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LYRICS C SINGLE:
Katherine's Lullaby (unabridged)
The
Water is Wide (traditional)
I don’t know who you are yet Like a warm wind blowing I know it will be sweet, I know it'll be… Every day I’ve lived without you Like a warm storm
blowing Like a cold river
flowing That lifts me up,
and carries me closer to you All my life I’ve
been waiting Never stopped
anticipating You, my dream come
true I know it will be
sweet, I know it'll be… When I find my
dream come true
I could walk into a
tree And not feel my
bones break I want to look at
you all day to see The moves you don't
know you make You chase away
skies of gray You’re the break
of sunrise on the day I don't ever want
to take my eyes away I could walk into
the stormy sea And not feel my
blue body shake I want to hold you
close to me Kiss your eyelids
when you wake You chase away
skies of gray You’re the break
of sunrise on the day I don't ever want
to take my eyes away Your mind is
playing tricks on me And when I try to
slow down Then you just bring
out the thirst in me To drink you in
till I drown I’m on slippery
ground I could walk into a
house on fire And not feel my
smoking skin bake I pasted my foot
down on the gas And now I can't
seem to find the brake Don't want to take
my eyes away Don't want to make
up lies and say That I don't think
about you every day You chase away
skies of gray You’re the break
of sunrise on the day I don't ever want
to take my eyes away
Sometimes I don’t
know where you end and I begin But I know that the
good-looking part is you And somehow it
seems like we’ve always been friends In my heart I guess
I always knew I want to be by
your side Will you be my
beautiful bride We fit together
like a lock and a key I think so highly
of you, were we meant to be? Will you marry me? Sometimes love is a
wildfire on a windy day Sometimes it’s a
cozy blaze That will never
burn away All of our days Someday when the
kids have grown and our hair’s gone to gray And for you, I hope
I don’t have a gnarly combover And I’ll look
back at how the years have flown by, and I’ll say, If I had to do it
all over I wouldn’t change
a thing since the day I bent down on one knee And asked you, my
love, to marry me And I’ll say,
remember how… Sometimes we were a
wildfire on a windy day Sometimes we were a
cozy blaze And look how it’s
never burned away All of our days Now you get the
last word While I get on my
knee Do you believe
we’ll be happy? I do.
Do you? I do. Will you marry
me?
You’re getting
married, my friends New beginnings and
new ends You’re gonna
carry each other along Past the roads that
are dusty and the turns that are wrong So hang on tight You’re doing
everything right I hope your days
are sunny And you keep each
other warm at night You started out
being just friends That’s well and
good, but not how this ends Then there was
love, was it out of the blue? Did your hearts
skip the first time you said I love you? So whip your hair
in the air And walk on down
the aisle Keep the flame of
passion Brightly lit on
your smile Now you’re close
as two can be Best friends,
lovers, now family Keep the love fresh
and out of the blue May your heart skip
whenever you say I love you
It’s getting on
well past midnight Looking up at the
sky Underneath the star
trails and traces of fire Everything’s all
right Everything’s all
right, all right Leaves are calling
out your name Caught by the
wind’s harmony Seems like it's all
rushing by like a river in its prime But it’s just a
flickering eyelash in time And it's all right And it's all right It's like you're
riding in the eye of a hurricane Surrounded by
motion and light But you’re
standing still And you don’t
feel the chill Because you know
that it’s all right You know it’s all
right You know
Hey neighbor, you
don’t seem like you’re a bad kind of guy So when I say I
wish you were dead and gone, don’t be surprised, and I’ll tell you why It’s not like
you’re a crack house shooting guns off in the night Or a cathouse or a
frat house, but still, something’s not quite right Why don’t you
clean your yard Come on, it can’t
be that hard Even if it’s just
that little part that I can see Come on, neighbor,
do this thing for me I’m not looking
for perfection But man your
garbage needs attention And that stinking
tire collection Smells like a bad
rubber infection Why don’t you
just clean your yard Come on, you lazy
chunk of lard Even if it’s just
that little part that I can see Come on, neighbor,
do this thing for me The sun sparkles so
pretty off those shards of broken glass Your shopping cart
collection gives the neighborhood your special touch of class My yard’s not
perfect, I don’t worship my grass But you, you let
yours grow till it’s high as Michael Jordan’s…
ask me… Why don’t you
clean your yard Come on, it can’t
be that hard Even if it’s just
that little part that I can see Come on, neighbor,
do this thing for me Hey neighbor, you
don’t ever seem to be in short supply Of the crap that
blows over from your pathetic pigsty It’s not like
you’re a killer doing funny things to sheep But all I ask from
you neighbor, is a little basic upkeep. Why don’t you
clean your yard Come on, you human
discard Even just that
little part I can see Come on, neighbor,
do this thing for me
It’s after dark
It’s getting cool
on the boulevard As I’m walking
past the street people to the bar Throw back some
cold ones to get away from it all Get away from it
all for just a little while A little bit of
that social exile. It’s after dark It's getting cold
on the boulevard As I’m walking
past the street people to my car And there she is
rolled up on the bench With a newspaper
coat and a crystal meth smile But Mama always
walked the hardest mile Your head's turned
to the side You always had your
pride Is there something
that you want to hide Or are you just
getting away from it all for just a little while You got a bottle
for a pillow, a bit of that social exile It’s after dark It’s starting to
rain down on the boulevard As I'm driving
around sipping from a jar The streetlights
are shooting stars I wish on them,
don't open Mama's scars If she wants to get
away, let her get away from it all for just a little while I ought to turn
around I ought to know
what's right Maybe try to cover
her up since it's her birthday night If she doesn't
won't know where it came from, she won't care It's being seen by
her boy, that's what Mama can't bare If she wants to get
away, let her get away from it all If she wants to get
away, let her get away from it all If she wants to get
away, let her get away from it all for just a little while
The thing about you You got the faith That everything
happens for a reason Doesn't work for
me, never did I don't got the
faith But it works for
you, doesn't it And that’s good
enough reason for me You got to have a
point of view If you say,
there’s such a thing as miracles Then I say, the
miracle is you I don't think
there's a reason I met you It was just the
right place and time Even when I'm not
sure I belong I'm still glad you
happened along If there’s really
such a thing as fate And we’re just
players in a grand design Chasing our destiny Either way, the
sun’s gonna shine No use racing for
what’s meant to be And that’s good
enough reason for me As long as our
time’s not yet through If there's really
such a thing as miracles Then the miracle is
you I don't buy your
weird way of thinking Not any more than
you buy into mine And I don't buy
into taking things wrong See, I’m just
glad you happened along The thing about you You got the faith That everything
happens for a reason Doesn't work for
me, never did I don't got the
faith But it never
bothers you a bit And that’s good
enough reason for me To thine own self
be true If there's really
such a thing as miracles Then the miracle is
you
You might just have
a fine day today, Katherine All sorts of things
might just go right And when your fine
day has faded away You might just have
an even finer night. Greet your dreams
with an easy smile When you turn out
the light Till tomorrow and
another fine day, goodnight Doesn’t matter if
the sky is wet and gray or burns a brilliant blue The trick is to
appreciate, no matter what the view But if you should
ever feel despair, I hope you know that I still care for you And wish that
you…
Greet your dreams
with an easy smile when you turn out the light Till tomorrow and
another fine day, goodnight
Ever since I got my
first guitar when I was seventeen I knew I wouldn’t
play it much if I tried to keep it clean So I shoved that
guitar case where the sun don’t shine Under the bed … See, if I keep it
in its case it might as well be in outer space
(CHORUS) It’s my car
guitar and it’s by my side and I play it all the time It’s not meant to
be looked at, sucker was built to be played I don’t care it
cost a million bucks, it ain’t some damn Monet I’m really gonna
use it, not be shy I might bruise it It’s my car
guitar and it’s by my side and I play it all the time I got a cheap
guitar so I can have one with me in the car And at the beach
where there’s the sun and salt and sand and sticky tar I strap it to my
back so I can play it any time I need to get out
of my head some incessant damn rhyme It’s got grit
in the gears and strings brown as dirt The body’s beat
to shit and I hope that rust there doesn’t hurt It’s seen a lot
of bend, fold, and mutilate But it’s always
by my side and that’s what makes it really great It’s my car
guitar and sometimes I play while I steer with my knee Sometimes I strap
it on my bike, and the wind blows a melody I know the way I
treat it, someday it’s gonna get wrecked, But better fuck it
up from too much use than from useless neglect I got a brand new
classical without a pick guard I guess you’re
not supposed to play a pretty thing like that too hard At first I treated
her like precious glass But then I figured,
life’s too short, and being careful's a bite in the ass I used to play with
my pinky finger anchored like so Problem was I
played that nice guitar with such gusto As the years went
by my pinky finally rubbed right through the wood Bloody splinters
under my nails, I said, “That can’t be good!” I went to the
doctor, and there in the box of toys Was this big rubber
frog meant for the girls and boys Hope I don’t burn
in hell for that frog I stole But his butt fit so
perfect in that guitar's bloody hole I got a brand new
Taylor, fancy inlay on the face Pristine cherry
mint condition, not a fret hair out of place Plays so sweet my
baby gives me cavities I keep it by my
side where I can play it when I please Before my fancy
Taylor’s first birthday I played on stage
outside the Blue Skye Café Should’ve seen it
in the cards when that umbrella sailed away Clear over the roof
into the streets of Morro Bay Well I finished up
my set and put my Taylor on the stand Next to my favorite
gut string, at least that’s what I planned Cuz when I turned
around to thank the crowd for sticking around I heard the sound
of guitars blowing down to the ground And I said,
“Hey!” when I saw my Taylor scraping on the street And I said “No
way!” when I felt the crack on the neck, right here from the concrete And I said,
“Don’t care what you look like, as long as you’ll still play Cuz if not, I’ll
be playing it in the key… of Folk
in A (CHORUS) See if I
keep it in it’s case…
Katherine's
Lullaby (unabridged) You might just have
a fine day today, Katherine All sorts of things
might just go right And when your fine
day has faded away You might just have
an even finer night. Greet your dreams
with an easy smile When you turn out
the light Till tomorrow and
another fine day, goodnight Doesn’t matter if
the sky is wet and gray or burns a brilliant blue The trick is to
appreciate, no matter what the view But if you should
ever feel despair, I hope you know that I still care for you And wish that
you… Greet your dreams
with an easy smile when you turn out the light Till tomorrow and
another fine day, goodnight So your mom spilled
the beans I was writing you a lullaby And before you’d
ever heard it you wrote me this kind reply From a ten year-old’s
crystal point of view And with this
perfect verse you made your very own wish come true Cuz what you
said... Dear
Bruce, thank you so much for writing me a song You
don't know how much I appreciate it And
I know this sounds like a lot of trouble But
could you possibly either write my mom a song Or
split my song with her I'd
really appreciate it And
I know that she would love it I
think it would remind her that she is loved Your
Friend, Katherine You might just have
a fine day today, Katherine and your Mom All sorts of things
might just go right And when your fine
day has faded away You might just have
an even finer night Greet your dreams
with an easy smile When you turn out
the light Till tomorrow and another fine day, goodnight MERLIN'S LEAP ~Once Upon a Fingerstyle Guitar~ Sundown Lullaby The clouds are burning up May you rest, May you be warm and dry And when you open your eyes And when you close your eyes
again May you rest, May you be warm and dry And when you open your eyes TEN THOUSAND
LAKES From the coast of California on
the way to Canada I remember when I turned away from From the coast of California on
the way to Canada I remember when I
was a little boy the
water is wide (traditional) oh love is gentle there is a ship the water is wide |