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

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

Suicide Alley Shawn Colvin

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 million to one You might

Never Saw Blue Like That Shawn Colvin

were we ever somewhere else You know, it's hard to say And I never saw blue like that before Across the sky Around the world You've given me all you have and more And no one else has ever shown

Bonefields Shawn Colvin

past the piles of tires and the smell of hot tar you threw your papers In the rain under your hat you had a world, ummmm？？？？.

A Matter Of Minutes Shawn Colvin

I can pack myself up in a matter of minutes, Leave you all far behind All of my old world and all the things in it are hard to find If they ever were mine You've been trying And I know it's been hard

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

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

If These Walls Could Speak Shawn Colvin

What a tale they have to tell, hard headed people raisin' hell. A couple in love livin' week to week. Rooms full of laughter, if these old walls could speak.

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

Close Your Eyes Shawn Colvin

Close your eyes Close your eyes Go to sleep now, my darling There's a Sandman Old and white Bringing happy dreams to you Tattle Tail Go to sleep Til the quiet night passes You are safe in my arms In my

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

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

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

84,000 Different Delusions Shawn Colvin

Good love bad love good love yeah My time your time my time yeah 84,000 different delusions Take a ride in the car 84,000 different delusions Good times bad times good times yeah Our

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

Nothing Like You Shawn Colvin

Four blocks up and two streets down, I went back to my old hometown Like a kid I ran and hid on cue That’s when times were really sad Winter there was really bad And we all just froze but for a chosen

Tennessee Shawn Colvin

banjos And they play real slow Not to me, not to me I never heard such rock and roll As on your back roads Tennessee Now I know you're not to blame But you know that you should have told me That I would

The Story (Album Version) Shawn Colvin

Well we pounded the pavement between dotted lines But we always belonged to the fugitive kind We were never the best but we were better than this To be made to bow down among princes I got thrown around

Orion In The Sky Shawn Colvin

you baby And I know you and I Can find a way to heaven Just like Orion in the sky He's the long lost hero He's the guardian of your son But can he protect us baby >From all the sad things we've done Now

New Thing Now Shawn Colvin

good to be back home Waiting for the newest Rolling Stone All the other girls are still at war The best and worst of 1994 Sometimes I see the half and not the whole Sometimes I see the face and not

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?

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

Hold On Shawn Colvin

Well, he gave her a dimestore watch And a ring made from a spoon Everybody's lookin' for someone to blame But you share my bed, you share my name Well, go ahead and call the cops You don't meet nice girls

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

Words Shawn Colvin

Smile an everlasting smile A smile can bring you near to me Don't ever let me find you gone 'Cuz that would bring a tear to me This world has lost its glory Let's start a brand new story now my love Right

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

Whole New You Shawn Colvin

You have the right to get down on your kness You have the right to make yourself believe You don't know my name But I don't care You can do it Cuz you have the right To shake the loneliness and shine the

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

You And The Mona Lisa Shawn Colvin

Hold me down to anything Anything that you see I should walk away right now I'll be there, so never mind I'll be the one to fall Waiting for you to look up at me Oh I love you the most Always

Trouble Shawn Colvin

someone to walk with in the dark, well I'm your man I go to the trouble like a magnet That's where I'll be Trouble is just a place to sing It's what you need I swear you look like you're in

The Chain Shawn Colvin

Listen to the wind blow Watch the sun rise Run in the shadows Damn your love Damn your lies And if You don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the

Anne Of The Thousand Days Shawn Colvin

Anne Of The Thousand Days - Shawn Colvin The morning was wet I wore your jacket I walked your dog To go get coffee Where I ran into Your last girlfriend And we said hello She didn't like me I

Wichita Skyline Shawn Colvin

By shawn colvin & john leventhal Down at the train they go to independence everyday But anywhere else now seems like a million miles away And i must have been high to believe that i would ever leave

Summer Dress Shawn Colvin

I went out to face the wilderness. I went out to face the wilderness. The men in hats. The boys on bikes. The perfect girls. The baby dikes. The superstars, blighted ones.

There's A Rugged Road Shawn Colvin

' Come on, the light is gone Hope's slowly dyin' Tell me how you come ridin' through Still surveyin' the miles yet to run On the long and lonely road to kingdom come She can blaze a trail, through

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

That Don't Worry Me Now Shawn Colvin

Before you knew me An angel came to me I wrestled him down to the ground He said he could cure me I said That don't worry me now Those angels just bore me The same old damn story They were lost oh but

Bound To You Shawn Colvin

Because if I go, then someone will be sad Because as someone said, well, I'd rather die But if you can stay, then darlin' so can I And you know I will Yeah, you know I will Chorus ('Cause) I'm bound to

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

Polaroids Shawn Colvin

Blackened and spit-shined throug Kicking back home to you Smiling back home Singing back home to you Laughing back home to you Dragging back home to you I was so wary then The ugly American Thinner

So Good to See You Shawn Colvin

Ordinarily I Have the decency to hold my tongue Then eventually I Wind up opening a vein Rather pointedly you Asked me if I planned to turn and run That's a certainty When I'm this close to the drain But

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

All The Pretty Li'l Horses Shawn Colvin

Go to sleep, baby child Go to sleep, my little baby And hush-a-bye Don't you cry Go to sleep, my little baby When you wake You will have All the pretty little horses Black and blue And sorrow, too All

Little Road To Bethlehem Shawn Colvin

As I walk down the road I sit up some The lambs were coming homeward one by one I heard a sheepbell softly calling them Along the little road to Bethlehem Beside an open door as I drew night I heard sweet

If I Were Brave Shawn Colvin

All the happy couples on their way to New Orleans Reminding me of when we got along They're only renting time and space to fill up with their dreams And dreams are what they'll have when they have gone

Ricochet In Time (Album Version) Shawn Colvin

I've been sleeping fair Lately I could swear I'm thinking clearer and clearer And I've been working hard Looking at my punch card and my mirror, my mirror But I daydream in my room I'm baying at the moon

Diamond In The Rough Shawn Colvin

As a little girl I came down to the water With a little stone in my hand It would shimmer and sing And we knew everything As a little girl I came down But in a little while I got steeped in authority Heaven

Diamond In The Rough (Live at Sessions at West 54th, NYC, NY - August 1997) Shawn Colvin

As a little girl I came down to the water With a little stone in my hand It would shimmer and sing And we knew everything As a little girl I came down But in a little while I got steeped in authority Heaven