Тексты песен «Cassandra Wilson»

Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed Whatever colors you have in your mind I'll show them to you and I'll see them shine Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed...

Love is blindness I don't want to see Won't you wrap the night Around me Take my heart Love is blindness In a parked car In a crowded street You see your love Made complete Thread is slipping Love is blindness Love is...

The sky was blue and high above The moon was new and so was love This eager heart of mine was singing Lover, where can you be? You came at last, love had its day That day is past, you've gone away This aching heart of...

A country dance was being held in a garden I felt a bump and heard an, "Oh, beg your pardon" Suddenly I saw polka dots and moonbeams All around a pug-nosed dream The music started and was I the perplexed one I...

From this valley they say you are going We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile For they say you are taking the sunshine Which has brightened our path for a while Come and sit by my side if you love me Do not...

I got High John in my pocket And mud in my shoes Walked all the way from Mississippi Just to spread the news Don't care for idle conversation I'm not your girl about town But when it comes to make music I run...

Oh Sankofa, high on the Heavens you soar My soul is soon to follow you, back to yesterdays moon will it remember me? Back to yesterdays sun, It will rekindle me Rekindle the spirit into tomorrow and high on the wind...

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the...

He holds the mirror to my soul A beautiful mystery He is too young I am too old Yet we fit perfectly How could you feel Emotions I could never reveal Sleight of hand or of sleight of time Tell me why can't he be mine...

Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging...

Strike a match so I can see If I've been down here before Where is the floor? What is it for? Strike a pose Imagining love and estatic applause Suckling big parts You are on task Strike a vein so we can see If it...

The very thought of you And I forget to do The little ordinary things That anyone ought to do I'm living in a kind of a daydream I'm happy as a queen And foolish though it may seem To me that's everything The...

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head I said, "Hey mister, can you tell me where a girl might find a bed?" He just grinned and shook his hand, no was...

Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick, And think of you Turning in circles confusion-- Is nothing new Flashback to warm nights-- Almost left behind Suitcase of memories, Time after-- Sometimes you picture me-- I'm...

You can take all the tea in China Put it in a big brown bag for me Sail right around all the seven oceans Drop it straight into the deep blue sea He's as sweet as tupelo honey He's an angel of the first degree...

And there's a lineman for the county And he drives the main road Searching in the sun for another overload I hear him singing in the wire I can hear him through the whine But my Wichita lineman is still on the...

All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the cold night air With one enormous chair Oh, wouldn't that be loverly? Lots of chocolate for me to eat Lots of coal burnin', lots of heat Warm face, warm hands, warm...

"You don't know what love is Until you learn the meaning of the blues Until you've lost a love you had to lose You don't know what love is You don't know how lips hurts Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost Until...