Window Song
Mary
Amy 88
Arianne
Strange
Hold on to me
Miss Operator
Testify
Sorry Sue
Over the mountain
Virginia Way
Fade away
 

Window Song
Scott Miller, Mike Harrison & Steve Earle
 

Lookout your window
To the street below
Did you see a shadow
Maybe it was a ghost?
A knock on your front door
Check it out again
It could be an echo
Or something in the wind

Chorus
Look out your window
And tell me what you see
It ain't me

Bridge
Every empty look below
Every angry word we spoke
Proves we've gone as far
As we can go

Roll down my window
And blow the smoke away
Any way the wind blows
Well, that'll be OK
And every minute gets me
Another mile away
You won't even miss me
Till you pull down your shades

Chorus

Bridge
 
 

Mary
Scott Miller

Mary, oh Mary how many times I call
No, I don't want anything
But to know you're there that's all
You're an angel sent by accident
To ease my worried mind
And I don't show you half enough
But I love you all the time

Mary, oh Mary where does the time go?
First I hated being young
Now I'm scared of being old
So I decided to stop wearing a watch
So I don't hear time pass
I did it half an hour ago
So we'll see how long I last

Mary, oh Mary I'm feeling fairly bad
Problems running through my head
Like a broken phonograph
Won't you pack my things, give the Doc a ring
Let him make me a bed
Let the man come round
Who ties me down
And hooks wires to my head

I was born one rainy morn
So not much changed for me
Just a bigger bed and a feeling that
I'd gotten in too deep

Mary, oh Mary keep my picture hung
I played death for cigarettes
And got the cancer in my lungs
Tell every one of my grandsons
Exactly what I did
Spent my whole life waiting for this time
That I hardly lived

Amy 88
Mike Harrison

1st of May in the final daze
Of my formal education
A girl behind caught my eye
4 years from graduation

Amy 88 runs into my heart
Tears it all apart in the driveway
Amy 88 says it right on the plate
Lipstick on my face

What she did to me I can't explain
Wasn't long awaitin'
Young as we I guess memory
Is better than the real thing

Chorus

4 years pass like a Sadie Hawkins dance
Guess who I've been trailin'
Look the same when she turn side ways
License plate still saying

Chorus
 

Arianne
Scott Miller / Steve Earle

It's getting light, it's getting late
And I've looked everywhere and called her name
Her dad's the doctor down,
The sheriff's standing `round
Arianne

We sat by the river's edge
I slipped in and she slipped off her dress
She stepped cautiously
Into that shining stream
Arianne

Chorus
There's a place that I can go
Where her memory still flows
It cuts a deeper path
With every season past
Arianne

I can see her as she sleeps
A face as still as that river is deep
Leaves are turning `round
White arm's hair of brown
Arianne

Chorus
 

Strange
Scott Miller

She's strange
She's strange
Well she looks so sweet
But she can make you weak
She's strange

She's long
She's long
Well you think you're tough
But then it turns out you're not
She's long

She's kind
She's kind
You don't waste your voice
She don't give you a choice
She's kind

She's mine

She's strange
She's long
She's kind
She's mine
 

Hold On To Me
Scott Miller

You hold onto me
Like you're the only one
Who could care about me

Did you ever think how blind you could be?
Did you ever think that I could be so mean?

You hold onto me
Like you're the only one
Who could care about me

Did you ever feel like there was something wrong?
Did you ever feel like I was already gone?

You hold onto me
Like you're the only one
Who could care about me

Did you ever think that I'd be with someone else?
Do you ever think that you could trust yourself?
 

Miss Operator
Mike Harrison

Miss operator hurry down hurry down
To this side
Miss operator hurry down hurry down
To this side
I better leave it alone
Leave it alone tonight

Miss operator what you found
What you found in my eyes
Miss operator what you found
What you found in my eyes
I better rub my ring
Rub my ring tonight

When I was no one
And I'm still no one
But I'm crossed up
In your lies
And see I'm someone
Who can't be done
Like I've done
So many times

Miss operator make your rounds
Make your rounds around me
Miss operator make your rounds
Make your rounds around me
You better leave me alone
Leave me alone tonight
 

Testify
Scott Miller

Look at the things you've done
By looking out for number one
First time that you've done that again

I let you push a line
And keep me up all the time
First time that you've done that again

Lord knows a heart can break
For heaven's sake
And I'm no saint
But look at these tired eyes
That let you try
One more time

You say you're such friend
But let that end start to begin
The first time that you've done that again

I need to take a stand
Do all I can
To be a man
But everytime I try
Why do I
Apologize?

This time we'll let it pass
Testify it is your last
First time that you've done that again
 

Sorry Sue
Steve Earle and Scott Miller

I'm not who you think I am
I'm a boy, not a man
It ain't really me you want
I'm just the one you're counting on

Chorus
Sorry Sue, I'm not in love with you
It ain't you, I was born this blue

Take a look around this place
The floors are swept, the pictures straight
But underneath all that decor
Are empty walls and nothing more

Chorus

Run for cover and get some rest
Pleasant dreams, I'll do my best
If I'm not everything you need
Don't forget it's just a dream
 

Over The Mountain
Mike Harrison

When I come over the mountain
I take my time and gear it low
If I run off the mountain
Gather me up and send me home

It's hard to think of anything
When you are on my mind
Left hand on the steerin' wheel
Shoulder on the side
Straight up to the left of me
Nothing on the right
Trying not to look around
Knuckles turnin' white

Chorus

I hit the road and paid the toll
I'm comin' home to you
Only thing between us is the distance
With a view
Don't know what to tell you
How long it will take
Know I'm not too far away
I'm crossin' Loudon lake
 

Virginia Way
Scott Miller

I got sent off from my home
In Virginia town
In Virginia town
I'm stuck out here on my own
Feeling down
Feeling down

Blue Ridge on the east side
To protect me from the rain
Appalachian's loving arms
To welcome me again
And in between their rolling hills
The Virginia Way
The Virginia Way

This is where granddaddy sat
In a big straw hat
And a cigarette
This is where his daddy sat
In a big straw hat
And a cigarette

Blue Ridge on the east side
To protect them from the rain
Appalachian's loving arms
From Georgia up to Maine
And in between their rolling hills
The Virginia Way
The Virginia Way

I feel my family in my bones
And Virginia town
In Virginia town
I don't know how I'm coming home
But we'll have fun
When my work is done
We'll have fun
When the work is done
 

Fade Away
Scott Miller

You have to go
We knew this day was coming for some time
But you're leaving slow
The hardest part is watching you slip by

I feel you fading away
And with your heart goes a part of mine
I feel you fading away
And if I could see you one more day
It'd be the one before you changed
See you later to goodbye

Your eyes are mine
Your fingers fit my hands
It makes me cry
To think that I will not hold them again

Chorus

My heart sings out a tune to yours in time
But the song it sings will have to change
Without a beat to stand behind

Holly, goodbye
And know that I can take care of myself
There will be times
I think how nice it'd be to have your help
 

All songs written by The V-roys. Published by WarnerTamerlane Publishing Corp. & Tall Midget Music
Copyright  1998.