"1,000 Kisses" -- Patty Griffin

        1,000 Kisses

        Rain



        It’s hard to listen to a hard hard heart
        Beating close to mine
        Pounding up against the stone and steel
        Walls that I won’t climb
        Sometimes a hurt is so deep deep deep
        You think that you’re gonna drown
        Sometimes all I can do is weep weep weep
        With all this rain falling down

        Strange how hard it rains now
        Rows and rows of big dark clouds
        When I’m holding on underneath this shroud
        Rain

        Its hard to know when to give up the fight
        Two things you want will just never be right
        Its never rained like it has to night before
        Now I don’t wanna beg you baby
        For something maybe you could never give
        I’m not looking for the rest of your life
        I just want another chance to live

        Strange how hard it rains now
        Rows and rows of big dark clouds
        When I’m holding on underneath this shroud
        Rain

        Strange how hard it rains now
        Rows and rows of big dark clouds
        When I’m holding on underneath this shroud
        Rain

        Strange how hard it rains now
        Rows and rows of big dark clouds
        When I’m still alive underneath this shroud
        Rain Rain Rain

        Chief



        Chief had been out of the army
        For 15 years or more
        He was still marching up and down that street
        Just like he was a-walking a war
        They called him the chief because he was Indian
        It was a name they said behind his back
        In the summer he’d march without any shoes
        Until the soles of his feet turned black
        ‘till the soles of his feet turned black

        His hands wouldn’t work the machinery
        Cause his brain told him what to say
        It’s a hell of a life
        But its somebody’s life
        Up and down the street all day

        Honey have a look at the places
        Like a dog running on a track
        The wheels keep on going as fast as you get there
        You don’t ever get to go back
        I don’t really know what I’m doing
        Just watching myself in some play
        And the actress looks like she wants to go home
        And lie in bed all day
        Yeah lie in a big bed all day

        Her hands wouldn’t work the machinery
        Cause his brain tells him what to say
        It’s a hell of a life
        But its somebody’s life
        Up and down the street all day

        Well I wish that you could see me when I’m flying in my dreams
        The way I laugh there way up high
        The way I look when I fly
        The way I live
        The way I fly

        Chief got out of the army
        Jesus went to live with the poor
        I’m still marching up and down that street
        I don’t know what I’m doing that for
        I don’t know what I’m doing that for
        I don’t know what I’m doing that for

        Stolen Car

        Written by Bruce Springsteen



        I met a little girl and I settled down
        In a little house on out on the edge of town
        We got married, swore we'd never part
        Then little by little we drifted from eachother's hearts
        At first I thought it was just restlessness
        That it'd fade as time went by, and our love would heal
        In the end it was something more, I guess
        Tore us apart and made us real

        I'm driving a stolen car
        Down on Eldridge Avenue
        Each night I wait to get caught
        But I never do

        She asked if I remembered the letters I wrote
        When our love was young and bold
        She said last night she read those letters
        And they made her feel one hundred years old

        I'm driving a stolen car
        On a pitch black
        And I'm telling myself
        It's gonna be all right
        I drive by night
        And I travel in fear
        That in this darkness
        I will disappear

        Be Careful



        All the girls in the Paris night
        All the girls in the pale moonlight
        All the girls with the shopping bags
        All the girls with the washing rags

        All the girls on the telephone
        All the girls standing all alone
        All the girls sitting on the wire
        One by one fly into the fire

        Be careful how you bend me
        Be careful where you send me
        Careful how you end me
        Be careful with me

        All the girls standing by your beds
        All the girls standing on their heads
        All the girls with the broken arms
        All the girls with the deadly charms

        All the girls in the restaurant
        Pretending to be nonchalant
        Funny girls on the TV shows
        Close your eyes and they turn to snow

        Be careful how you bend me
        Be careful where you send me
        Careful how you end me
        Be careful with me

        All the girls working overtime
        Telling you everything is fine
        All the girls in the beauty shops
        Girls’ tongues catching the raindrops

        All the girls that you’ll never see
        Forever a mystery
        All the girls with their secret ways
        All the girls who have gone astray

        Be careful how you bend me
        Be careful where you send me
        Careful how you end me
        Be careful with me

        Be careful how you bend me
        Be careful with me

        Long Ride (Long Road Home)



        Long black limousine
        Shiniest car I've ever seen
        The back seat is nice and clean
        She rides as quiet as a dream
        Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground
        I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down
        Ain't nothing left at all in the end of being proud
        With me riding in this car, and you flying through the clouds

        I've had some time to think about you
        And watch the stone set like a stone
        I've had some time to think about you
        On the long ride home

        One day I took your tiny hand
        Put your finger in the wedding band
        Your daddy gave a piece of land
        We laid ourselves the best of plans
        Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed
        Forty years of things you say you wish you'd never said
        How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead
        I wonder as I stare up at the sky turning red

        I've had some time to think about you
        And watch the stone set like a stone
        I've had some time to think about you
        On the long ride home

        Headlights staring at the driveway
        The house is dark as it can be
        I go inside and all is silent
        It seems as empty as the inside of me

        I've had some time to think about you
        And watch the stone set like a stone
        I've had some time to think about you
        On the long, on the long
        Oh the long, on the long
        On the long ride home

        Nobody Cryin'



        Well he jumps in the taxi, headed for the sky
        He's off to slay some demon dragonfly
        And he looked at me, that long last time
        Turned away again and I waved goodbye
        In an envelope, inside his coat
        Is a chain I wore, around my throat
        Along with, a note I wrote
        Said "I love you but, I don't even know why"

        But darling, I wish you well
        On your way to the wishing well
        Swinging off of those gates of hell
        But I can tell how hard you're trying
        Just have that secret hope
        sometimes all we do is cope
        Somewhere on the steepest slope
        There'll be an endless rope
        and nobody crying.

        Well a long night turns into a couple long years
        Of me walkin' around, around this trail of tears
        Where the very loud voices of my own fears
        Is ringin' and ringin' in my ears
        It says that love is long gone
        Every move I make is all wrong
        Says you never gave a damn for me
        For anything, for anyone

        But darling, I wish you well
        On your way to the wishing well
        Swinging off of those gates of hell
        But I can tell how hard you're trying,
        Just have that secret hope
        Sometimes all we do is cope
        Somewhere on the steepest slope there'll be an endless rope
        And nobody crying.

        May you dream you are dreaming, in a warm soft bed
        And may the voices inside you that fill you with dread
        Make the sound of thousands of angels instead
        Tonight where you might be laying your head

        But darling, I wish you well
        On your way to the wishing well
        Swinging off of those gates of hell
        But I can tell how hard you're trying
        Just have that secret hope
        Sometimes all we do is cope
        Somewhere on the steepest slope there'll be an endless rope
        And nobody crying.
        And nobody crying,
        Nobody crying

        Tomorrow Night


        Recorded by Bob Dylan



        Tomorrow night will you remember what you said tonight
        Tomorrow night will all the thrill be gone
        Tomorrow night will it be just another memory
        Or just another song that's in my heart to linger on

        Your lips are so tender, your heart is beating fast
        And you willingly surrender to me, but darling will it last
        Tomorrow night will you be with me when the moon is bright
        Tomorrow night will you say those lovely things you said tonight

        Your lips are so tender, your heart is beating fast
        And you willingly surrender to me, but darling will it last
        Tomorrow night will you be with me when the moon is bright
        Tomorrow night will you say those lovely things you said tonight

        Mil Besos (1,000 Kisses)


        Please note that the English translation is below as well!


        He encontrado en tu amor,
        la fe perdida,
        Ahora tiene mi vida una razón.
        No sé si fue el embrujo de tus ojos,
        que le dijo a tus labios,
        Róbale el corazón.

        Yo sé que en los mil besos
        que te he dado en la boca
        se me fue el corazón;
        y dicen que es pecado
        querer como te quiero,
        Quizás tengan razón.

        Pero que ha de importarme
        todo lo que me digan,
        no te he de olvidar;
        que si es pecado amarte
        yo he de seguir pecando
        nunca lo he de ocultar.

        Te he de seguir amando,
        te he de seguir besando
        hasta volverte loca.
        hasta que me devuelvas
        el corazón que en besos
        yo te deje en la boca…

        English translation (thanks Melody!)

        I have found in your love
        my lost faith,
        Now my life has a reason.
        I don't know if it was the witchcraft of your eyes,
        that said to your lips,
        Steal his heart.

        I know that in the thousand kisses
        that I have given you on the mouth
        my heart left me;
        and they say that it's a sin
        to love as I love you,
        Maybe they're right.

        But what should everything they tell me
        matter to me,
        I won't forget you;
        for if it's a sin to love you
        I will continue sinning
        I will never hide it.

        I will continue loving you,
        I will continue kissing you
        until I drive you mad,
        until you give me back
        the heart that in kisses
        I left in your mouth...

        copyright Emma Elena Valdelamar
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