Categotry Archives: Lyrics

A Spanish Rose
Anybody Anymore
Ballad of the Hidden Village (Lay Your Burden Down)
Backside (Not Your Baby Girl)
Beauty Beyond Reason
Become the Wind
Blue Rock
Boxcar
Breathe
Broken Wings
Brother Child
Burn in the Fire
Coffee Shop Girl
Castles of Her Crystalline
Coretta’s Song (Version 1)
Coretta’s Song (Version 2)
Credo In Unam (You Are the One)
Diamonds
Every Shadow
Everyday
Fill My Cup
Fly
Good as Gold
Grey Girl
Highway to Tomorrow
Hold My Hand Today
Incantation: Creation
January 20
Kisses
Lady
Less Than Holy
Light (O, Let Your Light Shine Bright)
Like I Love Loving You
Lost You to Paradise
Mortal Self
MyDolls
Mountain Lady Woman
New Jim Crow
One Shoe
Pastorale (Interlude)
Perfect Regret
Piece of Mine
Pretty Ebony
Sanguine Song
Shut Up and Sing
Sleep Baby, Slumber
Song for the End of Days
Standing at the Door
Tall as Our Fathers
Tangerine
The Gospel
The Beans
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Last Stop
The Point
The Rapture
This Is Not a Love Song
Tumble
Turn It Around
Very Small Things
War No More
Warm and Gentle People
Warm Like the Waters
Water I (The Water)
Water II (Walk Upon Water)
Welfare Queen
Wednesday’s Child
When Mama Cries
When the Sun Comes Down
Winona Laduke
Wrecking Ball
Your Love

A Spanish rose,
plucked from her garden,
move from mountain
to ocean to sea
seeking shelter
she came upon my doorstep
and here’s what she said to me:

“Solo en cada país,
canta la misma cancíon,
trabajo por día,
grito por noche.
Oaio.”

She told a tale
of love requited
a rose’s season
to open full bloom.
but seasons change
to leave the broken hearted
alone, with her love
gone too soon, singing:

“solo en cada país,
canta la misma cancíon:
trabajo por día,
grito por noche.
Oaio.”

Lay your burden down boys,
Lay your burden down
Of your kind they will say
How you set your will ablaze
But for now lay your burden down boys
Lay your burden down

We came from the port of New Orleans
From the maiden who ne’er shall wake
In her bed we take rest
From the woes we possess
By the shores of her Ponchartrain Lake, boys

We crossed the Great Mississippi
The roar of our nation’s birth
On her mighty waves
For the triumph of the trade
They belied the measure of our worth, boys

We passed by the graves of our mothers
Through the land where they toiled and they tilled
Are we ever to know
How their seeds were made to grow
It’s a silence that haunts us still, boys

When we reached Angelina County,
A Hidden Village we did find
A fraternity
Nay, the “Order of the Qui!”
Deep in those Texas Pines, boys

We took comfort in your union
The rage in your will of fire
You reached out a hand
Yes we joined the royal band
With our will may we ever inspire, boys

So, lay your burden down boys,
Lay your burden down
Of your kind they will say
How you set your will ablaze
But for now lay your burden down boys
Lay your burden down