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MY HALLELUJAH

Loved my baby, ain't that enough?
Why'd you have to go and make a widow of
My Hallelujah
Now he's gone and I'm still here
Nothing for me in the atmosphere
No Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
All that I have left
Are thoughts of a photograph
Black suit, gold ring, white dress

Maybe you're just too far away
To hear me call for my baby
My Hallelujah
Because if you were me, you'd have come through
Do anything that you had to do
For Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
All that I have left
Is a ghost from Christmas past
White lights, green wreath, red dress

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
All that I have left
Is his voice and it's fading fast
Grey sky, brown box, black dress

LABOR OF LOVE

You found me when I was hungry
We got fat off a pipe dream
And it's a sad, sad thing when you're through
With a fantasy

I lost the fight to keep you
On my terms, maybe no one could
It may be a mad, mad thing to let go
But I think you knew I would

You were a labor of love
I held on to you with a boxing glove
Now you're ringside looking up
You were a labor of love

You can try to make friends from lovers
But wine will never be water again
And you can't hold on to a man
Who won't be held that way

You were a labor of love
I held on to you with a boxing glove
Now you're ringside looking up
You were a labor of love

Oh what a ruckus in my head
Oh what a burden is this heart
It's starting to get easier
And that's the hardest part

LOVESICK

I'm lovesick, sick of love
My heart's just about had enough
I'm tired of games and all that stuff
I can't find no one to fall in it with
I'm lovesick, sick of love

Everybody's got a song
It serenades the night along
But some melodies rise and fall in minor keys
Missing harmonies

I'm lovesick, sick of love
My heart's just about had enough
I'm tired of games and all that stuff
I can't find no one to fall in it with
I'm lovesick, sick of love

Poets and philosophers
Write it down in prose and verse
They give you something you can quote to someone else
If you think it helps

Me, I'm lovesick, sick of love
My heart's just about had enough
I'm tired of games and all that stuff
I can't find no one to fall in it with
I'm lovesick

Some folks put the bottle down
The day they wake up on the ground
I never drank much but I know how it feels to drown
Trouble out

THE GOOD LIFE

There's an empty vase
Where roses would go
If flowers were the kind of thing he thought of
On his way home

But he's honey sweet
And I'm a honey bee
And our love will still be buzzing when the seasons change
And the flowers have gone

He's got me high
All the clouds are jealous
He's Christmas in July
He's the summertime
He's got me high
Like a bottle of red or a bottle of white
And if he's half the man I think he is, he's all I need
To live the Good Life
The Good Life

My heart
Has been rich and poor
But if we never have more than we do right now
Then I'm rich for sure

LEAVING FOR MEMPHIS

A coat's no match for the wind outside
Winter's come early this year
And it feels like Chicago has just lay down to sleep
Her colors have all disappeared

He was born here in this city
I moved here from a Tennessee town
With a suitcase and a promise, from a man who said he loved me
But we're all out of love now

So I'm leaving for Memphis
Just watch me go
Leaving for Memphis
Where the Mississippi rolls
It takes a good strong current
To move a heart sometimes
When you've lost your direction
Things like that are hard to find

It's hard to know what to do sometimes
So you step back and wait for a sign
You can wait for a taxi; you can wait for an airplane
Or you can wait for a man to make up his mind

So I'm leaving for Memphis
Just watch me go
Leaving for Memphis
Where the Mississippi rolls
It takes a good strong current
To move a heart sometimes
When you've lost your direction
Things like that are hard to find

When you've done everything that you can do
When you've spent all your currency on words
Maybe the silence of an empty room
Will be the loudest thing he's ever heard

So I'm leaving for Memphis
Just watch me go
Leaving for Memphis
Where the Mississippi rolls
It takes a good strong current
To carry a heart away
So I'm leaving, leaving, leaving
Yes I'm Leaving, leaving, leaving
I'm leaving for Memphis
Unless he asks me to stay

LET ME COME OVER

All of my days are awash
Without you here I am drowning
And the sun from these Marlboro skies
Cannot dry up the memory of you

Let me come over
Let me come over
Let me come over
To you

It 'd take three thousand miles to your heart
By bus plane or train or by magic
If I rode each one back in time to reach you
Would you be mine?

Let me come over
Let me come over
Let me come over
To you

Darling my cup
just filled right up
It runneth right over

I watch for you like I'm waiting
For company
You once said all of your days were awash without me
But you are without me

Let me come over
Let me come over
Let me come over

WHERE WERE YOU

I am throwing punches in the air
I can sweat and curse but nobody's there
You said you'd find me no matter how I got lost
Where were you when I needed you most

I am standing at the corner again
Watching two roads cross, twist and bend
You stood behind me no matter which way I chose
Where were you when I needed you most
Where were you when I needed you most

It is easy to lie together at night
In the darkness, trouble in easy to hide
You said you'd stay here until the daylight rose
Where were you when I needed you most
Where were you when I needed you most

BALLAD OF HANK WILLIAMS

My heart went to music
My heart went to drink
My soul, straight to music
Kept me here in hard times I think

And I think I speak the gospel
When I tell you this truth:
That if Jesus wore my shoes
He'd reach for the bottle too

Long is the night
Proud is the curtain call
In the brightest light
Dark are the shadows that fall

And that Lord's been a knockin'
He's come to grant me my wish
Because there are things worse than dying
When you've been living like this

Long is the night
Proud is the curtain call
In the brightest light
Dark are the shadows that fall

There's a song in everyone
Mama told me when I was young
Why was mine so short?
Hell mama, where are you now?

When that sun takes its bow
Oh Lord, lay my head down
In the back seat of a Caddy
With those wheels still spinnin' round
With those wheels still spinnin' round

BETTER AT YOU

I wish I were better at being good at more things
Like parties and dancing, take-offs and landings
I wish I were better at being good at more things
And you, I wish I were better at you

Your shades are drawn tight
You're in there with the dark
Sometimes I try to find you
Sometimes I catch a spark
And I'll grasp for the light every time it comes
But for you, no light will ever be enough
And you, I wish I were better at you
I wish I were better at you

It's not how you planned it
And you'll be damned if
You let anyone know
But it's no secret
And you can't keep it
Here anymore

I wish I were better at being good at more things
Like faith when the train wrecks, hope for the suspects
I wish we were closer; that's my apology
And you, I wish I were better at you
I wish you were better at me
I wish we were better
I wish we were better

RAIN CLOUD

If you think you know this weather
Stick around, it will change
If you think you know this man
He will do the same

He’s always been a quiet man
Some days he’s quiet like a hurricane
Our love is like a coastal town, storm winds blowing ‘round
Now I'm waiting for the rain

'Cause he’s rolling like a rain cloud
When his arms get heavy, he lets it all fall down
Floods come, water so deep
I swear sometimes we’re both going to drown
He’s rolling like a rain cloud
Rolling like a rain cloud

He's got thunder in his head
Sometimes lightning’s coming out of his mouth
I'm going to keep some candles burning tonight
In case all the power goes out

Because he’s rolling like a rain cloud
When his arms get heavy, he lets it all fall down
Floods come, water so deep
I swear sometimes we’re both going to drown

He’s rolling like a rain cloud
Tears fall from his eyes
There's nothing I can say
No words are going to keep us dry
He’s rolling like a rain cloud
But lost inside somewhere
Is a man who used to be
Such a blue sky

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