Тексты песен «Griffith Nanci»

by Nanci Griffith, Tom Russell Don't want to be standing here With this ticket for this outbound plane Cause I've been here before And somehow this doesn't feel the same Talk is cheap so we could talk all night long...

The evening fell just like a star Left a trail behind You spit as you slammed out the door If this is love we're crazy As we fight like cats and dogs I just know there's got to be more So please call me, baby, wherever...

(with Mac MacAnnaly) I'll never fall in love again It's such a contradiction To lose all control and common sense And even intuition You came along, with a strange new song And the sweetest innovation And you said,...

I'll never fall in love again It's such a contradiction To lose all control and common sense And even intuition You came along, with a strange new song And the sweetest innovation And you said, "One should never fall...

He will leave behind all of his clothes He wore when he was with her All he need's are his railroad boots And his leather jacket As he say goodbye to Ruby's arms Although his heart is breaking He will steal away out...

Griffith/Graham/Griffith Saint Teresa, your patron child's come home Were you there to greet her? Did your angels know her songs? And all of her sorrows Did you lift them from her brow? And did you kiss her hand that...

When you say I love you Is it just because you know that's what I want to hear? Lately friends are warning me What they hesitate to tell me leaves a thread of fear People talk around this town And when the final truth...

Clark She was standin' on the gone side of leavin' She found her thumb and stuck it in the breeze She'll take anything that's goin' close to somewhere She can lay it down and live it as she please She ain't goin'...

(chorus) I want a simple life Like my mother One true love for my older years I don't want your wars To take my children I want a simple lifeawhile I'm here The sun and moon walk hand in hand together Trading places...

by Nanci Griffith My daddy sent me on to Baton Rouge in 1969 He said our love was like a forest fire and he'd end it with a mind So you rode with us to Temple, Texas where I did catch the train And I remember waving...

(originally by Julie Gold) I'm sitting on a southbound train Staring at the sky I'm thinking of my childhood And I'm trying not to cry While a stranger sleeps against me And it feels like I'm his wife Towns and cities...

by John Stewart I was sleeping, listen Ellie, Dreaming of days yet come I don't care what you say I know that those days are sure to come And I'm waking and I'm calling I'm shaking and I'm falling And oh little...

I should have known that you were gone back in Germany You told me in the dark while I was sleeping Then you slept through the sunrise As it washed across your face And all that I had heard were our hearts beating...

He was a flyer for the Air Force On a plane from San Antonio I was travelling to London He was going off to Buffalo Changing planes in Pittsburgh We got grounded in a storm And, I would give anything To be on that...

Shut it down and call this road a day And put this silence in my heart in a better place I have travelled with your ghost now so many years That I see you in the shadows In hotel rooms and headlights You're coming up...

This heart was almost taken This heart had a love of its own This heart was reawakened When you came along This heart was born feet runnin' This heart saw your porch light on This heart hit the sidewalk wonderin' Why...

We're living in a time of inconvenience Compassion fails me with this meanness in the air Our city streets are filled with violence So we close our doors to the city And pretend that it's not there Here I go again Back...

Nanci Griffith Out of the blue horizon Stretched a band of gold From the straits of Juan de Fuca To the east of Portland, Maine You held my hand As we raced along the buffalou bayou Chasing the tail of this globe You...

Griffith Life is full of finer things they're lost and found in the dark It's the dog by the highway Who said, "Goin' my way?" Now, he lives in your own Backyard Waiting for love You came along and fit the part It's the...

I could have a mansion that is higher than the trees I could have all the gifts I want and never ask please I could fly to Paris, oh, it's at my beck and call Why do I go through life with nothing at all But when I...