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Crawl Into The Promised Land lyrics - Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal

Now let's say the sinner's mass

And speak the words out loud

Now we hold our sister's hand

But not when guns and spirits prowl

Only in our dreams we had

Faith in bigger lives and plans

We put away those broken vows

To crawl into the promised land

And don't it feel like home

Don't it feel like we belong

You gotta lift your head and raise your hand

And crawl into the promised land

Fifty years away from here

Sixty, if I run

Deliver me from tweets and lies

And purify me in the sun

The old man surely must have known

To kick the lights and make his stand

Would give us strength back from the brink

To crawl into the promised land

And don't it feel like home

Don't it feel like we belong

You gotta lift your head and raise your hand

And crawl into the promised land

The night is long, but no one sleeps

The grifters make us pay

Torches burn and mothers weep

Deliver us from judgment day

And don't it feel like home

Don't it feel like we belong

You gotta lift your head and raise your hand

And crawl into the promised land

Don't it feel like home

Don't it feel like we belong

You gotta lift your head and raise your hand

And crawl into the promised land

I Don't Want To Spoil The Party lyrics - Rosanne Cash

I don't want to spoil the party so I'll go

I would hate my disappointment to show

There's nothing for me here, so I will disappear

If he turns up while I'm gone please let me know

I had a drink or two and I don't care

There's no fun in what I do if he's not there

I wonder what went wrong, I waited for too long

I think I'll take a walk and look for him

Though tonight he's made me sad

I still love him

If I find him I'll be glad

I still love him

I don't want to spoil the party so I'll go

I would hate my disappointment to show

There's nothing for me here so I will disappear

If he turns up while I'm gone please let me know

Though tonight he's made me sad

I still love him

If I find him I'll be glad

I still love him

I had a drink or two and I don't care

There's no fun in what I do if he's not there

I wonder what went wrong, I waited for too long

I think I'll take a walk and look for him

I think I'll take a walk and look for him

I think I'll take a walk

May Ev'ry Day Be Christmas lyrics - Rosanne Cash

May ev'ry day be Christmas

Ev'ry day be blessed

Let the end of every day

Be filled with happiness

And may the Lord be good to you

With ev'ry rise and song

All through the day

Have a smile for everyone

At nighttime comes a longing

To be with ones you love

To surround the fireside

And dream of stars above

So may God bless you and keep you

Come what may

Then ev'ry day will be a happy day

At nighttime comes a longing

To be with ones you love

To surround the fireside

And dream of stars above

So may God bless you and keep you

Come what may

Then ev'ry day will be a happy day

Yeah, ev'ry day will be a happy day

Portrait lyrics - Rosanne Cash

I have a portrait of my man

Two strong arms, two gentle hands

And a heart that stays a mystery to me

And the portrait in my head

Is not a stranger to my bed

Like the real man that I love has come to be

The man I long to see is like a shadow in my dreams

And the portrait is who keeps me company

The man I want to hold would never let our love grow cold

But the real man hides his love away from me

I have a portrait in my mind

Of two hearts that beat in time

And the rhythm that is not so hard to feel

But a picture of a dream

Is never what it seems

And the steps we take don't make picture real

The man I thought I knew is a vision veil removed

Keeps me wondering how it's gonna be

The man I want to touch doesn't comfort me as much

As his picture that I hold so close to me

I thought I knew him

Now I see right through him

I have a portrait of my man

Too little time to understand

A heart that stays a mystery to me

And the picture in my heart

Is not a stranger in the dark

And not afraid to be the man he could be

River lyrics - Rosanne Cash

(originally by Joni Mitchell)

It's coming on Christmas

They're cutting down trees

They're putting up reindeer

And singing songs of joy and peace

Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

But it don't snow here

It stays pretty green

I'm gonna make a lot of money

Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene

Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I wish I had a river so long

I would teach my feet to fly

I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I made my baby cry

He tried hard to help me

You know, he put me at ease

And he loved me so naughty

Made me weak in the knees

Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I'm so hard to handle

I'm selfish and I'm sad

Now I've gone and lost the best baby

That I ever had

I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I wish I had a river so long

I would teach my feet to fly

I wish I had a river

I could skate away on

I made my baby say goodbye

It's coming on Christmas

They're cutting down trees

They're putting up reindeer

And singing songs of joy and peace

Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

The Killing Fields lyrics - Rosanne Cash (feat. John Leventhal)

You crossed on Brooklyn Ferry not a boy, but not a man

Left behind the Navy Yard

And your father's mislaid plans

I was at the other ocean

And I could not get away

From the flurry of emergencies every single day

There was cotton on the killing fields

It blows down through the years

Sticks to me just like a burn fills my eyes and ears

All that came before me is not everything I am

A girl who settled far too low

On religion and that man

The low ebb of the rocky soil

The high tide of the trees

The dust of men and thunderstorms

The parched and rolling sea

He's running through the killing fields

Just like a hunted deer

Impartial moon, uncaring stars

He falls where no one hears

The blood that runs on cypress trees

Cannot be washed away by mothers' tears

And gasoline and secrets un-betrayed

I know it's hard to hear these words

They sure are hard to say

But listen to the mockingbird

Who sings over their graves

The ripple of the life unlived

The ghosts of mice and men

The empty space of one man's heart

And what he might have been

But St. Margaret, she looks over us

St. Margaret and her kin

At the far edge of the killing fields

She stands there now and then

So goodbye to your Navy Yard

Goodbye to my sea

A truce between the East and West

And my Southern history

Goodbye to the killing fields

I'll break every single bow

'Cause all that came before you

And all that came before me

And all that came before us

Is not who we are now

The Walking Wounded lyrics - Rosanne Cash

(originally by Johnny Cash)

We're in the church house kneeling down

We're in the subways underground

We're in the bars and on the street

We drive a truck we walk a beat

We're in the mills and factories

We make the steel we cut the trees

A thousand-yard stare, eyes of glass

But we will see you when you pass

We lost our homes, we lost our dreams

All our goals have turned into schemes

We hurt each other and ourselves

So after long, traumatic spells

We are the walking

We are the walking

We are the walking wounded

We cried out from the deepest pit

But rise back up each time we're hit

We fell from power and from grace

But resurrection's in our face

We're just like little girls and boys

We play with grown up toys

We never thought of sink or swim

My brother hurts me so I hurt him

We are the walking

We are the walking

We are the walking wounded

Like a circle, round and round

We go up so we come down

We don't explain or apologize

We pull the veil across our eyes

We see through your fake refrain

But we won't let you see our pain

You may not know us but you will see

There are more than you'd believe

We are the walking

We are the walking

We are the walking

We are the walking

We are the walking

We are the walking

We are the walking wounded

This Train Don't Stop There Anymore lyrics - Rosanne Cash & Emmylou Harris

(originally by Elton John)

You may not believe it

But I don't believe in miracles anymore

And when I think about it

I don't believe I ever did for sure

All the things I've said in songs

All the purple prose you bought from me

Reality's just black and white

The sentimental things I'd write

Never meant that much to me

I used to be the main express

All steam and whistles heading west

Picking up my pain from door to door

Riding on the storyline

Furnace burning overtime

But this train don't stop

This train don't stop

This train don't stop there anymore

You don't need to hear it

But I'm dried up and sick to death of love

If you need to know it

I never really understood that stuff

All the stars and bleeding hearts

All the tears that welled up in my eyes

Never meant a thing to me

Read 'em as they say and weep

I've never felt enough to cry

I used to be the main express

All steam and whistles heading west

Picking up my pain from door to door

Riding on the storyline

Furnace burning overtime

But this train don't stop

This train don't stop

This train don't stop there anymore

When I said that I don't care

It really means my engine's breaking down

The chisel chips my heart again

The granite cracks beneath my skin

I crumble into pieces on the ground

I used to be the main express

All steam and whistles heading west

Picking up my pain from door to door

Riding on the storyline

Furnace burning overtime

But this train don't stop

This train don't stop

This train don't stop there anymore

This train don't stop

No, this train don't stop

This train don't stop there anymore

Time lyrics - Rosanne Cash

(originally by Tom Waits)

The smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street

And the shadow boys are breakin' all the laws

Oh and it's east of East St. Louis and the wind is making speeches

And the rain sounds like a round of applause

And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon

His invisible fiancée is in the mirror

and the band is goin' home, it's raining hammers, it's raining nails

It's true there's nothing left for him down here

And it's time time time

It's time time time

It's time time time that you love

And it's time time time

And they all pretend they're orphans and their memory's like a train

You can see them getting smaller as they pull away

Oh and the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget

That history puts a saint in every dream

Oh she said she'd stick around till the bandages came off

But these mama's boys just don't know when to quit

And Matilda asks the sailors are those dreams or are those prayers

Close your eyes, son, and this won't hurt a bit

And it's time time time

It's time time time

It's time time time that you love

And it's time time time

Oh and things are pretty lousy for the calendar girls

The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street

Oh and when she's on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot

And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet

So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon my lips

As the dish outside the window fills with rain

Oh and just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart

Pay the fiddler off till I come back again

And it's time time time

It's time time time

It's time time time that you love

And it's time time time

It's time time time that you love

And it's time time time

You Don't Know Me lyrics - Rosanne Cash

(from "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" soundtrack)

You don't know me

You can only say my name

Pictures of me paint

I can not say

I'm only till business to you

Some sort of silly fool

Fool that I am, I forgive you

Because I love you

'Cause I don't know where to begin

To say the words you need me to say

You don't know me

Not like you think that you do

Not thinking of me

I'm thinking of you

So just let me say these few words

From the very pit of my heart

Troublesome faith that we are

You know that I love you

From the moment I laid eyes on you

Can't we find a new place to start

You don't know me, that's all I have to say

As my understanding drifts away

Because I love you

Belly to belly and skin to skin

My heart is open

Now won't you please come in

You don't know me

You don't know me

You don't know me

At all

"Interiors" (1990)

• On The Inside lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Dance With The Tiger lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• On The Surface lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Real Woman lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• This World lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• What We Really Want lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Mirror Image lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Land Of Nightmares lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• I Want A Cure lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Paralyzed lyrics - Rosanne Cash

On The Inside lyrics - Rosanne Cash

We crawled night and day through the tears and debries

Now I'm reaching out to you but I'm keeping my hands clean

The tables are turning the tempo slows down

And we're gettin' off this misery-go-round

It's a brand new world baby now things have changed

A brand new picture in a brand new frame

A turn of the page with a blink of your eye

Our two steps in rhythm our hearts beatin' time

On the inside it all happened on the inside it all went down on the inside

A critical moment I know you'd agree both of us separate but neither one free

We traded our papers for new walking shoes

But I had no idea how I'd feel without you

We watched it unravel we heard it unwind imprisoned by anger embittered by time

No one could tell me we'd be standing here today

Steeled by the fire and sealed by the pain

On the inside it all happened on the inside it all went down on the inside

I'm holding on to you and I know you're holding on to me too

We gave it one more chance and found the key to romance

Now none of it happens like we think it should be

Hey it'd all be disaster if left up to me

By the power of love and protection divine

We found we hold hands through the darkness and then there was light

On the inside it all happened on the inside it all went down on the inside

On the inside it all happened on the inside it all went down on the inside

Dance With The Tiger lyrics - Rosanne Cash

In every woman and man lies the seed of the fear

Of just how alone are all who live here

Denying the fear is the name of the game

To stare at the fear is going insane

Forgiving the fear is one up on Cane

Is to dance with the tiger

And laugh at the rain

Don't give me your life, I have one of my own

It was a brilliant idea inventing the home

Creatures of habit, American fools

Reaching for stars while we're standing on stools

Letting it go is jumping the train

Is to dance with the tiger

Letting it go though we won't be the same

Is to dance with the tiger

Letting it go is the name of the game

Is to dance with the tiger

And laugh at the rain

On The Surface lyrics - Rosanne Cash

On the surface everything seems right no one notices the dimness of the light

For the world outside our door our smiles are oh so bright

On the surface everything's all right

We have the grace of actors on the stage

We orchestrate the moves that complement the play

But the things that we believe in we just throw them away

On the surface everything's okay

We say goodnight and then we close our eyes

To drift in different worlds far from each other's sight

Dreaming of yesterday when we held each other tight

And on the surface everything's all right

What are you thinking tonight I don't know you (I don't know you)

My words disappear in the night and there's no one there to notice

Maybe our lives will never be the same

But we can face tomorrow if we can just get through today

I'm holding back the tears while you're pushing me away

But on the surface everything's okay yeah on the surface everything's okay

Real Woman lyrics - Rosanne Cash

I don't want to be a star I don't want to talk through glass

I don't want to check my appearance in your eyes

I don't need a million bucks baby it don't take much

I don't need to play the princess all the time

I want to be a real woman changing every day

I want to be a real woman real in every way I want to be a real woman

I don't want to be admired I don't want to take my smile

I don't want to use my charm to disarm you

You don't have to spin your wheels oh baby I know how that feels

You don't have to pass some test just to impress me

I want to be a real woman...

Real is how I deal with what I deal with

Real is how I feel when I know how I'm feelin'

I don't want to be a man I just want to be what I am

I don't want to hide my light so yours keeps shining

If you don't want to face the truth then you're not gonna like what I do

You're not gonna make or break me so don't start trying

I want to be a real woman...

This World lyrics - Rosanne Cash

I read about this baby she got beat up by her dad

She was nine months old and he was a full grown man

She may have been learning how to crawl and he put a fist in her face

And the doctor said this baby's gone she can't be replaced

Now you read a lot of things in the daily news

But I'm laying awake at nights wondering what to do

I pray the Lord her soul to keep cause all down here are fast asleep

But I want to say this baby belongs to me and you

So we gotta wake up this baby belongs to me and you

Everyday when I wake up in this world and it's spinning out of control

Who's at the wheel seems no one knows

We're all just like a baby frightened and so sad

Feeling beat up by someone who looks like dad

Now you read a lot of things...

So we gotta wake up this baby belongs to me and you

What We Really Want lyrics - Rosanne Cash

We tried to make ourselves pay

for something we'd never done

threw the best parts of life away

on street talk, strangers and drugs

but what we really want is love

what we really need is love

I want to call out your name

I want to hold out my hand

the woman silent in the mirror tonight

wants to talk to your mirror man

and what they really want is love

what they really need is love

We are ships in the night

the water's deep in between

the air is freezing and we can't find the light

so we sail off into our dreams

but what we really dream is love

what we really need is love

what we want is love

what we need is love

I tried to make it feel right

in someone else's world

I sat and looked out my window last night

and knew that things had changed for this girl

'cause what I really found is love

what I really feel is love

what we want is love 

what we need is love

Mirror Image lyrics - Rosanne Cash

A cold night and the wind keeps blowin' a cold heart here but no one knows it

I look at you and I see myself down that lonely road

A woman frozen and a man still on fire the crime of fear and the pain and desire

You and me and the mirror between us that begs to explode

No one feels better now no one really tries no one gets to the truth past these eyes

Old memories linger still a cup of coffee and a dollar bill

Lay on the table like a fortune waiting for us to read

But no news seeps in today the old blues decide to stay

No passion breaks this train running through my mind

No one feels better now no one really cares no one takes time to look they just stare

No one feels better now no one makes it through

No one gets past these eyes to the truth

Land Of Nightmares lyrics - Rosanne Cash

I love you till I just can't feel I need you till it makes me numb

We hang on a noose of subtle abuse like there's nothing to fear

Living in the land of nightmares

The ocean's calm outside my door the storm rages inside my head

In perfect control so no one could know I smile but I'm not even there

Living in the land of nightmares

A vision full of sound and light I think she's holding back the night

With bitter desire she stoops to conspire she is the reason I'm here

Living in the land living in the land of nightmares

I Want A Cure lyrics - Rosanne Cash

Distance makes the heart start wondering

Absence makes the anger grow

The world may just be spinning through us

And seperation lets it show

I walk away the fear and anger

I'm talking through the tears each day

I push myself to points of danger

But nothing makes it go away

[Chorus]

I want a cure

A mental, geographical cure

A physical, chemical cure

Sugar or shopping

Drinking or dropping

The emotional highs

Of my life in disguise

There's one thing for sure

I want a cure

Love seems like a fancy theory

Fame a substitute for friends

Those who love can't get near me

Those who don't are moving in

A heart is like a broken window

Pain depends on point of view

The world may just be slowly stopping

And no one knows but me and you

[Chorus]

Where no one can see me

No one knows how I'm feeling

[Chorus]

Paralyzed lyrics - Rosanne Cash

I picked up the phone, you were both on the line

Your words to each other froze me in time

A lifetime between us just burnt on the wires

Dissolved in a dial tone, consumed in your fires

Your footsteps beside me, the phone in my hand

I can't move

I can't stand

Our faces in pieces, facades on the floor

The pretense between us for a moment destroyed

I don't want to go on with these words in my heart

But the ghost of your anger will tear us apart

How my little world just went up in smoke

I'm too young

I'm too old

One day soon I'll know

One day soon I'll just let it go

I run from the bedroom with legs paralyzed

I carve out my future part prophet, part blind

It's nobody's business, no one is to blame

We'll meet in the distance, new numbers new names

I've lifted the veil, I've walked through the fire

I'll move on

I'll go higher

"King's Record Shop" (1987)

• Rosie Strike Back lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• The Way We Make A Broken Heart lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• If You Change Your Mind lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• The Real Me lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Somewhere Sometime lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Runaway Train lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Tennessee Flat Top Box lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• I Don't Have To Crawl lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Why Don't You Quit Leaving Me Alone lyrics - Rosanne Cash

Rosie Strike Back lyrics - Rosanne Cash

He's a bruiser, he likes to tease you

He's a loser, you think he needs you

You always come back, you always come back for more

He winds up tight, out all night

Been drinkin' down he's looking for a fight

He knocks you down; you don't even know what for

Rosie strike back

Rosie strike back

Hit the road and never look back

You can't suffer your whole life living like that

Get goin', don't pack

Take the baby and the clothes on your back

Keep walking Rosie

Strike back

You think he's changin', weeks pass

He's angry, lies coiled like a snake in the grass

The time will come when he takes it all out on you

He throws punches, you bear with him

Don't take it on you, Rosie, don't be his victim

You can't carry the blame for what he's puttin' you through

Rosie strike back

Rosie strike back

Hit the road and never look back

You can't suffer your whole life living like that

Get goin', don't pack

Take the baby and the clothes on your back

Keep walking Rosie

Strike back

Don't take his world on your shoulder

Don't let your heart grow much colder

There's people out there who can help you

If you let them help you

Hey, Rosie

Keep walking, Rosie

Rosie strike back

Rosie strike back

Hit the road and never look back

You can't suffer your whole life living like that

Get goin', don't pack

Take the baby and the clothes on your back

Keep walking Rosie

Strike back

The Way We Make A Broken Heart lyrics - Rosanne Cash

Just one more kiss, she'll have to miss this night with you 

Now you're guilty of this secret love, as I am too 

You'll get used to telling lies, feeling sorry when she cries 

Now that the strings aren't attached, you'll catch on, we've done our part 

Oh, and this is the way we make a broken heart 

Lesson number one, we've just begun to hurt her so 

And with lesson two she'll long for you when lights are low 

And we get to lesson three when she gets down on her knees 

And begs you to stop at the door just before she comes apart 

Oh, this is the way we make a broken heart 

Now we've made a trail of tears for her to follow 

And we've thought of every line that she might swallow 

And with lesson four, there'll be no more for her to bear 

And on some dark night we'll dim the lights on this affair 

Then she'll find somebody new and he'll likely hurt her too 

'Cause there must be millions just like you and me, practiced in the art 

Oh, and this is the way we make a broken heart 

Oh, and this is the way we make a broken heart 

Ay yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi 

This is the way we make a broken heart 

Ay yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi

This is the way, this is the way, this is the way, this is the way 

Oh, this is the way we make a broken heart

If You Change Your Mind lyrics - Rosanne Cash

If you change your mind

And leave the past behind

You know where you'll always find me

And if she breaks your heart

And tears your world apart

You can always count on me

And when your heart's in doubt

And things aren't working out

I can be the one who makes you happy

Call me on the telephone

Darling, I'm always home

If you ever change your mind

When the time is right

I can hold you tight

You know I can wait forever

And time is on our side

And we can surely find

All the love we'll ever need

And take a chance on this

Seal it with a kiss

I can be the one who makes you happy

Call me on the telephone

Darling, I'm always home

If you ever change your mind

All I have is love to give you

Baby, I could be there with you

If you ever change your mind

Call me on the telephone

Darling, I am always home

If you ever change your mind

The Real Me lyrics - Rosanne Cash

I don't know what you feel no more when you look in my eyes

I know I'm the same girl who walked out that door,

But I'm brand new inside,

Maybe what I'm sayin' ain't true after all,

I take it a minute at a time,

Maybe all I want is to hold you right now with no compromise,

This is the real me, breakin' down at last,

Hey, it's the real me, crawlin' out of my past,

Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad

The numbness overcomes me now like alcohol and fear,

And I want to crawl inside you, baby, but I don't want you near,

A woman's her own mystery, not a shadow of her man,

But I'm not a queen inside a mirror no more,

I'm not a guard to hold hand,

This is the real me, breakin' down at last,

Hey, it's the real me, crawlin' out of my past,

Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad

Well, I've got no answers now,

And I don't expect them of you

Thank God for second chances, baby,

Cause there's something I can give to you,

And it's the real me, breakin' down at last,

Hey, it's the real me, crawlin' out of my past,

Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad,

Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad

Somewhere Sometime lyrics - Rosanne Cash

We speak but the words we say mean nothing.

We smile but the smiles we give are wanting.

We look upon each other's eyes, no spark

No glow, no real signs, but we both know

This is all for show

Until that sometime, somewhere,

We could show the world we have each other

Sometime, somewhere we need not hide out feelings,

We just keep on believing that we both have the time together

Sometime and somewhere, our lips would be free at last

You say the words we've hungered to say

And we won't have to worry, we smile we won't say sorry

One look and we have cast our fears aside.

Sometime, that sometime will turn to forever, for all time.

Somewhere, our somewhere would not be just one place,

But everywhere

Until that sometime, somewhere,

We just have to be content with stealing glances

Somehow, content with saying nothing, smiles that are

Always wanting. Though deep inside it hurts

Because we know that our love, like love,

Is what it is, it's what we got

Our love, like love will have to wait

Until that sometime, somewhere

Runaway Train lyrics - Rosanne Cash

I'm worried about you

I'm worried about me

The curves around midnight

Aren't easy to see

Flashing red warnings

Unseen in the rain

This thing has turned into

A runaway train

Long-distance phone calls

A voice on the line

Electrical miles

That soften the time

The dynamite too

Is hooked on the wire

And so are the rails

Of American Flyers

Blind boys and gamblers

They invented the blues

Will pay up in blood

When this marker comes due

To try and get off now

It's about as insane

As those who wave lanterns

At runaway trains

Steel rails and hard lives

Are always in twos

I have been here before this

And now it's with you

I'm worried about you

I'm worried about me

We're lighting the fuses

And counting to three

And what are the choices

For those who remain

The sign of the cross

On a runaway train

This thing has turned into

A runaway train

This thing has turned into

A runaway train

Our love has turned into

A runaway train

Tennessee Flat Top Box lyrics - Rosanne Cash

In a little cabaret

In a south Texas boarder town

Sat a boy and his guitar

And the people came from all around

And all the girls

From there to Austin

Were slippin' away from home

And puttin' jewelry and hopped to take the trip

To go and listen

To the little dark-haired boy who played the

Tennessee flat top box

And he would play

Well he couldn't ride or wrangle

And he never cared to make it down

But give him his guitar

And he'd be happy all the time

And all the girls

From nine to ninety

Were snappin' fingers

Tappin' toes

And beggin' him don't stop

And hypnotized

And fascinated

By the little dark-haired boy who played the

Tennessee flat top box

And he would play

Then one day he was gone

And no one ever saw him 'round

He vanished like the breeze

They forgot him in the little town

But all the girls

Still dreamed about him

And hung around

The cabaret until the doors were locked

And then one day

On the hit parade

Was the little dark-haired boy who played the

Tennessee flat top box

And he would play

I Don't Have To Crawl lyrics - Rosanne Cash

You look at me

As if you don't know me

You talk to me

Like you've never met me

Well, I could leave you alone if I tried

If I tried I could tell you goodbye

If I wanted to I could be long gone

I don't have to play nobody's fool

And I won't make no exception of you

I don't have to crawl

I can just walk away

You call on me

As if I should run to you

You make a move as if I should follow you

Well I don't have to get down on my knees

I will not be a peasant to please you

I don't have to crawl

I can just walk away

I don't have to crawl

I don't have to crawl

Why Don't You Quit Leaving Me Alone lyrics - Rosanne Cash

It's pink and white all over and historical as Hell

F. Scott and Zelda stayed here and you and me as well

At least that's how the story goes, the porters like to tell

A cold hard rain comes falling down

It wasn't like this last time around

There's no calm center to this storm

oh baby, why don't you quit leaving me alone

There's nothing on the TV, no message on the phone

Nothing but an awful lot of nothing going on

And every radio station plays the same forsaken song

You'd think I would've had the sense to leave this place alone

Well some dreams die with dignity

They fade out clean and quietly

Some won't let you let them go

ah baby, why don't you quit leaving me alone

Same old corner bedroom, seven stories up

That overlooks the window, that overlooks the gulf

The same old sleazy porter with the after hours stuff

I think I'll kick the walls around and beat myself up

Well some dreams die with dignity

They fade out clean and quietly

Some won't let you let them go

ah baby, why don't you quit leaving me...

A cold hard rain comes pouring down

It wasn't like this last time around

There's no calm center to this storm

ah baby, why don't you quit leaving me alone

"Rhythm & Romance" (1985)

• Hold On lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Never Be You lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Second To No One lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Halfway House lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Pink Bedroom lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Never Alone lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• My Old Man lyrics - Rosanne Cash Never Gonna Hurt lyrics - Rosanne Cash
• Closing Time lyrics - Rosanne Cash

Hold On lyrics - Rosanne Cash

If you want to keep a woman like me, you got to hold on

If you want to see how good it can be, baby, hold on

All my friends think that I'm a fool

I tell you something, honey, they're not that cool

If you want to keep a woman like me, you got to hold on

If you want to know how far we can go, you got to hold on

If you take it slow then I got something to show you, baby, hold on

All those girls with their empty heads

Can't fill 'em up with the lies they've been fed

If you want to know how far I can go, you got to hold on

She'll give you reasons for her kind

You might believe it, but I'm not that blind

If you think you need a woman like me, you got to hold on

If you want to find what I've got on my mind, baby, hold on

All this small talk that keeps us apart

Is only hiding how we feel in our hearts

If you think you need a woman like me, you got to hold on

If you want to keep a woman like me, then, baby, hold on

You got to hold on (hold on)

Hold on, baby (hold on)

(Hold on)

You got to hold on (hold on)

(Hold on)

I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me lyrics - Rosanne Cash

It's the right time, you know I feel fine tonight (I don't know why you don't want me)

It's the right place, I've got my new face tonight (I don't know why you don't want me)

I'm in the right mood, I've got my new shoes tonight (I don't know why you don't want me)

I've got my new dress, I couldn't hurt less tonight (I don't know why you don't want me)

Somebody told you I was so cold and mean (who was that talking)

Somebody wants you and don't want me in between (she better start walking)

Somebody hurt you but, baby, she wasn't me

We'll find a new name for such an old game tonight (I don't know why you don't want me)

I'll show you how long that I can go on tonight (I don't know why you don't want me)

I don't know why you don't want me

Just when I think that I can make it without you

You come 'round and say you want me now

You tell me don't leave and I want to believe you

Why can't you see just how much I need you

Somebody told you I was so cold and mean (who was that talking)

Somebody wants you and don't want me in between (she better start walking)

Somebody hurt you but, baby, she wasn't me

Oh, it's the last chance for a romance tonight (I don't know why you don't want me)

There'll be no next time if you won't be mine tonight (I don't know why you don't want me)

I don't know why you don't want me (I don't know why you don't want me)

I don't know why you don't want me (I don't know why you don't want me)

I don't know why you don't want me (I don't know why you don't want me)