Ellis Paul songs lyrics

When he looked Into a starry sky upon Jupiter, With it's cold moons Making their weary rounds. Did he know that the Pope Would claim that...

It's a snowy night, the cops shut down the freeway big men in plows are out carving up the streets Below them, jammed on a subway, I'm with two...

While Hollywood sleeps, A young man is dying On the concrete of a sidewalk downtown. As his brother weeps, The sirens come calling And the...

Seven times I traced your number Just one finger to your voice Seven times I put the receiver down Seven times I tried to write you But I...

She's trying to define her faith like it's some role that she's playing I tell her, "You remind me of someone else..." But who it is I'm not...

I get a call from Vance he's an old friend He's got some you-won't-believe-story to share He's the place that I go when I need someone who knows me...

Cathy's hailing a cab like she's hailing a storm unto the streets of New York City ONce we're inside, it's a carnival ride that brings a white...

The black strapless dress fits just right The calendar's marked 6 Friday night She puts on a little makeup First time since the break up But if...

I'm only seventeen, but I want much more Than a small town girl should bargain for More than standing in one place, waiting for the next James Dean...

Mrs. Jones wakes up, got a lover in her bed She don't even know the boy's last name And whatever excuse she makes up For what happened in the...

Pop the cork, a champagne glass Raise to the future, drink to the past Thank the Lord for the friends he cast, In the play he wrote for you. And...

Becky's playing a piece by Gershwin on her old piano She's been playing since her childhood, "Too long to recall..." but the chords that fall from...

He's in an emotional prison the self-inflicted kind You're like a nun on a mission to help that boy unwind I said, "Nobody's ever escaped...

Sometimes in the dead of the night, I'm dreaming I'm flying at the speed of light, And in two seconds I'm brushing past the face of the moon, ...

So you found yourself a corner apartment With a view of the town all your own All your friends say The city's gonna kill you or cure you Five...

You're my flesh and blood But we're not the same a common name and now a common distance I looked up to you in your plush armchair ...

This time let's not bring up my disasters, Or put me on some couch like Sigmund Freud. Your textbooks filled with hypothetical answers. So...

Leo's is the bar up in heaven Where all the martyrs hang out Gandhi staggers in with John Lennon They'll start a bar fight, no doubt Chorus ...

Carrie's a cold one, colder than the winter sun I should warn you, you better dress for it And I'm not the only one that thinks so Beauty is...

She fell to the mattress with the grace of an actress You're falling like a thief from a roof. She's asking for proof , "Are you staying?" ...