HONEY ON MY GRAVE
Song Lyrics

Honey on My Grave | I'm a Fool | One Love | Caffeine
Sweet Georgia Pines | Ohio | Breathe Again | Dreams

HONEY ON MY GRAVE

When I, am long gone          
And I'm cold beneath the clay
Won't you think of this old song
And put honey on my grave

If I'm covered in sweetness
I surely will be saved
I will live in the golden sun
With honey on my grave
 
Don't need no flowers
I don't need no stone
You can burn me up or bury me whole
I worked this bitter ground all of my days
I believe I've earned some honey on my grave
 
Sister, don't you mourn me
From heaven I will wave
I don't need no wailing wall
With honey on my grave

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I'M A FOOL

I thought I heard a car door slam
But it must have been the wind
I'll admit, my heart jumped up
With the thought of you coming, back home again 
 
I'm a fool cause I waited all day
Spent the night alone while you were gone
And I hate to say it
 
But I'm a fool to keep hanging on
To something we had
Turned from love into sadness
I guess I'm a fool
 
I'm madder than hell that you're stringin' me on
And I don't want to be here when you get home
So I'll get in my car and drive to some bar
So I can pretend, I'm the one who's gone
 
Can I stay angry, Can I walk away
Will I let you kiss me, Will I let you stay

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ONE LOVE

You take ten thousand tears
collected over 26 years
You take a million lonely days
run together in a drunken haze
You take half a dozen heartaches
and eight apartments with 2nd hand clothes
God knows how you take it, replace it,
with one love
 
You take seven hundred sleepless nights
twice as many useless fights
You take dirty disappointment 
over dreams that died
You found the fragile light behind my fear
the hidden words that no one else could hear
 
I had half a heart in a bag of bones
Hopes cut off and turned to stone
Dried up tears soaked in my skin
I thought I'd never love again
My pieces were just floating round
‘til you took them
and you made me whole somehow
You gave me one love

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CAFFEINE

Early in the morning when my baby's still snoring 
And I've gotta get out of bed even though it seems
Way too early still the stupid little birdies
Are chirpin at memaybe they've already
had their coffee or a skim milk latte
Or 12 hours sleep but I've only had 
5 short hours so I'll hit the shower
And I get my steam
From Caffeine, Yeah Caffeine
 
In the mid-day hour when I feel I'm losing power
And I've gotta get off my ass and go grab a little
Styrofoam cup or my favorite mug
And fill it up with that magic potion that will 
Keep me going got to keep me rolling
Its my one and only fiend
Caffeine, Yeah caffeine
 
It's a legal drug in a Starbucks mug
Its trendy and cool to be seen with a 
mocha cappaccino or a carmel machiato
Or a soy skim chai but I can't see why
I can't sleep by the end of the week
I need it more and more so I keep those little
Chocolate covered coffee beans
In the pocket of my jeans
And you know that I am the queen
Of caffeine, Yeah caffeine

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SWEET GEORGIA PINES

I was born in Black Rock, beneath the sweet Georgia pines
Daddy was a railroad man, Momma was so kind
But that boy showed me heaven, how could I know
He'd just up and leave one day, when my belly began to grow
 
Beneath the sweet Georgia pines
A sinner prays, a sinner cries
Beneath the sweet Georgia pines
That's where I live, that's where I'll die
 
Baby born 6 days ago
she died on day number five
Mozes came to me in a dream
to carry her cross the river wide
 
He laid her down beneath the trees
in a shady bed of pine
I didn't have me nothing
but my sins and the tears in my eyes
 
I was born in Black Rock
that's where they'll dig my grave
daddy won't forgive me
but the lord says I'll be saved

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BREATHE AGAIN

Just a simple girl in these shoes
They ain't worth much
but they carry the weight of my blues
Just a lonely voice, with too much inside
I ache to let it all out
But I've got too much to hide
 
So take me down to the river
Drive me way up North
Let's go where we can take it easy
Leave our troubles behind
And breathe again
 
You say that you feel old
You've got the weight of the world in your hands
You say you wake up tired
Drag yourself through the day
But you can't even remember why
 
So I'll take you down to the river
Drive you way up North
Let's go where we can take it easy
Leave our troubles behind
And breathe again
Got to breathe again

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OHIO

I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go to OHIO
Seeds to sow, rows to hoe, I gotta go to OHIO
 
When I was three I planted seeds
Watched ‘em grow up past my knees
Long for dirt between my toes
Dirt that comes from OHIO
 
I remember corn so high
Poked a hole up in the sky
Tickled god's toes until he cried
OHIO has corn that high
 
I grew up and moved away
Can't believe I didn't stay
I'll return one happy day
I gotta go to OHIO

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DREAMS

I am always running, living on in-betweens
I wear my dreams around my neck, as if someone could see
Wondering what I've been doing, am I where I should be
But all my blues turn to red when you look at me
 
So I'll sit right here with you tonight
forget about all I've done wrong and all I've done right
Cause I know you will love me
even if I never catch up to these dreams I've been chasing
 
I am always thinking about what I didn't do
Counting up my failures by the light of the moon
I know I'm getting older and you are too
But the one thing I am sure of is that I love you

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