millie mae

How many feathers does it take to make a bird fly?

Or make you pass me by, there's no knowing.

And how many rocks does it take to build up this mountain top?

Or make that river stop the way that it's flowing?

Little Rose, Millie Mae

How you stole my blues away

I've gotta go straight on through

I'm gonna keep my heart, keep my heart with you

Oh how many moons will it take to pull on your tide?

Find where your secrets hide, won't you give me a sign?

And how many bones do you have to feel it in,

Before you give in, and just be mine?

Only one feather is pretty thin

If that's all we got, my future's looking dim

And only one bone, well my chances are fat

Do you feel more than that?

Oh baby I hope you feel more than that

too much

Overdone and overboard,

Tally Ho well I'ma keeping score

Walked the plank so many, too many times before

Empty bottles, broken glass, wind up hours they fall down fast

Life is starting to kick my ass. I gotta build to last

Because too much ain't no good

I want it all more than I should.

Found out I'm only human, here the tragedy's begun

If I had my way I'd run and run

Just run and run

But I see your face and I want more.

Get a taste I'm overboard

Watch you walk out of my door, what am I waiting for?

I said too much, I said too much, I said too much ain't no good.

hollow bones

Bring me trinkets, bring me wine

Bring me women, bring me swine

I delight in this particular type of life

Bring me money, pay my bail

Drive a little faster, lose that trail

I may have done a couple of things last night

Hollow Bones

Wind is at my beck and call

I'll make it bend I'll make it fall

I'll make it carry me wherever I chose to go

Head South when leaves change

Or West when I'm insane

My heart decides my migration

Hollow Bones

Don't you tempt me with your marrow

Because my bones are hollow

I'm a sliver of the moon

Rising only after noon

But I will pull you down to stay in company

I'm a feather of a queen

Hear me whisper, so obscene

No crown could turn this filthy thing clean

lasso

You say that you love me but you really don't

You come all around trying to run the show

Oh baby listen to me I can't tell you no

You gonna find you a lasso gonna rope me down

Down to the ground where you once were found

Oh baby don't you know that I wanna get down

But what do you want?

Well you say that I need you but I really don't

No honey I got this all on my own

Oh baby I got it, I got it all alone

You gonna find you a woman gonna do to you

What you did back to her in the golden years

Oh baby I can tell this is your biggest fear

What could it be this time?

You shine like you're a golden penny in the mud

When I lift up my boot I see you're chewing gum

Oh dude you must think that I'm really dumb

Well you say that you need me

But I know you don't

What about her as the other one

You calling her calling her on the phone

Why do you torture me?

another ride

When I was a little girl Mama took me to the carnival

With every spin of the ferris wheel

I found something could make me feel

A little later I took my test and I got me some wheels of my own

She's an 83 Chevrolet, Cherry red

Only goes about 45 but that's alright

Because, I wanna go on another ride, another ride, another ride

Then you know we discovered the back roads

Better roll those windows down and air this motherfucker out

Your mama's gonna find out now

Oh then I found my way into the big city

Always riding subway trains, I find myself in Queens

And I don't wanna be

But I want you to come with me

I wanna go

Would you look at me now, I'm some kind of a lady (hardly)

But I'm gonna buy me a jet plane

no rest

By the time I get my keys in the door

Stumble my way up to the 2nd floor

I couldn't tell you where I've been

Just know the sunlight's creeping in

Well even my boots are gonna follow me down

Then all of Broadway starts to twist and shout

Shake it up baby as the train rolls by

I guess I've lost another night

Well I'm a lonesome critter with rules to break

If there's no rest for the wicked, I'm gonna stay awake

Everything's brighter at 7 o'clock, sanity's artwork drawn up in chalk

I'm adding no hours to the few I've stocked

But I feel the miles and the miles I've walked

Oh you wanna stay with me baby? You wanna stay with me tonight

You better hold on to me baby, til the morning light

dirt

I see a birdbath it's in trouble

I wash my wings in a mud puddle

I get my breakfast from the trash can

And Christmas cards from the garbage man

You gotta eat a pound of dirt before you die

I learned to swim in the East River

My eyes are bigger than my liver

I'll drink the tar straight from the tar pits

I use a dinosaur to scratch my itch

You gotta eat a pound of dirt before you die

I freakin' sleep in the street gutter

That sewer rat is my big brother

Filthy for life 'cause filth is built to last

God made the dirt and dirt will bust your ass

You gotta eat a pound of dirt before you die

You know a bull do do do dozer

You know I'm di di di di dirtier

horse to water

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him stay

I could lead you anywhere, I think you might run away

Remember when I took you to the lion's den? 

You were too chicken to walk in

But you can stare through the window looking at his shiny grin

You're afraid to let him win

You're afraid to let somebody, somebody else win

Do you recall when I brought you to the river?

You know me I just jumped right in

But you stood on the bank

Dip, dip, dip your toes, you dipped your toes

Baby I didn't know you can't swim

You can lead a horse to water, try as you might he won't stay

I could lead you right to my front door

I think that you are gonna run away

Run away, Run away baby

Run away from me

You can lead a horse to the water, but I tell you he won't stay

Well I could lead you somewhere, but maybe I should walk away

Oh maybe I should reconsider, maybe I should

Just rethink it, turn around

Maybe I, maybe I should

Walk away