Sheryl Crow
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Run, Baby, Run
She was born in November 1963
The day Aldous Huxley died
And her mama believed
That every man could be free
So her mama got high,
high, high
And her daddy marched on Birmingham
Singing mighty protest
songs
And he pictured all the places
Where he knew that she belonged
But he failed and taught her young
The only thing she'd need to carry on
He taught her how to
Run baby run baby run baby run
Baby run
Past the arms of the familiar
And their talk of better days
To the comfort of the strangers
Slipping out before they say
so long
Baby loves to run
She counts out all her money
In the taxi on the way to meet
her plane
Stares hopeful out the window
At the workers fighting
Through
the pouring rain
She's searching through the stations
For an unfamiliar
song
And she's thinking 'bout the places
That she knows she still belongs
She smiles the secret smile
That's sure she knows exactly how
To carry on
So run baby run baby run baby run
Baby run
From the old familiar faces and
Their old familiar ways
To the comfort of the strangers
Slipping out before they say
So long
Baby loves to run
All I Wanna Do
Hit it!
This ain't no disco
It ain't no country club
either
This is LA!
"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,"
Says
the man next to me out of nowhere
It's apropos
Of nothing
He says his
name's William but I'm sure,
He's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy
And he's
plain ugly to me
And I wonder if he's ever had a day of fun in his whole
life
We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant
car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars
On their
lunch break, hosing and scrubbing
As best they can in skirts in suits
They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone
company, the record store too
Well, they're nothing like Billy and me, cause
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the
only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only
one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa
Monica Boulevard
I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
And Billy
likes to peel the labels
From his bottles of Bud
He shreds them on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to
his thick fingers
before blowing and cursing them out
And he's watching
the bottles of Bud as they spin on
the floor
And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one
another
The bartender looks up from his want ads
Otherwise the bar is ours,
The day and the night and the
car wash too
The matches and the Buds and the clean and dirty
cars
The
sun and the moon but
I Shall Believe
Come to me now
And lay your hands over me
Even if it's a
lie
Say it will be alright
And I shall believe
I'm broken in two
And I know you're on to me
That I only
come home
When I'm so all alone
But I do believe
That not everything is gonna be the way
You think it ought
to be
It seems like every time I try to make it right
It all comes down on
me
Please say honestly you won't give up on me
And I shall believe
And
I shall believe
Open the door
And show me your face tonight
I know it's
true
No one heals me like you
And you hold the key
Never again
would I turn away from you
I'm so heavy
tonight
But your love is alright
And I do believe
That not everything is gonna be the way
You think it ought
to be
It seems like every time I try to make it right
It all comes down on
me
Please say honestly
You won't give up on me
And I shall believe
I
shall believe
Maybe Angels
Six-lane highway running up to my back door
But it won't
take me where I want to be
I took the I-95 down to Pensacola
All I found
was a bunch of holyrollers
The don't know nothing about saving me
I swear they're out there,
I swear, I swear they're out
there,
I swear, I swear they're out there,
I swear, maybe angels, maybe
angels
Down here I feel like a citizen of nowhere
My bag's all
packed in case they ever come for me
Got a hundred stories and tabloid lies
Got witnesses to what the government denies
So I'm headed down to Roswell to
wait and see
Oh what a mystery
Oh, I believe, I believe, I could leave
My sister, she says she knows Elvis
She knows Jesus, John
Lennon, and Cobain personally
Well, but I'm too wise to believe my eyes
Cause all I've seen just terrifies me
But I believe they're coming back for
me
Redemption Day
I've wept for those who suffer long
But how I weep for
those who've gone
Into rooms of grief and questioned wrong
But keep on
killing
It's in the soul to feel such things
But weak to watch without
speaking
Oh what mercy sadness brings
If God be willing
There is a train that's heading straight
To heaven's gate,
to heaven's gate
And on the way, child and man,
And woman wait, watch and
wait
For redemption day
Fire rages in the streets
And swallows everything it meets
It's just an image often seen
On television
Come leaders, come you men of
great
Let us hear you pontificate
Your many virtues laid to waste
And
we aren't listening
What do you have for us today
Throw us a bone but save the
plate
On why we waited til so late
Was there no oil to excavate
No
riches in trade for the fate
Of every person who died in hate
Throw us a
bone, you men of great
There is a train that's heading straight
To heaven's gate,
to heaven's gate
And on the way, child and man,
And woman wait, watch and
wait
For redemption day
It's buried in the countryside
It's exploding in the shells
at night
It's everywhere a baby cries
Freedom
The Book
I read your book
And I find it strange
That I know that
girl and I know her world
A little too well
And I didn't know
By giving
my hand
That I would be written down, sliced around,
Passed down
Among
strangers hands
Three days in Rome
Where do we go
I'll always remember
Three days in Rome
Never again
Would I see your face
You carry a pen and a
paper
and no time and words you waste
You're a voyeur
The worst kind of
thief
To take what happened
To write down everything that went on
Between you and me
Three days in Rome
And I stand alone
I'll always
remember
Three days in Rome
Ordinary Morning
I left a man
Asleep in the nude
Paint in my pocket
lipstick and rouge
Everything I ever wanted,
What a lovely pie you baked,
Is anybody listening/
Don't the painted birds ever fly away
It's just an ordinary morning
It's just an ordinary day
And I'm just an ordinary woman
Slipping away
The walls have been talking
About me again
I'm good for
a joke, but when I awoke
The dream didn't end
Now everytime I turn around
I'm only sleeping, John, is anybody out there?
Don't the wounded birds still
sing?
It's just an ordinary morning
It's just an ordinary day
And I'm just an ordinary woman
Slipping away
The Difficult Kind
I think I was wrong
I think you were right
That all my
angry words
Will keep me up at night
And through the old screen door
I
still hear you say
Oh, Honey won't you stop
Treating me that way
If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then I'd
no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
Cause babe I've changed
Tell it to me slow
Tell me with your eyes
If anyone
should know
How to let it slide
I swear I can see you
Coming up the
drive
And there ain't nothing like regret
To remind you you're alive
I crossed the canyon a thousand times
But never noticed
what was mine
What you'll remember of me tonight
Well, it almost makes me
cry
Yeah, it almost makes me cry
Oh ballbreaking moon and ridiculing stars
The older I get,
the closer you are
Don't you have somewhere that you need to be
Instead of
hanging here making a fool of me
If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then I'd
no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
But you won't see the change
in me
If you could only see
What love has made of me
But I'll forever
be in your mind
The difficult kind
But you won't see
No you won't see
The good in me
But babe I've changed
Cause babe I've changed
Members Only
Uncle Larry's hooked on ice again
He seems to be stuck in
the 80's
He wears his members only jacket
Cause he thinks it turns on all
the ladies
And all the white folks shake their asses
Looking for the
two and four
I'll have mine in martini glasses
Cause I can't take it
anymore
These are the days of empty kitchens
The rise and fall of
Mary Ellen's hairdo
I think she's found a new religion
Studying the
Kabalah in her J Crew
And all the rich kids shake their asses
Looking for the two
and four
Well I'll have mine with Blackstrap molasses
Cause I can't taste
it anymore
No I can't taste it anymore
My friend Greg says it's all good
As the eastern seaboard's
blown away
Now everything is going half-price
So look at all the money we
saved
And all the politicians shake their asses
Looking for the
backdoor
I'll just be hanging out with the lasses
Cause they don't like
the boys no more
No and I can't take it anymore
Diamond Road
Walk with me the diamond road
Tell me every story told
Give me something of your soul
That I can hold onto
I want to wake up to
the sound of waves
Crashing on a brand new day
Keep the memory of your
face
But wipe the pain away o
When you're lonely (you're not alone)
When you're heart
aches (on Diamond Road)
It's gonna take a little time
Yeah, it's gonna
take a little time
When the night falls (you're not alone)
When you're
stumbling (on Diamond Road)
It's gonna take a little time
To make it to
the other side o
So don't miss the diamonds along the way
Every road has led us here today
Little bird, what's
troubling you
You know what you have to do
What is yours you'll never lose
And what's ahead may shine
Beneath the promise of blue skies
With broken
wings we'll learn to fly
Pull yourself out of the tide
And begin the dream
again
So don't miss the diamonds along the way
Every road has led
us here today
Won't you shine on
Morning light
Burn the darkness away
Walk with me the Diamond Road
Tell me everything is gold
Give me something
of your soul
So you don't fade away
Don't miss the diamonds along the way
Every road has led us
here today
Life is what happens while you're making plans
All that you
need is right here in your hands.
C'mon, C'mon
C'mon, c'mon
C'mon, c'mon c'mon
You lay down with angels
To feel yourself again
You've got everything you need
Under your thick
skin
I know where you're going
I know where you've been
When it comes
to playin' games
You will always win o
C'mon, c'mon c'mon
Break my heart again
For old times
sake
C'mon, c'mon c'mon
Break my heart again
For old times sake o
You can't see your shadow
Reaching for the sky
Lay your head down on my
bed
Please don't ask me why
Why am I leaving
Why don't I know
Something deep inside me
Is forcing me to go
You say you need me
But
you can't tell me no
When I ask you to stop me baby
You just let me go
You took the best of me
And threw it away
Too bad the
rest of me
Still wants you to stay
Want you to stay
You say you need me
But you can't tell me no
When I ask you to stop me baby
You just let me go
You just let me go
Lucky Kid
I want to take you down to the river
I want to wash the
blood from your hands
I want to make you see
You belong to me
You won't
ever win
I want to walk out over the water
I want to tear my heart from my
chest
I want to change my face
Wanna leave this place
Start all over
again
Well don't you know
You're wasted
You got more than you asked for
Wasted
You walk in through the out door
Oh, you're a
lucky kid
Wasted
I want to turn you into a Corvette
I want to drive you
out of your mind
I want to watch your face
When you reach that place
That you could never find
I want to make you scream for mercy
I want to
break the silence within
And take you to your knees
Just like you did me
And crawl around in your skin
Oh don't you know
Wasted
You got more
than you asked for
Wasted
You walk out through the in door
Oh, you're a
lucky kid
Wasted
Oh, you're a lucky kid
Wasted
You got more than you
asked for
Wasted
You went in through the out door
You tasted
What
you never had before
You wasted everything
And now you're such a bore
Oh, you're a lucky kid
Wasted
Oh, cause I know what you did
Wasted
Oh, you're a lucky kid
I got your number
Oh, you get away with it.
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