Today Has Songs

Wait

Under a blackened sky
Far beyond the glaring streetlights
Sleeping on empty dreams
The vultures lie in wait
You lay down beside me then
You were with me every waking hour
So close I could feel your breath

When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The new born hope unjaded by their years

Pressed up against the glass
I found myself wanting sympathy
But to be consumed again
Oh I know would be the death of me
And there is a love that's inherently given
A kind of blindness offered to appease
And in that light of forbidden joy
Oh I know I won't receive it

When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The newborn hope unjaded by their years

You know if I leave you now
It doesn't mean that I love you any less
Its just the state I'm in
I can't be good to anyone else like this

When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The new born hope unjaded by their years...

--Sarah McLachlan

Devotion

I pulled out with the mountain laurel blooming
On a dirt road that is soon to be paved
Down to the site of my original establishment
And the west end family grave

Cause one day moves into two
And I'm losing
Everything except for you
And I would sing you a song of devotion
Yeah that's what I should do


Blood runs thick and when it rains it pours down
On the family tree
on the fields of war
I spend my time being broken hearted and grieving bound
Yeah I haven't much need to look forward

I just let a one day move into two
I'm losing
Everything except for you
I would sing you a song of devotion


Book of days
The way things lay
That's just space and time
I gave it up
All for a love
That won't be defined


I've had enough temporary acquisition
Building fences for no gain
Taking dead trees down
before the winter freeze I said
Let 'em rot, and fall where they may.

Just let one day move into two
I'm losing
Everything except for you
Ah yeah
I would sing you a song of devotion
That's what I should do

It's the book of days
It's the way things lay
Now that's just space and time
I gave it up
All for your love

Thats what I should do

That's what I should do

Yeah
That's what I should do

--Indigo Girls (Amy Ray)

Romeo & Juliet

A love struck romeo
Sings the streets a serenade
Now he's laying everybody low
He's got a love song that he made
He finds a streetlight
And he steps out of the shade
And says something like
You and me, babe, how about it?

Juliet says hey, it's Romeo!
You nearly give me a heart attack!
Yeah well, he's underneath the window
Now she's singing hey-la, my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here
Singing up at people like that
Ah anyway, whatcha gonna do about it?

Juliet
The dice were loaded from the start
And I bet and you exploded into my heart
And I forget, I forget the movie song
When you gonna realize
It was just that the time was wrong
Julie

We both come up on different streets
And they both were streets of shame
You know they're both dirty, both mean
Yes and the dreams were the same
And I dreamed your dream for you
And now your dream is real
So tell me honey
Now how can you look at me
As if I was just another one of your deals

Now you can fall for chains of silver
And you can fall for chains of gold
You know you fall for pretty strangers
And the promises they hold
Well you promised me everything
And then you promised me thick and thin
Now you just turn away and say
Romeo, I think I used to have a scene with him.

Ah juliet
When we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above
Gonna love you 'till I die
There's a place for us
I know you know this song
Now when you gonna realize
It was just that the time was wrong
Julie

But I can't do the talks like they talk on my tv screen
I can't do a love song not the way you sang them to me
I can't do everything but I would do anything for you
Oh no I can't do anything except be in love with you

Yeah now and all I do is miss you
And the way it used to be you know
And all I do is keep the beat
I keep bad, bad company
And all I do is kiss you
Through the bars of a rhyme
When julie I'd do the stars with you
Anytime

Ah juliet
When we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above
I'm gonna love you till I die
There's a place for us
I know you know the movie song
One day we're gonna realize
It was just that the time was wrong
Julie
Julie
Julie

Now this love struck romeo
He sings the streets a serenade
Now he's laying everybody low
He's got a love song he made
He finds a convenient streetlight
And he'll step out of the shade
And hel'l say something like
You and me, babe, how bout it?

--Indigo Girls (covering Dire Straits)