Rainy Day People ( Gordon Lightfoot )

Rainy day people always seem to know When it's time to call Rainy day people don't talk They just listen till they've heard it all Rainy day lovers don't lie when they tell you They've been down like you Rainy day people don't mind If …

Rainy Day Women ( Bob Dyla )

Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would. They'll stone ya when you're trying to go home. Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone. But I would not feel so all …

Reason to Believe ( Tim Hardin )

If I listened long enough to you I'd find a way to believe that it's all true Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried Still I look to find a reason to believe Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody …

Rebecca ( Albert Hammond )

Get you, brushing your hair with the wind, riding your bike up on Mulholland Drive. Oh, I got a five-minute… …rush from you in your faded blue jeans, How many years is it you've been alive? Oh, I'll take a guess. Rebecca, could it be …

River ( Joni Mitchell )

It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here It stays pretty green I'm going to make a …

Rocket Man ( Elton John )

She packed my bags last night - pre-flight Zero hour, nine A.M. And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then I miss the earth so much, I miss my wife It's lonely out in space On such a timeless flight And I think …

Rocky Mountain High ( John Denver )

He was born in the summer, of his twenty seventh year; Coming home to a place he'd never been before He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again You might say he found a key for every door When he first …

Roller Derby Queen ( Jim Croce )

Gonna tell you a story you won't believe But I fell in love last Friday evening With a girl I saw on the bar room TV screen Well I was just getting ready to grab my hat When she caught my eye and I put …

Rolling in the deep ( Adele )

(for original key of Cm) There's a fire starting in my heart, Reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing me out the dark Finally, I can see you crystal clear. Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare. See how I …

Rootie Tootie ( Hank Williams, Fred Rose )

Met my future wife today And her name is Kathy Mae Rootie Tootie (Rootie Tootie) Rootie Tootie (Rootie Tootie) Rootie Tootie she's my Sunday gal Feeling dandy doing swell My gal is the village bell Hotsy totsy (Rootie Tootie) Super duper (Rootie Tootie) Rootie Tootie …

Roses In The Snow ( Emmylou Harris )

I met my darling in the springtime When all the flowers were in bloom And like the flowers our love blossomed We married in the month of June Our love was like a burning ember It warmed us as a golden glow We had sunshine …

Rosie ( Tom Waits )

Well I'm sittin on the windowsill, blowing my horn Nobody's up except the moon and me and a lazy old tomcat on a midnight spree All that he left me was a melody Rosie, why do you evade? Rosie how can I pursuade? Rosie The …

Round the Bend ( Beck )

We don't have to worry Life goes where it does Faster than a bullet From an empty gun Turn yourself over Loose change we could spend Grinding down diamonds Round, round, round the bend Round, round, round the bend People pushing harder Up against themselves …

Rowboat ( Beck )

Rowboat, row me to the shore She don't wanna be my friend no more She dug a hole in the bottom of my soul She don't wanna be my friend no more Pick me up, gimme some food to eat In your truck, goin' no …

Ruby's Arms ( Tom Waits )

I will leave behind all of my clothes I wore when I was with you All I need's my railroad boots And my leather jacket As I say goodbye to Ruby's arms Although my heart is breaking I will steal away out through your blinds …

Running On Empty ( Jackson Browne )

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels Looking back at the years gone by, like so many summer fields In sixty-five I was seventeen, and running up 101 I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on Running on, running on …

Running Up That Hill ( Kate Bush, Placebo )

It doesn't hurt me. You wanna feel how it feels? You wanna know, know that it doesn't hurt me? You wanna hear about the deal I'm making? You You and me And if I only could, Make a deal with God, And get him to …

Sad Songs And Waltzes ( Willie Nelson )

I'm writing a song all about you A true song as real as my tears But you've no need to fear it cause no one will hear it Cause sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year I'll tell all about how you cheated I'd …

Sail Away ( David Gray )

Sail away with me honey I put my heart in your hands Sail away with me honey, now, now, now Sail away with me What will be will be I wanna hold you now, now, now Crazy skies are wild above me now Winter howling …

Same mistake ( James Blunt )

So while I'm turning in my sheets And once again I cannot sleep Walk out the door and up the street Look at the stars beneath my feet Remember rights that I did wrong So here I go Hello, hello There is no place I …

Same Old Lang Syne ( Dan Fogelberg )

Met my old lover in a grocery store The snow was falling Christmas Eve Stole behind her in the frozen foods and I touched her on the sleeve She didn't recognize the face at first but then her eyes flew open wide Tried to hug …

Sam Stone ( John Prine )

Sam Stone came home, to his wife and family, after serving in the conflict overseas. And the time that he served, had shattered all his nerves, and left a little shrapnel in his knee. But the morphine eased the pain, and the grass grew round …

San Diego Serenade ( Tom Waits )

I never saw the morning 'til I stayed up all night I never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out the light I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long I never heard the melody, until I needed a song. I never …

Sara ( Bob Dylan )

[] [] [] [] I laid on a dune, I looked at the sky, When the children were babies and played on the beach. You came up behind me, I saw you go by, You were always so close and still within reach. Sara, Sara, …

Save Tonight ( Eagle Eye Cherry )

Doo dn doo doo Doo dn doo doo Doo dn doo doo Doo dn doo doo Go on and close the curtains 'Cause all we need is candlelight You and me and a bottle of wine Gonna hold you tonight ahhh ha Well we know …

Scarborough Fair ( Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel )

Are you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (On the side of a hill in the deep forest green) …

Shape Of My Heart ( Sting )

[] [] [] He deals the cards, as a meditation, [] and those he plays, never suspect, [] he doesn't play, for the money he wins, he doesn't play for respect. He deals the cards to find the answer, [] the sacred geometry of chance, …

Shelter from the storm ( Bob Dylan )

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm." And if …

Sherry Darling ( Bruce Springsteen )

Hey, hey, hey, what you say Sherry Darling. Your mama's yapping in the backseat Tell her to push over and move them big feet Every Monday morning I gotta drive her down to the unemployment agency Well, this morning I ain't fighting tell her I …

She's always a woman ( Billy Joel )

(for original key of Eb) She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes She can ruin your faith with her casual lies And she only reveals what she wants you to see She hides like a child, but she's always a …

Shes Not For You ( Willie Nelson )

Pay no mind to her she only wants to play But she's not for you she's not for you And I'm the only one who would let her act this way But she's not for you she's not for you So she told you she …

Shiver Me Timbers ( Tom Waits )

I'm leaving my family I'm leaving all my friends my body's at home but my heart's in the wind where the clouds are like headlines on a new frontpage sky my tears are saltwater and the moons full and high And I know Martin Eden's …

Shoeshine Man ( Tom T. Hall )

Well I met a man in Montgomery Alabama I was waitin' on a bus and he was shinin' shoes And I heard him say I'm a shoeshine man number one in the land A shoeshine man make you shine where you stand Leave me a …

Side of the Road ( Beck )

Something better than this, someplace I'd like to go To let all I've learned tell me what I know About the kind of life I never thought I'd live Till the ugly truth showed me what it did Let it pass on the side of …

Sigourney Weaver ( John Grant )

When I woke up today, the air was very strange. I couldn’t feel my skin, and there was evil in my bones. I tried to speak but found that I didn’t have a voice. It was a prison like the one you would find in …

Silent Sunlight ( Cat Stevens )

Silent sunlight, Welcome in, There is work, I must now be-gin. All my dreams have, Blown a-way, And the children, Wait to play. They'll soon re-member, Things to do, When the heart is young, And the night is done, And the sky is blue. Mor-ning …

Simple Twist of Faith ( Bob Dylan )

They sat together in the park as the evening sky grew dark She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones It was then he felt alone and wished that he'd gone straight And watched out for a simple twist of …

Singapore ( Tom Waits )

We sail tonight for Singapore, we're all as mad as hatters here I've fallen for a tawny moor, took off to the Land of Nod Drank with all the Chinamen, walked the sewers of Paris I danced along a colored wind, dangled from a rope …

Sing it again ( Beck )

a town of disrespect the trains are wrecked the night is younger then us nowhere is anywhere else you keep to yourself stirring the dregs where I have layed the exit signs are flashing dead ends they won't come to life anymore I pledge the …

Sitting Down Here ( Lene Marlin )

I'm sitting down here but hey you can't see me! [] [] Your words cut rather deeply They're just some other lies I'm hiding from a distance I've got to pay the price Defending all against it I really don't know why You're obsessed with …

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing ( Jack Johnson )

Well I was sitting, waiting, wishing You believed in superstitions Then maybe you'd see the signs The Lord knows that this world is cruel I ain't the Lord, I'm just a fool and in love with somebody don't make them love you Must I always …

Skinny Love ( Bon Iver )

Come on skinny love just last the year Pour a little salt we were never here My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer I tell my love to wreck it all Cut out all the …

Sleeping Bag ( Beck )

open up the door lay the orange juice on the floor we're having a picnic on the ugly part of town the sleeping bags on fire and its getting down to the wire so grab yourself a spot and settle down awhile cause its getting …

Slow dancing in a burning room ( John Mayer )

[] [] [] [] It's not a silly little moment It's not the storm before the calm This is the deep and dying breath of This love that we've been working on Can't seem to hold you like I want to So I can feel …

Small bump ( Ed Sheeran )

Your just a small bump unborn and in four months your brought to life. Might be left with my hair but you will have your mother's eyes. I'll hold your body in my hands I will be as gentle as I can , but for …

Society ( Eddie Vedder )

Well it’s a mystery to me, we have agreed to Witch we had agreed. And you think you have to want more then you need. ‘Till you have it all you won’t be free. Society, you crazy breed I hope you’re not lonely… without me …

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