Radio Operator Rosanne Cash

Radio operator, in a tiny foreign room We can hear you now and later Calling out and coming through Radio operator, you're a voice so far from home With a signal like a heartbeat Not afraid but so alone

50,000 Watts Rosanne Cash

shoes Son of rhythm, brother of the blues The sound of darkness, the pull of the oak Everything is broken and painted in smoke But there’s a light on Sunday, a new design The sound of the whistle, those radio

I Was Watching You Rosanne Cash

Headlights on a Texas Road And Hank Williams on the radio Church wedding, they spent all they had Now the deal is done to become Mom and Dad And I was watching you from above 'Cause long before life there

Why Don't You Quit Leaving Me Alone Rosanne Cash

around There's no calm center to this storm Oh baby, why don't you quit leaving me alone There's nothing on the TV, no message on the phone Nothing but an awful lot of nothing going on And every radio

Operator Ulver

Operator Call the police Radio paranoia All is over Under the skies Nothing is working For god's sake Can you help me?

Seven Year Ache Rosanne Cash

?You act like you were just born tonight Face down in a memory but feeling all right So who does your past belong to today? Baby, you don\'t say nothing when you\'re feeling this way The girls in t...

Beautiful Pain Rosanne Cash

Do you wanna be honest, or do you wanna win? You could have it all if you could gracefully give in. Like when a martyr go sees a martyr. Lookin' in the mirror makes you cry harder, 'Bout your glitt...

D-I-V-O-R-C-E Rosanne Cash

our little boy is four years old and quite a little manso we spell out the words we don't want him to understandlike T-O-Y or maybe S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E but the words were hiding form him now tears the ...

Tennessee Flat Top Box Rosanne Cash

Tennessee Flat Top Box By NPTP By Rosanne Cash In a little cabaret in a south Texas border town Sat a boy and his guitar And the people came from all around And all the girls from there to Austin

The Wheel Rosanne Cash

How long was I alseep? When did we plan to meet? Have you been waiting long for me? When did the sky turn black? Do you still want me back? I'll pick it all up piece by piece. And the wheel goes ro...

Sleeping In Paris Rosanne Cash

I'll send the angels to watch over you tonight And you send them right back to me A lonely road is a bodyguard If we really want it to be There's fascination behind every window But I know you real...

On The Surface Rosanne Cash

On the surface everything seems right no one notices the dimness of the light For the world outside our door our smiles are oh so bright On the surface everything's all right We have the grace of a...

Runaway Train Rosanne Cash

I'm worried about you I'm worried about me The curves around midnight Aren't easy to see Flashing red warnings Unseen in the rain This thing has turned into A runaway train Long-distance phone call...

What We Really Want Rosanne Cash

We tried to make ourselves pay for something we've never done We threw the best parts of life away on street talk strangers and drugs What we really want is love what we really need is love [ guita...

No Memories Hangin' Round Rosanne Cash

You don't want no more heartachesAnd I don't want no teardropsWhat else is love to talk aboutCause I ain't yours you ain't mineThe song don't fit and the words don't rhymeOld memories keep standi...

Never Be You Rosanne Cash

Take a look at my eyesIt's been a long, long timeI used to feel so strongWhen I knew you were mineBut since you let me downI'm hard to be aroundI don't know what I'm gonna doHe could never be youHe...

Dance With The Tiger Rosanne Cash

In every woman and man lies the seed of the fearOf just how alone are all who live hereDenying the fear is the name of the gameTo stare at the fear is going insaneForgiving the fear is one up on Ca...

Real Woman Rosanne Cash

I don't want to be a star I don't want to talk through glassI don't want to check my appearance in your eyesI don't need a million bucks baby it don't take muchI don't need to play the princess all...

This World Rosanne Cash

I read about this baby she got beat up by her dadShe was nine months old and he was a full grown manShe may have been learning how to crawl and he put a fist in her faceAnd the doctor said this bab...

Mirror Image Rosanne Cash

In a little cabaret in a South Texas border town,Sat a boy and his guitar, and the people came from all around.And all the girls from there to Austin,Were slippin' away from home and puttin' jewele...

Land Of Nightmares Rosanne Cash

When you look at meAs if you don't know meAnd you talk to meLike you've never met meI can leave you alone if I tryIf I tried I could tell you goodbyeIf I wanted toI could be long goneIf I wanted t...

I Want A Cure Rosanne Cash

Distance makes the heart start wonderingAbsence makes the anger growThe world may just be spinning through usAnd separation lets it showI walk away the fear and angerI'm talking through the tears e...

Paralyzed Rosanne Cash

I picked up the phone, you were both on the lineYour words to each other froze me in timeA lifetime between us just burnt on the wiresDissolved in a dial tone, consumed in your firesYour footsteps ...

Blue Moon With Heartache Rosanne Cash

Blue moon out my window, guess this means goodnightAnd you come in and start right in not treating me rightMisery's a ball and all its companyI'll play the victim for you honey, but not for freeI r...

What Kinda Girl? Rosanne Cash

What kinda girl am I really am?I love some turkey but I don't eat lambNo sweet potato but I do like hamWhat kinda girl am I really am?What kinda girl am I really I?I kept my jacket but I lost my ti...

You Don't Have Very Far To Go Rosanne Cash

You always find a way, to hurt my prideIf I'm not cryin', you're not, satisfiedI don't know why you want to, hurt me soIf you're tryin' to break my heart,You don't have very far to goYou don't have...

Where Will The Words Come From? Rosanne Cash

Where will the words come fromWhen I tell you I don't love you anymore?When I command my lips to say"It's over now, please go away"Will the words be thereOr will they fail me like they've always do...

Hometown Blues Rosanne Cash

Baby can't wait baby gotta goGotta do a number on the late night showDo a little song do a little danceWanna make the best of her big chance.Don't really matter if she don't or if she doTryin' to m...

I Can't Resist Rosanne Cash

I'm on your new wave lengthI know what you must thinkI've never felt like thisI can't resist, Knowing love like thisI can't resistIn from the outside at lastI've lived alone in your pastI've known ...

Black Cadillac Rosanne Cash

Rosanna, baby come onIt was a black Cadillac drove you awayEverybody's talkin' but they don't have much to sayIt was a black sky of rain none of it fellOne of us gets to go to heaven, one has to st...

Burn Down This Town Rosanne Cash

The hills are burning, fields turn to steelThe big house is haunted with what we don't feelAll the streets are empty, no one ever comes aroundSo you know they won't make a soundBurn down this townM...

God Is In The Roses Rosanne Cash

God is in the rosesThe petals and the thornsStorms out on the oceansThe souls who will be bornAnd every drop of rain that fallsFalls for those who mournGod is in the roses and the thornsThe sun is ...

House On The Lake Rosanne Cash

Well, I miss the sounds of TennesseeAnd the smell of heavy rainThe roses in the gardenLaugh before the painBut I hear his voice close in my earI see her smile and waveI blink and while my eyes are ...

The World Unseen Rosanne Cash

I'm the sparrow on the roofI'm the list of everyone I have to loseI'm the rainbow in the dartI am who I was and how much I can hurtSo I will look for you in stories of hurricanesWestward leading, s...

Like Fugitives Rosanne Cash

The priest is prayin' for your soulAnd the doctor for your heartSomeone tell me how to liveNow that we must live apartOnce we had a motherBut that's all over nowSo wish her well and let her goJust ...

Dreams Are Not My Home Rosanne Cash

The waves are breaking on the wallThe queen of rosesSpreads her arms to fly, shed fallsIf I had wings I'd cut them downLive without these dreamsSo I could learn to love the ground'Cause I wanna liv...

Like A Wave Rosanne Cash

My memory is filling with smokeSuch a relief not to knowExcept for the body and soulThere's nothing here I want to ownBut I gave my love and it rolls like a waveBack through my history on past the ...

World Without Sound Rosanne Cash

I wish I was a christian, knew what to believeI could learn a lot of rules to put my mind at easeI wish I had the money to live just like a queenWith Demerols and Cashmere and every little thingI w...

Good Intent Rosanne Cash

I sailed in on the Good Intentwith all intentions cleara man without a mysterya vision brought me herethe ocean gave me room to roambut the shore in calling outso I will marry, build a homeand see ...

A Feather's Not A Bird Rosanne Cash

I’m going down to Florence, gonna wear a pretty dressI’ll sit on top the magic wall with the voices in my headThen we’ll drive on through to Memphis, past the strongest shoresAnd on to Arkansas jus...

The Sunken Lands Rosanne Cash

Five cans of paint in the empty fieldsThe dust revealsThe children cry, the work never endsThere’s not a single friendWho will hold her hand in the sunken landsThe mud and tears melt the cotton bal...

Etta's Tune Rosanne Cash

What’s the temperature darling 100 and moreThe horses pawing out the dust, but it’s Wilton by the doorBut you pour your strongest coffee and I’ll take back of the wheelWe’ll drive straight down the...

Modern Blue Rosanne Cash

I went to Barcelona on the midnight trainI walked the streets of Paris in the pouring rainI flew across and island in the Northern SeaAnd I ended up in Memphis, TennesseeI keep my head down, I keep...

Tell Heaven Rosanne Cash

When you’re like a broken bird tell heavenBattered wings against the dark and dayWhen your worries won’t let you sleep tell heavenWhen the tears won’t ever go awayIf you got no one to love tell hea...

The Long Way Home Rosanne Cash

Dark highways and the country roadsDon’t scare you like they didThe woods and winds, they’ll welcome youTo the places you once hidYou grew up and you moved awayAcross a foreign seeAnd what was left...

World Of Strange Design Rosanne Cash

Well you’re not from around hereYou’re probably not our kindIt’s hot from March to ChristmasAnd other things you’ll findWon’t fit your old ideasTheir line is shifting sands,You walk across a ghostl...

Night School Rosanne Cash

Morbid like a mystery townWater, heat and moonSteam under magnolia treesNever-ending roadsWhat happened to that other lifeWe thought we lived we tooWe travelled like spies in paradiseThe time, it f...

When The Master Calls The Roll Rosanne Cash

Girl with hair of flaming redSeeking perfect loverFor to lie down on her feather bedSoul secrets to uncoverMust be gentile, must be strongWith disposition sunnyJust as faithful as the day is longAn...

Money Road Rosanne Cash

I was dreaming about the town of Hutchy bridgeA thousand miles from where we liveBut the long mine at the pearly gateThe keepers of our fateNone of them will congregateOut on money roadA lonesome b...

I Don't Want To Spoil The Party Rosanne Cash

"I don't want to spoil the party so I'll go I would hate my disappointment to show There's nothing for me here, so I will disappear If he turns up while I'm gone please let me know I had a drink o...