Patty Griffin Album

Maybe one day, along the way
You'll remember me, on this island
Smiling at you, how I used to
Maybe one day, you'll remember

And it won't be sad, to think of all we had
All unhappy ends could be behind us then
Maybe one day, along the way
You'll think of me, and you'll be smiling
Maybe one day, you'll remember

Little old man, little old man staring down the road
Waiting on the bus, it's getting kind of cold
Bus finally gets there, he’s got nowhere to sit down
And the driver said, "You can stand right here behind me
or wait for the next one to come around"
And the old man says, "That's okay, I'll stand
I might look like a little old man to you
But I've been riding this bus for years and years and years
I don't even know where it's going to"
And the driver says, "You don't know where this bus is going to?"
Old man says, "No, I don't, do you?"
Driver says, "You don't know where this bus is going to?"
Old man says, "I just want it to get me through
I'm staying on the ride, it's gonna take me somewhere
Staying on the ride, it's gonna take me somewhere

Bus is rolling along, outside it's looking kind of strange
There earth is shaking, the clouds are breaking
Everything is blue, where it was gray
A thousand red birds fly, over fields of snow
Driver looks back in the mirror for the old man
"Where did he go? where did he go? Oh, there he is
Hey, old man, you still don't know?"
And the old man says, "No, I don't son, but I'm happy to go
I'm staying on the ride, it's gonna take me somewhere
I'm staying on the ride, it's gonna take me somewhere

I was born with no name, knowing nothing, still I don't
Somebody said, You need a name, I'm gonna give you a name
And I said, No, you won't"

"You can let me off here, son, thank you for the ride"
And the driver said, "This is the middle of nowhere, sir,"
He pulls off to the side
And the old man says, "It might look that way to you, son, maybe it is"
Then he says, "Stay on the ride, it's gonna take you somewhere,
Stay on the ride, it's gonna take you somewhere"

A little pink dress, hanging by her knees
Just overhead on the old trapeze
In the old tent tonight, spotlight going round
One of these nights the old girl's going down
Hallelujah, the old girl's going down

She started with us on the back of a horse
Just seventeen and already divorced
She took to the air with the greatest of ease
Like she was born to be gliding on the old trapeze

Some people don't care if they live or they die
Some people want to know what it feels like to fly
They gather their courage and give it a try
Gather their courage and they give it a try

Some guy broke her heart and how her heart it did ache
So she went to the tent of the lady of the snakes
Who gave her a potion and she drank it in
After that her heart never ached again, her heart never ached again

Some people don't care if they live or they die
Some people want to know what it feels like to fly
They gather their courage and give it a try
Fall under the wheels of a time gone by

Little pink dress, hanging by her knees
Just overhead on the old trapeze
In the old tent tonight, spotlight going round
One of these nights the old girl's going down
One of these nights the old girl's going down
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Oh, baby, I'm getting ready
I'm getting ready to let you go
My hands shake
My heart's unsteady
Oh how I want to love you so

I don't want to let this go
Wish I had a magic wand
I would put a spell on you
You would see it as I do
Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go
Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go

Oh, baby, you are my drug
And I was just your cigarette
I was nothing you could be proud of
I have lost my self respect
My self respect
My self respect
I have lost my self respect
Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go
Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go
I'm getting ready to let you go

Baby, baby, we got no traction
I'm waiting and waiting for your reaction
So I'll try a new direction
I'm gonna give myself a resurrection
I'm getting ready to let you go

Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go
Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go
I'm getting ready to let you go
I'm getting ready to let you go

We wait for the bus that's going to Bangor
In my plaid dress and burgundy shoes
In your red lipstick and lilac kerchief
You're the most pretty lady in the world
In the sun, in the sun

The bus driver smiles, a dime and a nickel
Climb on our seats, the vinyl is cold
Michelle, ma belle, the song that you loved then
You hold my hand and sing to yourself
In the sun, in the sun

The leaves are green and new like a baby
Tulips are red and I don't miss the snow
It's the first day I don't wear my big boots
You hold my hand, I've got burgundy shoes
Burgundy shoes, burgundy shoes

Oh Heavenly day
All the clouds blew away
Got no trouble today
With anyone

The smile on your face
I live only to see
It's enough for me baby
It's enough for me
Oh heavenly day
Heavenly day
Heavenly day

Tomorrow may rain with sorrow
Here's a little time we can borrow
Forget all our troubles in these moments so few
Oh we can right now the only thing that all that we really have to do

Is have ourselves a heavenly day
Lay here and watch the trees sway
Oh can't see no other way
No way
No way
Heavenly day heavenly day heavenly day

No one on my shoulder
Bringing me fears
Got no clouds up above me
Bringing me tears
Got nothing to tell you
I got nothing much to say
Only I'm glad to be here with you
On this heavenly heavenly heavenly heavenly heavenly day
Oh all the troubles gone away
Oh for awhile anyway
For awhile anyway
Heavenly day
Heavenly day
Heavenly day
Heavenly day
Heavenly day
Oh heavenly day

Don't bring me no bad news, no bad news
I don't need none of your bad news today
You're a sad little boy
Anyone can see you're just a sad little boy
That's why you're carrying on that way

Why don't you burn it all down
Burn your own house down
Burn your own house down
Try to kill your own disease
And leave the rest of us
There's a lot of us
Leave the rest of us
Who want to live in peace
To live in peace

I'm gonna find me a man
Love him so well
Love him so strong
Love him so slow
We're gonna go way beyond
The walls of this fortress
And we won't be afraid
No we won't be afraid
And though the darkness may come our way
We won't be afraid to be alive anymore
We'll grow kindness in our hearts
For all the strangers among us
Until there are no strangers anymore

Don't bring me no bad news, no bad news
I don't need none of your bad news today
You can't have my fear
I've got nothing to lose
Can't have my fear
I'm not getting out of here alive anyway

And I don't need none of these things
I don't need none of these things I've been handed
And the bird of peace is flying over
She's flying over
And coming in for a landing

He took a silver train, all the way to Maine
On the way to everything,
Railroad wings

There's things you don't know you know
I thought anger told me what to do
With emptiness chasing me
On the border I found you
You should have heard her sing,
Railroad wings

This emptiness has followed me like a cold, blue sky
And it has not been easy for you
There's things I'll never tell you til the day I die
Things I done, I can never undo, hiding everything,
Railroad wings

All these years along, the lights are growing dim
I hear you sing your song in the next room
And as far as I can tell, most everything means nothing
Except some things, that mean everything
Railroad wings
Railroad wings

I went up to the mountain
Because you asked me to
Up over the clouds
Where the sky was blue
I could see all around me
Every, Everywhere
I could see all around me
Everywhere

Sometimes I feel like
I've never been nothing but tired
And I'll be working
Till the day I expire
Sometimes I lay down
No more can I do
But then I go on again
Because you asked me to

Some days I look down
Afraid I will fall
And though the sun shines
I see nothing at all
Then I hear your sweet voice
Come and then go
Telling me softly
You love me so

The peaceful valley
Just over the mountain
The peaceful valley
Few come to know
I may never get there
Ever in this lifetime
But sooner or later
It's there I will go
Sooner or later
It's there I will go

I'm no kid, in a kid's game
Did what I did, I got no one to blame
But I don't give up, no, I don't ever give up
It's all I got, it's my claim to fame

I'm no fighter, but I'm fighting
This whole world seems uninviting
But I don't give up, no, I don't ever give up
I fall down sometimes, sometimes I come back flying

Liars are lying, airplanes are flying
Love isn't here, love isn't here
But it's somewhere
You turn to forget me, but something won't let me
Love isn't here, love isn't here
But it's somewhere

I’m not clean, I’m not washed up
This dream I don't ever give up
I don't ever give up
No, I don't ever give up

Have you ever been baptized, in the cool winter water
On a Sunday morning, when the sky was gray
We filed out of the churchyard, so cold it was silver
To gold, tan, and blue cars, and the cars drove away

And all the memories fade, send the ghosts on their way
Tell them they've had their day,
It's someone else's tomorrow

The tall and the tiny, ships on the water
Smaller and smaller, floating away
Will never return now, all wooden and burned down
They echo and groan now, in their salty graves

And the memories fade, send the ghosts on their way
Tell them they've had their day,
It's someone else's tomorrow
Someone else's tomorrow

Light it up baby
Light up that fire
I don't know what's going to save me
From the cold now
From these sorrows I'm crying over
From these sorrows I'm crying over

Embrace me
Embrace me with your kind love
It's all I ever wanted
All I ever dreamed of
And all of this dreaming
Of silver and gold
It's something to break this
Winter so cold

And these sorrows I'm crying over
And these sorrows I'm crying over
You go straight for the thunder
Straight for the rain
Love leaves a mark
And love leaves a stain

Back in the saddle
Again and again
Millions of eyes
None of them friends

You better light it up baby
Light up that fire
'Cause I don't know what's gonna save me
From the cold now
From these sorrows I'm crying over
From these sorrows I'm crying over
Crying over

I am no longer young
I'm an old man's daughter
We got caught with the sun going down
We spent most of our days adrift on the water
That's how I know my way around
And it's hard to be free
Freedom is just me
And the waves on the terrible sea

I could land with the rest of all the broken down birds
That's where I find my way home
With the rest of the faces on the face of the earth
Facing off with the great unknown
All the tears that we cry
Is something gone wrong
Is somebody lost
The place is long gone

Keep on moving baby
Keep on moving baby
Wave's coming over your knees
And it's hard to be free
See some things that I see
Be some things that I be
And come all the way
All the way
All the way home again

You might get lucky some days
Not a drop of rain
And you’re too long on the town
You leave your trouble on the train
And then there's only doubt
Until you’re on your feet again
There’s only up or down

The lucky boys upstairs
With a penthouse view
Making the ladies
Making the news
And I'm taking the orders
Pouring the booze
There's only up or down

They say no one likes a big mouth
But I got one anyway
As big as any fat cat
I say what I want to say
And I don’t care if you listen
I don’t care if you walk away
There’s only up or down

Shooting little stars
Flying to be near
Burn up along the way
Into the atmosphere
Shooting little stars
Flying to be near

I told the young blonde salesman
Just the other day
When I was his age
I was sailing away
Sailed the Russian sea
I've seen the Philippines
Way down to Panama and all the way around

Sometimes it’s trouble on the ocean
Sometimes it’s trouble on the shore
There's always someone hoping
There won’t be trouble anymore
It’s an elevator baby
Get off on any floor

There’s only up or down
Only up or down
Only up or down

Followed your road till the sky ran out
Followed your love till love was in doubt
Followed your love till it never really was at all
Feeling stupid and hollow
Now the moon's gonna' follow me home

Waited for you till the snow fell down
Over my skin like a thin nightgown
Waited for you but you never came around at all
Waited for you till they pulled the plug
Bartender emptied out his big tip jug
They swept all the floors
Vacuumed the rugs and went home
Drank all I could swallow
Now the moon's gonna' follow me home

Time go easy on me tonight
'cause I'm one of the lost sheep alright
Take what you must, take what you must
Of what I've lost as I have roamed
Let the moon follow me home

Followed your tears with a washing pail
I followed your story I followed your tail
Followed you straight through the
Doors of your jail cell too
Followed your voice in the darkness soft
A wind came through and carried it off
I followed your love till it never really was at all
Drank all I could swallow
Now the moon's gonna' follow me home
Drank all I could swallow
Now the moon's gonna' follow me home