I Want to Be Yours and Other Songs

I could be a singer
Living on the road
Meeting pretty women
Playing rock and roll
Or I could be a sailor
Say goodbye to shore
Horizon every morning
A girl in every port

I could be a writer
Be featured in the times
Or I could be a heistman
Infamous for my crimes
I could climb a mountain
Dive the ocean deep
Or I could rock you gently
As you drift away to sleep

Yes, I could be famous
That'd sure be a chore
I could belong to everybody, but
I want to be yours

I could make the A-list
Make money for my tunes
I'm sure that could make us happy
For a year or two
Yes, I could be somebody
But soon I'd be old news
I could give a bit to everybody
Or give it all to you

Yes, I could be famous
That'd sure be a chore
I could belong to everybody, but
I want to be yours

Yes, I could be famous
That'd sure be a chore
I could belong to everybody, but
I want to be yours

We could be together
And I couldn't ask for more
Everyone belongs to somebody, and
I want to be yours

Crossing the water on your way to me
Talking about all the things that we've seen
And all of the thoughts that float round in our heads
Oh, it's shades of blue and red

Haven't seen you in a year and a day
One week is too long for you to be away
So much to catch up on, so much that's been said, oh
Oh, it's shades of blue and red

We were just kids when you said it was love
That hell couldn't stop us, nor heaven above
We'd be together long after we're dead, oh
It's shades of blue and red

Time brought its trials and we bore it strong
When pain wrote a melody, we sang along
It wasn't all heartache and wasn't all dread
It was shades of blue and red

It shot me to pieces when you hit the road
Like you accessed my heart without cracking my code
With a precision pin prick, like water it bled out
Shades of blue and red

Don't think you meant to hit me in the heart
When you scrapped my soul and sold me for parts
I'll always forgive you, I'll never forget
Your shades of blue and red

Write me a poem, I'll sing you a song
You play guitar, I'll ring the gong
To signal the end of a scene that was set
In your shades of blue and red

When you love somebody more than to breathe
And the look in their eyes centers your gravity
You don't care about all the rumors that spread
Oh, shades of blue and red

Together again is forever to me
Your tender touch cures all of my maladies
We've been apart, we're together again, oh it's
Shades of blue and red
Shades of blue and red
Shades of blue and red

I'm sitting in a place that I never thought I'd be
Between the person I've become and the man that I should see
When I look into a mirror, I don't know why I try
I want to tell somebody but it comes out as a lie

If my life were a movie, it's one I wouldn't see
I'd picket at the theater till I fall down on my knee
Nothing seems to happen, the plot is growing cold
27 is so young and 30 is so old

Now my eyes are focused up on the silver screen
Even in my movie, the main man, it isn't me
This must be what people mean when they say that they're blue
At least my shade's more like the sky when I'm sitting with you

Sky blue
Sky blue

It hurts to see a loved one going it alone
At least I'm mostly numb so I don't feel it in my bones
Life's a great distraction. We're still running tough
You give your life to someone else, turns out that that's enough

Everybody paints the night in shades of blue and green
Sometimes if you're lucky you find colors in between
To help you through the day time and keep you through the night
When you wake up to the sun the sky is burning bright, and it

It doesn't really matter what you want to say
It's just another moment in yet another day
It's hard to talk about the things we wish just weren't true
It's easy for me to say I want to be with you

Sky blue
Sky blue

Sit yourself on down and strum on your guitar
Maybe someday soon you'll end up playing in a bar
For several different people from several different worlds
From waiting on the lottery to chasing pretty girls

No, nothing new you ever say is ever news to me
What we've got has got so big it's shifting gravity
I might know the details of every little rhyme
That just means I get to sing along to every line

Not to say we're getting old, we'll never be old news
You're the girl who taught me what it means to sing the blues
Remember how it happened, that time I made you cry
Life comes in different colors. Ours looks a whole lot like

Sky blue
Sky blue
Nothing we can't do, no, I
I want to feel sky blue with you

She looks like a lightning strike
Laughs with her smile but never her eyes
Darkness builds under dark gray skies
Been waiting on sunlight for more than a while

Scarecrow scarecrow what's your name
You won't talk to me, are you playing some game
Ride on your perch out here all alone
Hell of a way for you to sell your soul

Scarecrow scarecrow listen in
Where do you come from where have you been
Home for me's been a dinner bell
But the way that your youth's gone it's been more like a cell

Don't you fret the feast is to come
Champion lovers don't all come from love
You could be mine and I could be yours
We could learn together to do something more

I know something that you don't know
I'm in love with a scarecrow
Though the skin on her face is pulled tight on her bones
The look in her eyes tells me I've found my home

Stone cold broke, old clothes, no car
Back of her mind is all covered in scars
Don't matter, honey, wherever we are
We can lay on the roof and count all the stars

Scarecrow scarecrow what's round the bend
Do good things turn bad for you when they never end?
I'll always be me, no, I won't be the man
Who makes your eyes flinch when he raises his hand. Oh

Scarecrow scarecrow be more than a friend
This broken down barn won't have to be the end
We can make our escape, buy us a house
No more hide in the closet and don't make a sound

I know something that you don't know
I'm in love with a scarecrow
Though the skin on her face is pulled tight on her bones
The look in her eyes tells me I've found my home

Stone cold broke, old clothes, no car
Back of her mind is where I keep her heart
Don't matter, honey, wherever we are
We can lay on the roof and count all the stars

What is this place? Oh, what is this place that we're in?
Can we erase the shadow of things that have been?
What is this place? What is this place that we're in?
Oh can we replace the shadow of things that have been?

I know something that you don't know
I'm in love with a scarecrow
Though the skin on her face is pulled tight on her bones
The look in her eyes tells me I've found my home

Stone cold broke, old clothes, no car
Back of her mind is where I keep my heart
Don't matter, honey, wherever we are
We can lay on the roof and count all the stars

There stands a tree house atop of cross hill
An old woman lives there against her will
Mother says she's holy, I think she's just ill or afraid

Tiny log cabin down by Jesus Creek
New baby boy, it's a house without sleep, oh
Judas it's quite, you don't hear a peep from that place

Drug store sells bibles and lighters alike
Sin and salvation sold at discount price
Teller's been broken since he lost his wife in her sleep

Good people walking down to the shore
Hoping to wash up and find something more
Preacher, he preaches as if it's a chore to give aid

On Sunday they gather for the sake of their lives
Old woman, a baby, a man with no bride
Preacher says they have the devil inside and need help

But when nighttime falls, they have nothing to grieve
A sermon not even a pastor believes
Baby, so peaceful, falls back asleep by the creek

A woman who prays all night and all day
Poor, lonely man trying to keep the faith, oh
Two parents who kneel every night when they pray. Are they lost?

Let him without sin first cast a stone
Like Moses to pharaoh, let my people go
God loves his children more than you could ever know

She's a demolition woman
Coming for my heart
Doesn't care how it ends
Only knows she wants to start

She's the kind of woman
Takes anything she wants
Even when it's over
She's the kind of ghost that haunts

Music comes in movements
Can't let it slip away
My muse drives me to ruin
All I want to do is play

She sets my soul on fire
In an undermining way
Burning at the baseboards
Peeling off the paint

Rocks through broken windows
Hammer through the door
She batters like a wrecking ball
I can't take no more

Lord knows I'm only human
I cannot stay away
She smiles so sweetly
While the light in me fades

Oh, a demolition woman
Oh, a demolition woman

She set my soul on fire
Burned me to the ground
I've ashes left for eyeballs
Ears that hear no sound

She's muse, machine, and monster
Bred to lure me in
Turns my love for playing
Into a will for sin

Music comes in movements
Can't let it slip away
My muse drives me to ruin
All I want to do is play

For my demolition woman
Oh, my demolition woman

I don't want to track in mud
When I come into your home
I know you've been expecting me
But I'll make you feel alone

Keep it to myself
You don't want what I return
She took another lover
I'm the one that feels the burn

I'm just a white raven
Flying through a storm
Know you wrath awaits me
I don't think I'm coming home

I know I'm just a messenger
I'm a bearer of bad taste
It's bitter, not a drop of sweet, no
I know that you won't hesitate

I can see your anger turning
As the high tide leaves your eyes
I can feel your hatred burning, turning
I'm the one about to die

I'm just a white raven
I'm flying through the storm
Know you wrath awaits me
I don't think I'm coming home

Her heart is a graveyard, her love is a ghost
He didn't turn up when she needed him most
And she radiates kindness, loves like a trick
But the words coming out fall so heavy and thick

Beautiful creature wrapped up in the gold
When the muse strikes a match, oh, you'd better be bold
Sort through your demons, the grit, and the dirt
His overturned promise and button up shirts

You take second chances but never a third
So not one single scrap of your story is heard
You toil and you bleed your words onto the page
Then cover another when you sit center stage

The words coming out fall so heavy and thick
No justice for love in a song for the sick

No one to greet you, you just watch the sun
The darkness disperses and you start to move on
Now the radio reaches the man far away
But your voice doesn't ride on the airwaves today

Words coming out fall so heavy and thick
No justice for love in a song for the sick
Words coming out fall so heavy and thick
No justice for love in a song for the sick

Beautiful creature, don't fall out of grace
When the muse plays her cards, oh, you'd better be spades
The words coming out fall so heavy and thick
No justice for love, at least not this quick

Don't stamp out the fire that rattles your bones
Or the tunes that come out will all be semitones
The melody's alright, words never fit
No justice for love in a song for the sick

No justice for love
Words coming out
No justice for love

I could be a singer
Living on the road
Meeting pretty women
Playing rock and roll
Or I could be a sailor
Say goodbye to shore
Horizon every morning
A girl in every port

I could be a writer
Be featured in the times
Or I could be a heistman
Infamous for my crimes
I could climb a mountain
Dive the ocean deep
Or I could rock you gently
As you drift away to sleep

Yes, I could be famous
That'd sure be a chore
I could belong to everybody, but
I want to be yours

I could make the A-list
Make money for my tunes
I'm sure that could make us happy
For a year or two
Yes, I could be somebody
But soon I'd be old news
I could give a bit to everybody
Or give it all to you

Yes, I could be famous
That'd sure be a chore
I could belong to everybody, but
I want to be yours

Yes, I could be famous
That'd sure be a chore
I could belong to everybody, but
I want to be yours

We could be together
And I couldn't ask for more
Everyone belongs to somebody, and
I want to be yours