Текст (слова) песни: Nanci Griffith - Michael`s Song

 
There`s a light out on the freeway 
says it`s time to go 
I`m wasting my time counting 
stains on a barroom floor 
Thinking `bout my hometown 
and the friends I`ll leave behind 
Mostly `bout the man who writes 
his songs with smiling rhymes 
And I`m holding on to a smokey view 
of his dreams in the midnight light 
 
Michael counts his songs 
in the years of wasted miles 
I used to think he was really part 
of that fantasy in rhyme 
But looking back on all his tunes 
of butterflies and sunshine 
There was only one about the 
man he kept inside 
About the time he crossed the line 
and let a tear come to his eye 
 
I used to hide out 
in his pretty smile 
And hope it would shine me 
through the morrow 
Until I learned the way 
it feels to be the man 
Who sings the world a smile 
without a soul to share his sorrow 
 
The light here at the freeway 
well, it`s turning green to gold 
The stains on that barroom floor 
ten miles back down the road 
Thinking `bout how that old bar 
brought Michael back to mind 
And how I can sing his blues 
and be smiling here inside... 
I guess a weary soul will always 
 
I used to hide out 
in his pretty smile 
And hope it would shine me 
through the morrow 
Until I learned the way 
it feels to be the man 
Who sings the world a smile 
without a soul to share his sorrow
 

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Ballad Of Robin Winter-Smith
Daddy Said
Dollar Matinйe
Friend Out In The Madness
Gulf Coast Highway
I Remember Joe
John Philip Griffith
Julie Anne
Love Is A Hard Waltz
Marilyn Monroe/Neon And Waltzes
Mary And Omie
Michael`s Song
October Reasons
Once In A Very Blue Moon
Roseville Fair
Song For Remembered Heroes
Spin On A Red Brick Floor
There`s A Light Beyond These Woods (mary
Tonight I Think I`m Gonna Go Downtown
Waltzing With The Angels
West Texas Sun
Year Down In New Orleans