Romeo And Juliet Lyrics By Indigo Girls

A LOVESTRUCK ROMEO
SINGS THE STREET A SERENADE
HE'S LAYING EVERBODY LOW
HE'S GOT A LOVESONG THAT HE MADE
FINDS A CONVIENANT STREETLIGHT AND HE SAYS SOMETHIN' LIKE
"YOU AND ME BABE, HOW ABOUT IT?"
JULIET SAYS "HEY, ITS ROMEO.
HE NEARLY GAVE ME A HEARTATTACK. YEAH WELL
HE'S UNDER NEATH MY WINDOW "
NOW SHE'S SINGIN
"HE LA ,MY BOYFRIENDS BACK"
"SHOULND'T COME AROUND HERE
SINGIN' UP TO PEOPLE LIKE THAT"
OHHHHH ANYWAYS WHAT YA GONNA DO ABOUT IT?
NOW JULIET
THE DICE WERE LOADED FROM THE START
AND OUR BETS
AND YOU EXPLODED IN TO MY HEART
AND I FORGIVE I FORGET
THE MOVIE SONG
WHEN YOU GONNA REALIZE
IT WAS JUST THAT THE TIME WAS WRONG?
JULIE(JULIE)
NOW I CAN'T DO THE TALK
LIKE THEY TALK ON THE TV SCREEN
AND I CAN'T DO A LOVESONG
NOT THE WAY YOU SUNG TO ME
I CAN'T ANYTHING
BUT I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR YOU OHHH
I CAN'T DO ANYTHING EXCEPT BE IN LOVE WITH YOU YEAH
NOW ALL I DO IS MISS YOU
AND THE WAY IT USED TO BE YA KNOW AND
AND ALL I DO IS KEEP THE BEAT
I KEEP BAD,BAD COMPANY
AND ALL I DO IS KISS YOU
THROUGH THE BARS OF THIS RYME
WHEN JULIE
I'D DO THE STARS FOR YOU ANYTIME
OHHHH JULIET
WHEN WE MADE LOVE YOU USED TO CRY
YOU SAID
"I LOVE YA LIKE THE STARS ABOVE. I'M GONNA LOVE YA TILL I DIE"
THERE'S APLACE FOR US
I KNOW
YOU KNOW THE MOVIE SONG
WHEN YOU GONNA REALIZE
IT WAS JUST THAT TIME WAS WRONG
JULIE
I'M SO IN LOVE (SO IN LOVE)
A LOVE STRUCK ROMEO
SINGS THE STREET A SERENADE
HE'S LAYIN' EVERBODY LOW
HE'S GOT A LOVESONG THAT HE MADE
HE FINDS A CONVIENANT STREETLIGHT
AND HE SAYS SOMETHIN' LIKE
"YOU AND ME BABE,
HOW ABOUT IT?"

Jonas Ezekial Lyrics By Indigo Girls

"Jonas & Ezekial" is an Amy Ray song from about Spring 1991, I
believe. Amy says that she wrote it while biking in Vermont. The
lyrics, that is. It's tough to ride while playing guitar. The first
I heard it was in a soundcheck on June 5, 1991, in Vienna, Virginia.
The version I'm transcribing is from the Austin City Limits
performance recorded in late '91, for broadcast in January 1992.
Jonas & Ezekial.
I left my anger in a river running near Highway 5
New Hampshire, Vermont, bordered by,
Cottage farms, hubcaps, and falling rocks
Voices in the woods and the mountaintops
I used to search for reservations and native lands
Before I realized everywhere I stand
There have travelled feet burning wild as fire
And past lives, sister, are my desire
Jonas and Ezekial, hear me now
Steady now, and don't come out
I'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
Whose angel are you anyway - anyway?
When I was young my people taught me well
Give back what you take or you'll go to hell
It's not the devil's land, you know it's not that kind
Every devil I meet becomes a friend of mine
Every devil I meet is an angel in disguise
Jonas and Ezekial, hear me now
Steady now, and don't come out
I'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
Whose turn is it anyway - anyway?
White - Tongue - Rope - Fear - Be Still My Dear
A bullet in the head, now he's dead
A friend of a friend, someone said.
He was an activist with a very short life
I think there's a lesson here - he died without a fight.
In the war over land where the world began
Prophecy says it's where the world will end
There's a tumor growing in our backyard
Fear in our heads; fear in our hearts
Prophets in the graveyards
Jonas and Ezekial, hear me now
Steady now, and don't come out
I'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
Whose angel are you anyway - anyway?
Jonas and Ezekial, hear me now
Steady now, before you ghost about
I'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
Whose angel are you anyway - anyway?
I said there's prophets in the graveyards, in the bars
Prophets in the graveyards, in the bars.

Dairy Queen Lyrics By Indigo Girls

I heard that you were drunk and mean
Down at the dairy queen
There's just enough of you in me
For me to have sympathy
And take it in stride
I know I had mine
And you were as kind
I am told

Ain't it funny how we lose one day
And a lifetime
Slips away
I'm looking back on us that way
Something I
Never thought I'd say
I take it in stride
I know I had mine
It was good for a time
I am told
It was good for a time
I am told

The love you gave was not for free
But the price
Was truly fair
I never felt so glad to be
So well spent
So beyond repair
I take it in stride
At least you were mine
If not for all the time
Enough to hold
??

Now take good care that you are true
You said you found it
Hard to do
And find that bit of faith that sets you free
Having everything to prove
You take it in stride
And know you got mine
And it's good for a lifetime
Or more
I love you
I love you more and more
Oh I love you more and more

Fugitive Lyrics By Indigo Girls

I'm harboring a fugitive a defector of a kind she lives in my soul drinks of my wine and i'd give my last breath to keep us alive are they coming for us with cameras or guns we don't know which but we gotta run you say this is not what i bargained for so hide yourself for me all for me we swore to ourselves we'd go to the end of the world but i got caught up in whirl and the twirl of it all a day in the sun dancing alone baby i'm so sorry now now it's coming to you the lessons i've learned won't do you any good you've got to get burned the curse and the blessing they're one in the same baby it's all such a treacherous gain hide yourself from me i said hide yourself from me all for me i stood without clothes danced in the sand i was aching with freedom kissing the damned i said remember this as how it should be baby i said it's all in our hands got to learn to respect what we don't understand we are fortunate ones fortunate ones i swear so hide yourself for me i will hide myself for you all for you i stood
without clothes danced in the sand i was aching with freedom kissing the damned i said remember this as how it should be

Draw The Line Lyrics By Indigo Girls

"Draw the Line" is an Amy Ray song. A studio version of it appears
on "Blue Food." (Additionally, there's a live version of it on the
legendary "Purple Parrot" bootleg - I mention it only because it is
immediately followed by a version of Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk" -
which is probably the only occasion in the history of music itself
that a band has played two songs in a row that both include the word
"jaded.")
Draw the Line.
You can write me a letter
But I won't tell you where I am
You can send me a postcard, baby
But I won't tell you where I stand
Well, I'm right outside of your window
And I'm walking on through your love
And I'm giving you all I can, babe
But I know you've been thinking "No."
And now, baby, it's time
Baby, it's time
To draw the line
Draw the line
You may have good intentions
And I may be dead wrong
If what you see here isn't love, babe
It's 'cause I'm too tired to be that strong
Now I'm burned out on your affection
Because it comes from a jaded tongue
And I'm burned out on your direction, baby
I know I'm not the only one
Baby, it's time
Baby, it's time
To draw the line
Draw the line
Draw that line, baby
Draw that line, yeah
Keep it straight
Keep it close
And tell me
What do you have in mind?
(solo)
I'm gonna take this heartache
I'm gonna turn it all inside out
I'm gonna find every livin' last drop of love
Until I'm too sure to have any doubt
Now you can love me if you want me
Or you can turn away and tell me to go
Now you can write me a letter
You can send me a postcard
But don't tell me what you're thinking
If you really don't know, baby
Baby, it's time to draw the line
Draw the line
Yeah, draw that line.

Everything In Its Own Time Lyrics By Indigo Girls

Remember everything I told you, keep it in your heart like a stone
And when the winds have blown the winds have blown things round and back again
what was once your pain will be your home
All around the table the white-haired men have gathered
Spilling their sons' blood like table wine
Remember everything in its own time
The music whispers you in urgency hold fast to that languageless connection
A thread of known that was unknown and unseen seen dangling from inside the fifth direction
Boys around the table mapping out their strategies
Kings all of mountains one day dust
A lesson learned a loving God and things in their strategies
Kings all of mountains one day dust
A lesson learned a loving God and things in their own time
In nothing more do I trust
We own nothing, nothing is ours
Not even love so fierce it burns like baby stars
But this poverty is our greatest gift
The weightlessness of us as things around begin to shift
Remember everything I told you, keep it in your heart like a stone
And when the winds have blown things round and back again
What was once your pain will be your home
Everything in its own time
Everything in its own time

Life So Strange Lyrics By Indigo Girls

"Life's So Strange" is an Emily Saliers song. The only performance I
have of it is from Carboro, North Carolina, on 21 March 1988.
Stylistically, it seems to fit pretty tightly into that time period,
so I don't think it was written too much earlier than that.
Cold black coffee, incessant stream of cars
Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fistful of grey stars
Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ground
Today the rain's just water - it won't stop from falling down.
I get weary waiting for my muse
But in between the times she comes
I still have to tie my shoes
And get on with my day
There are mornings when I'm with (?)
And there are days I have to take the bus.
Life's so rich...
Life's so empty...
Secret rendezvous, long distance from a phone booth
Like two players in a mystery straight out of our youth
Well I'm finding that dramatics have lost their old appeal
I play the part of stoic lover, but I'm not sure how I feel
I get discouraged waiting for the world
To understand this love affair
To understand the girl
There are mornings when Amelia's right beside me
The next thing I know, I taste the salt of the sea.
Life's so rich...
Life's so empty...
Cold black coffee, incessant stream of cars
Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fistful of grey stars
Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ground
Today the rain's just water - it won't stop from falling down.
As I grow weary, I'm waiting for the world
To understand this love affair
To understand the girl
There are mornings when Amelia's right beside me
The next thing I know, I taste the salt of the sea.
Life's so rich...
Life's so empty...
Life's so strange.

Collecting You Lyrics By Indigo Girls

I could paint you in the dark
Cause I've studied you with hunger like a work of art
These are very secret days
I collect my information then I stowe it all away
Call me when you breeze through to your appointments
The work you do
Call me, I'm collecting you
The pleading prayer and hairshirt sting
My hair-trigger love and faulty spring
Motivation smokes a name, but I don't like that smell applied to me so
Blindly just the same call me
When you breeze through to your appointments the work you do
Call me I'm collecting you
Turning up my collar to an unseasonal chill you ask a favor, you know I will
The rain comes a surprise we fly across the railroad ties
I feel the danger the foolish thrill oh yes I will
What it will or won't be then
The shutter pre development the ink full in the pen
Mind the mind's eye's trickery
You might picture killer beautiful much more than it might be
Call me tell me what you're up to what you'll do
Call me I'm collecting you
I would be foolish to think that I could turn it off and stay alive
The way I live when you switch on hand on the dimmer, give me just a glimmer
Give me just a shadow hope around the edges, agony and rapture forever uncaptured
Take these secrets to your grave
Drug across your landscape and buried in your cave
You're piling up and out of sight
But trying to add it up just feels like counting shades of light
Call me when you breeze through to your appointments what you must do
Call me I'm collecting you
Hang it in my window let it complicate my view
The separation the glass of you
But I can paint this picture any way that I see fit
The art of pain the subject sits unmoved

Heartache Central Time Lyrics By Indigo Girls

"Heartache Central Time" MAY be an Amy Ray song. I don't actually
know much of anything about it, except that the sole version I have
is a studio version, featuring organ, piano, bass, and drums, in
addition to A&E. I don't know when it was recorded, but I'm guessing
- only guessing, mind you - that it MAY have been an out-take from
the EP sessions. Or, possibly, from a live-in-the-studio radio
broadcast, such as WRFG's "What the Folk," or WREK's "Live at WREK."
It's a silly kind of country-and-western style song that makes
pinning a stylistic date down difficult, but Amy's lead vocal
suggests (to me, anyway) that it may be from around 1985-6.
Heartache Central Time
Thought you were one who wouldn't run
Who wouldn't do me wrong
But the song that you were singing
Was the same old heartache song
You treat me fine and you wined and dined
And I believed you when you said
"I love you, babe," but your only aim
Was to get me in your bed
Now I don't even like you no more
But I can't get you off of my mind
Baby, you've got me livin' in Heartache Central Time
(Heartache Central, Heartache Central, Heartache Central Time)
Anytime is a hurting time
With a hurting heart like mine
God knows I'd get over you if only I could find
A way to get my hurtin' heart
off Heartache Central Time
Remember last September
When you looked into my eyes
I should have known that the love you'd shown
Was nothing more than lies
I fell for you and I know it's true
That I should have stopped myself
But my lonely heart was too alone
To hurt all by itself
Now I don't even like you no more
But I can't get you off of my mind
Baby, you've got me livin' in Heartache Central Time
(Heartache Central, Heartache Central, Heartache Central Time)
Anytime is a hurting time
With a hurting heart like mine
God knows I'd get over you if only I could find
A way to get my hurtin' heart
off Heartache Central Time.

Get Together Lyrics By Indigo Girls

love is but a song we sing
and fear's the way we die
you can make the mountains ring
or make the angels cry
though the bird is on the wing
you may not know why
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another right now
some may come and some may go
we will surely pass
when the one that left us here
returns for us at last
we are but a moment's sunlight
fading in the grass yeah
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another right now
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another right now
if you hear the song we sing
you will understand
you hold the key to love and fear
all in your trembling hand
just one key unlocks them both
it's there at your command
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another right now
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another right now
try to love one another right now
try to love one another right now
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Starkville Lyrics By Indigo Girls

If you were here in Starkville, the townie boys would love the way you stare.
If you were here in Starkville, the local girls , they wouldn't have a prayer.
I spent a reckless night inside the wonder of your everlasting charm,
now I'm haunted by geography, and the flora and the fauna of your heart.

At the dawning of some road worn day,
I called you on a whim just to say-
"The morning birds are singing",
but I could not do them justice, so I hung up and fell back to sleep.

I'm in love with my mobility, but sometimes this life can be a drag;
like when I noticed your nobility and how my leaving only held you back.
I remember one occasion- you were drinking,-when you asked me to the coast,
but I was hell bent on agony back then, so I missed the boat.

At the dawning of a road worn day,
I called you a whim just to say,
"My regrets become distractions when I can not do them justice",
then I hung up and fell back to sleep.

When I was down in Starkville, I was hiding out inside some Comfort Inn
from a local gang of troubadors, when the homecoming queen -she come riding in.
I slipped out of my room into the rain and I went running for my health.
The headlights turned to moonlight, and finally I was running by myself.

At the dawning of this road worn day,
I call you a whim just to say,
"The morning birds are singing".