Pearls On A String Ryan Adams

1, 2, 3 Blue eyes for miles Pretty as a peach Glorious kind and always on time Never far outta reach Tomorrow's on it's way And there's always new songs to sing Glorious kind, always on time Pearls on

The Shadowlands Ryan Adams

God, please bring the rain Yeah, and bring it soon Let it flood right through the houses Into Judy's room With a father on amphetamines Her mother hides the pearls Reach out into the darkness And find

She Wants To Play Hearts Ryan Adams

I am a broken toy For a lonely girl Use once and destroy And go find some more Back home, kids play in the leaves in the park She wants to play a game of hearts I'm the rag doll boy

Sylvia Plath Ryan Adams

I wish I had a Sylvia Plath Busted tooth and a smile And cigarette ashes in her drink The kind that goes out and then sleeps for a week The kind that goes out on her To give me a reason, for well, I dunno

English Girls Approximately Ryan Adams

the blues at all You said you didn't love me, it was right on time I was just about to tell you, but ok, alright Said you didn't love me, you didn't want a thing English girls can be so mean She's got

Cry On Demand Ryan Adams

She moves, moves like a pendulum blade Cut, all the words that I said. The only difference is . . . The only difference is . . . The truth The truth is I miss you.

Starlite Diner Ryan Adams

It's midnight, at the Starlite Diner You said meet me at a corner to twelve And I'm standing in the corner Wishing you were here in my arms, Fare thee well my old friends Fare thee well Is it possible

29 Ryan Adams

I was a poor little kid in the lungs of new York Just like a motherless son of a bitch Loaded on ephedrine looking for downers and coke Like a sun that just wouldn't set out on the horizon Singing and

Easy Plateau Ryan Adams

Let's take a ride to the easy plateau Where the cold don't come and the wind don't blow Moonlight flickers on the water below The orange grove blossoms In the orange grove Bad nights lead to better days

New York, New York Ryan Adams

Well, I shuffled through the city on the 4th of July I had a firecracker waiting to blow Breakin' like a rocket who makin' its way To the cities of Mexico Lived in an apartment out on Avenue A I

Gimme A Sign Ryan Adams

Here's a picture of your lonely Fridays Turned to nothing on a Friday night Firecracker with a pile of empties Detonated with a lonely fire I see your face, I hear your voice I touch the

Dear John Ryan Adams

I got a house full of walls And utility bills, every Monday the company calls I got a nice bed to sleep on And a chest of drawers, where I keep those dreams of yours Cause you're always mine to keep

Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. Ryan Adams

Something's beating on the wall on the other side Strange lovers moan Each other's names on by sheets For the very first time One of them's James The other's some name she changes every time she lies across

Luminol Ryan Adams

with no one to call And all this time Hot metal as her clothes dissolve Emergency lights It's genocide It's sucide I'm spinning around the room in awe I'm spinning around the room I'm floating through a

Meadowlake Street Ryan Adams

something about you That reminds me of all those times When I wasn't sorry, when I wasn't blue The cherry moon it shone down on us Under the stars shining down every one for you If I could count them

Bartering Lines Ryan Adams

me down Leave me in the withering pines Steal my love, steal my kisses Take 'em to the bartering lines Ten cents up, two bucks down Ship it out and turn it into fuel Three bucks shy Leave it on

Wild Flowers Ryan Adams

Poor girl, no Ma Nothing much to speak of but a rough diamond Sleep now and your angels will come, dear Poor Matilda Handcuffed to the wheel And steering wildly Through love's fields, so blindly Forever

Shakedown on 9th Street Ryan Adams

Head on down to 9th street gal Let's go out a kicking with the boys and the gals Wear your dress and bring my ring Someone's gonna get it, ain't gonna be me Lucy, Lucy my gal (Lucy, Lucy my gal)

Operator, Operator Ryan Adams

Operator, operator gets lowAnd she can't find the numberCryin' on the telephoneIt's hard, it's harder when she knowsNewscasters don't watch the newsLike operators don't get numbers they loseI'm a castle

How Do You Keep Love Alive Ryan Adams

Lord, I miss that girl On the day we met the sun was shining down Down on the valley Riddled with horses running Crushing them with flowers I would have picked for her On the day she was born She runs

Strawberry Wine Ryan Adams

Last night in the street collapsed on itself In fact, it broke right in two And I fell in The strawberry vines Into a pool of strawberry wine Strawberry wine and clouds Burning in the desert, surrounded

Rosebud Ryan Adams

When I pick up my guitar This is the song that always comes Don't know what I'm singing 'bout and Don't know what for I think about you And I think about Rosebud Wish there was a song to sing To bring

Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues Ryan Adams

Sweet talkin' Johnny push a john quicker than he spit Street walkin' tin with a crooked crown waitin' for it There she goes She born in Boston but the Amtrak took her away She lives in Brooklyn but she

Cherry Lane Ryan Adams

Every night I read this novel about you Holding roses in the pouring rain But the ending's tore up, trying to hail a cab Think no one can read you, but I can Well we move into a house down on Cherry Lane

Everybody Knows Ryan Adams

come for me, you come and try to take me home I'm always in need, and it's hard to be reciprocating The fabric of our life gets torn And everything's changing, so how am I to know How I'm going to hold on

Carolina Rain Ryan Adams

Rose lived on the south side of town Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills A notice of eviction on the other hand Now she don't live there no more, And everyone thinks he drowned

This Is It Ryan Adams

Let me singa song for you That's never been sung before All the words were meant for you And never been said before She kisses when she sleeps She kisses when she's sleeping Let me sing a song for you

Come Pick Me Up Ryan Adams

When they call your name Will you walk right up With a smile on your face Will you cower in fear In your favorite sweater With an old love letter I wish you would I wish you would Come pick me

Mockingbird Ryan Adams

Mockingbirds sing Sing me what the Lord was singing On the day He made the water The color of the blues Sing me that song Sing me till the heavens rising On the day He made the water The color of my baby's

Twice As Bad As Love Ryan Adams

Candy is quick and she's good at impressions She's stacked on the corner, man, she's stacked on the street She's got pills that distort her depression Counting her friends on her hands and her feet

Political Scientist Ryan Adams

faucet from the river From the tributary it comes through rusted pipes Outside his window he sees the water that's supposed to be clean By the chemicals polluted by the candy factory lines Someplace on

Two Hearts Ryan Adams

Here we go again God, I listen, but I'm not listening Everything she says, oh I heard it all before So what if I have It doesn't mean it isn't beautiful And everyone needs company once in a while Two hearts

Hotel Chelsea Nights Ryan Adams

babe Before I get over you, doll You're tearin' the stuff right out of me kid What with you living right up the hall And I'm tired of living in this hotel TV and dirty magazines And I'm tired of livin' on

Friends Ryan Adams

As pretty as a song A song could ever be Like Christmas on a river Without a boat or Christmas tree This afternoon with you was something like a letter The kind that someone writes but never sends And

Goodnight Rose Ryan Adams

Goodnight Rose, we're going to win Put your troubles behind you and go on to bed Let go of the worry, there's so much nobody understands Don't live your life in such a hurry, life goes by us, so, so fast

This House Is Not For Sale Ryan Adams

Tell 'em that the house is not for sale We're still livin' here, how come nobody can tell They're takin' all the furniture, movin' our things Come on little honey, put your head on my knee Tell 'em that

1974 Ryan Adams

The sun is shining hard at my feet And the city is an animal ready to eat It's raining like a nose bleed, cigarettes and sweets And I feel it coming on Bloody as the day I was born It's 1974 Just like

Chin Up, Cheer Up Ryan Adams

Took a walk with you In the shadow of my shoes Danced around the broken blues In the dirty summer rain Moonlight on the cars Parked in single file at the bars With a thick and rosy smoke

My Blue Manhattan Ryan Adams

My blue Manhattan She's angry like a child, but how sweet Fire and rain on the street It's you against me most days It's me against you, fell Ah, the snow's comin' down On the cars in midtown Stone cold

Feels Like Fire Ryan Adams

Are you there Screaming in the night Somewhere Hanging from the side Feel the sunlight The sunlight on my face It’s cold out here Lost in outer space Just so you know You will always be the hardest thing

Tomorrow Ryan Adams

Jennings When you're driving through Selena You'll see the lights are blinding Yeah, and I'll be thinking of you Ohhh, my baby's going home My baby's going home Tomorrow A

Jesus (Don't Touch My Baby) Ryan Adams

In California Forever summer and hot Into the ocean You're smiling a lot On sandy beaches And the blankets are hot You're in my arms And I kiss your heart Jesus, don't touch my baby Jesus, don't touch

Starting To Hurt Ryan Adams

It's a long way down, but I feel alright It's a long way down, but I feel alright And the cops get in, and the crowd gets tight Take your tomorrow, pain and your sorrow and teach it how to fly

Gonna Make You Love Me Ryan Adams

Riot on the streets, the touch beneath the sheets It's only gonna make you love me more The cops they got the guns, the night destroys the sun It's only gonna make you love me more This old

Hallelujah Ryan Adams

I've been a desperate man I've been sheltered by a lonely dream There's a stranger here Looking back above the bathroom sink Every night I throw you out Leave you stranded on the boulevard

Ashes & Fire Ryan Adams

As he stared past the fire His hunger to leave well it gnawed his poor heart alive Her skin smelled like black cherry blossom perfume And the sailboats they all sailed by and a river she cried And the

Tonight Ryan Adams

sleeping Cocktails in the ESP Think about you to think about me I wonder, I want to see you tonight I want to see you, I want to see you, I want to see you smiling back at me in the starlight Shining on

Am I Safe Ryan Adams

left behind Standing in the cold great dark Watching cars go by And all these things keep running Through my mind Am I safe Am I safe Am I safe If I don't wanna be with you Every day my part seems like a

Let It Ride Ryan Adams

Movin' like the fog on the Cumberland River I was leaving on the Delta Queen I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go Twenty-seven years of nothin' but failures and promises that I couldn't keep Oh lord

Life Is Beautiful Ryan Adams

You plant a rose And if the rose comes up You're thankful to God And when it doesn't you cuss him You raise a child And when the child grows up You got to learn to let go If you can't learn to love