Cry On Demand Ryan Adams

Cry on demand. How'd you learn to? Cry on demand. Teach me if you want to. Though you don't have to. I just close my eyes and think of you. Real.

Starlite Diner Ryan Adams

standing in the corner Wishing you were here in my arms, Fare thee well my old friends Fare thee well Is it possible to love someone too much You bet The drugs are in safe And the clothes are on

29 Ryan Adams

I was a poor little kid in the lungs of new York Just like a motherless son of a bitch Loaded on ephedrine looking for downers and coke Like a sun that just wouldn't set out on the horizon Singing and

The Drugs Not Working Ryan Adams

I was shooting in the back of the car When the windows smashed on the police cars I was swimming through the streets of New York With my cocaine dagger and throats to cut And it was making her cry...

Touch, Feel & Lose Ryan Adams

Cause all I know from you is grief But I never wanted to be your rolling train I never wanted to be your dancin' shoes I just wanted you to love me I just wanted you to love me Touch, feel & lose And cry

Lovesick Blues Ryan Adams

And ever since she's gone away, I've got those lovesick blues Got the feeling called the "blue hoo's," since my sweetie said "Good Bye" Seems I don't know what to "Do Hoo" All day long I sit and cry

Pearls On A String Ryan Adams

1, 2, 3 Blue eyes for miles Pretty as a peach Glorious kind and always on time Never far outta reach Tomorrow's on it's way And there's always new songs to sing Glorious kind, always on time Pearls on

So Alive Ryan Adams

Today I watched the boats Moving through the harbor Walking on water In your arms I'd stay Forever if I could Fireer if I may Keeps me in your thoughts, don't disappear I am on your side And so alive So

Sylvia Plath Ryan Adams

I wish I had a Sylvia Plath Busted tooth and a smile And cigarette ashes in her drink The kind that goes out and then sleeps for a week The kind that goes out on her To give me a reason, for well, I dunno

Mockingbird Ryan Adams

Mockingbirds sing Sing me what the Lord was singing On the day He made the water The color of the blues Sing me that song Sing me till the heavens rising On the day He made the water The color of my baby's

1974 Ryan Adams

The sun is shining hard at my feet And the city is an animal ready to eat It's raining like a nose bleed, cigarettes and sweets And I feel it coming on Bloody as the day I was born It's 1974 Just like

You Will Always Be The Same Ryan Adams

Go on to the street to the cars in the pouring rain Go on to the bus that left us in the dust and the flames And when the son meets the father It'll be something smarter for the pain But

Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. Ryan Adams

Something's beating on the wall on the other side Strange lovers moan Each other's names on by sheets For the very first time One of them's James The other's some name she changes every time she lies across

I Taught Myself How To Grow Old Ryan Adams

the pain so intense to feel Especially now it added up through the years And I I taught myself how to grow Without any love and there was poison in the rain I taught myself how to grow Now I'm crooked on

Shakedown on 9th Street Ryan Adams

Head on down to 9th street gal Let's go out a kicking with the boys and the gals Wear your dress and bring my ring Someone's gonna get it, ain't gonna be me Lucy, Lucy my gal (Lucy, Lucy my gal)

English Girls Approximately Ryan Adams

just breaking I ain't sure what for Ain't got a mother or a father or a place to fall She's got a brother in the blues, But he doesn't know the blues at all You said you didn't love me, it was right on

Dear John Ryan Adams

I got a house full of walls And utility bills, every Monday the company calls I got a nice bed to sleep on And a chest of drawers, where I keep those dreams of yours Cause you're always mine to keep

Easy Plateau Ryan Adams

Let's take a ride to the easy plateau Where the cold don't come and the wind don't blow Moonlight flickers on the water below The orange grove blossoms In the orange grove Bad nights lead to better days

New York, New York Ryan Adams

Well, I shuffled through the city on the 4th of July I had a firecracker waiting to blow Breakin' like a rocket who makin' its way To the cities of Mexico Lived in an apartment out on Avenue A I

Luminol Ryan Adams

Say my name It's genocide It's suicide I'm floating through a room of halls All bloody in the luminol I'm spinning around the room in awe In awe And on and on and on

My Blue Manhattan Ryan Adams

My blue Manhattan She's angry like a child, but how sweet Fire and rain on the street It's you against me most days It's me against you, fell Ah, the snow's comin' down On the cars in midtown Stone cold

Strawberry Wine Ryan Adams

Last night in the street collapsed on itself In fact, it broke right in two And I fell in The strawberry vines Into a pool of strawberry wine Strawberry wine and clouds Burning in the desert, surrounded

Political Scientist Ryan Adams

faucet from the river From the tributary it comes through rusted pipes Outside his window he sees the water that's supposed to be clean By the chemicals polluted by the candy factory lines Someplace on

Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues Ryan Adams

limousines, money in the bank Send it home Tina Toledo got a kid that lives with her Ma She takes the subway after school, makes up her face, changes clothes There she goes She feels the rain coming down on

Wild Flowers Ryan Adams

much to speak of but a rough diamond Sleep now and your angels will come, dear Poor Matilda Handcuffed to the wheel And steering wildly Through love's fields, so blindly Forever only takes its toll on

Trouble Ryan Adams

Trouble I hear the clock tick in the room The walls will crumble and you're holding The match between the fuse There's something I just got nothing else to say I've been on the beats since yesterday There's

Operator, Operator Ryan Adams

Operator, operator gets lowAnd she can't find the numberCryin' on the telephoneIt's hard, it's harder when she knowsNewscasters don't watch the newsLike operators don't get numbers they loseI'm a castle

How Do You Keep Love Alive Ryan Adams

Lord, I miss that girl On the day we met the sun was shining down Down on the valley Riddled with horses running Crushing them with flowers I would have picked for her On the day she was born She runs

Carolina Rain Ryan Adams

Rose lived on the south side of town Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills A notice of eviction on the other hand Now she don't live there no more, And everyone thinks he drowned

Meadowlake Street Ryan Adams

something about you That reminds me of all those times When I wasn't sorry, when I wasn't blue The cherry moon it shone down on us Under the stars shining down every one for you If I could count them

Bartering Lines Ryan Adams

me down Leave me in the withering pines Steal my love, steal my kisses Take 'em to the bartering lines Ten cents up, two bucks down Ship it out and turn it into fuel Three bucks shy Leave it on

Tomorrow Ryan Adams

You'll see the lights are blinding Yeah, and I'll be thinking of you Ohhh, my baby's going home My baby's going home Tomorrow A million miles of nothing Yeah, you're driving on

Jesus (Don't Touch My Baby) Ryan Adams

In California Forever summer and hot Into the ocean You're smiling a lot On sandy beaches And the blankets are hot You're in my arms And I kiss your heart Jesus, don't touch my baby Jesus, don't touch

Come Pick Me Up Ryan Adams

When they call your name Will you walk right up With a smile on your face Will you cower in fear In your favorite sweater With an old love letter I wish you would I wish you would Come pick me

Goodnight Rose Ryan Adams

Goodnight Rose, we're going to win Put your troubles behind you and go on to bed Let go of the worry, there's so much nobody understands Don't live your life in such a hurry, life goes by us, so, so fast

This House Is Not For Sale Ryan Adams

Tell 'em that the house is not for sale We're still livin' here, how come nobody can tell They're takin' all the furniture, movin' our things Come on little honey, put your head on my knee Tell 'em that

Cherry Lane Ryan Adams

Every night I read this novel about you Holding roses in the pouring rain But the ending's tore up, trying to hail a cab Think no one can read you, but I can Well we move into a house down on Cherry Lane

Twice As Bad As Love Ryan Adams

Candy is quick and she's good at impressions She's stacked on the corner, man, she's stacked on the street She's got pills that distort her depression Counting her friends on her hands and her feet

This Is It Ryan Adams

that's worth the dreaming Don't waste my time This is it This is really happening What's the use in marigolds These flowers are for you All the lights go after burn The sky it splits in two I kiss her on

Dance All Night Ryan Adams

She ain't lonely now See her shuffle 'cross the floor Yeah, she's happier now See her smile and say 'come on' Let's dance all night Let's dance all night Let's dance all night Yeah, I think she'll be alright

Everybody Knows Ryan Adams

come for me, you come and try to take me home I'm always in need, and it's hard to be reciprocating The fabric of our life gets torn And everything's changing, so how am I to know How I'm going to hold on

Hotel Chelsea Nights Ryan Adams

babe Before I get over you, doll You're tearin' the stuff right out of me kid What with you living right up the hall And I'm tired of living in this hotel TV and dirty magazines And I'm tired of livin' on

Gimme A Sign Ryan Adams

Here's a picture of your lonely Fridays Turned to nothing on a Friday night Firecracker with a pile of empties Detonated with a lonely fire I see your face, I hear your voice I touch the

Tonight Ryan Adams

sleeping Cocktails in the ESP Think about you to think about me I wonder, I want to see you tonight I want to see you, I want to see you, I want to see you smiling back at me in the starlight Shining on

Am I Safe Ryan Adams

air There's no sound, no light And all these things keep running Through my mind Am I safe Am I safe Am I safe If I don't wanna be with you Am I safe Am I safe Am I safe If I don't wanna be with you On

Invisible Riverside Ryan Adams

boulevardSo don't let go, don't change your mindIf the stars fall into the oceansideSomeone pull the ribbons from my eyes freeMy soulLet it roll awayOn an invisible riversideI wanna lay my headForever on

Rosebud Ryan Adams

singing 'bout and Don't know what for I think about you And I think about Rosebud Wish there was a song to sing To bring you back But you can't get here from nowhere I guess Rosebud's shipwrecked up on

Let It Ride Ryan Adams

Movin' like the fog on the Cumberland River I was leaving on the Delta Queen I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go Twenty-seven years of nothin' but failures and promises that I couldn't keep Oh lord

Feels Like Fire Ryan Adams

Are you there Screaming in the night Somewhere Hanging from the side Feel the sunlight The sunlight on my face It’s cold out here Lost in outer space Just so you know You will always be the hardest thing

Chin Up, Cheer Up Ryan Adams

Took a walk with you In the shadow of my shoes Danced around the broken blues In the dirty summer rain Moonlight on the cars Parked in single file at the bars With a thick and rosy smoke