A Matter Of Minutes Shawn Colvin

way to stay And I can't see my way to go But I can't give up without a fight.

The Story (Album Version) Shawn Colvin

were never the best but we were better than this To be made to bow down among princes I got thrown around hallways and bedrooms and towns And you run from that voice and it drags you around It don't matter

When The Rainbow Comes Shawn Colvin

C'mon, pack your bags, clear the floor Let's step out through the open door Leave a note that says goodbye And build a new house down by the sea Get to the place we were meant to be And you'll

Mr. Levon Shawn Colvin

Find a nail to hang your hat on Go and get yourself a chair If there's little hope to fathom Mr.

Round Of Blues Shawn Colvin

Here we go again Another round of blues Several miles ago I set down my angel shoes On a lost highway For a better view Now in my mind's eye All roads lead to you Chorus: So wherever you go You better

Object Of My Affection Shawn Colvin

Jump into the night Gas up and downshift Cruise up the coast On the FM drift It's a crazy world On the head of a pin Some other time Some other star I might've cried but now You only need to look so far

The Dead Of The Night (Album Version) Shawn Colvin

It is the dead of the night On the dead of the night I live on a dream, it came to me When I was young I brought it here, and now for years The streets of London keep it safe and warm Every morning it

Get Out Of This House Shawn Colvin

Go jump in the lake, go ride up the hill Get out of this house It's a house of your making, it's a house of ill will Get out of this house Go listen to Buddha, go listen to Joe Get out of this house

Sunny came home Shawn Colvin

Sunny came home to her favorite room Sunny sat down in the kitchen She opened a book and a box of tools Sunny came home with a mission She says days go by I'm hypnotized 'm walking on a wire

Sunny came home Shawn Colvin

Sunny came home to her favorite room Sunny sat down in the kitchen She opened a book and a box of tools Sunny came home with a mission She says days go by I'm hypnotized 'm walking on

The Bird Shawn Colvin

I might go to the mountain to spy And I see all the pretty snow And I dream that dream I dream no matter where I go We were still young like when we met And I hadn't fucked it all up yet And you wanted

Sunny Came Home Shawn Colvin

Sunny came home To her favorite room Sunny sat down in the kitchen She opened a book And a box of tools Sunny came home with a mission She says days go by I'm hypnotized I'm walking on a wire

Tuff Kid Shawn Colvin

I was a tuff kid Yeah I was a tuff kid It took a lot to get me on my knees I had a hard time Yeah I had a hard time Just ask somebody if you don't believe me.

Suicide Alley Shawn Colvin

wake up dead And you'll never know what's real All this damage is runnin' loose in your head And it really matters to me Oh, no, baby don't go Walkin' down Suicide Alley Downtown baby it's a

Polaroids Shawn Colvin

Please no more therapy Mother take care of me Piece me together with a Needle and thread Wrap me in eiderdown Lace from your wedding gown Fold me and lay me down On your bed Or liken me to a shoe

Fall Of Rome Shawn Colvin

The city is crumbling Like Rome or Pompeii And there’s nothing to do But get out of the way When you know you can save no one Like an empty old bottle The ship has gone down The Titanic is sinking

Steady On Shawn Colvin

China gets broken And it will never be the same Boats on the ocean Find their way back again I am weaving like a drunkard Like a balloon up in the air I am needing a puncture and someone To point me somewhere

Steady On (Album Version) Shawn Colvin

China gets broken And it will never be the same Boats on the ocean Find their way back again I am weaving like a drunkard Like a balloon up in the air I am needing a puncture and someone To point me somewhere

Seven Times The Charm Shawn Colvin

The first rose to rise up in the ruins of the flood You brought me down like a hawk to your glove But a poor girl is made out of sorrow and blood Some hearts survive but mine isn’t one And we go once

All Fall Down Shawn Colvin

Here I come Cuz I don’t know better I’m a thief and a sinner I’m a fool and a debtor You got your pushin’ numbers You got your pushin’ a broom And what’s lucky to some Is breakin’ even to you We

New Thing Now Shawn Colvin

This is your new thing now Naked as a rose Everything exposed But not quite This is your new thing now Cards out on the table A genius with no label But not quite, not quite God, I swear it's

Venetian Blue Shawn Colvin

It still hasn't snowed in a lifetime And I am still frozen in time Where did you come from? How could you leave And why can't you be mine?

American Jerusalem Shawn Colvin

American Jerusalem - Shawn Colvin New York City rain Don't know if it's makin' me Dirty or clean Went for the subway but there was no train And the tunnel was grumbling for repairs again And the

This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (Live at the Bottom Line, NYC, NY - August 1993) Shawn Colvin

Home Is where I want to be Pick me up and turn me 'round I come home Born with a weak heart I guess I must be having fun But the less we say about it the better Let's make it up as we go along Feet on

This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) Shawn Colvin

Home Is where I want to be Pick me up and turn me 'round I come home Born with a weak heart I guess I must be having fun But the less we say about it the better Let's make it up as we go along Feet on

Cinnamon Road Shawn Colvin

Oh, Cinnamon Road That's where we would go to try and feel better Oh, hot summer breeze The tops of the trees reachin' forever So you take all the things that you felt then And never did show With a picture

Hold On To The Good Things Shawn Colvin

Hold On To The Good Things From Stuart Little 2 soundtrack It's a beautiful world It's a beautiful day And an usual time is coming away We're on adventure hippy poo-ey Talking in the balloon I'm sailing

On My Own Shawn Colvin

don’t see you Before I go Remember what you’ve seen And what you know Sunshine you will be On my mind eternally But let’s just you remember you And I’ll remember me I’m gonna be on my own It’s a

Kill The Messenger Shawn Colvin

dry face of steel As you're dragging your red rowing boat Cross the forever fields See Jane something's gone dead Inside my head There's nothing but fear Jane the rivers of grief The tears of relief Seem

Window To The World Shawn Colvin

Neon flickers with a pale glow And all the shadows that come and go Sometimes I can hear them laugh and cry In my lonely room with a view I can't sleep and so I think of you And watch the world as it passes

Orion In The Sky Shawn Colvin

Maybe somewhere in the southern hemisphere There could be room for all this love Where they've saved a place for innocence And what is still mysterious And their dreaming time They're dreaming time Because

Fill Me Up Shawn Colvin

Fill me up, fill me up, I'm a long way from home, And I don't have a lot to say. Fill me up, fill me up, Cause you're all that I've got, And I traveled a long, long way.

Stranded (Album Version) Shawn Colvin

Was it really two summers ago Or was it outer space We both had nowhere to go In search of a state of grace All in all we never had time When we met each other we stopped on a dime Floating nowhere Suspended

Someday Shawn Colvin

There ain't a lot that you can do in this town. You drive down to the lake and then you turn back around. You go to school and you learn to read and write.

Someone Like you Shawn Colvin

I've been searchin' for a long time For someone exactly like you I've been travellin' all around the world Waiting for you to come through chorus Someone like you To make it all worthwhile Someone

Something To Believe In (Album Version) Shawn Colvin

You will wander around And it won't be the same All the signs will be down And it's starting to rain out It's a lonely place That you've brought it to now You wanted to love You didn't know how but There

Cry Like An Angel (Album Version) Shawn Colvin

The streets of my town are not what they were They are haloed in anger, bitter and hurt And it's not so you'd notice but it's a sinister thing Like the wheels of ambition at the christening So I went out

Polaroids (Live Version) Shawn Colvin

Please no more therapy Mother take care of me Piece me together with a Needle and thread Wrap me in eiderdown Lace from your wedding gown Fold me and lay me down On your bed Or liken me to a shoe Blackened

Monopoly Shawn Colvin

I don't know what else to do I would rather do anything Than write this song for you And perpetuate this thing In my head, in my living room With the usual arsenal Of broken chords and rusty strings To

I Want It Back Shawn Colvin

I lost the thread, I lost the map It's not a feeling, it's a fact I had it once, I was on track Why won't it stay?

Roger Wilco Shawn Colvin

It's all yours it's anything that you say My company fell in we were dropped like like sticks in the wind I relinquish this misson sir in the intrest of my men I do not expect to see my children again

Set The Prairie On Fire Shawn Colvin

Full full moon and That same sad nature I wanna cover every inch of you Like ink on paper Like the blind parade of souls Consumed by religion I can't wait 'til I get you In that defenseless position Chorus

Even Here We Are Shawn Colvin

Song of the bird way up in the sky But the most beautiful by far Is the scream of the man who never learned to fly Even here we are.

Bonefields Shawn Colvin

All and all I guess that there's so many things that we don't say and It's what makes us sad I think sometimes That makes us close but I don't mind, I don't mind In the alleys and the bonefields of Arkansa

I'm Gone Shawn Colvin

There are things I will do For a hatchet job, too Ante up, there's a new kid in town It won't take long For what's red hot and blonde To be ashes on the ground.

Change Is On The Way Shawn Colvin

Change Is On The Way - Shawn Colvin Cold nights, warm hands Mountains, flat lands Your face Nothing gets erased And I feel like a change is on the way Once you held my hand Wasn't long I saw you

One Small Year Shawn Colvin

One small year It's been an eternity It's taken all of me to get here The hands of time They pushed my down the street They swept me of my feet to this place And I don't know my face Now all through the

Shotgun Down The Avalanche (Album Version) Shawn Colvin

I'm riding shotgun down the avalanche Tumbling and falling down the avalanche So be quiet tonight the stars shine bright On this mountain of new fallen snow But I will raise up my voice into the void You

Rocking Shawn Colvin

Little Jesus sweetly sleep Do not stir We will lend a coat of fur We will rock you, rock you, rock you We will rock you, rock you now See the fur To keep you warm Snuggle 'round your tiny form Mary's little

Every Little Thing (He) Does Is Magic Shawn Colvin

Though i've tried before to tell him Of the feelings I have for him In my heart Every time that I come near him I just loose my nerve like Ive done From the start Cause every little thing he does is magic