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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