000 Maniacs

That summer fields grew high with foxglove stalks and ivy. Wild apple blossoms everywhere. Emerald green like none I have seen apart from dreams that escape me. There was no girl as warm as you. How I've learned to please, to doubt myself in need, yo

I could feel at the time There was no way of knowing Fallen leaves in the night Who can say where they're blowing As free as the wind Hopefully learning Why the sea on the tide Has no way of turning CHORUS 1 More than this you know there is nothing M

Take me now, baby, here as I am Hold me close, n' try n' understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed C'mon now, try n' understand The way I feel under your command Take my hand, as the sun descends They can't

Trouble me, disturb me with all your cares and your worries. Trouble me on the days when you feel spent. Why let your shoulders bend underneath this burden when my back is sturdy and strong? Trouble me. Speak to me, don't mislead me, the calm I feel

NOAH'S DOVE You win a prize for that for telling lies like that so well that I believed it I never felt cheated You were the chosen one the pure eyes of Noah's dove choir boys and angles stole your lips and your halo In your reckless mind you act as

Hey Jack Kerouac I think of you mother And all the tears she cried She would cry for none other Than her little boy lost in a little world that hated And that dared to drag him down Her little boy courageous He chose his words from mouths of Babes go

Big plans are being made for my sisters wedding day. We'll have a ball at the Sons of Roma Hall. First the best man makes a toast to Rocky and my sister Rose, "A life of years free of tears. Bottoms up and lots of luck!" ` Polka, tango everyone,

These are the days. These are days you'll remember. Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be warm as this. And as you feel it, you'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky. It's true that you are touched by something t

Color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey. Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again. Shiver in my bones, just thinking about the weather. Quiver in my lip as if I might cry. Well by the force of will my lungs are filled and so I breat

"My, how you've grown." I remember that phrase from my childhood days too. "Just wait and see." I remember those words and how they chided me, when patient was the hardest thing to be. Because we can't make up for the time that we've l

(Robert Buck/Natalie Merchant) Over your shoulder, please don't mind me if my eyes have fallen onto your magazine Oh I've been watching and wondering why your face is changing with every line you read. For all those lines and circles, to me, a myster

Hey, hey, give 'em what they want. If lust and hate is the candy, If blood and love tastes so sweet, Then we give 'em what they want. Hey, hey, give 'em what they want. So their eyes are growing hazy 'cos they wanna turn it on, So their minds are sof

The man in 119 takes his tea all alone. Mornings we all rise to wireless Verdi cries. I'm hearing opera through the door. The souls of men and women, impassioned all. Their voices climb and fall; battle trumpets call. I fill the bath and climb inside