In my brain it’s understood You killed my soul like i knew you would You hit me with your velvet touch My sacrifice was all too much Why did you have to walk away On sacred ground yesterday Fill my pride, you don’t wanna know Still inside, every time you go You kill me You […]
In the silence of the morning Comes a burnin’ yellow light A brand new day is dawnin’ And nothin’ felt so right Inside i feel the spirit As i face and turn the sun And you were nowhere near it Now my life has just begun I don’t want you, i don’t want you I […]
B. r. hornsby/john hornsby Four walls i built one winter She came to share my name For years we lived as lovers on the open plains Far off the heat wave shimmers Pipelines and the gasoline One day it all came running like a bad dream Fire, smoke-filled lungs I hope i’ll be standing when […]
B. r. hornsby/john hornsby The rain held back again Haven’t felt a drop since you went away Outside of town, the hills are brown I guess way out there you’d call ’em golden Lines outside the welfare store The clock is stopped at the bank next door They yelled like hell when the boys left […]
B. r. hornsby/john hornsby Here i am I’m in a gaseous haze Ten lanes and tall boys Going both ways El dorado riding on the fringe Aztec princess take revenge This ain’t my style, this ain’t my home I’m going where it’s safe to roam Take me all the way back To the wild frontier […]
B. r. hornsby/john hornsby There’s a place A local roadside shack A poor man’s paris with a parking lot in the back There’s a girl there She knows how to unwind She don’t talk much but she knows just how to act I said – don’t tell me she don’t love me The money’s just […]
B. r. hornsby Standing in line marking time– Waiting for the welfare dime ’cause they can’t buy a job The man in the silk suit hurries by As he catches the poor old ladies’ eyes Just for fun he says “get a job” That’s just the way it is Some things will never change That’s […]
B. r. hornsby/hohn hornsby It’s a hazy winter’s day And i’m staring out on the southland In the twilight distance on the bay My mind sees you running through the marshland All these years i’ve been waiting for you Through the high tides and the low tides too But if i stop now how could […]
Mandolin rain B. r. hornsby/john hornsby The song came and went Like the times that we spent Hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent I laughed and she’d smile It would last for awhile You don’t know what you got till you lose it all again Listen to the mandolin rain Listen to […]
B. r. hornsby Way out here, working on the docks Everyone sees the long day through Well what would i do without the nights And the phone And the chance just to talk to you A thousand miles away What i wouldn’t give for only one night A little relief in sight Or someday when […]
