My heart is like a hand-me-down
Made soft by older brothers
My body's like my father's house
The sin of generations
Damn the circumstances
Life is hard enough
Damn the bones that ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Madeleine Peyroux
I remember what my daddy taught me
'Bout how one risky is in a cold ditch
And one more thing about good and evil
You can't tell which is which
Well, if the rest is lost and histor...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Madeleine Peyroux
There's perfume burning in the air
Bits of beauty everywhere
Shrapnel flying, soldier hit the dirt
She comes so close
You feel her then
She tells you No and No again
Your lip is c...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Madeleine Peyroux
California rain is falling
I can hear the summer calling
Far away, far away
A song that's fading
Put me on a plane tomorrow
I'll try to run from all my sorrow
Far away, far away
F...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Madeleine Peyroux
You can cry a million tears
You can wait a million years
If you think that time will change your ways
Don't wait to long
When your morning turns to night
Who'll be loving you by c...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Madeleine Peyroux
I love you, baby
Wouldn't tell you no lie
I always want you by my side
Oh baby, give your mama one smile
Come here, papa, let's talk awhile
You know I love you, don't you realize
...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Madeleine Peyroux
Every night he'd come to me
I'd cook for him, I'd pour his tea
I was in my thirties then
Had made some money
Lived with men
We'd lay us down to give and get
Beneath the white mosq...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Madeleine Peyroux
Dreamin'
Makin' my way
Dreamin'
Won't let me stay in your arms
In your warm
In your love
Sleepin'
Away the day
Hopin'
That we two could stay
All alone
On our own revelries
Let's ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Madeleine Peyroux
Hey sweet man
Who you give your lovin' to?
Hey sweet man
Who you give your lovin' to?
I gotta mind to love you
I'll love you through and through
Hey momma's child
Ain't you been w...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Madeleine Peyroux
Lose your keys under the house, lose the button from your blouse,
Lose the plastic diamond ring from the parade-
Lose the color in your lips, lose the swingin' in your hips,
But if...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Madeleine Peyroux