by Terry Allen on album Miscellaneous
Yeah, the truck drivin' man He gonna understand When he pulls into the night cafe He gonna walk right in Where there's too many men Wantin' hamburgers right away When he finally finds a booth He call
by Loreena McKennitt on album The Mask And Mirror
Mckennitt Loreena The Mask And Mirror The Mystic's Dream January 24, 1993 - Granada, Spain...evening...lights across the city embrace the body of the Alhambra; the smells of woodsmoke and food han
by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark on album Night Café
Sitting in the night cafe, Like a Hopper painting on a very bad day Drinking like I used to do, with a Manner that you hate me too, and then People come and people go, but Who they are I'll never
by 22-Pistepirkko on album Big Lupu
oh we people are so clever we can do whatever we want oh we are so smart we can go as far as we want we can chance the seas now water is soiled we got all the books why the air ain’t good what c
by Terry Allen on album Americana Master Series: Terry Allen - Best of the Sugar Hill Years
In this world today Where we're living Some folks say The worst of us they can But when we are dead And in our caskets They always slip some lilies In our hands Will you give me my flowers While I'm l
by Terry Allen on album Miscellaneous
It's X-Mas on the Isthmus of Panama We're listless this Christmas No Santa Claus No wise men, no angels No mistletoe trucks No reindeer No shepherds We're shit out of luck Ah, we hung all our stocki
by Terry Allen on album Miscellaneous
Every night the same light shines From your eyes and back to mine With a vision of the love We thought was true But the darkness of the world out there Surrounds the love we thought we shared And it
by Terry Allen on album Lubbock (On Everything)
Ahh, she was a honky tonker An' he was a family man An' she showed him her gold teeth When he'd hold her little hand An' they met out on the highway At the Paradise Motel Lounge On Saturday ni
by Terry Allen on album Miscellaneous
Hey I don't need no chicken shit Business man tellin' me what to do Even if you ain't got no business Same thing goes for you I don't need no sweet faced woman Goin' sour mouthed on me If I work like
by Terry Allen on album Miscellaneous
During the time of the Second World War A small town in Italy, death came aboard Train number 8017, it wasn't strafing of bombing Clandestine de-railings, it was just some bad coal The stockyard was s
by Terry Allen on album Miscellaneous
Oh my mother She is a mountain And her breast It touch the sky And my father He is a river Running through her Sweet bye and bye And my sister She is a songbird And she's singing in her flight And m
by Terry Allen on album Miscellaneous
Well, I drove down to El Paso on my business Well, I was just another executive workin' for the bank When I crossed that border line, I dropped my business And I wound up for three days in the Juarez
by John Illsley feat. Mark Knopfler on album Never Told a Soul
Two souls caress As hard as steel yet soft as snow. It's so unreal I know. The body feels each savage blow. Painter's chair. The painter's gone, but his spirits strong. His legacy on fire Leaves "jus
by Terry Allen on album Alternative Country
Yeah, roll truck roll Yeah, roll truck roll Better get on down the highway You better get on down the road Yeah, I work for a trucking company And my forearms big as beef If it wasn't for the highway
by SEKAI NO OWARI on album Best of SEKAI NO OWARI (in Japanese)
Today is the day when the sun sets on our home Finally the night will come out to say hello oh The war that never ends still wages on today But tonight the fight will stop and we'll celebrate Everybod
by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark on album Night Café
by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark on album Night Café
by Terry Allen on album Miscellaneous
Well, I was caught up with myself On the highway at night Drivin' like a bat outta hell When I beheld an amazing sight It was a lonely apparition By the roadside, standing there With his thumb out in