Listening To Old Voices John Hiatt

They have come to haunt the children They have come to walk the wind I can hear them as they rustle through the trees Looking for the love that killed them So that they might live again It's a simple

Old Habits John Hiatt

When the snake of love Starts pullin' you under And it wont let go 'Til it starts to thunder And there's not a cloud in the sky Gonna make him shake I guess old habits are hard to break Cause

Old People John Hiatt

Old people on the hill They don't have too much time Cut a head on the buffet line Got back for a dollar and 50 Then I argue with the girl They lived so much behind them They try to slow down this god

Old School John Hiatt

Old school He's the old school he don't say when he's hurtin' he'll just hide away 'till it 's over and tears are dry he's the old school and you can't see him cry He was young once just like you a heart

My Old Friend John Hiatt

I thought we were gonna make that bridge, what did I know Me and my expectations was always high \"Like a Rolling Stone\" is playing on the radio It made you cry But we got by CHORUS: My old friend

Something Wild John Hiatt

Sometimes I don't even move a muscle Baby when you lie awake at night I think I've got nine lives in these corpuscles Girl, you know sometimes I don't think right I hear voices in the hall I wake

Dust Down A Country Road John Hiatt

Could not get to sleep It was on my wedding night I was tangled in the sheets And I was dreaming of a light Pouring from her window Coming up through the floor Lifting up the darkness Crashing

Your Dad Did John Hiatt

Well the sun comes up and you stare your cup of coffee, yup Right through the kitchen floor You feel like hell so you might as well get out and sell Your smart ass door to door And the Mrs. wears

Wrote It Down And Burned It John Hiatt

There's a dead girl's body By the railroad track She's waiting for a train Jimmy left town like a fade to black In his Camero in the rain She wrote it down and burned it Jimmy loves who knows

Your Dad Did (Live) John Hiatt

the mrs wears her robe slightly undone As your daughter dumps her oatmeal on your son And you keep it hid Just like your did So you go to work just to watch some jerk Pick up the perks You were in line

Wild Eyed Gypsies John Hiatt

Think I'll save up a little money Go on down to Mexico Take up with some crazy Spanish Lady Listen to the old wind blow She got earrings And she dances I'm an old rusty razor blade Ten to one

Ethylene John Hiatt

I'm sitting on the toilet With my sunglasses on Wondering what you are up to This hotel's got bathroom telephones But I don't want to interrupt you You might be painting your nails With your hot

Rose John Hiatt

Holds her tired face up to the mirror. She sees a younger woman there she thought she would forget, And it hurts her now that no one comes to see her.

Little Goodnight John Hiatt

as the sun so they named her Little Goodnight Now Little Goodnight she couldn't sleep too well uh uh And every night half the neighborhood could hear Jim and Mary tell her CHORUS: They said go to

Lincoln Town John Hiatt

What I feel is like an old freight train Five miles long in the pouring rain Rolling out of Detroit loaded up with shiny cars And I'm sitting in a Cadillac smoking on a big cigar What I feel's like

Your Love Is My Rest John Hiatt

the night Like a buffalo herd From a shotgun blast scattered in flight I got a one track mind Going down a one train line Living on dreams half the time Going West I gotta pick up speed Just to

Find You At Last John Hiatt

livin' right, bein' free And we don't make no party out of lovin' We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy Like the hippies out in San Francisco do And I'm proud to

Nobody Knew His Name John Hiatt

A man in a Cadillac used to come around here Looking for a long black train Said bbay left town with an inginer Streets across the midnight rain board Street across the midnight rain When he was pretty

You Used To Kiss The Girls John Hiatt

party chicks Lipstick like convertible scenes I didn't think that you were so much better You just predicted all the fate in the world But now you're sitting home knitting sweaters Tellin' stories to

Loving A Hurricane John Hiatt

You answer questions like a natural disaster Voices in the wind- you let em call her out The whole foundation just went flying past her She puts her heart into it - and you just yank it out You

Cold River John Hiatt

up his suitcase 'Cause the deal gone down She was slipping on her stockings Lord it made the sweetest sound There was a baby in the reeds Along the river outside of town As he wound his pocket watch To

Learning How to Love You John Hiatt

I'm 34 years old now And I've come to you Baby I don't even know how I got through From the first kiss in the schoolyard 'Til the last heart broke in two I didn't know it would be so hard Learning

Do You Want My Job John Hiatt

Cool breezes from the mountains blow As I wake up and dress to go On the island, dawn is breaking In the harbor, tanker's waiting From the land of the rising sun They bring their old plutonium

You Must Go John Hiatt

When that howling wind Comes to carry you again Just like your next of kin You must go To a far away place Where you don't recognize one face Don't unpack your old suitcase Cause you must go

One For Then One For Me John Hiatt

And one for the woman who gives me her love My life is a curtain - the next scene's uncertain The actor is lost in his role The lady is waiting - the man hesitating And lovers are children afraid to

A Crazy Girl is Hard to Find John Hiatt

I'm sorry you're so crazy I'm sorry you're so blue I'm sorry that this sad old song's for you Just when we had a good thing going You had to go and lose your mind Sane girls are so easy But

Two Hearts (Like Ours) John Hiatt

Y'know I never took pleasure too personally Never took this love thing to heart I guess I should've stood up on my own two knees Begged her not to let it all start But I never saw her coming she

Perfectly Good Guitar John Hiatt

down form the top of the stairs Beautiful women were standing everywhere They all got wet when he smashed that thing But off in the dark you could hear somebody sing CHORUS: Oh it breaks my heart to

Lipstick Sunset John Hiatt

There's a lipstick sunset Smeared across the August sky There's a bitter sweet perfume Hanging in the fields The creek is running high And I left my lover waiting In the dawn somewhere to wonder

Ocean John Hiatt

There is the old one, The wise one, the gold one. I am the hunger, The ache of the fiction, And nestles in bones, That he left for the vultures.

Whistles In My Ears John Hiatt

Stumblin' down the road I gets to thinkin' as I leave her, I've left so many times before. That old north wind's a-blowin' circles round my feet. What is this sorrow ever for?

Slow Turning John Hiatt

When I was a boy, I thought it just came to ya' But I never could tell what's mine So it didn't matter anyway My only pride and joy Was this racket down here Bangin' on an old guitar And singin

Better Get It While You Can John Hiatt

She got a stainless steel liver - make any man quiver The way she drink that Thunderbird wine She got her feet up on the table and she's naked to the neighbor Oh I wish she was a friend of mine If

Crossing Muddy Waters John Hiatt

My baby's gone and I don't know why She let out this morning Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky Left me without warning Sooner than the dogs could bark and faster than the sun rose Down to the banks

The Trouble With Blood John Hiatt

I heard this poor town --'s daddy --- like he was just some kind of crazy old fool Maybe he is, maybe he ain't - hey, I don't know But I know that boy loves his daddy just about as much as he can

Forever Yours John Hiatt

These days it's hard to have fun Looking for a little girl, a little undone By the progress of man By the touch of a loving hand Maybe we touch too much You and me, baby, I'm not good in a clutch

You May Already Be A Winner John Hiatt

Resident Dweller, your lucky number is You may already be a winner I've suspected this for years Still in all its good to hear They're pulling for us in the post To you my dear, I raise this toast

You May Already Be A Winner (Album Version) John Hiatt

world I dont know how they got our names But yesterday this letter came Mr and Mrs Resident Dweller your lucky number is You may already be a winner I've suspected this for years Still in all its good to

Full Moon John Hiatt

Old men close their eyes and weep. Young men pray that they're asleep, Inside the madness. Young girls dance between the sparks, And old women die in parks, From too much sadness.

Riding With The King John Hiatt

I dreamed I did a good job and I got well paid Blew it all at the penny arcade A hundred dollars on a kewpie doll I guess no white chick is gonna make me crawl On a TWA, to the promised land Every

Riding with the king John Hiatt

I dreamed I did a good job and I got well paid Blew it all at the penny arcade A hundred dollars on a kewpie doll I guess no white chick is gonna make me crawl On a TWA, to the promised land

Heavy Tears John Hiatt

sound Maybe she loves you And maybe it's a joke And maybe that fire Was just a whole lot of smoke You don't feel warm But then, you don't feel cold You're just getting weary You're just getting old

Right Now John Hiatt

You got out of this one baby We all had to pay I don't know who had the last laugh coming But you took it and it wasn't any joke I think about how we hurt each other Make me wanna choke CHORUS

Good As She Could Be John Hiatt

Well she was a millionaire Before she was fourteen But there was an emptiness there That to practically everyone else could be seen She hit up on the drug of love Though there was no hole in her

Baby For Life John Hiatt

with my food I'm a half kind man-child-boy that my mama produced Well if you wanna go play with this I can dress you up sharp as a knife And you can slip down the block my little peacock and try to

Confidence Man John Hiatt

I can talk old ladies Out of all of their money I can talk young girls Into calling me honey You can talk all you want, baby But I got fast hands.

I Got A Gun John Hiatt

She took some blood and tears From an old fruit jar She rubbed it on her belly Where he left his scars She's such a fragile thing Like pigeon bones He couldn't whip my little brother He wouldn't

Long Night John Hiatt

3 on a fever, down in the dumps the 1st one hollers, the 2nd one jumps the 3rd writes a letter to his family says I'd kill everyone if it was up to me Early in the bathroom, looking for a drain

Big Fine Car John Hiatt

I got no money for a set of wheels and how I acts and how I feels The better women living in this town they want some big wheels to roll around Oh, I would sell my soul for an automatic with a cruise

The Lady Of The Night John Hiatt

Oh the moon hangs down Like some old evening gown Forgotten by some lovely southern maiden Oh the stars are her tears And the sky a skin of years That she has most graciously given Now who