patty griffin

eddies grrl
eddies grrl Posts: 509
edited March 2006 in Other Music
i've posted her songs in the random lyrics thread before, but i think she deserves her own thread here. she's a really great songwriter and has a beautiful voice.


"Goodbye"

Occured to me the other day
You've been gone now a couple years
well, I guess it takes while
For someone to really disappear

And I remember where I was
When the word came about you
It was a day much like today
the sky was bright, and wide, and blue

And I wonder where you are
And if the pain ends when you die
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say goodbye

Today my heart is big and sore
it's tryin to push right through my skin
I won't see you anymore
I guess that's finally sinkin in

Cause you can't make somebody see
By the simple words you say
All their beauty from within
Sometimes they just look away

But I wonder where you are
And if the pain ends when you die
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say goodbye
Life is the riddle
Of which we're caught in the middle.
A couple of lucky ones
Tangled up in too much love
~cowboy junkies
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  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Rain"

    It's hard to listen to a hard hard heart
    Beating close to mine
    Pounding up against the stone and steel
    Walls that I won't climb
    Sometimes a hurt is so deep deep deep
    You think that you're gonna drown
    Sometimes all I can do is weep weep weep
    With all this rain falling down

    Strange how hard it rains now
    Rows and rows of big dark clouds
    Well I'm holding on underneath this shroud
    Rain

    Its hard to know when to give up the fight
    Two things you want will just never be right
    It's never rained like it has to night before
    Now I don't wanna beg you baby
    For something maybe you could never give
    I'm not looking for the rest of your life
    I just want another chance to live

    Strange how hard it rains now
    Rows and rows of big dark clouds
    Well I'm holding on underneath this shroud
    Rain

    Strange how hard it rains now
    Rows and rows of big dark clouds
    But I'm still alive underneath this shroud
    Rain Rain Rain
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Long Road"

    Long black limousine
    Shiniest car I've ever seen
    The back seat is nice and clean
    She rides as quiet as a dream

    Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground
    I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down
    Ain't nothing left at all in the end of being proud
    With me riding in this car, and you flying through them clouds

    I've had some time to think about you
    And watch the sun sink like a stone
    I've had some time to think about you
    On the long ride home

    One day I took your tiny hand
    Put your finger in a wedding band
    Your daddy gave a piece of land
    We \made ourselves the best of plans

    Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed
    Forty years of things you say you wish you'd never said
    How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead
    I wonder as I stare up at the sky a-turning red

    I've had some time to think about you
    And watch the sun sink like a stone
    I've had some time to think about you
    On the long ride home

    Headlights staring down the driveway
    The house is dark as it can be
    I go inside and all is silent
    And seems as empty as the inside of me

    I've had some time to think about you
    And watch the sun sink like a stone
    I've had some time to think about you
    On the long, on the long
    Oh the long, on the long
    On the long ride home
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Love, Throw A Line"

    Let's write a story of a tidal wave
    We run out of luck
    We run out of days
    We run out of gas
    A hundred miles away
    From a station

    There's a war and a plague
    Smoke and disaster
    Lions in the coliseum
    Screams of laughter
    Motherless children
    A witness and a bible
    Nothing but rain ahead
    No chance for our survival

    Just before the flood comes
    Just before the night falls
    Just before the blood runs
    Into the valley
    Just before my eyes go
    Just before we can't go no further
    Love throws a line to you and me

    I heard someone calling me from very far away
    Sister oh sister did I hear them say?
    Prisoner of this endless story of pain
    You hold the key
    Try to find the way

    And just before the flood comes
    Just before the night falls
    Just before the blood runs
    Into the valley
    Just before my eyes go
    Just before it all blows to pieces
    Love throws a line to you and me

    Love you better pick up your pace
    If we're gonna win this race
    Love we're running out of time
    Pull yourself out from behind

    Love, throw a line
    Love, throw a line
    Love, throw a line...
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Let Him Fly"

    Ain't no talkin to this man
    Ain't no pretty other side
    Ain't no way to understand the stupid words of pride

    It would take an acrobat, and I already tried all that
    so I'm gonna let him fly

    Things can move at such a pace
    The second hand just waved goodbye
    You know the light has left his face
    But you can't recall just where or why

    So there was really nothing to it
    I just went and cut right through it
    I said I'm gonna let him fly

    There's no mercy in a live wire
    No rest at all in freedom
    Of the choices we are given it's no choice at all
    The proof is in the fire
    You touch before it moves away
    But you must always know how long to stay and when to go

    And there ain't no talkin to this man
    He's been tryin to tell me so
    It took a while to understand
    the beauty of just letting go

    Cause it would take an acrobat, I already tried all that
    I'm gonna let him fly
    I'm gonna let him fly
    I'm gonna let him fly
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Every Little Bit"

    It's funny how the morning turned our love to shame
    Disguised and disfigured
    and you thought I tasted like rain

    There's nothing here but a shadow
    nothin here
    Now you know
    There's nothin here but the shadow
    and all that i know of

    I spit, I spit in the eye
    I tear, I tear out my heart
    and I scatter the bits
    I stay unseen by the light
    I stay untold by the truth
    I'm sold by a lie
    By this I am able in all of my travels
    To make these memories quit
    But tonight I clearly recall every little bit

    I can chew like a cannibal
    I can yell like a cat
    I even had you believing that I really, really like it like that
    But there was never a moment
    Not a moment
    Now you know
    You never got within a hundred million miles of my soul

    I spit, I spit in the eye
    I tear, I tear out my heart
    And I scatter the bits
    I stay unseen by the light
    I stay untold by the truth
    I'm sold by a lie
    By this I am able in all of my travels
    To make these memories quit
    But tonight I clearly recall every little bit

    You left open the window till the morning
    And the winter walked in
    Reality fired her wooden bullet
    Splintered under our skin
    They say I'm walking on freedom
    This is freedom
    Now I know
    I still don't blame you for leaving, baby, it's hard living with ghosts

    I spit, I spit in the eye
    I tear, I tear out my heart
    and I scatter the bits
    I stay unseen by the light
    I stay untold by the truth
    I'm sold by a lie
    But at least I am able in all of my travels
    To make these memories quit
    But tonight I clearly recall every little bit
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Poor Man's House"

    You know you've done enough when every bone is sore
    You know you've prayed enough when you don't ask any more
    You know you're coming to some kind of understanding
    When every dream you've dreamed has passed and you're still standing

    Mama says God tends to every little skinny sheep
    So count your ribs and say your prayers and get to sleep
    Nothing is louder to God's ears than a poor man's sorrow
    Daddy is poor today and he will be poor tomorrow

    Hey, that's the poor man's house
    Everybody get a look at the poor man's house
    Everywhere they went before must have turned them out
    And now they're living in a poor man's house

    There's nothing like poverty to get you into heaven
    They got a lot of wine and fish up there
    And the bread's unleavened
    They got a lotta ears that have heard a whip go crack
    Lots of missing toes and fingers and scars upon their backs

    Daddy's been working too much for days and days
    And he doesn't eat
    He never says much but I think this time it's got him beat
    It isn't that he isn't strong or kind or clever
    Your daddy is poor today
    And he will be poor forever

    Hey, that's the poor man's house
    Those kids are living in a poor man's house
    They walk to school with the soles of their shoes worn out
    And come home in the evening to the poor man's house

    What are you chopping that wood now
    Why are you growing that corn
    Mama's sewing a brand new shirt and
    You're wearing the one that's torn
    I guess it's for some one else's kid who wasn't born
    In a poor man's house

    Hey take a look at that house
    Everybody we're living in a poor man's house
    Seems like everywhere we go they find us out
    Find out that we've been living in a poor man's house
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    hey, i'm diggin' it! :) ...been listening to some tunes today, as you know...thanks for the recommendation...

    she sounds likes she could very well be a story teller from cape breton or newfoundland. she has that kind of celtic folk sound and gift for storytelling...anyway...getting much airplay in my kitchen today is patty griffin. :)
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    YAY! that makes me so happy. :D she's a real undiscovered gem, imo. like the movies we've discussed, i think her music illuminates stories that often don't get alot of attention. it just really moves through me in a special way.

    i'm glad you're diggin' it, too, mook! :)
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Florida"

    A couple of young girls went
    Sailing down A1A
    Into the arms of Florida
    Sailing down a highway
    Singing their heads off
    Protected by the holy ghost
    Flying in from the ocean
    Driving with their eyes closed

    The night wants to kiss you deep
    And be on his way
    Pretend he don't know you the very next day
    Isn't it hard sometimes
    Isn't it lonely?
    How I still hang around here
    When there's nothing to hold me

    You slide down into the seat
    From twelve hours on your feet
    And get the tide to wash you away
    For thousands and thousands of days
    And someone you never meet
    Signs a check you get every week
    You try and you still can't forget
    All the strangers that you have met

    The night never owed you nothing anyway
    Makes promises that he never intends to keep every day
    Isn't it hard sometimes
    Isn't lonely?
    How I still hang around here
    When there's nothing to hold me

    Every time, every year
    The travelers come and go
    You see them landing with their pale wings
    And flying back to the snow

    And the summer comes marching in
    With its heavy boots on
    Kicking along the blacktop
    Sidewalks of A1A
    The young girls in their bare feet
    Cigarette-smoking
    Looking every which way
    Wishing and hoping

    You want the night just to let you sleep, and be on his way
    Wrap you up in some cool sheets
    And have nothing to say

    Isn't hard sometimes
    Isn't it lonely?
    How I still hang around here
    When there's nothing to hold me
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • imissjackirons
    imissjackirons Posts: 10
    patty griffin and pearl jam need to tour together
    she is great i suggest that everyone go check her out
    she is amazing
    http://www.myspace.com/gasolineheart
    that is a pretty radical band you should check out as well
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    imissjackirons wrote:
    patty griffin and pearl jam need to tour together
    she is great i suggest that everyone go check her out
    she is amazing

    that would be interesting! but i can see it. she's touring now, and i plan to see her in asheville, nc in april. i'm so excited- i saw her two years ago in NYC and she was just incredible. when she performs, especially since she mostly plays smaller venues and has a devoted, almost cult-like following :D, the show feels really personal, as if she's in your living room picking out a few tunes after dinner. :)
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Change"

    Dog comes howling up behind you, sinks his teeth in your leg
    Tells you how now things are going to be a little different
    And he takes you down a peg

    You make him ashamed for you, he buys you a new dress
    Because you make him ashamed for you, he'd like you to took your best
    So you change ...
    And the dog bites down a little harder

    Somewhere out in the wild, wild west
    That silly little thing that we tossed, tossed, tossed
    Somehow we don't talk about nothing else but that
    Silly little thing that we lost, that we lost, that we lost

    And now there's no name for you
    Come to find out none of that shit was even true
    But now there's no name for you
    I understand that you lost that, too
    When you changed...
    And the dog bites down a little harder

    Man says "Woman I'm a little tired of you"
    And she says "Don't leave me baby I'll do anything you want me to"
    He says "Can't you do something about the mess around this place?"
    And she says "Anything baby, anything, I'll cover my face-"

    You make him ashamed for you, he buys you a new dress
    Cause you make him ashamed for you, in your nakedness

    So you change
    And you change
    Yeah you change
    So you change
    And the dog bites down a little harder.
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Mary"

    Mary
    you're covered in roses, you're covered in ashes
    You're covered in rain
    You're covered in babies, you're covered in slashes
    You're covered in wilderness, you're covered in stains

    You cast aside the sheet, you cast aside the shroud
    Of another man who served the world proud
    You grieve another son, you lose another one
    On some sunny day
    but always you stay, Mary

    Jesus said, "Mother I couldn't stay another day longer"
    Flies right by and leaves a kiss upon her face
    While the angels are singin' his praises in a blaze of glory,
    Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

    Mary
    She moves behind me
    She leaves her fingerprints everywhere
    Everytime the snow drifts, every way the sand shifts
    Even when the night lifts, she's always there

    Jesus said, "Mother I couldn't stay another day longer"
    Flies right by and leaves a kiss upon her face
    While the angels are singin' his praises in a blaze of glory,
    Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

    Mary
    you're covered in roses, you're covered in ruin
    you're covered in secrets
    Your'e covered in treetops,
    covered in birds who can sing a million songs without any words

    You cast aside the sheets, you cast aside the shroud
    of another man who served the world proud
    You grieve another son, you lose another one
    on some sunny day and always you stay...

    Mary
    Mary
    Mary
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Standing"

    I'm standing in the shadow of the hill
    I'm standing in the shadow of the hill
    Feel the fear everywhere
    Hope it don't get me killed
    I'm standing in the shadow of the hill

    I'm standing in the shadow walking blind
    I've been unfair & unkind
    Turned away from your suffering far too many times
    Now I'm standing in the shadow walking blind

    Sister, brother, there's a fire on the hill
    And it's burning like a lantern
    Making all this time stand still

    I'm standing, I'm standing, I'm standing
    I'm standing, standing, standing

    Mother, I am weak but I am strong
    Standing in the darkness this long
    But in the deepest darkness I listen to your song
    Mother I am weak but I am strong

    I'm standing
    Standing in the shadow of the hill
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • digster
    digster Posts: 1,292
    she's incredible...you can't find a better songwriter, in my opinion.

    Hopefully we'll see her new album this year.
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    YAY ME!! :D

    >happy dance<
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    eddie's grrl wrote:
    YAY ME!! :D

    >happy dance<

    sweet! congrats eddie's grrl! should be a great show, eh? :)
  • Boof
    Boof Posts: 5
    not alone is one of the most chilling and beautiful songs I have ever heard.

    It's amazing how she doesn't garner more attention.
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    "Not Alone"

    She sees him laying in the bed alone tonight
    The only thing a touching him is a crack of light
    Pieces of her hair are wrapped around and round his fingers
    And he reaches for her side, for any sign of her that lingers

    And she says you are not alone
    Laying in the light
    Put out the fire in your head
    And lay with me tonight

    One of them bullets went straight for the jugular vein
    There were people running, a flash of light
    Then everything changed
    Nothing really matters in the end you know
    All the worries over
    Don't be afraid for me my friend,
    one day we all fall down forever

    She says you are not alone
    Laying in the light
    Put out the fire in your head
    And lay with me tonight

    The wedding date was June just like any other bride
    She loved him like no one before, and it was good to be alive
    But sometimes that can slip away as fast
    As any fingers through your hands
    So you let time forgive the past and go and make some other plans

    You are not alone
    Laying in the light
    Put out the fire in your head
    And lay with me tonight

    You are not alone
    Laying in the light
    Put out the fire in your head
    And lay with me tonight
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    sweet! congrats eddie's grrl! should be a great show, eh? :)

    thanks! i'm sure it will be, she's great live. the orange peel looks to be an a cool little club, stands (no seats) less than 1000, has an amazing stainless steel bar and is non-smoking! :p some other asheville fans ;) were there to see mogwai the other night and had a good time. i can't wait!
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies

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