by Chris Whitley on album Poison Girl

Living with the Law Chris Whitley Brother runnin' powder money Daddy's somewhere on a drunk In the hours, after washing I do my dreaming with a gun Well I come down from the country Find a lesson in

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Automatic love is all I want End of the day Automatic love is all I got To get away Rounds of lead deliver me today I got no blood to waste on foreplay You can make all the decisions You can make all

by Chris Whitley on album Living With The Law

Now when this over, over and through And all them changes have come and passed I wanna meet you in the big sky country Just wanna prove, mama, love can last, yeah Like Hallelujah in the big sky

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

There's a dirt floor underneath here To receive us when changes fail May this shovel loose your trouble Let them fall away Well, the mist shall be your blanket While the moss shall ease your head As

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Everything is silent Night upon the rocks I'm over by the roadhouse With them rusted engine blocks A ghost town with a gold mine A pick axe in my head I'm beggin', mama, please move over Kick them st

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Moonlight over the alley Baby, where I come from There's a poison girl, poison girl Sister do medicine business Three dollar down for the gun She's a poison girl, poison girl I be waiting uptown Whi

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Walk it with the father Talk it with the son Baby got vision child Like a loaded gun She use my body Like carrion crow Doing our transmission thing On Dust Radio Baby, call the number Nobody left in

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Brother runnin' powder money Daddy's somewhere on a drunk In the hours, after washing I do my dreaming with a gun Well, I come down from the country Find a lesson in the draw There ain't no secrets i

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

God my heart is ready now God my heart is ready now I been awake so long December dragging on God my heart is ready now And with the ease she came Epiphany bleeds like rain A season of seed, come aga

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

You never notice child And I just pretend again About the power shift On your God thing I never forget falling now The times you rode with me You followed me down And never had to lose yourself With

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Well, I see now she can't spell no love with letters All at odds with these mythologies of sexual mentors Well, if she ever need a rest From all that Dogma all undressed On no religion I love you ble

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

The ground gives as you go With all them secrets that you know As if to give nothing away Of the signals you obey You're weightless as a child Falling from above Are helpless to your size Lonelier th

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Every evening I follow my master Down to my prayin' ground No sir, I ain't ready to go no faster I'm just takin' the long way around Early spring child, you won't get no younger When love just brough

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Now, they hold me here much longer Probably go mad all by myself Now, I really need somebody Said, I really need somebody's help, yeah Why does a man up in the judgment chair Got his ass, God's right

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Who gonna win the medal? Who gonna win the glittering prize? Everybody out here now No one can disguise, no one can disguise I woke to you that blessed mornin' That's when I knew you was the one Some

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

I ain't got no pride in my pants I ain't got no poise or plans Hear me out with your hands It's nothing major, sister I can't get off Yeah, nothing major I ain't got no acid love Ain't got no proble

by Chris Whitley on album Din Of Ecstasy

As the party closes I ain't got a clue Red and yellow roses Nipple rings and tattoos Well, I never met no girl No one, no where I never met no girl Narcotic prayer If I seen her breathing

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

I look out your bedroom window Clear blue sky I look out your bedroom window Clear blue sky Jet planes go smokin' Jet planes go smokin' Jet planes, they go flyin' by Wanna tell her sometime Give her

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Down, down, down All is revealed when you hit the ground Miss Amelia, where are you now? Isolation up in the clouds Could be time to power down Down, down, down No one here, nowhere's around â€~Ro

by Chris Whitley on album Miscellaneous

Well, when I got your letter I could not contain The urge to go beyond our inheritance again And the drug of ages, in pages of your pen I got to put it down Maybe you got glazed by all the shit