Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving But how can they know it’s time for them to go? Before the winter fire, i will still be dreaming I have no thought of time For who knows where the time goes? Who knows where the time goes? Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are […]
Time Turns - Earth Pressed Flat
Music by 10,000 maniacs – lyrics by mary ramsey & john lombardo I saw time turn So much there to unlearn, You were envy you wouldn’t say You tore heart strings that sorry day Dark light hid the tears one For each of the years Love has reasons Reason never knows Time turns over Love […]
Music by 10,000 maniacs – lyrics by mary ramsey There like a feather you fell someone’s heaven above me Floating so fickle tempting me teasing my ways Thrown from its clutches i struggle to free what escapes me Absalom hanging like you i’m caught in between Heaven then earth then heaven between you Release me […]
Music by 10,000 maniacs – lyrics by mary ramsey & john lombardo When the day ends And church bells are ringing When the valley is shroudedin snow, When you’re feeling that hope somewhere vanished And there’s no poetry left to console you, With the smallest step you’ll find a way Oh of fate borne and […]
Music by 10,000 maniacs – lyrics by mary ramsey Out through the foggy window there Just to see the eyes of my future children Looking back at me Back through the foggy window On and on Miles pass years turn over On and on There from that rolled down window Ponies run free cradled protectively […]
Music by 10,000 maniacs – lyrics by mary ramsey & john lombardo This was once a city Harmony a common theme But these complications Now make life a bit uneasy Hallowed buildings scrape the sky Voices ride the airwaves Once a city years gone by Will they still be standing in thecenturies ahead Going underground […]
Lyrics/music – mimi fariña In the quiet morning There was much despair And in the hours that followed No one could repair That poor girl Tossed by the tides of misfortune Barely here to tell her tale Rolled in on a sea of disaster Rolled out on a mainline rail She once walked tight by […]
Glow - Earth Pressed Flat
Music by 10,000 maniacs – lyrics by mary ramsey In the coolness of the morning Sparing moments here in magical tide I would meet you without question To share a starry gaze a look through the sky From the start There was this kind of glow The start when it’s right You’ll know, Fascinating love’s […]
Ellen - Earth Pressed Flat
Music by 10,000 maniacs – lyrics by mary ramsey Eager to please was just the way that he was Though his attempts there falling short, Expectation See he would tell of all his conquests, Was he bragging? But in the evening all alone Ellen unplanned delays Saving for someone who really cared about you Invincible […]
Detroit, l.a.,boston, san francisco, First time over the ocean on a plane A billion stars below me lay, Circle slowly jfk, So much there to see inside of a week They came looking for something new Try to press it flat inside of a few days Old dominion saturday, arlington’s eternal flame Sunday tour niagara […]
