1.

Black Cadillac

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

(Rosanne baby come on)

It was a black Cadillac drove you away
Everybody's talkin' but they don't have much to say
There was a black sky of rain none of it fell
One of us gets to go to heaven one has to stay here in hell

Now it's a lonely world guess it always was
Minus you and minus blood my blood

It was a black Cadillac like one you used to drive
Now you were always rolling but those wheels burn up your life
Oh it's a black heart of pain that I'm wearin' suits me just fine
Oh there was nothin' I could do for you when you were still alive

Yeah it's a lonely world just a numbers game
Well a hundred years will find me feelin' just the same
Yeah it's a lonely world I guess it always was
Minus you and minus blood my blood

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2.

Radio Operator

Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal

© Chelcait Music, BMI

Radio operator in a tiny foreign room
We can hear you now and later calling out and coming through

Radio operator you're a voice so far from home
With a signal like a heartbeat not afraid but so alone

Where are the messages for me
The secret codes for parts unknown
I'll ride the signal to the world
And to the girl in San Antone

Radio operator do you ever think of me
Cause I'm a gleam on some horizon just too far away to see

Radio operator there are still messages to send
From the future from the present and it never has to end

Where are the messages for me...

Radio operator I am calling like a friend
From my future from your memory and it never has to end
This message will not end

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3.

I Was Watching You

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

Headlights on a Texas road
Hank Williams on the radio
Church wedding they spent all they had
Now the deal is done to become mom and dad

And I was watching you from above
Cause long before life there was love

See those little girls dressed like china dolls
All for one then one by one they fall
High on a hill while the world passes by
You never came back but I know you tried

Cause I was watching you from above
When it all falls apart there is love

All those years to prove how much I care
I didn't know it but you were always there
Till September when you slipped away
In the middle of my life on the longest day

Now I hear you say I'll be watching you from above
Cause long after life there is love
Baby I'll be watching you from above
Long after life there is love

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3.

0:71

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

[ 71 seconds of silence for Johnny Cash ]


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4.

Burn Down This Town

Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal

© Chelcait Music, BMI

This hills are burning fields turn to steel
The big house is haunted with what we don't feel
The streets are empty no one ever comes around
So you know they won't make a sound
burn down this town

My lungs are blackened with the smoke and sobs
So just be a man and finish the job
And I'll watch you from this distant place I've found
Oh you know I won't make a sound
Burn down this town

The clapboard jail and the co-op board
The garden club and the bedroom door
The sprinkled lawn and the mirrored hall
The Christmas tree just burn it all

The sky is falling with ash and mud
We gotta make the promise yeah blood to blood
So shut the door then slowly turn around
Now you know you can't make a sound
Burn down this town

The clapboard jail and the co-op board...
Burn down this town

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5.

God Is In The Roses

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

God is in the roses the petals and the thorns
Storms out on the oceans the souls who will be born
And every drop of rain that falls falls for those who mourn
God is in the roses and the thorns

The sun is on the cemetery leaves are on the stones
There never was a place on earth that felt so much like home
We're falling like the velvet petals we're bleeding and we're torn
But God is in the roses and the thorns

I love you like a brother a father and a son
It may not last forever and ever but it never will be done
My whole world fits inside the moment I saw you be reborn
God is in the roses and that day was filled with roses
God is in the roses and the thorns

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6.

House On The Lake

Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal

© Chelcait Music, BMI

Well I miss the sounds of Tennessee and the smell of heavy rain
The roses in the garden laugh before the pain

But I hear his voice close in my ear I see her smile and wave
I blink and while my eyes are closed they both have gone away

Blue bare room the wood and nails there's nothing left to take
But love and years are not for sale in our old house on the lake

Well I'm goin' down to New Orleans cause we both are sinkin' fast
And I'll stare into the Bourbon moon we'll see how long we last

But I hear his voice I follow down the velvet undertow
Back to the place where I was born back to my southern home

Blue bare room the wood and nails there's nothing left to take
But love and years are not for sale in our old house on the lake
In our old house on the lake in our old house

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7.

The World Unseen

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

I'm the sparrow on the roof
I'm the list of everyone I have to lose
I'm the rainbow in the dirt
I am who I was and how much I can hurt

So I will look for you
In stories of the kings
Westward leading still proceeding
To the world unseen

I'm the mirror in the hall
From your empty room I can hear it fall
Now that we must live apart
I have a lock of hair and one-half of my heart

So I will look for you
Between the grooves of songs we sing
Westward leading still proceeding
To the world unseen

There are no gifts that will be found
Wrapped in winter laid beneath the ground
You must be somewhere in the stars
'Cause from a distance comes the sound of your guitar

And I will look for you in Memphis and the miles between
I will look for you in morphine and in dreams
I will look for you in the rhythm of my bloodstream
Westward leading still proceeding to the world unseen

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8.

Like Fugitives

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

The priest is prayin' for your soul and the doctor for your heart
Someone tell me how to live now that we must live apart
Once we had a mother but that's all over now
So wish her well and let her go just as soon as you know how

It's a strange new world we live in where the church leads you to hell
And the lawyers get the money for the lives they divide and sell
And the only truth believed in is the one upon the screen
So we live our lives like fugitives and we were born to live like queens

Once we all were daughters now we'll never hear thy name
I never think I could have learned I just turned into the game
Don't send me no more letters with your ignorance and rage
I don't want your tired religion not a soul you need to save

It's a strange new world we live in where the church leads you to hell
And the lawyers get the money for the lives they divide and sell
It's a strange new world we live in where the church sends you to hell
And the lawyers get the money for the lives they divide and sell
And the only truth believed in is the one upon the screen
So we live our lives like fugitives and we were born to live like queens

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9.

Dreams Are Not My Home

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

The waves are breaking on the wall
The queen of roses spreads her arms to fly shed falls
If I had wings I'd cut them down
Live without these dreams so I could learn to love the ground

Cause I wanna live inside the world
I wanna act like a real girl
I wanna know I'm not alone
And the dreams are not my home

The future's like a ringing bell
The road to good intentions wanders all the way through hell
The note that hangs in the gilded hall
The clanging of my empty rooms yeah I could learn to love them all

Cause I wanna live inside the world...

The waves are breaking like they do
The spiral of churches are the last place to enjoy the view
If I had wings I'd use them now
I could follow you then hope someone would pull me down

Cause I wanna live inside the world
I wanna act like a real girl
I wanna know I'm not alone
And the dreams are not my dreams are not my
Dreams are not my home (dreams are not my home)

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10.

Like A Wave

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

My memory is filling with smoke
Such a relief not to know
Except for the body and soul
There's nothing here I want to own

But I gave my love and it rolls like a wave
Back through my history on past the grave

My taxi is waiting outside
Sure we'll begin right on time
Now you are still writing your lines
But I will not open my eyes

But I gave my love and it rolls like a wave...
But I gave my love and it rolls like a wave...

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11.

World Without Sound

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

I wish I was a christian knew what to believe
I could learn a lot of rules to put my mind at ease
I wish I had the money to live just like a queen
With Demerols and Cashmere and every little thing
I wish the ones who loved me would never go away
Would've had to have my company every single day

But who do I believe in this world without sound
Who do I believe once they put you in the ground
Who do I believe when the night's fallin' down

I wish I lived in Paris and dreamed in French each night
And had a dozen children and raised them up just right
I wish I was John Lennon free as a bird
And all of you who sit and stare and hang on every word
I wish I had the future tied up with a string
Then I would never feel the blows the revolution brings

But who do I believe in this world without sound...

I wish I was a christian but I cannot believe
Cause no one in the bible craves my company

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12.

The Good Intent

Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal

© Chelcait Music, BMI

I sailed in on the good intent with all intentions clear
A man without a mystery a vision brought me here
The ocean gave me room to roam but the shore is calling out
So I will marry built a home and see what that's about

Children came by the dozens then drifting south like rain
I worked the soil I used the gun the waves have to turned to grain
I tried to love this Arkansas with black and bleeding hands
But I will not survive this life but I'll become a man

My brother sold my mother's house I never shed a tear
I could watch the world in smoke there's nothin' for me here
I've seen behind the darkened veil that's all I want to know
So I'll sail off on the good intent to my true happy home
Yes I sail off on the good intent never more to roam

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13.

0 : 71

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

[ 71 seconds of silence to Johnny Cash ]


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