BIG HEARTED RIVER

Riding on the hood of my car
Someone better get out the way
Straight out to the big hearted river
Straight into the water again

You’d better run now
You’re empty handed
You’d better run now
If you can stand it

Headed to the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river

Hanging on the side of my window
Feeling like a dog in the rain
Straight out to the big hearted river
In the fast water again

You’d better run now
You’re empty handed
You’d better run now
You’d better stand it

Headed to the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river

Deep into the woods of my memory
Someone set my memory aflame
Straight out to the big hearted river
Never gonna come back again

I’d better run now
I’m empty handed
I’d better run now
I can’t stand it
I’d better run now
I’d better run now

Headed to the big hearted river
Headed to the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river

© 2009 Chris LeRoy
Published New West Crash Music ASCAP

COMES A MORNING

Comes the morning
On the highway
There's a low cloud
Drifting our way
The hardest night together
The hardest line that ever
Made it down...
And the wind blows
Across the wasteland
Like the song goes
We got fooled again
And the hardest time's
The time you leave behind
When your heart knows

Comes the morning
Comes the morning
Every time

You seem paler
Than the moonlight
You seem colder
Than the firelight
The hardest night together
Is the hardest line that I ever
Had to rhyme... CHORUS

In cold night
Late December
I held you
Like an ember
Now I flick this cigarette into the night
I remember
I let it fly... CHORUS

Chris LeRoy © April 27, 2010
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

STRANGER

STRANGER

The sun came up this morning
I am fading away
Last night as big as life
Growing faint in the day
Growing faint in the day

I left the window open
Is there a songbird near?
Pretty bird won't you sing for me
Before we disappear? Before we disappear?
And you can be a stranger in your own land
You can be a stranger in your own

When television is hazy
They turn the rabbit ears
They throw the courthouse open wide
They take the souvenirs. They take the souvenirs
And you can be a stranger in your own land
You can be a stranger in your own

I went out to the city square
Amid the boos and cheers
Something wrong about what I said
You know it didn't ring clear
Didn't ring clear
And you can be a stranger in your own land
You can be a stranger on your own

It's when the lights are shining
Cross the night of tears
The wind on the silent streets
Is music to my ears
It's music to my ears
I leave the window open
Is there a songbird near?
Pretty bird won't you sing for me
Before we disappear? Before we disappear?
And you can be a stranger in your own land
You can be a stranger on your own

Chris LeRoy © May 18, 2010
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

BROKEN WING

Look at that road, under the trees
Look at this night and what you've done to me
If I could turn away
If I could turn around
I would rise so high
Right where you put me down

Now I'm flying on a broken wing
Making up miles but I'm suffering
I'm never going back
I never felt so bad

Took my money, took my time
But I can't start to get you off my mind
If I could drive this car
Out to the evening star
I know my heart will take me
Straight back to where you are

Now I'm flying on a broken wing
Making up miles but I'm suffering
I'm never going back
I never felt so bad

The time I loved you you, was long ago
But I came back for the things I had to know about you
If I could turn you round
And you could face the day
Look how I'm talking now
There's nothing left to say

Now I'm flying on a broken wing
Making up miles but I'm suffering
I'm never going back
I never felt so bad

Chris LeRoy © June 30, 2010
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

DARK MAN (for Mark Linkous and Vic Chesnutt)

Another dark man
Out in the jet stream
Another great plan
Another dark dream
Just ask his cell phone
Ask his advisers
When it’s all over
Who was the wiser?
Another dark man

They're coming over
They have the car keys
They have agendas
They are the enemy
Just ask his hangers on
Ask his baptizers
When its all over
Who was the wiser?
Another dark man

I barely knew him
It didn't take long
He was a mystery
Wrapped in a sad song
Just ask the howlin' wind
The dust that rises
When it’s all over baby
No one's the wiser
Another dark man

There goes the dark man
Out in the jet stream
One soul is touching down
Another leaving
There goes a dark man
There goes a dark man
There goes a dark man
Another dark man

Chris LeRoy © March 13, 2010
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

GLITTER GIRL

Help information I’m stuck in DC
I’m trying to find sweet Marie
Can’t send a letter since they went away
And I know it’s so late
I know it’s so late
I know it’s so late in the day

But I wanted to call you to say Glitter Girl
I’m living my life in your smile
And I wanted to call you to say little girl
I haven’t been clear for a while

I waited I wandered I struggled for years
You know that I cried bitter tears
Help me and help me I’m fading away
And I know that it’s late
I know that it’s late
I know that it’s late in the day

But I wanted to call you to say Glitter Girl
I’m living my life in your smile
And I wanted to come back to stay Glitter Girl
I haven’t been clear for a while

Hey information I’m stuck in DC
But I finally found sweet Marie
Take out those letters and throw them away
And I know it’s so late
I know it’s too late
She said it’s too late in the day

But I wanted to call you to say Glitter Girl
I’m living my life in your smile
And I wanted to come back to stay Glitter Girl
I haven’t been clear for a while

Give me a smile…

Chris LeRoy © February 28, 2010
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP