Grant Lee Phillips - Virginia Creeper (2005) by Grant Lee Phillips (보컬) on maniadb.com

You're the last of your kind, Mona Lisa
With a wink of your eye,
Ya make it all right
Oh there's more left to life, Mona Lisa
Let me take you along for the ride

Aint nothin' that stays the same
Won't ask it a' you
Just that burgundy smile you wore yesterday
Say ya won't ever lose

I been down, I been worse
Mona Lisa
Came in last, came in first
But it all gathers dirt, Mona Lisa
'Fore ya bathe in the light

Aint nothin' that stays the same
Won't ask it a' you
Just that burgundy smile you wore yesterday
Say ya won't ever lose

Oh ya taught me this much, Mona Lisa
I done set it aside
For when you need the same magic touch
For for when you need remindin'

Aint nothin' that stays the same
Won't ask it a' you
Just that burgundy smile you wore yesterday
Say ya won't ever lose
Just that burgundy smile you wore yesterday
Say ya won't ever lose

Hey, she's a piratey soul
Full a' vinagar and glitter
She is a song of her own
From down the wrong end of the river
Wild, like the lily-a-passion
Have you ever had the honors
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no
Hey, when your carnival rose
Sows the kiss of belladonna
There aint no takin' it slow
For the avalanches' daughter

Wild, like the lily-a-passion
Have you ever had the honors
Oh no, no
Oh, no, no
Oh,no,no,no,no,no,no

She is the lily-a-passion
She is the lily-a-passion
She is the lily-a-passion
She is the lily-uh huh

She is a canary royal
Save the curse a' Desdamona
Bright, bright, bright is the blush of her smile
Like the apples a' Pomona
Wild, like the lily-a-passion
Have you ever had the honors
Oh no, no, no,no,no, no

Hey, she's the fork in the road
When the road has come to splinter
Yea, she's the spark in the coal
Come the bitterness a' winter
Wild, like the lily-a-passion
Have you ever had the honors
Oh no, no
oh, no, no
Oh,no,no,no,no,no,no
She is the lily-a-passion
She is the lily-a-passion
She is the lily-a-passion
She is the lily-uh huh

Casanova broke ya
Just like china
He was smooth as southern Blue Bell Cream
'Cept he never meant to share that diamond ring

So you take up to the roof-top, pining
Aim to touch the moon a' golden white
Lord, the air is damp, the stars are teary eyed

Here's a little secret, love
Everybody comes undone
Here's a dirty secret Darlin'
Everyone

From the ballroom you can hear them laughing
Pretty maidens and your own Don Jaun
And ya tell yourself
They'll miss you when you're gone

Here's a little secret, love
Everybody comes undone
Here's a dirty secret Darlin'
Everyone

Cross yourself, by Jesus
Now your head is all a blur
Questions don't come easier
Answers, they get longer

Here's a little secret, love
Everybody comes undone
Here's a dirty secret Darlin'
Everyone

Here's a little secret, love
Everybody comes undone
Here's a dirty secret Darlin'
Everyone

Always friend
Always friend
Still some fences
We may never mend
In our time
Broken hearts
Broken lines
Every now and then
Ya spring ta mind
And we are
Always friends
Always friends

Always and forever
Thick or thin
Push it away before I let you in
And make the same mistakes twice
Dim the lights
Such is hell
Hey and such is life
And we are always friends
Always friends
Always friends

Broken hearts
Broken lines
Pray there never comes a second time
Because it's such a court
Such a crime
Find the strength to leave the past behind
And we are always friends
Always friends
Always friends
Always

Push it away before I let you in
Commit the same wrongs twice
Such is hell
Hey and such is life
And we are always friends

Drunk on the blood of a hero's welcome, babe
Ringin' in the year with a ticker tape parade
While the motorcade is stretched from First to Main
Calamity Jane, shootin' off that mouth again
Hey, hey, hey

Pin all your sins on your Man of Sorrow then
Stroll through the crowd with a black mantilla, friend
While they're whisperin' like locusts in the grain
Calamity Jane
Hit it on the nose again
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Calamity jane
Calamity jane
Calamity jane

Washed in the tears of the revolution, babe
Born in the back of a Studebaker
American made
Ah but girl have you no shame
Calamity jane
Honey, take heart and take aim
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Calamity jane
Calamity jane
Calamity jane
Calamity jane

Oh the slough winds all serpentine
Full of black delta peat
Yellow bronze grapes of muscadine
Growing wild and sweet

On the shore Lady, there ya were
In your robes of a queen
And your lips sang a heron's song
In my hour of need

And I feel I wanna' crow
Howlin' in my sleep
Churning in my soul
Josephine

Oh the wasteland is plenty wide
Far as I ever seen
And the swamp, she's a full of moonlight
Full of mangrove trees

And I feel I wanna' crow
Howlin' in my sleep
Churning in my soul
Josephine

Pity darkness to follow me
With it's crocodile leer
For the hatchet of Josephine
Of the swamps might appear

And I feel I wanna' crow
Howlin' in my sleep
Churning in my soul
Josephine
And I feel I wanna' crow
howlin' in my sleep
churning in my soul
Josephine

Buddy some Topeka night
When it's just you and the road
Seen no tailights there for miles
And nothin' much but static on the radio

Wasn't lookin' to the left
Wasn't lookin' to the right
Just kept walking' like Virginia to the surf
Towards the far end of the night

Time hangs like a noose
Before me
Time stills to a crawl
Grinds so slowly

Heard my own beloved cry
I heard my one beloved moan
What's the use in all the ache we must endure
I had no good reason why

Time hangs like a noose
Before me
Time stills to a crawl
Grinds so slowly

Not a rail to grasp ahold
Nor a savior there beside
Juat kept a walkin' like Virginia to the surf
Towards the far end of the night

Time hangs like a noose
Before me
Time stills to a crawl
Grinds so slowly
And time hangs like a noose
Around me

Sussana Little
Sussana Little
Gone 'fore I ever arrived
Questions that stream through my own Creek blood
The odyssey of your life

A motherless child , you were torn from your home
By decree of the county affairs
Good Christians, they gave you a lily-white dress
And shorn back that Indian hair

Told ya study your Bible, be silent and still
And take to the ways of the whites
Nothin' they offered could break down your will
For you ran for the gates one night

Sussana Little
Sussana Little
Gone 'fore I ever arrived
Questions that stream through my own Creek blood
Stories that keep you alive

Your daddy , Joe Little, had woes of his own
Drink was much stronger than greed
But some in the city felt native red hands
Were no place to let rest a deed

Oklahoma was rich with the stench of black oil
And the men who came there to drill
In the sun baked clay of Indian lands
There, in the desolate fields

Sussana Little
Sussana Little
Gone 'fore I ever arrived
Questions that stream through my own creek blood
Songs that'a keep you alive

Mysterious crimes, oh they swept through the county
Waving the finger of blame
Eyes turned to Joe Little
A couple too many acres of land to his name

No one would have heard the lone shot in the night
They never posted his bail
Big Joey Little, never walked out
Of Sheriff Stanton's jail

Sussana Little
Sussana Little
Gone 'fore I ever arrived
Questions that stream through my own Creek blood
The odyssey of your life

For all of the lives you had lived this far
No part of you could have known
The evil hearts of the men who would fetch ya
One night by the side of the road

The moon, it grew dark and the frost would form
Before ya finally were found
Chained to a log in a torn white dress
Shakin' wild eyed on the ground

Sussana Little
Sussana Little
Gone 'fore I ever arrived
Questions that stream through my own creek blood
Such were the trials of your life...

Yet in the years to come, you took a man
Raised five of your own
And for a spell it was as almost as though
The light of justice had shown

The hand that had written this part but for you
And made it all plenty hard
Gave you a gusher, a well spring of oil
There in your own back yard

So pile them kids in the plush back seat
Ridin' shotgun in the Packard to town
With your man, Tom Fisher, one hand on the wheel
The other on your knee now

Sussana Little
Sussana Little
Gone 'fore I ever arrived
Questions that stream through my own Creek blood
The odyssey of your life

Sussana Little
Sussana Little
Sussana Little
Sussana Little

Aint nobody there to step on the brakes
Lit up like Tijauna city carnival lights
Mmm, why somebody better pull up the shades
Hey, hey, hey , second time ya had to kiss her goodnight

Outside the motorcycle devils
Rev for the cruise
Buddha's in the alley, working the Rue
Ping, ping-a-rain a comin' down the edge of the roof
Thinkin' I'd be a little mystified to
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Drop another silver plug for the damned
Don't forget to make it a wish
Mmm, Yellow thunder bolt a' Shazzam
Isn't very likely to miss
Shutters on the winda' beatin' like wings
Smoke a' backin' up & up in the flu
Hounds are in the gutter startin' to sing
Thinkin' I'd be a little mystified too
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Li Di Di da da da da da da Di Di Di Di ...
Sooner or later gotta' live in your skin
Sleepin' in the very bed that you make
Some walking dead behind the Wayfarer lenses
Hangin' by the skin your teeth
Motorcycle devils
Rev for the cruise
Soldiers in the alley working the rue
Little bitty pretty one
What's got into you
Thinkin' I'd be a little mystified too
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Li Di Di da da da da da da Di Di Di Di ...
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Better than ta do as I please
Better than ta skin my knees
Better than a fallin' for
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Li Di Di da da da da da da Di Di Di Di ...

Words and Music by Gram Parsons / Bob Buchanon

In South Carolina there are many tall pines
I remember the oak tree that we used to climb
But now when I'm lonesome, I always pretend
That I'm getting the feel of hickory wind

I started out younger at most everything
All the riches and pleasures, what else could life bring
But it makes me feel better each time it begins
Callin' me home, hickory wind

It's a hard way to find out that trouble is real
In a far away city, with a far away feel
But it makes me feel better each time it begins
Callin' me home, hickory wind

Keeps callin' me home, hickory wind
Keeps callin' me home, hickory wind