Simple Life Lyrics

There's a light beyond these woods, Mary Margaret.Do you think that we will go there,And see what makes it shine, Mary Margaret?It's almost morning, and we've talked all night,You ...Read Full Lyrics

Your phone call took my by surpriseGee, it's been a long, long timeSince those hot and humid Texas nightsWhen we went swimm'n in the tideCorpus Christi seems so far awayAnd I'm not...Read Full Lyrics

I am a backseat driver from AmericaThey drive to the left on Falls RoadThe man at the wheel's name is SeamusWe pass a child on the corner he knowsAnd Seamus says, "Now, what chance...Read Full Lyrics

Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fieldsWhen the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yieldThe trains roll by our silos, silver in the rainThey leave our po...Read Full Lyrics

In 1914, this ball was at warIt went from Belgium on through IrelandThe Congo, then back homeThis big blue ball of war spun on it's ownSpinning history in lines of bloodWhen many s...Read Full Lyrics

You can cuss the daylights out of this pale winter moonAnd we can ponder every reason why your true love was untrueYou can cry your eyes out, I've got a shoulder here for youAnd ev...Read Full Lyrics

Gulf Coast HighwayHe worked the railsHe worked the rice fieldsWith their cool dark wellsHe worked the oil rigs in theGulf of MexicoThe only thing we've ever ownedIs this old house ...Read Full Lyrics

So much silence to my hometown streets, gonna put my cheek to the window and watch it sleep Where the shadows fall from sycamore trees, fight off this north wind and I'll be headin...Read Full Lyrics

They were the loving kindShe was black and he was whiteIn Virginia nineteen fifty-eightThey found love amongst the hateWell the law said they could not wedThey married anywayThe sh...Read Full Lyrics

I'm working on a morning flight to anywhere but hereI'm watching this evening fire burn away my tearsAll my life I've left my troubles by the door'Cause leaving is all I've ever kn...Read Full Lyrics