Lyrics for Covenant

Copyright © 2000 Hacklebarney Music
  1. 'Cept You & Me, Babe
  2. Rexroth's Daughter
  3. Real Good Friend
  4. Blues Go Walking
  5. Waiting on You
  6. Living in a Prayer
  7. Dream City
  8. Lullaby
  9. Blue Car
  10. Walkin' Daddy
  11. Pretty One More Time
  12. Marriage Chant

'Cept You & Me, Babe

half the people you see these days are talking on cell phones driving off the road & bumping into doors people used to spend quite a bit of time alone i guess nobody's lonely anymore 'cept you & me babe 'cept you & me it's raining sheets of rain everything is cold and wet nobody's going out of doors they're all at home living it up on the internet so i guess nobody's lonely any more 'cept you and me babe 'cept you and me people meet somebody new & they leave the rest behind we can have it all even though our lives are short the kids they'll get used to it it happens all the time no one is even surprised any more 'cept you and me babe 'cept you and me i take my coffee black or with a little cream i wake up every morning with the sun i wanted to be your man that was nothing but a sweet dream i always tell the truth to everyone 'cept you and me babe 'cept you and me

Rexroth's Daughter

coldest night of the winter working up my farewell in the middle of everything under no particular spell i am dreaming of the mountains where the children learn the stars clouds roll in from nebraska dark chords on a big guitar my restlessness is long gone i would stand here like an old jack pine but I'm looking for rexroth's daughter the friend of a friend of mine i can't believe your hands and mouth did all that to me are so daily naked for all the world to see that thunderstorm in michigan i never will forget we shook right with the thunder & with the pounding rain got wet where did you turn when you turned from me with your arms across your chest i am looking for rexroth's daughter i saw her in the great northwest would she have said it was the wrong time if I had found her then i don't want too much a field across the road and a few good friends she used to come & see me but she was always there & gone even the very longest love does not last too long she'd stand there in my doorway smoothing out her dress & say "this life is a thump-ripe melon--so sweet and such a mess" i wanted to get to know you but you said you were shy i would have followed you anywhere but hello rolled into goodbye i just stood there watching as you walked along the fence beware of them that look at you as an experience you're back out on the highway with your poems of city heat & I'm looking for rexroth's daughter here on my own side street the murderer who lived next door seemed like such a normal guy-- if you try to follow what they shove at us you run out of tears to cry i heard a man speak quietly i listened for a while he spoke from his heart to my woe & then he bowed & smiled what is real but compassion as we move from birth to death i am looking for rexroth's daughter & I'm running out of breath spring will come back i know it will & it will do its best so useful so endangered like a lion or a breast i think about my children when i look at any child's face & pray that we will find a way to get with all this amazing grace it's so cold out there tonight so stormy i can hardly see & i'm looking for rexroth's daughter & i guess i always will be

Real Good Friend

i can't say don't go but i can't say go i can't say stay we both know we both know you're going & we both know why but i can't say don't go i can't say goodbye i can't say hold me i wish i could i'm feeling so cold & you're looking so good but it aint to be you got a good man ok god we're gonna follow your plan i can't say come to me but i can't say leave one thing i can say i can say believe believe i'll love you until the end long as i'm living you got a real good friend i can't say i'm happy but i aint too blue i know i'm lucky to have a friend like you we'll share some laughter on that you can depend long as i'm living you got a real good friend

Blues Go Walking

i try to stay here but my blues go walking my blues go walking they go out walking i try to stay here when i'm going down i try to stay here but my blues go walking around i lay in my bed but my blues go walking my blues go walking my blues go walking i stay in my bed & i don't even make a sound i lay in my bed & my blues go walking 'round my blues go walking they go looking someone's burning what someone's cooking someone's moaning someone's out of her nightgown my blues go looking my blues go walking 'round don't fall in love if you can't live it if you can't give it if you can't live it don't fall in love if you can't take it to town don't fall in love or your blues will go walking 'round

Waiting on You

waiting on you waiting on you is about all i do another night another day i'm waiting on you & i don't know why i keep waiting on you make up your mind make up your mind why don't you it'd be kind it'd be kinder you know it's true & i don't know why i keep waiting on you yes or no yes or no what's it gonna be i can't live on dreams & maybe & i don't know why i keep waiting on you one of these days i'm gonna go away from this without a why without a cry without a kiss then you'll know what it is with this deal then you'll feel what it is that i feel & even if you don't at least i won't be waiting on you

Living in a Prayer

everybody looks like someone i just saw five minutes ago if i looked too far in the mirror i know i'd have to run from copper harbour way down to acapulco where the sun shines on the moon & the moon gives it back to everyone i'm living in a prayer every time i turn around some ghost wants to buy me a beer feel like i'm living in a trashy novel where plot's the only thing the fire's out the smoke has blown but still nothing is clear i could swear it's a summer day but then why am i freezing i should be there why god let us meet at this time i have no idea maybe i have paid for my sins by now or i don't have long to live the meadowlark's song in the evening is not as sweet as the one you sing to me i will dig deep in my pockets see what boyhood treasures i can give you should be here i should be there long as i'm in your heart i'm living in a prayer

Dream City

i'm living in dream city lost in dreams of you i'm living in dream city dreaming is all i do they're gonna cut off my water unplug my telephone if i don't stop my dreaming i will be out on the street alone i'm living in dream city dreaming i'm holding you near & this is where i'll be until you give me a ride out of here it's such a fine city i'm running down the halls it's a red wine city i'm bumping into walls i'm living in a palace i go from room to room close my eyes & see you i'm just chasing your perfume i'm living in dream city & the rent is rising fast i'm living in dream city i don't know how long i can last if you had never hugged me my feet would still touch the ground if you had never kissed me i'd be back in my hometown

Lullaby

i look at you & i think of bed you move so cool & freely & i know what's going on in your head oh babe you make me sleepy & we've been married all these years we know each other deeply & oh my dear oh my dear you still make me sleepy the children they are nearly grown & ain't they turned out sweetly they're out tonight & we're alone & oh babe you make me sleepy i know your stories you know mine but tell that one again to me about the wet woods & the red wine oh babe it makes me sleepy you make me feel like lying down let your hair down completely when you pull on that raggedyass old cotton nightgown oh babe you make me sleepy since we first met & i gave you that twirl i know nothing can defeat me not as long as you're my girl oh babe you make me sleepy & in your arms i sleep so fine so well do you meet me & you can wake me any time oh babe i ain't that sleepy

Blue Car

i'm driving my blue car baby down from the mountain so high i'm driving my blue car baby coming down to say goodbye the sunrise is a miracle but it can't hold a candle to you do you remember them rides in my blue car back when it was brand new well it's a good old car but the clutch is a little loose and the brakes are screaming a song called what's the use but it's good for one more trip one more trip to you the lightning's meant to strike the tall pine trees & the birds are meant to cry & wheel in the breeze but some things baby i guess they just ain't meant to be when i get back up on the mountain i'll close my door against the wind i'll park my old blue car i may fall down the mountain but i will never fall in love again

Walkin' Daddy

i'm walkin' daddy in the steps that you put down i'm walkin' daddy & i know not where I'm bound i'm walkin' daddy this road is dark & long i'm walkin' daddy & your blood is in me strong i'm walkin' daddy where the jack's fork river bends down in missouri where the jack's fork river bends with you & ma & my sister & with all my dear friends you're walkin' daddy off through the woods you old hillbilly you said "this is my son in whom I am well pleased" ain't no road a good road until it's free to everyone we're walkin' daddy father holy ghost & son ain't no sorrow can dim the love comes shining through i'm walkin' daddy I know what I am here to do to be of use try to help the deal along i'm walkin' daddy & i'm just gonna keep walkin' on

Pretty One More Time

all the leaves are turning & the fields are clear there's a fire burning i wish you were here pretty one more time pretty one more time before we're down the line pretty one more time & the light is raining from a midwest sky i'm all through explaining goodbye to goodbye it's getting dark so early i walked all afternoon all i see so clearly will be gone so soon & a dim light beckons from a roadside bar i'll stop in i reckon i have already come this far find a place by the window i've been here before babe don't be a no-show come on through that door i'll write you a letter i know you feel the fall things may not get better but we can always stall

Marriage Chant

marriage is impossible marriage is dull your dance card is empty your plate is too full it's something no sensible person would do i wish i was married i wish I was married i wish i was married to you marriage is unnatural marriage is hard you rotate your tires you work in the yard you fight about nothing every hour or two i wish i was married i wish i was married i wish i was married to you the children throw fits in airports & such they projectile vomit on aunt ruthie at lunch & your in-laws know just what you should do but i wish i was married i wish i was married i wish i was married to you i'd like to fix you my special broth when you're sick i'd like to fight with you when you're bein' real thick there is no end to what i would like to do i wish i was married i wish i was married i wish i was married to you i like the roll in rock & roll & all i know is you're the sister of my soul & we make a circle just we two & i wish i was married i wish i was married i wish i was married to you the sky unpredictable mysterious the sea do we wish most for what never can be it never can be i guess that's true but i wish i was married i wish i was married i wish i was uh huh huh to you the grass is always greener is what they say to me if I was your husband maybe I'd agree i like brown grass & vows that stay true & i wish i was married i wish i was married i wish i was married to you to you to you mmhmm to you Transcribed by Shirley Cottle.