k.d. lang Lyrics
Friday Dance Promenade
I'm gonna ring my baby tonight
We'll go downtown, done up right,
Tap out toes
Shuffle those heels
When we dance I know it's real
I'm in love, LOVE, love
Dippity do My hair to style
Study the mirror for a while
Take you home to wine and dine
Put on the Hifi some Patsy Cline
I'm in love, LOVE, love
Swing your partner
Swing em up high
Alleman left and leave em sigh
2 steps round and round the floor
Promenade right out the door
Lead you to your corners all
Huggin, kissin
Love, LOVE, love
Swing your partner
Swing em up high
Alleman left and leave em siiiigh
Damned Old Dog
(Words & Music by Margaret A Roche)
Do I wanna be a dog?
any diddlin' male would do
if I was a damned old dog
I wouldn't be fussy for you
Do I wanna be a housebroken dog
eat better than an Indian
I don't wanna be a damned old dog
I just wanna lick your chin again
I thought that I could convince you
I thought that I could get through
chew out a hole in the fence you
barked up between me and you
Limpin' around in the moonlight
coverin' up what I did
words decompose all around me
nuisances I committed
Do I wanna be a dog
cut the heat out of me
if I was a damned old dog
I wouldn't have to goddamn human be
Changed my Mind
All this time thinking I was right
Tried to keep my love from open sight
But you Changed my mind
I was trying to be the one to coax
Even tried to tell myself love was a joke
Wakin up and rakin up a nights worth of dreams
Sweepin them away so they wouldn't be seen
I was tying up my wishes so they wouldn't unwind
But you changed my mind
Used to work real hard at stayin alone
Afraid a mountain of love would be left as a stone
But you changed my mind
I even talked to myself
Tryin to keep the voice in my heart inside asleep
But you changed my mind
Wakin up and rakin up a nights worth of dreams
Sweepin them away so they wouldn't be seen
I was tying up my wishes so they wouldn't unwind
But you changed my mind
Thinking all the while I had to control
The place that burns deep in my soul
Never woulda thought it would feel so cold
After spending my nights alone
Oh my mind
Wakin up and rakin up a nights worth of dreams
Sleepin them away so they wouldn't be seen
I was tying up my wishes so they wouldn't unwind
But you changed my mind
You changed my mind x 6
Calling All Angels
Santa Maria, Santa Teresa, Santa Anna, Santa Susannah
Santa Cecilia, Santa Copelia, Santa Domenica, Mary Angelica
Frater Achad, Frater Pietro, Julianus, Petronilla
Santa, Santos, Miroslaw, Vladimir
and all the rest
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a man is placed upon the steps, a baby cries
and high above the church bells start to ring
and as the heaviness oh the heaviness settles in the body
somewhere you can hear a mother sing
then it's one foot then the other as you step out onto the road
how much weight? how much weight?
then it's how long? and how far?
and how many times before it's too late?
calling all angels
calling all angels
walk me through this one
don't leave me alone
calling all angels
calling all angels
we're cryin' and we're hurtin'
and we're not sure why...
and every day you gaze upon the sunset
with such love and intensity
it's almost...it's almost as if
if you could only crack the code
then you'd finally understand what this all means
but if you could...do you think you would
trade in all the pain and suffering?
ah, but then you'd miss
the beauty of the light upon this earth
and the sweetness of the leaving
calling all angels
calling all angels
walk me through this one
don't leave me alone
callin' all angels
callin' all angels
we're tryin'
we're hopin'
we're hurtin'
we're lovin'
we're cryin'
we're callin'
'cuz we're not sure how this goes
jane siberry & kd lang
Ridin the Rails
Woo woo woo
Woo woo woo
Woo woo woo
Woo woo woo
Hobo is my game
P & O's my middle name
I'm goin' where that whistle wails
And that's why I'm ridin' the rails
Hoboken, New York, PA
60 seconds is all I'll stay
Keeps me outta county jails
And that's why I'm ridin' the rails
Oh, leave Kentucky
Or the fields of Alabam'
Roomin' with a box of nails
Or peanuts and yams
Got no next of kin
And there's no one in my will
Only thing I'm scared of
Is standin' still
I'll ride 'til I'm dead
Boxcar's my only bed
That's home when all else fails
That's why I'm ridin' the rails
Brushfire Billy
And his buddies, Ned and Slim
Nine years back in provo
Was the last I saw of him
Brakeman, leave me be
Let this hobo rest his bones
Sleep will overtake me
When that diesel moans
That country's long and wide
The Santa Fe's my bride
I'll hop her when she sails
That's why I'm ridin' the rails
I'm ridin'
I'm slidin'
I won't last too long
Got a bandana and a whistle for a song
There ain't no wheels on the floor of a jail
That's why I'm ridin' the rails
Woo woo woo
That's why I'm ridin' the rails
woo woo woo
That's why I'm ridin' the rails
woo woo woo
That's why I'm ridin' the rails
Woo woo woo
Woo woo woo
Woo woo woooooooooooo
