Venus Lyrics

I'm afraid I have to go now, love.Because I have to find my heart of truth.What? What did you say?What are you trying to say?Are you ok?I think so. I think I am.What's wrong with y...Read Full Lyrics

She belongs back in western KentuckyOr maybe somewhere in TennesseeFar from home there’s a way to her bodyThough she’s wind-blown and slightlyLong ago there were plums on the t...Read Full Lyrics

Say, say something nice to her Fragrant and sturdier Delicate hands for shoulders sliding down Days, days like a summer rain Blink and they're gone again Soaking she sits alone, ou...Read Full Lyrics

Mothers of the rodeoLike anyone who’s watched a lover goAnd their love thrown downTorn and tossed aroundBaby, say you’ll stay with meWe’ll build a bridge across it carefullyJ...Read Full Lyrics

A skull and a jewel on a wooden caneA rattling bone on a boat, on the waves you sail awayI will lay awake until all your power’s goneWhipping the pig until it broke the gateA tab...Read Full Lyrics

The girl down the street saw my ghost on the roadBut I sailed the backyard asleep in my boatBoth paddles broken, no sail for the windA bathtub, a bottle, to drown myself inAnd she ...Read Full Lyrics

I saw you wade across the riverWinter coat across your shouldersCalling out, what did you say?If I wade across the waterWhen I rise, will you be thereOpen armed or turned the other...Read Full Lyrics

Lovers accustomed to tragedySee every kiss in the window across the streetBreezes and blessings passing by, ah ooh-ohI'm in the shade of the dogwood treeNot the one where you told ...Read Full Lyrics

Blue light setting lotus-style in your A-frame in the countrysideStillness slides the door and walks insideCandle on the windowsill burnt wickless through our low-lit mealHeaven on...Read Full Lyrics

You returned the book unfinished about a girl with raven hairAnd a gentleman, her lover, who presented her a mareWhich she rode across the country, leaving him to tend the landWhic...Read Full Lyrics