
Calling out to you
As she calls to me
As far away from tulsa
As these ten wheels can be

Lately i speak
Your name too loud
Each time it comes up
In a crowd
And i know it when i do
The tulsa queen and you
Are gone ...

i ain't living long like this

Rodney crowell
You looked for trouble and you found it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun
You'd try to run but you don't think you can
You make one move and you're dead man, friend

I ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can i baby
He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back
Then he left me freezing on a steel rail track
They got 'em all in the jailhouse, ain't they baby
I ain't living long like this

Grew up in houston off of wayside drive
Son of a car hop in some all night dive
Dad drove a stock car to an early death
All i remember was a drunk man's breath

I ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this can i baby
We know the story how the wheel goes round
Don't let 'em take you to the man downtown
Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse, baby
I ain't living long like this

You live for angel, she's a roadhouse queen
Make texas ruby look like sandra dee
You want to love her but you don't know how
You're at the bottom of the jailhouse now

I ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can i baby
You know the story 'bout the jailhouse rock
Go on and do it, but just don't get caught
They got 'em all in the jailhouse, ain't they baby
I ain't living long like this

(doyle lawson/charles waller/robert yates)

Those lives were mine to love and cherish.
To guard and guide along life's way.
Oh god forbid that one should perish.
That one alas should go astray.

Back in the years with all together,
Around the place we'd romp and play.
So lonely now and oft' times wonder,
Oh will they come back home some day.

I'm lonesome for my precious children,
They live so far away.
Oh may they hear my calling...calling..
And come back home some day.

I gave my all for my dear children,
Their problems still with love i share,
I'd brave life's storm, defy the tempest
To bring them home from anywhere.

I lived my life my love i gave them,
To guide them through this world of strife,
I hope and pray we'll live together,
In that great glad here after life.

I'm lonesome for my precious children,
They live so far away.
Oh may they hear my calling...calling.. and come back home some day.

(emmylou harris)

There's a valley of sorrow in my soul
Where every night i hear the thunder roll
Like the sound of a distant gun
Over all the damage i have done
And the shadows filling up this land
Are the ones i built with my own hand
There is no comfort from the cold
Of this valley of sorrow in my soul

There's a river of darkness in my blood
And through every vein i feel the flood
I can find no bridge for me to cross
No way to bring back what is lost
Into the night it soon will sweep
Down where all my grievances i keep
But it won't wash away the years
Or one single hard and bitter tear

And the rock of ages i have known
Is a weariness down in the bone
I use to ride it like a rolling stone
Now just carry it alone

There's a highway risin' from my dreams
Deep in the heart i know it gleams
For i have seen it stretching wide
Clear across to the other side
Beyond the river and the flood
And the valley where for so long i've stood
With the rock of ages in my bones
Someday i know it will lead me home