remember me

 

A brighter face may take my place when we're apart dear
Another love with a heart more bold and free
But in the end fair weather friends may break your heart dear
If they do, sweetheart remember me

Remember me when the candle lights're gleaming

Remember me at the close of a long, long day
And it would be so sweet when all alone I'm dreaming
Just to know you still remember me
Just to know you still remember me

    Willy Nelson

Tell me on a sunday

 

Don't run off in the pouring rain

Don't call me as they call your plane
Take the hurt out of all the pain
Take me to a park that's covered with trees
Tell me on a Sunday, please

       -Tell Me on a Sunday  Betty Buckley.

closer to the bone

 Heading for the highway Rolling like a river

Soaring like an eagle Skippin' like a stone
Comin' from the heartbeat Nothin' but the truth now
Everything is sweeter CLOSER TO THE BONE-

    Kris Kristofferson

the old woman in me

 The old woman in me, she don't wanna go back in time

Thinks her '50s might have been her prime, says don't give up on that man of mine
She's good at listening, says kiss 'em every time a kid walks in
Remember what your heart is for and you won't have to ask for more

She's a no-regret-er, yeah, a good forgiver, yeah
And where she's worn around the edges, go on and let her be
She's peace in a housedress, I'm a work in progress
I hope someday I get to be the old woman in me

-Lori McKenna

souvenirs

 

Broken hearts and dirty windows
Make life difficult to see
That's why last night and this morning
Always look the same to me
And I hate reading old love letters
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they robbed me
Of my sweetheart's souvenirs

Souvenirs- John Prine

Death Don’t Have No Mercy”.

"Well, Death will go in any family in this land
Well, Death will go in every family in this land
Well, he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
Well, you'll look in the bed and one of your family will be gone
Death will go in any family in this land"

 Death Don’t Have No Mercy”. Reverend Gary David

dirty trick

 And at the dinner table

It's my parents and me
I sneak looks at the two of them
To see what they need from me

And later she calls me over
Where she sits alone
She's polishing a silver ring
I've never seen before

She says this was Molly's
It was her mother's ring
I'm keeping it for you
As she kept it for me

Oh, it's time to go
Oh, it's time to go
It's a dirty trick this growing old

Song for Molly- Lucy Kaplansky

Long Way Home

 

 Summertime, summertime

said goodbye at the garden wall
From the house I can hear my momma callin'
Winter come to us all my friend
Just as every childhood has an end"

 Ray LaMontagne

To Live Is to Fly

 

Where you been is good and gone / All you keep is the getting there”.

-Townes Van Zandt

leaving you

 

But there's no reason to say good-bye

Leaves fall as the trees give up the view
And lies will fall away, leaving you

So don't keep waiting around
For some words to be found
Saying "Everything's fair in love, and war"
The truth has changed how I see
Now you look different to me:
You are not who I loved before
I dreamed it was true, what I saw in you
'cause that's what a dreamer does
But the love that I dreamed is not what it seemed
I guess that it never was
So I will say my good-byes, but not to your eyes
For the one that I loved is gone, somehow
For without all the lies, without that disguise
You're just a stranger now

     David Wilcox

every now and then

 

Every now and then

In my lonely reverie
While I think of you
Do you ever think of me?
Is the spark of love still burning?
Do you long for my returning
Every now and then?

-Helen Humes

where's that place where time stands still

 

Baby where's that place where time stands still

I remember like a lover can

But I forget it like a leaver will
It's the first time that you held my hand
It's the smell and the taste and the fear and the thrill
It's everything I understand
And all the things I never will

            -Mary Chapin Carpenter

ballad of the absent mare

 

...So he binds himself

To the galloping mare
And she binds herself
To the rider there
And there is no space
But there's left and right
And there is no time
But there's day and night

And he leans on her neck
And he whispers low
"Whither thou goest
I will go"
And they turn as one
And they head for the plain
No need for the whip
Ah, no need for the rein

Now the clasp of this union
Who fastens it tight?
Who snaps it asunder
The very next night
Some say the rider
Some say the mare
Or that love's like the smoke
Beyond all repair...

     -Leonard Cohen

I love you to the bone

 I love you to the bone

I love every piece of you
All the pieces you don't
That face you pull for strangers
The voice you assume on the phone

          -Sammy Copley

covert war

 I thought they'd passed right through me

That I had no scars to hide
But now I open up and try to love
And I find they're still inside

I used to run those battle lines trying to plead and to implore
Please won't you hold the cease fire out a little longer
Until the next uproar

I took it all in childhood
But I can't take it no more
'Cause I caught too much crossfire
In your covert war.

I should call my Mom

 

I should call my mom

And tell her I'm lonely
She'd say, "Don't you cry"
Tell me not to worry
Took me 'til I'm older
For this life to show me
That I'm not always in the right
I'm still a baby in her eyes
And I need my mom tonight

- Zevia

I guess I'll just be lonely

 

 know, I know you never should say never

Cause who knows what tomorrow holds in store
One day love may find out where you're hiding
But you can't find what you're not looking for
So may I have a table in the corner
Or anywhere, just nowhere near the aisle
And yes, it's just myself
No, there'll be no one else
I think I'll just be lonely for a while

           -Jesse Winchester

just like a woman

 Ain't it clear that I just can't fit

Yes, I believe that it's time for us to quit

But when we meet again, introduced as friends

Please don't let on that you knew me when

I was hungry and it was your world

             

                  -Bob Dylan

Don't let me come home a stranger

 

Will there come a time when the memories fade.

and pass on with the long, long years,
When the ties no longer bind?
Lord save me from this darkest fear.
Don't let me come home a stranger,
I couldn't stand to be a stranger.

     -Jerome Clark

elephant

 I've buried her a thousand times

Giving up my place in line

But I don't give a damn about that now

There's one thing that's real clear to me:

No one dies with dignity

           -Jason Isbell

A sight for sore eyes

Guess you heard about Nash, he was killed in a crash
Oh that must have been two or three years ago now
Yeah he spun out and he rolled he hit a telephone pole
And he died with the radio on

                  -Tom Waits

your Mother and I

 

Your Mother & I are not getting along

Somehow somewhere something went wrong

Everything changes, time takes it's toll

Your folks fell in love, loves a very deep hole

          - Loudon Wainwright III

put your shovel down

 

Some guys keep right on diggin'
You could say they're trouble bound
If you wanna get out of the hole you're in
The first thing you gotta do is put the shovel down

                -Slaid Cleaves

All Good Things

 All good things got to come to an end

The thrills have to fade
Before they come 'round again
The bills will be paid
And the pleasure will mend
All good things got to come to an end
All good times, all good friends
All good things got to come to an end-

                       Jackson Browne