She Runs Hot John Hiatt

Sittin' on the line Tryin' to change her mind Red light, yellow light, green light time You're standing on it buddy But she's chilly as a Tastee Freeze Ease it over, son I'll show you how she

Loving A Hurricane John Hiatt

You answer questions like a natural disaster Voices in the wind- you let em call her out The whole foundation just went flying past her She puts her heart into it - and you just yank it out You

Dust Down A Country Road John Hiatt

Coming up through the floor Lifting up the darkness Crashing through my kitchen door Down to that old oak table I went to take a look And my whole life flashed before me Just like a story book She

Tennessee Plates John Hiatt

me is just a curse Tell that judge in Bakersfield that my trial will have to wait Down here they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates It was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside She

New Fingerprints John Hiatt

smoking cigarettes ---- Stealing penny candies n' rattlin' pay telephones Stole my first car at twelve and drove it to my eighth grade class By the time I was fourteen sister I was outta gas I drove a hot

Drive South John Hiatt

turn our lives around Since we were little kids, it's been wearin' us down Don't turn away now Darlin' lets fire it up and wind it out REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE: I heard your mama callin', I think she

One For Then One For Me John Hiatt

The lady is waiting - the man hesitating And lovers are children afraid to grow old REPEAT CHORUS Ashes to ashes the emptiness crashes The dreamer wakes up in the dream Your journey of sorrow runs

Pink Bedroom John Hiatt

She paints her fingernails forbidden tones She wants nervous youth on the telephone He don't call She sticks another pin In her doll And puts him next to her stuffed animals She got the tubetop

Pink Bedroom (Album Version) John Hiatt

She paints her fingernails forbidden tones She wants nervous youth on the telephone He don't call she sticks another pin In her doll and puts him next to her stuffed animals She got the tube top she got

Rose John Hiatt

Rose puts on her stockings and she lights a cigarette. Holds her tired face up to the mirror.

Motorboat To Heaven John Hiatt

out the fool in me The blind man at the bar Who whistles for his drink and his cane And shows everyone his scar You're lovely, and you're cruel You got me in a trance You put my soul in those hot

She Loves The Jerk (Album Version) John Hiatt

We've talked it to death cryin' on the telephone Nights when he drinks at home she has to whisper throught her tears Johnny she says you'd never do these things to me But I can never make her see he's

Good As She Could Be John Hiatt

Well she was a millionaire Before she was fourteen But there was an emptiness there That to practically everyone else could be seen She hit up on the drug of love Though there was no hole in her

Child Of The Wild Blue Yonder John Hiatt

She has the wind as a witness She has feelings that fly by night She believes in forgiveness But it's not love if it holds too tight And you can fly beside her But you gotta go where your heart

Ashland City John Hiatt

She knew I was just pretending To be some kind of big shot It took her two hours to tell a little something about herself And that's when my heart stopped 'Cause she was just enough Ashland City

Circle Back John Hiatt

something near Find out which way to go To get on out of here I lost my thread And I've lost some time But it takes a lot of ground For me to change my mind Well its ninety nine in Topeka The wind is blowin' hot

She Loves the Jerk John Hiatt

Nights when he drinks at home, she has to whisper throught her tears. "Johnny," she says, "you'd never do these things to me." But I can never make her see he's wasted such precious years.

Hold On For Your Love John Hiatt

The streets are all empty, the network's deveined Buildings walled up, electricity drained Shots in the square where they mowed them all down The river runs red from the center of town I worked for my

The Negroes Were Dancing John Hiatt

Little lover sittin' in the corner with a former member of the jets He would write a letter to the editor about the little holes in her dress She said oh, I'm so bored She said oh, tell me more

Woman Sawed in Half John Hiatt

She was a woman sawed in half It was done by a bad magician There was a point at which she just had to laugh You could appreciate her position Her legs in one way, and her head another She just

Better Get It While You Can John Hiatt

She got a stainless steel liver - make any man quiver The way she drink that Thunderbird wine She got her feet up on the table and she's naked to the neighbor Oh I wish she was a friend of mine If

Wrote It Down And Burned It John Hiatt

There's a dead girl's body By the railroad track She's waiting for a train Jimmy left town like a fade to black In his Camero in the rain She wrote it down and burned it Jimmy loves who knows

She Said The Same Things To Me (Album Version) John Hiatt

You know she talks like everybody In the room was gonna listen in Carries on a conversation Like some others call their children in Though you can't believe one sentence Man you hang on every word

She Said The Same Things To Me John Hiatt

You know she talks like ev'rybody in the room Was gonna listen in Carries on a conversation Like some others call their children in Tho you can't believe one sentence Man you hang on ev'ry word

Permanent Hurt John Hiatt

broken hearts on red alert The surface will heal But its feelin' like a permanent hurt It's all temporary like the big book tells Ashes to ashes, baby dirt to dirt Something gets scary Someone runs

I Look for Love John Hiatt

Why did she wear that dress tonight Why did she bring that stranger She looks put out in the party lights Which leaves us all in danger When she drops her perfumed hankie CHORUS: I look for love

I Could Use An Angel John Hiatt

Who tipped you off How could she betray me These hungry fingers They found us guilty for love And she said her lips were sealed Easing my conscience Now what has been done That you were the

Something Happens John Hiatt

I get jumpy Wanna step on the gas Drive right out of this place fast She says, "Red light I'll take those keys" Out of my mind and On my knees CHORUS: Something happens And I don't know why

Overcoats John Hiatt

Overcoats I ain't never heard you sing Overcoats Overcoats Take off that silly thing Well, I looked her in the eye With a slave-like stare And said, "I'm here to talk about the rent" Well, she

I Look For Love (Album Version) John Hiatt

Why did she wear that dress tonight Why did she bring that stranger She looks put out in the party lights Which leaves us all in danger When she drops her perfumed hankie I look for love I look for love

Take Time To Know Her John Hiatt

I found a woman one I felt I could truley love She was every thing I've ever been dreaming of But she was bare I wouldn't know it You see her pretty little smile didn't show it When I knew I could

Georgia Rae John Hiatt

girl, mess with your mind, She'll come to you in the summer sometime She'll talk about things you don't understand, But you better keep to the matters at hand Before the whole damn thing unwinds She

Girl On A String John Hiatt

Well hes got her going up and down like a yo-yo And she never feels better than ever, just so-so Like a shrunken head on a rear view mirror She rides along in his atmosphere Like furry dice or some

Girl On A String (Album Version) John Hiatt

Well hes got her going up and down like a yo yo And she never feels better than ever just so so Like a shrunken head on a rear view mirror She rides along in his atmosphere Like furry dice or some voodoo

Ethylene John Hiatt

I'm sitting on the toilet With my sunglasses on Wondering what you are up to This hotel's got bathroom telephones But I don't want to interrupt you You might be painting your nails With your hot

Gone John Hiatt

I woke up in a sweat reaching for a cigarette All choked up all you get is gone What I said I wouldn't know All she said I gotta go The room all red burning slow Gone Gone like unwritten history

The Walking Dead John Hiatt

Baby's joined the walking dead Up from her grave Another white slave Nothin' goes in or out of her head Never you mind Tryin' to find A real live girl in your bed She's joined the walking dead She

Only The Song Survives John Hiatt

I woke up twice in the middle of the night To ask what her name is and where she might live To ask how many fingers she saw in this light To ask if she might know what gives She said we rolled

Smoke That Cigarette John Hiatt

Well I wanna tell you all a story about a girl I used to know She told me that she loved me that was a long time ago I wanna tell you all my story but first I wanna smoke this cigarette I ain't over

Take Off Your Uniform John Hiatt

care Take off your uniform They see what they want to see You should have never been born You'd better stay with me Your replacement Waits in the basement They've got her down to your smile She

The Usual John Hiatt

I'm trippin over dumb drunks at a party Girlfriend just ran off with the DJ I give her everything, but she refused it It doesn't matter, she don't know how to use it My confidence is dwindling Look

The Usual (Album Version) John Hiatt

I'm trippin over dumb drunks at a party Girlfriend just ran off with the DJ I give her everything but she refused it It doesn't matter she don't know how to use it My confidence is dwindling Look at the

The Lady Of The Night John Hiatt

Oh the moon hangs down Like some old evening gown Forgotten by some lovely southern maiden Oh the stars are her tears And the sky a skin of years That she has most graciously given Now who

Conquer Me Conquer You John Hiatt

million flaming mirrors that confuse me I appear as a stranger which leaves you in danger Of showing me a little too much So you hide in the turning of love's constant burning 'til the fire is too hot

True Believer John Hiatt

Dixie, start all over again CHORUS: It was Saturday night and I swore I'd never leave her We had the boss man blastin' on the radio receiver they say history plays tricks, she's a real deceiver She

Whistles In My Ears John Hiatt

She was an angel who flies high in the heavens. I was a pigeon on the church. She breathed pure golden as she hid from the procession. I tumbled from my lowly perch.

My Dog And Me John Hiatt

She marked our trail up the back bone ridge How many times can one dog pee Keeps me high as an eagle when I'm on the skids I guess you gotta come down eventually Buddy, I coulda gone that extra mile For

Cold River John Hiatt

Well, he packed up his suitcase 'Cause the deal gone down She was slipping on her stockings Lord it made the sweetest sound There was a baby in the reeds Along the river outside of town As he wound his

Crossing Muddy Waters John Hiatt

My baby's gone and I don't know why She let out this morning Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky Left me without warning Sooner than the dogs could bark and faster than the sun rose Down to the banks

Blue Telescope John Hiatt

I may, I wish I might Not see what I see - sheet metal on sheets of ice Looking through this blue telescope down a moonstruck road tonight Blue breath on my windshield, I came to a frozen place She