JOAN OSBORNE – St. Teresa

Sit down on the corner, just a little climb
When I make my money, got to get my dime
Sit down with her baby, wind is full of trash
She bold as the street light, dark and sweet as hash

Way down in the hollow, leavin’ so soon
Oh, St. Teresa, higher than the moon

Reach down for the sweet stuff, when she looks at me
I know any man sees you like I see
Follow down the side street movin’ single file
She say…
“That’s where I’ll hold you, sleepin’ like a child”

Way down in the hollow, leavin’ so soon
Oh, St. Teresa, higher than the moon

Just what I’ve been needin’, feel it rise in me
She say…
“Every stone a story, like a rosary”
Corner St. Teresa, just a little crime
When I make my money, got to get my dime

Way down in the hollow, leavin’ so soon
Oh, St. Teresa, higher than the moon

You called up in the sky
You called up in the clouds
Is there something you forgot to tell me…
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me

Show me, my Teresa, feel it rise in me
Every stone a story, like a rosary

JOAN OSBORNE – The Weight

Pulled into Nazareth, feeling ’bout half past dead
Just need a place where I can lay my head
Hey mister can you tell me where a girl might find a bed?
He just grinned, shook my hand, ‘no’ was all he said

[Chorus:]
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
and put the load right on me

I picked up my bag, I went lookin’ for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin’ side by side
I said, ‘Hey, Carmen, come on, let’s go downtown’
She said, ‘I gotta go, but m’friend can stick around’

[Chorus]

Go down, Miss Moses, there’s nothin’ you can say
It’s just ol’ Luke, and Luke’s waitin’ on the Judgement Day
‘Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?’
He said, ‘Do me a favor, son, woncha stay an’ keep Anna Lee company?’

[Chorus]

Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me in the fog
He said, ‘I will fix your rack, if you’ll take Jack, my dog’
I said, ‘Wait a minute, Chester, you know I’m a peaceful man’
He said, ‘That’s okay, boy, won’t you feed him when you can’

[Chorus]

Catch a cannon ball now, t’take me down the line
My bag is sinkin’ low and I do believe it’s time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she’s the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone

JOAN OSBORNE – These Arms Of Mine

These arms of mine
They are lonely, lonely and feeling blue
These arms of mine
They are yearning, yearning from wanting you

And if you would let them hold you
Oh, how grateful I will be

These arms of mine
They are burning, burning from wanting you
These arms of mine
They are wanting, wanting to hold you

And if you would let them hold you
Oh, how grateful I will be
Come on, come on baby
Just be my little woman, just be my lover, oh

I need me somebody, somebody to treat me right, oh
I need your woman’s loving arms to hold me tight
And I…I…I need…I need your…I need your tender lip

JOAN OSBORNE – Son Of A Preacher Man

Billy-Ray was a Preacher’s son
And when his daddy would visit he’d come along
When they gathered round and started talking
That’s when Billy would take me walking
Through the back yard we’d go walking
Then he’d look into my eyes
Lord knows to my suprise

[Chorus:]
The only boy who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
He was, yes he was, oh yes he was

Being good isn’t always easy
No matter how hard I tried
When he started sweet talking to me
He’d come and tell me everything is alright
He’d kiss and tell me everything is alright
Can I get away again tonight

[Chorus]

How well I remember
The look that was in his eyes
Stealing kisses from me on the sly
Taking time to make time
Telling me that he’s all mine
Learning from each others knowing
Looking to see how much we’d grown

The only boy who could ever move me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever groove me
Was the son of a preacher man
He was, yes he was, oh yes he was

JOAN OSBORNE – Shake Your Hips

Won’t care about the dance spin going round
Everybody doing it from grownups down
You got to move your head you got to move your hands
You got to move your lips just move your hips
Do the hips shake baby
Do the hips shake baby
Shake your hips baby
Shake your hips baby

If you don’t know don’t be afraid
Just listen to me do what i see
Don’t you move your hip don’t you move your hands
Don’t you move your lips just move your hips
Do the hips shake baby
Do the hips shake baby
Shake your hips baby
Shake your hips baby

Ain’t that easy now say is easy now
Met a little girl in the country town
She said what do you know about ..
She didn’t move her head didn’t move her hands
Didn’t move her lips just move her hips
Do the hips shake baby
Do the hips shake baby
Shake your hips baby
Shake your hips baby
Do the hips shake baby
Do the hips shake baby
Shake your hips baby
Shake your hips baby
Ain’t that easy now

JOAN OSBORNE – Roll Like A Big Wheel

I’m gonna roll like a big wheel
I’m gonna roll just like a big wheel
I’m gonna keep on turning cause I like the way it feels!
Every time I turn, is gonna break your heart
Every time I turn, is gonna break your heart
I’m gonna show you, daddy I can finish anything you start!

I’m gonna roll, like old wheels do

Said I’m gonna roll like old wheels do
And when I’ll turn around, I’m gonna roll right over you!
Talk about wheel, I’m a great big wheel
I’m gonna keep on turning cause I like the way it feels.
Oh, oh, oh, I’m gonna roll!
I’m gonna roll, just like a big wheel!
I’m gonna roll like a big wheel!

JOAN OSBORNE – Righteous Love

I was a troubled soul
I had a worried mind
Drifting from place to place
I was the restless kind
Right there in front to me
bright as the light of day
you saw a broken girl
You loved me anyway

And if I sprouted wings
I would not be amazed
cause faith is a mystery that
rocks me for days and days and day and
I could be in the street
I could be on a train
or struck in some doorway down
in the pouring rain
Now there is not one place
that doesn’t feel like home
No matter where I go
I know I’m not alone

[Chorus:]
I’ve never been so sure of love

And if I sprouted wings
I would not be amazed
cause faith is a mystery that
rocks me for days and days and day
Oh you can ask me once
And I will tell you twice
No one’s convincing me
this isn’t paradise
And if I cause you pain
I’d only hurt myself
cause we have a righteous love
I feel for on one else

[Chorus:]
I’ve never been so sure of love

JOAN OSBORNE – Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends

Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends

This may be our last good night together
We may never pass this way again.
Just let me enjoy it ’til it’s over, or forever
Please don’t tell me how the story ends.

See the way our shadows come together
Softer than your fingers on my skin
Someday these may be all we remember of each other
Please don’t tell me how the story ends.

Never’s just the echo of forever
Lonesome as a love that might have been.
Let me go on lovin’ and believin’ ’til it’s over
Please don’t tell me how the story ends.

JOAN OSBORNE – One Of Us

So one of these nights and about twelve o’clock
This old world’s going to reel and rock
Saints will tremble and cry for pain
For the Lord’s gonna come in his heavenly airplane

If God had a name, what would it be?
And would you call it to his face,
If you were faced with Him in all His glory?
What would you ask if you had just one question?

And yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?

If God had a face, what would it look like?
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the saints
And all the prophets? And…

Yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?

(Just?) tryin’ to make His way home
Back up to Heaven all alone
Nobody callin’ on the phone
‘Cept for the Pope, maybe, in Rome

Yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?

Just tryin’ to make His way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to Heaven all alone
Just tryin’ to make His way home
Nobody callin’ on the phone
‘Cept for the Pope, maybe, in Rome

JOAN OSBORNE – Midnight Train To Georgia

L.A. proved too much for the man
So he’s leavin’ the life that he’s come to know
He said he’s goin’ back to find
Ohhh what’s left of his world
The world he left behind not so long ago

He’s leavin’
On that midnight train to Georgia
Said he’s goin’ back to find
A simpler place and time

I’ll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia
I’d rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine

He kept dreamin’
Ohhh that someday he’d be a star,
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don’t always come true

So he pawned all his hopes
And he even sold his old car
Bought a one way ticket back
To the life he used to know
Oh yes he did

Now now he’s leavin’
On that midnight train to Georgia
He said he’s goin’ back to find
A simpler place and time

I’ll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia
Ohhh I’d rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine

All aboard on a midnight train to Georgia
I gotta be with him on a midnight train to Georgia
On a midnight train said
I gotta be with him
Ohhh I gotta be with him on a midnight train to Georgia
I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go to a midnight train to Georgia
On a midnight train to Georgia

JOAN OSBORNE – Meet You In The Middle

Though we may fight
Most every night
I’ll meet you in the middle some day
The heartaches thrive
But the love survives
I’ll meet you in the middle some day

People are known to be reckless
To never let go of their pride
But honey I believe we’ve been careless
Cause the damage just can’t be denied

Oh, before we start
We’re miles apart
And there’s a million reasons why
But I wake to find
You’re still on my mind
It’s stronger as the years go by

I’d like to sit down with you darlin’
Show you everything in my heart
But emotions run high when I see your face
I just don’t know where to start

Oh, I’ll meet you in the middle some day
Oh, I’ll meet you in the middle some day

Mm, if all for this
Just one more kiss
I’d travel any distance to find
Your eyes of coal
Your secret soul
I swear that I could read your mind

Honey you can call me crazy
To think that our affection could last
But I see us throw it all together
After all the storms have passed

Oh, though we may fight
Most every night
I’ll meet you in the middle some day
The heartaches thrive
But the love survives
I’ll meet you in the middle some day

Oh, I’ll meet you in the middle some day
Oh, I’ll meet you in the middle some day
Some day

JOAN OSBORNE – Make You Feel My Love

When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love

When evening shatters and the stars appear
And there’s is no one to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love

I know you haven’t made your mind up yet
But I would never do you wrong
I’ve known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you belong

I’d go hungry, I’d go black and blue
I’d go crawling down the avenue
No there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
To make you feel my love

The storms are raging on the rolling sea
And on the highway of regret
The winds of change are blowing wild and free
You ain’t seen nothin’ like me yet

I could make you happy
Make your dreams come true
There is nothing that I wouldn’t do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
To make you feel my love

JOAN OSBORNE – How Sweet It Is

How sweet it is to be loved by you
How sweet it is to be loved by you

I needed the shelter of someone’s arms and there you were
I needed someone to understand my ups and downs and there you were
With sweet love and devotion
Deeply touching my emotion
I want to stop and thank you baby
I just want to stop and thank you baby

How sweet it is to be loved by you
How sweet it is to be loved by you

I close my eyes at night
Wondering where would I be without you in my life
Everything I did was just a bore
Everywhere I went it seems I’d been there before
But you brighten up for me all of my days
With a love so sweet in so many ways
I want to stop and thank you baby
I just want to stop and thank you baby

How sweet it is to be loved by you
How sweet it is to be loved by you

You were better for me than I was for myself
For me, there’s you and there ain’t nobody else
I want to stop and thank you baby
I just want to stop and thank you baby

How sweet it is to be loved by you
How sweet it is to be loved by you

JOAN OSBORNE – Cathedrals

In the shadows of tall buildings
Of fallen angels on the ceilings
Oily feathers in bronze and concrete
Faded colors, pieces left incomplete
The line moves slowly past the electric fence
Across the borders between continents

In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is

In the shadows of tall buildings
The architecture is slowly peeling
Marble statues and glass dividers
Someone is watching all of the outsiders
The line moves slowly through the numbered gate
Past the mosaic of the head of state

In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is

In the shadows of tall buildings
Of open arches endlessly kneeling
Sonic landscapes echoing vistas
Someone is listening from a safe distance
The line moves slowly into a fading light
A final moment in the dead of night

In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is

Oohh…

In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is

JOAN OSBORNE – Think

You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free

Let’s go back let’s go back let’s go way on back when
I didn’t even know you. You couldn’t ‘o been too much more than 10
I ain’t no psychiatrist I ain’t no doctor with degrees
But it don’t take too much IQ to see what you’re doin’ to me

You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free

Freedom (freedom), Freedom (freedom)

There ain’t nothing you could ask I can answer what you want
But I was gonna change my mind if you keep doin’ things I don’t

You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free

People walkin’ ’round everyday planning games and taking scores
Tryin to make other people lose their minds well be careful you don’t lose yours

You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free

You need me and I need you
Without each other there ain’t nothing we can do

[vamp]

Oh Freedom (freedom) Freedom (freedom)…

There ain’t nothing you could ask I can answer what you want
But I was gonna change my mind if you keep doin’ things I don’t

You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free

You need me and I need you
Without each other there ain’t nothing we can do

[vamp]

Freedom…
Think!…

JOAN OSBORNE – Breakfast In Bed

You’ve been cryin’
Your face is a mess
Come in baby
You can dry the tears on my dress
She’s hurt you again
I can tell
Oh, I know that look so well

Don’t be shy
You’ve been here before
Pull your shoes off, lie down
And I will lock the door

And no-one has to know
You’ve come here again
Darling it will be
Like it’s always been before
Come on over here

Breakfast in bed
And a kiss or three
You don’t have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed
Nothing need be said
Ain’t no need

What’s your hurry?
Please don’t eat and run
You can let her wait, my darling
It’s been so long
Since I’ve had you here
You will come again
Darling it will be
Like it’s always been before
Hey child

Breakfast in bed
And a kiss or three
You don’t have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed
Nothing need be said

Breakfast in bed
And a kiss or three
You don’t have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed
Nothing need be said, yeah
You don’t have to say you love me
[repeat and fade]

JOAN OSBORNE – Axis: Bold As Love

Anger, he smiles,
towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground

Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wonder why the fight is on

But they’re bold as love, just as bold as love
Yeah, they’re bold as love
Just ask the axis

My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war,
and ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young and full of daring,
But very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I’m trying to say it’s frigthened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from
Giving my life to a rainbow like you

I’m as bold as love, I’m as bold as love
Just as bold as love
Just ask the axis

JOAN OSBORNE – Angel Face

I was struck down by your angel face

I had a father
I had a brother
I had a husband and I had a lover
I had a son he filled me with wonder

But I was struck down by your angel face

I was a woman
I was a mother
Woke in a fever from what I’ve been under
You made my heart beat
like God made the thunder

I was struck down by your angel face

Oh, did I tell you?
Did I bother to mention
you’re keeping me worried
building up tension
Spinning out of control
Don’t trust my intention since

I was struck down by your angel face

JOAN OSBORNE – Ain’t No Sunshine

Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone
It’s not warm when he’s away
Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone
And he’s always gone too long anytime he goes away

Wonder this time where he’s gone
Wonder if he’s gone to stay
Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone
And this house just ain’t no home
Anytime he goes away

And I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know

Hey I’ll leave the young thing alone
But ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone
Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone
Only darkness everyday

Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone
And this house just ain’t no home
Anytime he goes away
Anytime he goes away
Anytime he goes away
Anytime he goes away

JOAN OSBORNE – 4 Camels

August in the city 90 degrees
The streets are full of arms and legs
The audience is hangin’ on the corner
Just waitin’ for some bones to beg
The sniper and the moving target
I can’t talk talk talk until my face turn blue
Hey girl, you, girl put that right here
This what I’ll do to you
But I live, I live, I live on this street
The dogs are speakin’ the men are howlin’
When we take our parts out for a walk
I could say, I should say, I would say

Does your mama know about the way you talk
Somewhere in egypt I’m worth 4 camels
A strong healthy girl like me
On 42nd street it’s a quarter to look
But the women outside are free
But I live, I live, I love on this street
He’s the ruler of the pavement
He owns all that he can see
On 42nd street it’s a quarter to look
But the women outside are free
I live, I live, I love on this street
Repeat three times