 Genius Lyrics
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Joan Osborne – One of Us
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[Spoken Intro] / So one of these nights and about twelve o'clock / This old world's gonna reel and rock / Saints will tremble and cry for pain / For the Lord's gonna come in his
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Joan Osborne – Nobody Owns You
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Nobody owns you / Not the ones you love / Not a teacher or a leader / Or a god above / Nobody owns you / Not the one who pays / Or the mother who has given / You her yesterdays
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Joan Osborne – Spider Web
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"I dreamed about Ray Charles last night and he could see just fine / I dreamed about Ray Charles last night / And he could see just fine, you know / I asked him for a lullaby. He
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Joan Osborne – Lifeline
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You can throw someone a lifeline / Shine a single shaft of sun / You can live an entire lifetime / Never know the good you've done / Put it in the world / Put it in the world, some
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Joan Osborne – St. Teresa
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Sit down on the corner, just a little climb / When I make my money, got to get my dime / Sit down with her baby, wind is full of trash / She bold as the street light, dark and
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Joan Osborne – Help Me
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You got to help me, baby / I can't do it all by myself / You got to help me, baby / I can't do it all by myself / If you don't help me, daddy, gotta find somebody else / Put on
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Joan Osborne – Lumina
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Lumina / Come and wrap around me / Lumina / Take me through the snow / Eve take a train, Eve took a train / Went to see her man / Melting inside, melting away / Like butter in the
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Joan Osborne – Ladder
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Today and everyday, today and everyday / Today and everyday, today and everyday / I'm standin' here in your closet / Unbuttonin' all your clothes / I sleep in your bed tonight
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Joan Osborne – Pensacola
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Hey-hey, yeah-hey, yeah-hey, yeah-hey, yeah-hey (x2) / Well, I found him in Pensacola / In a trailer in the sand / The man from the picture / Creased and yellow in my hand
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Joan Osborne – Heat Wave
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Whenever I'm with him, something inside / Starts to burning and I'm filled with desire / Could it be the devil in me / Or is this the way love's supposed to be? / It's like a
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Joan Osborne – Right Hand Man
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[Verse 1] / Let me use your toothbrush / Have you got a clean shirt? / My panties in a wad / At the bottom of my purse / I walk into the street / The air's so cool / I'm wired and
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Joan Osborne – I Should've Danced More
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I should've danced more / Left those things on the shelves at the store / I should've danced more / Spun around like matador / I should've danced more / What on earth is this body
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Joan Osborne – Woman's Work
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This is a story of babies of all ages / I'd write it down but it's gonna take a million pages / We do it all and then we do some more / This place would crumble if we walked away
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Joan Osborne – Think
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[Chorus] / You better think / Think about what you're trying to do to me / You better think, think, baby / Let your mind go, let yourself go free / Yeah, think / Think about what
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Joan Osborne – Child of God
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Oh the kindergarten teacher / The defrocked preacher / Moving in down the block / The sidewalk resistor / The mister turned sister / Who's relatives are still in shock / Oh the
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Joan Osborne – Secret Wine
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Whatever God may still exist / Please look down on your daughter / And fill her with your secret wine / That washes her like water / If she don't know me anymore / If all her past
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Joan Osborne – What Do Bad Girls Get?
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[Verse 1] / Well, the holidays are coming / And it's got me so upset / [Chorus] / See, I've got a burning question / And nobody's answered yet / Good girls get toys for Christmas
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Joan Osborne – Train
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When you're feelin' lost and you're overflowing / When you don't know what to do or where to start / Just think of me as a train that's comin' / Comin' to bring you to your heart
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Joan Osborne – Dig a Little Ditch
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Dig a little ditch / Dig a little ditch / Dig a little ditch / And push the devil in / Dig a little ditch / Dig a little ditch / Dig a little ditch / And push the devil in / Oh you
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Joan Osborne – Time of the Gun
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There is good, there is evil / And it lives in everyone / You can say that you're sorry / But the damage has been done / Oh the one who will conquer / Is the one that you feed / So
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Joan Osborne – What You Are
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All the ladies on the lake they start to dance / It's been a long time don't you wish you had the chance / What do you wish you were? / Do you wish you were the silence of the moon
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Joan Osborne – Spooky
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In the cool of the evening / When everything is getting kind of groovy / You call me up and ask me / Would I like to go with you and see a movie? / First I say no, I've got some
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Joan Osborne – Dracula Moon
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Where are the bones on that one? / What if the cure is worse than the disease? / Serve me up some pretty, pretty people / Serve me up somebody I can believe / Don't feel sorry for
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Joan Osborne (Ft. Isaac Hayes) – Smiling Faces Sometimes
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[Verse 1: Joan Osborne, Isaac Hayes, Both] / Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend / Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within / The truth is in the
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Joan Osborne – Santa Claus Baby
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[Chorus] / Santa Claus, Santa Claus / Send me, send me, send me / Santa Claus, Santa Claus / Send me, send me, send me / Just send my baby, send my baby back to me / [Verse 1
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Joan Osborne – Kitten's Got Claws
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I want every tear back that I cried / I want every lie back that I lied / I want every day I gave to you / I want back a heart that's clean and new / Is this your hand? / Is this
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Joan Osborne – Great American Cities
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I've been to all the great American cities / I keep my head about me wherever I walk / I fell in love with all the American peoples / Oh how I love the musical ways that they talk
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Joan Osborne – Raga
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When he came home from the ocean / I would lay him down / One by one uncurl his fingers / Calloused, cold and brown / I would take his day inside me / Sparks of violent clanging
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Joan Osborne – What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
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As I walk this land of broken dreams / I have visions of many things / But happiness is just an illusion / Filled with sadness and confusion / What becomes of the broken-hearted
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Joan Osborne – I've Got to Use My Imagination
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I've really got to use my imagination / To think of good reasons / To keep on keepin' on / Got to make the best of a bad situation / Ever since that day / I woke up and found
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Joan Osborne – I Want to Be Loved
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The spark in your eye sets my soul on fire / Your voice is like angels above / The touch of your hand drives me insane / Baby, I want to be loved / (Wanna be loved, wanna be loved
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Joan Osborne – Broken Wings
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Somebody broke your wings, little bird, you can't fly / Somebody hurt you bad, beaten down and left to cry / And the price you'll have to pay / You'll be paying in years of your
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Joan Osborne – The Smallest Trees
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What I felt for you / In my my childhood ways / Could only be known / In a childhood's days / What I gave to you / With my childhood heart / Was a love so real / It would blow me
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Joan Osborne – Pretty Little Stranger
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Think I'm getting over him / The sap is risin' in the tree / The blood is runnin' in my heart / Brings desire back to me / I wonder who will the next fool be / There is a Spanish
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Joan Osborne – Shake That Devil
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Guess I had to find out the hard way / The things that I have come here to learn / Fire of this pleasure, it can warm me / But in the end it only burns / He could put me high on a
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Joan Osborne – Spooky (1998 Single Version)
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In the cool of the evening / When everything is looking kind of groovy / I call you up and ask you if you'd like to go with me and see a movie / First you say no, you've got some
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Joan Osborne – Crazy Baby
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[Verse 1] / And your hands are really shaking something awful / As you light your 27th cigarette / Oh, how long have you been sitting in the darkness / You forget / Oh, you know
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Joan Osborne – Game of Love
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You got that certain little somethin' that really turns me on / You can make me do right or you can make me do wrong / If you really mean I'm the best thing you ever found / You
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Joan Osborne – I'll Be Around
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This, is our fork in the road / Love's last episode / There's nowhere to go, oh no / You made your choice, now it's up to me / To bow out gracefully / Though you hold the key, but
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Joan Osborne – Eliminate the Night
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I don't wanna be the other woman / I know you're not the cheatin' kind / But I see you every night in a fever dream / I just can't get you out of my mind / I'll be alright / If you
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Joan Osborne – Christmas in New Orleans
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Magnolia trees at night / Sparkling bright / Fields of cotton look Wintery white / When it's Christmas time in New Orleans / A barefoot choir in prayer / Fills the air
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Joan Osborne – So Many Airports
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All my life I'm searching for / A home on every street / Coming to your country for to / Lay down at your feet / So full of the years I've lived / Full of every day / Every day
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Joan Osborne – Axis: Bold As Love
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Anger, he smiles / Towering in shiny metallic purple armour / Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him / Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground / Blue are the life-giving
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Joan Osborne – Tower of Joy
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Here's my secret and you heard me right / Two lovers exploded in the broad daylight / Something happened inside that room / Oh it caused all the flowers and the trees to bloom / We
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Joan Osborne – Mongrels
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Whatever happened to this / It was an island of bliss / In this ridiculous place / But now the river runs black / And I don't know the way back / I feel it going to waste / We are
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Joan Osborne – Let's Just Get Naked
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"I know what you're hiding from me / You know what I'm hiding from you / I know that you hurt me real bad / You know that I hurt you bad, too / Let's just get naked, just for a
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