1. i don't wanna do the dishes
i don't wanna sweep the floor i don't wanna be ambitious anymore you're the only good news walking in and out the door so i'm thinking that i could use a new plan moving forward CH i wanna quit everything but loving you it's the only thing that i wanna do cause i'm so good at it makes me wanna quit i wanna quit everything but loving you cause i, i don't have a fucking clue how to save the world but i can love my girl so i'm gonna quit everything but loving you yes i'm gonna quit everything but loving you 2. i'm not thinking about tomorrow barely thinking about today i just wanna keep the sorrow and the anger and worry at bay i'm so thankful for my baby she always knows what to say so here's to being lazy and letting love lead the way CH
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1. we are the women
we have the power to come together to save the day mothers before us sisters beside us daughters to guide us let love lead the way let love lead the way (let love lead the way) 2. we are the women we make our own choices we lift up our voices we are not afraid mothers before us sisters beside us daughters to guide us let love lead the way let love lead the way (let love lead the way) 3. we are the women all colors of skin and we will be voting on election day mothers before us sisters beside us daughters to guide us let love lead the way let love lead the way (let love lead the way) Lyrics ("melt with you" portion attributed to song of the same name by Modern English) fire’s coming round the mountain, babe, start running for the car no time for family photo albums, records, or guitars freeewheelin’ dylan was my savior but I cannot return the favor i know them all by heart anyways they’ll be blowin’ in the wind after the blaze you’re the only thing that i refuse to lose even driving toward death’s door, you’re my refuge when the world stops burning, this flame will continue and i’ll melt with you smoke’s clouding up our eyes, babe, open your ears and try to hear me they may not recognize our bodies but I’ve memorized your spirit leaving life is really scary but skin and bones are temporary my love for you’s the only truth that stays it will be blowin’ in the wind after the blaze you’re the only thing that i refuse to lose even driving toward death’s door, you’re my refuge when the world stops burning, this flame will continue and i’ll melt with you red today, i’m seeing red today i’m seeing red today not in an angry way red like a cross that saves on disastrous days or a heart that loves in fantastic ways read like the cartoons when you’re searching for laughter red like a curtain that falls from the rafters at the end of a play, we all make our way off the stage and i don’t pretend to be certain but i’m pretty sure that curtain will rise again it’s just a matter of when but I’m seeing red today...
*pronouns changed from she to he in honor of my friend Jeffrey Joe who I lost the year I wrote this song
everyone’s wearing black everyone looks so sad everyone can be seated now everyone ends up dead everyone bow your head everyone remember was there a time or two or three he had you laughing? was he with you giving tissues when you cried? was he the kind of kind worth photographing in your mind? did he give you a good story for the day he died? everyone goes to bed everyone ends up dead everyone will live another day everyone still misses everyone reminisces everyone has something to say was there a time or two or three he had you laughing? was there a moment you just had to memorize? was he the kind of kind worth photographing in your mind? did he give you a good story for the day he died? ain’t nothing new today ain’t nothing profound to say nothing of consequence achieved nothing that i lost was retrieved but i came home to you and you came home to me that’s more than a lot of folks can say there’s something to being with you at the end of a nothing kind of day ain’t nothing crossed off the list ain’t nothing worth my unclenched fist nothing made work more than a check nothing made my head less of a wreck maybe you’ll like telling jokes maybe you’ll like reading poems maybe you’ll like something we don’t we’ll probably mess something up like misplace your best sippy cup if it gets hard enough to give up, we won’t we’re building a home for you a place you can grow into anything you want to be you will be safe with us we’ll earn your faith, your love, your trust give you our heart, net, and key maybe you’ll cheer for the bears maybe speak french, eat eclairs maybe you’ll do something brand new we’re gonna learn as you grow we’re gonna teach what we know if you wonder who loves you the most, we do
here comes the bride all dressed in white
and the biggest grin anyone's ever seen her wearing, it's a million miles wide a couple empty chairs cause you're not there but she's brave enough to pass them up because she knows love's waiting for her on the other side you won't see her smile on her wedding day walk her down the aisle, give her away you won't know her joy, hear her vow i am not a boy that changes things somehow here comes the bride, still quite surprised that the woman waiting for me just so happens to adore me and she wants to be my wife those empty chairs, they're hard to bear but there's love in the air and I'm still going to swear to love her for the rest of her life love is louder than any silencing i am not a boy, and that don't change a thing i've got a friend who thinks she's jesus but only when she's starting to climb if you take away the storm she's braving i think she does enough saving on her own time she don't need the divine i've got a friend simply known as V to us she gives music away for the joy that it brings she lives beautiful verse after verse and sometimes that chorus can hurt but she's gonna play anyway she's gonna sing she's got a friend who'll stand in her corner round after round swing after swing i've seen some scary shit but i'm not afraid of it cause she gave that gift to me i'm in a band with my friend veronica sometimes she's in command sometimes i tow the line so V i'm gonna wait for you in every single waiting room i don't care how many times cause time always takes time i've got a friend and she's got me
she is a mother who gave me a father
her name is norma jean bill was a deacon after he quit drinking he married her when she was sixteen he moved her out west when the greatest depression chased them, they escaped by the skin of their teeth i watched him adore her, do everything for her he carried her purse, and he watched her sleep 64 times they circled sun til he shot off the earth like a rubber band gun her soul folded up like a thin paper plane waiting for takeoff to see him again the man of her dreams, the man in her dreams i’m a granddaughter who lost my grandfather my name is lindsay ann meaningless moments turn into memories he picked me up from school in a mercury sedan what I’ll most miss is the forehead kisses cause I grew up taller than my family tree he left me a lesson that kindness is best you can survive a hard life with no enemies 32 times we circled the sun til he shot off the earth like a rubber band gun i got no right to complain, no reason to cry he told me to relax, let the world go by the man of my dreams (repeat) the man in my dreams |
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