Melissa Etheridge

1. Similar Features
2. Chrome Plated Heart
3. Like The Way I Do
4. Precious Pain
5. Don't You Need
6. The Late September Dogs
7. Occasionally
8. Watching You
9. Bring Me Some Water
10. I Want You

 

 

Similar Features

Go on and close your eyes go on imagine me there

She's got similar features with longer hair

And if that's whit it takes to get you through

Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

You never had to wait for nothing in your life

I guess wanting me must have been a steel blue knife

And when night after night the scent of passion would linger

You had to have the jewels wrapped around your finger

Now you keep running down the road in your midnight state of mind

Curiosity kills if you cant read the signs

Go on and close your eyes go on imagine me there

She's got similar features with longer hair

And if that's what it takes to get you through

Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

Dancing with the wall made you bitter and sweet

There ain't much you can do when they just lay it at your feet

But could you tell by the song I wanted to be the one

Did you listen again when the damage was done

Now the paint's still wet in your do it by number dream

Are you gonna tell me how it felt will you tell me what it means

Go on and close your eyes go on imagine me there

She's got similar features with longer hair

And if that's what it takes to get you through

Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

Was it want with no desire

Was it smoke with no fire

Did I say it doesn't rip me apart I lied

I'm sorry dear my hands are tied

Go on and close your eyes go on imagine me there

She's got similar features with longer hair

And if that's what it takes to get you through

Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

 

Chrome Plated Heart

I got a chrome-plated heart

I got wings on these fingers trying to tear it apart

I got angels crying from up above

And they got rust in their eyes

They got rust on their love

But I have learned to leave no stone unturned

And keep the wall against my back

And the love is real as the day is long

And the night it black

As black as night

I got a two dollar stare

Midas in my touch and Delilah in my hair

I got bad intentions on the soles of my shoes

With this red hot fever and these chromium blues

And I will feel another lovers wheel

And drive for miles and not look back

And the love is read as the day is long

And the night is black

As black as night

And I'll dance in time and the times are rough

And I'll pay the price and I'll pray that it's enough

And just outside the door where it always rains

I'll take the time to polish these scratchers and these stains

On my chrome plated heart

Wings on these fingers trying to tear it apart

I got angels crying form up above

And they got rust on their love

And the only way I know where the train will go

Is when I'm sleeping on the tracks

And the love is real as the day is long

And the night is black

As black as night

And the night is black

As black as night

 

Like the way I do

Is it so hard to satisfy your senses

You found out to love me you have to climb some fences

Scratching and crawling along the floor to touch you

And just when it feels right you say you found someone to hold you

Does she like I do

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Tell me does she love you like the way I love you

Does she stimulate you attract and captivate you

Tell me does she miss you existing just to kiss you

Like the way I do

Tell me does she want you infatuate and haunt you

Does she know just how to shock and electrify and rock you

Does she inject you seduce you and affect you

Like the way I do

Can I survive all the implications

Even if I tried could you be less than an addiction

Don't you think I know there's so many others

Who would beg steal and lie fight kill and die

Just to hold you hold you like I do

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Nobody loves you like the way I do

Nobody wants you like the way I do

Nobody needs you like the way I do

Nobody aches nobody aches just to hold you

Like the way I do

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Precious Pain

Everybody's got a hunger

No matter where they are

Everybody clings to their own fear

Everybody hides some scar

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Precious pain

Empty and cold but it keeps me alive

I gave it my soul so that I could survive

Keeping me safe in these chains

Precious pain

Everybody's got a reason

To abandon their plan

How can I think of tomorrow

With my sorrow in hand

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Each road that I walk down

Reminds me of you

This whole town is haunted

There'll never be anything new

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Don't you need

I had a dream late last night

The water was running low

And my fields were on fire burning my sky

My body was moving slow

And when I awoke I tasted the sweat of desire on my mouth

And I realized my heart had abducted my mind

And they were last seen headed south

Now I can't sleep I'm so wired

And I find myself screaming out

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Don't you need don't you want

Can't you taste it when you're alone

Don't you cry don't you feel

Sometimes I wonder if you are real

Don't you bleed

Don't you need

There's no quenching the thirst there's no relief

For the hungry at heart

And as far as you're concerned I'm just a thief

Entertaining in the dark

But it's you that holds the cards

Now that the joker is wild

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Don't you want to lay it down

And feel your skin against the ground

Don't you want to ride the storm

And then sleep inside the calm

Don't you want to get that high

Don't you want to be satisfied

Well if you don't want it from me

Don't you need

I had a dream late last night

The water was running low

And my fields were on fire burning my sky

How was I to know

That I burn every night in my dreams

And only morning can set me free

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The Late September Dogs

Just outside my window I hear the late September dogs

And I understand their warning I understand their song

Since you left I feel the change in the air

And night after night I'm searching for mercy everywhere

So I wake in the street and I call out your name

I shout to the sky please

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Come on let it rain

Let it rain down on me

Let the rain touch my hands

Let the rain set me free

Let it rain down on me

Silence is the steel that pierces and cuts me to the bone

In dreams the hand that touches you is mine and mine alone

Cruel is the light is the morning shining down on me

Hours with the Devil to understand just what you need

So I wake in the street and I call out your name

Shout to the sky come on

Come on let it rain

Let it rain down on me

Let the rain fill my eyes

Let the rain set me free

Let it rain down on me

Just inside the distance I hear the late September dogs

And so I beg for sleep the child who walked before she crawled

Damn my soul that remembers and clutches to this pain

The spear in your side is me

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Occasionally

I saw you with your new friends

You wear them so well

Broken shoes and loose ends

Gee you look swell

Me I'm drinking too much coffee

And I'm smoking cigarettes

I'm a deputy of habit

I just can't forget

I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car

I'm only lonely after dark

I'm only lonely when I watch my TV

I'm only lonely occasionally

I saw you with your envoy

A consenting adult

Technique in moderation

But vogue to the cult

Me I've got my strangers

To exile in the night

I guess I'm just addicted

To the pain of delight

I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car

I'm only lonely after dark

I'm only lonely when I watch my TV

I'm only lonely occasionally

Occasionally

Occasionally

 

Watching you

That's a good question

Why am I standing out here alone

I guess I don't know enough to come in from the rain

I was watching your window

From here below

I think I just might stay here all day

Cause I gotta do something

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If I can't love you

I don't want to love you

If I can't hold you

I don't want to be thinking of you

And if you don't want me

I don't want to want you

And if you won't see me

I don't know what to do

But oh keep watching you

Oh I keep watching you

Until I see right through

Oh I keep watching you

You could throw me down a cigarette

I smoked my last one quite awhile ago

No I gave it to the man that swore he had no need

You know sometimes if I listen real close

I can hear the dark side of the moon

And there's always yesterday's Times if I care to read

And I gotta do something

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Sure I'm alright

No I'm not very cold

Every now and then I can feel the subway heat

So go on inside

I'll leave you alone

Anyway Bogart's on in the window down the street

And I gotta do something

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Bring me some water

Tonight I feel so weak

But all in love is fair

I turn the other cheek

And I feel the slap and the sting of the foul night air

And I know you're only human

And I haven't got talking room

But tonight while I'm making excuses

Some other woman is making love to you

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Somebody bring me some water

Can't you see I'm burning alive

Can't you see my baby's got another lover

I don't know how I'm gonna survive

Somebody bring me some water

Can't you se it's out of control

Baby's got my heart and my baby's got my mind

But tonight the sweet Devil, sweet Devil's got my soul

When will this aching pass

When will this night be through

I want to hear the breaking glass

I only feel the steel of the red hot truth

And I'd do anything to get it out of my mind

I need some insanity that temporary kind

Tell me how ill I ever be the same

When I know that woman is whispering your name

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Oh, Devil's got my soul

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I want you

I can see your darkened eyes

Across the room turn into lies and laughter

And asking for my name again

Then introduced as just a friend

Well it was no fantasy the passion burned

You touched me the evening turned to midnight

I can't forget the naked trust

One quenchless night of shaking lust and fire

I want you

I want you

I want you

I want you

Since that night I'm not the same

Desire breeds and ugly stain inside me

Satisfaction never comes

It's always dark and yet still I run

Even when I close my eyes

You torture me with shameless sighs of seduction

Walking in a chilling sweat

Pounding heart inside my chest I'm screaming

I want you

I want you

I want you

I want you

With your heart in your first

You laugh at my situation

Tell me is it blood that you want

Then take me strip me cut me see I'm bleeding

I want you

I want you

I want you

I want you

 

 

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