Scattered, Smothered, And Covered

(bill withers)

My friends feel it's their appointed duty
They keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me
But my answer yeah to all that use me stuff
I wanna spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up
My brother sits me right down and he talked to me
He told me that i ought not to let you just walk on me
And i'm sure he meant well yeah but when our talk was through
I said brother if you only knew you'd wish that you were in my shoes
You just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up
Oh sometimes yeah it's true you really do abuse me
You get in a crowd of high-class people and then you act real rude to me
But oh baby baby baby baby when you love me i can't get enough
I wanna spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up
Talking about you using me but it all depends on what you do
It ain't too bad the way you're using me
Causes i sure am using you to do the things you do
Ah ha to do the things you do

(the reivers)

It is worth the admission
"oh my love" fogs up the glass
I look on, in a window
"oh my love" fogs up the glass.

On rainy days i wonder what's behind the veil
And i feel your breath upon my mouth,

And i press my heart into your hand,
It's my gift from araby.

We can move and be trusted,
But what is it that you want?
It is not what they think,
Yeah what is it that you want?

They look down on me and they smile forever,
But i know that love will kill that pride

And i press my heart into your hand
It's my gift from araby.

Listen to what you're saying,
You know nothing of my love,
And if it all comes down to what you say
You know nothing of my love.

And looking up into the dark i find it there,
And i feel my breath upon my mouth,

And i press my heart into your hand
It's my gift from araby.

(r.e.m)

The walls are built up, stone by stone;
The fields divided one by one.
And the train conductor says,
"take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We've been on this shift too long"

And the train conductor says,
"take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"
I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm.
The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won't get snagged.
Bells are ringing through the town again,
Children look up, all they hear is sky-blue, bells ringing

And the train conductor says
"take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

Way to shield the hated heat.
Way to put myself to sleep.
Way to shield the hated heat.
Way to put myself, my children to sleep.

He piloted this song in a plane like that one.
She is selling faith on the go tell crusade.
Locomotive 8, southern crescent, hear the bells ring again.
Field to weed is lookin' thin

And the train conductor says
"take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We've been on this shift too long."
And the train conductor says,
"take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break.
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

(radney foster)

There's a curve in the highway just south of town
Where a man has pulled over to figure life out
With only his conscience and the lonesome sound
Of diesels windin' up the grade

He's got a wife and two kids, they love him so
And a woman down in georgia, she startin' to show
He's damned if he leaves and he' sure damned if he don't
And he wonders how life got this way

('cause its) a fine line in between right and wrong
(yeah) he's been crossing over that border way too long
He shoulda seen it comin' at him right from the start
Now there ain't no escape from a broken heart

Now the call of the highway is a powerful thing
Like the pull of a lover or a child in a swing
He gave his heart to two women, only one wears his ring
They're both gonna have his babies now

So how do you confess what words won't explain
He never intended to cause this much pain
Now he feels like a farmer who went prayin' for rain
And got that he bargained from the clouds

(and its) (repeat chorus)

He'll turn his care around tonight
Go home and try to face the truth
Everyone involed's getting" hurt
And there aint nothin' he can do

He shoulda seen it comin' at him right from the start
Now there ain't no escape, now there ain't no escape
From

(repeat chorus)

Now there ain't no escape from a broken heart
Yeah they're all gonna wind up with a broken heart
Nobody's getting' out without a broken heart

(gregory k. ritchey)

I've been waiting for you
I wish you could too
Had you too long to lay back now
First time you caught my eye
I knew i want to spend my life
Making you feel like you should

Chorus:
I'm not trying to make you do
Nothing you don't want to
But i said i love you
My love depends on you
It grow, it flows, it goes by you
Won't you let me be your man

So if you'd only tell me (it you'd only tell me)
Tell me that you love me (tell me that you love me)
I'll be the luckiest man alive
I just keep on waiting, anticipating
'til the day you say you're mine

Chorus

Won't you let me be your man
Let me be your man
Won't you let me be your man

(foster and lloyd)

There's a chill in your kissin'
And a thrill i've been missin' too long
This love is deceivin', babe, i'm believin'
This thing's going' wrong
'cause your eyes betray your heart and soul
And your love for me is growin' old
And i think maybe i'd better pack my bags and

Chorus:
Roll like the wind, better roll 'till the highway ends
Gonna roll on outta her
Before the heartache rolls in

There's a lonesome sound that keeps rollin'
'round inside of me
Those wheel on the highway are whinin' on by
Baby i gotta leave
If i don't get out now while my minds in control
Then i'll never be able to ever let go
And i think maybe i better head outta here and

Repeat chorus

(vic chesnutt)

We blew past the army motorcade
And it's abnormal load haulage
The gravity of the situation
Came on us like a bit of new knowledge
The bubbliest bubble bath
Broke down on the bank
The gravity of the situation
Is why our old thought bubbles sank
Humble and gracious
The gravity of the situation
A fat hungry english crow
Picking at a badger carcass
The gravity of the situation
Is hard to focus and harness
We met bill lowery
At the queen's hall
The gravity of the situation
Became apparent to us all

(led zeppelin)

Wanna tell you 'bout the girl i love
My she looks so fine
She's the only one that i been dreamin' of
Maybe someday she will be all mine
I wanna tell her that i love her so
I thrill with her every touch
I need to tell her she's the only one i really love

(chorus)
I got a woman, wanna ball all day
I got a woman; she won't be true, no
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I said i got a little woman and she won't be true

Sunday morning when we go down to church
See the menfolk standin' in line
I said they come to pray to the lord
With my little girl, looks so fine
In the evening when the sun is sinkin ' low
Everybody's with the one they love
I walk the town
Keep a-searchin' all around:
Lookin' for my street corner girl

Chorus

In the bars, with the men who play guitars
Singin', drinkin' and rememberin' the times
My little lover does a midnight shift
She followed around all the time
I guess there's just one thing a -left for me to do
Gonna pack my bags and move on my way
Cause i got a worried mind
Sharin' what i thought was mine
Gonna leave her where the guitars play

I got a woman, she won't be true, no no
I got a woman, wanna ball all day
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I got a little woman and she won't be true

(hey, hey what can i do)

I said she won't be true

(hey, hey what can i say)

Hey, hey, what can i do
I got a woman she won't be true
Lord, hear what i say
I got a woman, wanna ball all day.