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

Gimme Something Good Ryan Adams

I can't talk My mind is so blank So going for a walk I've got nothing left to say I can't see The darkness on the rise I'll be waiting here Until the under tide All my life Been shaking Wanting something

The Sadness Ryan Adams

The stars they sink In the oceans of ink Long black ribbons of cars And in the taxi You ask me how I'm doing But you already know Beyond, beyond is not through Its only a reflection of you And

Voices Ryan Adams

You come through the door like a bag of rocks Wounded all the time And I'm inside the tomb with the t.v. on mute Elijah don't you come Oh god don't you come I steal out the window like I'm using the

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

Halloweenhead Ryan Adams

Here comes that shit again I've got a halloweenhead Head full of tricks and treats It leads me thru the nighttime streets Black cats and falling trees Under ladders always walking Salt shaker spills just

Ashes & Fire Ryan Adams

As he stared past the fire His hunger to leave well it gnawed his poor heart alive Her skin smelled like black cherry blossom perfume And the sailboats they all sailed by and a river she cried And the

Rosalie Come And Go Ryan Adams

I knew a girl named Rosalie, We used to hang out in the park, We used to score the system grease, From the fellas after dark.

English Girls Approximately Ryan Adams

English girls are pretty when they play guitar Crazy like a day 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 Shadowlands Ryan Adams

God, please bring the rain Yeah, and bring it soon Let it flood right through the houses Into Judy's room With a father on amphetamines Her mother hides the pearls Reach out into the darkness And find

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

Rip Off Ryan Adams

Without talking to nobody I can count the people that know they want to fix themselves Without taking my hands out of my pockets I make these promises but all my promises hurt It's like they never get a

Rosebud Ryan Adams

When I pick up my guitar This is the song that always comes Don't know what I'm 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

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

She Wants To Play Hearts Ryan Adams

I am a broken toy For a lonely girl Use once and destroy And go find some more Back home, kids play in the leaves in the park She wants to play a game of hearts I'm the rag doll boy

Starlite Diner Ryan Adams

It's midnight, at the Starlite Diner You said meet me at a corner to twelve And I'm standing in the corner Wishing you were here in my arms, Fare thee well my old friends Fare thee well Is it possible

Hallelujah Ryan Adams

I've been a desperate man I've been sheltered by a lonely dream There's a stranger here Looking back above the bathroom sink Every night I throw you out Leave you stranded on the boulevard

Burning Photographs Ryan Adams

I finally see the light Down on the east side Wasted like a memory If I had a car I'd drive Straight off the bridge into the river, it would empty me Pretty pictures in a magazine Everybody is so make

Friends Ryan Adams

As pretty as a song A song could ever be Like Christmas on a river Without a boat or Christmas tree This afternoon with you was something like a letter The kind that someone writes but never sends And

Avalanche Ryan Adams

I found your photograph in a cardboard box in a magazine I can't remember you, remember us or anything I taught you how to feel, but you just feel numb They taught you how to feel, but you just feel numb

Starting To Hurt Ryan Adams

It's a long way down, but I feel alright It's a long way down, but I feel alright And the cops get in, and the crowd gets tight Take your tomorrow, pain and your sorrow and teach it how to fly

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

Life Is Beautiful Ryan Adams

You plant a rose And if the rose comes up You're thankful to God And when it doesn't you cuss him You raise a child And when the child grows up You got to learn to let go If you can't learn to love

Shadows Ryan Adams

I fall, in the cutting room Straight to the fall, before the film is through Today in my head, that field of reason why Come a little closer, honey And touch the fire How long do I have here with you The

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

Lovesick Blues Ryan Adams

I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with a girl, That's what's the matter with me I'm in love, I'm in love, with a beautiful girl, But she don't give a darn about me to make her love me I tried,

Meadowlake Street Ryan Adams

every one for you If I could count them all I would circle the moon And count 'em back to nothing Till I got to you Something in you dies, when it's over Everybody cries sometimes If loving you's a

If I'm A Stranger Ryan Adams

If I am a stranger now to you I will always be, I will always be Stronger now then me, stronger then you Love will always be If we let it go, I'll try to be there for you If I can, what if I can?

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

Everybody Knows Ryan Adams

life gets torn And everything's changing, so how am I to know How I'm going to hold on to you when I'm spinning out of control You and I together, but only one of us in love And everybody knows He says a

Bartering Lines Ryan Adams

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 the table, to somebody else the money's got a

Two Hearts Ryan Adams

Here we go again God, I listen, but I'm not listening Everything she says, oh I heard it all before So what if I have It doesn't mean it isn't beautiful And everyone needs company once in a while Two hearts

City Rain, City Streets Ryan Adams

I forgot to ask Genius in a hospital bed With briar-patch hair, just isn't fair Takin' bullets for the team of bad boys, how is it up there?

This Is It Ryan Adams

Let me singa song for you That's never been sung before All the words were meant for you And never been said before She kisses when she sleeps She kisses when she's sleeping Let me sing a song for you

Luminol Ryan Adams

with no one to call And all this time Hot metal as her clothes dissolve Emergency lights It's genocide It's sucide I'm spinning around the room in awe I'm spinning around the room I'm floating through a

Do Miss America Ryan Adams

So, tell me how you feel without your medicine Hold you head feelin' paranoid Sweet sixteen for a schizoid So, tell me how you feel Now you're the only one Held you head in the setting sun Sweet black

Boys Ryan Adams

I'm as lonely as boys I'm as lonely as boys I'm as lonely as monkeys taught to destroy Anything they learn to enjoy So pardon me, angel So pardon me, angel Pardon me, my love, for you is a stranger That

I See Monsters Ryan Adams

Baby, I know you cannot hear me now 'Cause you're fast asleep But I love you now Colors inside your head go spinning around Like a ferris wheel Exploding and falling to the ground Oh, people are screaming

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

Cold Roses Ryan Adams

Mirrors in the room go black and blue On a Sunday morning in Saturday shoes We don't choose who we love We don't choose In a Sunday suit, with the Saturday beat She don't love who she chose She don't need

Wild Flowers Ryan Adams

Poor girl, no Ma Nothing 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

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

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 through my veins like a

Night Birds Ryan Adams

thinking Of it now, And nightbirds sing you And empty tune In an empty house In an empty room In an empty moment All the nightbirds sing We were suppose to rise above But we sink I feel like a

Magnolia Mountain Ryan Adams

I want to go to Magnolia Mountain And lay my weary head down Down on the rocks Of the mountain my savior made Steady my soul and ease my worry Hold me when I rattle like a hummingbird hummin' Tie me to

Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd. Ryan Adams

happening baby They're putting up the chairs Zaking the money And all we can do is pray Pray for tomorrow So close your eyes So close your mouth And do this all in time to the music That screams like a

Kim Ryan Adams

I can't sleep, can't go home Underneath the branches of a sycamore tree On a darkened road With this key, scratched into the wall I spell out your name It's fucking with my head Fucking with my heart As

Gonna Make You Love Me Ryan Adams

the night destroys the sun It's only gonna make you love me more This old world, well, it was mine to take Faith can keep you warm, but I'll teach you how to shake And I'll come to you like a

Harder Now That It's Over Ryan Adams

over It's harder now that it's over Now that the cuffs are off Cause it's over now It's harder now that it's over It's harder now that it's over Now that the cuffs are off You're free You're free with a

Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. Ryan Adams

across his bed But the light of the moon leads the way towards the morning And the sun, the sun's well on its way too soon to know And, oh my God, whatever, etcetera If I could I'd fold myself away like a