*** indicates cowrite. All other songs written by Mimi Cross.
It's a little push pull
It's a battle of our wills
You will want and want more
Like water washing on the shore
It's a type of tug of war
What's the body there for
Hips like an open door
Ego trip rich and soul poor
It felt like we were making love
It felt like you were in my head
Like you knew all the thoughts I never said
And oh how I wish that we could stay like this
A part of you that feels like mine
Sink into my Valentine
God's got a perfect design
Right along our fracture line
It's a little push pull
It's a battle of our wills be still
You will want and want more
Like water washing on the shore
It felt like we were making love
It felt like you were in my blood
Like there was something we both understood
And oh how I wish that we could stay like this
First kiss
The smell of burning and silence fills the air
And all that I can do is think of you alone in there
I call you on the telephone small miracle I get through
But when your voice comes on the line it's not you
You are no longer you and I am suddenly not me
The ground's been ripped from underneath our 2 clay feet
It's like a movie but it's true
And everything sad has turned a deeper shade of blue
Oh ashes ashes from steel and concrete
We all fall down we all break down on 2 clay feet
2 clay feet
2 clay feet
Life is a dream life is a dream life is a dream
Are we awake or do we sleep on 2 clay feet
Everybody's got a secret
that they don't want to keep
Say something that you might regret
but come clean
We're sitting in a restaurant
You're telling me to keep it down
You're worried what the waitress thinks
Tell me I talk too much
I always take the long way around
But soon everybody is gonna know what I know
I couldn't give you everything
so you're letting me go
Because my love is not enough for you anymore
My love is not enough for you anymore
anymore
You're a shadow on my wall
A sound outside my window
You're summer into fall
And every time the wind blows
I hear your voice
Whispering to me
Before I say goodbye
There are things I need to do
There are records I must set straight
Before I say goodbye to you
Before I say goodbye
Before I shut the light
The Antler Inn is always open
Spilled High Life on the floor
By 8 o'clock, Steady Jack is seeing Jesus
In the bottom of his glass, till he can't see no more
The power plant shut down today
So Jack's not drinking on his own
By 10 pm he's saying, "God's for losers"
And he's not saying it alone
It's been a bad day, all kinda shades of blue
And sometimes we all gotta find something to hold onto
It's been a bad day, and I'm not gonna lie
For me that something's always you, yeah you know how to make things right
You hang up those Christmas lights, even though it's June
And when I come home, baby, you meet me out in the driveway, underneath the moon
Where the air's all cedar incense, car radio's playing our favorite Springsteen tune:
"Baby we were born…" to hang those Christmas lights in June
Jan, Jo, and me
Trouble times three
Wandering ivy-covered halls
Tangling with truth
Wrestling with religion
Writing poems in bathroom stalls
No one wore a watch
No one watched the clock
Time, you ticked by unnoticed
Now you're showing on our faces
You're filling in the spaces
Oh, Time you got me wondering if this story is just pretend
We raised our hell
We raised our kids
Not always in that order
Oh, Time…
passing between friends
Time…
passing between friends
Lyrics by Gloria Barone & Mimi Cross. Music by Mimi Cross.
When I'm lying in your arms again
I won't be able to remember when
I was without you
What I want
Your hands on me
It's the only thing I can feel
You breathe me in
I breathe you in
You breathe me in
I breathe you in
Hear you've been traveling
Looking for that one thing
Everybody wants
Like a ghost, it haunts you
Hiding just out of sight
Summer mornings, winter nights
Your "Moonlight in Vermont"
Like a ghost, it haunts you; don't look away
Don't look away
It's always been a part
Intersection of your heart
Birds they got a song
You had it, all along
Corner of your eye
You caught it just in time
Middle of a dream
Tugging at your sleeve, don't look away
Don't look away
I lied about the sky, didn't want you to cry
But you were so afraid of the dark
I lied about leaving, didn't want you grieving
So I left you with the song of the meadowlark
The night is never really black, my love
Sometimes the moon's just tired
Watercolor words, watercolor words
All soft edges and the lines are blurred
Watercolor words, mm…
Lyrics by Gloria Barone & Mimi Cross. Music by Mimi Cross.
She's got a place inside
It's like the night sky
And he keeps on giving her the moon and the stars
But he can't fill her up, and she don't know why, yeah she don't know why she cries:
"You can never love me enough
You can never love me enough—no, no you'll never
You can never love me enough, enough, enough
You can never love me enough."
Last night at the restaurant
He pulled out my chair
I wanted to speak
But I did not dare
He gave us fancy menus
And pulled out his pad
I turned to my Mom
I turned to my Dad
We have an alligator waiter!
I jumped from my seat
We have an alligator waiter!
With big green feet
We have an alligator waiter!
With breath like steam heat
Nobody noticed
All they did was eat
One rainy afternoon
When we had nothing else to do
We got ourselves a cardboard box
Some buttons and some glue
Then we hit up Daddy's workroom
And we found a ball of string
The next thing that we knew
We'd built this crazy new thing
It's called a Crankamacallit
Crankamacallit
Crankamacallit
C-r-a-n-k-a-m-a-c-a-l-l-i-t
Lyrics by Mimi Cross & Kevin Salem. Music by Mimi Cross.