The Specter of Jasper County 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

The postman passed me twice now, I have waited an hourBlue sky churning black now, needled rain with the powerOf magnified abandon, soaking through to my movingAnd vivid truth I’...Read Full Lyrics

There's a rooster, a hen, a black dog By my kid in the yard And I've tattooed the head Of the woman I've wed on my arm We sit on the lawn And she winks and she yawns At the sound ...Read Full Lyrics

Magazines and paperbacks, the perfect rainy dayJenny's packed the car by now and probably on her wayRise and put the kettle on, this feeling calls for teaTommy get the telephone, i...Read Full Lyrics

Hello, cowgirl in the sandIs this place at your command?Can I stay here for a whileCan I see your sweet, sweet smileOld enough now to change your nameWhen so many love you, is it t...Read Full Lyrics

A fistful of roses ain’t the best thing I could doI called by the clothesline and the fish pond, called out for youYou want an urgent, bent-guitar string kind of manAnd you built...Read Full Lyrics

You're sweet like a honeybeeBut like a honeybee stings you've goneAnd left my heart in painAnd all you left is our favorite songThe one we danced to all night longIt used to bring ...Read Full Lyrics