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DREAMER (Ana Egge)

First strike, snake bite
Cut the wall of sand with your sharp knife
And skin the diamond back
Into the wind
Where the spirit meets the eye

Dreamer come alive
Come alive in my body
Dreamer come alive
Come alive in my body

That’s how the desert blooms
On fire a fiddle tune calling to me
Burning red to white
I’ve been waiting all my life
Waiting here for you

Dreamer come alive
Come alive in my body
Dreamer come alive
Come alive in my body
Dreamer come alive
Come alive in my body
Dreamer come alive
Come alive in my body
Dreamer come alive
Come alive in my body
Dreamer come alive
Come alive in my body

FLAT TOP GUITAR (Bryan Thomas)

I am an old flat top guitar
Standing in the corner
I get picked on once in a while
When the neighbor’s kid comes over

I used to be in a country band
Called the Westernairs
We played dance halls and weddings
Even the county fair

We played all night in those days of old
The Tennessee waltz and Cotton-Eyed Joe
Never been nothing that could ever compare
To the one-night stand at the county fair

It hurts to sit here catchin’ dust
With so much inside me
So I do my best to cooperate
When the neighbor’s kid comes to try me

I still remember those golden hands
They made me wail and cry
Feels like I’m still ringing now
From the nights they held me high

We played all night in those days of old
The Tennessee Waltz and Cotton-Eyed Joe
Never been nothing that could ever compare
To the one-night stand at the county fair

It was a wonderful one-night stand
Music filled the air

JENNY RUN AWAY (Traditional/Ana Egge)

Jenny run away in the mud in the night
Jenny run away in the moonshine bright
Jenny run away combing up her hair
Jenny run away with the circus at the fair
Jenny run away in the master’s clothes
Jenny run away on a night so cold
Jenny run away and hid in the dark
Jenny run away and she headed up north

Jenny run for her freedom
Jenny run for her life
Jenny run for her freedom
Jenny run for her life

Jenny run away in the mud in the night
Jenny run away from a terrible fight
Jenny run away when the door wouldn’t shut
Jenny run away when he wouldn’t get up

Jenny run for her freedom
Jenny run for her life
Jenny run for her freedom
Jenny run for her life

Jenny run away in the mud in the night
Jenny run away in the moonshine bright
Jenny run away on a wing and a prayer
Jenny run away with a babe under there

Jenny run for her freedom
Jenny run for her life
Jenny run for her freedom
Jenny run for her life

Jenny run away in the mud in the night
Jenny run away in the moonshine bright

BRIGHT SHADOW (Ana Egge)

I know a girl, a girl with wings
She can’t fly, only in her dreams
But if she can’t fly
Why does she have those dreams

What does it mean, it mean to me
Riding the sky like it’s the sea
Only in my dreams
Why do I have these wings

Dream me awake and never rest
Bring to my days what I like best
My bright shadow rising in my chest
My light will only come from inside
My light shining, my shadow bright

All my love is never really mine
My bright shadow rising in my chest
Only in my dreams
Why do I have these wings

ROCK ME (Ana Egge/Gary Nicholson)

Every morning, first thing
I try to put some distance between me and who I used to be
Every evening when the day is done
I look back at how far I’ve come
And close my eyes and lay down to dream

In my dreams I’m free
This world has no hold on me
In my dreams she comforts me
She comforts me

Rock me in the arms of my divine mother, divine mother
Rock me now
Rock me in the arms of my divine mother, divine mother Rock me now

There was a time not long ago
I thought all I had to know
Was what to do and what to say
How to act to get my way

Now there’s nothing more I need
Than to feel her close to me
Nothing more I’ll ever need
Than to feel her comfort me

Rock me in the arms of my divine mother, divine mother
Rock me now
Rock me in the arms of my divine mother, divine mother Rock me now
Rock me now
Rock me now

WILDFLOWERS (Dolly Parton)

The hills were alive with wildflowers
And I was as wild, even wilder than they
For at least I could run, they just died in the sun
And I refused to just wither in place

Just a wild rambling rose, seeking freedom to grow
So I left fearing not where I’d go
When a flower grows wild it can always survive

Wildflowers don’t care where they grow
And the flowers I knew in the fields where I grew
Were content to be lost in the crowd
They were common and close, I had no room to grow

And I wanted to much to branch out
So I uprooted myself from my home ground and left
Took my dreams and I took to the road
When a flower grows wild it can always survive

Wildflowers don’t care where the grow
I grew up fast and strong and I never felt right
In a garden so different from me
I just never belonged, how I longed to be gone

So the garden one day set me free
I hitched a ride with the wind
And since he was my friend
I just let him decide where we’d go

When a flower grows wild it can always survive
Wildflowers don’t care where they grow

FIFTH OF JULY (Ana Egge/Adam Levy)

Early ‘80s Chevy Nova
With the Spanish bass rolling ‘cross main
Windows down, elbows out
Review saint under bones of clouds
Coming down like rain

This is too much, I’m hurting
And you can’t help, I’m broken
Guess it’s just as well
We’re in the same body of the boat
The same wave gonna come and throw us over

And away we go out early
On the morning of the 5th of July, hey-ey
Looking for fireworks that survived the night
Going out early on the morning of the 5th of July

In the alley on the dirt last night
My heart hurt for you
Falling fast, good friends I had
If I could see these days as dreams
They wouldn’t hurt so bad

Going out early on the morning of the 5th of July, hey-ey
Looking for fireworks that survived the night
You told me not to worry
But baby something don’t feel right, hey-ey
Going out early on the morning of the 5th of July

MAPS OF THE MOON (Ana Egge/Mike Ferrio)

Maps of the moon
Black and white pictures of you
It felt like being born
I thought the moment had arrived
You said so yourself
You said so in slow motion

Water falls like rain
So sweet and so lonely
So lonely, so lonely

There’s a shadow beside the house
Between the big tree and the porch
Looks like you standing there
Smoking at the altar of the altar of the altar

The mark of the white tiger
You kept ‘em guessing
You were here and then gone
Gone with the roses, the roses, the roses

TURNING AWAY (Ana Egge)

Why do you keep turning away from me, love
Why do I keep drinking when I’ve had enough
I was off the map and you were the compass
Always making sense of where I was and where I wasn’t
I put you above me
Then unknown we went chasing our secrets

Why do you keep turning away from me, love
Why do I keep drinking when I’ve had enough
The land and the sea of my body
Wanting to be known by you exploring me
And into your new idea of me
I was had by you and filled by your need

Why do you keep turning away from me, love
Why do I keep drinking when I’ve had enough
Why do you keep turning away from me, love
Why do I keep drinking when I’ve had enough

BALLAD OF JEAN GENET (Ana Egge)

Pass out sleeping, cigarette in hand
History repeating on one man
Friends in jail are all you got

Photographs of Paris
The Europeans feared
Superficial details like paint in your hair
Dressed in elegant despair
A man in love with a man

Students and workers on an empty stage
One father beat you, one mother forgave
Beauty in danger of dying
A man in love with a man

Shaking hands in battle, classical themes
Books on a mantle signed by a thief
A prisoner of love on your knees
A man in love with a man
A man in love with a man