Paula Cole - This Fire

Tiger

Where do I put this fire? 
This bright red feeling? 
This tiger lily down my mouth? 
He wants to grow to twenty feet tall.

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I've left Bethlehem and I feel free.
I've left the girl I was supposed to be.
And some day I'll be born.
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I'm so tired of being shy, 
I'm not that girl anymore. 
I'm not that straight "A" anymore. 
Now I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud 
That the whole damned restaurant will turn and look at me. 
"Look at that tiger jumping out of her mouth!"

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No more sex-starved teachers trying to touch my ass.
I can finally be a teenager at age 26. 
Go to hell lions, tigers and bears, 
I'm not afraid of you anymore! 
My fear broke apart like fifty balloons, 
and I'm throwing it around the room like confetti now.

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And someday I'll be born.........

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Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?

Oh you get me ready in your 56 Chevy, 
Why don't we go sit down in the shade? 
Take shelter on my front porch, 
The dandelion sun scorched, 
Would you like a glass of cold lemonade?

I will do the laundry if you pay all the bills.

Where is my John Wayne? 
Where is my prairie sun? 
Where is my happy ending? 
Where have all the Cowboys gone?
Why don't you stay the evening 
Kick back and watch the TV 
And I'll fix a little somethin' to eat? 
Oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor 
How do you take your coffee my sweet?

I will raise the children if you pay all the bills

Where is my John Wayne? 
Where is my prairie sun? 
Where is my happy ending? 
Where have all the Cowboys gone?

I am wearing my new dress tonight 
But you don't even notice me. 
Say our goodbyes 
Say our goodbyes 
Say our goodbyes

We finally sold the Chevy 
When we had another baby 
And you took that job in Tennessee 
You made friends at the farm 
And you joined them at the bar 
Almost every single day of the week

I will wash the dishes 
While you go have a beer.

Where is my John Wayne? 
Where is my prairie sun? 
Where is my happy ending? 
Where have all the Cowboys gone? 
Where is my Marlboro Man? 
Where is his shiny gun? 
Where is my lonely ranger? 
Where have all the cowboys gone?

Yippee Aw, Yippee Yea, 
Yippee Aw, Yippee Yea, 
Yippee Aw, Yippee Yea

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Throwing Stones

So call me a bitch in heat 
And I'll call you a liar, 
And we'll throw stones until we're dead.

There you go again, you cut me off from talking.
You bask in the glory, the center of the circle. 
All our friends think you are a comedian -- 
So kind and generous, but I am suffering 
Away from here, 
I want to be away from here, 
Away from every little thing. 
I used to love your every little thing.

Now you call me a bitch in heat 
And I'll call you a liar, 
And we'll throw stones until we're dead.

You're the puppeteer and I'm the puppet, 
You manipulate me with guilt-ridden Catholic Chit. 
Everytime I try to talk it through you turn it around 
And make us out to be David and Goliath. 
Away from here, I want to be away from here, 
Away from every little thing. 
I used to love Your every little thing.

Now you call me a bitch in heat 
And I'll call you a liar, 
And we'll throw stones until we're dead.

Your arms beneath me, your light inside me 
I used to love your every little thing. 
Your eyes blue stars, your hand in my purse, 
Now I hate your every little thing.

Oh mama I didn't know life was this hard. 
Oh mama my innocence has been tarred 
My inner vision dulled and darkened 
I gave myself away to you, 
I felt my sorrow humble me 
And throw my crown upon the ground 
It was you I hoped for and us I prayed for 
And me that I believed was wrong 
But now my anger is my best friend 
And careful, I may bite your head off.

So call me a bitch in heat and I'll call you a liar 
And we'll throw stones until we're dead. 
So call me a bitch in heat and I'll call you motherfucker 
And we'll throw stones until we're dead.

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Carmen

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Carmen, I don't know if I can go back. 
Carmen, I'll never be the same again. 
Carmen, Carmen, Carmen......
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The way you set the table 
The way you lean into tell me something soft. 
The way I can see into you. 
The way you tell me I talk too much about myself, 
It's true, I talk too much about myself, 
But right now I want to talk about you now.

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I love the way you think 
Is it biological or all the acid you've eaten? 
Just take me to your body, 
I want to be drunk
I want to be high 
I want to be drunk 
I want to be high on you.

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Mississippi

I'm big and proud all over, not just on the stage 
My secret self has many sides that laugh and crash and stare 
I'm red and thick like fire. 
I like it from behind. 
But ram to lamb and red and white, 
I'm pure and sad and silent.

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I've got a piece of my heart 
On the sole of your shoe, 
I've got a little bit of thunder 
Trapped inside of that cloud 
That dog in you spit me out into the Mississippi.
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Who would love my many selves, 
The wife, the bitch, the rapunzel? 
The one who cries and calls for you, 
The one who is always alone?

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Oh Mississippi come and wash me away 
Oh Mississippi come and take my pain away 
I feel I'm drowning 
I feel I'm.....dying.

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Nietzsche's Eyes

How many times did I have to hear you say to me, 
"Self obsessed artist. Center of your universe." 
Well I believed your every word, 
And I believed you were my god.

Nietzsche's eyes, 
Nietzsche's kite, 
failed in flight to us 
And oh my love.......

Grandmother, mother, 
And now I see it in myself, 
I take on the water 
Until the dam threatens to break 
I became a little doll 
My voice became too small.

Nietzsche's eyes, 
Nietzsche's kite, 
failed in flight to us 
And oh my love......

I'm shaken I'm shaken
I'm getting down this fantasy 
I'm shaken I'm shaken
I'm getting down this fantasy 
You were not my superman.
I didn't know just how I felt. 

Oh my love, I'm getting down this. 
You were not my superman.

I wasn't honest, I tried to philosophize 
Only too late did I see 
That I wore Neitzsche's eyes 
Now that I step back to see, 
I haven't been me.

Nietzsche's eyes, 
Nietzsche's kite, 
Failed in flight to us. 
And oh my love, 

I'm shaken. 
I'm getting down this 
-- Getting down this, Getting down this.......

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Road To Dead

Welcome to the church of me 
Where they stand in a line 
In need of water from my eyes 
And a song for comfort. 
You say Jesus Christ, 
Well I feel like him. 
I feel one, two, three nails through me, 
And four, through the heart.

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You walk the road to resurrection 
And I walk the road to dead 
And I've given you my devotion, 
But I walk the road to dead.
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I held you up and wrapped you in the heat of my hand 
And prayed for us. 
But now I watch your back 
As you walk away from my life. 
You need need. Strength is threatening. 
So I filled you with faith, and I filled me with pain, 
And what the hell am I doing falling in love 
With pain again and again and again and again?

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Me

I am not the person who is singing, 
I am the silent one inside. 
I am not the one who laughs at people's jokes, 
I just pacify their egos. 

I am not my house, my car or my songs, 
They are only stops along my way. 
I am like the winter, 
I'm a dark cold female, 
With a golden ring of wisdom in my cave.

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And it's me who is my enemy 
Me who beats me up 
Me who makes the monsters 
Me who strips my confidence
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I am carrying my voice 
I am carrying my heart. 
I am carrying my rhythm 
I am carrying my prayers, 
That you can kill my spirit, 
It's old and it is strong, 
And like a mountain I'll go on and on. 
But when my wings are folded, 
The brightly colored moth 
Blends into the dirt into the ground

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And it's me who's too weak, 
And it's me who's too shy to ask for the thing I love. 
And it's me who's too weak, 
And it's me who's too shy to ask for the thing I love. 
But I love....

I am walking on the bridge, 
I am over the water, 
And I'm scared as hell 
But I know there's something better.

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Feelin' Love

You make me feel like a sticky pistil 
Leaning into her stamen. 
You make me feel like Mr. Sunshine himself. 
You make me feel like splendor 
In the grass where we're rolling 
Damn skippy baby 
you make me feel like the Amazon's 
Running between my thighs.

You make me feel love

You make me feel like a candy apple 
all red and horny 
You make me feel like I want to be dumb blonde 
In a centerfold, the girl next door. 
And I would open the door and I'd be all wet 
With my tits soaking through this tiny little t-shirt 
That I'm wearing and you would open the door 
And tie me up to the bed.

You make me feel love

Lover I don't know who I am. 
Am I Barry White - am I Isis? 
Lover I'm laced with your unconscious, 
I will be your Desdemona

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Hush, Hush, Hush

Long white arms losing their strength and form, 
Sixty year man on twenty year old skin. 
Skeleton your eyes have lost their warmth, 
And look to your father for some support.

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Hush, hush, hush....says your Daddy's touch. 
Sleep, sleep, sleep....says the hundredth sheep 
Peace, peace, peace....May you go in peace.
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Cruel joke you waited so long to show, 
The one that you wanted wasn't a girl. 
All your life you kept it hidden inside, 
Now when you step, you stumble, you die.

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Oh maybe next time you'll be Henry the Eighth 
Wake up tomorrow Alexander the Great. 
Open your eyes in a new life again. 
Oh maybe next tme you'll be given a chance.

Hush, hush, hush.........

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I Don't Want To Wait

So open up your morning light, 
And say a little prayer for I. 
You know that if we are to stay alive. 
Then see the peace in every eye.

She had two babies. 
One was six months, one was three 
In the war of '44. 
Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging 
When she thought it was God calling her. 
Oh would her son grow to know his father?

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I don't want to wait 
For our lives to be over, 
I want to know right now what will it be. 
I don't want to wait 
For our lives to be over, 
Will it be yes or will it be sorry?
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He showed up all wet on the rainy front step. 
Wearing shrapnel in his skin. 
And the war he saw lives inside him still, 
It's so hard to be gentle and warm. 
The years pass by and now he has granddaughters

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You look at me from across the room 
You're wearing your anguish again 
Believe me I know the feeling 
It sucks you into the jaws of anger. 
So breathe a little more deeply my love 
All we have is this very moment 
And I don't want to do 
What his father, and his father, and his father did, 
I want to be here now.

So open up your morning light, 
And say a little prayer for I 
You know that if we are to stay alive, 
Then see the love in every eye. 

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