No Souvenirs By Melissa Etheridge

 [Verse 1]

Hello, hello this is Romeo

Calling from a jackpot telephone

Shame, shame but I love your name

And the way you make the buffalo roam

Oh fly, fly, I guess this is goodbye

Oh you packed up your heart

And you left no souvenirs

[Chorus]

But if you want me you can call me

In the night you know where I'll be

Broken lover you can touch me

In the dark the innocent can't see

You lock it up now, hide the key

It would mean surrender to let me see

Oh brave, brave soldier, keep it under cover

You fell alone like no other lover

Burn the pictures, break the records

Run far away to a northern town

Sell your fear and leave me standing here

With no souvenirs

[Verse 2]

Once, twice I thought it might be nice

To come into your kitchen and play

Cool, cool, just a crazy fool

I never saw it any other way

Oh wait, wait, I guess I'm just too late

Oh you made up your mind

Love shouldn't be so hard

[Chorus]

But if you want me you can call me

In the night you know where I'll be

Broken lover you can touch me

In the dark the innocent can't see

You lock it up now, hide the key

It would mean surrender to let me see

Oh brave, brave soldier, keep it under cover

You fell alone like no other lover

Burn the pictures, break the records

Run far away to a northern town

Sell your fear and leave me standing here

With no souvenirs

[Bridge]

No shirts, no shoes

No jackets, no blues

Your car's for sale

You forward your mail

You're growing your hair

You don't want to know where

I'm calling you from

Or how come

Chorus]

But if you want me you can call me

In the night you know where I'll be

Broken lover you can touch me

In the dark the innocent can't see

You lock it up now, hide the key

It would mean surrender to let me see

Brave, brave soldier, keep it under cover

You fell alone like no other lover

Burn the pictures, break the records

Run far away to a northern town

Sell your fear and leave me standing here

With no souvenirs

Yeah

[Outro]

Hello, hello

This is Romeo

Silent Legacy By Melissa Etheridge

 

Why did you steal the matches

From the one room motel

Once they gave you answers

Now they give you hell

They will never understand

They wonder where did they go wrong

How could you be so selfish

Why can't you get along

And as you pray in your darkness

For wings to set you free

You are bound to your silent legacy

You've seen it in the movies

And you've heard it on the street

Craving the affection

Your blood is full of heat

They don't listen to your reasons

As original as sin

Deny all that you feel

And they will bring you home again

And as you pray in your darkness

For wings to set you free

You are bound to your silent legacy

Your body is alive

But no one told you what you'd feel

The empty aching hours

Trying to conceal

The natural progression

Is the coming of your age

But they cover it with shame

And turn it into rage

And as you pray in your darkness

For wings to set you free

You are bound to your silent legacy

You are digging for the answers

Until your fingers bleed

To satisfy the hunger

To satiate the need

They feed you on the guilt

To keep you humble keep you low

Some man and myth they made up

A thousand years ago

And as you pray in your darkness

For wings to set you free

You are bound to your silent legacy

Mothers tell your children

Be quick you must be strong

Life is full of wonder

Love is never wrong

Remember how they taught you

How much of it was fear

Refuse to hand it down

The legacy stops here

Oh my child

Brave And Crazy By Melissa Etheridge

 [Verse 1]

If I could have my way

I'd be sleeping in the alley

On a couch with a friend

And a bottle of gin

If I could have my way

I'd be runnin' with the circus

I would be taming all the lions

There'd be no denying I was

Brave and crazy

If I could have my way

I wouldn't be dreaming. scheming, screaming

Ooh, ooh, ah, ah

Tell me, what am I gonna do

About you?

[Verse 2]

If wishes were horses

This beggar would ride

I'd have my cake and eat it

With a little on the side

I'd never want for money

I'd never want for friends

I wouldn't have to make excuses

For the shape that I'm in

Shaking and crazy

Before I saw your eyes

I was in control of my soul, on the whole

Ooh, ooh, ah, ah

Tell me, what am I gonna do

About you?

[Bridge]

Ah, cool as a rule

I wouldn't play nobody's fool

But I keep on talking

Ah, made in the shade

I had a perfect cue to fade

But I keep on walking

Baby, baby

I keep on walking

[Verse 3]

If I could have my way

I would check out right now

I'd say out to lunch honey, thanks a bunch

It wouldn't work out anyhow

This desire's too much

It's rented out my brain

It's showing previews of your body

Driving me insane

Baby, that's crazy

Ah, so all that I can do

Is to beg, plead, won't you tell me please

Tell me, what am I gonna do

About you?

[Outro]

Baby, what am I gonna do

About you?

Eh, ah, eh, no

I guess, I guess I just play, oh

Come on, now

Get up, get up

Ah

Eh, yeah, yeah

Ow

(So much for that)

Refugee By Melissa Etheridge

 

We got somethin', we both know it

We don't talk too much about it

Ain't no real big secret, all the same

Somehow we get around it

Listen, it don't really matter to me baby

You believe what you want to believe, you see

You don't have to live like a refugee

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some

Tell me why you want to lay there and revel in your abandon

Honey, it don't make no difference to me baby

Everybody has to fight to be free, you see

You don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

Oh baby you don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

Oh baby we ain't the first

I'm sure a lot of other loves been cursed

Right now it seems real to you, but it's

One of those things you gotta feel to be true

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some

Who knows maybe you were kidnapped, tied up

Taken away and held for ransom

Honey, it don't really matter to me

Baby, everybody has to fight to be free, you see

You don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

No baby you don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

No baby you don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

No baby you don't have to live like a refugee

Like The way I Do By Melissa Etheridge

 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

Baby 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

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

Baby 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

Oh, 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

No, no, no

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

Oh, 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, baby

Like the way I do

No, like the way I do

Oh, ho, yeah

The Ruins By Melissa Etheridge

 

Don't try to call

There are some bridges that burn

Beyond recognition beyond repair

Don't say you've changed

There are some forces that turn

Beyond recollection beyond my stare

When I feel the cold in the dark

I know you're there

Long ago I was a woman in pain

A woman in need

I ran to you

Long ago I did not understand

You were making me bleed

I ran to you

When I feel the cold in the dark

I know what you do

I will crawl through my past

Over stones blood and glass

In the ruins

Reaching under the fence

As I try to make sense

In the ruins

I know your heart has held its own fear

It's perfectly clear

What they did to you

In my heart it's the screaming I hear

I won't let them come near

Since my love knew you

When I feel the cold in the dark

I remember you

I will crawl through my past

Over stones blood and glass

In the ruins

Reaching under the fence

As I try to make sense

In the ruins

Night after night

I am carving it out

I will carry it down to the waterside

Night after night

I am hearing the sound

Of wings that come beating

I will not hide

When I feel the cold in the dark

I will know why

I will crawl through my past

Over stones blood and glass

In the ruins

Reaching under the fence

As I try to make sense

In the ruins

But if I am to heal

I must first learn to feel

In the ruins

I will crawl

Don't You Need By Melissa Etheridge

 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 in 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

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

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

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

The Letting Go By Melissa Etheridge

 

I came here to let you know

The letting go

Has taken place

I have held the winter's son

Become one

Set my pace

Isn't that what we wanted all along

Freedom like a stone

But I can say goodbye

Now that the passion's died

Still it comes so slow

The letting go

Piece by piece I take apart

This complicated heart

And I hope to find

Something I can prove is real

I can feel is truth

I can say is mine

That's all I ever wanted to be

The closer that I got

The further I could see

But when lovers change

And the night feels strange

We choose our road

The letting go

I came here to let you know

The letting go

Has taken place