The Drugs Not Working Ryan Adams

I was shooting in the back of the car When the windows smashed on the police cars I was swimming through the streets of New York With my cocaine dagger and throats to cut And it was making her cry...

Wish You Were Here Ryan Adams

Cotton candy and a rotten mouth You know you're so fucked up You know I couldn't help but have it for you And everybody knows the way I walk And knows the way I talk And knows the way I feel about you

Blue Sky Blues Ryan Adams

And let yourself go blue for once And let go of the weight you've been carrying In this house, no one goes to sleep for days, Its like were working on a mountainside Trying not to slide, Into the

Starlite Diner Ryan Adams

It's midnight, at the Starlite Diner You said meet me at a corner to twelve And I'm standing in the corner Wishing you were here in my arms, Fare thee well my old friends Fare thee well Is it possible

Afraid Not Scared Ryan Adams

Look at this ocean with everyone drowning Idiots screaming and everyone sinking in slowly We're surrounded In the yellow lights of the city wasted as bodies In bed with somebody a touch away with nothing

Rocks Ryan Adams

Whatever it is you know you think you wantWell here's a little something to light the wayInside your heart where the darkness staysI believe the sun still rises here but when it fallsI'm not sure what

Beautiful Sorta Ryan Adams

All I want to do is get up get up get up In the morning in the morning And not want to die tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow I feel alright when I think about you Walking through a star field covered in light

This House Is Not For Sale Ryan Adams

Tell 'em that the house is not for sale We're still livin' here, how come nobody can tell They're takin' all the furniture, movin' our things Come on little honey, put your head on my knee Tell 'em that

Please Do Not Let Me Go Ryan Adams

If the walls in the room could talk I wonder to myself, would they laugh?

She's Lost Total Control Ryan Adams

So much for the days of glory It's not like your idols died and are holy now You cross the street and count to ten And everyone that mattered went to bed Or maybe they died Welcome home Miss So Unknown

The Sadness Ryan Adams

The stars they sink In the oceans of ink Long black ribbons of cars And in the taxi You ask me how I'm doing But you already know Beyond, beyond is not through Its only a reflection of you And

Meadowlake Street Ryan Adams

all I would circle the moon And count 'em back to nothing Till I got to you Something in you dies, when it's over Everybody cries sometimes If loving you's a dream That's not worth having Then

Do I Wait Ryan Adams

Do I want to say the things that I say When I know that they are wrong? Do I wait here forever for you? Could you ask me to?

Dirty Rain Ryan Adams

Last time I was here it was rainingIt ain't raining anymoreThe streets were drowned and the water's waningAll the ruins washed ashoreI'm just looking through the rubbleTrying to find out who we wereLast

Anybody Wanna Take Me Home Ryan Adams

So, I am in the twilight of my youth Not that I'm going to remember And have you seen the moon tonight Is it full?

Twice As Bad As Love Ryan Adams

Candy is quick and she's good at impressions She's stacked on the corner, man, she's stacked on the street She's got pills that distort her depression Counting her friends on her hands and her feet

Elizabeth, You Were Born To Play That Part Ryan Adams

For you Id do anything Tear myself in two Just to hear you breathe Calculate the changes that in time Turn to nothing and then multiply Yourself by pain, And you're not even close Elizabeth Over

Mockingbird Ryan Adams

Mockingbirds sing Sing me what the Lord was singing On the day He made the water The color of the blues Sing me that song Sing me till the heavens rising On the day He made the water The color of my baby's

Two Hearts Ryan Adams

Here we go again God, I listen, but I'm not listening Everything she says, oh I heard it all before So what if I have It doesn't mean it isn't beautiful And everyone needs company once in a while Two hearts

Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. Ryan Adams

Something's beating on the wall on the other side Strange lovers moan Each other's names on by sheets For the very first time One of them's James The other's some name she changes every time she lies across

Life Is Beautiful Ryan Adams

You plant a rose And if the rose comes up You're thankful to God And when it doesn't you cuss him You raise a child And when the child grows up You got to learn to let go If you can't learn to love

Night Birds Ryan Adams

Out under the stars Dodging them night cars baby Cause when you gotta move, you gotta move Whatever that it was You were thinking of lady You're certainly not thinking Of it now, And nightbirds

1974 Ryan Adams

The sun is shining hard at my feet And the city is an animal ready to eat It's raining like a nose bleed, cigarettes and sweets And I feel it coming on Bloody as the day I was born It's 1974 Just like

Dear Chicago Ryan Adams

You know the girl you said I'd meet some day? Well, I've got something to confess. She picked me up on Friday. Asked me if she reminded me of you.

Wonderwall (Oasis Cover) Ryan Adams

Today is gonna be the day That they\'re gonna throw it back to you By now you should\'ve somehow Realized what you gotta do I don\'t believe that anybody Feels the way I do about you now Backbeat

Trouble Ryan Adams

Trouble I hear the clock tick in the room The walls will crumble and you're holding The match between the fuse There's something I just got nothing else to say I've been on the beats since yesterday There's

Shakedown on 9th Street Ryan Adams

Head on down to 9th street gal Let's go out a kicking with the boys and the gals Wear your dress and bring my ring Someone's gonna get it, ain't gonna be me Lucy, Lucy my gal (Lucy, Lucy my gal)

Wonderwall Ryan Adams

the word was on the street That the fire in your heart is out I'm sure you've heard it all before But you never really had a doubt I don't believe that anybody feels The way I do about you now

Two Ryan Adams

If you take me back Back to your place I'll try not to bother you I promise 'Cause it's cold in here And I wish it was hot The sink's broke It's leaking from the faucet And I'm fractured From before And

Sweet Illusions Ryan Adams

I 've got nothing to say to you now I lose the feelings that are weighing me down When I'm safe It's turning morning all the birds sing I'm not complicating anything I'll have another then I'll go

My Wrecking Ball Ryan Adams

Driving through the streets tonight It's hot, I've got the windows down I wish I could call you, I wish you were still around Nothing much left in the tank Somehow this thing still drives Think I forgot

The Shadowlands Ryan Adams

God, please bring the rain Yeah, and bring it soon Let it flood right through the houses Into Judy's room With a father on amphetamines Her mother hides the pearls Reach out into the darkness And find

You Will Always Be The Same Ryan Adams

Go on to the street to the cars in the pouring rain Go on to the bus that left us in the dust and the flames And when the son meets the father It'll be something smarter for the pain But

Voices Ryan Adams

You come through the door like a bag of rocks Wounded all the time And I'm inside the tomb with the t.v. on mute Elijah don't you come Oh god don't you come I steal out the window like I'm using the

Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues Ryan Adams

works outta Queens in the Black limousines, money in the bank Black limousines, money in the bank Send it home Tina Toledo got a kid that lives with her Ma She takes the subway after school, makes up

I Taught Myself How To Grow Old Ryan Adams

Poor little rose, beaten by the rain In the wind in the gale, thunder and the hail Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane Without the numbness or the pain so intense to feel Especially now it added up

Invisible Riverside Ryan Adams

Guess I'll show my handEither way I'm losingYou still have the goodsBack when I couldn't use themStanding by the oceanLike I'm frozen here in timeSo don't let go, don't change your mindIf the stars fall

Magnolia Mountain Ryan Adams

the rocks of the mountain my savior made Lie to me Sing me a song Sing me a song until the morning comes If the morning come, will you lie to me Will you take me to your bed Will you lay me down Til'

Carolina Rain Ryan Adams

Rose lived on the south side of town Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills A notice of eviction on the other hand Now she don't live there no more, And everyone thinks he drowned

Chains Of Love Ryan Adams

Walk away slowlyYou don't have to take thisIn the spaces in betweenSadness on the basisI can see the chains of loveThe chainsTalking 'bout the chains of loveCan't take us awayStorms are brewing in your

Tears Of Gold Ryan Adams

One day we are young And by the next one we are old despite the years And tears of gold precede the rapture Time has its way with everyone In its path, she combs her hair And tears of gold fall on the

Shadows Ryan Adams

I fall, in the cutting room Straight to the fall, before the film is through Today in my head, that field of reason why Come a little closer, honey And touch the fire How long do I have here with you The

Bartering Lines Ryan Adams

Hold me up, hold me down Leave me in the withering pines Steal my love, steal my kisses Take 'em to the bartering lines Ten cents up, two bucks down Ship it out and turn it into fuel Three bucks

Feels Like Fire Ryan Adams

Are you there Screaming in the night Somewhere Hanging from the side Feel the sunlight The sunlight on my face It’s cold out here Lost in outer space Just so you know You will always be the hardest thing

The Rescue Blues Ryan Adams

Everybody wants you to be special And everybody wants you to be high They throw you down a rope when you're in trouble baby Screamin' Save me Then they charge you with the rescue blues the rescue blues

Operator, Operator Ryan Adams

Operator, operator gets lowAnd she can't find the numberCryin' on the telephoneIt's hard, it's harder when she knowsNewscasters don't watch the newsLike operators don't get numbers they loseI'm a castle

Let It Ride Ryan Adams

Movin' like the fog on the Cumberland River I was leaving on the Delta Queen I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go Twenty-seven years of nothin' but failures and promises that I couldn't keep Oh lord

Strawberry Wine Ryan Adams

Last night in the street collapsed on itself In fact, it broke right in two And I fell in The strawberry vines Into a pool of strawberry wine Strawberry wine and clouds Burning in the desert, surrounded

29 Ryan Adams

I was a poor little kid in the lungs of new York Just like a motherless son of a bitch Loaded on ephedrine looking for downers and coke Like a sun that just wouldn't set out on the horizon Singing and

Stay With Me Ryan Adams

Love when you call my name It sends me running into the flame I love you baby just treat me right Hold me closer in the middle of the night I love you girl and it's alright Stay with me Are you waiting