Joe Henry

Sometimes i think  i've almost  fooled myself
Sometimes i think  i've almost  fooled myself--
Above us  like a tree,
Laughing now, out loud
Almost lik...

Tell the wind not to blow
Cause you said  so;
Tell me love isn't true
It's just  something we do,
Tell me everything i'm not
Tell the sun not to shine...

How beautiful  you've made yourself
How cruel  you've become,
How so much like another
That it's no  surprise
That i don't recognize you now so
Beauti...

I've been having wicked thoughts
Terribly wicked, selfish and cruel,
Imagining i stood high on a ledge
And fell just out of the reach  of you;
Just th...

Here's that rainy day
That you said was bound to come,
Funny◇now you took my hat
I can still  feel it  like it's on;
O baby i  wonder how
You ever lea...

I want too much and I want you
When you try to save yourself
In dreams I fly above the barn
With goats and violins, I want too much
The palest girl ra...

Won’t you come and lay with we
let your easy laugh undo
what has risen up to leave
the hole that I have fallen through.
Take the pieces in your hand
a...

They're showing a movie on the side of the bank
Oh, I'm in love with all creation
And the warmth of the hood of the car in the dark
Oh, I feel I'm an ...

Tell the hour: go take another,
Or go down, Moses, without a fuss
Give in to the lawless water
And send a later boat for us
Sticks and stones, blood, ...

This Is My Favorite Cage -Joe Henry
Oh this is my favorite cage
It grows up around me like silver strands
Of brier and roses wisdom and rage
To cradle...

There's a song we used to know
A kind of weary blues
Some broken tune from long ago
Some of us still like to use
It hangs up high in the rafters
Like ...

I clawed at your skirt like it was a dirt floor
And I could dig my way free of myself taking more
But prisoners know nothing of victory at war
Let's a...

Where's my sock?
Where's my other shoe?
I didn't know what time it was
When I came o.
The only light in here
Is fmy flickering TV
Watching back at me....

Darkness settles on the ground
And leaves the day stumbling blind,
Coming to a quiet close
And maybe just in time:
We'd almost lost the heart to know
...

'neath the willow tree
 
 sat and piped
 I heard him sing
 praising Aura Lee.
 Aura Lee! Aura Lee! Maid of golden hair
 
 sunshine came along with the...