by Greg Brown on album Covenant

Everybody looks like someone i just saw five minutes ago If i looked too far in the mirror i know i'd have to run From copper harbour way down to acapulco Where the sun shines on the moon & the moon g

by Greg Brown on album Covenant

Marriage is impossible marriage is dull Your dance card is empty your plate is too full It's something no sensible person would do I wish i was married i wish I was married I wish i was married to you

by Greg Brown on album Honey In The Lion's Head

On top of Old Smokey, All covered with snow, I lost my true lover, For courting too slow. For courting's a pleasure, But parting is grief, And a false-hearted lover, Is worse than a thief. A thief w

by Greg Brown on album The Poet Game

Oh Lord, I have made you a place in my heart Among the rags and the bones and the dirt. There's piles of lies, the love gone from her eyes, And old moving boxes full of hurt. Pull up a chair by the tr

by Greg Brown on album In The Dark With You

There was someone that I used to know She was a personal friend of mine We were lovers long ago Back in the traveling times And I happened to pass through her town I thought I'd call her on the phone

by Greg Brown on album Further In

Someday maybe, baby, you might be feelin' low and down Hold up your hands, count to three I will meet you, I will meet you downtown You can always, you can always come to me I won't be busy, but even

by Greg Brown on album Freak Flag

by Greg Brown on album 44 & 66

We don't know when we came; you know it's been so long, Everything is the same; so let's do one more song. Ring around the moon; long, long time 'til day, Play me one more tune; please don't go away.

by Greg Brown on album Freak Flag

by Greg Brown on album Honey In The Lion's Head

There's real tall girls as smart as hell Ones who ring out like a bell And they know they do Ah but there ain't no one like you, There ain't no one like you There's girls who dance and paint and sing

by Greg Brown on album One More Goodnight Kiss

We travelled Kansas and Missouri spreading the good news A preachers family in our pressed clothes and worn out polished shoes Momma fixed us soup beans and served them up by candlelight She tucked us

by Greg Brown on album Honey In The Lion's Head

I don't want your millions, Mister, I don't want your diamond ring. All I want is the right to live, Mister, Give me back my job again. Now, I don't want your Rolls-Royce, Mister, I don't want your p

by Greg Brown on album The Iowa Waltz

Some say that heaven is beyond the blue, But I've done some looking, and I don't think that's true. Lookin' up from the flatlands, birds and clouds floating by, I'd say that heaven is about a thousand

by Greg Brown on album Down In There

I'm sorry I hit you. I'm sorry I wrecked your car I'm sorry I met you that night at the Why Not Bar But now I've got you and you've got me for life I will hand you this bottle honey, if you'll set dow

by Greg Brown on album In The Dark With You

We used to say I could walk all night, and we could and we did Down that gravel road, to that tiny town, and the door always opened Now we say I could walk all night. It's not true We can't walk all n

by Greg Brown on album In The Dark With You

I knew a woman, She was my friend, When we met I felt like I'd been born again Ah, we spent all our time outside 'Cause people say small things when they stay too long in little rooms. In the sunshine

by Greg Brown on album Slant 6 Mind

No one now knows too much about these woods, They got lost, they wouldn't know where to go. Tribe's been gone a long time, small farmers got blowed out, Maybe there ain't even that much left to know.

by Greg Brown on album Down In There

I'm a poor backslider in the pit of sin I try to crawl out. I slip back in Come Savior save me-get ahold of my hand Please don't let me slide back in the dark again Well the preacher told me hope was

by Greg Brown on album The Iowa Waltz

Out in the country, gravel road a-ramble all around. Out in the country, gravel road a-ramble all around. And the dust blow up 'til the cool rain tumble down. I'm a redwing blackbird sit singin' on t

by Greg Brown on album The Evening Call

I think I'll drive out to Eugene, get a slide-in camper for My truck, pack a bamboo rod, hip boots, a book of flies from A Missoula pawn shop, rub mink oil into the cracked leather, Wonder about the o