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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