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THE MADMAN'S SONG - Lyrics
I can tell a hawk from a handsaw he said
Look into my eyes
You can see me risen from the ashes of my own fire
Will you go walking with a madman lady
Through the streets of the town
Lay you down and be my lover
I can tell a hawk from a handsaw he said
Look into my eyes
You will be a singer when you let me leave you lady
You will be my lady if you let me leave you
Lonely--like I am lady
Look into my eyes
I love you lady
I give you nothing more
I give you nothing less
I cannot trade you all the hours of my future
For your gentleness
I need you
You have been an mirror to me he said
I can see my eyes
I hear my voice when you are speaking
Though you are the mirror
I cannot stay for long
When I'm gone
Who's in your mirror lady
Look into my eyes
I love you lady
I give you nothing more
I give you nothing less
I cannot trade you the hours of my future
For your gentleness
I need you
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Good Old Buddies
04:04
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GOOD OLD BUDDIES - LYRICS
I'll take a chance
Cause I'm so darn lonely
That I've thrown all the questions away
And I ain't got time to bargain
I've got to much pride to beg
But I think maybe I trust you
Though the words they ain't been said
Cause the winter's coming and the nights are growing long
I don't want to be lonely when the snow drifts past
My windowsill at dawn
So I'll be kind to you
And you be good to me
And we'll see what kind of lovers
Two good old buddies can be
It seems so strange
To come out and ask you this way
But I'm tired of loving shadows
I need to love a man
And I'd like it to be you, babe
If you feel like you can
Well the winter's coming and the nights are growing long
I don't want to be lonely when the snow drifts past
My windowsill at dawn
So I'll be kind to you
And you be good to me
And we'll see what kind of lovers
Two good old buddies can be
They say friendship's not as good as love
But I wonder if they know what they're talking of
I've seen too much loving turn to pain
But my friends come back again and again
And again and again
You say you're scared
Cause you're not into hurting
But you've seen a lot of women in tears
Well I won't try to fool you
My heart ain't made of stone
But it ain't made of glass
And I'm so tired of being alone
When the winter's coming and the nights are growing long
I don't want to be lonely when the snow drifts past
My windowsill at dawn
So I'll be kind to you
And you be good to me
And we'll see what kind of lovers
Two good old buddies can be
And we'll see what kind of lovers
Two good old buddies can be
You and me
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Two Guitars
03:56
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TWO GUITARS - LYRICS
Oh, when I hold my heart before you
You remind me who I am
Speaking truth and nothing more
You go beyond woman beyond man
A single kiss
Healing a lifetime
A moment like this
Holding the lifeline
The love in our hearts
Is the power that moves the stars
Oh I don't know what I can handle
I don't know what you can give
My heart flaring like a candle
Your soul struggling just to live
A single kiss
Healing a lifetime
A moment like this
Holding the lifeline
The light in our hearts
Is the power that drives the stars
Two voices singing
Two guitars
We are all voices
In some unknown singer's song
Each line unfolding
With a logic all its own
Harmonies blending
That no human mind can hear
All of it rising
To the unknown listener's ear
Oh, when the light inside me flickers
In the winds I can't control
Know the strength of my intention
Know the beauty of the goal
A single kiss
Healing a lifetime
A moment like this
Holding the lifeline
The love in our hearts
Is the power that moves the stars
Two voices rising
Two guitars
Two voices rising
Two guitars
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4. |
Not the Same Mistakes
03:30
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NOT THE SAME MISTAKES - LYRICS
If I gave my heart to you
What would you give to me
In this bargain we call love
Is it joy or misery--misery?
I'm no spring chicken
Been in love some times before now
Got the scars to prove it
You could say I know the score now
Don't call me "frightened"
I prefer to say I'm wary
With what I've been through
This new love of yours is scary
And I don't want to make the same mistakes again
No I don't want to make the same mistakes again
At love's start so much is hidden
So much that we cannot see
I may love but I don't know you
And you surely can't know me, no you can't know me
New love's a mirror
Look at me and love who you hope to become
While I am dreaming
Of all the men that you might be
Then reality breaks through
You become you
And I am revealed as myself
Can we still love then
Being who we really be?
Cause I don't want to make the same mistakes again
No I don't want to make the same mistakes again
I don't want to make the same mistakes
I don't want to make the same mistakes
I don't want to make the same mistakes
Again
So can you love me when I'm crazy
Can I trust when you seem cruel
These are lessons that are waiting
Up ahead in life's harsh school-in life's harsh school
You are so beautiful to me
But that's the bait on the hook of life
I swallowed it once before
became a lover, mother, and wife
Then reality broke through
All my love came back unwanted
Is it any wonder
This new love has got me daunted?
And I don't want to make the same mistakes again, no no no no
No I don't want to make the same mistakes again
I don't want to make the same mistakes
I don't want to make the same mistakes
I don't want to make the same mistakes
Again
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AIN'T GONNA DIE - LYRICS
I see you heading down into the marketplace
There is no joy left on your face
You're going trading
You say the time's gone by when joy was what you sought
And now you want what can be bought
But you are fading.
Ain't gonna die because you died
Ain't gonna lie because you lost your way
Ain't gonna cry because you cried
Gonna pick myself up and have another try
You say that love turned out to be another con
And now your trampling down the bonds
You used to brag about
The love you want now is the kind that has no strings
But what's that funny ball-shaped thing
I see you dragging out
Ain't gonna die because you died
Ain't gonna lie because you lost your way
Ain't gonna cry because you cried
Gonna pick myself up and have another try
The road goes on although you dropped out of life's school
And though you call me I'm a fool
I'll just keep fooling you
And I'll go hitching down
Into that glory land
I might just find out who I am
I'll find out something
Ain't gonna die because you died
Ain't gonna lie because you lost your way
Ain't gonna cry because you cried
I'm gonna pick myself up
I'm gonna head on down the line
I'm going to find it on my own
But when I find it well it's mine
Ain't gonna die because you died
Ain't gonna lie because you lost your way
Ain't gonna cry because you cried
I'm gonna pick myself up
Have another try
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THERE'S SO MUCH LOVE IN LOVING YOU - LYRICS
Never knew that it could be like this
That just a simple kiss
Could open me to what I feel with you
Hearts are present
Eyes are open
This ain't dreaming
This ain't hoping
This is love and it is all so new
There's so much love in loving you
There's so much love in loving you
We reveal the places hurt
We're trusting but we're still alert
No roadmap here to tell us what to do
Can this be the thing we're after
All this love without disaster
We can only wait and see it through
Like a summer storm it rises
Gentle rain and then surprises
Lightning crackles
Thunder rushes through
And the peace that's at the center
In the place that now we enter
Golden sunlight pierces through the blue
There is so much love in loving you
There's so much love in loving you
Nothing here to break the rhythm
Light comes pouring through the prism
Of the one that we have made of two
And the power I see growing In your eyes
Fills me with knowing
That you love me just as I love you
And the miracle unfolding
In the way that you keep holding
Me when all is quiet all is through
Seamlessly we move from longing
To a satisfied belonging
And the knowledge of the thing we do
There's so much love in loving you
There's so much love in loving you
And the miracle unfolding
In the way that you keep holding
Me when all is quiet all is through
Seamlessly we move from longing
To a satisfied belonging
And the joy in what it is we do
I am amazed at loving you
I am amazed at loving you
I am amazed at loving you
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7. |
Thinking 'Bout You Again
02:33
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THINKING 'BOUT YOU AGAIN - LYRICS
Seems like so long ago, the last time I told you "no."
But I've been thinking 'bout you again. Thinking 'bout you again.
Got a new man, sweet and kind,
Still you're drifting through my mind
And I've been thinking 'bout you again. Thinking 'bout you again.
Funny how it seems to go, I've done alright without you.
Cried the tears I had to, then I let the whole thing go.
Still every now and then I find I'm thinking of you.
It isn't that I love you, what it is, well I don't know
Don't want you back nohow, that was then and this is now.
I've just been thinking 'bout you again. Thinking 'bout you again.
Wond'ring how you're getting along,
Wond'ring if you still sing that song.
And I've been thinking 'bout you again. Thinking 'bout you again.
You were no good for me, and I was right to leave you.
Man I got now loves me, and he treats me like a queen.
Still every now and then I find I'm thinking of you.
It isn't that I love you, but that's close to what I mean.
Don't want you back nohow, that was then and this is now.
I've just been thinking 'bout you again. Thinking 'bout you again.
Thinking about you, I've been thinking about you.
Thinking how well I went and did without you.
I've been thinking about you, thinking 'bout you again,
'Bout you again, 'bout you again, 'bout you again....
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8. |
Lions in the Sand
03:52
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LIONS IN THE SAND - LYRICS
Do you remember the time
We walked along the shores of Lake Michigan
Sat on the pier and you told me
Of boats that you sailed as a boy
You drew a lion on the sand
Made diamonds sparkle on the sky and water
Oooh, I took your hand
It was all so simple
I was heaven's daughter
I took your hand, oooh
I took your hand
I took your hand and let you lead me
Where you'd never been before
It was a day late in fall
I felt like everyone I saw was holding hands
You told me it could be that way forever
I believed you on that day
You drew a lion on the sand
Made diamonds sparkle on the sky and water
Oooh, I took your hand
It was all so simple
I was heaven's daughter
I took your hand, oooh
I took your hand
I took your hand and let you lead me
Where you'd never been before
I whistled up a wind
I only did it just to make your hair blow
I thought that I could smell the ocean
But you said it was a thousand miles away
You drew a lion on the sand
Made diamonds sparkle on the sky and water
Oooh, I took your hand
It was all so simple
I was heaven's daughter
I took your hand, oooh
I took your hand
I took your hand and led you
Where you'd never been before
I took your hand and led you
Where you'd never been before
Do you remember the time
Do you remember the time
Do you remember the time
Do you remember the time.....
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THE BELLE OF THE BLUEBELL CAFE - LYRICS
She ain't exactly young anymore, she's had her share
Of trouble and trial.
She still has a smile and a hot cup of coffee
When you've come all those miles.
She jokes with the boys from the mill
And the bad-talking driver from over the hill.
She's a truck stop mamma, She always will
She's the belle of the Bluebell cafe.
Play a song for the belle of the Bluebell Cafe
Make it a good one
Play a song for the belle of the Bluebell Cafe.
She's the proud grandmother of ten
She likes to show their photos around
to the boys from the town.
Talk to her right she may come and sit down
And she will tell you the tales
Of the truckers she knew and the things they would do
When she was almost as young as you
In those days so long ago
Play a song for the belle of the Bluebell Cafe
Make it a good one
Play a song for the belle of the Bluebell Cafe.
Truck stop mama
Roadside madonna
Play a song for the belle of the Bluebell Cafe.
Put a quarter in the jukebox machine
She's got a song
That she likes to hear
A little thing from the age of swing
When she was a girl.
She likes to hear it play,
'Specially on a rainy day
When the place is empty
And the highway far away.
Play a song for the belle of the Bluebell Cafe
Make it a good one
Play a song for the belle of the Bluebell Cafe.
Truck stop mama
Roadside madonna
Play a song for the belle of the Bluebell Cafe.
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ASTROLOGICAL MUSINGS: URANUS - LYRICS
Uranus has no favorites
If it ain't sturdy
It's gonna be history
The point is to remove outworn structures
To make room for new things
How nice and philosophical
But structures turns out to mean your body
Or maybe your marriage
Or the bridge over the interstate
Uranus reduces them all to rubble
Leaves you searching for survivors
In what used to be your neighborhood
Uranus shows you who you are
Uranus shows you what you're living in
Uranus shows you
Uranus is all about rebellion
That sullen teenage hellion
Is feeling his first transit
Uranus fuels the midlife crisis
The best advice is
To understand it
Expect the unexpected
As every dream deflected
Comes to pierce you through the heart
Uranus demands individuality
A burst of raw carnality
Or maybe sacred art
Uranus shows you what you're living in
Uranus shows you who you are
Uranus shows you what you really want
Uranus shows you
If you want to be archetypal
Get on that motorcycle
Hit that open highway fast as you can go
Throw off your near and dearest
The ones who see you clearest
You want them far away when it all blows
Uranus shows you what you're living in
Uranus shows you who you are
Uranus shows you what you really want
Uranus shows you
Uranus can be shocking
As it goes about unblocking
Whatever it is that keeps you from your soul
Experienced as illumination
Or maybe just consternation
One thing's for sure
It's nothing you control
Uranus shows you what you're living in
Uranus shows you what you want
Uranus shows you who you really are
Uranus shows you
Yes it shows you
Uranus shows you
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Jenny Brown Montague, Massachusetts
Hear Jenny's New Music for FREE at: www.jennybrown.net
songwriter Jenny Brown performed in
bars, clubs, and on concert stages in Western Mass from 1975 until she moved to Nashville in 1978. She was active in the songwriting scene there until 1980.
After years of publishing novels she is now performing her original music at clubs in Western Massachusetts.
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