A Common Disaster Cowboy Junkies

name's at the top Won't you share a common disaster?

Cowboy junkies lament Townes Van Zandt

Cowboy junkies lament by Townes Van Zandt Baby hit the back door breathin' real heavy said the boys in the alley wouldn't leave her alone Mama did her make-up in a terrible hurry She finally got

Working On A Building Cowboy Junkies

Working On A Building Cowboy Junkies (The Trinity Session) Working on a building, a Holy Ghost building For my Lord, for my Lord If I was a drunkard I tell you what I'd do I would quit my drinking

I Don't Want To Be A Soldier Cowboy Junkies

Well I don't wanna be a soldier mamma, I don't wanna die Well I don't wanna be a sailor mamma, I don't wanna fly Well I don't wanna be a failure mamma, I don't wanna cry Well I don't wanna be a soldier

This Street, That Man, This Life Cowboy Junkies

(Michael Timmins) This street holds its secrets like a cobra holds its kill This street minds its business like a jailer minds his jail That house there is haunted That door's a portal to hell This

Isn't It A Pity? Cowboy Junkies

[George Harrison cover] Isn't it a pity Now, isn't it a shame How we break each other's hearts And cause each other pain How we take each other's love Without thinking anymore Forgetting to give back Isn't

Misguided Angel Cowboy Junkies

Gabriel, pure and white as ivory Soul like a Lucifer, black and cold like a piece a lead Misguided angel, love you till I'm dead I said "Brother you speak to me of passion You said never to settle

Anniversary Song Cowboy Junkies

Anniversary Song Cowboy Junkies (Pale Sun, Crescent Moon) Have you ever seen a sight as beautiful as that of the rain-soaked purple of the white birch in spring?

A Horse In The Country Cowboy Junkies

(Michael Timmins) The money would be pretty good if a quart of milk were still a dollar or even if a quart of milk were still a quart And the hours, well, I don't mind how they creep on by like

200 More Miles Cowboy Junkies

Atlanta's a distant memory Montgomery a recent birth And Tulsa burns on the desert floor Like a signal fire And I got Willy on the radio A dozen things on my mind And number one is fleshing out

Southern Rain Cowboy Junkies

quit their buzzing Even Bear has stopped his barking They all sense something brewing Up the James and headed this way Bobby sips his morning coffee Says Have you finished with the funnies Looks like a

Marathon Cowboy Junkies

To-do lists on a long yellow legal pad Blue Windsor knots framed by basic black Resplendent tables Great forests of paper plates Carrying the weight of the world Saps every ounce of your strength

Crescent Moon Cowboy Junkies

Crescent Moon (michael Timmins) Cowboy Junkies (Pale Sun, Crescent Moon) Reach a hand to the crescent moon grab hold of the hollow If she sits in the palm of the left that moon will be fuller tomorrow

License To Kill Cowboy Junkies

Bob Dylan cover] Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth He can do with it as he please And if things don't change soon, he will Oh, man has invented his doom First step was touching the moon Now there's a

Blue Moon Revisited Cowboy Junkies

I only want to say That if there is a way I want my baby back with me 'cause he's my true love my only one don't you see?

Seven Years Cowboy Junkies

Seven Years Cowboy Junkies (Pale Sun, Crescent Moon) Haven't seen the sun for seven days November's got her nails dug in deep Haven't seen my son for seven years and the chances are we'll never

White Sail Cowboy Junkies

White Sail Cowboy Junkies (Pale Sun, Crescent Moon) Raise a white sail if you love me a black sail if you don't Seal me up in an impregnable tower or surround me with an impassable moat I've heard

Powderfinger Cowboy Junkies

Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming up the river, with a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail I think you'd better call John 'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the

Hunted Cowboy Junkies

Emma's in a part of town where she doesn't recognize the streets named for famous native sons and out of every crevice comes creeping a threat in her direction Lucy's outside her home heading towards

Powderfinger (Neil Young Cover) Cowboy Junkies

Look out, Mama, there\'s a white boat coming up the river, with a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail I think you\'d better call John \'cause it don\'t look like they\'re here to deliver

First Recollection Cowboy Junkies

First Recollection Cowboy Junkies (Pale Sun, Crescent Moon) My first recollection is a day in December black iron steam engine covered in ice like some Precambrian monster moaning and snorting

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Cowboy Junkies

Hear the lonesome whippoorwill His song's too blue to fly The midnight train is a-winding low I'm so lonesome I could cry I've never seen a night so long When time keeps crawling by The moon is

Oregon Hill Cowboy Junkies

Lee are making love with a little help from STP Their women on the porches comparing alibis Greasy eggs and bacon, bumper stickers aimed to start a fight, full gun racks, Confederate caps, if you want

Murder, Tonight, In The Trailer Park Cowboy Junkies

Annabelle Evans found with her throat cut after dark Her pockets turned inside out her dresser drawers turned upside down Anna's neighbour, Peg, identifies the body lets out a hollow kind of sound

Something More Besides You (Album Version) Cowboy Junkies

One foot strands before the crib the other by the casket A question formed upon stilled lips is passed on but never asked I guess I believe that there's a point to what we do But I ask myself is there

Musical Key (Album Version) Cowboy Junkies

My mother sang the sweetest melody although she never sang in a musical key I'd hear her through the house My name called out loud My mother sang the sweetest melody My mother's hands were always

Ring On The Sill Cowboy Junkies

Ring On The Sill Cowboy Junkies (Pale Sun, Crescent Moon) She placed her ring on the sill, dishes piled high She's on the front porch step and the air smells like snow She's thinking of the siege

Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis) Cowboy Junkies

I only want to say That if there is a way I want my baby back with me 'cause he's my true love my only one don't you see?

One Cowboy Junkies

Did I disappoint you or leave a bad taste in your mouth? You act like you never had love and you want me to go without. Well, it's too late tonight to drag the past out into the light.

Hard To Explain Cowboy Junkies

Hard To Explain Cowboy Junkies (Pale Sun, Crescent Moon) If it ain't one thing I tell you it's always another I wonder why I started treating you like a step-brother Love is hard to explain

Walking After Midnight Cowboy Junkies

Walking After Midnight Cowboy Junkies (The Trinity Session) I was walking after midnight Yeah, out in the moonlight The way we used to do I'm always walking after midnight Searching for you I'm

Sweet Jane Cowboy Junkies

Anyone who's ever had a heart Wouldn't turn around and break it and anyone who's ever played a part Wouldn't turn around and hate it Sweet Jane, sweet Jane Sweet, sweet Jane You're waiting for

Hold On To Me (Album Version) Cowboy Junkies

If you offered me a shade of blue would I return it saying that it was too dark or light? Or would I see it for the precious thing that it might one day be?

Two Soldiers Cowboy Junkies

He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy his voice was low with pain I'll do your bidding comrade mine If I ride back again but if you ride back and I am dead you'll do as much for me Mother, you know, must

Pale Sun Cowboy Junkies

Pale Sun Cowboy Junkies (Pale Sun, Crescent Moon) Fifty miles from Dakota territory Cheyenne scalp hangs from his belt Found him alone washing in the Bighorn a steady aim and he bagged his game

State Trooper Cowboy Junkies

New Jersey Turnpike Riding on a wet night 'neath the refinery's glow Down where the great black river flow Licence, registration I ain't got none But I got a clear conscience 'bout the things that

Floorboard Blues Cowboy Junkies

Look under his floorboards Mama I don't trust his silly grin He's got a beat-up Rambler Nebraska plates, and I ain't getting in I don't like the way his pinky ring picks up the dashboard light

This World Dreams Of Cowboy Junkies

[Chorus] Simple as a folktale, Deadly as a stairwell It surrounds you. Stupid men and bastards Always bite their masters They will get you. [Chorus] This world dreams of

Postcard Blues Cowboy Junkies

would boast that you knew All the pressure points inside And you could just as easily kill me Beneath the desire that I hide But as your patient I knew That your healing powers had grown From a

Brothers Under The Bridge Cowboy Junkies

[Bruce Springsteen cover] Saigon, it was all gone The same coke machines as the streets i grew on Down a mesquite canyon we come walking along the ridge Me and the brothers under the bridge Campsite's

Now I Know (Album Version) Cowboy Junkies

know, now I know what it means to be broken Now I know, now I know what it means to be bared You in the chair perceptibly sinking I'm on my knees once again made aware of the world out there Grief is a

I Don't Get It Cowboy Junkies

make sense of why we live and die I don't get it, I don't get it I ask my friends if they understand They just laugh at me and watch another band They don't worry they don't worry Lookin' for a

Crossroads Cowboy Junkies

I went to the crossroads fell down on my knee I asked the Lord above me for mercy "Save Bob, if you please" Standing standing on the crossroad Yeah, I try to flag a ride Don't nobody

Baby Please Don't Go Cowboy Junkies

Now, baby, please don't go Now, baby, please don't go back to New Orleans You know I love you so you know I love you so <Interlude> You got me waiting here You got me waiting here Before a

Come Calling (His Song) (Album Version) Cowboy Junkies

The stillness here, Like what he sometimes finds inside her, Hits so hard it can steal your breath forever He sometimes wonders Is the sum of their lives together Him on the floor and her lost to a mind

Come Calling (Her Song) (Album Version) Cowboy Junkies

The stillness here, Like what he sometimes finds inside her, Hits so hard it can steal your breath forever He sometimes wonders Is the sum of their lives together Him on the floor and her lost to a mind

Forgive Me Cowboy Junkies

forgives you for almost anything you do Well, if that's the case that's the case I think I'm going to kill that man Then drop down on my knees Well, this morning, God knows that man he comes a

Decoration Day Cowboy Junkies

I had a man who's good and kind in his way Yeah I had a man sweet and kind in his way Lord, he died and he left me and I sing the blues on every decoration day Lord I was standing standing 'round

Speaking Confidentially (Album Version) Cowboy Junkies

moving now ever so slightly I shift my feet but feel no relief Speaking metaphorically Speaking hypothetically if the air you breathed was so unique would you use it up to idly speak or horde it for a

To love is to bury Cowboy Junkies

tree And with God and friends witnessing it He pledged his life to me To me he was Earth And I rooted in his soil I to he was Sky vast and free Of the burdens from which he toiled Then one night a