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Lucinda Williams - Blue

Lucinda Williams - Blue Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Essence
Released: 2001

Blue Lyrics

Go find a jukebox
And see what a quarter will do
I don't want to talk
I just want to go back to Blue

Feeds me when I'm hungry
And quenches my thirst
Loves me when I'm lonely
And thinks of me first

Blue is the color of night
When the red sound disappears from the sky

Raven feathers shiny and black
A touch of blue glistening down her back

We don't talk about heaven
And we don't talk about hell
We've come to depend on
One another so damn well

So go to confession
Whatever gets you through
You can count your blessings
I'll just count on blue

Writer/s: WILLIAMS, GEOFFREY/JONES, MONROE/SPENCE, JODY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Blue

Lucinda Williams is known to defend her reputation as a control freak, but sometimes even she admits it's better to take a step back, which was the case with this song. She told Guitar World Acoustic: "I wanted to go back and recut my vocal for 'Blue' because I thought it sounded scratchy and tired. But when I tried, I had to admit that what was already there felt right for the song."

Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears

Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: World Without Tears
Released: 2003

World Without Tears Lyrics

[Chorus]
If we lived in a World Without Tears
How would bruises find
The face to lie upon
How would scars find skin
To etch themselves into
How would broken find the bones

If we lived in a world without tears
How would heartbeats
Know when to stop
How would blood know
Which body to flow outside of
How would bullets find the guns

If we lived in a world without tears
How would misery know
Which back door to walk through
How would trouble know
Which mind to live inside of
How would sorrow find a home

[Chorus: x2]

How would broken find the bones
How would broken find the bones

Writer/s: WILLIAMS, LUCINDA
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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World Without Tears

Recording the World Without Tears album was a new experience for Lucinda Williams, who is used to working in a booth rather than a sprawling 1920s mansion in Los Angeles. She recalled in an interview with Guitar World Acoustic how co-producer Mark Howard duped her into cutting everything live: "He set all of us up in one big room that had been designed for live acoustic music by the original owners, who used to throw dinner parties and would entertain their guests with light opera, so it was sonically ideal. My band and me were on one side of the room and Mark was on the other with his console. I was used to the band being together when we recorded, but I've always been isolated in a booth so I could fix or overdub my vocals. I'm such a control freak that I want to try to get every part of my performances exactly right. I said at the beginning, 'This is not gonna work. I'm probably going to have to redo all my vocals.' But Mark kind of tricked me at first and said I could go back and repair my parts. Then, after we got into it a little, he told me that touch-ups couldn't be done."

Lucinda Williams - Copenhagen

Lucinda Williams - Copenhagen Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Blessed
Released: 2011

Copenhagen Lyrics

Thundering news hits me like a snowball
Struck in my face and shattering
Covering me in a fine powder and mist
And mixing in with my tears

And I'm fifty seven but I could be seven years old,
Cos I will never be able
To comprehend the expansiveness
Of what I've just learned

But you, have disappeared
You have been released
You are flecks of light
You are missed

Somewhere, spinning round the sun
Circling the moon
Traveling through time
You are missed

Walking through unfamiliar streets
And I'm shaking unfamiliar hands
And I'm hearing unfamiliar laughs
And lovely language I don't understand

It's late October in Copenhagen
The skies are grey, the snow is falling
I see my breath outside, I'm freezing
I'm motionless, I'm disbelieving

But you, have disappeared
You have been released
You are flecks of light
You are missed

Somewhere, spinning round the sun
Circling the moon
Traveling through time
You are missed

Writer/s: WILLIAMS, LUCINDA
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Copenhagen

This song is about the death of Lucinda's former manager Frank Carrali while she was away on tour. She told the website Elsewhere: "We were in Copenhagen when we heard of his death. The song is very literal. I'm, proud of that one, lyrically. It was snowing a little bit and we had the night off and found out about it. Tom (Overby) and I and our tour manager at the time walked down the street from the hotel and went to a bar and I ended up talking to these people all night, drinking and crying and trying to deal with the suddenness of it."

Lucinda Williams - Words

Lucinda Williams - Words Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: West
Released: 2007

Words Lyrics

Words Fell
Like roses at our feet
When you let me see you cry
Your silent lips against my cheek
Words Fell
On a night as black as coal
Your kisses traveled deep
Your eyes pierced my soul
Words Fell

Words Fell
In another place and time
We lived within the woods
Ate berries from the vine
Words Fell
When we lay among the stones
And watched the Druids dance
And walked along the rocky shores
Words Fell

Words Fell
In another place and time
I knew your mournful blue
Knew your golden grace
Words Fell
When we let the ocean hold us
And sank beneath the waves
In the silences of the roses
Words Fell
Words Fell
Words Fell

Writer/s: WILLIAMS, LUCINDA
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Words

This tale of verbal abuse finds the protagonist taking refuge in the strength of language. Williams explained to Elsewhere : "The person inside the song is dealing with one of those situations you find yourself in when you are in the wrong relationship and there is yelling and someone is verbally abusing you."

"It's about the victim finding salvation and shelter within her words," she continued. "She can go to that place that nobody can touch, and her songs can become a way of vindication."

"You have to be able to become the subject of the song to have the passion for the subject," Williams added. "But even when I'm writing in the third person I'm always writing about myself."

Lucinda Williams - Something Wicked This Way Comes

Lucinda Williams - Something Wicked This Way Comes Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
Released: 2014

Something Wicked This Way Comes Lyrics

Something Wicked This Way Comes
The lights are orange, you never know
He'll fall a bomb stone
Something wicked this way comes

He is high on the wings
With grass burning your feet
And the most up on the stones
Something wicked this way comes

The world pass in
He will show you mercy
He will make you his home
Something wicked this way comes

Hit and [?] to come in
And drank with him
He won't be alone
Something wicked this way comes

You will fall from grace
And you make me to see his face
He was catch out of hell
Something wicked this way comes
Something wicked this way comes

The lights are orange, you never know
He'll fall a bomb stone
Something wicked this way comes
Something wicked
Something wicked
Something wicked
Something wicked
Something wicked
Something wicked
No mercy
No mercy
No love
No love
No mercy, mercy
No mercy
Something wicked
Something wicked
Something wicked
Something wicked
Something wicked
Something wicked
Something wicked

Writer/s: WILLIAMS, LUCINDA
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes Song Chart

When Lucinda Williams was kindergarten age in the late '50s, she and her father, the poet Miller Williams, were invited guests at the Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor's Milledgeville, Georgia house. A decade later, Williams picked up a few books written by O'Connor and immediately ate her darkly humorous short stories up.

"Her stuff influenced and inspired me," Williams told the Tallahassee Democrat. "I read all of it. I just devoured it. I related to it. It just seemed so real to me. I had seen these people. They were real people to me. ... My song 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' is straight from Flannery O'Connor."

Williams recalled her fifteen and sixteen-year self devouring Flannery O'Connor's stories to Believer magazine: "Her stuff was so descriptive," she said. "You could just see it—a picture of what she was talking about. I loved that kind of writing, that very descriptive, realistic writing."

"I learned that instead of just saying 'I just left this last town,' why not say the name of the town? Williams added. "Describe the town. Don't just say 'I put my shoes on today,' say 'I put my cracked leather shoes on.'"

Lucinda Williams - Joy

Lucinda Williams - Joy Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Released: 1998

Joy Lyrics

I don't want you anymore
Cause you took my Joy
I don't want you anymore
You took my joy

[Chorus]
You took my joy
I want it back
You took my joy
I want it back

I'm gonna go to west Memphis and look for my joy
Go to west Memphis and look for my joy
Maybe in west Memphis I'll find my joy
Maybe in west Memphis I'll find my joy

I'm gonna go to slidell and look for my joy
Go to slidell and look for my joy
Maybe in slidell I'll find my joy
Maybe in slidell I'll find my joy

You got no right to take my joy
I want it back
You got no right to take my joy
I want it back

[Chorus]

I'm gonna go to west Memphis and look for my joy
Go to west Memphis and look for my joy
Maybe in west Memphis I'll find my joy
Maybe in west Memphis I'll find my joy

I'm gonna go to slidell and look for my joy
Go to slidell and look for my joy
Maybe in slidell I'll find my joy
Maybe in slidell I'll find my joy

I don't want you anymore
Cause you took my joy
I don't want you anymore
You took my joy

[Chorus]

You took my joy
I want it back
You took my
I want it back

I'm gonna go to west Memphis
I'm gonna go to slidell

Writer/s: WILLIAMS, LUCINDA
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Joy Song Chart

This was written in the car while Williams was driving to Fayetteville, Arkansas to visit her parents.

Williams says she frequently writes songs while driving in the car and this is why she prefers cars to airplanes.

Lucinda Williams - Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing)

Lucinda Williams - Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
Released: 2014

Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing) Lyrics

Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing) Song Chart

Lucinda Williams' father, lauded Arkansas poet Miller Williams, has acted as her writing mentor ever since she began penning songs. The title of this ballad, which deals with the prospect of losing him, was inspired by something he once said on the phone to her.