by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

This old house is falling down around my ears I'm drowning in a river of my tears When all my will is gone you hold me sway I need you at the dimming of the day You pull me like the moon pulls o

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

I'm so tired of working every day Now the weekend's come I'm gonna throw my troubles away If you've got the cab fare, mister, you'll do all right I want to see the bright lights tonight Meet me at th

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

Every boy running and the little girl At the money took up in their hand Over the wall and down into the street Give your money to the hollerin' man Give your money to the hollerin' man Every boy run

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

This cruel country has driven me down Teased me and lied, teased me and lied I've only sad stories to tell to this town My dreams have withered and died Once I was bending the tops of the trees Kind

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

I feel for you, you little horror Safe at your mother's breast No lucky break for you around the corner 'Cause your father is a bully And he thinks that you're a pest And your sister she's no better t

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

See the boys out walking The boys they look so fine Dressed up in green velvet Their silver buckles shine Soon they'll be bleary-eyed Under a keg of wine Down where the drunkards roll Down where the

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

Dirty people take what's mine I can leave them all behind They can never cross that line When I get to the border Sawbones standing at the door Waiting 'till I hit the floor He won't find me anymore

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

High up above the crowd The great Valerio is walking The rope seems hung from cloud to cloud And time stands still while he is walking His eye is steady on the target His foot is sure upon the rope A

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

Night comes in, like some cool river How can there be, be another day? Take my hand, oh real companion And we'll dance, dance till we fade away Oh, the songs pour down like silver They can only, only

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

She was there one minute And then she was gone the next Lying in a pool of herself With a twisted neck Oh, she fell from the roof to the ground There was glass lying all around She was broken in a hu

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

Saturday night and I'm all alone No ring on the door bell, no ring on the phone And nobody wants to know anyone lonely like me Your boy friend's good looking, he's got it all there He looks like God

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

It seems like a lifetime since I saw you Lover, lover, I've been away too long When I see lovers holding hands and sighing I hang my head for shame of doing wrong Bus wheels spinning, songbirds singi

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

In the dark, who can see his face? In the dark, who can reach him? He hides like a child He hides like a child Keeps his finger on the trigger You know he can't stand the day Shoot out the lights Sho

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

Oh, who will remember, oh, who will be sure And still feel the silence as close as before? And was there a season without any rain? Ah, never, oh, never, oh, never again The time for dividing and no

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Miscellaneous

Beat my retreat, back home to you Beat my retreat, back home to you I'm burning all my bridges I'm burning all my bridges I'm burning all my bridges I'm running back home to you Trailing my colours,

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Pour Down Like Silver

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Melodic Rock Crate

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Melodic Rock Crate

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album Shoot Out The Lights

by Richard & Linda Thompson on album The Rolling Stone Collection: 25 Years of Essential Rock