Time Is A Lion Joe Henry

Here you go If you fear the angels above while you sleep Then I'll be the blood, you paint on your door Your dream is a worry that nothing will keep But time is a story and there will be more Your dream

Shut Me Up Joe Henry

The song wants to repeat just now, It sings itself to show you how, It throws away its finest line Just to keep the feel and time. Just to keep The feel and time, It throws away now Its finest line.

Parker's Mood Joe Henry

I didn't know what time it was When I came to The only light in here Is my flickering TV Watching back at me Oh, my love is here to stay Saints alive And all the saints be praised I see them

I Will Write My Book Joe Henry

I turn my face from all the rage Playing on a grim, dark stage, But you've shown me an open page And I will write my book.

Tomorrow Is October Joe Henry

fires have been contained These ashes are of our own making, Clouds hang up on radio towers And sirens sing one song for hours Here begins the fitting end To what we'd started over When tomorrow is

Room At Arles Joe Henry

Just behind that wall, I think, She pulls her stockings on: The creaking floor speaks through the door Of one foot then the other The curtains wave a flag to say This afternoon is done And giving in to

God Only Knows Joe Henry

Darkness settles on the ground And leaves the day stumbling blind, Coming to a quiet close And maybe just in time: We'd almost lost the heart to know How to keep our best in mind, We'd almost lost the

Love Is Enough Joe Henry

Lincoln Street is howling It's empty, growing colder, The night has come on limping and It's bleeding from the shoulder.

Unspeakable Joe Henry

You tug at my sleep, A tangle of thread, That knots at the lock At the foot of my bed Swinging the door To a perilous view Where all my unspeakable dreams Fall to you, All my unspeakable dreams Fall to

Odetta Joe Henry

Stitching down this earth so cold and hard, Low and tight across my wings, And when they're calling over me, Their unholy, fitful song … Odetta, Odetta Please carry me along My bones they rumble and time

Deathbed Versions Joe Henry

Now the rabble have been jailed, The moon is up, had hung and paled The horses spooked, the fences failed … How do you like your boy? How do you hear your lion's song?

Eyes Out For You Joe Henry

A fence is stretched across my brow A divided country: then and now, And you the border guard My caravan waved off the track With dusty miners hid in back, Their faces glowing hard … Bruised and black

Heaven's Escape Joe Henry

They're showing a movie on the side of the bank Oh, I'm in love with all creation And the warmth of the hood of the car in the dark Oh, I feel I'm an angel in waiting Where time is alive in the dark

Civilians Joe Henry

bring the eventing coming on Lovers tug their way out of gloves Out of shoes, and gray chiffon The driver pulls his blanket high And pretends to look beyond Oh, pray for you, pray for me Sing it like a

Flesh And Blood Joe Henry

Come speak my name, Fill my head with all such foolish dreams My flesh and blood is no more real to me Than what they seem My love for you is burning Like a spark along a fuse, I feel your mark upon

Strung Joe Henry

I keep wooden boxes like traps strung with wire In the light of old tires, piled on the fire Wearing their smoke like a flower in bloom Cut like the thread in a pipe fitter's room; I dig in the dirt and

Our Song Joe Henry

I saw Willie Mays At a Scotsdale Home Depot Looking at Garage Door Springs At the the far end of the 14th row His wife stood there beside him She was quiet and they both were proud I gave them room but

Lighthouse Joe Henry

Oh, my dear, Ive swallowed the moon, And left it dark like a ring Burned on a spoon.

After The War Joe Henry

A dog-eared mind sniffed my heart Like a pocket full of German marks Long after the war was through Stood me on a rusted rail Turned my face and kicked my tail Up toward the yonder blue … Threw a fish

Tiny Voices Joe Henry

Better to be blind when Im Falling for you Go and tell old Pharaoh His time has come about, His pretty houseboys laugh and sing As theyre filing out.

You Can't Fail Me Now Joe Henry

I know that fan is moving air, I can see it in your hair But I can't bear to breathe it in somehow I'll rise and fall with you 'cause you can't fail me now I'll rise and fall with you 'cause you can't

Scare Me To Death Joe Henry

breath And you move up behind me And scare me to death You're fragile but wicked And fleeting as breath And you move up behind me And scare me to death At war between All good intentions and greed My love is

Wave Joe Henry

"I waved to you as my boat was leaving Hats flew up and everybody cheered, But you turned as I guess someone spoke to you, And in a sea of arms you disappeared.

Flag Joe Henry

No rest for the weary in here, And make a fuss, youre a volunteer. These days, they lord above me Growing mean as they grow shorter, Like a flag on a closing border now?

Dirty Magazine Joe Henry

A cut-out picture of a sugar tart With olive skin, a purple heart, Concrete shoes, and its just the start Of bigger things unseen.

Piano Furnace Joe Henry

out from the wall Clear the young children from out of the hall Stuff it with tender put paid to it all Let it stoke the fires of the world Let's beat this guitar it was meant to be heard The way a

Leaning Joe Henry

my breath yet still be my saving grace Lover, if you rise Lover, if you go Lover, if you rise Lover, if you go There are plenty who would just as soon settle All their debt with blood, Beneath a

Windows Of The Revolution Joe Henry

Were supposed to want for nothing else Just show the world a stoic light But my man never came home last night This is what we make of this The walls all smell like blood and piss.

Widows Of The Revolution Joe Henry

We're supposed to want for nothing else; Just show the world a stoic light But my man never came home last night This is what we make of this-- The walls all smell like blood and piss.

Animal Skin Joe Henry

your face, Mine has been tamed Im shamed to pretend When Im this close to your animal skin I remember when love was something I craved But I settled for less and the comfort it gave, For living is

Dark Tears Joe Henry

sweet by-and-by The rambler vines are climbing, They lock their arms across my way, The rambler vines are climbing, They lock their arms across my way Blood lilies tell my secrets Like they were the time

Joe The Lion David Bowie

Joe the lion Went to the bar A couple of drinks on the house an' he said "Tell you who you are if you nail me to my car" Boy Thanks for hesitating This is the kiss off Boy Thanks for hesitating

Your Side Of My World Joe Henry

Oh, can you hear the ringing bell, Telling time like time was to tell? Can you see the smoke rise and curl All the way from your side of my world?

Civil War Joe Henry

I don't know you to wear a hat But I came home late and there it sat, You rose to show what hats are for When living through a civil war, When living through a civil war Christmas mornings and New Years

Grand Street Joe Henry

His foot held the door, To the alley in back Where the hotel's kitchen let out And the night butcher stood 'Neath a dim iron moon And spoke to himself right out loud Spoke to himself right out loud I gave

Loves You Madly Joe Henry

It pulls at your feet, Gets into your nose, Onto your bed And under your clothes, Loves you madly So madly, Madly, Loves you madly The sun wants you deep The sun has a need To take you in then

Sold Joe Henry

Dont believe a single thing youve heard Really, Im as good as gold.

This Afternoon Joe Henry

On the afternoon That the revolution began, I was in a hotel pool with another kid And an Australian business man.

The World And All I Know Joe Henry

The dark great river bends below me, A void of light now tells me so Where tiny towns crowd its shoulders, Between the world and all I know … Thunder rolls beneath my feet And mountain clouds slide just

I'm Henry The Eighth I Am Joe Brown, The Bruvvers

I'm Henry the eighth I am Henry the eighth I am I am I got married to the widow next door She's been married seven times before And every one was an Henry Henry She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam no Sam

Henry Keb' Mo'

Remember if you can When cotton was picked by hand Down in Dixy under southern sky Working from sun to sun Remember if you will Lightening from a whiskey still The blues and the breese The sweet magnolia

He Made A Woman Out Of Me Bobbie Gentry

I was born on a levy A little bit south of Montgomery Mama worked in the big house And daddy he worked for the County I never had no learnin' Until I turned 16 When Joe Henry come up the river, yonder

It’s You HENRY

Baby I\'m falling Head over heels Looking for ways to let you know just how I feel Wish I was holding You by my side I wouldn\'t change a thing cause finally it\'s real Tryna hold back You oughta

It\'s You HENRY

Baby I\'m falling Head over heels Looking for ways to let you know just how I feel Wish I was holding You by my side I wouldn\'t change a thing cause finally it\'s real Tryna hold back You

It`s You HENRY

Baby I\'m falling Head over heels Looking for ways to let you know just how I feel Wish I was holding You by my side I wouldn\'t change a thing cause finally it\'s real Tryna hold back You oughta

Lion Rebecca St. James

Mysterious, that's what I call You I'm curious about You I'm scared and not sure that You are safe But Your eyes seem to say that You are good This is not a dream that I'm living This is just a world of

She Never Spoke Spanish To Me Joe Ely

Met her in old Mexico She was laughing sad and young In a smokey room no one could see Her favorite poets all agreed Spanish is a loving tongue But she never spoke Spanish to me She was born in Monterey

That One HENRY

Lookin’ for that one No more talking Don’t mean nothing All I want is you Shed my lovin’ Got back nothing I just want what’s true Baby can you show me something I just want some real lovin’ Don

Henry Lee Nick Cave

A traditional version is also available.

King Henry Pete Seeger

King Henry marched forth, a sword in his hand Two thousand horsemen all at his command In a fortnight the rivers ran red through the land The year fifteen hundred and twenty The year it is now nineteen