Unreleased Songs

Victoria Williams Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Can't Cry Hard Enough

Lyricist:Marvin Etzioni, David Williams

I'm gonna live my life
Like every day is the last
Without a simple goodbye
It all goes by so fast

And now that you're gone
I can't cry hard enough
No, I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now

Gonna open my eyes
And see for the first time
I've let go of you like
A child letting go of his kite

There it goes up in the sky
There it goes beyond the clouds
For no reason why

I can't cry hard enough
No, I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now

I'll look back in vain
To see you standing there
When all that remains
Is just an empty chair

And now that you're gone
I can't cry hard enough
No, I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now

There it goes up in the sky
There it goes beyond the clouds
For no reason why

I can't cry hard enough
No, I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now


2.Crazy Mary

Lyricist:Victoria Ann Williams

She lived on a curve in the road
In an old tar-paper shack
On the south side of the town
On the wrong side of the tracks

Sometimes on the way into town we'd say
'Mama, can we stop and give her a ride?'
Sometimes we did as she shook her head
And her hands flew from her side
Wild eyed, crazy Mary

Down along the road, past the Parson's place
The old blue car we used to race
Little country store with a sign tacked to the side
Said, 'No L O I T E R I N G allowed'
Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

One night thunder cracked mercy backed outside her windowsill
Dreamed I was flying high above the trees, over the hills
Looked down into the house of Mary
Bare bulb blown, newspaper-covered walls
And Mary rising up above it all

Next morning on the way into town
We saw some skid marks, and followed them around
Over the curve, through the fields
Into the house of Mary

That what you fear the most
Could meet you halfway
That what you fear the most
Could meet you halfway

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Around, around, around, around
Where she stops no, no, nobody knows
No, nobody knows, nobody knows
Nobody knows, no, nobody knows


3.Periwinkle Sky

Lyricist:Victoria Williams

The clouds piled up high
The periwinkle sky
And the water soft and brown

It looks like you could walk on it
Yeah, it looks like you could walk on it

And I wonder if I'll stay
Or if I'll go away
To the busyness of town

It looked like you could walk on it
Yeah, it looks like you could walk on it

All piled under the old oak tree
The cow told me, I think it's gonna rain
Yeah, the cow told me, I think it's gonna rain

And I wonder if I'll stay
Or if I'll go away
To the busyness of town

It looked like you could walk on it
Yeah, it looks like you could walk on it


4.Blackbirds Rise

Lyricist:Victoria Williams

Graveyard musty and cold
Smells of autumn, smells of mold
Pick up truckload full of bones
There to play a few songs to one who's gone

There there child don't you cry
Ain't it good to see a field of blackbirds rise

Some flew east and some flew west
You come flying after the rest, darling always
After everything we've read and seen
Somebody leave but I'll stay

Calling she's calling
From another day
Calling she's calling
Can't you come over here little girl
Turn over my grave
Shoo fly don't bother me
Shoo fly don't bother me

Some flew east and some flew west
You come flying after the rest, darling always
After everything we've read and seen
Somebody leave but I'll stay

The sun goes down across the land
Mother earth meets father time and takes his hand
And one is all, all is one again
Can we be good friends, can we be good
Can we be, can we, can

If you have friends in glory land
Who left because of pain
Thank God up there they'll die no more
They'll suffer not again


5.Lights

Lyricist:Victoria Ann Williams

Lights of the city look so good
Almost like somebody thought they would
Thought they would

What kinda song would you give
If you had a song to give?
What kinda life would you live
If you had a life to live?

Now, wouldn't you wanna make something good
That you could look on
Give you lots of pleasure?
Yeah, you would

What about this thing that you gave
What if it weren't quite perfect
What if there was something bad about it?
Wouldn't you still love it just the same?
Wouldn't you still care about it?

The lights of the city look so good
Almost like somebody thought they would
Thought they would

Lights


6.Last Word

Lyricist:Victoria Williams

How many times must a newspaper call
Tryin' to persuade me to subscribe?
I don't subscribe to newspapers
I'm sure I'll find out soon enough
So what if I am the last to know, that's tough

Who's gonna bury the last man when he dies?
All the money in the world can't help you
If the world's on fire, the world's on fire
You can't just go on

I used to think to talk behind sounds bad
And it would be ignored
I've read in the Good Book, someplace it says
Every word uttered will be accounted for, yeah

What's the last word, what's the password?
Anybody gonna say?
What's the last word, what's the password?
Anybody gonna say?

Out in Heaven
It's the lion laying down with the lamb
Yeah, in Heaven
All dinosaur look in the face of the angel man
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

What's the last word, what's the password?
Anybody gonna say?
What's the last word, what's the password?
Anybody gonna say?

What's the last word, what's the password?
What's the last word, what's the password?
What's the last word, what's the password?
What's the last word, what's the password?

Those are a given, yeah, yeah


7.Harry Went to Heaven

Lyricist:Victoria Williams

Down across from the Cresswell Hotel
Harry sits there polishing his bells and dinky toys
Oh, Harry and the boys

On slow Sunday afternoons
One could hear a tune rise from the alley way
As the church goers spilled out on the steps
And say, 'Must be Harry and the boys
Still going strong from Saturday'

Now, it seemed like Harry went to Heaven
Oh, the people got smiles on their face
Where they can't be replayed any other way

Birds sing, cows â~low
'Cause wind stirs it up, you know
Some folks do well pushing numbers
Some folks do well playing a tune

Echoes of yesterday, rising to the clouds they say
Falling on innocent ears recalling wilder years

But nobody comes in to start a soup
Some folks try and sing out Harry's tune
Oh but it's still his tune, how do you get there?

Well, it seems like Harry went to Heaven


8.Polish Those Shoes

Lyricist:Victoria Williams

Potato 2, potato 3, potato 4
5 potato, 6 potato, 7 potato, more

Better run and hide if they're searching for you
Can you get home without them catching you?

In your own private hiding place
You can stand on your head
You can bake a mud pie instead

You can crawl through the brush
Or you can tell the dog to hush

You can make up your mind
Or you can lose complete sense of time
You can, somebody's ringing a bell
It's hard to tell what it sounds like
Oh, dinner bell or a wedding bell

The game must be over, it is going
It didn't catch you and you're home free

Saturday night and the neighbors are having a ball
You can hear Daddy's voice rise above them all
He's got his belt in his hand and he's walking down the hall
Us kids are fighting, us kids are fighting

Sunday morning, getting ready for church
We thought we looked fine, oh but it just wouldn't do
You better polish those shoes, you better polish those shoes
No one should see the dirt you've been through
Get in there and polish those shoes

Jesus down on bended knee
With cloth in hand washed His disciples' feet
Us kids are fighting, us kids are fighting

Fighting to be one, fighting to be theirs

You can lay down on your knees
You can ask whatever you please
You can make up your mind
Or you can lose complete sense of time
(You can)

In your own private hiding place
(You can, you can)
In your own private hiding place
(You can)

Yeah, you can, you can, you can, you can
You can, you can, you can, you can
Yeah, you can, you can

One day, two day, three day, four
One day, two day, three day, four
One day, two day, three day, four
Laughing, smiling, running, waiting


9.You R Loved

Lyricist:Burt Clement, John Henry Keating

Man takes his cane to a waterfall
He has a vision, starts talking baby talk
Understood by a girl in Peru
We read about it in the daily news

Lines of poetry, revealing mysteries
Still some can't swim

Jesus walked on the water
He turned the water into wine
He went down to the drunkards
To tell them everything is fine

You r loved, you r loved
You r really loved
You r loved, you r loved
You r really loved

I cannot decide who should die or live
I do my best to forgive
Falling backwards in the eventide
Listening at the riverside

Lines of poetry, revealing mysteries
Still some can't swim

Jesus walked on the water
He turned the water into wine
He went down to the drunkards
To tell them everything is fine

You r loved, you r loved
You r really loved
You r loved, you r loved
You r really loved

Lines of poetry, revealing mysteries
Still some can't swim

Jesus walked on the water
He turned the water into wine
He went down to the drunkards
To tell them everything is fine

You r loved, you r loved
You r really loved
You r loved, you r loved
You r really loved

You r loved, you r loved
You r really, really, really loved
You r loved, you r loved
You r really loved

You r loved, you r loved
You r really loved
You r loved, you r loved
You r really, really, really loved


10.Century Plant

Lyricist:Williams Victoria Ann

Outside my house is a cactus plant they call the century tree
Only once in a hundred years it flowers gracefully
And you never know when it will bloom

Hey, do you want to come out and play the game
It's never too late
Hey, do you want to come out and play the game
It's never too late

Clementine Hunter was fifty-four before she picked up her
paintings
Old Uncle Taylor was eighty-one when he rode his bike
Across the plains of China
And the sun was shining on that day just like today

Do you want to come out and play the game
It's never too late
Do you want to come out and play the game
It's never too late

Didn't know how to tell her for over thirty years
Kept locked up inside himself no one saw the tears
Then she went away and he woke up that day

So he went back to college at the age of sixty-three
Graduated with honors with an agriculture degree
And he joined up the Peace Corps at the age of sixty-nine
And he rode the grand rapids at the age of eighty-five

Now he brings roses to his sweetheart she lives most anywhere
He sees someone suffering he knows that despair
He offers them a rose and some quiet prose
About dancing in a shimmering ballroom
'Cause you never know when they will bloom

Hey, do you want to come out and play the game
It's never too late
I said hey, do you want to come out and play the game
It's never too late, too late, late, late, yeah

Hey, do you want to come out and play the game
Oh it's never too late, too late, late, late, late
Do you want to come out and play the game
It's never too late, never too late no


11.Hitchhiker's Smile

Lyricist:Victoria Williams

I was thinkin' about the rainbow gathering
I was wondering why I had picked up that hitchhiker
I was thinkin' about how he said it was gonna be next week
Wondering if maybe I was supposed to be there
Why else would I share some air for a while
With that hitchhiker's smile

I learnt how to read when I was just a child
I learnt how to read when I was just a child
I was just a child, I was just a child, just a child

All these people stand out on the tracks
They all got they're own grand coat
Destinations unfold, stories all been told
It's like somebody's writing a book
It's like learnin' how to cook

I learnt how to read when I was just a child
I learnt how to read and I was just a child
Child, child, child

Now I'm thinkin' about the rainbow gathering
And wonderin' why I picked up that hitchhiker
Thinkin' about how he said it was gonna be next week
Was wondering if maybe I'm supposed to be there
Why else would I share some air for a while
With the hitchhiker's smile

All these people stood out in the tracks
They all got they're own grand coat
Destinations unfold, stories all been told
It's like somebody's writing a book
It's like learning how to cook

I learnt how to read when I was just a child
Learnt how to read when I was just a child
Child, child, child


12.Gladys and Lucy

Lyricist:Victoria Williams

Gladys and Lucy
Well there's a change in the wind
When you look and see
Where you are and where you've been
On this hill, walking on this hill

On this canyon path there are no strangers
Though they only met today
Talk of what they kept and what threw away
Shaky dreams of men, never again they say

A new day for you, a new day for me
On this hill, walking on this hill

Gladys is packing, Chicago's bound
Lucy is a staying in that L.A town
Though she never learned to drive
How will she survive on this hill

A new day for you, a new day for me
A new day for you, a new day for me, yeah on this hill
A new day for you, a new day for me
A new day for you, a new day for me, yeah, yeah
On this hill, walking on this hill, yeah
Walking on this hill, oh walking on this hill

A new day for you, a new day for me
A new day for you, a new day for me
On this hill, walking on this hill
Walking on this hill, walking on this hill
Walking on this hill, walking on this hill
Walking on this hill


13.Grandma's Hat Pin

Lyricist:Victoria Williams

Mary, Mary, 83
Wiped the mess off my eyes with her apron strings
Portraits painted hastily, don't tell nothing 'bout the heart
Repression in a saint's disguise, God only wise

You know you don't own anything you could sell
By itself, I could say that forgiveness is there waiting
It's there waiting by the bridge
Mary, it's waiting by the bridge

To wear Grandma's hat pin, you don't necessarily
Have to agree with every thought she bore within
I have trekked to the rock looked up to the hill
See, old man, get rid of anchored sin
Is it hard to let someone pay? Oh, you know

You know you don't own anything you could sell
By itself, I could say that forgiveness is there waiting
It's there waiting by the bridge
Mary, it's waiting by the bridge

You know you don't own anything you could sell
By itself, I could say that forgiveness is there waiting
It's there waiting

Stretch your toes, now the arms
Lets reach for the sky, dilly dally too long, wave bye bye
Beat around the corner and the bushes become your friends
I'm alright now, she was alright then

You know you don't own anything you could sell
By itself I could say forgiveness is there waiting
It's there waiting, yes

You know you don't own anything you could sell
By itself I could say forgiveness is there waiting
It's there waiting, yes
Oh, it's there waiting


14.When We Sing Together

Lyricist:Williams Victoria Ann

When we sing together
Sing a song that's new
Sing a song that's new
So the children
Will remember

See me smile
Is this you
Singing with me

When we laugh together
Laugh about old quarrels
Laugh about old quarrels
Till they're smoothed out
Like the water

Birds on high
Sweetly sing
Songs of hope

La de da da
La de da de da
La de da de da de da
La de da da

Through the sorrow and circumstance
Fine jewels and unpaid rent
A day in the sun, a year in the dark
Holding to the fire we had
And there was nothing but a spark

Spun our wheels
Paid our deals
Nearly we broke our hearts

When we pray together
Share a perfect love
Share a perfect love
For the beauty
God has given

Angels know
Later on
We'll see it all