For a thousand years
I've lay upon the Lake Victoria
I was winged and many-colored
And nobody knew my name
For a thousand years
I fell out of the sand into the Guadeloupe
And I ma...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Rickie Lee Jones
( Bernstein & Sondheim )
Make of our hands
One hand,
Make of our hearts
One heart.
Make of our vows
One last vow,
Only death will part
Us now.
Make of our lives
One life,
Day af...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Rickie Lee Jones
Is back where you used to go
If grown-ups would laugh this long
As you watch the hours slow
Years may go by
Years may go by
So hold on to your special place
...something to keep i...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Rickie Lee Jones
Dan and I like Las Vegas, never seen the sea
Where the river, where the river bed runs dry
She closes his eyes, puts her ear to his shirt
And listens to the whole wide earth
Lila's...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Rickie Lee Jones
Wearing her new mink coat
And it's already 85 degrees
She looks like she's about to
Give up hope
I look at the people
Sitting at the bus stop
People need dignity and love
Love an...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Rickie Lee Jones
Come on - Joey get out of school
We got places to go
A '57 Lincoln you got a radio that hurts
And the girls like to touch it
Just to find out if it works
But don't look at me
It wa...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Rickie Lee Jones
Out on the range
The quiet, endless still
Where the wild S. S. I
Whispers from these hills
It's a petrified forest
Trailer parks and fords
And there ain't no goin' back
Rodeo girl
...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Rickie Lee Jones
(Written by Tom Waits)
You used to dream yourself away each night
To places that you'd never been
On wings made of wishes
That you whispered to yourself
Back when every night the ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Rickie Lee Jones
What's the matter with it? Why's it look that way?
What's the matter with it? What's it trying to say?
What's that on it's back? Where's it trying to go?
A mystical vision got dres...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Rickie Lee Jones
Running From Mercy
Oh sacred patience with my soul abide
There's a rainbow above me that the storm clouds hide
And kind words will never die
'cause the magic in kindness springs fr...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Rickie Lee Jones