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Category: Indigo Girls

  • Closer To Fine

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    Indigo Girls
    Words and music Emily Saliers

    I’m trying to tell you something about my life
    maybe give me insight between black and white
    and the best thing you’ve ever done for me
    is to help me take my life less seriously
    it’s only life after all
    yeah

    well darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable
    and lightness has a call that’s hard to hear
    I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
    I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
    I’m crawling on your shores

    I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
    I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
    there’s more than one answer to these questions
    pointing me in a crooked line
    and the less I seek my source for some definitive
    (the less I seek my source)
    the closer I am to fine
    the closer I am to fine

    and I went to see the doctor of philosophy
    with a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
    he never did marry or see a b-grade movie
    he graded my performance, he said he could see through me
    I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
    got my paper and I was free

    I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
    I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
    there’s more than one answer to these questions
    pointing me in a crooked line
    the less I seek my source for some definitive
    (the less I seek my source)
    the closer I am to fine
    the closer I am to fine

    I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
    to seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
    and I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
    twice as cloudy as I’d been the night before
    and I went in seeking clarity.

    I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
    I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
    yeah we go to the doctor, we go to the mountains
    we look to the children, we drink from the fountains
    yeah we go to the bible, we go through the workout
    we read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
    there’s more than one answer to these questions
    pointing me in a crooked line
    the less I seek my source for some definitive
    (the less I seek my source)
    the closer I am to fine
    the closer I am to fine
    the closer I am to fine

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  • Galileo

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    Indigo Girls
    Words and music Emily Saliers

    Galileo’s head was on the block
    the crime was looking up for truth
    and as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
    I try to trace them to my youth

    And then you had to bring up reincarnation
    over a couple of beers the other night
    and now I’m serving time for mistakes
    made by another in another lifetime

    How long till my soul gets it right
    can any human being ever reach that kind of light
    I call on the resting soul of galileo
    king of night vision, king of insight

    And then I think about my fear of motion
    which I never could explain
    some other fool across the ocean years ago
    must have crashed his little airplane

    How long till my soul gets it right
    can any human being ever reach that kind of light
    I call on the resting soul of galileo
    king of night vision, king of insight

    I’m not making a joke, you know me
    I take everything so seriously
    if we wait for the time till all souls get it right
    then at least I know there’ll be no nuclear annihilation
    in my lifetime I’m still not right

    I offer thanks to those before me
    that’s all I’ve got to say
    ’cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
    now I have to pay
    but then again it feels like some sort of inspiration
    to let the next life off the hook
    but she’ll say “look what I had to overcome from my last life
    I think I’ll write a book”

    How long till my soul gets it right
    can any human being ever reach the highest light
    except for Galileo God rest his soul
    (except for the resting soul of Galileo)
    king of night vision, king of insight

    How long
    (till my soul gets it right)
    [til we reach the highest light]
    how long
    (till my soul gets it right)
    [til we reach the highest light]
    how long

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  • Joking

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    Indigo Girls

    Words and music Amy Ray

    You said the world was magic
    I was wide-eyed and laughing
    we were dancing up to the bright side
    forget about your ego
    forget about your pride
    and you will never have to compromise
    and you were only joking
    you were only joking brother

    We talked about our mothers
    kissed the wounds of our fathers
    I could have been your sister
    I would have been your brother
    you kissed me like I was a soldier
    headed for a war
    A dying man but I don’t know what for
    and you were only joking
    you were only joking brother
    you were only joking
    (wide-eyed and laughing)
    you were only joking brother
    (dancing up to the bright side)

    Gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet
    I bruised my heels on the swollen street
    we were girls in bars
    boys on the town
    bumping like a pinball off a careless crowd
    you said good friends are hard to come by
    I laughed and bought you a beer
    it’s too corny to cry
    well sentiment given
    oh sentiment lost
    you shake it off with a smirk and a toss
    and you were only joking
    you were only joking brother
    you were only joking
    were only joking brother
    and you were only joking
    (gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet)
    you were only joking brother
    (I bruised my heels on the swollen street)
    you kissed me like a soldier heading for a war
    (joking)
    I’m a dying man
    (you were only joking)
    and you were only joking
    (don’t know what for)
    (dying man)
    you were only joking brother
    (don’t know what for)
    and you were only
    and you were only
    and you were only joking
    brother

    one two three four
    ah yeah
    sha la sha la sha la sha la sha la
    (wide eyed and laughing) sha la
    (dancing up to the bright side) sha la
    (wide eyed and laughing) sha la
    (dancing up to the bright side)

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  • Blood and Fire

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    Indigo Girls

    Words and music by Amy Ray

    I have spent nights with matches and knives
    leaning over ledges only two flights up
    cutting my heart, burning my soul
    nothing left to hold
    nothing left but blood and fire.

    You have spent nights thinking of me
    missing my arms but you needed to leave
    leaving my cuts, leaving my burns
    hoping I’d learn.

    But blood and fire
    are too much for these restless arms to hold
    and my nights of desire they’re calling me
    back to your fold
    and I am calling you, calling you
    from 10,000 miles away
    won’t you whet my fire with your love
    babe.

    I am looking for someone who can take as much as I give
    and give back as much as I need
    you know and they still have the will to live – ah no
    cause I am intense, I am in need
    I am in pain, I am in love
    and I feel forsaken you know
    like the things I gave away.

    And blood and fire
    are too much for these restless arms to hold
    and my nights of desire they’re calling me
    back to your fold
    and I am calling you, calling you
    from 10,000 miles away
    won’t you whet my fire with your love babe.

    I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
    you know I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
    I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
    and blood and fire
    are too much for these restless arms to hold
    and my nights of desire they’re calling me
    back to your fold
    and I am calling you, calling you
    from 10,000 miles away
    won’t you whet my fire with your love
    babe
    won’t you whet my fire with your love
    babe now
    whet my fire with your love

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