Babelogue Patty Smyth

I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the future. Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like each bolt of wo...

Babelogue Patti Smith Group

I haven't fucked much with the pastBut I've fucked plenty with the futureOver the skin of silk are scarsFrom the splinters of stations and walls I've caressedA stage is like each bolt of woodLike a...

Sometimes Love Just Aint Enough Patty Smyth

Patty Smyth Sometimes Love Just Aint Enough Now, I don't wanna lose you, but I don't wanna use you just to have somebody by my side.

1959 Patty Smyth

Listen to my story Got two tales to tell One of fallen glory One of vanity The world's roof was raging But we were looking fine And we built that thing And it grew wings In 1959 Wisdom was a teap...

We Three Patty Smyth

(Every Sunday I will go down to the bar and leave him the guitar.) You say you want me. I want another. Say you dream of me. Dream of your brother. Oh, the stars shine so suspiciously for we thre...

Ravens Patty Smyth

Common fortune seeks us all and slips our binding rings we'll turn our heads and make us reel we'll bare our arms as wings before our feet a feather drifts beyond us it will fall cause time will ...

Gone Again Patty Smyth

Hey now man's own kin we commend into the wind grateful arms grateful limbs grateful soul he's gone again I have a winter's tale how vagrant hearts relent prevail sow their seed into the wind se...

Ghost Dance Patty Smyth

We shall live again, we shall live. What is it children that falls from the sky ? Tayi, taya, tayi, aye aye. Mannah from Heaven from the most high, Food from the father, tayi, taye aye. We shall...

Land Patty Smyth

The boy was in the hallway drinking a glass of tea From the other end of the hallway a rhythm was generating Another boy was sliding up the hallway He merged perfectly with the hallway, He merged ...

Elegie Patty Smyth

I just don't know what to do tonight, My head is aching as I drink and breathe Memory falls like cream in my bones, moving on my own. There must be something I can dream tonight, The air is fille...

Wing Patty Smyth

I was a wing in heaven blue soared over the ocean soared over Spain and I was free needed nobody it was beautiful it was beautiful I was a pawn didn't have a move didn't have nowhere that I could...

My Madrigal Patty Smyth

We waltzed beneath motionless skies all heaven's glory turned in your eyes we expressed such sweet vows oh till death do us part oh till death do us part We waltzed beneath God's point of view k...

Look What Love Has Done Patty Smyth

I woke up this morning feeling lonely There's so much my heart just does not understand There were times when nothing really mattered But now I find I care too much There's life in everything I to...

Fireflies Patty Smyth

I and I alone can but do for you to twist in my hand the thorn of thy youth in draw thy seed to turn in birth thy sighs thy moans I and I alone I will wash your feet and dry them with my hair I wi...

Summer Cannibals Patty Smyth

I was down in Georgia nothing was as real as the street beneath my feet descending into air The cauldron was a-bubbling the flesh was lean and the women moved forward like piranhas in a stream t...

Easter Patty Smyth

Easter Sunday, we were walking. Easter Sunday, we were talking. Isabel, my little one, take my hand. Time has come. Isabella, all is glowing. Isabella, all is knowing. And my heart, Isabella. And...

Kimberly Patty Smyth

The wall is high, the black barn, The babe in my arms in her swaddling clothes And I know soon that the sky will split And the planets will shift, Balls of jade will drop and existence will stop. ...

High On Rebellion Patty Smyth

what i feel when i'm playing guitar is completely cold and crazy, like i don't owe nobody nothing and it's just a test just to see how far i can relax into the cold wave of a note. when everything...

Break It Up Patty Smyth

Car stopped in a clearing, Ribbon of life, it was nearing. I saw the boy break out of his skin. My heart turned over and I crawled in. He cried, "Break it up, oh I don't understand, Break it up, I...

Beneath The Southern Cross Patty Smyth

Oh to be not anyone gone this maze of being skin oh to cry not any cry so mournful that the dove just laughs the steadfast gasps oh to owe not anyone nothing to be not here but here forsaking equ...

Whirl Away Patty Smyth

Hello friend I've come a-calling Passively stationed Active patrol Sliding in high noon Like some reluctant sheriff Not want to get involved in at all Who stands guard for each other Why must we g...

Farewell Reel Patty Smyth

It's been a hard time and when it rains it rains on me the sky just opens and when it rains it pours I walk alone assaulted it seems by tears from heaven and darling I can't help thinking those t...

Birdland Patty Smyth

His father died and left him a little farm in New England. All the long black funeral cars left the scene And the boy was just standing there alone Looking at the shiny red tractor Him and his dad...

About A Boy Patty Smyth

Toward another he has gone to breathe an air beyond his own toward a wisdom beyond the shelf toward a dream that dreams itself about a boy beyond it all from the forest from the foam from the fi...

Space Monkey Patty Smyth

Blood on the T.V., ten o'clock news. Souls are invaded, heart in a groove. Beatin' and beatin' so outta time. What's the mad matter with the church chimes? Here comes a stranger up on Ninth Avenue...

Privilege (Set Me Free) Patty Smyth

I see it all before me: the days of love and torment the nights of rock-and-roll. I see it all before me. Sometimes my spirit's empty don't have the will to go on. I wish someone would send me ene...

Dead To The World Patty Smyth

Dead to the world my body was sleeping on my mind was nothing at all come a mist an aire so appealing I'm here a whisper you summoned I called I formed me a presence whose aspect was changing oh ...

Free Money Patty Smyth

Every night before I go to sleep Find a ticket, win a lottery, Scoop the pearls up from the sea Cash them in and buy you all the things you need. Every night before I rest my head See those dolla...

Waiting Underground Patty Smyth

If you believe All your hope is gone Down the drain of your humankind The time has arrived You be waiting here as I was In a snow white shroud Waiting underground There by the ridge Be a gatherin...

Gloria Patty Smyth

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine meltin' in a pot of thieves wild card up my sleeve thick heart of stone my sins my own they belong to me, me people say "beware!" but I don't care the w...

25th Floor (And High On Rebellion) Patty Smyth

We explore the men's room. We don't give a shit. Ladies' lost electricity take vows inside of it. Desire to dance Too startled to try. Wrap my legs 'round you, starting to fly. Let's explore up ...

Till Victory Patty Smyth

Raise the sky. We got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please, till victory. Take arms. Take aim. Be without shame No one to bow t...

Redondo Beach Patty Smyth

Late afternoon, dreaming hotel We just had the quarrel that sent you away. I was looking for you, are you gone gone ? Called you on the phone, another dimension. Well, you never returned, oh you k...

The Warrior Patty Smyth

You run, run, runaway, It's your heart that you betray Feeding on your hungry eyes, I bet you're not so civilized Well isn't love primitive? A wild gift that you wanna give Break out of captivi...

Beat Of A Heart Patty Smyth

The heat of the sun Was a little too much today Love on the wing Flew so high it just melted away So sweet on the run So little time to make you see What can't be undone Was maybe never meant to be...

Wish I Were You Patty Smyth

Time goes by, I fall out of touchI can't explain why I fall so muchI bought a pack of cigarettesSent an old Elvis stamp to your new addressThe weather's hereWish I was fineWish that you could read ...

No Mistakes Patty Smyth

The summer is gone I can？t believeIt went so fastWhy do only the cold and lonely timesSeem to lastNow its late at night I watch youSleepin, I wanna wake you upAnd tell you I？m sorry, though I knowI...

Too Much Love Patty Smyth

Baby listen you gotta doWhat you believeBut where's it written you haveTo get down on your kneesAnd give away your heart and soulYou believe it that's how love'sSupposed to beDon't you feel it drag...

Make Me A Believer Patty Smyth

Make me a believer babyI want to believe in the power of loveMake me a believer baby'cause I feel the strength of your loveOoh yeahNow nowI learned about love like a game you playAnd when it don't ...

Out There Patty Smyth

Lizzy got married on Christmas DayOn the Coney Island Coast, I remember the wayShe stood in the coldWith the sun in her hairMe and my brother were standing byI remember my mother started to cryLiz ...

River Of Love Patty Smyth

I been standin' on the water's edgeNow you want to pull me inBut I been standin here too longI can't remember if I can swimDo you believe that people changeNow babyTell me that you see a change in ...

My Town Patty Smyth

I took a walk across the Brooklyn BridgeThe new graffiti says that life's a bitchAnd now I hear this bridge is falling downSomeone will steal it before it hits the groundNow I want to go out walkin...

Shine Patty Smyth

Why'd you tell me that you won't see me no moreI say baby, baby, baby do you want to watch me crawl across the floorCause anyone can learn to pull a triggerAnyone can break a heart in twoIt's so ea...

One Moment To Another Patty Smyth

In the name of the fifty-three saintsI will go searching saysSeek out the hurt he saysWhere comes this painCould it be a whirlwind spinning in the darkAn animal in your heart he saysI will find the...

I Should Be Laughing Patty Smyth

Somewhere in a scrap bookThere's a rose you gave to meAnd the photograph thats torn in halfAnd all thats left is meLive happily ever afterThat came after I was goneAnd they tell you that you can't ...

Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough (Single Version) (Feat. Don Henley) Patty Smyth

Now, I don't want to lose you but I don't want to use youJust to have somebody by my sideAnd I don't want to hate youI don't want to take you but I don't want to be the one to cryAnd that don't rea...

Wish I Were You (Album Version) Patty Smyth

Time goes by, I fall out of touchI can't explain why I fall so muchI bought a pack of cigarettesSent an old Elvis stamp to your new addressThe weather's hereWish I was fineWish that you could read ...

Love's Got A Line On You (Album Version) Patty Smyth

Now there's a place I go with a boy I knowWe're together, gettin' better all the timeAnd there are words I say when we hide awayMakes him crazy, makes him love me all the timeAnd no one knowsHow lo...

The River Cried (Album Version) Patty Smyth

I took a walk today through these greyand dirty streetsThinking of you, missing you,and hoping that we'd meetI didn't tell my legs where to goThey just walked down to the dockI sat on the edge figh...

Everyone Gets Older (Album Version) Patty Smyth

Just a word to signifyThe passing of each day and night'Cause it's done at the speed of lightThe years fly by and out of sightI tell myself as I go to sleepWe all make promises we can't keepEveryon...