Something To Me

The song I love the best’s the one my father taught to me,
The kindness of a stranger is dust from an unseen wing,
But an old friend at my table is by far the finest thing
This tired mile could give to me.
The colors of the man I love are deepest blue and green,
And it isn’t very often that I say just what I mean,
Cause the feeling seems to scatter and these words fall in between.
For what I miss I’ll just tell you this,

It’s something to me.
It’s something to me.
I don’t know what it comes to and it’s not so much to see,
But you take tomorrow so long as you know
It’s something to me,
It’s something to me.

Well, the city comes to greet me with her secrets all lit up,
Beauty is letting your guard down all the way in hands you trust,
But there’s a time you hold your head up, say it doesn’t hurt so much,
Keep all your tears where no one can see.
Gentle is the road within me and it’s gently I depart,
Cause these well-worn threads of daylight will sometimes come apart,
Giving way to all the shadows where no one can hear your heart,
So down in the dark, if that’s where you are,

It’s something to me.

Now the tender hands of morning have given up a new sunrise,
And we all get up together in our ordinary lives,
Going one step for another giving up has crossed my mind,
But I’ll take a long day, come round the right way.

It’s something to me.

Broken

Once you were a straight shot, a shiny quarter in a new slot,
Night would keep the dreams that you got for afternoon.
Then telling the truth got so hard, we were dancing in the backyard,
Once I knew the end and the start, but now that’s through.

Now you’re broken and you don’t understand
What is broken falls into place once again.

So morning comes to clean up like nothing happened when your heart stopped,
Like all the lawyers calling all cops to wave days through.
Just close your eyes for this long, something’s mixed up and something’s gone,
Only fingers can you count on, and one leaves two.

Now you’re broken and you don’t understand
What is broken falls into place once again.

And it’s these most loved losses, they are just old coin tosses,
And these most loved losses are the hardest to carry.

I wish I were a freeway laid out clearer than a bright day.
I’d run wide open down this causeway like brand new
Singing louder than the whole block, all my love would be a straight shot
Night would dream the dreams that I got, and so would you.

But I’m broken and I don’t understand
What is broken falls into place once again.
Hand of kindness, come and gather me in like a rainstorm,
Again and again and again,
I think I will break but I mend.

Another Country

Lost hours and secrets too,
No one will find but you,
Falling is like brand new rain,
Places I have never been,
I thought these things would come to me.
Love is another country, and I want to go -

I want to go too. I want to go with you.
I want to go too. I want to go with you.

But I’m broke down right here.
My heart won’t come out clear.
I get lost on the inside too.
How could I make sense to you?
And when you walk away from me,
You’re further than another country and I want to go -

I want to go too. I want to go with you.
I want to go too. I want to go with you.

If you should lose you place,
This world should hide its face
And go where you can’t follow to,
I will come and look for you,
And you can just hold onto me,
Strangers in another country cause I want to go -

I want to go too. I want to go with you.
I want to go too. I want to go with you.

Hopes Too High

Listen baby, I won’t leave no trace.
Gonna light out of here for some cleaner place.
I’ll be sitting in the backseat with my hair in my face,
Then gone fast as freedom on good wind.

If I got my hopes too high, this is no easy kind of life.
But I see it in my mind’s eye, touch me real as daytime,
And I can’t keep from trying.

No place to run for a girl like me,
Whole lot of used to’s and supposed to be’s,
I want to burn like august, shine like gold dust,
Where everyday living can’t hold me.

If I got my hopes too high, this is no easy kind of life.
But I see it in my mind’s eye, touch me real as daytime,
And I can’t keep from trying.

So when I reach for you from some way down place,
Don’t be a stranger who won’t show his face.
I got no promise but these words I say,
I carry you, you carry me,

If I got my hopes too high, this is no easy kind of life.
But I see it in my mind’s eye, touch me real as daytime,
And I can’t keep from trying.

Morning Is My Destination

With the city closed for evening and the streets dressed up in rain,
My sweet man, do you have some place to get to?

Morning is my destination. See me through.
Morning is my destination. See me through.

Night’s not always free and easy, the way it is in my mind.
If I should find I need some help from you,

Morning is my destination. See me through.
Morning is my destination. See me through.

Daybreak’s broken light is as far away as I feel tonight,
But I can go it if I can show it to you.

Morning is my destination. See me through.
Morning is my destination. See me through.

Keep You Happy

The sky is turning and longing for something far away.
The moon’s a tear drop, see slowly as it falls away.
Miles running down a face,
Everything’s bound to change,
It’s bound to change.

Day breaks of tenderness,
So hold me here like this,
So still and quiet as if it might
Keep you happy.

A feeling has me and tells me it will never stay.
Your heart beats miles now, I feel them as they fly away.
Close gets so far away,
Close gets so far.

Day breaks of loneliness.
I’d weather all of this
If I could find a place where I’d
Keep you happy.

Why do we pretend there is something to hold onto?
See how my world fell in, I was trying to hold you, I was just trying to hold you.

Night is a gypsy who tells me he will never stay.
Miles are like heart beats, I know them as they fly away.
See how they fly away,
See how they fly.

Day breaks of restlessness.
I’m filled with all of this,
But deep inside what will I find
To keep me happy.

I Know What I’m Looking For Now

Well, I got here early trying to decide
If there was nothing to hope for or nothing inside
But a mixed up girl with plenty to hide from the light of day.

Then a friend made me laugh, bought me a drink,
I walked in this garden and I started to think,
What little I know is quick as a wink but I’ve know a real long time.

I know what I’m looking for now. I know what I’m looking for now.
This world will mix you up, oh and bring you down.
I know what I’m looking for now.

Everyone’s looking, they’re not sure at what,
Holding onto illusions like it’s all that they got,
Putting a mystery where a mystery is not,
Can you tell me why?

When you can light up a stranger just passing by,
Start revolutions with the glint in your eye,
Sing Hallelujah with a breath or a sigh
And still know the way home.

I know what I’m looking for now. I know what I’m looking for now.
This world will mix you up, oh and bring you down.
I know what I’m looking for now.

All of these miles I’ve come,
All of these dreams I’ve chased in my mind,
All for something small and simple to find.

So you did what you could, you meant what you said,
You look like an angel so hold up your head,
A little lost here ain’t so bad.
That ain’t the reason to cry.

I know what I’m looking for now. I know what I’m looking for now.
This world will mix you up, oh and bring you down.
I know what I’m looking for now.

Tell Me Something True

I woke up beside you in the night afraid.
When I was young I was always brave.
I was going where the wind was born,
I don’t know where that is anymore.
Sometimes my heart feels so empty and mean,
No blanket could warm, no water could clean,
No direction on that same old wind
Could give me passage through.

Tell me something true.
Tell me something true.
I have lost my way but when I find it, I’ll bring it to you.

I’ve heard about sunshine and I know about May,
But it doesn’t always work out that way.
How do you give your heart back to the world
That’s made a fool of you?

Tell me something true.
Tell me something true.
I have lost my way but when I find it, I’ll bring it to you.

Time’s gonna come here so remiss,
He will forget my words, forget my kiss.
If you want to love me, better take me like this,
I think the best that I can do is tell you something true.

I’ll tell you something true.
I’ll tell you something true.
I’m gonna lose my way but when I find it, I’ll bring it to you.

My Heart is Free

Well, the first thing I remember is the last thing that I saw,
Morning hit the barrel of a rifle going off.
Then the daylight wrapped around me,
Then I heard the sergeant scream,
Then all my reservations fell gently at my feet.

Now my heart is free.
My heart is free, and all the things that hold a man no longer carry me.

I was sure there was a reason to take that side and fight,
But when I saw the trembling hands that put that shot in flight,
I saw the hands of Jesus, saw the shores at Normandy,
Saw a hundred thousand weary lost and homesick boys like me.

Now my heart is free.
My heart is free, and all the things that hold a man no longer carry me.

The courage asked of my heart has traveled far beyond those lines.
Seems it’s always for a few men that so many of us die.
You don’t remember my name or the girl that I made proud,
And whatever drew me from her arms is nothing to me now.

Now my heart is free.
My heart is free, and all the things that hold a man no longer carry me.

Tender Branch

Once I ran like the wildest horse.
I reached up high and I clinched my fist.
What happened then goes just like this,
Oh the tender branch is gonna fall.

I was young and I thought it brave,
Fighting to find the mystery’s face.
You got to give it a gentler chase,
Cause oh the tender branch is gonna fall.

Sometimes you fall up these stairs, but it’s a long time ‘fore you know.
No matter where my heart is now, there’s a long, long way to go.

There is a church in St Sulpice.
I’ve seen the pilgrims come to pray.
I’m gonna lean in hard on that grace,
Cause oh the tender branch is gonna fall.

Mille Tendresses

La nuit, les bruits s’embrassent sous le vent,

La pluie ici, qui tombe tout doucement.

Il n’y a aucune chose qu’on peut tenir proche

Sans toutes ces milles tendresses.



Un rêve secret qui croise au fond des yeux,

Un geste, un mot, et tout à coup le feu.

Ce que je chante, tout ce qui passe,

Est dans toutes ces milles tendresses.



Si mon cœur cassait, je l’ai sauvegardé,

Je me suis cachée dans toutes ces mille tendresses.


Si ton cœur cassait, je l’ai sauvegardé,
Je t’ai caché dans toutes ces mille tendresses.


Et si on se perd un soir du printemps,

Envolé comme paroles de chanson,

N’oublie jamais, je te retrouverai

Dans toutes ces mille tendresses.

A Thousand Tendernesses

The night and the noises of night embracing on the wind,
The rain which falls very gently here again,
Not a singe thing can you hold closely
Without all these 1000 tendernesses.

A secret dream passing between our eyes,
A touch, a word, a fire sudden to rise
What I sing is this, all that happens is
Deep inside 1000 tendernesses.

If my heart breaks, I have saved it.
I have hidden myself in these 1000 tendernesses.

Should your heart should break, I have saved it too.
I have already hidden you, in 1000 tendernesses.

And if we lose each other one evening of the fall
Flying on the air like the lyric of this song
Never forget that I will find you again
In 1000 tendernesses, in each tenderness I find.