Melissa Etheridge Album

(M. Etheridge)

Hello, hello this is Romeo 
Calling from a jackpot telephone
Shame, shame but I love your name 
And the way you make the buffalo roam 
Oh fly, fly I guess this is goodbye 
Oh you packed up your heart 
And you left no souvenirs

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But if you want me you can call me 
In the night you know where 
I'll be Broken lover you can touch me 
In the dark the innocent can't see 
You lock it up now hide the key 
It would mean surrender to let me see
Oh brave, brave soldier keep it under cover 
You fell alone like no other lover
Burn the pictures break the records
Run far away to a northern town 
Sell your fear and leave me standing here
With no souvenirs 

Once, twice I thought it might be nice 
To come into your kitchen and play 
Cool, cool just a crazy fool 
I never saw it any other way 
Oh wait, wait I guess I'm just too late
Oh you made up your mind
Love shouldn't be so hard 

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No shirts, no shoes
No jackets, no blues 
You car's for sale 
You forward your mail 
You're growing your hair 
You don't want to know where
I'm calling you from 
Or how come

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(M. Etheridge)

If I could have my way
I'd be sleeping in the alley 
On a couch with a friend and a bottle of gin 
If I could have my way
I'd be runnin' with the circus
I would be taming all the lions
There'd be no denying I was brave and crazy 
If I could have my way 
I wouldn't be dreaming, scheming, screaming
Oooh, what am I gonna do 
About you 

If wishes were horses 
This beggar would ride
I'd have my cake and eat it 
With a little on the side 
I'd never want for money 
I'd never want for friends
I wouldn't have to make excuses for the shape that I'm in 
Shaking and crazy 
Before I saw your eyes
I was in control of my soul on the whole
Oooh, what am I gonna do 
About you 

Cool as a rule 
I wouldn't play nobody's fool 
But I keep on talking 
Made in the shade
I had a perfect cue to fade 
But I keep on walking

If I could have my way 
I'd check out right now 
I'd say out to lunch honey thanks a bunch 
It wouldn't work out anyhow 
But this desire's too much
It's rented out my brain 
It's showing previews of your body
Driving me insane 
And that's crazy 
So all that I can do 
Is to beg, plead, won't you tell me please 
What am I gonna do 
About you

(M. Etheridge)

Lying in a city night 
A million fingers tingling my skin
Out there in the sea tonight 
I thought I saw you clutching your sin 
You rolled me over long ago 
And told me you were strong enough to go 
You needed more than this lover's dream 
You need the steel and the concrete beams in your life 
In your life 

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We laughed and drank in the jukebox light 
And we tore the rug in that downtown dive
Every Saturday night For fifty cents we'd dance all night long 
And each new tune we said that's our song 
Oh it felt so right
Well ecstasy ain't free 
But compromise is chance 
I remember how 
You used to love to dance 

They told me you have found your love 
You moved in locked up and put out your blues
Well all God's children got to grow up
And play house make vows to hang up their shoes 
Do you sit and talk over coffee cups
Do headline mornings satisfy and fill you up 
I kept your eyes and your cigarette kiss
You couldn't keep the lies the adrenalin bliss in your life
In your life 

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I'm gonna go out tonight
I'm gonna drive up to the hill 
I'm gonna dive on into those city lights
And I'm gonna dance, dance
Dance till I get my fill

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(M. Etheridge)

Sometimes I feel like an innocent one 
To deserve this fate what I have I ever done 
I know that I made all the rules 
But time can even change the hopeless ways of fools
I love you tonight like I did yesterday
I won't think of tomorrow or the price I pay 
I drink from the well my soul is dry 
I never know why 

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All I want is for your love to be all mine 
But the angels won't have it 
All I want is just a little peace of mind
But the angels won't have it 
I thought I had a piece of my soul left to sell
I guess it's just as well
'Cause the angels won't have it 

Who's looking after this see-through heart 
Someone up there isn't doing their part
Oh Cupid you foolish boy
You should take better aim with your brand new toy
I love you tonight like I did yesterday
I don't think of tomorrow or the price I pay 
I drink from the well my soul is dry 
I never know why 

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So if I die before I wake
The innocent one whose heart could never break
Lift me up take me out of this bed 
Watching the angels shake their heads 
Don't feel sorry for me baby honey don't you cry
You can sell all of my clothes you will forget me by and by
I'll be riding that train I'll be singing that song 
But I won't be gone for long 
'Cause the angels won't have it

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(M. Etheridge) 

Come on baby let's get out of this town 
I got a full tank of gas with the top rolled down 
There's a chill in my bones
I don't want to be left alone
So baby you can sleep while I drive 

I'll pack my bag and load up my guitar 
In my pocket I'll carry my harp
I got some money I saved 
Enough to get underway 
And baby you can sleep while I drive

We'll go thorough Tucson up to Santa Fe 
And Barbara in Nashville says we're welcome to stay 
I'll buy you glasses in Texas a hat from New Orleans 
And in the morning you can tell me your dreams 

You know I've seen it before
This mist that covers your eyes
You've been looking for something 
That's not in your life 
My intentions are true 
Won't you take me with you 
And baby you can sleep while I drive

Oh is it other arms you want to
Hold you the stranger 
The lover you're free
Can't you get that with me

Come on baby let's get out of this town 
I got a full tank of gas with the top rolled down 
If you won't take me with you 
I'll go before night is through 
And baby you can sleep while I drive

(M. Etheridge, K. McCormick)

Morning's hard coffee's cold 
Pretending that the days mean more than getting old
Stale headlines other drenched in pride 
Marching to their drum with fear standing beside
But if I close my eyes and throw back my head 
I can see his face and I hear the words he said 
And my memories ache and my senses burn 
Did he dream too late will we ever learn 

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I, I want to testify|
My love still lives and breathes
And my soul is screaming why
The thoughts won't let me sleep 
Don't let hearts break 
And don't let children cry 
Before it gets too late
I want to testify

I take what's said as my daily bread 
I turn the page and I turn my head
I pick I choose on the evening news
Cause by cause they fight and one by one they lose 
Must I live my days in these concrete ways 
Will the fire break through this smokey haze 
And I swear tonight I'm gonna find that place
It's not the love that dies but the understanding ways

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Rip through the wire that screens in my window 
Throw open the shade that covers my mind 
I'm going to touch I've got to believe 
The bell tolls for me

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(M. Etheridge)

Am I the snake inside your garden 
The sugar in your tea 
The knock upon your back door 
The twist that turns your key
Am I the sweat you feel on your head 
The shadow on your face 
The tune inside your head that put you here in the first place
Well I don't want to be
I don't want to be
I don't want to be your sweet temptation
I don't want to be your new sensation
It's such a delicate distraction 
With just a hint of satisfaction
Look me in the eye and let me know 
If you can't love me that let me go 
Let me go 
Let me go 

Do you try to stay suspended
In your deepest fantasy 
After night has ended 
The scent of mystery 
The power of suggestion
Tangles up your soul 
A neutral state between love and hate
Is bound to take its toll
Well I don't think you know 
I don't think you know 
I don't think you know about the screaming 
You don't understand the meaning 
You could trade it in for laughter 
To keep your happy ever after
Look me in the eye and let me know 
If you can't love me then let me go
Let me go
Let me go

Baby in your ivory tower 
Do you sleep tight dream fight 
Baby does it wet your appetite 
Maybe in your darkest hour 
Am I the keeper of your beast 
Well I don't want to be
I don't want to be 
So let me go
Let me go

(M. Etheridge) 

When I was a child 
I dreamed like a child of wonder 
With my back in the grass 
My eyes to the sky to see
I believed in the stars
I knew they cast a spell that I was under 
With my fingers in the dirt
I was part of the earth
Every living thing was part of me

But it's gone, it's gone
It's gone, it's gone, gone 
I can't feel it 
I can't feel it 
Must've found a way out my back door 
Must've run away out my back door 
Because it's gone, gone, gone

Then I fell in love 
Love gave me a shot of pure desire 
There was nothing else like this 
This unimagined bliss this ecstasy 
Deep inside the night
I believed I saw the light ignite a fire 
And it burned into the dark
It burned deep inside my heart
I thought it would burn eternally 

But it's gone, it's gone
It's gone, it's gone, gone
I can't feel it
I can't feel it 
Must've found a way out my back door
Must've run away out my back door 
Because it's gone, gone, gone 

So I run into the street 
And I'm shouting into the phone 
Asking everyone I meet
I say have you seen it on my doorstep 
Did you see it in my car 
Have you seen it in the alley 
Was it on the back of some guitar 
Is it sleeping in the hallway
Does it cry all night alone 
Is it selling itself for money 
Does it want, does it want to come home

(M. Etheridge)

I ain't asking you to keep no secrets
My reputation's already shot 
I ain't asking you to commit treason
Just tell me if you like it or not
Like it or not baby that's the way I want it to be
Don't give me your heart and soul 
My love is only skin deep 

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I'll give you my time and money
I'll give you somewhere to sleep 
But don't ask me for my heart and soul 
My love is only skin deep 
My love is only skin deep
My love is only skin deep 

I ain't looking for no blue-eyed lover 
That's what stole my baby away 
I can see your eyes are darker than midnight 
And that's the time that I want to play 
I want to play baby that's they way
I want it to be Don't give me your heart and soul
My love is only skin deep 

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(M. Etheridge)

It's so hard to listen to these trains 
Outside my window here it comes again 
And it's calling me begging me 
Follow me down the track 
And it moans so dark and low 
Baby ain't comin' back

I refuse to believe 
It could happen to me and you
It's lonesome and it's hard and it's true 

I got this whiskey to take care of my lips
I got these long cool steel strings
At my fingertips
I ain't got nothing to soothe my aching soul 
Except this screeching and screaming iron 
To tell me where I ought to go 

I refuse to believe 
It could happen to me and you 
It's lonesome and it's hard and it's true

And I hear the train sigh 
And idle down below 
Why your love is so sweet and wild
Is something I'll never know 

It sounds like crying
It sounds like letting go 
Breathing and lying 
Sinking and dying slow 
And I watch from my window
Touching the cold glass sky 
As the train rolls down the track 
I say goodbye