Cowboy Junkies Lament Lyrics

You're clean as a widow woman's washboard, son, Stick it in the wind Put the mountains to your back The great plains on your grille Time to take a little spin Boulder looks like t...Read Full Lyrics

Won't say I love you babe Won't say I need you babe But I'm going to get you babe And I will not do you wrong Living's mostly wasting time And I waste my share of mine But it never...Read Full Lyrics

If it ain't one thingI tell you it's always anotherI wonder whyI started treating you like a step-brotherLove is hard to explainI know my loss is someone else's gainSometime's love...Read Full Lyrics

Something More Besides You One foot stands before the crib The other by the casket. A question formed upon stilled lips Is passed on but never asked. I guess I believe that there...Read Full Lyrics

If you offered me a shade of blue Would I return it saying that it was too Dark or light? Or would I see it for the precious thing That it might one day be? Hold on to me If you o...Read Full Lyrics

The stillness here, Like what he sometimes finds inside her, Hits so hard it can steal your breath forever He sometimes wonders Is the sum of their lives together Him on the floor ...Read Full Lyrics

I don't want to be no patch on no quilt (I just want to see...) Tear-stained stitching linking memories to guilt (I just want to see...) I don't want to be no hair on no wall (I ju...Read Full Lyrics

She says, 'I'm getting that lonely sinking feeling, You know what I mean?' With his hand on her back he's thinking, 'Where does that leave me?' Just when I think I've uncovered the...Read Full Lyrics

My mother sang the sweetest melody Although she never sang in a musical key I'd hear her through the house My name called out loud My mother sang the sweetest melody My mother's h...Read Full Lyrics

Now I know, now I know what it means to be broken Now I know, now I know what it means to be bared You in the chair perceptibly sinking I'm on my knees once again made aware Of the...Read Full Lyrics