 Genius Lyrics
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Shawn Colvin – Twilight
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[Verse 1] / Over by the wildwood / It was a hot summer night / We lay in the tall grass / 'Til the mornin' light come shining / If I had my way I'd never / Get the urge to roam
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Shawn Colvin – Round of Blues
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[Verse 1] / Here we go again / Another round of blues / Several miles ago / I set down my angel shoes / On a lost highway / For a better view / Now in my mind's eye / All roads
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Shawn Colvin – Viva Las Vegas
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Bright light city gonna set my soul / Gonna set my soul on fire / Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn / So get those stakes up higher / There's a thousand pretty women
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Shawn Colvin – Whole New You
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[Verse 1] / You have the right to get down on your knees / You have the right to make yourself believe / You don't know my name / But I don't care / You can do it / 'Cause you have
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Shawn Colvin – Another Long One
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[Verse 1] / If losing sleep were any indication / Of the loving that I've missed / I would wrap myself around you / But how likely can that be when I feel like this? / And if life
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Shawn Colvin – Hold On
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[Verse 1] / They put a sign up in our town / "If you live it up, you won't live it down" / So she left Monte Rio, son / Just like a bullet leaves a gun / With her charcoal eyes and
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Shawn Colvin – Killing the Blues
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[Verse 1] / Leaves were falling just like embers / In colors red and gold they set us on fire / Burning just like moonbeams in our eyes / [Chorus] / Somebody said they saw me
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Shawn Colvin – Trouble
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[Verse 1] / Baby let me set you down / You look so troubled and I think I know / Just when you think you've come around / There you go / [Verse 2] / Now I know the business of the
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Shawn Colvin – Rocking
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Little Jesus sweetly sleep / Do not stir / We will lend a coat of fur / We will rock you, rock you, rock you / We will rock you, rock you now / See the fur / To keep you warm
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Shawn Colvin – Suicide Alley
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[Verse 1] / Wait for me by the banshee tree / Let me be your wailing companion / Pass 'em on by, don't look 'em in the eye / Suicide Alley is callin' / [Verse 2] / You thought you
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Shawn Colvin – Close Your Eyes
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Close your eyes / Close your eyes / Go to sleep now, my darling / There's a Sandman / Old and white / Bringing happy dreams to you / Tattle Tail / Go to sleep / Til the quiet night
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Shawn Colvin – Window to the World
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[Verse 1] / Neon flickers with a pale glow / And all the shadows that come and go / Sometimes I can hear them laugh and cry / In my lonely room with a view / I can't sleep and so I
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Shawn Colvin – Crazy (Live)
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[Intro] / Thank you. We missed you. I missed you too. I did. / [Verse 1] / I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind / There was something so pleasant about that
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Shawn Colvin – Stranded
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[Verse 1] / Was it really two summers ago / Or was it outer space? / We both had nowhere to go / In search of a state of grace / Yeah, and all in all we never had time / When we
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Shawn Colvin – Love Came Down at Christmas
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Love came down at Christmas / Love, a lovely love divine / Love was born at Christmas / Star and Angels gave the sign / Love came down at Christmas / Love, a lovely love divine
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Shawn Colvin – Another Plane Went Down
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[Verse 1] / Another plane went down today in the Atlantic nine miles off shore / And every single black car that goes by just might be yours / I haven't moved from this spot I sit
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Shawn Colvin – Wichita Skyline
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[Verse 1] / Down at the train they go to Independence every day / But anywhere else now seems like a million miles away / And I must have been high to believe / That I would ever
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Shawn Colvin – Something to Believe In
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[Verse 1] / You will wander around / And it won't be the same / All the signs will be down / And it's starting to rain out / It's a lonely place / That you've brought it to now
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Shawn Colvin – You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
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[Verse 1] / I've seen love go by my door / It's never been this close before / It's never been so easy or so slow / I've been shooting in the dark too long / When something's not
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Shawn Colvin – Seven Times the Charm
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[Verse 1] / The first rose to rise up in the ruins of the flood / You brought me down like a hawk to your glove / But a poor girl is made out of sorrow and blood / Some hearts
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Shawn Colvin – Polaroids
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[Verse 1] / Please no more therapy / Mother take care of me / Piece me together with a / Needle and thread / Wrap me in eiderdown / Lace from your wedding gown / Fold me and lay me
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Shawn Colvin – Steady On
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[Verse 1] / China gets broken / And it will never be the same / Boats on the ocean / Find their way back again / I am weaving / Like a drunkard / Like a balloon up in the air / I
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Shawn Colvin – Mr. Levon
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[Verse 1] / Find a nail to hang your hat on / Go and get yourself a chair / If there's little hope to fathom / Mr. Levon left it there / [Verse 2] / Don't imagine you can lose him
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Shawn Colvin – A Matter of Minutes
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[Verse 1] / I've been thinking / About you and me / Maybe I was just / Seeing what I wanted to see / [Verse 2] / Well you can call me crazy / But you know this time I swore / That
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Shawn Colvin (Ft. The Subdudes) – Object of My Affection
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[Verse 1] / Jump into the night / Gas up and downshift / Cruise up the coast / On the FM drift / It's a crazy world / On the head of a pin (Come to me) / [Verse 2] / Oh some other
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Shawn Colvin – Monopoly
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[Verse 1] / I don't know what else to do / I would rather do anything / Than write this song for you / And perpetuate this thing / In my head, in my living room / With the usual
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Shawn Colvin – Don't You Think I Feel It Too
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[Verse 1] / Baby, you leave me in a cold state of mind / Your goodbyes are never on time / The blues just keep coming, drying out your eyes / Don't you think I feel it too? / [
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Shawn Colvin – Crazy
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I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind / There was something so pleasant about that place / Even your emotions had an echo / In so much space / And when you're
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Shawn Colvin – I'll Say I'm Sorry Now
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[Verse 1] / I'm gonna let you down / I know that now / Make you cry, I know I will / Why should you believe / I would never leave / Or that I love you still / [Verse 2] / For all
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Shawn Colvin – I'll Be Back
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[Verse 1] / You know if you break my heart I’ll go / But I’ll be back again / ‘Cause I told you once before good-bye / But I came back again / [Chorus] / I love you so / I’m the
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Shawn Colvin – Sunny Came Home
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“Sunny Came Home” is about a woman named Sunny who burns her house down to escape her past.
In April of 2013, during a concert in Perth, Australia, Shawn confirmed that the song
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Shawn Colvin – Tennessee
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[Verse 1] / I got a cool head doin' alright / But I been up here so long I was starving / For some hot spells, summer lights / Shinin' on your back roads / Tennessee / Somebody hit
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Shawn Colvin – Christmas Time Is Here
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[Verse 1] / Christmas time is here / Happiness and cheer / Fun for all that children call / Their favorite time of year / [Verse 2] / Snowflakes in the air / Carols everywhere
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Shawn Colvin – The Christ Child's Lullaby
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Oh dear, the eye that softly looks / Oh dear, the heart that foundly loves / Though but a tender babe thy arth / The graces all grow up with thee / Oh dear, the wind that pulls the
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Shawn Colvin – I Don't Know Why
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[Verse 1] / I don't know why / The sky is so blue / And I don't know why / I'm so in love with you / But if there were no music / Then I would not get through / I don't know why
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Shawn Colvin – Not a Drop of Rain
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[Verse 1] / Streets are almost empty, the shops are all closed down / There's not a soul left in the bar to tell my troubles to / Think I'll walk down to the river that heads just
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Shawn Colvin – The Bird
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[Verse 1] / I might go to the mountains of Spain / And I'll see all the pretty snow / And I'll dream the dream I dream / No matter where I go / [Verse 2] / We were still young like
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Shawn Colvin (Ft. Mary Chapin Carpenter) – One Cool Remove
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[Verse 1: Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Both] / One cool remove / Put me / One cool remove / Put me there / And forever let me stay / One cool remove away / [Verse 2: Mary
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Shawn Colvin – Fall of Rome
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[Verse 1] / The city is crumbling / Like Rome or Pompeii / And there’s nothing to do / But get out of the way / When you know you can save no one / [Verse 2] / Like an empty old
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Shawn Colvin – 84,000 Different Delusions
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[Verse 1] / Good love, bad love / Good love, yeah / My time your time / My time, yeah / [Chorus] / 84,000 different delusions / Take a ride in the car / 84,000 different delusions
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Shawn Colvin – Between Two Worlds
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This song was written for the 1996 musical film Grace of My Heart. In it, the main character (Illeana Douglas) has gone to a New Age spiritual retreat after her husband’s suicide
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