Lyrics to Bruce Hornsby

bruce hornsby - the old playground
b. r. hornsby/john hornsby walking on the sidewalk, roundball under my arm everybody knows how you play is who you are walking down the road, looking for a game or two the real moves come through, no bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - the road not taken
b. r. hornsby down in the southwest virginia town of richlands i fell in love with an appalachian girl she lived in a long line of little row houses on the side of an old strip mining hill she walked bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - these arms of mine
b. r. hornsby well i'm walking on the floor hanging right round the door hoping you will come through wanting you to, sweat on my brow i'm no saint nothing left but a bad excuse the heat makes you do bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - a night on the town
van and willie went out one night once they get out on the road well then everything is alright had to get away from the kids and the wives well they ran into some city boys that didn't walk just righ bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - across the river
well she moved back around here thirty five weeks ago today oh down the lane, at night she walks on the banks and remembers how she dreamed of rowing away and how she left one day she left with a dri bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - another day
woke up this morning looking at the screen there's a couple of men talking, i'm not sure what they mean there's a conversation many men running wild we learn about the world while they're fighting in bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - barren ground
good seed don't grow on the barren ground there were people living in a green valley found a way to make a lot of money made the green turn gradually gray they figured they could do whatever they wa bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - big rumble
well, cocked and ready over here i stand anticipating the laying on of the hands well, it might seem frivolous, maybe profound but it feels like deliverance going down hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey now bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - candy mountain run
rollin' and a-tumblin' take me to the mountain fly closer to the sun wailin' and a-rumblin' i'm movin' not stumblin' come, come with me on my candy mountain candy mountain run dropping lots of little bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - carry the water
water water some live life with eyes that don't see they look away at the time of your greatest need some talk, some'll just do, some turn their back turn around just walk away i know i've done that bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - changes made?
man was a knife expert, kinda jim bowie type, swaggerin', blusterin',coon skin, i said "your not serious, right"? then i saw him grab my friend by the hair and i guess i should have prayed bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - china doll
you lie over there in a bed with iron rails like a frightened child in the cold light so frail and things were going so well, just rolling along now, just when you think you've got it made, it's all g bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - circus on the moon
do you hear that or are you hearing my call it's a cry for help but now you see all these craters and these walls i'm erected in my room i'd like you to see, i'm a performer with skills don't make fu bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - country doctor
deep down in the south county over where the paper mill runs lived a man, a young country doctor with the perfect wife and sons well he worked his days and sundays he'd pray and nobody knew why the w bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - cruise control
it's been a long time coming this feeling i've got that things'll always go your way such a long shot been so deep in the hole thought i'd never come out anything can happen oh, i know that now, hey bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - defenders of the flag
"it's coming any day now", said the captain "it's coming any day now", cried the priest the people in high places may defend you but son, you better hope they keep the peace can't you hear them calli bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - defenders on the flag
it's coming one day nowsaid the captainit's coming one day nowcried the priest.the people in high places may defend youbut sonyou better hope they keep the peace.can't you hear them calling? can't you bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - down the road tonight
there's a place, a local roadside shack a poor man's paris with a parking in the back there's a girl there, she knows how to unwind she don't talk much but she knows just how to act i said, "don't tel bruce hornsby

bruce hornsby - dreamland
isn't this old night so nice i hope you can feel what i feel tonight little boy's not getting it right trying so hard with all his might clouds in the sky keeping the sun away doesn't mean the sun is bruce hornsby