Shut It Tight (With Richard Thompson) (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

I find it hard sometimes to say the way that I feel I do the very things I hate to do I act like a child and I'm afraid of what is real So I try to cover up the truth I stumble like a drunk along this

Hula Hoop (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

York City, who can blame us They tell me way up there they got a man pulls Fifteen feet of chain out of his brain Hula Hoop Hula Hoop Hula Hoop So if you're bound to hit the big time Then you better do it

Trap Door (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

It's a funny thing about humilityAs soon as you know you're being humbleYou're no longer humbleIt's a funny thing about lifeYou've got to give up your life to be aliveYou've got to suffer to know c...

Pressure (With Mick Ronson) (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

I was once obsessed with being cool, being no one's fool Breaking every rule Winning every duel I tried to hide behind my pride and so I lied Even when I told the truth And it's a lot of pressure From

After All These Years (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

I heard you saw her again last evening I heard you'd been with her for two or three days I still have her picture taped to my mirror Does she still look the same after all these years I remember her as

Fatally Beautiful (With Pete Townshend) (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

She was born in the back of a '44 Ford And raised in a foster home Her guardian made sexual connection with her Before she was even grown When she was fifteen, she fell in love With a boy who had a fast

Stunned (With Stan Lynch & Andy Williams) (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

I saw you walking like a ghost Along the boulevard I'd seen your face from coast to coast It must be hard The sky was cold as fiberglass The streets as grey as guns Your eyes looked like a photograph And

The Sixties (With Mick Ronson & Pete Townshend) (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

I have a painter friend who says he actually slept with Jacqueline Kennedy Or was it John Kennedy Maybe it was Jacqueline Bisset At any rate, I can tell I'm starting wrong Let me begin again There is a

When The Night Falls (With Ry Cooder) (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

As the night falls As the sun starts to sink And the street lights blink on The town's yawning I climb down my stairs To the empty avenue And follow my shadow till morning Cause when the night falls, it

The Murder Weapon (With Mick Ronson & Masakazu Yoshizawa) (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

It can kill from any distance But you never see it strike There isn't any warning, no blinding flash of light It hits you when your back's turned Or when your eyes are closed There isn't any shelter and

Baby Fall Down (With Steven Soles) (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

now the faces scare her That crawl the wall paint The pressure's been too much for her The girl's gone mad Baby fall down Baby fall down Baby fall down She used to be an artist She wrapped the world with

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental But diamonds are a girl's best friend A kiss may be grand But it won't pay the rental on your humble flat Or help you at the automat Men grow cold as girls grow

I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

She wore a low cut black satin dress Slit up the front and down the back She wore black high heeled shoes With laces that went up her ankles She wore black velvet gloves With rhinestone bracelets around

Hefner And Disney (With Pete Townshend & Masakazu Yoshizawa) (2006 Remastered) T-Bone Burnett

Somewhere between Never Neverland and Wonderland In a land called Never Wonderland There lived a beautiful wealthy young divorcee With a checkered past and a bad memory Who should probably remain nameless

Crawl Back Under My Stone Richard Thompson

This time you hurt me You really did it this time you did Did you count your fingers after shaking my hand God forbid Riff raff crawling from the slums Right there in front of all your chums I swear by

She Twists The Knife Again Richard Thompson

I keep my nose clean, I keep my speech plain I keep my promises, she twists the knife again I shut my memory, I close my eyes and then She takes another bite, she twists the knife again She never leaves

Keep Your Distance Richard Thompson

your path again, Who knows where, Who knows when On some morning without number, On some highway without end Don't grasp my hand and say "Fate has brought you here today" Oh fate is only fooling with

Hope You Like The New Me Richard Thompson

I stole your style, hope you don't mind I must try to be all I can be It suits me more than it ever suited you Hope you like the new me And I stole your laugh so bright and breezy It stops parties in mid-air

Sibella Richard Thompson

Sibella, we don't make sense together But my heart's with you Sibella, I found myself Strange but true, strange but true Some say you can learn a lot from books Thrill right to second-hand living Life

River Of Love T-Bone Burnett

There's a river of love that runs through all time But there's a river of grief that floods through our lives It starts when a heart is broken into By the thief of belief in anything that's true But there's

Shake Yourself Loose T-Bone Burnett

You say, you learned your lesson But I know that that ain't true When I see that feeling come over you But I don't blame you, baby, 'cause it really ain't no use I believe that you believe, you're searching

Humans From Earth T-Bone Burnett

amazing rate We're out here in the uni buying real estate Hope we haven't gotten here too late : We're humans from earth We're humans from earth You have nothing at all to fear I think we're gonna like it

Easy There, Steady Now Richard Thompson

Jack-knife with a precious load spills its guts all over the road Excuse me, I had to smile, lost my grip, too, for a while It's easy there, steady now, easy there, steady now She didn't have the decency

Cold Kisses Richard Thompson

cards and beads and bangles and rings But I think I've found what I'm looking for Hidden away at the back of the drawer Here's the life that you led before Old photographs of the life you led Arm in arm with

Tear This Building Down T-Bone Burnett

building down If I had my way If I had my way I would tear this building down She must be dreaming the wires are teeming She leers a smoky sideways glance I love this town in its evening gown I love it

Two-Faced Love Richard Thompson

Face the music, face the facts Different sides of different tracks Had my feet on holy ground Then I helter-skelter down, confused or being used Two-faced love, two-faced love It feels so wrong, it must

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight Richard & Linda Thompson

come I'm gonna throw my troubles away If you've got the cab fare, mister you'll do all right I want to see the bright lights tonight Meet me at the station don't be late I need to spend some money and it

The Ghost Of You Walks Richard Thompson

If that was our goodbye kiss Seems a habit too good to miss Once more for the memory Hit the heights too well that time To leave it there would be a crime Seems more like beginning to me At least we tried

Wrong Heartbeat Richard Thompson

Don't think my love is something that you can play with I'm not the one to spend the time of day with You learn to hide love, you lock it up or find it gone You think you need me, you think you read me

Devonside Richard Thompson

By Devonside she was a-marching It was a gang of no great size And surrender was the banner that she carried And hungry was the shiver in her eyes She met a boy, his health was failing She dropped the

Cooksferry Queen Richard Thompson

Well, there's a house in an alley In the squats and low-rise Of a town with no future But that's where my future lies It's a secret, but no secret It's a rule, but no rule Where you find the darkest avenue

Criminals T-Bone Burnett

No other I can cast in shame Then require blood I see him in the shadows down the hall I see him in the plaster on the wall There is no crime he cannot commit No murder too complex His heart is filled with

Two Left Feet Richard Thompson

Oh two left feet, two left feet How can you dance with two left feet Two left feet, two left feet How can you dance with two left feet I love you honey, you're so sweet Just get rid of them two left feet

Al Bowlly's In Heaven Richard Thompson

and dosser's soup lines Can't close me eyes on a bench or a bed For the sound of some battle raging in my head Old friends, you lose so many You get run around, all over town The wear and the tear, Oh it

Both Ends Burning Richard Thompson

Well, I bought me a horse with a broken leg They said that she never could win "Only fit for a bullet", they said She'll be coming out of a tin So I took her home, I fed her on hay I tied her up

Beeswing Richard Thompson

I was nineteen when I came to town They called it the Summer of Love They were burning babies, burning flags The hawks against the doves I took a job in the steamie Down on Cauldrum Street And I fell in

Hokey Pokey Richard & Linda Thompson

runs for Hokey Pokey Hear the ringing on the ice-cream bell He's got the stuff that'll cool you right down It's the best that they ever did sell It's the best that they ever did sell Girl on the corner with

Tear-Stained Letter Richard Thompson

I could learn to forget her Right through the door come a tear-stained letter Oh, oh, oh love love Cry, cry if it makes you feel better Set it all down in a tear-stained letter Oh, oh, oh love love love

Persuasion Richard Thompson

After all the foolish things that we've been through I could always make a start on something new And I'll always be a man who's open to Persuasion And it's written in my heart so that everybody can see it

Primitives T-Bone Burnett

Scientists guess which is worse we will ask The medicine or the disease The frightening thing is not dying The frightening thing is not living There's an old man living on the edge of town, edge of town With

1952 Vincent Black Lightning Richard Thompson

And I've seen you on the corners and cafes, it seems. Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme." And he pulled her on behind, And down to Boxhill, They'd Ride.

Song To A Dead Man T-Bone Burnett

When I was a kid, I was really young I fell in love and I got stung I tried it out and I tried it on When I was a kid, I was really young When I was a kid everything was new I had a lot of friends, I couldn't

Kill Switch T-Bone Burnett

We killed them at the palace, Babe And we murdered them in Rome We knocked them all dead, Babe Then we brought it all back home The big heat is coming down Like hail from the sky Don't look for me in the

Hard On Me Richard Thompson

Hard on me, hard on me At every fence I fall I bite my rage I stop my breath I shake my cage I swim with emptiness Hard on me, hard on me Like they were hard on you Hard on me, hard on me So I can stumble

The Bird That I Held In My Hand T-Bone Burnett

forsaken land And the only true love I have known The morning was freezing the sky was still dark When I last laid eyes upon you Oh, I know the ache you have held in your heart For darling, I have felt it

Cosmic Girl (Remastered 2006) Jamiroquai

I must have died and gone to heaven \'Cause it was quarter past eleven On a Saturday in 1999 Right across from where I\'m standing On the dancefloor she was landing It was clear that she was from

King Of Bohemia Richard Thompson

secret place to crawl And there is no rest for the ones God blessed And he blessed you best of all If tears unshed could heal your heart If words unsaid could sway Then watch you melt into the night With

Dry My Tears And Move On Richard Thompson

my eyes Oh, if you don't want me I'll dry my tears and move on Faded love As if you need a reason Am I out of your dreams Or just out of season Oh the flame of love Oh you wouldn't understand You hide it

Temptation (Remastered 2006) Heaven 17

another's hand But it's too late to hesitate We can't keep on living like this Leave no track Don't look back All I desire Temptation Keep climbing higher and higher Temptation Adorable creatures Temptation With

I Misunderstood Richard Thompson

She said "Darling I'm in love with your mind. The way you care for me, it's so kind. Love to see you again, I wish I had more time".