The Globe Sessions
Sheryl Crow
1998




Artist Song Album

My Favorite Mistake

Oooooh...
Oooooh...
Oooooh...
Oooooh...

I woke up and called this morning
The tone of your voice was a warning
That you don't care for me anymore
I made up the bed we sleep in
I looked at the clock when you creep in
It's 6 A.M. and I'm alone

Did you know, when you go, it's the perfect ending
To the bad day I was just beginning
When you go, all I know is you're my favorite mistake

Well, your friends are sorry for me
They watch you pretend to adore me
But I'm no fool to this game
Now, here comes your secret lover
She'd be unlike any other
Until your guilt goes up in flames

And did you know, when you go, it's the perfect ending
To the bad day I've gotten used to spending
When you go, all I know is you're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake

Well, maybe nothing lasts forever
Even when you stay together
I don't need forever after
But it's your laughter, won't let me go, so I'm holding on this way, yeah

Did you know, could you tell
You were the only one
That I ever loved
Now everything's so wrong

Did you see me walking by?
Did it ever make you cry?
Now, you're my favorite mistake
Yeah, you're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake


There Goes The Neighborhood

- (????), no time, what time is it? Two minutes, you gonna see a (????).
- Don't you understand something (????). Anybody could (????)...

Hey, let's party, let's get down
Let's turn the radio on, this is the meltdown
Get out the camera, take a picture
Drag queens and the freaks are all out on the town
And Cowboy Jane's in bed
Nursing a swollen head

Sunshine Sally and Peter Ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow
I dropped acid on a Saturday night
Just to see what the fuss was about
Now, there goes the neighborhood

The photo chick made to look sickly
Is standing in her panties in the shower
She plays the guitar in the bathroom
While the police dust her mother's plastic flowers
And Schoolboy John's in jail
Making a killing through the U.S. mail

Sunshine Sally and Peter Ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow
I dropped acid on a Saturday night
Just to see what the fuss was about
Now, there goes the neighborhood
Neighborhood
Now, there goes the neighborhood

This is the movie of the screenplay
Of the book about a girl who meets a junkie
The messenger gets shot down
Just for carrying the message to a flunkie

We can't be certain who the villans are
'Cause everyone's so pretty
But the afterparty's sure to be a wing-ding
As it moves into your city, oooh

Sunshine Sally and Peter Ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow
I dropped acid on a Saturday night
Just to see what the steam was about

Sunshine Sally and Peter Ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow
I dropped acid on a Saturday night
Just to see what the fuss was about
Now, there goes the neighborhood

Oooooh
Now, there goes the neighborhood


Riverwide

I spent a year in the mouth of a whale
With a flame and a book of signs
You'll never know how hard I've failed
Tryin' to make up for lost time

Once I believed in things unseen
I was blinded by the dark
Out of the multitude to me
He came and broke my heart

When the dust in the field has flown
And the youngest of hearts has grown
And you doubt you will ever be free, honey
Don't bail on me

River is wide and oh, so deep
And it winds and winds around
I dream we're happy in my sleep
Floatin' down and down and down

And the tide rushes by where we stand
And the earth underneath turns to sand
And we're waiting for someone to see, honey
Don't bail on me

Tell ma I loved the man
Even though I turned and ran
Lovely and fine, I could have been
Laying down in the palm of his hand
Laying down in the palm of his hand
Laying down in the palm of his hand
Staying down in the palm of his hand

In the morning, you wait for the sun
And secretly hope it won't come
But time washes everyone clean, buddy, now
Don't bail on me
Don't bail on me
Don't, don't bail on me


It Don't Hurt

It don't hurt like it did
I can sing my song again
It don't hurt like it did
I can sing my song again

Scraped the paper off the wall
I put down carpet in the hall
I left no trace of you at all
And I can sing my song again

I don't dream 'cause I don't sleep
The moon is hanging like your hat
The sun comes up, well, I don't see
Curtains tied up like a bat

The electric man looks good today
Maybe not, well, I'm trying hard
Trying hard to feel that way
The electric man's a good place to start

Took your paintings off the wall
That one of me that you called doll
I added on 'cause the house was feeling small
Now, I can sing my song again

I don't think of you no more
Except for everyday or two
I don't think of you no more
Except for in between the sun and moon

Packed up and moved out after all
Bulldozed the house and watched it fall
And that blessed sight I still recall
I can sing my song again
I can sing my song again

It don't hurt like it did
It hurts worse, who do I kid?

Whoo, whoo
Whoo, whoo
Whoo, whoo
Whoo, whoo

Whoo whoo whoo, whoo whoo whoo
Whoo whoo whoo, whoo whoo whoo
Whoo whoo whoo, whoo whoo whoo
Whoo whoo whoo, whoo whoo whoo


Maybe That's Something

We lay around just like gurus
In borrowed robes
And talk about nothing
Well

Maybe that's something
Maybe that's something

Well, you stretch out across a
Long, long table
Without hesitation, you say
"I'm willing and able", well

Maybe that's something
Maybe it's one thing more than I've seen
Maybe that's something more than nothing

Well, you say good, I say you should
Will you be there, yeah, yeah, yeah
Making miracles is hard work
Most people give up before they happen, well

Maybe that's something
Maybe it's one thing more than I've been
Maybe that's something more than nothing
More than nothing
More than nothing

Maybe that's something
Maybe it's one thing more than I've seen
Maybe that's something more than nothing
More than nothing
More than nothing
More than nothing

Nothing, nothing, nothing


Am I Getting Through (Part 1 & 2)

I am strong, I am able
I spill milk on your table
Then I cry like a baby
Just to see if you save me

I am sweet, I am ugly
I am mean if you love me
I'll try hard just to please you
When I say I don't need you

I dress up with a conscience
When I think you'll be watching
I say all the right things
I don't know what I mean

Am I, am I
Getting through
Am I, am I
Getting through

I am ignorant and rude
I am fashionably crude
And sometimes, when it's quiet
I'm an angel in white

When I pose in the mirror
I want everyone near me
I am scared that I'm weird
I'm afraid, I am queer

I am lovely and weak
I am foul when I speak
I am strange when I'm kind
I am frying my mind

Am I, am I
Getting through
Am I, am I
Getting through

I don't care, I don't care

Jesus loves me, I know
For my mom told me so
I'm a loser at love
I'm a flower in the mud

Am I, am I
Getting through
Am I, am I
Getting through
Am I, am I
Getting through

Ugh!

Don't you hate it when the money starts to runnin' out?
Your esoteric rants were made to twist and shout
I heard you moved and now, you're hangin' on the Moulin Rouge
And don't you know, no matter where you go
Somebody's always watching you

That's what they say
That's what they say
When the pages fade, the love you made
Will seem one hundred light years away

That's what they say
That's what they say...


Anything But Down

I light your cigarette
I bring you apples from the vine
How quickly you forget
I run the bath and pour the wine
I bring you everything that floats into your mind

But you don't bring me anything but down
No, you don't bring me anything but down
You don't bring me anything but down
When you come 'round

You are a raging sea
I pull myself out everyday
I plea insanity
'Cause I can't leave and I can't stay
You say "won't you come find me?" and "yes" is what I say

But you don't bring me anything but down
No, you don't bring me anything but down
And everything is crashing to the ground

Well, maybe I'm not your perfect kind
Maybe I'm not what you had in mind
And maybe we're just killing time

You, with your silky words
And your eyes of green and blue
You, with your steel beliefs
That don't match anything you do
It was so much easier before you became you

Now, you don't bring me anything but down
No, you don't bring me anything but down
Now, everything just crashes to the ground
When you come around
When you come around

Now, no more playing seek and hide
No more long and wasted nights
Can't you make it easy on yourself

Now, I know you wish you were strong
You wish you were never wrong
Well, I got some wishes of my own


The Difficult Kind

I think I was wrong
I think you were right
That all my angry words
Will keep me up at night

And through the old screen door
I still hear you say
"Oh honey, won't you stop
Treatin' me that way"

If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then I'd no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
'Cause babe, I've changed

Tell it to me slow
Tell me with your eyes
If anyone should know
How to let it slide

I swear I can see you
Comin' up the drive
And there ain't nothing like regret
To remind you you're alive

If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then I'd no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
'Cause babe, I've changed

I crossed the canyon a thousand times
And never noticed what was mine
What you'll remember of me tonight
Well, it almost makes me cry
Yeah, it almost makes me cry

Oooooooh

Oh, ballbreaking moon and ridiculing stars
Oh, the older I get, the closer you are
Don't you got somewhere that you need to be
Instead of hangin' here, makin' a fool of me

If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then I'd no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
You won't see the change in me, oooh

If you could only see
What love has made of me
But I'll forever be in your mind
The difficult kind
But you won't see, no, you won't see
The good in me, but babe, I've changed
'Cause babe, I've changed


Mississippi

Every step of the way, we walk the line
Your days are numbered, so are mine
Time is piling up, we struggle and we scrape
All boxed in, nowhere to escape

The city's just a jungle, more games to play
I'm trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away
I was raised in the country, been working in the town
I been in trouble since I set my suitcase down

I ain't got nothing for you, I had nothing before
Don't even have anything for myself anymore
Sky's full of fire and the rain is pouring down
There's nothing you can sell me, so I'll see you around

All my powers of expression and thoughts so sublime
Could never do you justice, reason or rhyme
Well, there's only one thing that I did wrong
I stayed in Mississippi a day too long

Devil's in the alley, mule kickin' in the stall
Say anything you wanna, I've heard it all
I was thinking about the things that she said
I was dreaming I was sleeping in your bed

Walking through the leaves falling from the trees
Feel like a stranger nobody sees
So many things we never will undo
I know you're sorry, well, I'm sorry too

Some people will offer you their hand and some won't
Last night, I knew you, tonight, I don't
I need something strong to distract my mind
I'm gonna look at you 'til my eyes go blind

Well, I got here following the southern star
I crossed that river just to be where you are
There's only one thing that I did wrong
I stayed in Mississippi a day too long

Well, my ship's been split to splinters, it's sinking fast
I'm drowning in the poison, got no future, got no past
But my heart, no, it's not weary, it's light and it's free
I got nothing but affection for those who've sailed with me

Everybody's moving if they ain't already there
Everybody's gotta move somewhere
Well, stick with me, baby, anyhow
Things should start to get interesting right about now

And my clothes are wet, they tight on my skin
Not as tight as the corner that I painted myself in
I know that fortune is waiting to be kind
So give me your hand and say you'll be mine

The emptiness is endless, cold as clay
You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way
Well, there's only one thing that I did wrong
I stayed in Mississippi a day too long

Yeah, the only thing that I did wrong
Was stayin' in Mississippi a day too long
The only thing that I did wrong
Was stayin' in Mississippi a day too long, whoo!


Members Only

Uncle Larry's hooked on ice again
He seems to be stuck in the 80s
He wears his Members Only jacket
'Cause he thinks it turns on all the ladies

And all the white folks shake their asses
Looking for the two and four
Well, I'll have mine in martini glasses
'Cause I can't take it anymore

These are the days of empty kitchens
The rise and fall of Mary Ellen's hairdo
I think she's found a new religion
Studying the Kabalah in her J Crew

And all the rich kids shake their asses
Looking for the two and four
Well, I'll have mine with Blackstrap molasses
'Cause I can't taste it anymore
No, 'cause I can't taste it anymore

My friend Greg says it's all good
As the eastern seaboard's blown away
Now, everything is going half-price
So look at all the money we saved

And all the politicians shake their asses
Looking for the back door
I'll just be hanging out with the lasses
'Cause they don't like the boys no more
No, and I can't take it anymore


Crash And Burn

I watched the sun come up on Portland
I waved goodbye to all my friends
I packed my car and headed to L.A.
I gave away all my loose ends

Somebody said "you gotta get away
To wanna go back home again"
I left my universe standing there
Holding the hand of my best friend

And it's laughter that I feel when I think of you
It's one more dusty rose about to turn
I'll see you when I reach New Mexico
If I'm in the mood to crash and burn

I wrote a letter that I never mailed
I rehearsed a dialogue in my head
In case you ever wanted to track me down
I'll take my cell phone to bed

And it's laughter that I hear when I close my eyes
And it's one more punchline I forgot to learn
And I'll call you up when my bottle's dry
And I'm on my way to crash and burn

Antigone laid across the road
And let a mack truck leave her there for dead
Just because her lover split the scene
Well, love might be great, but why lose your head?

Well, it's laughter that comes up when I cry for you
And my heart may break again before it learns
And I might be stupid enough to wanna fall again
'Cause I've gotten used to crash and burn
I say, I've gotten used to the crash and burn

The crash and burn
Burn
Crash
Crash
Crash and burn


Subway Ride

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

I was riding on the e-train, I was whistling to the rhythm
I was thinking about my live-in, I was feeling pretty fine
I asked the time
Got a poke in the eye

When I read the latest news, how we can't believe he wore those shoes
Should we have the man impeached or should we shoot him in the foot
Well, you waste my time, you waste my time
Looking for two hundred ways to hanging a guy

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Allegations, interrogations, investigations, then more taxation
National pastime is aggravation
I think I'll move out to a desert aisle
Just for a while

To avoid all that's distracting
Like newspapers and magazines
Insipid propagandizing
To tell me what a loser I've elected

But you've neglected to tell the truth
That your politics is tied around his foot
And we, too, are dangling

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Do you think that we are crazy
Low I.Q., that we are lazy
That we sit here, watching sitcoms
That we have no clue to what is going on
You've got that wrong

Wait and see, the boom will fall
The morning eggs will hit the wall
And everyone I know will call
To say that change is hanging in the air
You'd best beware

Or you'll wake up and Average Joe is in your chair
Just because he'd kinda like to do what's right
But more 'cause all you politicians do is fight

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo (I was riding on the e-train)
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo (I was singing out a refrain)
Doo doo doo doo...




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