It's Too Late (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You pace the pool and talk about it I read my book and think about it You've walked on water As I'm turning the page You say, What's the intrigue here, In reading when the sky is clear?

Nickel Dreams (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Chorus:] Now she wishes she looked like they tell her she looks all the time What she'd give just to feel like she tells them she's feelin' just fine All that money she makes every night ain't as much as it

Heaven (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I think I'll go to Heaven There I will lay me down Leave all the pain behind me I'll bury it in the ground Maybe they'll talk about me I pray it won't be lies I think I'll go to heaven Heaven is in your

Radio Fragile (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

We all said you'd never make it Cause you had that fragile heart And you were odd within the ways of the social You through a caution to us all And now when the late night drinkers gather for their falls

Hometown Streets (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

streets are paved in gold With faces that you've always known But, you'll never see them Until you pack your dreams and leave them The one I loved has moved away It's hot in this city Hey, it's always late

San Diego Serenade (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I never saw the morning 'til I stayed up all night I never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out the light I never saw my hometown 'til I'd stayed away too long I never heard the melody until I needed the

Late Night Grande Hotel (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

heart when the music ends I am just learning how to fly away again And maybe you were thinkin' that you thought you knew me well But, no one ever knows the heart of anyone else I feel like Garbo in this late

Tumble And Fall (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Wooden Heart (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

to do 'Cause I don't have a wooden heart And if you say goodbye Then I know that I would cry Maybe I would die 'Cause I don't have a wooden heart There's no strings upon this love of mine It

Little Love Affairs (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

When I wake in the night and find That I'm dreaming You're the first thought in mind Love's a fair weather friend when You're lonely You are my summer state of mind Does it sing to you nightly?

One Blade Shy Of A Sharp Edge (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You honk the horn on your Mercedes Benz I've rolled up my window so you're honkin' again Your stereo could drive the devil out Hey, you drink too much and you talk too loud But you think you got it made

I Knew Love (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I knew love When it still meant forever When a feeling shared didn't always have to hurt And a promise that was made would go unbroken I knew love When it was more than just a word I knew a time When hope

So Long Ago (Album Version) 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 back

Leaving The Harbor (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

When you sing the lullaby Do you sing it for the song? Or do you love the way it slides Like velvet 'cross your tongue? And as you sing the lullaby Do you savor every line?

Beacon Street (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Gonna wake up crazy to the cry of the trains on Beacon StreetSo far from home, so far from love, so far from a friend in needAnd all I need is a heart to hold and a good night's sleepAnd all I have...

Ford Econoline (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

She drove west from Salt Lake City to the California coastline.She hit the San Diego Freeway doing sixty miles an hour.She had a husband on her bumper, she had five restless children.And she was si...

Never Mind (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You say you're heading out toCaliforniaYou've heard the grapes are fallingFrom the vineI was hoping you might have theUrge to write meBut, I don't believe you willSo never mindI was talking to a ma...

Outbound Plane (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I don't wanna be standing hereWith this ticket for this outbound planeOh, I've been here beforeSomehow this doesn't feel the sameTalk is cheapSo we could talk all night longAnd we may never figure ...

Fields Of Summer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

fragile in the morning I grow stronger in the day I can sprint like a new spring doe By the fall of the night Love has chased me down Through the cities and the towns Until I stood beside the road And let it

From Clare To Here Nanci Griffith

Four who shared this room and we caught up in the CRAIC Sleeping late on Sundays and we never got to Mass It`s a long way from Clare to here It`s a long way from Clare to here It`s a long, long way It

Trouble In The Fields (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

wounds can heal They'll never take our native soil But if we sell that new John Deere And then we'll work these crops with sweat and tears You'll be the mule I'll be the plow Come harvest time we'll work it

Let It Shine On Me (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

There's a star in Heaven's sky Always shining bright It's just a tear in an Angel's eye A gentle guiding light Let it shine on me Let it show the way Let it always be Let it always stay Let it flood my

The Power Lines (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Nobody seems to care about youWith your tool case by the roadsideThere beneath the power linesOr the pallor of your skinPaled beneath fluorescent lightsIn a Greyhound station's cruel midnightWhere ...

Down 'N' Outer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I once was a lot like youWe share a dream I couldn't make come trueI was a child who wrote my nameAcross a frosted window paneAnd there are jobs that I might holdIf they'd just let me through the d...

It's Just Another Morning Here (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

The telephone is ringin' in the middle of the night And I pull the bed clothes higher Will it stop calling out if I turn on the light?

I Wish It Would Rain (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Oh I wish it would rain and wash my face clean I want to find some dark cloud to hide in here Oh love and a memory sparkle like diamonds When the diamonds fall they burn like tears When the diamonds fall

I Would Change My Life (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

this place where we'd been living all along So, you packed up your things and bought a one-way ticket home Leaving never hurt as much as being left behind [Chorus:] I would change my life I would make it

Brave Companion Of The Road (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

My brave companion of the road [Chorus:] It seems to me that you are lonelier Than I've ever seen you be Oh, it's plain to see That you've gone crazier Than you ever thought you'd be When the lights go

Sing One For Sister (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Summer Sunday evening, around the old home placeWell, I would play my guitar and sister sang alongSister's smile would always light up my Daddy's faceAnd when they'd get to dancing, well they'd dan...

Love In A Memory (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

She sleeps alone in the warm nights of MemphisWhere the Peabody Hotel meets the velveteen skyShe sings like the waves in the cool MississippiThat brought her from St. Paul in '75And men come to cou...

If Wishes Were Changes (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I wish that you loved meThe way that I love youI wish I had AngelsWho sang in my dreamsIf wishes were changesWe'd all live in rosesAnd there wouldn't be childrenWho cried in their sleepHe wishes I ...

Listen To The Radio (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I am leaving Mississippi in the evening rainThese Delta towns wear satin gownsIn a high beamed frameLoretta Lynn guides my hands through the radioWhere would I be in times like theseWithout the son...

There's A Light Beyond These Woods (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Do you think that we will go there, And see what makes it shine, Mary Margaret? It's almost morning, and we've talked all night, You know we've made big plans for ten-year-olds, You and I.

You Made This Love A Teardrop (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

The truth you tried to keep from me, Well, it nearly drove me crazy, And I have grown weary from sleepless nights of you. Is that a broken heart in the corner of your eye, Something to remind you?

Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You can cuss the daylights out of this pale winter moonAnd we can ponder every reason why your true love was untrueYou can cry your eyes out, I've got a shoulder here for youAnd every day your brok...

Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

the See-Bees in the Philippines They say she made more money than you and I will ever see [Chorus:] Cause love was a magnet on the Jersey shore If you were looking for love boys, you could have found it

Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Nanci Griffith

It`s a long and dusty road It`s a hot and heavy load And the folks I meet ain`t always kind Some are bad and some are good Some have done the best they could Some have tried to ease my trouble in mind

Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Sister had a crystal voiceShe played a Silverstone from Montgomery WardBaez songs and Monroe hairShe sure could turn the boys heads to stareSwimwear saunter, tan and haunt themWas all she learned i...

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Nanci Griffith

You come home late And you come home early You come on big When you`re feelin` small You come home straight And you home curly Sometimes you just don`t come home at all So what in the world`s come over

It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I am a backseat driver from AmericaThey drive to the left on Falls RoadThe man at the wheel's name is SeamusWe pass a child on the corner he knowsAnd Seamus says, "Now, what chance has thatKid got?...

Morning Song for Sally Nanci Griffith

As the morning light stretched in across my bed I thought of you Remembering your laughing eyes and all we said I love you too As all my thoughts of you pass `fore my face a thousand times The way they

Try The Love Nanci Griffith

, it`s so unwise To cut yourself loose with only some lies Wasn`t my first time, it won`t be my last Try the love that took only a minute to grow It won`t die that fast Try the love that the keeper of

Everything's Comin' Up Roses Nanci Griffith

This life is full of days not spent Oh I cannot help but ponder What relevance that lends Oh but everything is comin` up roses And when I`m pushing daisies They`ll want roses anyway Oh and everything`s

Waiting For Love Nanci 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?"

Morning Train Nanci Griffith

There`s a morning train Headed for New Orleans Carrying bussiness men and week day shoppers I have sixteen bucks and a dollar in change That`s not bad price for a one way ride On a morning train I give

Dress Of Laces Nanci Griffith

And she has a dress of laces It`s worn in many places The shoulder hangs upon her by a thread And she has a need for ahrin` For someone warm and carin` And no one sees a heart that`s underfed Young girl

Not My Way Home Nanci Griffith

has become Yet, I know your path is clearer Shed of me, out there on your own I don`t intend to sound ungrateful You`ve given love when I had none My feet had tread upon the road you`re on And I know it

Who Knows Where The Time Goes Nanci Griffith

Across the evening sky All the birds are leaving But how can they know It`s time for them to go Before the winter fire I will still be dreaming I have no thought of time For who knows where the time goes

If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song) Nanci Griffith

morning I`d hammer in the evening all over this land I`d hammer out danger I`d hammer out a warning I`d hammer out the love between my brothers and my sisters All over this land If I had a bell I`d ring it

Lone Star State Of Mind Nanci Griffith

to see one of your smiles [Chorus:] But here I sit alone in Denver Sipp'n the California wine And I've got all night to remember you I'm in a lone star state of mind I just saw John Wayne on the Late