Nanci Griffith - The Loving Kind (2009) by Nanci Griffith (보컬) on maniadb.com

In the rush of the river and the roar of the crowd
You can't hear the silence calling
When it's merely the whisper of a cloud
In a crazy storm, that pulls you on

Take a pill or you might take a loss
And the vicious circle tightens
But compromise comes with a cost
Maybe you can't see, but it's clear to me
Money changes everything
It changes everything

Make a little and it make's your day
And the heavens smile upon you
Make a bundle and you're blown away
to a different game, then the rules all change

Leave a husband or trade a wife
You've made the bigger picture now
take a country or take a life
If it's moolah's will, there's gold in them hills
Money changes everything
It changes everything

If you think it makes your world go round
It makes your world go round

Money changes everything
It changes everything

We walk along the Hudson when it snows here in Manhattan
Seems we've lived our lives so out of place
You touch my cheek and I do wonder how this happened
That two young lovers could pack their dreams and move from the Texas Plains

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Oh, I'm gonna take us back where we belong
Where you can see it in the stars that the weather's comin' on
One of these days

Now, our Daddy's grew cotton, spittin' dust of a mornin'
We met on a school bus rollin' thru the Autumn fields our Daddy's raised
Beneath a hot August sky, our Mothers waved goodbye
My Daddy tipped his hat with a tear in his eye
When we left for the city where the sun rarely shines
It was a hundred and two in the shade

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Hey, do you wanna take a cab uptown?
Watch the skaters go
'round and around
We could talk about leavin' this town some other day
And I suppose we look like natives here, this middle aged couple with silver hair
And on cold winter nights this love we share is still a hundred and two
In the shade

If I came back to the land of cotton,
Would you love just me?
Old loves lost are ne'er forgotten:
That's the way it's supposed to be.

Are you short or are you long?
Are you easy to see?
Are you weak or are you strong?
Makes no never to me.

All the ballerina sees when her world's on fire,
Is where she puts her feet.
If she burns her toes, she'll just jump higher,
Never skip a beat.

I've been good most of the time,
Since you last saw me.
You come 'cross my mind from time to time,
Now look at me.

I'm standing at your door with my heart in your hands.
Ain't you gonna ask me in?
If you say: "No", I'll understand, dear,
And never come south again.

If I came back to the land of cotton,
Would you love just me?
Old loves lost are ne'er forgotten:
That's the way it's s'posed to be.

What the hell was I doing there in that fast food parking lot?
They say I robbed the restaurant and a Memphis cop got shot
I was trying to feed my habit, I was scared and I was high
It was never my intention that anyone should die

And just how many of us are innocent enough?
Just how many of us are innocent enough?
Just how many of us are innocent enough?
My name is Philip Workman and I'm not innocent enough

It's not a long walk from a trailer park to a Tennessee cell block
But I got saved behind these bars, soon I'll give my soul to God
Reverend Joe is praying for me and the family left behind
They say my bullet took his life but that bullet was not mine

Oh, just how many of us are innocent enough?
Just how many of us are innocent enough?
Just how many of us are innocent enough?
My name is Philip Workman and I'm not innocent enough

I had no money for a lawyer to fight the system from within
There's no justice for the poor from the witness they brought in
Circumstance and random chance, I never meant to do no harm
Now that cop and I, we've both died from that needle in my arm

And there where those who called for mercy in those final days
Even the officer's daughter cried to grant me stay
But I'm not innocent enough, I'm not innocent enough
I'm not innocent enough, I'm not innocent enough

And just how many of us are innocent enough?
Just how many of us are innocent enough?
Just how many of us are innocent enough?
My name was Philip Workman, I was not innocent enough

I've heard enough from pundits, I've heard our leaders speak
I tell you now I'd rather talk to the people in the streets
'Cause you don't know someone until you've looked them in the eye
And that gave me a purpose and every reason why

I drove myself across America from sea to shining sea
From the rocky coast of Maine to the mighty redwood trees
From the plains of North Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico
It's good to know that hope's alive again across America

I spoke to folks in New Orleans with hammers in their hands
There's a waitress in Missouri who wants her own health plan
And to the workers up in Michigan in all the auto plants
There were working men and women saying yes, we can

Your checks and stocks and banks can't take our hope away
You can't foreclose on hope, nobody has to pay

I drove myself across America from sea to shining sea
From the rocky coast of Maine to the mighty redwood trees
From the plains of North Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico
It's good to know that hope's alive again across America
It's good to know that hope's alive again across America

She was a party girl
Now the party's over
she was a beauty
And that's changing too
Now she's barefoot and having babies
She was a party girl
Now the party's over

Now her husband watches TV
After working hard all day
And she's crying into her pillow
'cause it's night time
and she want's to play

She was a party girl
Now the party's over
she was a beauty
And that's changing too
Now she's barefoot and having babies
She was a party girl
Now the party's over

She can't cry to mama
She can't go home to daddy any more
They both tried to warn her
she was throwing away her sweet young life
When she walked out that door

She was a party girl
Now the party's over
she was a beauty
And that's changing too
Now she's barefoot and having babies
She was a party girl
Now the party's over

I heard the music long ago, songs that rent the air
Fading in and out at night while I was lying there
Voices soft and lonely and later rock and roll
Flying across the Rio Grande, straight into my soul

Trying to find a reason, trying to find that rhyme
Rolling with the river trying to keep time
And in the end I wouldn't change a thing, I'd sing

Music is the life in me, it's the melody I breathe
It gives me strength in harder times and reason to believe
Endless miles of highway, every step hard earned
It seems like it was all mapped out, all the twists and turns

Still trying to find a reason, trying to find that rhyme
Still rolling with the river trying to keep time
And in the end I wouldn't change a thing, I'd sing
And in the end I wouldn't change a thing, I'd sing

You walked the line
All your life
You never thought you'd have to change it
You're always there to give advice
You never thought you'd have to take it

It's still life, but it's broken
It's still life, when it's torn
It's still life that you're walking
On and on and on and on and on

You need to change
You don't know how
Your life could use a reformation
If you could see you
As I see you now
I know you'd change the situation

It's still life, but it's broken
It's still life, when it's torn
It's still life that you're walking
On and on and on and on and on

It's always someone else's fault
You're always right, you're never wrong
You think that life's a game
But this is real
You think you can just walk away
And leave destruction in your wake
But you're not walking anywhere near

Is still life if you are drowning
Is there still life when you fall
Is it still life when you can't carry
on and on and on and on and on

It's still life, but it's broken
It's still life, when you're torn
It's still life when you're walking
On and on and on and on and on

Tequila after midnight drives loneliness away
Makes strangers all around you look familiar
And tequila after midnight makes you feel so warm
Makes you think you feel good when you don't

It's the same sad familiar story
Not a thing about it is new
Just about someone who loved and lost
And it's still hurting through and through

They say it drives you crazy, well I could hardly care
For quite some time now that's just where I've been
And they say tequila kills you if you drink too much
Lord, I hope they make tequila long enough

It's the same sad familiar story
Not a damn thing about it is new
Just about someone who loved and lost
And it's still hurting through and through

Oh, they say it drives you crazy, well I could hardly care
For quite some time now that's just where I've been
And they say tequila kills you if you drink too much
Lord, I hope they make tequila long enough
Lord, I hope they make tequila long enough

Pour me a drink
Light me a cigarette
Help me forget
The things that I've done
Pour me a drink
Then pour me another one
To keep out this cold wind
That blows through my soul

Look at my life
Here in these photographs
Look at these faces
What a story they tell
There was a time
When I knew how to laugh
I'd drink to forget
But I remember it well

Pour me a drink
Light me a cigarette
Help me forget
The things that I've done
Pour me a drink
Then pour me another one
To keep out this cold wind
That blows through my soul

So many promises
So many daydreams and plans
So many chances
That I let slip through my hands

Pour me a drink
Light me a cigarette
Help me forget
The things that I've done
Pour me a drink
Then pour me another one
To keep out this cold wind
That blows through my soul