Wooden Heart (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Can't you see I love you Please don't break my heart in two That's not hard 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

Heaven (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Heaven Heaven is in your eyes People in Heaven never look back Higher and higher The past fades to black I think I'll go to heaven I'll sail on into the night I'll watch as I set my soul free Watch as my heart

Beacon Street (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Ford Econoline (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Along the back roads of our nation, she's become a living legend, She drives a Coupe De Ville but her heart rides still in that Ford Econoline.

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

Nickel Dreams (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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 seems Cause it's a dollar a wrinkle and less than a nickel a dream Well, her heart

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

Outbound Plane (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

floor Young or old I say that love is still the same You may walk away from love but You'll fall head and heels again [Chorus] Two lonely hearts in this airport Knowing Neither cares where that other Heart

San Diego Serenade (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

needed the song I never saw the white line until I was leavin' you behind I never knew I needed you until I was caught up in a bind I never spoke "I love you," until I'd cursed you in vain I never felt my heart

Late Night Grande Hotel (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

is all I've ever known before [Chorus:] It's not the way you hold me when the sun goes down It's not the way you call my name that left me stranded on the ground It's not the way you say you hear my heart

Fields Of Summer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Love has chased me down Through the cities and the towns Until I stood beside the road And let it pass me by Like a fool I've missed the rain Cause I was crying [Chorus:] Then you are calling Call my heart

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...

Hometown Streets (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Everybody packs their goalsAnd sails away for better shoresI have seen timesMy sails have held a brilliant shineI hear tell that dreams come trueAlong these crowded avenuesBut, my peace of mindIs a...

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

I'm afraid of these shadows here Cause my past is truly frightening And I'm afraid of the warmth in the down Of a feathered heart in flight [Chorus:] It's just another morning here (it's morning) It's

If Wishes Were Changes (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

tears If wishes were changes I'd make him my anchor He'd be my Angel Who sang through the years [Chorus] So long to the blue days of wishing If wishes were changes There'd be no goodbyes So long to the heart

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

silver frost So we can stop and have another round for the true love that you've lost It's gonna take a little time before your emptiness grows old And underneath that silver frost you've still got a heart

Let It Shine On Me (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

it show the way Let it always be Let it always stay Let it flood my soul Let it hold the key Let it all unfold Let it shine on me When the way seems so dark Let it shine on me Bringing home within my heart

I Wish It Would Rain (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

When the diamonds fall they burn like tears When the diamonds fall they burn like tears Once I had a love from the Georgia Pans who only cared for me I want to find that love of 22 here at 33 I've got a heart

Brave Companion Of The Road (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

With your suitcase by the back porch stairs With my heart in your hand In this cold December wind again The cafes and bars are closed The Christmas lights are veiled in snow Tell me, where are you going

I Knew Love (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I knew loveWhen it still meant foreverWhen a feeling shared didn't always have to hurtAnd a promise that was made would go unbrokenI knew loveWhen it was more than just a wordI knew a timeWhen hope...

So Long Ago (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Little Love Affairs (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

When I wake in the night and findThat I'm dreamingYou're the first thought in mindLove's a fair weather friend whenYou're lonelyYou are my summer state of mindDoes it sing to you nightly?Does it la...

Leaving The Harbor (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

When you are leaving the harborDo you cry out to the shore?Do you bless the wave of the oceanDo you call your vessel home?As you leave the safest harborDo you wonder where you'll go?When you feel y...

It's Too Late (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You pace the pool and talk about itI read my book and think about itYou've walked on waterAs I'm turning the pageYou say, What's the intrigue here,In reading when the sky is clear?You are in the su...

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...

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

Is that a broken heart in the corner of your eye, Something to remind you? You made this love a teardrop waiting to fall. There are those who can't love right. I just can't love wrong.

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...

Trouble In The Fields (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fieldsWhen the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yieldThe trains roll by our silos, silver in the rainThey leave our pockets full of not...

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...

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...

I Would Change My Life (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You never liked this place where we'd been living all alongSo, you packed up your things and bought a one-way ticket homeLeaving never hurt as much as being left behind[Chorus:]I would change my li...

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

There's a light beyond these woods, Mary Margaret.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 b...

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...

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?...

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

You honk the horn on your Mercedes BenzI've rolled up my window so you're honkin' againYour stereo could drive the devil outHey, you drink too much and you talk too loudBut you think you got it mad...

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

He owned a hotel on Jersey shoreShe made her living seeing the sailors door to doorHe was a small Hawaiian with a crooked smileBut he made her eyes light up like the heavens on the Fourth of JulySh...

Heart Of Indochine Nanci Griffith

ashore from that distant war My friend Michael came in '68 The bodies still floating with the dinner boats sailing Beside all those souls of the American war Oh, deliver me to the river of souls In the heart

Late Night Grande Hotel Nanci Griffith

leaving is all I've ever known before It's not the way you hold me when the sun goes down It's not the way you call my name that left me stranded on the ground It's not the way you'll say you'll hear my heart

Two For The Road Nanci Griffith

the east of Portland, Maine You held my hand As we raced along the buffalo bayou Chasing the tail of this globe You say one day, babe we`re bound to `cause it takes two for the road We`re two of a kind heart

In The Wee Small Hours Nanci Griffith

In the wee small hours of the morning While the whole wide world is fast asleep You lie awake and think about the girl And never ever think of counting sheep When your lonely heart has learned its lesson

Tell Me How Nanci Griffith

"[Chorus:] Tell me how to keep your love You know how I need your love Tell me how you keep the love Within your heart from me Don't you know that I love you Let me show why; I'm true blue When I know

I Live On A Battlefield Nanci Griffith

the smoke has cleared As I stumble through the rubble, I'm dazed and seein' double And I'm truly mystified [Chorus:] My new home is a shell-hole Filled with tears and muddy water And bits of broken heart

Waiting For Love Nanci Griffith

your own feet He claims you still anyway Waiting for love God forgives your lack of grace Everyone I know From my dust bowl to the city Is waiting for love (love) To start another day They may be shy of heart

Shaking Out The Snow Nanci Griffith

Snowing - through South Dakota I once drove With the wife of my best pal Who cloaks her heart from cold with gold It was well into the winter Of December in the cold Off to see Mount Rushmore staring through

The Loving Kind Nanci Griffith

nineteen fifty eight They found love amongst the hate Well, the law said they could not wed They married anyway The sheriff put them both in jail Separated till they made their bail They changed the heart

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

Morning Song for Sally Nanci Griffith

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 race my heart

These Days In An Open Book Nanci Griffith

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

Are You Tired Of Me Darling Nanci Griffith

live life over Could you make another wife Are you tired of me my darling Answer only with your eyes Do you ever rue the springtime When we first each other met How we spoke in warm affection Words my heart