Running From Mercy Rickie Lee Jones

Oh sacred place that sets my soul alive There's a rainbow above me that the storm clouds hide And kind works will never die Cuz the magic in kindness springs from the love, love, love Little acts of kindness

Gravity Rickie Lee Jones

"There are wounds that stir up the force of gravity A cold that will wipe the hope from your eyes Young girl standing underneath the ""L"" train Standing there, watching the trains go by ...

The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men (Album Version) Rickie Lee Jones

Drinking up the night Trying not to drown All the sad young men Singing in the cold Trying to forget That they're growing old All the sad young men Choking on their youth Trying to be brave Running

Young blood Rickie Lee Jones

If you're looking for something to do There's always something happening there Like I & Bragger, we borrowed a coupe to day Here come Pepe and she's got a friend with a chevrolet But she ain't running

Young Blood (Demo) Rickie Lee Jones

somewhere If you're looking for something to do There's always something happening there Like I & Bragger, we borrowed a coupe to day Here come Pepe and she's got a friend with a chevrolet But she ain't running

Young Blood (Live Acoustic Version) Rickie Lee Jones

somewhere If you're looking for something to do There's always something happening there Like I & Bragger, we borrowed a coupe to day Here come Pepe and she's got a friend with a chevrolet But she ain't running

Away From The Sky Rickie Lee Jones

that it cost him He never did complain The chicken-headed man Feathering the rain But the last bus is tired And everybody's gone The horses are waiting In the middle of the lawn Gone for the rodeo Gone from

Up From The Skies Rickie Lee Jones

Tell me everythingI just want to talk to youI won't do you no harmI just want to know about your different livesOn this is here people farmI heard some of you got your familiesLiving in cages tall ...

Traces Of The Western Slopes Rickie Lee Jones

poker Behind their daddy's shacks Vacant-eyes, glue-face boys On a pearl splashing glass If they give us any flack If they come up on our ass We'll just give 'em the go-by The Cadillac pass Take me now From

Flying Cowboys Rickie Lee Jones

ever see He has been driven beyond all towns And all the systems until now though it is Long past too far he keeps going Because it's a desert Because it's a desert We come to the river We'll walk away from

Flying Cowboys (Live Acoustic Version) Rickie Lee Jones

ever see He has been driven beyond all towns And all the systems until now though it is Long past too far he keeps going Because it's a desert Because it's a desert We come to the river We'll walk away from

Up From The Skies (Album Version) Rickie Lee Jones

Tell me everything I just want to talk to you I won't do you no harm I just want to know about your different lives On this is here people farm I heard some of you got your families Living in cages...

Living It Up Rickie Lee Jones

girl comes by and there's nothin' here to do anymore he sits on the stoop all day like there's something he's waiting for Cunt-finger Louie picks up Eddie in the alley he's got all those guys with him from

Living It Up (Live Acoustic Version) Rickie Lee Jones

girl comes by and there's nothin' here to do anymore he sits on the stoop all day like there's something he's waiting for Cunt-finger Louie picks up Eddie in the alley he's got all those guys with him from

A Stranger's Car Rickie Lee Jones

There's is no one here to beat out your brains There's no one who'll make you cry If your parents kill you year by year Well here's the time to say goodbye And it's oh so bad from far away And it's always

Sailor Song Rickie Lee Jones

Oh the ship I'm on Time is what I ride Forty winds, the captain and the tide Oh a sailor boy Stole me from my home And this sea of joy Is the only life I've known I could fly away I could fly away But

A Tree On Allenford Rickie Lee Jones

There is a tree on allenford I drive by it each day on my way to and from work And there are always flowers left there each day Left for a child who died there Or so that is what people say...

Tigers Rickie Lee Jones

You check your clothes You come and lay with me a while In the theater of dream We are sleeping in the aisle Wind climbs up the brick Carrying brightly colored ghosts They play on you with The light from

Weasel and the white boys cool Rickie Lee Jones

nook in downtown Selling articles of congress to these people downtown He was pretty sleezy when I met him A weasel in a poor boy's wool Sal lives in a black vinyl pen in New Jersey Buys his meat from

Woody And Dutch On The Slow Train To Peking Rickie Lee Jones

night train Down on the corner of rhythm and blues Where I have met all of my boys since Back in '52 Bringing 'em Stax and Sun Cuz I think that Cleveland forgot And Memphis forgot Where they were coming from

Weasel And The White Boys Cool (Live Acoustic Version) Rickie Lee Jones

Nyro's nook in downtown Selling articles of congress to these people downtown He was pretty sleezy when I met him A weasel in a poor boy's wool Sal lives in a black vinyl pen in New Jersey Buys his meat from

Pink Flamingos Rickie Lee Jones

Nobody ever comes for them They're all inside of the casinos Look at them poking like flightless birds falling from paper plates Oh home, heavenly earthbound But the spirit cannot wait to fly like the

Just My Baby Rickie Lee Jones

It seems lately when I walk down the street There's something in my neighborhood It's getting stronger every day There's a rumor that lights up all of me And it whispers from the rooftops up above I must

Magazine Rickie Lee Jones

Homeboys Calling from the corners Station to station For the magazine But her pages are turning Out the lights in the windows And all that you're reading Is the braille night I can't come out And play

Magazine (Live Acoustic Version) Rickie Lee Jones

Homeboys Calling from the corners Station to station For the magazine But her pages are turning Out the lights in the windows And all that you're reading Is the braille night I can't come out And play

Rodeo Girl Rickie Lee Jones

Out on the range The quiet, endless still Where the wild S.S.I Whispers from these hills It's a petrified forest Trailer parks and fords And there ain't no goin' back Rodeo girl Saddle up There's no more

Something Cool (Live) Rickie Lee Jones

But I can't think of your name But I remember your smile Well, I don't ordinarily drink With strangers I guess I usually just, just drink alone But you were so nice to ask me And I'm so terribly far from

Rodeo Girl (Demo) Rickie Lee Jones

Out on the range The quiet, endless still Where the wild S.S.I Whispers from these hills It's a petrified forest Trailer parks and fords And there ain't no goin' back Rodeo girl Saddle up There's no more

It Must Be Love Rickie Lee Jones

It must be love the sailor sails for Must be love that drives a bottle to the bottom of the ocean floor Because I imagine all kinds of wonderful water I would have you there wherever I'll go Way from the

It Must Be Love (Live Acoustic Version) Rickie Lee Jones

It must be love the sailor sails for Must be love that drives a bottle to the bottom of the ocean floor Because I imagine all kinds of wonderful water I would have you there wherever I'll go Way from the

Dat Dere (Album Version) Rickie Lee Jones

Time will march Days will go And little baby's going to grow I gotta tell her what she needs to know I'll help her along And she'll be strong And she'll know right from wrong As life's parade goes

We Belong Together Rickie Lee Jones

I say this was no game of chicken You were aiming your best friend That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck I think you picked this up in Mexico from your dad Now its daddy on the booze

We Belong Together (Live Acoustic Version) Rickie Lee Jones

I say this was no game of chicken You were aiming your best friend That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck I think you picked this up in Mexico from your dad Now its daddy on the booze

Company Rickie Lee Jones

I'll remember you too clearly But I'll survive another day Conversations to share When there's no one there I'll imagine what you'd say I'll see you in another life now, baby I'll free you in my ...

On saturday afternoons in 1963 Rickie Lee Jones

The most as you'll ever go Is back where you used to know If grown-ups could laugh this slow Where as you watch the hour snow Years may go by So hold on to your special friend Here, you'll need s...

The last chance texaco Rickie Lee Jones

A long stretch of headlights Bends into I-9 Tiptoe into truck stops And sleepy diesel eyes Volcanoes rumble in the taxi And glow in the dark Camels in the driver's seat A slow, easy mark But you ...

Night train Rickie Lee Jones

Here I'm going Wlakin' with my baby in my arms 'Cuz I am in the wrong end of the eight ball black And the devil, see, he's right behind us And this worker said she's gonna take my little baby My l...

Coolsville Rickie Lee Jones

I and Braggar, and Junior Lee, well that's the way we always thought it would be In the wind-strewn leaves of September, how we met Decked out like aces, we'd beat anybody's bet Cuz we was Coolsville

Chuck E`s In Love Rickie Lee Jones

s In LoveRickie Lee Jones(Rickie Lee Jones)How come he don't come and p.l.p. with me Down at the meter no more?And how come he turn off the T.V. And he hang that sign on the door?

After hours Rickie Lee Jones

All the gang has gone home Standing on the corner All alone You and me, streetlight We'll paint the town - grey Oh, we are so many lamps Who have lost our way Say goodnight, America The word sti...

Easy money Rickie Lee Jones

There was a Joe Leanin' on the back door A couple Jills with their eyes on a couple bills Their eyes was statin' They was waitin' To get their hands on some easy money They flipped a dime One sa...

Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most Rickie Lee Jones

Spring this year has got me feeling Like a horse that never left the post I lie in my room Staring up at the ceiling Spring can really hang you up the most Morning's kiss wakes trees and flowers A...

I'll Be Seeing You Rickie Lee Jones

Cathedral bells were tolling And our hearts sang on, Was it the spell of Paris Or the April dawn? Who knows, if we shall meet again? But when the morning chimes ring sweet again: I'll be seeing you...

My One And Only Love (Album Version) Rickie Lee Jones

The very thought of you makes My heart sing, Like an April breeze On the wings of spring. And you appear in all your splendor, My one and only love. The shadows fall ands spread their Mystice charm...

Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (Album Version) Rickie Lee Jones

Spring this year has got me feeling Like a horse that never left the post I lie in my room Staring up at the ceiling Spring can really hang you up the most Morning's kiss wakes trees and flowers An...

Hi-Lili Hi-Lo (Album Version) Rickie Lee Jones

Hi-Lili-hi-lo On every tree there is a bird singing a song of love... On every tree there is a bird and every one I'd ever heard Could brake my heart without a word singing a song of love... The so...

Second Time Around (Album Version) Rickie Lee Jones

summertime and everything is sweet walking barefoot to the circle k on the burning street summertime and everything's on fire this town is a drive-by for the whole inland empire but down on the...

I'll Be Seeing You (Album Version) Rickie Lee Jones

Cathedral bells were tolling And our hearts sang on, Was it the spell of Paris Or the April dawn? Who knows, if we shall meet again? But when the morning chimes ring sweet again: I'll be seeing you...

Bye Bye Blackbird (Album Version) Rickie Lee Jones

Pack up all my care and woe Here i go, swinging low. bye, bye, blackbird. where somebody waits for me sugar's sweet so is she bye, bye, blackbird no one here can love and understand me oh what har...

I Won't Grow Up (Album Version) Rickie Lee Jones

I won't grow up I don't wanna go to school Just to learn to be a puppet And recite a silly rule If growing up means it would be Beneath my dignity to climb a tree I won't grow up, won't grow up, wo...