Тексты песен «Nanci Griffith»

This heart almost taken, This heart had a love of it's own. This heart was reawakened When you came along. (This heart) This heart was born feet running. This heart saw your porch-light on. This heart hit the sidewalk...

This old town should've burned down in 1929 That's when we stood in line Waiting for our soup Swallowing our pride This old town should've burn down in 1931 When the rain refused to come Air filled up our bellies, dust...

(Frank Christian) We returned to that five room flat Now it was empty and this the last time There were blinking pictures Of how we'd sit and chat Some of them are scattered Others shattered in my mind Chorus It was...

Oh, the grace that true love holds When hearts grow weary for time alone You give it room and the warm to hold And it'll always come home And true love is faithful all on it's own Hearts know when they should fly alone...

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...

(By Jimmie Gilmore & John Reed) Tonight I think I'm gonna go downtown Tonight I think I'm gonna look around For something that I couldn't see When this world was more real to me Tonight I think I'm gonna go downtown...

(Nanci Griffith) Nothing that I've ever seen Now means much of anything In traveling through this part of you And the Vietnam that I had dreamed The place you wore your life "fatigued" I'm traveling through...

(By Nanci Griffith & Rick West) Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fields When the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yield The trains roll by our silos, silver in the rain They leave our...

I worked hard for that rose You may have it when you go 'Cause it's the dreaming it lends It's worth holding here And when the outbound lane Brings me trouble again If my heart's in the wind I wanna hold it near Don't...

Oh, love is a hand you hold When you think you've lost your mind It is bitter as persimmons Yet sweet of rose on vine It's the thorns upon the vines That sometimes tear two hearts entwined It's a gentle breath upon...

(Pat McLaughlin) Before you marry, before you mend Or have someone's children, long before then You could find something with somebody new Try the love I'm offering in my open arms Before you do We should have...

Your late night conversation Telephone call and an inspiration For a heart to recall, had a tumble and fall And my friends all say I'm lazy Clumsy at love and I'm middle age crazy I stumble along with a tumble and fall...

(Malvina Reynolds - Harry Belafonte - Allen Greene) Where are you goin' my little one, little one? Where are you goin' my baby my own? Turn around and you're two Turn around and you're four Turn around and you're a...

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...

You ran up against the rain everyday of your short life Suffered for your muse without complaining Never heard you swear life isn't fair but it doesn't make it right You left the world knowing all too well what pain is...

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...

(Sonny Curtis) I want you to tell me Why you walked out on me I'm so lonesome everyday I want you to know That since you walked out on me Nothing seems to be the same ole way Think about the love that burns Within my...

WALL OF DEATH (Richard Thompson) Let me ride on the wall of death one more time Let me ride on the wall of death one more time You can waste your time on the other rides But this is the nearest to being alive Oh let...

She's just a hill country girl home from the city Her pocket's full of plenty of those neon lights And her mother's smile shines on her youngest child Though she is just a barroom singer with her father's eyes The city...

(Traditional) Chorus Wasn't that a mighty storm Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning, well Wasn't that a mighty storm That blew all the people away You know the year of 1900 Children, many years ago Death cakme...