The Incandescently Lovely Shawn Colvin
 I am just stewing in music lately, it's a good thing. Here's one of my favorite Shawn tunes from her newest album These Four Walls -- it's called "Tuff Kid." We're both South Dakota kids, Shawn and I. She lived in Vermillion, I was born in Aberdeen. I'd like to think it adds a certain Midwestern sensibility to writing a song. And makes you Tuff.Labels: inspiration, musicians, southdakota, video |
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post a commentIs she bright, does she glow?
does my heart follow where she goes?
does she burn with an inner fire?
does she inspire sadness to desire?
Is she hot to the touch?
yeah, she burns that much
but what makes her tuff
is not what made her cry
she was a diamond in the rough
and now she shines in the sky
Incandescent? Or Heaven sent?
All descriptions doth she defy
she knew a dark place
she led the devil on a race
and now light is the only trace
left etched upon that lovely face
Why The Sky Is So Blue
C
Dearest Shawn
F
I know why
C
the sky is so blue
Em Dm
cause it doesn't have arms
C
to wrap around you
and I know why
F
they're so afraid
C
of loving you
Em
because the price to be paid
Dm F
is to lose a heart and soul
Em F Em C
and a sad mind too
Am
they know they'll lose it all
Em
through and through
Dm
you might not know
Em
but I surely do
F G C
cause I'm so in love with you
and I've never been scared
F
to say the things I do
C
even though I know
G
I'll never look into your eyes
Am Dm
and I'll never sing just for you
C F
that's why I hang in the sky
G F Em C
and dream the way I do
Am
the sky knows my pain
C
and offered me a cloud
F G C
but one that's full of rain
Am
the sky is blue
Em
cause it doesn't have eyes
F G C
and it longs to look at you
Am Em
I told the sky I'd seen you
Am G
bouncin' over the white clouds
C
and the sky wanted to know
Em
if it was all true
Am
about your beauty
C
and I said yes
F
I'd seen it through and through
G C
and heard it too
Am
now the sky is crying
Em
cause it can't get over you
Am
and my cloud is bursting
G
it's split open wide
Em
me and all the rain is falling
F G C
the sky has a message a message for you
Dm
the sky is blue
Em
cause it longs to be with you
Am F
I'm just a message boy
Em Am
so every raindrop you hear splatter
G Am
contains the essence of blue
Em
but what does one raindrop matter
F G Am C
in a sky that crys for you
she held the shimmering stone
before it started rollin'
a queen without a throne
her crown by love was stolen
she was the voice of fire
before she married fame
she flew circles around the spire
atop the temple of shame
a child she saw through
innocent she took the blame
lied to stay true
cried to end her sorrow
tried to color blue
the grey sky of tomorrow
died to live with ghosts
dressed in the rags of freedom
she courted every stranger
followed every lead
stabbed the heart of danger
to watch her soul bleed
I was drunk one night
in a filthy five and dime
with a lurid fascination
and a salty taste for crime
I was browsing through
the cheap novels section
when I first saw you there
on the cover of a magazine
eyeball deep in accolades
undisputed queen on the scene
skilled with switchblades
tough as a whore
I read the whole story
before I left the store
it said you were good
no man could hold you
you'd stick 'im if you could
you'd leave em in the mining fields
valentines in hand
polaroids stuck in the chest
it said you were a killer
but you only kill the best
killed dreams in the chase
murdered the blues
shot love in the face
but you looked so innocent
I had to take your case
got right on it no time to waste
grabbed my badge
a bullet proof vest
and took up the chase
but I saw the gun smokin'
before I saw your face
looked like maybe you'd been cryin'
but you were gone without a trace
before I was finished dyin'
they found a polaroid on the street
there was writing on the back
it had fallen off a stiff
it was hard to read for blood stains
this was the general riff:
you got what you deserve
you pathetic creep
I only kill for love
but for you I make an exception
and I might have let you live
if not for the deception
the bullet proof vest
that really pissed me off
Just Like Water
She ebbs and she flows
she splashes light
she roars and she whispers
she flashes in the night
just like water
she goes so deep
she shines in the sun
her music glows
she's on the run
just like water
her voice rises
and her voice falls
she's radiant in starlight
and her spirit calls
just like water
she is everywhere
she floats like vapor
she makes a million sounds
she breathes like a ghost
just like water
she watches and she waits
she dances with the moon
she floods my soul
she carries me away
just like water
just like water
just like water
It's the very most sad
thing to see
and I don't know why
but something changes inside me
when I see an angel cry
But when she weeps
by the flap of the gate
with 10 minutes to go
when her heart's in her throat
and she goes on with the show
take the copperline down by
James Taylor way
look up at the sky
then down at the ground
count your blessings
as you go round and round
count the faces
and remember all the places
where you heard that sound
My Favorite Delusion
you are my favorite delusion
but one day being crazy
will be in vogue
where crazy reigns
crazy pours
in my dreams
all the faces are so hazy
I'm a hobo I'm a rogue
I ride on empty trains
but one face could be yours
I used to bribe the twilight moon
to help me read the signs
now I crawl around in the zoo
looking for flat fine lines
one could lead to you
now I mix with the fog
I listen for candle light
I keep my ear to the ground
for the sound of an anvil
before the next word is found
I listen to the voices
try to break the code
I ask every rollin' stone
on every lonesome road
what it was like to be kicked by you
I sleep in graveyards
I sing for ghosts
of murdered blues
I ask em who done it
it must have been you
I sing for them
and them for me
but there is no cure
we never should have listened
to a voice so pure
The Last Time I Saw Jane
I never learn
I can read the signs
but I could never discern
when to look into your eyes
and when to turn
my heart feels the fire
but it's too hard to burn
the consequence of desire
it's not your concern
who you inspire
you would drag your red rowing boat
till all the stars expire
but if I could flood the forever plains
if I could command the moon
and if Venus would conspire
I would send a monsoon
and lightening would rip the skies
a sea of love
and tears for your eyes
would fall down from above
washing everything clear
who was an angel
and who was a seer
that dry face of steel
once loved without fear
have you seen enough my dear?
may I row you home?
will you rest while I steer?
I will sing the shibboleth
and I will sing it clear
I went back to the place
where beauty was left to die
the trees reached out
where innocence hangs naked
and is too ashamed to cry
I went back to the place
where beauty was left to die
I went back with a scarred face
under a blood red sky
wholly bereft of grace
I returned
just to ask why
Oh! great spirit of darkness
necessary as you are
may I have my beauty back
I've traveled so far
you won't see your star
not from here anymore
the brown field in the spring
shaking winter from its back
cardinals red...on red shack
back from who knows where
all the latest news they'll sing
but you won't hear of anything
as the sun massages all awake
and implores them all partake
as prayers rise and tears fall
you won't take it in at all
tonight when darkness makes my heart beat slow
while moonlight begs the black seas glow
should Venus ask my love to show
you won't be the first to know
What Goes On In A Beautiful Mind
I spent my whole life
crawlin' through the muck
I had a wife once
but all we did was fuck
when I should have been workin'
I waited for a change of luck
now that's all in the past
time spent on my hands and knees
wondering how long the pain can last
long enough for me to cry God please
send me an angel
a real one I can squeeze
but that was an obtuse angle
and God has a policy on sleeze
so I prayed some more
and kept nuthin' up my sleeve
a desperation move
death or reprieve
I got naked
and sang in the streets
I ranted and I raved
over Shawn Colvin beats
I learned to move forward
for tactical retreats
I thought about her words
and I dreamt of redemption
gave up drinkin'
and swore off swords
there must be a soul
to shine a light towards
if I could just find
what goes on
in a beautiful mind
Steady On!
baby I can relate
but in my case
it really was too late
the past is heavy
and I can't carry the weight
my jewel was a darker blue
and more cleverly hid
demons get their due
for everything I did
the deeper I went
the faster I slid
now I see you
on your tour bus
with your pimps
and your crew
your darling baby
looks just like you
I got an old Volvo now
and that's just fine
my prayer was answered
my life is divine
cause an angel's light shined
and I got to see
what goes on in a beautiful mind
What's Real?
Now that I'm broken
and accepting of my fate
I'll go down like all the rest
you've told it's too late
that it sealed the deal
when I got too real
now that you travel the world
and your story is well known
you no longer have to steal
and your audience has grown
I'm destined to lose on appeal
still those seeds we' ve sown
might have opened to reveal
a love under secret seal
if only I could have known
never to ask what's real
I won't say you set me up
and I won't say you've brought me down
but when you asked me to tell you
everything I feel I should have known
to not include anything real
after awhile when the pain has receded
I'll realize it was all a fantasy
and I never should have pleaded
with a lover's misplaced zeal
but I had to know what's real
Only a fool goes to such lengths
to plumb great depths
when he can see bottom
and inspite of all his strengths
never will he fathom
why the higher the ideal
the more urgent the calling
the farther he'll be falling
to reach what's real
Back to Boston
headed north to freedom
on the Boston train
freedom from all worry
from the hopelessly insane
gonna scout out a spot
where I can lay my claim
to everything I'm not
my inherent claim to fame
I'll settle into a singing zone
where I'll unload my brain
I'll open up an artery
watch it flow on down the drain
but they won't know the nature
of my secret mission
they'll throw dimes and quarters
and tenspots of derision
but that don't worry me now
cause I made my final decision
and I'm gonna put on a show
gonna name demons with precision
you might see me on the redline
might hear me on the street
but I'll claim my victory
singing of defeat
twenty loves lost
not a single won
twenty loves lost
not a single won
I'll give up coffee
and I'll give up shoes
I'll give up all the crutches
I ever did use
and no more therapy
it's just my nature to lose
no more therapy
cause it's just my nature to lose
no more bitchin' or complainin'
when losin' is your nature
when it's always rainin'
you can only sing the blues
when it's always rainin'
you can only sing the blues
So be careful who you sleep with child
be careful what you choose
be careful what you wish for
keep a light on when you snooze
be careful what you wish for baby
and keep a light on when you snooze
All the things I ever thought I needed
all the times I prayed, begged and pleaded
every triviality has receded
and now it has become clear
all I ever needed was to sing for you
when the money went away
when it was clear that sanity would not stay
when darkness overtook every bright day
and every distraction faded
when every instinct was jaded
all I ever needed was to sing for you
life has no meaning if I can't sing for you
sometimes I feel bad for John Levanthal
for that whole sympatico thing
he saw that beautiful soul exposed
first time he heard her sing
I wonder how long he ached
before he made his first move
how late he stayed up
writing her first groove
boy, those were the days
like Lennon and McCartney
but not even a Beatle plays
the way Shawn Colvin plays
did you contort yourself
trying to make her stay?
were you patient with the clutter?
first time you talked to her
did she make you stutter?
I'll bet I know what you thought
she's like Elvis Presley and Patsy Cline
Frank Sinatra Judy Garland
all combined
beauty and light
and all things divine
I'll bet you thought you'd read the sign
Shawn Colvin's Guitar
Her guitar stands idle today
leans really, at a provocative angle
mahogony back stiff to gray cold day
silent witness to this latest tangle
of loves and grief or misunderstandings
patiently awaits that calloused touch
to bring alive those long bronze strings
but today's sadness doesn't know that much
of the depths from which her longing springs
the slender neck curves gently back
tuning keys suggest open G or B flat
perhaps drop D is the way of attack
to pronounce this while intending that
spruce top with scalloped bracing
this feminine form now she's facing
major or minor it matters not
one touch and tssss she's hot
muted rythms slap with open ringing
seduced again she can't help singing
Every day I get closer to the end
somedays the seas are so rough
I lost another love and then a friend
somedays I just hang tough
Somedays I can't find the words
and I scream over the roar
when I asked you to come closer
you just said: "what for..."
guess I'll try the other hemisphere
I'll travel farther away
to see if I can get near
that bright blue vanishing ray
I should be grateful that I can still feel
the dream I carried deep
the one thing you couldn't steal
is all I get to keep
But I'm still moving
and I'm following the stars
that we made love by
in a far away sky
You were my angel
and I bowed down low
I begged and I waited
but now I gotta go
Broken Fairytales
I remember that summer, the calm
when your breath could fill my sails
my heart was safe in your sailor's palm
your stitches sure, love never fails
but time has worried loose the balm
into eternity's wake our season trails
I'm now content to drift in that tide
with the flotsam of broken fairytales
I'll float in the sun till these tears are dried
among these broken fairytales
but I'm not afraid of dreams
and not too proud again to fail
if this love's not all it seems
perhaps alone amid the siren's wail
the cloth I'll find, the sailor's twine
the skill to bind up all this debris
gather it blind from across the sea
toward home I'll sail from far away
this broken fairytale
under a fair sky toward home I'll sail
this broken fairytale
If I had eyes like the stars
to look into your mind
if I were the lord of mars
and I could command your kind
If I could travel your road
If I could unravel your code
What would I find?
If love I could cash your IOU unsigned
If everything you said was written
in the sky and every lie was underlined
If I could hang on to your comet tail
If I could be where you once shined
could I still follow your trail
or would I just go blind?
Help! A Dingo Stole My Diamonds
He walks in the rain just to forget the pain
trys to get free by singing off key
scrounges around on the edge of town
looking for something that's true
sure of something that he never once knew
and wonders: can a crazy man ever find love?
broke down so long ago he can't remember why
so many heartbreaks he forgot how to cry
gave up on religion...couldn't get past the lie
went blind trying to find a hole in the sky
for an anger he can't rise above
he's grounded and unable to love
you might see him walkin' down the road
stooped down under a ragged load
wishin' he had wings to fly
he gave up on life to get ready to die
never felt the warmth of love
but misery fits him like a glove
to look in that vacant face
you'd never believe he'd once been kind
or that those dark eyes ever had shined
but he once gave a thief the key
to his soul's diamond mine
and she stole all the light she ever could find
Lonliness is hollow but it's hard
once you're inside it all you see is black
and once it breaks your spirit
there ain't no comin' back
it'll make you ugly and it'll make you mean
it'll make you crazy if it don't kill ya clean
Dialectical Entropy
One side's fire
one side's rain
one side's madness
one side's sane
I cross the line
I walk the forever plain
I look for meaning
one side's pleasure
one side's pain
who's to say what will endure
l ride the forever train
I know only one thing for sure
there's a line
people walk it from end to end
they keep their heads down
there's a crowd at every bend
one side for lovers
one side for friends
one side's black
one side's white
one side is morning
one side is night
I walk alone
without a light
I cross the line
one side injustice
the other side is right
one side is fulfillment
one side is despair
one side is cursed
one side heaven sent
I'm homeless
I pay rent
I got nothing
I got all I need
I'm a nihilist
I follow a creed
I'm serious
I'm a joker
I studied hard
to be a fool
I'm valedictorian
at nowhere school
I'm empty
I am full
I have no direction
but I feel the pull
you are everywhere
you are over the line
wherever I go
you are over the line
I am here
you are there
I cross lines
you take flight
I get it wrong
you are what's right
you killed the blues
I no longer fight
In my darkness
you are light
your beauty is a flare
across the night sky
your voice illumines
my mind's eye
in your resonance
I can hear the lie
life is not what we think
and we never can know
love is ours for just a blink
God's hand never will show
Capricorns
If I had wings
I'd come after you
I'd fly so fast
till I caught you in the past
nineteen eighty eight
I'd circle and land
I'd meet you for your birthday
I'd take you by the hand
I'd invite you to tea
and I'd never let on
that my heart was broken
the day you were born
I'd catch you in Cambridge
wrapped in Passim's glow
and you never would know
that my heart was history
on the day of that show
yeah, if I had wings
I'd do the usual angel things
I'd watch from the moon
for a stone that shimmers
and a girl that sings
then I'd swoop down so low
and I'd tell you the secrets
that you're not supposed to know
I'd tell you about mountains
and how to walk in the snow
I'd tell you about beauty
and the miles you must go
if I had wings I'd fuck up the plan
but you would know anyway
that I'm just a heartbroken man
That's the hard part
knowing that no one will be able
to follow the thread
or perceive the heart
in all its myriad wanderings
over countless miles tread
they'll see what they know
now that I'm dead
they can't follow the flow
but I can hear the whispers
they spread low like
a croaking fog
into all the low spaces
did you hear he once was accused
of stealing a chalice
Ghosts In New London Town
Bm 8beats
Did I see you walkin'
Em
in New London Town
Bm 8 beats
toward the pier
Em - - - - - - - -G7
on Bank Street headed down
F#7 Bm
on Bank Street headed down
Bm Em
the air was cool off the sound
Bm Em
thought I saw you in the moonlight
G7
it was so long ago
F#7
the fog rolled in
Bm
and you disappeared from sight
G7 F#7 Bm
did I see you on Bank Street headed down
G7 F#7 Bm
was that you walkin' in New London town
short riff.........
Bm Em- - - - - - - -
it was autumn and the leaves were fallin' down
Bm
I turned up Golden Street
Em
thought I heard your voice callin'
G7 F#7 Bm
there's so many ghosts out walkin' in the fog
G7 F#7 Bm
so much gets lost in the fog
short riff....
Bm Em
did I feel your touch on my shoulder
Bm
as I walked through
Em
New London town
G7 F#7
was that your breath I felt
Bm
as I turned down Golden Street
G7 F#7
they say the spirits walk free
Bm
in New London town
G7 F#7 Bm
was that you I heard callin' me
G7 F#7
was that you on Bank Street
Bm
walkin' toward the sea
G7 F#7 Bm
was that you on Bank Street headed down
G7 F#7 Bm
was that you walkin' through New London town
short riff...
Bm Em
did I feel your tears fallin'
Bm Em
as I walked through New London town
G7 F#7
did I hear you weeping
Bm
as I turned up Golden Street
G7 F#7 Bm Em
as I headed home in the rain
short riff...
Bm Em
was that you on Bank Street headed down
Bm Em
was that you walkin' toward the sea
G7 F#7 Bm
did I see you walkin' through New London town
G7 F#7
did I hear you callin' me
Bm Em
as I turned my back to the sound
Bm Em
So much gets lost in the fog
riff....
Bm Em
there's so many ghosts out walkin' in the fog
G7 Bm
So much gets lost in the fog
G7 F#7 Bm
there's so many ghosts out weepin' in the fog
Em Bm
You walk on clouds
and get gifts from up above
you hide in crowds
as they push and shove
and gobble up the road
tryin' to break the code
Vanishing Point
It don't matter what you say
and it don't matter what you do
you're gonna get your heart broke
you know that...right?
so don't go comin' here with your heart on your sleeve
don't be tryin' to reach my soul
you can finish your song before you leave
but if you're lookin' for love
you better just roll
if you're lookin' for love baby
it's time for you to roll
cause I'm travelin' a road that never ends
and I gotta travel light
gotta be flexible whichever way it bends
and I gotta keep goin'
even at night
guess you thought there was a reason
or that love might make you whole
maybe you thought autumn was our season
or you wanted back what someone else stole
whatever it is babe, I ain't lookin' no more
and I don't ask questions, that's for sure
you might think that some things need provin'
not me, I just gotta keep on movin'
where you see anchor points
and stars in the black sky
I see honky tonk joints
where only dreamers fly
but I don't even try
I just keep on walkin'
you might think that love
comes from talkin'
but I'm just walkin' down the road
and I don't mean to make you cry
I guess you wanted someone to help carry your load
or maybe you thought a kiss would get you by
maybe you thought love would stay
if you built your fences high
or if you kept its belly full
of promises and pie
but I like that empty feelin'
and I trust hunger
like an old friend
I know where it's goin'
and it knows where I been
where I'm goin'
the horizon is always thin
and if I get movin'
I might still get in
so don't ask me about love
or what might be true
don't ask me to read the stars above
cause I'm lookin' straight ahead
and I won't lie to you
way on down the road
is a vanishing point
and if I hurry babe I might still get through
What A Broken Heart Is
when you meet an angel
and she catches your eye
your feet turn to stone
as she leaves for the sky
knowing you're too heavy to fly
that's what a broken heart is
she says it's her birthday
and you say..."mine too"
one ten fifty six
she's says it's significant
not for her for you
that's what a broken heart is
twenty years go by
you're gettin' ready to die
will she say hello
as you pass through her sky?
I know the answer
that's what a broken heart is
84000 different delusions
plus or minus one
she says that's zen
there will be a place for you
she doesn't say where she doesn't know when
it all makes you stronger
if you wait that much longer
but you know she wasn't talking to you
you'd rather be crazy
than be tied to what's true
left inside
after she locks up the zoo
we came down together
but I'm goin' home alone
and I try to be brave
but synchronicity
and parallel universe theory
will have me rollin' in my grave
it's bad enough how fate unwinds
without the slap in the face
who gets to suffer
and who gets grace
who gets found
who gets lost without a trace
but that's what a broken heart is
then I think about how she got through
when I don't know what to do
how she reached inside
and pulled herself out
how she cried
when she was full of doubt
something's are the way they are
and you just can't explain
so you color them blue
you just keep walking
and you try to stay true
a little voice reminds me...
I can sing too
that's what a broken heart makes you do
The deeper you go the more I see
you have lighted dark places
and painted all the blank faces
you tiptoe past sleeping demons
they never hear you there
you speak the language of the dead
they know you and you know to never stare
you have learned the etiquette of the netherworld
and they come to hear you sing
you belong to them, their winds blow though your soul
but you shape it like clay and fire it with light
the sound comes from light years away
to be with you...to hear you play
you are theirs...not ours
and they have come to take you home
they will lead you by the hand
that carries the shimmering stone
your breath will pause above the water
and once more we will be alone
but you will awake on a distant shore
in your ear they will whisper...
"you have been brought here though
you can't know what for"
and your voice will rise once more
I can't take no more sorrow
I'm sick I'm slick I'm a prick
I'll beg steal or borrow
I'll take what I need
to get me to tomorrow
I'm bleeding and I'm hurt
I killed love I'm a thief
I got taken down
I got shaken down
I been bent low
when it comes to kindness
I've been too often too slow
but to the river I'll follow
if you sing for me
I've been careless
with the love I've been given
I been arrogant I been petty
when offered grace
I was never ready
oh! I'm selfish and I'm greedy
I was a high flyer, high roller, big shot
a drunk and I liar
but I got knocked to the ground
I betrayed my friends
I walk out in the end
but now my mind's been broken
all the bullshit's been spoken
and I'm scared to die
I'm a malignant narcissistI with borderline traits
a psychotherapist
I charge exorbitant rates
Forever's Frozen Dream
In the bleak midwinter
of forever's frozen dream
all warm hearts are precious
however small they seem
you need not worry
about what you must bring
for you will be led forward
you will be asked to sing
it has been a hard road
softened only by grief
but shed not yours
for His tears will be your relief
long long ago he knew
precisely how to get you through
when music was created
He was thinking of you
snow on snow has fallen
and when the avalanche breaks free
you will ride shotgun child
and He will ride with thee
lift up your sweet face little dear
when you're ready you may open your eyes
to a whole new you
under old familiar skies
when I awake from my forever dream
I will know just what to do
for I would be a shepherd
and the lamb I brought was you
Is Shawn Colvin Incandescent?
Who asks questions like these?
No, my bad, it's stated as a fact
been thinking about it since 1988
so I'll spare you the trouble
The answer is no, she is not
If you follow the light you will not find her there. If you open the door you'll find the cupboard bare...neither is she beauty or truth
and yet she IS lovely...because she knows to never attach herself to any of these things...our descriptors...their accolades...she is spirit's shadow...even spirit doesn't know she's there...she's more permanent than light...more fundamental...more integral to the necessities of nature...the universe will know eons during which she will not be seen or heard but she will be there waiting...always...but she doesn't even know this herself and she intuitively knows to not try...that she doesn't really need to...I'm sad when I imagine her alone deep in a universe we can't imagine able to live without light but she can and she must. Then she will be there when the first light shines again and she will sing as she always has and as she always will for the first time over and over again and we will say she is incandescent and she will smile...she knows but she's much too wise to say...we will follow but she won't divulge the way...she'll just slip back into spirit's shadow...yes, how lovely she is.