Lucky Street Lyrics
Run ‘til you Fly
by Barbara Nesbitt
Don’t say I didn’t warn ya
It’s colder than you think in California
Yellow sun, blue sky, don’t hold the heat at all
Pack up your life, she cuts to the quick when you fall, when you fall
Ch.
Crawl, crawl til you walk
Walk til you run
Run till you fly high, high
I know you’d do anything that they dare ya
Cuz it don't mean a thing if it don’t scare ya
Thin ice, live wire, sailing too close to the wind
Sharp knife, wildfire, you always get up again, and again
Ch.
Br.
You knew it straight from the start oooh
Life isn’t for the feint of heart
How can you ever be brave oooh
If you were never afraid
Scare mere mortals away
They wither and die in your light
Sleep in peace through the day and fill up your eyes with the night
With the night
Ch.
Don’t say I didn’t warn ya
Crooked
by Barbara Nesbitt
Hotel by the muddy water
Stakes are higher than the sun
You don’t need to see or call her
Your wager is already won
Wager is already won
Fast train across the holler
He shakes off his past again
He can change just like the water
Look like anyone but him
Look like anyone but him
Ch.
What good is a straight line
In a crooked world
What good is a straight line
In a savage world
What good is a good side
What good is a straight line
Br.
Death is just a knot untied
A promise made when you were young
Nameless man, caught open-eyed
Taste of Laudanum on your tongue
A promise made when you were young
Night creeps up without a whisper
Day stumbles in like a drunken fool
You didn’t even know how much you missed her
Memory so kind, so cruel
Memory so kind and cruel
Ch.
…
In a savage world
What good is a good side
What good is a straight line
Lucky Street
by Barbara Nesbitt
A tiny little girl in a tiny little room
Throwing up wishes out into the night
To the tiny far away moon
A tiny little house, in a tiny little town
Talk back is treason, he’ll give her a reason
To cry and burn it all down
Ch.
No one will come save the day
Lucky Street turned out to be too far out of the way
Her music went up in flames
As the smile crept to his eyes
He stole her away, cuz he wins all the games
No matter the cost to the prize
With a towel pinned to her shirt
A cape covered up in red clay
Flying through the pine trees
All heart and hope and skinned knees
Planning her get away
Ch.
…
But don’t give up what you don’t know
Is it’s you, you to rescue
You are the hero
You are the hero
Anything But Heartbreak
by Barbara Nesbitt
In the dark where monsters are
Cyclones spin out in the yard
None of this can do me harm
Like when you break my heart
Take my home in a tidal wave
Through all this I can be brave
And I'll, I'll never, ever, misbehave
Just don't break my heart
Ch.
Oooh, anything but heartbreak
Oooh, anything but heartbreak
Rivers flood, storms can rage
Words disappear right off the page
We could crumble back into the stone age
Just don't break my heart
Ch.
Ch.
Br.
Nothing can do me in
Like when you leave
You leave again
Nothing can do me in
Ch
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Oooh, anything, but anything
Oooh, anything but heartbreak
Secrets
by Barbara Nesbitt
I can lie to the government
I can hide all the love letters he sent
But I can’t keep a secret from you
I can wave a white flag when I’m going to war
Tell him I’m done and still take more
But I can’t keep a secret from you
I see that look in your eye
There ain’t nothin’ I could hide
I can tell him that's it’s blue when it’s really green
Cover the world in a smokescreen
I can’t keep a secret from you
I can sing to the world a beautiful song
Paint it so right when it’s so damn wrong
But I can’t keep a secret from you
I know you’re listening at the door
I can’t hide nothin' no more
Br.
Secrets, all these secrets
That you can see right through
Secrets, so many secrets
But none my dear from you
I can tell him that it’s me when really it’s him
Make him think he’s on the ground when he’s out on a limb
But I can’t keep a secret from you
I could cheat on a test, lie under oath
Hide a dead body in the undergrowth
But I can’t keep a secret from you
I know you’re listening at the door
Can’t hide nothin' no more
Cold Comfort
by Barbara Nesbitt
You want to be with her tonight
And I want to be with him
But when they come around
They just burn it all down
Then they disappear leaving you and me here together again
Ch.
And it’s a cold comfort
In your arms, in your arms
But I, I might
I might be comfortable cold
Passions of the past blaze red, black and blue
And I know, I know, I know you, you burned for her too
But when the rain falls and the fire stalls
It’s ashes and dust and broken hearts left out to rust
Ch.
Br.
Hold me until oh the night, the night turns to day
Until this heart doesn't beat still
For the one who got away
And it ain't like we didn’t have fun
And I never miss a chance to tell you you’re not the one
But you saved me from bars and you kissed all my scars
And maybe I feel just a little bit real like something's begun
Ch.
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I might be comfortable cold
The Cost of Living
by Barbara Nesbitt
Cross my heart and die
I was only having fun
I looked in your eyes
And my heart came all undone
I think that I was only sleeping
Heart high on a shelf
Saying it was there for safekeeping
So eager to deceive myself
Ch.
Dying is the cost of living
We fight for every last day
Heartbreak is the cost of loving
And here I go again, giving my heart away
Away, away
I’ll go out on the weekend
Maybe I’ll kiss somebody new
I stay away from the deep end
Where I find I think only of you
Ch.
Ch.
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Away
So Happy You Could Die
by Barbara Nesbitt
Have you ever been to Italy
Have you ever changed your history
Have you ever seen a field of fireflies
Have you ever been kissed just right
Have you ever slept straight through the night
Have you ever been so happy you could die
Ch.
Oooh the time is high
For you to be so happy you could die
Have you ever chased a man
‘til he turned right round and chased you back again
Have you ever seen love in a lover’s eye
Have you ever got through every light
Have you ever won the round before the fight
Have you ever been so happy you could die
Ch.
Br.
It’s not begged, borrowed, bought, or sold
Happiness worth more than any store of gold
You can choose it, i’m told
Happiness, such a fearsome thing to behold
Have you ever been the chosen one
Have you ever had your day in the sun
Have you ever belted out your battle cry
Have you ever made someone smile
And life has never ever been more worthwhile
Have you ever been so happy you could die
Ch.
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Oooh, Oooh, Oooh
I'll Be Your Girl
by Barbara Nesbitt
Mad cap moonlight
Tonight, I'll be your girl
Tall tales on such a short flight
Tonight, I'll be your girl
And we can run from the sun
And if we're lucky the day will never come
Day breaks and so do I
But tonight, I'll be your girl
Dreams dim in the light
But tonight, I'll be your girl
Color fades to black and white
But tonight, I, I'll be your girl
And we can run from the sun
And make believe the day will never come
But it comes and I go
And I know and you know
It's tonight I'll be your girl
Br.
I’ve read every page
I know how it ends
I know that it ends
It plays out just the same
I know how it ends
Best not begin
And we can run from the sun
And if we're lucky the day will never come
Long live long nights
Cuz tonight, I'll be your girl
Long live long nights
Cuz tonight, I'll be your girl
Pray For Rain
by Barbara Nesbitt
Monday come, Monday go
How could Tuesday be so cold
When they found that gun in the blazing sun
In a field of marigolds
Sweet sixteen, dirt poor
Filled with fear just like before
When the eye of a man with master plan
Watched her walkin’ out the door
Ch.
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Can we wash it all away
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Baby, let’s pray for rain
Maybe let’s pray for rain
Men they come, men they go
Her mama don’t like to be alone
She tries to hide, brushed his hand aside
And slowly turns to stone
Ch.
Br.
What makes a man
Prey on the innocent
Take anything he can
What makes a man?
Starlight night, girl in flight
Never to be seen again
She slipped away after making him pay
For his unoriginal sin
Ch.
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Maybe, let's pray, pray for rain
I Shot an Arrow
by Barbara Nesbitt
I thought I could take down the sky
The moon for my table, the stars for my eyes
I thought I could have all the rain
And dismiss the sun to come some other day
Ch.
I shot an arrow into the air
No one thinks of gravity
Straight up the middle to heaven somewhere
And thought not once it could come back to me oooh
I thought I could hold up the sea
Fathom the fathomless, see through the deep
I thought I had my battles all won
Time was my plaything but now that’s all done
Ch.
I’ll set down the moon
And the stars and the sun too
I’ll give up on you
I was never, ever really brave
Just making it through
Ch.
Not Dead Inside After All
by Barbara Nesbitt
There once was a girl, liked it best all alone
She and her vestigial heart and her cats carved out a home
And the door was locked and the fire was low
But love came around and hammered the door down
Like the walls of Jericho
Ch.
It’s scarier than shit when you fall
The living daylights made their curtain call
Turns out i’m not dead
I’m not dead
I’m not dead inside after all
There’s a ruined house by the lonely sea
Where Miss Havisham had a plan and a spot picked out for me
But she dances alone by the rocks and the trees
Cuz love came around and talked me on down
And there’s someplace I’d rather be
Ch.
It’s scary and disgusting when you fall
The living daylights made their curtain call
Turns out i’m not dead
I’m not dead
I’m not dead inside after all
Br.
Oh what a state i’m in
Long walks, sweet kisses and violins
But fair warning to that man
I’ve got loads of friends and red ribbon left
And my family’s got all that land
Ch.
That’s Just Love
by Barbara Nesbitt
You’ve been sick, in black and white
For thirteen days and one hundred nights
The whole wide sky shrinks to a single arc of light
And there’s only one truth and only one fight to fight
Ch.
That’s just love,
There's nothing you can do about that
That’s just love,
There's nothing you can do about that
You’re on fire but you like the burn
There's nothing left of the lessons your broken heart learned
She’s every mile on the motorway, every crippling concern
She’s every stone you’ve ever left unturned
Ch.
Ch.
Br.
You’re a poet, you’re a beast
You’re the sun and she’s your east
You’re a madman, you’re a king
You’re a fool unfit to rule
You’d give up everything
You see her face and all that’s wrong is right
Exquisite pain blooms in your chest at night
All is goodness and mercy and sweetness and light
And the darkest deep when she slips out of sight
Ch.
Ch.