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Have It All
00:38
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Now I know what makes the world spin around
Now I know, Now I know
And I know that you want it all
Have it all, Have it all
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Fox In A Hen House
04:00
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She’s like a fox in a hen house. The meanest you’ll find
She’s like a fox in a hen house. The meanest you’ll find
She sneaks in at night
And she takes what’s mine
There ain’t a devil in my heart. Because I ain’t a man
There ain’t a devil in my heart. Because I ain’t a man
But there’s been one in my kitchen
And she’s been cooking with my pots and pans
She’s like that snake in the backyard. Sly as can be
She’s like that snake in the backyard. Sly as can be
But she don’t know I seen her
Hiding in my apple tree
Everywhere I go, they say “she’s got your man”
She might think she’s got him, but she can’t love him like I can
She’s like that fox in a hen house. She gets what she can take
But if she comes around tonight, I’ll be waiting with my .38
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Late Night Lover
04:08
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Now come to me baby when the sun goes down
Knock on my door three times, when no one’s around
My days are long, and ever-so lonely
But in the evening’s when I want you only
The window’s open now, so come on right in
I’ve been waiting since a quarter to ten
They way you move now, its making me shudder
Because no one loves me like my late night lover
I heard you creeping in my garden last week
I tried and tried but couldn’t get no sleep
The wind was blowing something sweet in the air
The scent of something that I want you to share
Because you’re my late night lover
One by one the stars come out in the sky
That’s when I lock my doors and turn down the lights
And each and every night I let my hair down
Just the way you like it, incase you’re coming around
Now the moon’s shining bright behind my windows of lace
But I’ll keep waiting until I see your face
Come on baby, we’ve got lots to uncover
Because no one loves me better than my late night lover
My clock’s ticking fast, it’s almost half past three
That time of night when everything is a dream
But then I hear you softly whisper my name
Now come closer and I’ll whisper the same
Because you’re my late night lover
And I’m your late night lover
Come be my late night lover
I’ll be your late night lover
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Every night about this time, I go to sleep to keep from crying
Every night about this time, I go to sleep to keep from crying
Because my baby, he’s always running around
Oh can’t you see, what’s wrong with me?
I try, and I try, but I’m not satisfied
Oh can’t you see what’s wrong with me?
I’m afraid, I’m gonna have to let my baby be
Love is a thing that money can’t buy
If you don’t have no one to love you, you might as well go off and die
Oh can’t you see what you’ve done to me?
Yes I’m afraid, I’m gonna have to let my baby be
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5. |
Life Sentence Blues
03:18
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Tell me baby, what’s wrong with me?
Tell me baby, what’s wrong with me?
I’ve been living in a prison. A prison made by me
Now don’t you come knocking. Knocking at my door
No don’t you come knocking. Because I won’t come along
Because I know if someone’s knocking, there must be something wrong
All I do all day long, I sit here and cry
All night long, I’m just laying there and crying
Only reason I’m still living-I’m too afraid to die
See, I don’t know where I’m going and I’ve given up on how
No I don’t know which way I’m going, and I’ve given up on how
Seems like I want to get to heaven, but I just ain’t ready to go now
Tell me baby, what’s wrong with me?
Tell me baby, what’s wrong with me?
I’ve been living in a prison. Life sentence to misery
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Old Faded Memory
06:51
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Many years ago, I had a love
So pretty, so true, but ever so young
Each night we'd meet 'neath the twin oak tree
And dream of a life that was never to be
It seems only days since I last held her near
But my mind is much older, and my memory unclear
And though I've seemed to forgotten the reason we've part
To this very day, she still owns my heart
I wonder, I wonder, if he's thinking of me
All those years ago, how it all used to be
Our love, true it was, I could never forget
But each day since our parting, I've spent in regret
Would he still love me, now I'm withered and gray?
My daylight grows dim, and short are the days
May I be young and fair, in the dreams dreamt by him
But I'm just an old faded memory of what could have been
Her Love, like a flower that clings to the vine
Her love, how it lingers upon my old mind
Oh the nights that I've spent 'neath that twin oak tree
Just hoping she'd be there, just waiting for me
I'd give my own life just to see her once more
But I know in my heart, I won't be waiting for long
For my mind, it grows darker than each day before
and my heart, though its beating, has nothing to beat for
If only my life could have lasted forever
Oh the things I'd have done, Darling, we'd be together
But time that is given, is cruel and deceiving
For my body has weakened, and beauty is fleeting
Faster and faster, so go the days
As I cling to a life that is slipping away
And with my last breath, unto death may I stare
I'll remember the life that we never shared
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7. |
Ashes To Ashes
03:32
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I hold in my hand, an echo of voice brought on the wings of a bird
Like a ruby filled vase, and a basket with lace
The most beautiful sound you have heard
My body, it aches of a far memory of someone I might have known
And there’s a hole in the wall too small to see through
But I’m sure it’s a picture of home
Sometimes I’m standing on a mountaintop. I’m nowhere but I’m not lost
But sometimes I’m just hanging with a heart that’s just breaking
My arms outstretched on a cross
But something keeps pulling, a lost letter of love
In a cabin where a fire used to be
There’s a woman who’s calling, with a voice of fair warning
Her crooked hand points only at me
Ashes to Ashes, mothers turn to ashes
Daughter soon follows in death
But before leaving earth, a daughter gives birth; a gift to me and she says
“You hold in your hand an echo of voice, brought on the wings of a bird
And like a bird who only sings for what every morning brings, the most beautiful sound I have heard”
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The Black Bird
05:04
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There's a big black bird, high up in the pines
She’s been watching me every night. Been watching every time
She’s seen my creeping, my secret keeping
While you've been sound asleep
And she's the only one that knows what I’ve been doing
Or I'd be six feet deep
I walk on down to the river, I wait upon the bank
I fancy nothing but my secret loving, and how your heart would break
But then he pulls me near, I know just why I'm here
Forbidden love is but a dream
But in the dark I see, I see big eyes of green
She just won't let me be!
Everywhere I go, I see her following me
Raps at my window, waits at the gate
I see her in my dreams
Just the other night, while my mainline was out
Me and my lover, for just one hour, we made the lights go out
I know I've been so wrong, but wrong it feels so right
And like a drunk I'll drink my fill
Give me that reckless love, our old-time careless love
A lying heart is such a thrill
I hear the sound of wings!
Her darkness falls upon me
Into her depths I’ll sink
To guilt and misery
And like a bird I'll sing
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Only For You
02:55
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My heart, it feels so heavy
And my tongue is tied with ivy
I’ve been so lonesome, so blue, but only for you
I know I shouldn’t be crying
But if I stopped, my heart would be lying
Because I’m so lonesome, so blue, but only for you
For too long, I’ve been longing for you
And been wondering if you’ve been longing too
And I’ve been trying-crying all night long
To tell my heart you’re not really gone
But my heart, it’s crushed red velvet
And it knows, I don’t gotta tell it
That I’m so lonesome, so blue, but only for you
My heart, it feels so heavy
And my tongue is tied with ivy
I’m so lonesome, so blue, but only for you
I’ve been so lonesome, so blue, but only for you
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Serpentine Blues
03:04
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I had a dream last night, a black rat in my bed
I had a dream last night, a black rat in my bed
Now you’re gonna tell me what that means now, baby
Or I’m gonna tell you instead
Well I’ll sleep here tonight, but tomorrow I’ll be gone
I’ll sleep here tonight, but tomorrow I’ll be gone
You see, this bed that I’ve been lying in
It just don’t fit me no more
I saw a rattlesnake this morning, walking just like me
I saw a rattlesnake this morning, talking just like me
And it said “I ain’t scared of nothing-I’m only scared of me”
From under rocks and things, they all go east.
From under rocks and stones and dirt and bones, they all go east
And they’ve been calling my name
They say that’s where I aught to be
So I’m gonna light a fire, and burn this place down
I’m gonna light a big red fire, and burn it down to the ground
Just because I’ve been living here
Don’t mean that’s where I’m bound
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11. |
A Killer's Dream
03:36
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He’s a hit man, she’s a queen
He’s a hit man, she’s a killers dream
Here I go again, one more time
I dug another big black hole where I cried and I cried
It’s taken me all my life but now I realize
I am nothing but a killers dream-In a killers mind
I got no sympathy for all the things that you said
Because you’ve been lying and lying, and now I know where I stand
Yeah you’re a killer, you always find a way
And you can call me your queen, but I know
I’m only prey
I guess it aint hard to see what you see in me
Now I know that everything I got-it’s what a killer needs
My baby told me long ago, but I just couldn’t believe
We’re all living in a killers world, and we can never be free
You got me spinning, spinning ‘round and ‘round
Because everything that I knew, it just came tumbling down
Yeah you’re a hit man, and you’ve always been that way
But don’t you call me your queen because I know
I’m only prey
Here I go again, one more time
I dug another big black hole where I cried and I cried
It’s taken me all my life but now I realize
I am nothing but a killers dream-In a killers mind
And we’re all living in a killers world-in a killers mind
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