Intro: Revolution (Is A State Of Mind) lyrics - Paula Cole
Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.
America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.
A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.
This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. When I speak of love, I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
Revolution, revolution
Revolution is a state of mind
Revolution, revolution
Revolution is a state of mind
Revolution, revolution
Revolution is a state of mind
Revolution, revolution
Revolution is a state of mind
Revolution, revolution
Revolution, revolution
Revolution, revolution
Revolution, revolution
Revolution, revolution
Shake The Sky lyrics - Paula Cole
Sister gonna wake up
And shake the sky with her cry
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Sister gonna get up and wipe the tears from her eyes
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Sister gonna stand up to all the bullying lies
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Sister gonna look at the man with the blood in his eyes
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Changes!
Changes that need to pass
A lot more human kindness in this life
Changes!
Changes that we demand
For the content of our character, the vision of our minds
The labor of the grist-mill of society
Is the hands and sweat and backs of who have least
Invisibles and overlooked and disenfranchised
Are holding up the sky
Holding up our lives!
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Sister gonna wake up
And shake the sky with her cry
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Sister gonna get up and wipe the tears from her eyes
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Sister gonna stand up to all the bullying lies
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Sister gonna look at the man with the blood in his eyes
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Changes!
Changes that need to pass
A lot more human kindness in this life
Changes!
Changes that we demand
For the content of our character, the vision of our minds
The labor of the grist-mill of society
Is the hands and sweat and backs of who have least
Invisibles and overlooked and disenfranchised
Are holding up the sky
Holding up our lives!
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Sister gonna wake up
And shake the sky with her cry
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Sister gonna get up and wipe the tears from her eyes
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Sister gonna stand up to all the bullying lies
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Sister gonna look at the man with the blood in his eyes
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
She gonna rise
Blues In Gray lyrics - Paula Cole
Charlotte she lingered and lived in the shadows
Helping Mother in the kitchen for hours and hours
Avoiding the charmers, Svengalis and Lords
I sing for the shy girl over minor chords
Blues In Gray
In a dream she ascended outside of her body
She looked down below her to the white fields of cotton
And she realized, she realized
Her dream was long forgotten
She peers out a mouse
hole to an alternate world
To her great, great granddaughters behind her
And she whispers, she hollers "Know freedom!
From Blues In Gray..."
Blues In Gray
Silent lyrics - Paula Cole
When Karl and his sister, united me in their tribe
I felt a strength in numbers embolding my shyness
I laughed at other people
At their bodies, at their hair
I became the vicious girl inside parroting her despair
And one day cold as calculation, Karl went too far
Intentional in his hurting, physical in his war
To the shyest one of all of us
The tenderest lonely heart
I watched in horror, helpless, silent, as the moment passed me, gone
Flying to the world tour, 25 and free
With condescending attitudes, from British men in cliques
When I imbibed too much Schnapps one night, in a Swiss hotel
One tour manager, felt this was the green light, pressed me down
On the bed, by my surprise, dick and tongue pressed hard
What a sad excuse of a man, thinking this what one does
Showing him out with deep disdain I kept the truth concealed
Cutting myself off from my own feelings, I kept on in silent hurt
My introversion in the kitchen, 30 years past, amongst the Moms
I don't share with them my secrets, staying safe from all their gossip
Their husbands in the parlor, Huddled close together
Palpable discomfort when I join them in their circle
Looking for a conversation I listen to them speak
Jockeying one-upmanship, subconscious insecurity
I add my twenty cents to the room - how flatly it does land
Unaccustomed to a woman of mind, they wish to conquer me instead
"Hush, child!" - I hear my great grandmother whisper in my mind
It remains as relevant today here amongst this boring party
I don't know where I stand
I go rogue, go quiet quicksand
Folding into myself, losing voice, to a moment passed again
Absorbing painful lessons, standing on my ground
I advocate, I'm blue in the face, I'm the leader of the crowd
But inside I'm a coward, still the little girl
Bystanding in my silence next to Karl bullying her
For nothing is so simple, the bully is the weak
Afraid to be tormented, tormenting for pre-empting
For Karl yearned for Father, for love, for attention
He acted out the monster inside his lonely hurting
There is never enough love, there is never enough listening
There is never enough of our mothers, to give us all we're missing
I took on the silence, mandated by generations
But no more shall I be the mute and deaf and dumb submissive
Go On lyrics - Paula Cole
Freedom is another word for facing all my lonely fear
Freedom is your final word for getting off the ledge with me
Will you ever share your secret world?
Your dreams beyond the confines of our hurts?
Go on, go on, go on
Go without me
I'll be waiting
Go on, go on, go on
Cause next time, my darling
It'll be me
Something pulls you out of bed, and down the street and in the car
And off to war with demons wrestling your subconscious, I've no control
Let the love go free into the woods
Wild like a cold coyote pulled
Go on, go on, go on
Go without me
I can't wait then
Go on, go on, go on
Go without me
I'll go without you
There were promises made
With the best of our dreams
But we know you're the lover
And I am the leader
And in strength I accept you
As you sail down the river
To find the elusive
A hummingbird phantom
After some gold rush
A fool rushing forward
I'll wait on for you
And I will be tortured
But I know patience
And I know virtue
And you soon will tire
Of hummingbird muses
Of rivers and ruses
Of heartache and bruises
And you will return then
And I will be home
And I may not want you
But we will continue
To see what this is
Cause you need to go on
And I need to go on
Our story will go on
Cause it must and it will
Because it must and it will
Go on, go on, go on
Go without me
I'll go without you
Go on, go on, go on
Go without me
I'll go without you
All Or Nothing lyrics - Paula Cole
Get a grip, on myself, 'cause my unconscious is killing us
She's neglected, subdued, an angry child, holding court
What is it going to be? You gonna make up your mind now?
What is it going to be? Cause it's all or nothing
What is it going to be? You gonna show up and try now?
What is it going to be? It's all or nothing
We sail on, years in, half a lifetime, come and gone
If we want this, we must be brave, speak truth, listen
What is it going to be? I'm waiting on my own life now
What is it going to be? Cause it's all or nothing
What is it going to be? Are we getting inside the car now?
What is it going to be? It's all or nothing
Holding, hurting, surviving
Escaping, failing, humbling
Cause I'm trapped upon this cycle on repeat
What is it going to be? Every day is life or death now
What is going to be? Cause it's all or nothing
What is it going to be? I'm waiting on my own life now
What is it going to be? Cause it's all or nothing
It's all or nothing
It's All Nothing
7 Deadly Sins lyrics - Paula Cole
Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride
Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride
One: Lust. Dante defined lust as the disordered love of individuals, thus possessing at least the redeeming feature of mutuality.
Two: Gluttony. Overconsumption, overindulgence. To go down and swallow. Anything to the point of waste.
Three: Greed. Avarice, covetousness. It is a lot like lust. It is a sin of desire. Plunges a man deep into the mire of this world. It is an inordinate desire to acquire and possess more than one needs.
Your wicked ways
Your fall from grace
You never listened to your mother anyway
You never learned
You never learned
You never learned
Four: Sloth. A peculiar jumble of notions. It's often a failure to do things that we should. There's mental sloth, spiritual sloth, the physical state of sloth, the absence of interest.
Five: Wrath. Anger, rage, hatred. People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Six: Envy. The most potent cause of unhappiness. To be sad or resentful towards the shapes or possessions of someone else.
Seven: Pride. The never-failing voice of fools. Love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor.
Your wicked ways
Your fall from grace
You never listened to your mother anyway
Your wicked ways
Your fall from grace
You never listened to your father anyway
You never learned
You never learned
You never learned
Step by step I'll get to heaven
Good deed by good deed, better
I'll work to make some leverage
I'll find my inside
Step by step I'll get to heaven
Good deed by good deed, better
(Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride)
I'll work to get some leverage
I'll find my inside
Step by step I'll get to heaven
Good deed by good deed, better
(Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride)
I'll work to get some leverage
I'll find my inside
Step by step I'll get to heaven
Good deed by good deed, better
(Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride)
I'll work to make some leverage
I'll find my inside
Step by step I'll get to heaven
Good deed by good deed, better
(Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride)
I'll work to make some leverage
The Ecology (Mercy Mercy Me) lyrics - Paula Cole
Oh, mercy, mercy me
Things ain't what they used to be, no, no
Where did all the blue skies go?
Poison is the wind that blows from the North and South and East
Oh, mercy, mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be, no, no
Oil wasted on the oceans and upon our seas
Fish full of mercury, oh
Oh, mercy, mercy me
Mmm, things ain't what they used to be, no, no
Radiation underground and in the sky
Animals and birds who live nearby are dying
Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land
How much more abuse from man can she stand?
Oh... mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, have mercy...
What about this overcrowded land
How much more abuse from man can she stand?
Oh... mercy, mercy... take care of one another
Mercy mercy me...
Oh... please have mercy on our planet, please have mercy on my sister
Please have mercy on my father, mother, brother and us all...
Oh...
Undertow (One Life Lost) lyrics - Paula Cole
One life lost is one too many
One life lost is blood on our soul
One species gone a book closed eternally
One life lost to the Undertow
There's blood on my hands that I can't wash free
I kneel in the river praying to be saved
I wring out my shirt and I weep with the knowing
That one life lost is too many
One life lost is too many
One life lost is one too many
One species gone is a crime of the soul
One planet waiting to shake and transform
From the greed and malevolence of the Undertow
We long to be the angels we feel in our hearts
But we struggle and claw what we love apart
And as long as this legacy lives I'll have blood on my hands
For one life lost is too many
One life lost is too many
One life lost is one too many
One life lost is blood on our soul
One species gone a book closed eternally
One life lost to the Undertow
When I walk the field of flowers
I want to know for whom I sing
I want redemption washing us clean
I want to hear freedom, sweet freedom ring
For one life lost is too many
One life lost is too many
One life lost is one too many
One life lost is blood on our soul
One species gone is a book closed eternally
One life lost to the Undertow
There's a pain in my heart that wakes me
There's blood on my hands I can't wash it
There's a cold hard wisdom in what I know
One life, one life, one life, one life, one life, one life
One Life
Universal Empathy lyrics - Paula Cole
What the Universe needs right now is some mutual understanding
The good and gentle kindnesses in every day actions
In the best of ourselves lies a child full of hope
One who feels every sunset and tree, elephant and crow
This is the root of the dwelling place of every living soul
Connection!
All you white men, guarding your gates, know your privilege it comes
From the luck of the lottery, some bullshit genetic caste system
You had a mother, so why you gonna take her down?
Give us our equality, our choice, our bodies are our own
Connection!
Connection to our Universal Empathy
Oceans full of plastic killing those who cannot speak
Such an immoral/needless waste of rainforest biodiversity
The planet needs her oxygen, we people need her trees
This blindness is a murdering of every living being
Connection!
Feeling connection to our Universal Empathy
We send our brothers off to jails, to a system of deceit
Bail is based on skin color, the darker you are, the longer you're in
Then working for slave wages for corporate plantations
Profiteering from free labor, they want to build more prisons
While children go to foster care and families
Are broken
Connection!
Feeling Connection to our Universal Empathy
I want to get militant, I want to divide and scream
But I think on Dr. Martin Luther King's dream
I know that in every soul regardless of their skin
Or age or sex or identity lies the empathy within
Connection!
Feeling Connection to our Universal Empathy
OM, OM, OM, OM, OM
Relax, and breathe, and look within to your third eye
Relax, and breathe, and listen to your heartbeat
Heartbeat
Relax, and breathe, and look within to your third eye
Relax, and breathe, and listen to your heartbeat
Heartbeat
Connection!
Feeling connection to our Universal Empathy
Connection to Ourselves and to the Mother and Us All
Connection to our Universal Empathy
Dhammapada lyrics - Paula Cole
Conquer the angry by not getting angry
Conquer the wicked by goodness
Conquer the stingy by generosity
Conquer the liar by speaking only truth
Conquer the angry by equanimity
Conquer the wicked by goodness
Conquer the stingy by generosity
Conquer the liar by speaking only truth
Ballads (2017)
- God Bless The Child
- I Wish (I Knew How It Feels To Be Free)
- Naima (Instrumental)
- Ode To Billy Joe
- You've Changed
- What A Little Moonlight Can Do
- I'm Old Fashioned
- The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
- Never Will I Marry
- Skylark
- The Ballad Of Hollis Brown
- Body And Soul
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Farewell, My Friends
- I Cover The Waterfront
- Blue Moon
- You Hit The Spot
- Willow Weep For Me
- Autumn Leaves
- My One And Only Love
God Bless The Child lyrics - Paula Cole
(originally by Billie Holiday)
Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Mama may have, papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own
Yes, the strong get's more
While the weak ones fade
Empty pockets don't ever make the grade
Mama may have, papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own
Money, you've got lot's of friends
Crowding round your door
But When your'e gone, spending ends
They don't come no more
No no they don't come around so lonely
Rich relations give
Crust of bread and such
You can help yourself
But don't take too much
Mama may have, papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own
Money, you've got lot's of friends
Crowding round your door
But When your'e gone, spending ends
They don't come no more
Rich relations give
Crust of bread and such
You can help yourself
But don't take too much
Mama may have, papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own
Give'em light
Give'em hope
Give'em heart
God bless the child
I Wish (I Knew How It Feels To Be Free) lyrics - Paula Cole
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains holdin' me
I wish I could say all the things that I should say
Say 'em loud, say 'em clear
For the whole round world to hear
I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart
Remove all the bars that keep us apart
Oh, I wish you could know what it means to be me
Then you'd see and agree
That every man child should be free
Well, I wish I could give all I'm longin' to give
I wish I could live like I'm longin' to live
Oh, I wish I could do all the things that I can do
Though I'm way overdue
I'd be starting anew
Well, I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be if I found I could fly
I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea
And I'd sing 'cause I'd know, yeah
I would sing 'cause I'd know, yeah
I would sing 'cause I'd know
Mmm hmm hmm, whoo
Mmm
Mmm hmm hmm hmm, yeah
Whoo
Ode To Billy Joe lyrics - Paula Cole
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, y'all, remember to wipe your feet
And then she said, I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow
And mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And brother said he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
I'll have another piece-a apple pie; you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And mama said to me, child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And brother married Becky Thompson; they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round; papa caught it, and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
You've Changed lyrics - Paula Cole
I've an awful feeling that
This thought that's been a-stealing
Through my brain
Is not to be ignored
But to really tell the truth
Though I'm not a well known sleuth
I honestly believe
That you are bored
You've changed
That sparkle in your eye is gone
Your smile is just a careless yawn
You're breaking my heart
You've changed
You've changed
You're kisses now are so blase
You're bored with me in every way
I can't understand
You've changed
You've forgotten the words 'I love you'
Each memory that we've shared
You ignore every star above you
I can't realize you've ever cared
You've changed
You're not the angel I once knew
No need to tell me that we're through
It's all over now
You've changed
What A Little Moonlight Can Do lyrics - Paula Cole
Ooh, woo, woo
What a little moonlight can do
Ooh, woo, woo
What a little moonlight can do to you
You're in love
Your heart's a-flutter and all day long
You only shudder 'cause your poor tongue
Just won't utter the words "I love you"
Ooh, woo, woo
What a little moonlight can do
Wait a while
'Til a little moonbeam comes peepin' through
You'll get bold
You can't resist him
And all you'll say
When you have kissed him is
Ooh, ooh, woo
What a little moonlight can do
You'll get bold
You can't resist him
And all you'll say
When you have kissed him is
Ooh, ooh, woo
What a little moonlight can do
I'm Old Fashioned lyrics - Paula Cole
(originally by Nan Wynn)
I'm old fashioned
I love the moonlight
I love the old fashioned things
The sound of rain
Upon a window pane
The starry song that April sings
This year's fancies
Are passing fancies
But sighing sighs, holding hands
This my heart understands
I'm old fashioned
But I don't mind it
That's how I wanna be
As long as you agree
To stay old fashioned with me
The sound of rain
Upon a window pane
The starry song that April sings
This year's fancies
Are passing fancies
But sighing sighs, holding hands
This my heart understands
I'm old fashioned
But I don't mind it
That's how I wanna be
As long as you agree
To stay old fashioned with me
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll lyrics - Paula Cole
William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger
At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'
And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him
As they rode him in custody down to the station
And booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
William Zanzinger who at twenty-four years
Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres
With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him
And high office relations in the politics of Maryland
Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders
And swear words and sneering and his tongue it was snarling
In a matter of minutes on bail was out walking
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Hattie Carroll was a maid in the kitchen
She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children
Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage
And never sat once at the head of the table
And didn't even talk to the people at the table
Who just cleaned up all the food from the table
And emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level
Got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane
That sailed through the air and came down through the room
Doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle
And she never done nothing to William Zanzinger
And you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel
To show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level
And that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded
And that even the nobles get properly handled
Once that the cops have chased after and caught 'em
And that ladder of law has no top and no bottom
Stared at the person who killed for no reason
Who just happened to be feelin' that way witout warnin'
And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished
And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance
William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Bury the rag deep in your face
For now is the time for your tears
Never Will I Marry lyrics - Paula Cole
Never, never will I marry
Never, never will I wed
Born to wander solitary
Wide my world, narrow my bed
No, never, never, never will I marry
Born to wander 'til I'm dead
No burdens to bear
No conscience or care
No memories to mourn
No turning, for I was
Born to wander solitary
Wide my world, narrow my bed
No, never, never, never will I marry
Born to wander 'til I'm dead
No burdens to bear
No conscience or care
No memories to mourn
No turning, for I was
Born to wander solitary
Wide my world, narrow my bed
No, never, never, never will I marry
Born to wander 'til I'm dead
Skylark lyrics - Paula Cole
Skylark
Have you anything to say to me?
Won't you tell me where my love can be?
Is there a meadow in the mist
Where someone's waiting to be kissed?
Oh, skylark
Have you seen a valley green with spring?
Where my heart can go a-journeying
Over the shadows and the rain
To a blossom covered lane
And in your lonely flight
Haven't you heard the music in the night?
Wonderful music
Faint as a will of the wisp, crazy as a loon
Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon
Oh, skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there?
Oh, skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there?
Oh, skylark
Won't you lead me there?
The Ballad Of Hollis Brown lyrics - Paula Cole
(originally by Bob Dylan)
Hollis Brown
He lived on the outside of town
Hollis Brown
He lived on the outside of town
With his wife and five children
And his cabin all broken down
You looked for work and money
And you walked a ragged mile
You looked for work and money
And you walked a ragged mile
Your children are so hungry
That they don't know how to smile
Your baby's eyes look crazy
They're a-tugging at your sleeve
Your baby's eyes look crazy
They're a-tugging at your sleeve
You walk the floor and wonder why
With every breath you breathe
Rats have got your flour
And bad blood has got your mare
Rats have got your flour
And bad blood has got your mare
Is there anyone who knows?
Is there anyone who cares?
You prayed to the Lord above
Please send you a friend
You prayed to the Lord above
Please send you a friend
Your empty pockets tell you
No, that you ain't got no friends
Your baby's crying louder now
It's pounding at your brain
Your babies are crying louder now
It's pounding at your brain
Your wife's screams are stabbin' you
Like the dirty drivin' rain
Your grass is turnin' black
No water in your well
Your grass is turnin' black
No water in your well
You spent your lone last dollar
On seven shotgun shells
Way out in the wilderness
A cold coyote calls
Way out in the wilderness
A cold coyote calls
Your eyes fix on the shotgun
That's hanging on your wall
Your brain is a-bleedin'
And your legs can't seem to stand
Your brain is a-bleedin'
And your legs can't seem to stand
Your eyes fix on the shotgun
That you're holdin' in your hand
There's seven breezes a-blowin'
All around the cabin door
There's seven breezes a-blowin'
All around the cabin door
Seven shots ring out
Like the ocean's poundin' roar
Seven people dead
On a South Dakota farm
There's seven people dead
On a South Dakota farm
Somewhere in the distance
There's seven new people born
Body And Soul lyrics - Paula Cole
My heart is sad, lonely
For you I sigh, for you dear only
Why haven't you seen it?
I'm all for you, body and soul
I spend my days in longin'
And wonderin' why it's me you're wrongin'
Why haven't you seen it?
I'm all for you, body and soul
I can't believe it
It's hard to conceive it
That you'd turn away romance
Are you pretending?
It looks like the ending
Unless I could have one more chance to prove, dear
My life a hell you're makin'
You know I'm yours just for the takin'
I'd gladly surrender
Myself to you, body and soul
My life a wreck you're makin'
You know I'm yours just for the takin'
I'd gladly surrender
Myself to you, oh, body and soul
Nice Work If You Can Get It lyrics - Paula Cole
Holding hands at midnight
'Neath a starry sky
It's nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Strolling with the one boy
Sighing sigh after sigh
It's nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
It's nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
It's nice work if you can get it
And you can get it, won't you tell me how?
Farewell, My Friends lyrics - Paula Cole
Farewell my friends, I'm bound for Canaan
I'm traveling through the wilderness
Your company has been delightful
You do not leave my mind distressed
I go away behind to leave you
Perhaps never to meet again
But if we never have the pleasure
I hope we'll meet on Canaan's land
I go away behind to leave you
Perhaps never to meet again
But if we never have the pleasure
I hope we'll meet on Canaan's land
Farewell my friends, I'm bound for Canaan
I'm traveling through the wilderness
Your company has been delightful
You do not leave my mind distressed
I go away behind to leave you
Perhaps never to meet again
But if we never have the pleasure
I hope we'll meet on Canaan's land
I go away behind to leave you
Perhaps never to meet again
But if we never have the pleasure
I hope we'll meet on Canaan's land
I Cover The Waterfront lyrics - Paula Cole
Away from the city that hurts and mocks
I'm standing alone by the desolate docks
In the still and the chill of the night
I see the horizon, the great unknown
My heart has an ache, it's as heavy as stone
Will the dawn come along, make it light?
I cover the waterfront, I'm watching the sea
Will the one I love be coming back to me?
I cover the waterfront in search of my love
And I'm covered by a starlit sky above
Here am I patiently waiting
Hoping and longing, oh, how I yearn
Where are you? Are you forgetting?
Do you remember? Will you return?
I cover the waterfront, I'm watching the sea
For the one I love must soon come back to me
For the one I love must soon come back to me
Blue Moon lyrics - Paula Cole
Blue moon
You saw me standin' alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moon
You knew just what I was there for
You heard me sayin' a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper, "Please adore me"
And when I looked to the moon, it turned to gold
Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Ooh
Ooh
You Hit The Spot lyrics - Paula Cole
You hit the spot
Like a balmy breeze on a night in May
You hit the spot
Like a cool mint julep on a summery day
You hit a new high in my estimation
I had to fall
'Cause you've got so much on the ball
Oh, you hit the spot
Like the first embrace when the night is tied
You hit the spot
Like a pipe and slippers by a fireside
Matter of factly, I don't know exactly
What it is that you got
But oh oh oh, woah woah woah, you hit the spot
You hit the spot
Like a balmy breeze on a night in May
You hit the spot
Like a cool mint julep on a summery day
You hit a new high in my estimation
I had to fall
'Cause you've got so much on the ball
Oh, you hit the spot
Like the first embrace when the night is tied
You hit the spot
Like a pipe and slippers by a fireside
Matter of factly, I don't know exactly
What it is that you got
But oh oh oh, woah oh oh, you hit the spot
Willow Weep For Me lyrics - Paula Cole
Willow weep for me
Willow weep for me
Bend your branches down along the ground that runs to sea
Listen to my plea
Hear me, willow and weep for me
Gone my lover's dream
Lovely summer dream
Gone and left me here to weep my tears into the stream
Sad as I can be
Oh, hear me, willow and weep for me
Whisper to the wind and say that love is sin
To leave my heart a-breakin' and makin' all a moan
Murmur to the night to hide her starry light
So none can find me sighin' and cryin' all alone
Alone, alone, alone
Sad as I can be
Oh, listen, willow and weep for me
Autumn Leaves lyrics - Paula Cole
(originally by Yves Montand)
The falling leaves
Drift by my window
The autumn leaves
Of red and gold
I see your lips
The summer kisses
The sunburned hands
I used to hold
But since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song
But now I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall
But since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song
But now I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall
When autumn leaves
Start to fall
When autumn leaves
Start to fall
My One And Only Love lyrics - Paula Cole
(originally by Vic Damone)
The very thought of you makes my heart sing
Like an april breeze on the wings of spring
And you appear in all your splendour
My one and only love
The shadows fall and spread their mystic charms
In the hush of night while I'm in your arms
I feel your lips so warm and tender
My one and only love
The touch of your hand is like heaven
A heaven that I've never known
The blush on your cheek whenever I speak
Tells me that you are mine
You fill my eager heart with such desire
Every kiss you bring sets my soul on fire
I lose myself in sweet surrender
My one and only love
Hope Is Everywhere lyrics - Paula Cole
Out of the shadows and out of the shame we are rising
No longer accepting the stigma and pain you're providing
All the awakened know love is the last word so listen
Together we'll roll like a hurricane coming for justice
Hold onto your dunce crown as you topple from your wall
Sycophants can't put back humpty dumpty from his fall
Hope is everywhere
(I lift up my head and I look past the pain)
Hope is everywhere
(Growing)
Hope is everywhere
(We're coming together to usher a change)
Hope is everywhere, hope is everywhere, hope is everywhere
Out of the prisons and closets and backrooms and bathrooms
Keeping us out of the boardrooms and into the bedrooms
Keep us in kitchens and courtrooms and ditches and basements
Cooking your food, making profits and wars, beds and babies
Hold onto your tin crown as your deeds bring you to light
Your own hell of karma's coming for you in this life
Hope is everywhere
(I lift up my head and I look past the pain)
Hope is everywhere
(Growing)
Hope is everywhere
(We're coming together to usher a change)
Hope is everywhere, hope is everywhere, hope is everywhere
Voting for love, voting for equal rights
Voting for women, voting for immigrants
Voting for peace, voting for civil rights
Voting for planet earth, voting for love
You can't hold a cyclone in your knuckles anymore
Your hating rolls away like rain
We're showing you the door
Hope is everywhere
(I lift up my head and I look past the pain)
Hope is everywhere
(Growing)
Hope is everywhere
(In every leaf, in every tree)
Hope is everywhere
(Growing)
Hope is everywhere
(You can't stop us)
Hope is everywhere
(You can't stop our love)
Hope is everywhere
(You can't stop us)
Hope is everywhere
(You can't stop our love)
Hope is everywhere...
You can't stop a hurricane
You can't ignore a mountain, of love
You can't stop a cyclone
You can't stop us, you can't stop our love
You can't stop us, you can't stop our love
Hope is everywhere
Hope is everywhere
Hope is everywhere
Hope is everywhere
Hope is everywhere
Hope is everywhere
Hope is everywhere
Hope is everywhere
Jump to the left now, jump
Jump to the right now, jump
Jump to the left now, jump
Jump to the right now, jump
Clap nine times now
Clap nine times again
Clap nine times again
Clap nine times again
Now sing with me
Ooh, ooh, yeah, a hurricane
You can't stop a hurricane of justice
You can't stop a hurricane of love
You can't stop a hurricane of justice
You can't stop a hurricane of love
Jump to the left now, jump
Jump to the right now, jump
Jump to the left now, jump
Jump to the right now, jump
Clap nine times now
Clap nine times again
Clap nine times again
Clap nine times again
Now sing with me, yes
Ooh, ooh, yeah, hurricane
You can't stop a hurricane of justice
You can't stop a hurricane of love
You can't stop a hurricane of justice
You can't stop a hurricane of love
Hope is everywhere
(I lift up my head and I look past the pain)
Hope is everywhere
(Growing)
Hope is everywhere
(We're coming together to usher a change)
Hope is everywhere, hope is everywhere, hope is everywhere
New York City lyrics - Paula Cole
You left me standing there
At the top of the stoop
Of a federal brown stone
You left me standing there
With my heart in my hands
At Hudson & Barrow
Oh, life didn't let me
Oh, pity
New York City
You left us standing there
In our favorite cafe
Mon Petit [?]
I saw the future landscape
Of different families
Divided in two states
Oh, life didn't let me
Oh, pity
New York City
All those dreams
On my sleeve
Star maker machinery looking down at me
Laughing at my idiocy
All those dreams
So naive
What am I gonna do now I've lost everything?
What am I gonna do now I've lost everything
In the same city
In the same city that made me?
I left you wiser there
With realizations
Of romance and sorrow
I sailed up North again
Back to my homeland
And left you forever
Oh, she loved you, didn't she?
Oh, pity
New York City
At the top of the stoop
Of a federal brown stone
You left me standing there
With my heart in my hands
At Hudson & Barrow
Oh, life didn't let me
Oh, pity
New York City
You left us standing there
In our favorite cafe
Mon Petit [?]
I saw the future landscape
Of different families
Divided in two states
Oh, life didn't let me
Oh, pity
New York City
All those dreams
On my sleeve
Star maker machinery looking down at me
Laughing at my idiocy
All those dreams
So naive
What am I gonna do now I've lost everything?
What am I gonna do now I've lost everything
In the same city
In the same city that made me?
I left you wiser there
With realizations
Of romance and sorrow
I sailed up North again
Back to my homeland
And left you forever
Oh, she loved you, didn't she?
Oh, pity
New York City
Salt Of The Sea lyrics - Paula Cole
I'm but a lover
I was a map for love
(No)
Leaders or partners
They rule from all their thrones
Give it a, give it a
Give it a go
Give it a, give it a go
I will relinquish
The kingdom and Queen-ship
If you will have all of me
I am not peace
I am not ease
I am the salt of the sea
And if you want me
You have to love me
For all that I am
Sensitively
I am a lover
That's all that I want to be
(Yeah)
But though I'm a poor one
Will you still have me?
Give it a, give it a
Give it a go
Give it a, give it a go
I never wanted
This proclivity
To wear so much heart on my sleeve
I am not peace
I am not ease
I am the salt of the sea
And if you want me
Then love all of me
For all that I am
Sensitively
And I didn't hurt you
And I didn't fall
I'm just a reminder
Of the truth and the known
I am not peace
I am not ease
I am the salt of the sea
And if you want me
Then love me for of me
All of my sensitivity
I am not peace
I am not ease
I am the salt of the sea
And if you love me
Then hold on to me
And love all the salt of the sea
Give it a, give it a
Give it a go
Give it a, give it a go
I was a map for love
(No)
Leaders or partners
They rule from all their thrones
Give it a, give it a
Give it a go
Give it a, give it a go
I will relinquish
The kingdom and Queen-ship
If you will have all of me
I am not peace
I am not ease
I am the salt of the sea
And if you want me
You have to love me
For all that I am
Sensitively
I am a lover
That's all that I want to be
(Yeah)
But though I'm a poor one
Will you still have me?
Give it a, give it a
Give it a go
Give it a, give it a go
I never wanted
This proclivity
To wear so much heart on my sleeve
I am not peace
I am not ease
I am the salt of the sea
And if you want me
Then love all of me
For all that I am
Sensitively
And I didn't hurt you
And I didn't fall
I'm just a reminder
Of the truth and the known
I am not peace
I am not ease
I am the salt of the sea
And if you want me
Then love me for of me
All of my sensitivity
I am not peace
I am not ease
I am the salt of the sea
And if you love me
Then hold on to me
And love all the salt of the sea
Give it a, give it a
Give it a go
Give it a, give it a go
Life Goes On lyrics - Paula Cole
Love child accident born to children themselves,
She nearly died on the table giving birth to her first back in ’63,
That was my sister Irene.
Moved into the trailer park in Ithaca, New York,
Took another job while he was going to school,
Another mouth to feed,
Well, that was me.
[Chorus:]
Oh round and round and round we go,
The seasons melt away like snow,
Oh round and round and round we go,
The years they pass away and life goes on.
Couldn’t stop trying too damned hard,
Being everything to everybody but he couldn’t hold up his heart,
And it broke him down.
So he left that town.
Moved again to the cold blue North, little town on the sea,
Innocent dreams of hope that they’d grow to be,
A little better than what he had.
[Chorus]
Father, eagle-scout, mentor, boy.
Silence the table with that bear in your voice.
My frozen fear, my swallowed tears,
Always coming down the hardest on the ones that you love best.
All my life I’ve looked to your eyes.
I’m looking back on the younger me trying so hard,
A fragile bird in the golden girl seeking love,
Her father’s child, walking in his stride.
And I’m looking now at the older man you’ve turned out to be,
The hardness has softened to empathy,
We’ve made amends, we’re better friends.
[Chorus]
She nearly died on the table giving birth to her first back in ’63,
That was my sister Irene.
Moved into the trailer park in Ithaca, New York,
Took another job while he was going to school,
Another mouth to feed,
Well, that was me.
[Chorus:]
Oh round and round and round we go,
The seasons melt away like snow,
Oh round and round and round we go,
The years they pass away and life goes on.
Couldn’t stop trying too damned hard,
Being everything to everybody but he couldn’t hold up his heart,
And it broke him down.
So he left that town.
Moved again to the cold blue North, little town on the sea,
Innocent dreams of hope that they’d grow to be,
A little better than what he had.
[Chorus]
Father, eagle-scout, mentor, boy.
Silence the table with that bear in your voice.
My frozen fear, my swallowed tears,
Always coming down the hardest on the ones that you love best.
All my life I’ve looked to your eyes.
I’m looking back on the younger me trying so hard,
A fragile bird in the golden girl seeking love,
Her father’s child, walking in his stride.
And I’m looking now at the older man you’ve turned out to be,
The hardness has softened to empathy,
We’ve made amends, we’re better friends.
[Chorus]
Strong Beautiful Woman lyrics - Paula Cole
Strong, beautiful woman, oh so don’t let the world get you down,
Look within yourself and remember who you are.
Ten years old in braids and skirts, I’m flying down the hill,
Down the street to Grandma’s house, I step inside her world.
First she’d hold me, feed me, scold me, patiently she’d heed my moaning,
Then she’d sit me down and tell me this.
You’ll be a strong, beautiful woman, and I won’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember who carried you forth.
You’ll be a strong, beautiful woman, and I won’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember who you are.
Twenty-six and leading the band, the troubadour traveling show.
Working in a world of men, broken-hearted and alone.
I lift my head up just long enough to cease self-pitying and doubt,
I feel her spirit with me now.
You are a strong, beautiful woman, so don’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember who carried you forth.
You are a strong, beautiful woman, so don’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember, who you are.
Decades come and decades go, the thirties, forties, on it goes,
Seems I’m always holding on to this.
You are a strong, beautiful woman, so don’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember who carried you forth.
You are a strong, beautiful woman, so don’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember who you are.
Look within yourself and remember who you are.
Ten years old in braids and skirts, I’m flying down the hill,
Down the street to Grandma’s house, I step inside her world.
First she’d hold me, feed me, scold me, patiently she’d heed my moaning,
Then she’d sit me down and tell me this.
You’ll be a strong, beautiful woman, and I won’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember who carried you forth.
You’ll be a strong, beautiful woman, and I won’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember who you are.
Twenty-six and leading the band, the troubadour traveling show.
Working in a world of men, broken-hearted and alone.
I lift my head up just long enough to cease self-pitying and doubt,
I feel her spirit with me now.
You are a strong, beautiful woman, so don’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember who carried you forth.
You are a strong, beautiful woman, so don’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember, who you are.
Decades come and decades go, the thirties, forties, on it goes,
Seems I’m always holding on to this.
You are a strong, beautiful woman, so don’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember who carried you forth.
You are a strong, beautiful woman, so don’t let the world let you down.
Look within yourself and remember who you are.
Eloise lyrics - Paula Cole
I know I’m not the woman you married,
those things we promised aren’t true
Like better for worse and loving as well as we could.
The most beautiful woman I witnessed,
I knew when your eyes met my eyes,
I thanked sweet Mary cause inside I died
Eloise, Eloise, forgive me please
So how did dark clouds come over,
and hurricane through our home,
you fell out of love,
And started to look around.
the jealousy I feel inside me,
is a tiger I cannot control.
I'm loving you, hating you
Spiraling down to hell.
Eloise, Eloise, forgive me please
You borrowed my Ford 55’ pickup,
I found it parked in the lot
[?]
You alone in my truck.
And then I don’t’ know what came over,
cause I don’t’ remember the blood,
From the bullet holes, the handcuffs, the cops,
Eloise, Eloise, forgive me please
Still you arrive at the hour,
still you stay married to me,
Our love will live through this.
Eloise, Eloise, forgive me please
those things we promised aren’t true
Like better for worse and loving as well as we could.
The most beautiful woman I witnessed,
I knew when your eyes met my eyes,
I thanked sweet Mary cause inside I died
Eloise, Eloise, forgive me please
So how did dark clouds come over,
and hurricane through our home,
you fell out of love,
And started to look around.
the jealousy I feel inside me,
is a tiger I cannot control.
I'm loving you, hating you
Spiraling down to hell.
Eloise, Eloise, forgive me please
You borrowed my Ford 55’ pickup,
I found it parked in the lot
[?]
You alone in my truck.
And then I don’t’ know what came over,
cause I don’t’ remember the blood,
From the bullet holes, the handcuffs, the cops,
Eloise, Eloise, forgive me please
Still you arrive at the hour,
still you stay married to me,
Our love will live through this.
Eloise, Eloise, forgive me please
Sorrow-On-The-Hudson lyrics - Paula Cole
Saturn returned to Aries and my star rose and rose,
I found my little town shoes walking down a red carpet,
Naively placed by flashing bulbs.
At school we were lovers then reunited in the eye of this storm,
But love and luck collided and I followed the work,
Arm in arm at the shining top but crumbling inside,
Smiling for the public but still holding back the nervous breakdowns.
Saturn returned to Aries and my love dove and dove.
The separation ache forked our way,
And you silently withheld.
With trust and courage we confessed to a steely-eyed counselor,
But it was too late we had paved our fate,
An abyss behind Saturn’s door.
There’s a sorrow on that Hudson,
There’s an eagle who is flying looking for
a single treetop to alight and make her nest.
Saturn returned to Aries in this house I bought for two,
So cavernous and lonely in this ivory tower,
Here without you.
Oh pain my teacher, my embittered friend,
Here you come to guide me again and again and again.
And I look outside my window and all I see is you:
Sorrow-on-the-Hudson, sunsets withering West,
I wake up, palpitations screaming in my breast,
I will get over this, I will grow past you,
Sorrow-on-the-Hudson show me what to do.
There’s a sorrow on that Hudson,
There’s an Indian who’s crying to the buildings
that are built upon his fathers’ fathers.
There’s a me who dying in your cold and mighty waters.
I found my little town shoes walking down a red carpet,
Naively placed by flashing bulbs.
At school we were lovers then reunited in the eye of this storm,
But love and luck collided and I followed the work,
Arm in arm at the shining top but crumbling inside,
Smiling for the public but still holding back the nervous breakdowns.
Saturn returned to Aries and my love dove and dove.
The separation ache forked our way,
And you silently withheld.
With trust and courage we confessed to a steely-eyed counselor,
But it was too late we had paved our fate,
An abyss behind Saturn’s door.
There’s a sorrow on that Hudson,
There’s an eagle who is flying looking for
a single treetop to alight and make her nest.
Saturn returned to Aries in this house I bought for two,
So cavernous and lonely in this ivory tower,
Here without you.
Oh pain my teacher, my embittered friend,
Here you come to guide me again and again and again.
And I look outside my window and all I see is you:
Sorrow-on-the-Hudson, sunsets withering West,
I wake up, palpitations screaming in my breast,
I will get over this, I will grow past you,
Sorrow-on-the-Hudson show me what to do.
There’s a sorrow on that Hudson,
There’s an Indian who’s crying to the buildings
that are built upon his fathers’ fathers.
There’s a me who dying in your cold and mighty waters.
Manitoba lyrics - Paula Cole
Falling North, of the Arctic Circle inside of you,
The bleakness, the cold eye of ice in you.
Tundra-heart, you banish all memories, all feeling,
You’re a distant cold-shoulder, I’m reeling.
Oh, we’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba.
(oh, oh, oh, oh)
Therapy, that big trigger-word that changes you,
And touches the bulls-eye of rage in you.
What’s your fear?
Remembering the abandoned little child,
Retreating in books while your father’s wild,
Oh, we’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba
Oh, we’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba.
(oh, oh, oh, oh)
Right by your side, naked and wide,
I feel my insides, start to come up inside my mouth.
It’s what I give, into this sieve,
It’s worse than lonely,
It’s hot tar on my innocence.
We’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba,
We’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba,
We’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba.
It’s what I give, into this sieve, it’s worse than lonely,
It’s hot tar on my innocence,
Right by your side, naked and wide,
It’s worse than lonely, it’s hot tar on my innocence.
The bleakness, the cold eye of ice in you.
Tundra-heart, you banish all memories, all feeling,
You’re a distant cold-shoulder, I’m reeling.
Oh, we’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba.
(oh, oh, oh, oh)
Therapy, that big trigger-word that changes you,
And touches the bulls-eye of rage in you.
What’s your fear?
Remembering the abandoned little child,
Retreating in books while your father’s wild,
Oh, we’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba
Oh, we’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba.
(oh, oh, oh, oh)
Right by your side, naked and wide,
I feel my insides, start to come up inside my mouth.
It’s what I give, into this sieve,
It’s worse than lonely,
It’s hot tar on my innocence.
We’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba,
We’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba,
We’re as dead as doors, we’re as dead as ashes,
Walking through your Manitoba, walking through your Manitoba.
It’s what I give, into this sieve, it’s worse than lonely,
It’s hot tar on my innocence,
Right by your side, naked and wide,
It’s worse than lonely, it’s hot tar on my innocence.
Scream lyrics - Paula Cole
Everyone is happy here
Until you walk in
Tossing your poison around and
Silencing with your toxicity
You cannot hear me scream.
Morning routines, bedtime routines,
Going through our motions here
Living inside the romanticizing,
That trapped us in a wicked dream.
I have lost my scream.
I am all alone on the rooftops
Wanting to fall.
I will let the wind hold my body
Drowning me out.
Can’t believe, can’t believe,
I’m back here at the table,
Watching your crooked ways
As you sashay through the kitchen scene,
God where is my scream?
I am all alone on the rooftops,
Wanting to fall.
I will let the wind into my heart
and devour these killing thoughts.
Somehow, somehow,
I’ve gotta pull myself through this,
There is a way to peace,
Discovering the dormant beast.
The one lost in my scream.
Open up my feelings.
God where is my scream?
Until you walk in
Tossing your poison around and
Silencing with your toxicity
You cannot hear me scream.
Morning routines, bedtime routines,
Going through our motions here
Living inside the romanticizing,
That trapped us in a wicked dream.
I have lost my scream.
I am all alone on the rooftops
Wanting to fall.
I will let the wind hold my body
Drowning me out.
Can’t believe, can’t believe,
I’m back here at the table,
Watching your crooked ways
As you sashay through the kitchen scene,
God where is my scream?
I am all alone on the rooftops,
Wanting to fall.
I will let the wind into my heart
and devour these killing thoughts.
Somehow, somehow,
I’ve gotta pull myself through this,
There is a way to peace,
Discovering the dormant beast.
The one lost in my scream.
Open up my feelings.
God where is my scream?
Imaginary Man lyrics - Paula Cole
I see him in my father,
I sense him in my mother,
My sister holds it in her hands,
It’s the heart of the Imaginary Man,
Oh I’ll do everything I can,
For the heart of the Imaginary Man,
I want to give all I can.
I look around me, the crowd about me,
There’s nobody to call to, nobody to hear me,
I’ll turn my back on them, I’m, I’m giving you my heart,
There’s somebody who loves me, who’s in my arms.
He comes to me when I’m sleeping,
To confess and tease and keep me bound,
He comes to me when I’m dreaming,
To ask me for my hand in vow,
Oh I’ll do everything I can,
For the heart of the Imaginary Man,
I want to give all I can.
I look around me, the crowd about me,
There’s nobody to call to, nobody to hear me,
I’ll turn my back on them, I’m, I’m giving you my heart,
There’s somebody who loves me, who’s in my arms.
Call me a lunatic for what I care, who on earth is better than the air –
Spiking the hair upon the small of my back,
Keeping me collared, enslaved and daggered,
No one knows my man, no one knows my secret plan –
I look around me, the crowd about me,
There’s nobody to call to, nobody to hear me,
I’ll turn my back on them, I’m, I’m giving you my heart,
There’s somebody who loves me, who’s in my arms.
I sense him in my mother,
My sister holds it in her hands,
It’s the heart of the Imaginary Man,
Oh I’ll do everything I can,
For the heart of the Imaginary Man,
I want to give all I can.
I look around me, the crowd about me,
There’s nobody to call to, nobody to hear me,
I’ll turn my back on them, I’m, I’m giving you my heart,
There’s somebody who loves me, who’s in my arms.
He comes to me when I’m sleeping,
To confess and tease and keep me bound,
He comes to me when I’m dreaming,
To ask me for my hand in vow,
Oh I’ll do everything I can,
For the heart of the Imaginary Man,
I want to give all I can.
I look around me, the crowd about me,
There’s nobody to call to, nobody to hear me,
I’ll turn my back on them, I’m, I’m giving you my heart,
There’s somebody who loves me, who’s in my arms.
Call me a lunatic for what I care, who on earth is better than the air –
Spiking the hair upon the small of my back,
Keeping me collared, enslaved and daggered,
No one knows my man, no one knows my secret plan –
I look around me, the crowd about me,
There’s nobody to call to, nobody to hear me,
I’ll turn my back on them, I’m, I’m giving you my heart,
There’s somebody who loves me, who’s in my arms.
Billy Joe lyrics - Paula Cole
The snowstorm blankets Cinncinnati.
A black crow flies straight to my window
He looks me in the eye and tells me,
The price for this will bring you sorrow.
Billy Joe, I cast a shadow, from the darkness in my soul,
Billy Joe, I lost control, the little girl who can’t say no.
The bus pulls in another city,
Wake up and don’t know where we are.
Four months without a loving shoulder.
At night I cannot fight the loving you start.
Billy Joe, I cast a shadow, from the darkness in my soul,
Billy Joe, I lost control, it was just a passing whimsical…
Billy Joe, Billy Joe, Billy Joe
Billy Joe, Billy Joe, Billy Joe
The price for this will bring you sorrow…
Billy Joe, I cast a shadow, from the darkness in my soul,
Billy Joe, you think you know - once burned twice sociological,
Billy Joe, don’t be cold, my mistakes are no worse than yours,
Billy Joe, this lonely road, conjures up the inner ghosts,
Billy Joe, I let you go, spread my legs to ease this woe,
Billy Joe, It was just a moment, don’t you see that I am yours.
Billy Joe, Billy Joe, Billy Joe.
A black crow flies straight to my window
He looks me in the eye and tells me,
The price for this will bring you sorrow.
Billy Joe, I cast a shadow, from the darkness in my soul,
Billy Joe, I lost control, the little girl who can’t say no.
The bus pulls in another city,
Wake up and don’t know where we are.
Four months without a loving shoulder.
At night I cannot fight the loving you start.
Billy Joe, I cast a shadow, from the darkness in my soul,
Billy Joe, I lost control, it was just a passing whimsical…
Billy Joe, Billy Joe, Billy Joe
Billy Joe, Billy Joe, Billy Joe
The price for this will bring you sorrow…
Billy Joe, I cast a shadow, from the darkness in my soul,
Billy Joe, you think you know - once burned twice sociological,
Billy Joe, don’t be cold, my mistakes are no worse than yours,
Billy Joe, this lonely road, conjures up the inner ghosts,
Billy Joe, I let you go, spread my legs to ease this woe,
Billy Joe, It was just a moment, don’t you see that I am yours.
Billy Joe, Billy Joe, Billy Joe.
Secretary lyrics - Paula Cole
I’ll be your secretary, oh.
I’ll fetch your vodka on the rocks,
I’ll be your secretary, oh,
I’ll reach up towards the highest shelf and,
You’ll sidle up behind me,
I do not know you’re there,
Until I feel your hands are sliding hands up my two thighs and I…
And I want it violent,
And I want it mental,
And I want it gentle.
I’ll be your secretary, oh,
I’ll kneel down on the floor (in front of you)
I’ll be your secretary, oh,
I’ll open up my mouth and you will
lift me up and lay me over
Your secretary,
Until I feel your hands are sliding hands up my two thighs and I…
And I want it violent,
And I want it mental,
And I want it gentle.
I’ll be your secretary, oh,
So kneel down on the floor in front of me,
You’ll be my secretary, oh,
Now come and be my Florence Nightingale.
I want you in my apron,
I want you to paint the walls,
I want to come and smack you,
Make you hot and sore, now get down on the floor, and I…
And I want it violent,
And I want it mental,
And I want it gentle.
I’ll be your secretary, oh.
Why Don't You Go? lyrics - Paula Cole
Don’t believe, you’re still with me,
How much pain, can we take?
Why don’t you go?
Why don’t you go?
Why don’t you go a-lookin’ boy,
and find another girl,
Why don’t you go.
Do you really want me?
All of my ugly?
Seems I bleed the one,
the one I love this deeply.
Why don’t you go?
Why don’t you go?
Why don’t you go a-lookin’ boy,
and find another girl,
Why don’t’ you go.
A plague of low self-esteem.
Pathetic, fulfilling needs.
Just leave me emptier.
The shame to face the mirror.
I see her she’s calling, calling.
She’s crying for freedom, freedom.
The light in her eyes is an angel’s.
With love she’ll break from her shell.
How much pain, can we take?
Why don’t you go?
Why don’t you go?
Why don’t you go a-lookin’ boy,
and find another girl,
Why don’t you go.
Do you really want me?
All of my ugly?
Seems I bleed the one,
the one I love this deeply.
Why don’t you go?
Why don’t you go?
Why don’t you go a-lookin’ boy,
and find another girl,
Why don’t’ you go.
A plague of low self-esteem.
Pathetic, fulfilling needs.
Just leave me emptier.
The shame to face the mirror.
I see her she’s calling, calling.
She’s crying for freedom, freedom.
The light in her eyes is an angel’s.
With love she’ll break from her shell.
Red Corsette lyrics - Paula Cole
I am not your enemy, I am not your dream unlived.
I am just this song I have today.
All I have is melody and string.
If Frida Kahlo could see us here together, here today,
She’d paint us in some churches, in some feathers, in some gray.
She’d see us in our suffering and cut our arteries,
And there would flow down fountains, flow down fountains
From my Red Corsette.
Whale bone from the killing of the largest peaceful being,
Is blue and bound around my waist and will not let me sing,
I cannot breathe, I feel too faint just as they’d have me be,
But I do not belong here, I am shedding off this, shredding off this
Red Corsette.
I am not your enemy, I am not your dream unlived.
I am just this song I have today.
All I have is melody and pain.
I don’t have the words inside for oceans upon oceans cried,
All I have is this song today.
And I’ll sing it now for those who cannot,
Sing it now for those who dare not,
Sing it now for those who know not,
Red Corsette.
I am just this song I have today.
All I have is melody and string.
If Frida Kahlo could see us here together, here today,
She’d paint us in some churches, in some feathers, in some gray.
She’d see us in our suffering and cut our arteries,
And there would flow down fountains, flow down fountains
From my Red Corsette.
Whale bone from the killing of the largest peaceful being,
Is blue and bound around my waist and will not let me sing,
I cannot breathe, I feel too faint just as they’d have me be,
But I do not belong here, I am shedding off this, shredding off this
Red Corsette.
I am not your enemy, I am not your dream unlived.
I am just this song I have today.
All I have is melody and pain.
I don’t have the words inside for oceans upon oceans cried,
All I have is this song today.
And I’ll sing it now for those who cannot,
Sing it now for those who dare not,
Sing it now for those who know not,
Red Corsette.
The Hard Way lyrics - Paula Cole
What a fall from Grace, what a cruel deceit,
What a lack of love behind the sociopathy.
Used me for your secrets, used me for some dimes,
Breaking blood upon this single mother’s whipping hide,
And this bitter wisdom makes me quiet and still.
Peace and happiness, in our hearth and home,
Just optimistic wishes from my blind and trusting hope.
If only I had listened to that inner voice,
I never would have carried out that people-pleasing choice.
And this bitter wisdom makes me scared to trust again.
I found out the hard way, I tasted the apple.
Found out the hard way, abandoned the garden of innocence.
Yes I walked the aisle to make a man of you,
But those very papers brought me unexpected truth.
Crawling back to zero, these lessons in my life,
Bring me closer to the tender mortal life am I,
And this sober wisdom brings silver linings to light.
I found out the hard way, I tasted the apple,
Found out the hard way, I played in the lightning,
Found out the hard way by pushing the boundaries,
Found out the hard way, abandoned the garden of innocence.
Found out the hard way, discovered a backbone,
Found out the hard way, I learned to love myself,
Found out the hard way, the payment for freedom,
Found out the hard way, abandoned the garden of innocence.
What a lack of love behind the sociopathy.
Used me for your secrets, used me for some dimes,
Breaking blood upon this single mother’s whipping hide,
And this bitter wisdom makes me quiet and still.
Peace and happiness, in our hearth and home,
Just optimistic wishes from my blind and trusting hope.
If only I had listened to that inner voice,
I never would have carried out that people-pleasing choice.
And this bitter wisdom makes me scared to trust again.
I found out the hard way, I tasted the apple.
Found out the hard way, abandoned the garden of innocence.
Yes I walked the aisle to make a man of you,
But those very papers brought me unexpected truth.
Crawling back to zero, these lessons in my life,
Bring me closer to the tender mortal life am I,
And this sober wisdom brings silver linings to light.
I found out the hard way, I tasted the apple,
Found out the hard way, I played in the lightning,
Found out the hard way by pushing the boundaries,
Found out the hard way, abandoned the garden of innocence.
Found out the hard way, discovered a backbone,
Found out the hard way, I learned to love myself,
Found out the hard way, the payment for freedom,
Found out the hard way, abandoned the garden of innocence.
Waiting On A Miracle lyrics - Paula Cole
A tree it grows in Brooklyn, the force it grows in me,
I’m cracking up the concrete of a life that nearly killed me.
A woman’s just a man away from Welfare so they say,
And Lord I know it to be true, when you’re married by the State.
Yes I’m waiting on a miracle, yes I’m waiting for the sun to shine in,
Waiting, on a miracle, yes I’m waiting for the sun to shine in.
No restraining order, what a fool was she,
A trusting small-town innocent in love with mystery,
You can take the boy from the ghetto, but the ghetto from the boy?
I guess he won his fool’s gold from another woman’s life.
Yes I’m waiting on a miracle, yes I’m waiting for the sun to shine in,
Waiting, on a miracle, yes I’m waiting for the sun to shine in.
Thank you for the laughter, thank you for these tears,
Thank you for my daughter and teaching me no fear,
The money never mattered, just to pay to get us free,
I have my girl, now leave my world, good luck back on the street.
Yes I’m waiting on a miracle, yes I’m waiting for the sun to shine in,
Waiting on a miracle, waiting for the sun to shine in.
I’m cracking up the concrete of a life that nearly killed me.
A woman’s just a man away from Welfare so they say,
And Lord I know it to be true, when you’re married by the State.
Yes I’m waiting on a miracle, yes I’m waiting for the sun to shine in,
Waiting, on a miracle, yes I’m waiting for the sun to shine in.
No restraining order, what a fool was she,
A trusting small-town innocent in love with mystery,
You can take the boy from the ghetto, but the ghetto from the boy?
I guess he won his fool’s gold from another woman’s life.
Yes I’m waiting on a miracle, yes I’m waiting for the sun to shine in,
Waiting, on a miracle, yes I’m waiting for the sun to shine in.
Thank you for the laughter, thank you for these tears,
Thank you for my daughter and teaching me no fear,
The money never mattered, just to pay to get us free,
I have my girl, now leave my world, good luck back on the street.
Yes I’m waiting on a miracle, yes I’m waiting for the sun to shine in,
Waiting on a miracle, waiting for the sun to shine in.
Music In Me lyrics - Paula Cole
The echo of shame, the voice inside my head,
The need for love, the insecurity.
Cutting me down, to the fourteen year old girl,
The Father Figure criticizing me.
Go on – through the darkest night,
Cause I know inside the answer’s here in me.
There’s blood on my soul, for speaking out my pain,
Perpetuating hurt in family.
My mother in me – I cannot explain,
My need for love from her will never wane.
Go on – through the darkest night,
Cause I know inside the answer’s here in me.
Go on – the shadowboxing fight
Disappears when all the music’s here in me.
Like an oracle the music’s here in me.
And I thank you God for music here in me.
Go on – through the darkest night,
Cause I know inside the answer’s here in me
Go on – the shadowboxing fight
And I’ll heal with understanding,
And I’ll deal with patient loving,
And I’ll make it cause the music’s here in me.
The need for love, the insecurity.
Cutting me down, to the fourteen year old girl,
The Father Figure criticizing me.
Go on – through the darkest night,
Cause I know inside the answer’s here in me.
There’s blood on my soul, for speaking out my pain,
Perpetuating hurt in family.
My mother in me – I cannot explain,
My need for love from her will never wane.
Go on – through the darkest night,
Cause I know inside the answer’s here in me.
Go on – the shadowboxing fight
Disappears when all the music’s here in me.
Like an oracle the music’s here in me.
And I thank you God for music here in me.
Go on – through the darkest night,
Cause I know inside the answer’s here in me
Go on – the shadowboxing fight
And I’ll heal with understanding,
And I’ll deal with patient loving,
And I’ll make it cause the music’s here in me.
Elegy lyrics - Paula Cole
Who is this hurting mother?
Don’t want to be her now.
Who in the hell’s that sad reflection?
How did I lose myself?
How many times I walk the river, wondering what life’s for,
Sobbing beneath the staid performance,
Too scared to let it out.
Duty calls…duty calls…
Who is this hurting daughter,
Going down the rabbit hole?
Falling into a crushing darkness,
Shedding skins of the soul.
How many times I walk the river, wanting to lose myself?
Weight of an overcoat of sorrow,
Too sensitive for this world.
Duty call…duty calls…
Time to do the drop off, time to make the meals,
Time to greet the neighbors, be a perfect ten,
Smiling in the exterior, but nervous and distressed,
Plodding on this treadmill, take another pill.
Start another morning, wake to the alarm,
Rise up in the darkness, get inside the car,
Join the rank and file, thousands in the flow,
Minnows on the freeway, on and on it goes…
I don’t want to go.
I don’t want to live this.
I don’t want this life.
There is more than this.
Who is that serious child,
The one left alone?
Mother is in the kitchen crying again,
No use to ask for help
So it goes...so it goes...
Don’t want to be her now.
Who in the hell’s that sad reflection?
How did I lose myself?
How many times I walk the river, wondering what life’s for,
Sobbing beneath the staid performance,
Too scared to let it out.
Duty calls…duty calls…
Who is this hurting daughter,
Going down the rabbit hole?
Falling into a crushing darkness,
Shedding skins of the soul.
How many times I walk the river, wanting to lose myself?
Weight of an overcoat of sorrow,
Too sensitive for this world.
Duty call…duty calls…
Time to do the drop off, time to make the meals,
Time to greet the neighbors, be a perfect ten,
Smiling in the exterior, but nervous and distressed,
Plodding on this treadmill, take another pill.
Start another morning, wake to the alarm,
Rise up in the darkness, get inside the car,
Join the rank and file, thousands in the flow,
Minnows on the freeway, on and on it goes…
I don’t want to go.
I don’t want to live this.
I don’t want this life.
There is more than this.
Who is that serious child,
The one left alone?
Mother is in the kitchen crying again,
No use to ask for help
So it goes...so it goes...
Come On Inside lyrics - Paula Cole
You mean the world to me, I knew that moment then.
Your eyes poured into mine, I saw myself.
You now are home to me, it’s in the little things.
We now have years between, silences of knowing,
Eternities in seconds, unfolding in dreams I feel the future of our lives.
Come on inside this broken heart and make a home.
Come on inside these empty arms and hold me close.
Come on inside the bedtime covers, feel my warmth.
Come on inside my secret places, I am yours.
There is a universe, there is a galaxy,
There is an easy chair, here inside of me.
Waiting here for you and me,
Let’s build a life together - I’ve waited too long.
Come on inside this broken heart and make a home.
Come on inside these empty arms and hold me close.
Come on inside the quilted covers, feel my warmth.
Come on inside my secret places, I am yours.
Maybe fire raged, maybe karma played its way,
Maybe all my life was blind so I could find you.
Come on inside this broken heart and make a home.
Come on inside these empty arms and hold me close.
Come on inside the nighttime covers, feel my warmth.
Come on inside my secret places, I am yours.
Your eyes poured into mine, I saw myself.
You now are home to me, it’s in the little things.
We now have years between, silences of knowing,
Eternities in seconds, unfolding in dreams I feel the future of our lives.
Come on inside this broken heart and make a home.
Come on inside these empty arms and hold me close.
Come on inside the bedtime covers, feel my warmth.
Come on inside my secret places, I am yours.
There is a universe, there is a galaxy,
There is an easy chair, here inside of me.
Waiting here for you and me,
Let’s build a life together - I’ve waited too long.
Come on inside this broken heart and make a home.
Come on inside these empty arms and hold me close.
Come on inside the quilted covers, feel my warmth.
Come on inside my secret places, I am yours.
Maybe fire raged, maybe karma played its way,
Maybe all my life was blind so I could find you.
Come on inside this broken heart and make a home.
Come on inside these empty arms and hold me close.
Come on inside the nighttime covers, feel my warmth.
Come on inside my secret places, I am yours.
P.R.E.N.U.P. lyrics - Paula Cole
Prenup, babygirl, prenup baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
Prenup, babygirl, prenup baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
This is a page from my own life,
Here’s some advice:
Before you sign on the dotted line,
Filled with hope for the perfect life,
Love yourself enough for peace of mind.
Prenup, babygirl, prenup, baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
Prenup, babygirl, prenup, baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
Think of the years you dedicate
Think of today.
Billie and Aretha sang - mind yourself with some self-respect,
Self-love indeed is highest love.
Prenup, babygirl, prenup, baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
Prenup, babygirl, prenup, baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
In a D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
Self-R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
F.Y.I., I’m T.C.B.
Cause I.O.U. nothin’ baby,
My P.O.V.’s here for posterity
So you’ll be free A.S.A.P.
P.R.E.N.U.P,
P.R.E.N.U.P.
Prenup, babygirl, prenup baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
This is a page from my own life,
Here’s some advice:
Before you sign on the dotted line,
Filled with hope for the perfect life,
Love yourself enough for peace of mind.
Prenup, babygirl, prenup, baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
Prenup, babygirl, prenup, baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
Think of the years you dedicate
Think of today.
Billie and Aretha sang - mind yourself with some self-respect,
Self-love indeed is highest love.
Prenup, babygirl, prenup, baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
Prenup, babygirl, prenup, baby, P.R.E.N.U.P.
In a D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
Self-R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
F.Y.I., I’m T.C.B.
Cause I.O.U. nothin’ baby,
My P.O.V.’s here for posterity
So you’ll be free A.S.A.P.
P.R.E.N.U.P,
P.R.E.N.U.P.
Violet Eyes lyrics - Paula Cole
Years keep dripping away, I notice the little things,
Moments in a mirror, holding the paper farther.
Moving slower and feeling colder,
Scared to trust my heart to another.
But I realized in the bottom of my well, that I was nowhere: safe but still in hell.
I had to pick myself up and believe that I would love again.
Yes, I will love again.
And I’ll love you for life, heart of my cry, darling of mine.
And I’ll walk through this fire, lay down my life, my violet eyes.
Oh Universe, oh Godly place, delivered you in a Christmas cake.
Sweaters and cheddars and knowing your mother,
Poems, and lamas, and children among us,
Valentines, and showing spine,
Going after what was mine
So divine, those kisses on our first night,
And patience and wisdom pulling us to each-other, blessings in finding our life together,
I’m picking myself up and believing that I will love again.
Yes I do love again.
And I’ll love you for life, heart of my cry, darling of mine.
And I’ll walk through this fire, lay down my life, my violet eyes.
A notarized paper will never together make our unity.
The wreckage of marriage, the bloody damned baggage between you and me,
Won’t tarnish this silent of sacred decrees,
That I will, I will be
Yours eternally.
And I’ll love you for life, heart of my cry, darling of mine.
And I’ll walk through this fire, lay down my life, my violet eyes,
Violet eyes, violet eyes.
Moments in a mirror, holding the paper farther.
Moving slower and feeling colder,
Scared to trust my heart to another.
But I realized in the bottom of my well, that I was nowhere: safe but still in hell.
I had to pick myself up and believe that I would love again.
Yes, I will love again.
And I’ll love you for life, heart of my cry, darling of mine.
And I’ll walk through this fire, lay down my life, my violet eyes.
Oh Universe, oh Godly place, delivered you in a Christmas cake.
Sweaters and cheddars and knowing your mother,
Poems, and lamas, and children among us,
Valentines, and showing spine,
Going after what was mine
So divine, those kisses on our first night,
And patience and wisdom pulling us to each-other, blessings in finding our life together,
I’m picking myself up and believing that I will love again.
Yes I do love again.
And I’ll love you for life, heart of my cry, darling of mine.
And I’ll walk through this fire, lay down my life, my violet eyes.
A notarized paper will never together make our unity.
The wreckage of marriage, the bloody damned baggage between you and me,
Won’t tarnish this silent of sacred decrees,
That I will, I will be
Yours eternally.
And I’ll love you for life, heart of my cry, darling of mine.
And I’ll walk through this fire, lay down my life, my violet eyes,
Violet eyes, violet eyes.
Somethin' I've Gotta Say lyrics - Paula Cole
I lost but I did not lose the lesson,
No, I was so lonely there at the top of my mountain,
And I can be the Joan of Arc of courage,
But with one touch of lust I crumbled in his arms.
Maybe I don’t understand what it takes to make it last,
It doesn’t help when little girls are pushed too far and too damned fast,
They grow up to be the woman dancing in a cage,
And learning too late the acquiescing turns to rage.
There’s somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say.
What I love is also what I hate.
This music kills me then forces me to stand up straight,
So don’t confuse positivity for naïveté,
The great ones walked through hell to become that way.
And oh my God the tests get harder,
My love and I are torn apart,
Why do I feel I must choose between my music and my heart,
Futile pressure running on this hamster wheel,
I will walk down the path of motherhood I feel.
There’s somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say, say, say, say.
All my life I strove to be the first one in my family to achieve,
Grab a hold of that brass ring,
But money’s so empty, the road will leave you lonelier than lonely, I’m sorry,
I learned my lesson late in life and love, forgive me.
There’s somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
There’s somethin’ I’ve gotta say, in my life, in my time, talking about it.
There’s somethin’ I’ve gotta say, say, say, say and today’s gonna be my day.
No, I was so lonely there at the top of my mountain,
And I can be the Joan of Arc of courage,
But with one touch of lust I crumbled in his arms.
Maybe I don’t understand what it takes to make it last,
It doesn’t help when little girls are pushed too far and too damned fast,
They grow up to be the woman dancing in a cage,
And learning too late the acquiescing turns to rage.
There’s somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say.
What I love is also what I hate.
This music kills me then forces me to stand up straight,
So don’t confuse positivity for naïveté,
The great ones walked through hell to become that way.
And oh my God the tests get harder,
My love and I are torn apart,
Why do I feel I must choose between my music and my heart,
Futile pressure running on this hamster wheel,
I will walk down the path of motherhood I feel.
There’s somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say, say, say, say.
All my life I strove to be the first one in my family to achieve,
Grab a hold of that brass ring,
But money’s so empty, the road will leave you lonelier than lonely, I’m sorry,
I learned my lesson late in life and love, forgive me.
There’s somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
Somethin’ I’ve gotta say,
There’s somethin’ I’ve gotta say, in my life, in my time, talking about it.
There’s somethin’ I’ve gotta say, say, say, say and today’s gonna be my day.
Sex lyrics - Paula Cole
Come down here and lie with me,
Tonight the soil is wet and ready,
I watched the way you danced tonight,
And I’m picturing you as I touch my inside.
Full pink lips and fingertips,
I’m drinking you in little sips,
God I love you, God I love you,
I’m going to do some things I never dared to do.
I’m going to whisper in your ear,
Tell you little things,
Nasty, trashy, dirty love letters,
More creative than the magazines,
I’ll breathe until you come,
Kiss you ‘til you’re done,
Three thousand miles away,
In another state,
Talking on the telephone.
My sugar’s down deep in South America,
Singing in Brazil,
Where the women shake their nature,
Greased up with fuck-me-pumps and a postage stamp thong.
Better go back to your room,
And call me on the telephone,
Get on my roller coaster ride,
My tilt-a-whirl,
My tunnel of love will make your heart unfurl.
I’m going to whisper in your ear,
Tell you little things,
Nasty, trashy, dirty love letters,
More creative than the magazines,
I’ll breathe until you come,
Kiss you ‘til you’re done,
Three thousand miles away,
In another state,
Talking on the telephone.
Now that you're gone and I'm on the road,
Now that you're gone, I'll love you from afar.
Now that you're gone and I'm on the road,
Now that you're gone, I'll love you from afar.
Get back down upon your knees.
Rip, unzip, undo me, please.
My legs are oiled up, Mamita's down.
I've got my brand new four-inch high heels on.
I’m going to whisper in your ear,
Tell you little things,
Nasty, trashy, dirty love letters,
More creative than the magazines,
I’ll breathe until you come,
Kiss you ‘til you’re done,
Three thousand miles away,
In another state,
Talking on the telephone.
Now that you're gone and I'm on the road,
And now that you're gone, I'll love you from afar.
Now that you're gone and I'm on the road,
And now that you're gone, I'll love you from afar.
Tonight the soil is wet and ready,
I watched the way you danced tonight,
And I’m picturing you as I touch my inside.
Full pink lips and fingertips,
I’m drinking you in little sips,
God I love you, God I love you,
I’m going to do some things I never dared to do.
I’m going to whisper in your ear,
Tell you little things,
Nasty, trashy, dirty love letters,
More creative than the magazines,
I’ll breathe until you come,
Kiss you ‘til you’re done,
Three thousand miles away,
In another state,
Talking on the telephone.
My sugar’s down deep in South America,
Singing in Brazil,
Where the women shake their nature,
Greased up with fuck-me-pumps and a postage stamp thong.
Better go back to your room,
And call me on the telephone,
Get on my roller coaster ride,
My tilt-a-whirl,
My tunnel of love will make your heart unfurl.
I’m going to whisper in your ear,
Tell you little things,
Nasty, trashy, dirty love letters,
More creative than the magazines,
I’ll breathe until you come,
Kiss you ‘til you’re done,
Three thousand miles away,
In another state,
Talking on the telephone.
Now that you're gone and I'm on the road,
Now that you're gone, I'll love you from afar.
Now that you're gone and I'm on the road,
Now that you're gone, I'll love you from afar.
Get back down upon your knees.
Rip, unzip, undo me, please.
My legs are oiled up, Mamita's down.
I've got my brand new four-inch high heels on.
I’m going to whisper in your ear,
Tell you little things,
Nasty, trashy, dirty love letters,
More creative than the magazines,
I’ll breathe until you come,
Kiss you ‘til you’re done,
Three thousand miles away,
In another state,
Talking on the telephone.
Now that you're gone and I'm on the road,
And now that you're gone, I'll love you from afar.
Now that you're gone and I'm on the road,
And now that you're gone, I'll love you from afar.
2 Lifetimes lyrics - Paula Cole
We were born into this life to cry and yearn and learn and die.
We lose the plot, we play the parts,
But only once we have this heart,
This chance between...
2 lifetimes, constellations-sparkling-lectric-energy,
The pull between,
2 lifetimes, take my hand and walk upon the path with me,
Reality, is love.
All we leave behind is lost,
Just things to gather lust and dust.
The house for sale, the grand estates,
The echoes of the somebodies,
Who sought love in...
2 lifetimes, constellations-sparkling-lectric-energy,
The pull between,
2 lifetimes, blessed holy moment in the unity,
The most sacred thing,
2 lifetimes, take my hand and walk upon the path with me,
Reality,
2 lifetimes, rivers under bridges past and future meet,
The way between...
2 lifetimes.
All that lives is love.
We lose the plot, we play the parts,
But only once we have this heart,
This chance between...
2 lifetimes, constellations-sparkling-lectric-energy,
The pull between,
2 lifetimes, take my hand and walk upon the path with me,
Reality, is love.
All we leave behind is lost,
Just things to gather lust and dust.
The house for sale, the grand estates,
The echoes of the somebodies,
Who sought love in...
2 lifetimes, constellations-sparkling-lectric-energy,
The pull between,
2 lifetimes, blessed holy moment in the unity,
The most sacred thing,
2 lifetimes, take my hand and walk upon the path with me,
Reality,
2 lifetimes, rivers under bridges past and future meet,
The way between...
2 lifetimes.
All that lives is love.
Comin' Down lyrics - Paula Cole
Lord make me a lightning bolt to burn off this ring
(comin' down, comin' down),
Lord make me a Skilsaw to cut through these chains
(comin' down, comin' down),
Lord give me the clarity to see through this smoke,
And salvage the woman comin' down.
Lord make me an arrow to pierce through the lies
(comin' down, comin' down),
Lord make me a lens to better see my life
(comin' down, comin' down),
Lord make me an instrument to sing away the pain,
This rushing river, comin' down.
I'm free, here in the mountains of peace may I be.
I see the greatness above and the smallness of me.
Lord I'm mistaken in the choices that I made
(comin' down, comin' down)
I made me a prison that should've been a man
(comin' down, comin' down)
Lord help me discover the courage to Be,
To handle these changes comin' down.
I'm free here in the mountains of peace may I be,
I see the greatness above and the smallness of me.
So free, here in garden awake consciously,
I see the greatness within; the greatness in me.
Lord I'm your instrument, I'll shoulder the weight,
Of feeling emotions in a deeper shade.
I'll be the one who puts them to song,
And liberate the heartache comin' down.
(comin' down, comin' down),
Lord make me a Skilsaw to cut through these chains
(comin' down, comin' down),
Lord give me the clarity to see through this smoke,
And salvage the woman comin' down.
Lord make me an arrow to pierce through the lies
(comin' down, comin' down),
Lord make me a lens to better see my life
(comin' down, comin' down),
Lord make me an instrument to sing away the pain,
This rushing river, comin' down.
I'm free, here in the mountains of peace may I be.
I see the greatness above and the smallness of me.
Lord I'm mistaken in the choices that I made
(comin' down, comin' down)
I made me a prison that should've been a man
(comin' down, comin' down)
Lord help me discover the courage to Be,
To handle these changes comin' down.
I'm free here in the mountains of peace may I be,
I see the greatness above and the smallness of me.
So free, here in garden awake consciously,
I see the greatness within; the greatness in me.
Lord I'm your instrument, I'll shoulder the weight,
Of feeling emotions in a deeper shade.
I'll be the one who puts them to song,
And liberate the heartache comin' down.
Love Light (Cardinal) lyrics - Paula Cole
Crimson cardinal sees his life,
Into the glass he fl ies.
The perfect partner he does spy,
A moment's glance of eyes.
Refl ections of a future love,
Feel the pull of fate.
The perfect love turned out to be,
Himself in haste and vain,
Passion's fl ash of red,
Bloodied on the pane.
In your eyes I fi nd,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight.
Blinded by surprise,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight.
All the qualities I loved,
Now bite me black and blue.
All the joys you loved in me,
Come biting back at you.
So innocent we found ourselves,
Becoming what we feared.
'Til death do us our shadows part,
Make room through all these tears,
'Til something new appears,
Reborn in this nadir.
In your eyes I fi nd,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight.
Blinded by surprise,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight.
I won't fi nd happiness, looking outside myself.
I'll fi nd my happiness, looking inside myself.
Into the glass he fl ies.
The perfect partner he does spy,
A moment's glance of eyes.
Refl ections of a future love,
Feel the pull of fate.
The perfect love turned out to be,
Himself in haste and vain,
Passion's fl ash of red,
Bloodied on the pane.
In your eyes I fi nd,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight.
Blinded by surprise,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight.
All the qualities I loved,
Now bite me black and blue.
All the joys you loved in me,
Come biting back at you.
So innocent we found ourselves,
Becoming what we feared.
'Til death do us our shadows part,
Make room through all these tears,
'Til something new appears,
Reborn in this nadir.
In your eyes I fi nd,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight.
Blinded by surprise,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight,
You are my lovelight.
I won't fi nd happiness, looking outside myself.
I'll fi nd my happiness, looking inside myself.
El Greco lyrics - Paula Cole
I'm black on blacker velvet,
Milk skin and veins,
Like some El Greco painting,
So full of pain.
So full of longing for light of day.
I thought I knew who I was in the world.
But here I am twice blind at being born,
Crawling to my buried voice, within.
And I've forgotten who I used to be.
And I've forgotten the woman in red,
Living her dream.
And I've forgotten the courage I used to be.
Happiness is overrated,
It never lasts.
Skating the surface of oceanic depths.
Oh may the fruit of my life be meaning.
So please forgive me all my seriousness,
My so-called spirituality,
I'm just a mess.
I'm tears and anxiety,
But I'm unafraid to See.
And I've forgotten who I used to be,
The leader in her glory shining, divining.
And I've forgotten, the courage I used to be,
The middle passage is so damned humbling, persona crumbling,
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
And I try, and I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know,
And I try, and I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
Like some El Greco painting,
No sun or sky.
No lantern, no candle needed to light,
The holy radiance behind the eyes.
And I've forgotten who I used to be.
And I've forgotten the woman in red, living her dream.
And I've forgotten the courage I used to be.
I don't know...
Milk skin and veins,
Like some El Greco painting,
So full of pain.
So full of longing for light of day.
I thought I knew who I was in the world.
But here I am twice blind at being born,
Crawling to my buried voice, within.
And I've forgotten who I used to be.
And I've forgotten the woman in red,
Living her dream.
And I've forgotten the courage I used to be.
Happiness is overrated,
It never lasts.
Skating the surface of oceanic depths.
Oh may the fruit of my life be meaning.
So please forgive me all my seriousness,
My so-called spirituality,
I'm just a mess.
I'm tears and anxiety,
But I'm unafraid to See.
And I've forgotten who I used to be,
The leader in her glory shining, divining.
And I've forgotten, the courage I used to be,
The middle passage is so damned humbling, persona crumbling,
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
And I try, and I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know,
And I try, and I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
Like some El Greco painting,
No sun or sky.
No lantern, no candle needed to light,
The holy radiance behind the eyes.
And I've forgotten who I used to be.
And I've forgotten the woman in red, living her dream.
And I've forgotten the courage I used to be.
I don't know...
Lonely Town lyrics - Paula Cole
Spin the globe, stop and start.
Come to a place that's torn apart.
Here's a secret, it's my heart,
Oh well,
It's only...
Broken shutters, whistling wind,
Vultures circling overhead,
Tumbleweeds fl y,
Dust in my eyes,
Guess it's not my feelings crying.
Peeling paint on empty homes,
Where people lived in this town long ago,
Packed their bags, nailed down the door,
To Lonelytown.
Oh I once had a love of my life,
The sun of my soul.
But I took him for granted,
Ignored all the signs,
And now it's just memories and passing ghosts.
Spiderwebs and weeds waist high,
Abandoned schoolyards and rusted wire.
Looking for love,
Looking for life,
In Lonelytown.
If you're lucky with a love of your own.
Remember this in a nutshell I've told:
Hold them close and don't let go,
And cherish forevermore.
Or you will live in Lonelytown.
Come to a place that's torn apart.
Here's a secret, it's my heart,
Oh well,
It's only...
Broken shutters, whistling wind,
Vultures circling overhead,
Tumbleweeds fl y,
Dust in my eyes,
Guess it's not my feelings crying.
Peeling paint on empty homes,
Where people lived in this town long ago,
Packed their bags, nailed down the door,
To Lonelytown.
Oh I once had a love of my life,
The sun of my soul.
But I took him for granted,
Ignored all the signs,
And now it's just memories and passing ghosts.
Spiderwebs and weeds waist high,
Abandoned schoolyards and rusted wire.
Looking for love,
Looking for life,
In Lonelytown.
If you're lucky with a love of your own.
Remember this in a nutshell I've told:
Hold them close and don't let go,
And cherish forevermore.
Or you will live in Lonelytown.
14 lyrics - Paula Cole
Your eyes, they conjure up those cliffs of Moher
Far away I'm not listening anymore
Dreaming of life on another shore
Not here, not now with me the bore
So I stopped talking and fade to bleak
Feeling insignificant after feeling weak
Even though it's not who I know myself to be
The queen, the confidence doesn't speak
[Chorus]
But I was 14 with my passion and 15 with my best
16 with ego and zero with the rest, oh yeah
My heart is a POW tangled in my chest
I don't know how to communicate in a cardiac arrest
Your eyes they, drown me in your sadness
Your words, they bring hurricanes
I'm braving Shakespearian tempest
The mighty tiger doesn't blink
[Chorus]
I think you were the one
Silent suffering inside
The one got away
I was too dangerous to hide
[Chorus]
So I stopped talking, baby
Cause you always want me to shut up
Take this ever stage me
While I become you trusted silent prop
So take good care
This mighty woman's ready to explode
Fire here on the surface of my volcano
Hard To Be Soft lyrics - Paula Cole
Where's my white knight,
My prince to save the day?
I've always paved my own way.
I'm all alone, Bringing home the bread,
Raising the kid, fi xing the bed.
I wanna be a star, Like Marilyn Monroe,
A Cinderella Fantasy, A naive Clara Bow,
A princess and the pea, I try to play the part,
Surrounded by society, Hypnotizing me,
It's hard to be soft.
I'm all alone, At the mommy and me,
Wishing for some company,
I'm the only one, Keeping the home alive,
Making the meals, She's 9 to 5.
I wanna have a star, Like Marilyn Monroe,
A Cinderella fantasy, A naive Clara Bow,
A princess and the pea, We try to play the part,
Surrounded by society, Hypnotizing me,
It's hard to be soft.
Out there on my own,
Successful in the world,
It works to be so strong,
But when I come home,
My pendulum's outta control,
I'm passive or I let my fi re blow.
In a man's world it's hard to be soft.
I don't want to be a star,
Like Marilyn Monroe,
A Cinderella fantasy,
A naive Clara Bow,
A princess and the pea,
I try to play the part,
Surrounded by society,
Hypnotizing me to be,
Home-baked apple pie,
A centerfold in heels,
A Betty Crocker Pamela,
Complacent to believe,
In my Mr. Right,
A pipe and slippers guy,
A ready, steady, rock-hard Eddy,
Oops not always, guess it's only,
Hard to be soft.
My prince to save the day?
I've always paved my own way.
I'm all alone, Bringing home the bread,
Raising the kid, fi xing the bed.
I wanna be a star, Like Marilyn Monroe,
A Cinderella Fantasy, A naive Clara Bow,
A princess and the pea, I try to play the part,
Surrounded by society, Hypnotizing me,
It's hard to be soft.
I'm all alone, At the mommy and me,
Wishing for some company,
I'm the only one, Keeping the home alive,
Making the meals, She's 9 to 5.
I wanna have a star, Like Marilyn Monroe,
A Cinderella fantasy, A naive Clara Bow,
A princess and the pea, We try to play the part,
Surrounded by society, Hypnotizing me,
It's hard to be soft.
Out there on my own,
Successful in the world,
It works to be so strong,
But when I come home,
My pendulum's outta control,
I'm passive or I let my fi re blow.
In a man's world it's hard to be soft.
I don't want to be a star,
Like Marilyn Monroe,
A Cinderella fantasy,
A naive Clara Bow,
A princess and the pea,
I try to play the part,
Surrounded by society,
Hypnotizing me to be,
Home-baked apple pie,
A centerfold in heels,
A Betty Crocker Pamela,
Complacent to believe,
In my Mr. Right,
A pipe and slippers guy,
A ready, steady, rock-hard Eddy,
Oops not always, guess it's only,
Hard to be soft.
It's My Life lyrics - Paula Cole
That quiet voice inside of my soul
It's rising up again
Oh I know it's the time again, life is short
Gotta grab the wheel of life.
Indecision, should-haves, could-haves
will only rip my joy away.
This inner cross-roads may define me,
but it's the only way.
'Cause it's my life
And I am free
To live my life
The way I feel
For all the people who hear my song
Why not take a chance?
By keeping the child alive in our heart
There's truth and meaning there.
Trusting beauty
Truth, perfection
I'll never lead my light astray
Listen to my intuition
Gather up my faith
'Cause it's my life
And I am free
To live my life
The way I feel
Deep inside I know I can,
Deep inside I'm beautiful,
Tell myself I won't give up,
Tell myself have courage now,
Willingness and openness
Step by step and day by day,
Over time a thousand fields,
Will have passed beneath my feet.
'Cause it's my life
It's rising up again
Oh I know it's the time again, life is short
Gotta grab the wheel of life.
Indecision, should-haves, could-haves
will only rip my joy away.
This inner cross-roads may define me,
but it's the only way.
'Cause it's my life
And I am free
To live my life
The way I feel
For all the people who hear my song
Why not take a chance?
By keeping the child alive in our heart
There's truth and meaning there.
Trusting beauty
Truth, perfection
I'll never lead my light astray
Listen to my intuition
Gather up my faith
'Cause it's my life
And I am free
To live my life
The way I feel
Deep inside I know I can,
Deep inside I'm beautiful,
Tell myself I won't give up,
Tell myself have courage now,
Willingness and openness
Step by step and day by day,
Over time a thousand fields,
Will have passed beneath my feet.
'Cause it's my life
Safe In Your Arms lyrics - Paula Cole
Sometimes I'm too bold for my own good
I go out swinging hard and fast
This world is beating me broken
I need a home to rest
Too quick in the first round
Too slow in the second
Now I'm here in the third
And I need your attention.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
Safe in our home.
Safe in our land.
Safe in our world.
Safe in your arms.
It don't matter how strong I think I am.
I always need another heart.
To bind me in the moment.
To help me see myself.
Alive in the fourth round.
Collapsed in the fifth.
Now I'm here in the sixth
And I need your belief.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
Safe in our home.
Safe in our land.
Safe in our world.
Safe in your arms.
I go out swinging hard and fast
This world is beating me broken
I need a home to rest
Too quick in the first round
Too slow in the second
Now I'm here in the third
And I need your attention.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
Safe in our home.
Safe in our land.
Safe in our world.
Safe in your arms.
It don't matter how strong I think I am.
I always need another heart.
To bind me in the moment.
To help me see myself.
Alive in the fourth round.
Collapsed in the fifth.
Now I'm here in the sixth
And I need your belief.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
I wanna be safe in your arms.
Safe in our home.
Safe in our land.
Safe in our world.
Safe in your arms.
I Wanna Kiss You lyrics - Paula Cole
I wanna kiss you. I wanna kiss you.
I wanna stop the conversation,
I wanna kiss you.
Oh, lie beside me now,
Funny papers, morning sunlight streams,
Oh fantasize me now,
I'll kiss your neck and make your toast and tea,
Oh won't you marry me?
I see a little church atop a hill.
But in the meantime I wanna lose my shame.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna kiss you.
I wanna stop the conversation.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna feel you.
I wanna feel you.
I wanna lean my body into yours.
I wanna feel you.
Oh believe me now,
Walk with me upon the path I see.
Oh a cozy home,
Nestled in an English garden scene.
You will write your books,
And I will paint my paintings by the sea.
But now I'll be Lolita if you please.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna kiss you.
I wanna stop the conversation.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna hold you.
I wanna hold you.
I wanna wrestle you down to the ground.
Oh...
I wanna kiss you. I wanna kiss you.
I wanna stop the conversation.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna have you.
I wanna have you.
I wanna be a possessive girl.
I wanna have you.
Hold you, hurt you, love you, need you, love you, wrestle you down to the ground,
Bite you, love you, hold you,
I wanna kiss you.
I wanna stop the conversation,
I wanna kiss you.
Oh, lie beside me now,
Funny papers, morning sunlight streams,
Oh fantasize me now,
I'll kiss your neck and make your toast and tea,
Oh won't you marry me?
I see a little church atop a hill.
But in the meantime I wanna lose my shame.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna kiss you.
I wanna stop the conversation.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna feel you.
I wanna feel you.
I wanna lean my body into yours.
I wanna feel you.
Oh believe me now,
Walk with me upon the path I see.
Oh a cozy home,
Nestled in an English garden scene.
You will write your books,
And I will paint my paintings by the sea.
But now I'll be Lolita if you please.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna kiss you.
I wanna stop the conversation.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna hold you.
I wanna hold you.
I wanna wrestle you down to the ground.
Oh...
I wanna kiss you. I wanna kiss you.
I wanna stop the conversation.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna have you.
I wanna have you.
I wanna be a possessive girl.
I wanna have you.
Hold you, hurt you, love you, need you, love you, wrestle you down to the ground,
Bite you, love you, hold you,
I wanna kiss you.
In Our Dreams lyrics - Paula Cole
(Holding on, holding on, holding on...)
Here in this vacancy,
Where we existed,
I carry on in life like some puppet acting her part.
The very core of me,
An empty garden.
The tree of life once fl owered her arms to open sky.
An angel guided you home, now I'm alone, now I'm alone,
The living on's the hardest part,
And the days are endless hours.
This house is silent now.
The bed's much bigger.
The television's constant to keep me company.
The Maker guided you home,
Now I'm alone, now I'm alone,
The living on's the hardest part,
And the days are endless hours,
But then at night when my soul is in fl ight,
And together we meet in the galaxy,
Love know no lease,
We're here in the meadow of grace and peace,
We meet again in our dreams.
So if you hear me now,
'Cause I know you're out there.
Wait for my homecoming when I cross the other side.
A little bird fl ew you home,
Now I'm alone, now I'm alone,
The living on's the hardest part,
And the days are endless hours.
But then at night when my soul is in fl ight,
And together we meet in the galaxy,
Love knows no lease,
We're here in the meadow; our secret place.
We meet again in our dreams.
In our dreams.
In our dreams.
Some days we meet again in our dreams.
Here in this vacancy,
Where we existed,
I carry on in life like some puppet acting her part.
The very core of me,
An empty garden.
The tree of life once fl owered her arms to open sky.
An angel guided you home, now I'm alone, now I'm alone,
The living on's the hardest part,
And the days are endless hours.
This house is silent now.
The bed's much bigger.
The television's constant to keep me company.
The Maker guided you home,
Now I'm alone, now I'm alone,
The living on's the hardest part,
And the days are endless hours,
But then at night when my soul is in fl ight,
And together we meet in the galaxy,
Love know no lease,
We're here in the meadow of grace and peace,
We meet again in our dreams.
So if you hear me now,
'Cause I know you're out there.
Wait for my homecoming when I cross the other side.
A little bird fl ew you home,
Now I'm alone, now I'm alone,
The living on's the hardest part,
And the days are endless hours.
But then at night when my soul is in fl ight,
And together we meet in the galaxy,
Love knows no lease,
We're here in the meadow; our secret place.
We meet again in our dreams.
In our dreams.
In our dreams.
Some days we meet again in our dreams.
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