Indigo Girls are an American United States folk rock duo duet (music) , consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers.
They began in Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia as a regular act at The Little 5 Points Pub, and were tangentially part of the Athens, Georgia college rock scene Music of Athens, Georgia that included The B-52's, Pylon Pylon (band) , R.E.M., The Georgia Satellites, Widespread Panic and Love Tractor. [read more] - Junkie's Lament
rikki's been kicking the gonglickety split didn't take too longa junkies sick a monkeys strongthat's what's wrongwell i guess he's been messing around down townso sad to see the man losing groundhe's winding down...
- Danny's Song
people smile and tell me i'm a lucky onewe've just beguni think i'm gonna have a sonand he will be like he and me as free as a doveconceived in lovethe sun is gonna shine aboveeven though we ain't got moneywell i'm so...
- Dancing Shoes
dancing shoeson the wall above your bedsidesaw it all as we performed our pirouettefleshes fusedas the flicker of the candlesthrew upon the wall a single silhouettetu es dans ma coeur et dans ma tetedancing shoeswe...
- Father And Son
it's not time to make a changejust relax and take it easyyou're still young that's your faultthere's so much you have to knowfind a girl and settle downif you want well you can marrylook at me i am old but i'm happyi...
- House At Pooh Corner
christopher robin and i walked alongas the branches lit up by the moonposing our questions to owl and eyoreas our days disappeared all too soonbut i wandered much farther today than i shouldand i can't seem to find my...
- Carolina In My Mind
in my mind i'm going to carolinacan't you see the sunshinecan't you just feel the moon shiningain't it just like a friend of mineit hit me from behindand i'm going to carolina in my mindkaren she's a silver sunyou...
- Back Together Again
leaving ain't fair you knowparting ain't justpeople got to move onpeople got to do what they mustand we're back together againand i'm never gonna lose you as a friendgrowing up freegrowing up wildif you want to know...
- Rock Me On The Water
oh peoplelook around youthe signs are everywhereyou've left it for somebody other than youto be the one to careyou're lost inside your housesand there's no time to find you nowwell your walls are turningyour towers...
- Wysteria
wysteriadid you change your face againthose of us who loved you whencan't even find youwysteriadid you lose another mandid you make him understandthat he can't touch youwysteriadid he take you to the fairwere the...
- Her Town Too
she's been afraid to go outshe's afraid of a knock on her doorthere's always a shade of a doubtshe can never be surewho comes to callmaybe the friend of a friend of a friendanyone at allanything but nothing againit...
- Tuesday's Children
tuesday's childrenwe're falling short of timelet's hope we never fall short of lovememories linger like the fog on the seakeeping me out of touch with my realitynothing could ever mean as much to meas tuesday's...
- Airplane
Up on the airplaneNearer my god to theeI start making a dealInspired by gravityIf I did wrong I won't do it again'cause I can be sweet and good and niceAnd if I have enemies they're friendsI'll hold on to my lifeWith...
- Galileo
Galileo's head was on the blockThe crime was looking up the truthAnd as the bombshells of my daily fears explodeI try to trace them to my youthAnd then you had to bring up reincarnationOver a couple of beers the other...
- Cedar Tree
you dug a wellyou dug it deepfor every wife you buriedyou planted a cedar treethe bestthe best you ever hadi stand where you stoodi stand for bad or goodand i am green and you are woodthe bestthe best he ever hadi dig...
- Chickenman
i am an only childborn of the wildriddled to spend my timedefending my landyou are the only oneborn in the sunriddled to spend your timedefending my plandead dog on the highwaymedian cats are growling at mei turn my...
- Let It Be Me
sticks and stonesbattle zonesa single light bulbon a single thread for the blacksirens wailhistory failsrose-colored glassbegins to age and crackwhile the politicians shadowboxthe power ringin an endless split...
- Love Will Come To You
guess i wasn't the best one to askme myself with my face pressedup against love's glassto see the shiny toy i've been hoping forthe one i never could affordthe wide world spins and spits turmoiland the nations toil...
- Jonas And Ezekial
i left my anger in a river running highway 5new hampshire, vermont, bordered bycollege farms, hubcaps, and falling rocksvoices in the woods and the mountaintopsi used to search for reservations and native landsbefore...
- Ghost
there's a letter on the desktopthat i dug out of a drawerthe last truce we ever came toin our adolescent warand i start to feel the feverfrom the warm air through the screenyou come regular like seasonsshadowing my...
- Romeo And Juliet
a love struck romeosings the streets a serenadenow he's laying everybody lowhe's got a love song that he madehe finds a streetlightand he steps out of the shadeand says something like"you and me, babe, how about...
- Joking
You said the world was magicI was wide-eyed and laughingWe were dancing up to the bright sideForget about your egoForget about your prideAnd you will never have to compromiseAnd you were only jokingYou were only...
- Nashville
as i drivefrom your pearly gatesi realize that i just can't stayall those mountainsthey kept you locked insideand hid the truthfrom my slighted eyesi came to you with a half-open heartdreams upon my backillusions of a...
- Andy
andydo you love medo you think about itwill you sayturning brushwoodinto blazesturning summer grassinto hayturning sharplypast the graveyardto the lakefrontwith the black waveslicking up the stonesto the swayed...
- Soon To Be Nothing
kelly mountain roadsaw a heavy loadwith a sagging heartand a break apartvoices in mestood as thick as thieveswith no sympathyfor the beggars arti have passed these pines'bout a million...
- Peace Tonight
honey pick the red corner shoesthe ones that hardly ever get usedi knelt in front of my whole collectionand i'm picking you a special selectionon a no news is good news middle of mid-year dayi feel no ill with time to...
- Sister (Reprise)
Sister i'm heading out of AlabamaSo you better think fastThe wind is gonna pick me up nowThe rain won't slackHeadin' down to Georgia
- We Are Together
the girl's known troublethe wind's to blameit blew her to anytown usathat's my middle name and where we goremains namelessa motion picturealive and framelss and we are togetherfinallyand the dog caught up withthe...
- Soon Be To Nothing
Kelly Mountain road saw a heavy loadWith a sagging heart and a break apartVoices in me stoof as thick as thievesWith no sympathy for the beggars artI have passed these pine 'bout a million times effortlesslyNow I...
- Gone Again
think i'll bag that trip for twopack it up to kakaduhoney, it's not for the weatheror the lack of loving youi got all this in betweensomething i did not forseeall the deals i made don't matterif i can't just let you...
- Ozilline
grandma o. "...he did, he observed saturday as the sabbath"amy: "what...what kind of faith does that make him?"grandma: "uhh, he didn't have one"amy: "oh, ok"grandma: "he didn't believe in any one thing, he would go...
- Sister
sister i'm heading out of alabamaso you better think fastthe wind is gonna pick me up nowand the rain won't slacki'm heading down to georgiaso don't lose trackof where you've been and where you're going nowwho you've...
- Compromise
you wearthe clothof finest landsthe touch of women the toil of hands undressme nowbefore i bendfrom the weight of everyman when i'm walking through this worldi need to hold your handlet me take you on this ridei hope...
- Cold Beer And Remote Control
all of my days have been misspentstuffing out the sofa and the antenna's bentinside my heart's bustin' out at the seamsi work for the impossible american dream i got a job at the grocery storea few bucks an hour and...
- Go
through the dust bowlthrough the debtgrandma was a suffragetteblacklisted for her publicationblacklisted for my generationgo go go raise your handsraise your hands highdon't take a seatdon't stand asidethis timedon't...
- Faye ***er
on the night they killed faye tuckeri was gambling away my last dimeyeah well i pulled down the leverand i sent up a prayerthat my luck would not be deniedmy luck would not be denied so roll out the head of faye...
- Philosophy Of Loss
welcome to why the church has diedand the heart of the exile and the kingdom of hatewho owns the land and keeps the commandsand marries itself to the state modern scribes write in jesus christeveryone is freeand the...
- Trouble
trouble came around herehere in the south we fix something to eatsteam risin' up off the greeneryand we welcome the strangers we meet alien sick growing in these wallslike moss in a crack that time madei brush a guy...
- Keeper Of My Heart
for youi would tattoo mewith lines crossing into a handand a heart that would never bleedwith the twilightand the horse drawn on my armstanding for an addictionpray we go unharmedhere is my love and angeryou see...
- The Girl With The Weight Of The World In Her Hands
She won't recover from her losses,She's not chosen this path, But she watches who it crosses,Maybe move to the right, Maybe move to the left,So we can all see her pain she wears like a banner on her chest,And we all...
- Hammer And A Nail
clearing webs from the hovela blistered hand on the handle of a shoveli've been digging too deepi always doi see my face on the surfacei look a lot like narcissusa dark abyss of an emptinessstanding on the edge of a...
- Pushing The Needle Too Far
well i woke up this morninggrey dawnwith a prayer on my breathsee i lost something preciousand god'll save mefrom losing myselfi said i think i know what's wrongi think i know what's wrongnow i met the queen and i...
- Hand Me Downs
i've taken so many downi've helped them all to dismounti've followed so many downi take their hand me downsall with hopeall with hopethat emptiness brings fullnessand loss of love brings wholenessall with hopeall with...
- Southland In The Springtime
Maybe we'll make Texas by the morningLight the bayou with our tailights in the night800 miles to El Paso from the statelineAnd we never had the money for the flightIn the backseat sleepy from our travelsPlayed our...
- You And Me Of The 10,000 Wars
you and me of the 10,000 warsdividing life into factions of pleasure and choresa bed to be made and a bed to lie ina hand in the darker sideand our sights set on zionthe heart of a skeptic and the mind of a childput...
- Watershed
thought i knew my mindlike the back of my handthe gold and the rainbowbut nothing panned out as i plannedand they say only milk and honey'sgonna make your soul satisfiedwell i better learn how to swimcause the...
- 1 2 3
from the bowery to the brimstone i tried to find your heartwith drugs of initiationthe bottom of a barrel that dropsi understand your causessympathize the motivationbut all the details of this warare just...
- Welcome Me
welcome me to your city of angelsdevil prophets still hold my handi walked your stillborn streets for hoursethnic echoes spitting out their trialsthey tell me i'll be the first to praise the sunthe first to praise the...
- World Falls
i'm coming home with a stonestrapped onto my backi'm coming home with a burning hopeturning all my blues to blacki'm looking for a sacred handto carve into my stonea ghost of comfortangels breathto keep this life...
- Fugitive
i'm harboring a fugitivedefector of a kindand she lives in my souldrinks of my wineand i'd give my last breathto keep us aliveare they coming for uswith cameras or gunswe don't know whichbut we gotta runand you say...
- Fare Thee Well
fare thee well my bright stari watched your taillights blaze into nothingnessbut you were long gone before i ever got to youbefore you blazed past this addressand now i think of having loved and having lostbut never...
- Dead Man's Hill
we were down at dead man's hillsmoking vines like cigaretteslooking through the trashy magstrying to feel what's coming nextyou told me of crashing carsolder brothers and late night barsi told you what i feel mostand...
- Reunion
i had guards like watchdogsdogs in a mangeri could feel the protectionpossession and angerand i drove out of therewith no on behind mefeeling funny and freeall you pretty pretendersnegligent vendorsaren't you precious...
- Touch Me Fall
all skatenow reversei'm waking from a dreamthe neighborhood is greenall the sounds i've missedall the yearscome down to wedding death and feari'll i've heard has been in vainlike water on a staintouch mei'm so...
- Mystery
(handed down and made by hand)each time you'd pull down the drivewayi wasn't sure when i would see you againyours was a twisted blind sided highwayno matter which road you took thenoh you set up your place in my...
- Least Complicated
i sit two stories above the streetit's awful quiet here since love fell asleepthere's life down below me thoughthe kids are walking home from schoolsome long ago when we were taughtthat for whatever kind of puzzle you...
- This Train Revised
it's a fish white bellya lump in the throatrazor on the wireskin and bonepiss and bloodin a railroad car100 peoplegypsies queersand david's starthis train is bound for glorythis train is bound for glorythis train is...
- Language Or The Kiss
i don't know if it was real or in a dreamlately waking up i'm not sure where i've beenthere was a table set for six and five were therei stood outside and kept my eyes upon that empty chairand there was steam on the...
- Crazy Game
crazy gamei never should have started to playbut now you couldn't tear me awaylove is sweet sweet babyso good to youand so badand i fearthe situations clear before my eyesconfusion wants to break me and it triesi've...
- Never Stop
you say she's a very good friendcircumstances i should understandbut like recurring tide she comes on to youand looks as though she's looking for a manhoney don't make yourself so availablemy pride's in my pocket but...
- The Weakness In Me
i'm not the sort of personwho falls in and quickly out of lovebut to you i gave my affectionright from the starti have a lover who loves mehow could i break such a heartyet still you get my attentionwhy do you come...
- Draw The Line
you can write me a letterbut i won't tell you where i amoh you can send me a postcard babybut i won't tell you where i standwell i'm right outside of your windowand i'm walking on through your loveand i'm giving you...
- No Way To Treat A Friend
well when i walked you to the doorhoney i was feeling mighty finei was thinking heyi've got love to ease my mindthen i got to the carand i was staring at your starsthinkingthis ain't no way to spend my time lord i...
- If You Live Like That
you say you want to live for todaybefore today is lostbut when the returns come indo they balance the costi can see your four wheels spini can smell smoke from the blazebut we aren't moving anywayif you're seeing past...
- The Holy City
i want to live in a holy cityi want to drink from a holy vinei want to be where the people are prettyjust because their feeling it deep down insidei don't want to wait for heaveni can find what i need right here on...
- Starkville
if you were here in starkvilletownie boys would love the way you stareif you were here in starkvillewell the local girls they wouldn't have a prayer well i've spent a reckless night inside the wonderof your...
- Yield
i was downstairsin the greenroomwaiting for youto appeari said helloto your familyi said helloto your friendsi said helloto this situationthat never yields now it's easyfor me to tell youthat my love for youis...
- She's Saving Me
we were sitting round a dying firesomebody lit incensesomebody lit a cigaretteand passed a bottle aroundit was just strawberry seasonbackbreaking pickers in the patcheseverythings burning down to ashesand down to the...
- Hope Alone
let's not drag this outeverything's in motionthough i've only ever loved you kindand with devotioni remember when i met youand even from the starti thought one day you'd probably just come homeand break my heart it's...
- Our Deliverence
now we can saythat nothings lostand only changebrings round the prophecywell now it's meltingthe solid frostwas once a veil on greener landscapeswe would seebeneath my surfacethe water's heatingand steam comes up and...
- Moment Of Forgiveness
well i guess that i was lonelythat's why i called you on the phonecause in a moment of forgivenessi didn't want to be alone and i guess that i was willinmore than i ever was beforecause in a moment of forgivenessi...
- Deconstruction
we talked up all nightand still came to no conclusionwe started a fightthat ended in silent confusion and as we sat stuckyou could hear the trash truckmaking its way through the neighborhood picking up the thrown...
- Collecting You
i could paint you in the darkcause i've studied you with hungerlike a work of artand these are very secret daysi collect my informationthen i stowe it all awaycall mewhen you breeze throughto your appointmentsthe work...
- Nuevas Senoritas
we blew off immigrationthe moon was sitting highwe drove from lacandon into comitanand gloria was singingand cecelia closed her eyesand i saw themdrifting out over the night sky i said neuva senoritasare you gone to...
- You've Got To Show
yes it's truei've gotten verymoody over you don't think i don'tsense your cautionway across the room or across the phone linesbig black oceanconversation brief we can't finda clear connectionand i can't get relief why...
- Become You
i heard you sing a rebel songsung it loud and all alonewe can't afford the things you savewe can't afford the warranty well i see you walking in the glaredown the county road we shareour southern blood my heresydamn...
- Bitterroot
tonight i'll be sleeping on the mountain topi got a billion stars for my witnessin the morning i'll go down and the sun comes upand i'll take a drink from the bitter root river have you been lonely(yes i've been...
- Hey Kind Friend
hey kind friendi don't know when i'll see you againon a ferry boat bound to victorialaying down to hide from the windbig dipper hangin over the cityyou know everything now is different for meand it ain't no use...
- Everything In It's Own Time
remember everything i told youkeep it in your heart like a stoneand when the winds have blown things round and back againwhat was once your pain will be your homeall around the table the white haired men have...
- Caramia
caramiablank notebook and a back pocket fadeyou used to mock mesometimes i would crywhen i was home latercause you hurt my feelingswhy why why(why why why)you said write it down in your notebookmy wanna be harriet the...
- Scooter Boys
scooter boys and argentineanseurope shed the blood of the indianshere i sit in the land of plentycrying about my own virginityhey blue blood you're nothing newsee i come from priviledge tooa chapter in the book on the...
- Cut It Out
sitting in darwins theoryand you're down in the 48i'm practicing politicsyour practicing guitar and staying out latehow'd we get so turned aroundwhy did we make it so hardwhy can't we cut it out tendergive us...
- Shed Your Skin
115you are 17itchy triggerand venomousyou're growing longeryou're growing strongerso shed your skinbaby now shed thiscome on over nowcome on over babyyou tell me it's holy holyi don't know what it iscome on over...
- Don't Give That Girl A Gun
she's got a case against mea jury of my peersand the rage of the righteousscreaming in her earsi'm not dignified anymorei can't say i didn't calli say i love youshe don't hear me anymoreand don't give that girl a guni...
- Burn All The Letters
i am sorry that i set my sightson the things i readsomething meant for your husbandmaybe you left it under the bedonce upon a love those words blew free and secretthe pages lay arounddrifted to the hands of the...
- Leeds
it's dark at 4 pm in leedsthe steeples pierce the skylight till the last of it bleedsthe absent sound of another day as it recedesinto the shadowsuntil it's nothingfax papers slipped under the hotel room doorlike food...
- Shame On You
my friends they wash the windowsand they shine in the sunthey tell me wake up early in the morning sometimesee what a beautiful job we've donei say let's put on some tunessing a long and dolittle all daygo down to the...
- Get Out The Map
i'm gonna clear my headi'm gonna drink that sunthe saddest sight my eyes can seeis that big ball of orange sinking slyly down the treessittin in a broken circle while you rest upon my kneethis perfect moment will soon...
- It's Alright
it's alright forty days of rainmy skin stretched out from the growing painit'd be nice to have an explanationbut it's alrightand it's alright if you hate that wayhate me cause i'm differentyou hate me cause i'm...
- Black Heart Today
she brings me spanish clementinei eat them by the watersidethrow the peels and taste the cleanhow could i still feel so mean take this meanness out of metake this meanness out of metake this meanness out of me oh whoa...
- Laramie
we hit snow on the road to laramiewe all heard about that messbut that town ain't nothing differentthan the rest poor man do the bidding for the rich manthose rednecks just doingwhat the classy ***ers thinkingand...
- Lucystoners
we were talking ticket slumpwe'd try to put our finger on itquantify the undoingof each little stepand its just a lack of pressand the refrigerator down at the boys clubwith its little magnets of poetryand they've...
- Johnny Rottentale
yeah when i go over yonderi will see my mothermy sister and my fatherbut my brother is going to hell yeah they hung him from the gallowsas the sun turned red from yellowand the crowd they heard him haltingand they...
- On Your Honor
now i have a picturefist in the airi'm standing behind younow i am still here mining your bodythe scene of a crimedid they do you one more favorkilling your blood line yeahwell i'm here to relievethe ones that fought...
- Late Bloom
i won't be a pawnwe roughed it up when we were youngi won't say so much for thatwhat do you do when it is donecause i knowwe growwhen it's over i used to dreamall the force of solyent greenlazy geese and the weather...
- Lazyboy
if a tree falls wellyou're not goneat least for mei didn't hear it's a long breakand some time awaywith some thingsto repair and it's a lazyboyand a big mistakegoing roundand a funny stareand your beauty shop...
- Mtns Of Glory
call up my rockboy finally scorehe's got drama like a toreador andme and the bottle we're on the mendi'm tired of winning gonna lose again i said i'm gonna miss being the boyi'm gonna miss being the man yeahi'm gonna...
- Hey Castrator
i want the bloody boyyeah i want youhold it so tightlike it's the truthi see you licking your lipsat the slope of her hipsand i got disgusted with my own ownershipmy own ownershipmy own ownership all the girls who...
- Devotion
i pulled out with the mountain laurel bloomingon a dirt road that is soon to be paveddown to the site of my original establishmentand the west end family grave cause one day moves into two(one day moves into two)and...
- Kid Fears
pain from pearls - hey little girlhow much have you grownpain from pearls - hey little girlflower for the ones you've knownare you on firefrom the yearswhat would you givefor your kid fearssecret staircase, running...
- Leaving
jet fuel and traffic linespulling up to the delta signsdistant shape of my hometownblack stain where the wheels touch down i pick up the morning newsi pass the man who's never shined my shoesthrough security and to...
- Running From The Cold
i took off last night with my coat and my intentionto make connections with the eyes that left me blindleft my love for the strength of that white, white linei left one more time i could have heard "i love you"one...
- I Don't Know Your Name
emily:i walked into my favorite place one nighti'd just gotten back from a lectureand i was feeling kind of uptightand at the edge of the bar there was this guyand you know i wasn't really lookingbut i caught him out...
- Peace Song
now everybody's looking for a little peace of mindwe're a generation running out of timethere's a bomb, there's a manthere's a gun in his hand yeahnobody smiles at strangers we're scared from birthafraid the man's...
- Beauty To Disaster
i cried the night you left mei never cried so hardi never felt so helples***cept the night that we made lovefrom beauty to disasteri held you in my armslong enough to reach around youto keep my fingers warmthrough...
- Dairy Queen
i heard that you were drunk and meandown atthe dairy queennow there's just enough of you in mefor me to havethis sympathyand take it in stridei know i had mineand you were as kindi am told ain't it funny how we lose...
- Power Of Two
Now the parking lot is emptyEveryone's gone someplaceI pick you up and in the trunk I've packedA cooler and a two day suitcase'Cause there's a place we like to driveWay out in the countryFive miles out of the city...
- Letter To Eve
Oh Eve, where is Adam?I see you've been keptout of the gardenAnd I saidOh, Eve, where is Adam?Now you've been keptout of the gardenI have wandered from shore to shoreDon't you find that there's no morePacem in terres...
- Blood And Fire
i have spent nights with matches and knivesleaning over ledges only two flights upcutting my heart, burning my soulnothing left to holdnothing left but blood and fireyou have spent nights thinking of memissing my arms...
- Prince Of Darkness
my place is of the sun and this place is of the darkand i do not feel the romance i do not catch the sparkmy place is of the sun and this place is of the darkand i do not feel the romance i do not catch the sparki...
- Closer To Fine
i'm trying to tell you something about my life maybe give me insight between black and white and the best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously it's only life after all yeah well...
- Secure Yourself
secure yourself to heavenhold on tight, the night has comefasten up your earthly burdensyou have just begunin the ink of an eye i saw you bleedthrough the thunder i could hear you screamsolid to the air i...
- The Wood Song
The Wood songThe thin horizon of a plan is almost clear,my friends and I have had a tough timebruising our brains hard up against change;all the old dogs and the magicianNow I see we're in the boat in two-by-twos,...
- All That We Let In
a hard knocka cold clockticking off my timea long lookbut no luckcouldn't seem to findor unwindinto peace of mindthough I was trying a quick glancea big chancemy heart beat like a drumi saw youand i knewchances just...
- Free In You
a hard knocka cold clockticking off my timea long lookbut no luckcouldn't seem to findor unwindinto peace of mindthough I was trying a quick glancea big chancemy heart beat like a drumi saw youand i knewchances just...
- Heartache For Everyone
you spent five years saying you'd come my waywell that's a little more waiting than a heart can takeyeah but now that i know it's just a fantasyi feel a hard time coming around for me i said ohoh ohoh ohthere's a...
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