Playlist Rosanne Cash

rosanne cash - big river

Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry
And I showed the clouds
How to cover up a clear blue sky
And the tears that I cried for that woman
Are gonna flood you Big River
Then I'm gonna sit right here until I die

I met her accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota
And it tore me up every time
I heard her drawl, Southern drawl
Then I heard my dream
Was back downstream Cavortin' in Davenport
And I followed you, Big River, when you called

Then you took me to St. Louis later on down the river
A freighter said she's been here
But she's gone, boy, she's gone
I found her trail in Memphis but she just walked up the block
Raised a few eyebrows and then she went on down alone

Now, won't you batter down by Baton Rouge
River Queen, roll it on
Take that woman on down to New Orleans, New Orleans
Go on, I've had enough, dump my blues down in the gulf
She loves you, Big River, more than me

rosanne cash - the way we make a broken heart

Just one more kiss she'll have to miss this night with you
Now you're guilty of this secret love as I am too
You'll get used to telling lies feeling sorry when she cries
Now that the strings aren't attached you'll catch on we've done our part
Oh this is the way we make a broken heart

Lesson number one we've just begun to hurt her so
And with lesson two she'll long for you when lights are low
And when we get to lesson three when she gets down on her knees
And begs you to stop at the door just before she comes apart
Oh this is the way we make a broken heart

Now we've made a trail of tears for her to follow
And we've thought of every line that she might swallow

And with lesson four there will be no more for her to bear
And on some dark night we'll dim the lights on this affair
Then she'll find somebody new and he'll likely hurt her too
Cause there must be millions just like you and me practiced in the art
Oh and this is the way we make a broken heart
Oh and this is the way we make a broken heart

Ay yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi
This is the way we make a broken heart
Ay yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi
This is the way, this is the way, this is the way, this is the way
Oh this is the way we make a broken heart

rosanne cash - modern blue

I went to Barcelona on the midnight train
I walked the streets of Paris in the pouring rain
I flew across an island in the northern sea
And I ended up in Memphis, Tennessee

I keep my head down, I keep my eyes on you
It's a big wide world with a million shades of modern blue

Everybody 'round here moves too fast
And it feels so good but it's never gonna last
Everything I had is twice what I knew
But I don't have nothing if I don't have you

I keep down my head down, I keep my eyes on you
It's a big wide world with a million shades of modern blue

Will you still be there when I round the curve?
Will you hold my hand when I lose my nerve?
I went to Barcelona and my mind got changed
So I'm heading back to Memphis on the midnight train

I keep my head down, I keep my eyes on you
It's a big wide world

I keep my head down, I keep my eyes on you

I keep my head down, I keep my eyes on you
It's a big wide world with a million shades of modern blue

rosanne cash - night school

Mobile like a mystery town
Water, heat and moon
Steam on the magnolia trees
Never ending rooms
What happened to that other life
We thought we lived, we two?
We traveled like spies in paradise
At the time it felt so true
In night school
In night school

What about this big old house?
Tell me all the news
What became of all those years?
Whatever will we do?
Yeah, Mobile is a mystery town
Water, heat and moon
And steam lies on the battlefields
And all I see is you
In night school
In night school

The hungry ghosts still tap the walls
Where once there was a door
I've given everything to them
Still they wanted more
Steam lies on the windowpanes
We acted like such fools
But I'd give everything to be
Lying next to you
In night school
In night school

rosanne cash - black cadillac

Rosanne, baby come on

It was a black Cadillac drove you away
Everybody's talkin'
But they don't have much to say
There was a black sky of rain
None of it fell
One of us gets to go to heaven
One has to stay here in hell

Now it's a lonely world
Guess it always was
Minus you and minus blood
My blood

It was a black Cadillac

Like one you used to drive
Now you were always rollin'
But those wheels burn up your life
Oh, it's a black heart of pain that I'm wearin'
Suits me just fine
Oh, there was nothin' I could do for you
When you were still alive

Yeah, it's a lonely world
Just a numbers game
Well, a hundred years
Will find me feelin' just the same

Yeah, it's a lonely world
I guess it always was
Minus you and minus blood
My blood

rosanne cash - seventh avenue

The world keeps getting smaller
'til it closes 'round my room
and everything I feel now
is hard and fast and true
My window is a spotlight
on the madness down below
it takes a silent figure
to make this place a home

Now the candles burn all night
without you
and the moon hangs out of sight
so blue
on Seventh Avenue

I gave you what you wanted
and it took so many years
now I'm just a part of
the traffic and the tears
I am not a lighthouse
not the answer or the truth
but the love that I held onto
is safe inside this room

Now the candles burn all night
without you
and the moon hangs out of sight
so blue
on Seventh Avenue

(all of the stories from all of our lives
are not lost from memory on these streets tonight)

rosanne cash - when the master calls the roll

Girl with hair of flaming red
Seeking perfect lover
For to lie down on her feather bed
Soul secrets to uncover

Must be gentile, must be strong
With disposition sunny
Just as faithful as the day is long
And careful with his money

And so the open letter read
The news boy did deliver
Three months later plans were made to wed
Down by the King James river

Know the season may come
Know the season may go
When love is joined together
With whoever be made whole
When the master calls the roll

Oh my darling will you leave?
Take me to the altar
I don't have strength to watch you as you leave
But my love will never fault her

Oh my darling Marry Anne
The march to war is calling
Somewhere far across these southern lands
The bands of brothers falling

My tender bride, the tides demand
That I leave you with your mother
With my father's rifle in one hand
Your locket in the other

Know the season may come
Know the season may go
Beware the storm clouds gather
Take heat in warm of soul
When the master calls the roll

But can this union be preserved?
The soldier boy was crying
I will never travel back to her
But not for lack of trying

It's a love of one true heart at last
That made the boy a hero
But a riffle ball and a cannon blast
Cut him down to zero

Oh Virginia once I came
I'll see you when I'm younger
And I'll know you by your hills again
This town from 6 feet under

Know the season may come
Know the season may go
A man is torn asunder
But someday we may know
When the master calls the roll

Though the storm clouds gather
Let the union be made whole
When the master calls the roll

rosanne cash - black and white

OOh, my life is in black and white
Like an old-time picture show
Yes in my life is just like
The plot you never know-oh-oh

But I have seen the rainbow
That's why you feel so grey
Yeah I have seen that's how I know
That the scenes and shades change day-by-day

OOh, my life is in black and white
But the focus out of view
Well my life is just like
A scene without a cue

But I have seen the rainbow
That's why you feel so grey
Yeah I have seen that's how I know
That the scenes from life change day-by-day

Oh so I watch life in black and white
On a screen I find too small
Yes so my life is just like
A film with no end at all

rosanne cash - if you change your mind

If you change your mind
And leave the past behind
You know where you'll always find me

And if she breaks your heart
And tears your world apart
You can always count on me

And when your heart's in doubt
And things aren't working out
I can be the one who makes you happy

Call me on the telephone
Darling, I'm always home
If you ever change your mind

When the time is right
I can hold you tight
You know I can wait forever

And time is on our side
And we can surely find
All the love we'll ever need

And take a chance on this
Seal it with a kiss
I can be the one who makes you happy

Call me on the telephone
Darling, I'm always home
If you ever change your mind

All I have is love to give you
Baby, I could be there with you
If you ever change your mind

Call me on the telephone
Darling, I am always home
If you ever change your mind

rosanne cash - blue moon with heartache

Blue moon out my window, guess this means goodnight
And you come in and start right in not treating me right
Misery is a ball and all its company
I'll play the victim for you honey, but not for free

I run into that heartache just like a wall
And act like nothing happened to me, nothing at all
Lately I'm amazed at how blind we can be
Lately even dreaming feels like old reality

What would I give to be a diamond in your eyes again
What would I give to bring back those old times
What did I say to make your cold heart bleed this way
Maybe I'll just go away today

And I don't care who's waiting at my front door
You know that life don't hold no glamour anymore
Oh, how can it all look so right and feel so wrong
I'll play the victim for you honey, but not for long

What would I give to be a diamond in your eyes again
What would I give to bring back those old times
What did I say to make your past turn out this way
Maybe I'll just go away today
Maybe I'll just go away
Maybe I'll just go away
Maybe I'll just go away to stay
Maybe I'll just go away
Maybe I'll just go away
Maybe I'll just go away

rosanne cash - dance with the tiger

In every woman and man lies the seed of the fear
Of just how alone are all who live here
Denying the fear is the name of the game
To stare at the fear is going insane
Forgiving the fear is one up on Cane
Is to dance with the tiger
And laugh at the rain

Don't give me your life, I have one of my own
It was a brilliant idea inventing the home
Creatures of habit, American fools
Reaching for stars while we're standing on stools
Letting it go is jumping the train
Is to dance with the tiger
Letting it go though we won't be the same
Is to dance with the tiger
Letting it go is the name of the game
Is to dance with the tiger
And laugh at the rain

rosanne cash - couldn t do nothin right

The lamp is broken on the mantle
My mind is blown and I'm going away
It's getting more than I can handel
It's getting more than I can take

I couldn't stay here if I wanted
I couldn't stay here if I tried
You were always so disappointed in me

I could never do nothing right
And I worked hard to make a living
To make a living good for you
But you wanted more than I was giving

I guess that was more than I could do
I couldn't stay here if I wanted
I couldn't stay here if I tried
You were always so disappointed in me
I could never do nothing right

rosanne cash - i was watching you

Headlights on a Texas Road
And Hank Williams on the radio
Church wedding, they spent all they had
Now the deal is done to become Mom and Dad

And I was watching you from above
'Cause long before life there was love

See those little girls dressed like china dolls
All for one then one by one they fall
High on a hill where the world passes by
You never came back but I know you tried

'Cause I was watching you from above
When it all falls apart there is love

All those years to prove how much I cared
I didn't know it but you were always there
Until September when you slipped away
In the middle of my life on the longest day
Now I hear you say

I'll be watching you from above
'Cause long after life there is love
Baby, I'll be watching you from above
Long after life there is love

rosanne cash - the real me

I don't know what you feel no more
When you look in my eyes
I know I'm the same girl who walked out that door
But I'm brand new inside
Maybe what I'm sayin' ain't true after all
I take it a minute at a time
Maybe all I want is to hold you
Right now with no compromise

This is the real me, breakin' down at last
Hey, it's the real me, crawlin' out of my past
Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad

The numbness overcomes me now like alcohol and fear
And I want to crawl inside you, baby
But I don't want you near
A woman's her own mystery, not a shadow of her man
But I'm not a queen inside a mirror no more
I'm not a guard to hold hand

This is the real me, breakin' down at last
Hey, it's the real me, crawlin' out of my past
Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad

Well, I've got no answers now
And I don't expect them of you
Thank God for second chances, baby
Cause there's something I can give to you

And it's the real me, breakin' down at last
Hey, it's the real me, crawlin' out of my past
Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad
Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad

rosanne cash - so fine

So fine, so fine, so fine yeah
My baby is so doggone fine
He sends cold chills up and down my spine
Whoa whoa yeah yeah so fine

Thrills me, thrills me
He thrills me
He sends cold chills up and down my spine
Whoa whoa yeah yeah so fine

I know he loves me so
Yes I know
For my baby sure tells me so
So fine, so fine, so fine

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