ray_lamontagne unhinged JOLENE cocaine flame in my bloodstream sold my coat when i hit spokane bought myself a hard pack of cigarettes in the early morning rain lately my hands they don't feel like my mine my eyes been stoned dust and blind held you in my arms one time lost you just the same jolene i ain't about to stray it's too late i found myself face down in a ditch booze in my hair blood on my lips a picture of you holding a picture of me in the pocket of my blue jeans i still don't know what love means i still don't know what love means jolene lalalalalala jolene been so long since i seen your face or felt a part of this human race i've been living out of this here suitcasse for way too long man needs something he can hold on to nine pound hammer for a woman like you either one of them things will do jolene i ain't about to stray it's too late i found myself face down in a ditch booze in my hair blood on my lips a picture of you holding a picture of me in the pocket of my blue jeans still don't know what love means still don't know what love means jolene his voice is so sad and sexy at the same time that it hurts me a bit; i wish a boy would right songs like that for me. 061016 ... unhinged or write rather 061016 ... nocturnal till the sun turns black - I thought he couldn't possibly get better, but there are no words for round 2. those words combined with that voice - bring me to tears more than any other musician to date, even after I've heard the song 50 times, I don't know how he does it. 061016 ... nocturnal can I stay here with you til the morning I am so far from home and I feel a little stoned can I stay here with you til the morning there's nothing I want more than to wake up on your floor lay with me in your thinnest dress fill my heart with each caress between your blissful kisses, whisper "darling is this love" can I stay here with you til the daybreak there's something you should know, I ain't got no place to go can I stay here with you til the daybreak how happy it would make me to see your face when I wake lay with me in your thinnest dress fill my heart with each caress between your blissful kisses, whisper "darling is this love" can I stay here with you through the night time I've fallen sad inside and I need a place to hide can I stay here with you through the night time I'm all alone and blue won't you take me to your room lay with me in your thinnest dress fill my heart with each caress between your blissful kisses, whisper "darling is this love" whisper to me is this love 061016 ... nocturnal she lifts her skirt up to her knees walks through the garden rows with her bare feet, laughing never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters I walk on down the hill through grass grown tall and brown and still it's hard somehow to let go of my pain on past the busted back of that old and rusted Cadillac that sinks into this field collecting rain will I always feel this way so empty so estranged of these cut throat busted sunsets these cold and damp white mornings I have grown weary if through my cracked and dusty dimestore lips I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me lay your blouse across the chair let fall the flowers from your hair and kiss me with that country mouth so plain outside the rain is tapping on the leaves, to me it sounds like they're applauding us for the quiet love we made will I always feel this way so empty so estranged well I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said do your best to destroy me see I've been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me there's a lot of things that can kill a man, there's a lot of ways to die yes and some already dead that walk beside me there's a lot of things I don't understand, why so many people lie it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me will I always feel this way so empty so estranged 061016 ... unhinged i know man; he is what i call the sneaky depressing artist. you have just encouraged me to by the second one. but i think the reason he makes us cry is because the combination of the great lyrics and the rough but soulful voice just tears it right out of you. i saw him perform on austin city limits on pbs way back before i bought the cd, and when he did jolene that night i stopped and listened in awe. if you see him perform, he's just so fragile that i want to wrap him in a blanket and feed him chicken soup. but yes, i think i would marry the boy that wrote songs like that for me. 061017 ... unhinged till the sun turns black is an epically beautiful album. i want to do studio work for or tour with this man. thanks for the suggestion nocturnal 061017 ... nocturnal if you think he was good on tv, you should see him live. I saw him in dublin which was unreal. I could barely move the whole time. then I saw him again in new orleans, but that wasn't as good, for 2 reasons - #1 b/c it was at the house of blues, and ray's really best in a smaller, more personal venue; #2 b/c he didn't play hannah which was the first song I ever heard by him and was unbelievable when he played it in dublin. but yeah, see him live no matter what the cost - it'll be well worth it. 061017 ... unhinged love is not the answer the answer is within you *sigh* i've listened to till the sun turns black twice already this morning 061018 what's it to you? who go blather from