Terri Hendrix

Terri Hendrix Live - Lyrics

1. The Know How
2. Two Dollar Shoes
3. Le Mazet
4. Fisherman's Blues
5. Sister Song
6. Wallet
7. You Mangled My Dog
8. Clicker
9. Dana Blues
10. Who Needs You
11. Blue Eyed Cowboy
12. Gravity
13. Take Me Places
14. If Love Was a Train
15. Wind Me Up

The Know How

written by Terri Hendrix
©1997 THM Music (BMI)

car needs an oil change
bedroom needs a coat of paint
my mind needs a scene change
i'm sick of where i've been
i'm in front of the TV
spittin out sunflower seeds
hidin from the landlord
who's comin for my rent

i'm all out of money
and i'm all out of time
i'm all out of patience right now
and i'd get it together
if i could
but i just don't know how

there was nothin' in the brochure
to warn me of the danger
i'd have on this 'adventure'
when i got out of my bed
my landlord's knockin'
knockin' like an engine
rockin' like the pistons
inside of my head

every stray can find his way back
if he's got a road map
i'll stop and get directions
or i just might disappear
there's got to be a better stop
than livin' life through a pawn shop
i've got somethin' inside of me
and nothin' left here

Two Dollar Shoes

she wiped her hands on her apron
and she put'm on her hips
and gossiped till she turned blue
as i was walkin' by in my two dollar shoes
i got my two dollar
my two dollar
my two dollar shoes
there are those that call some cheap
as if they was fine wine
me, i got my two dollar shoes
and god don't seem to mind about my
two dollar
my two dollar shoes
when i got 'em
my friends said tak 'em back
you ain't normal
you don't fit in
lookin' like that in those two dollar shoes
all i gotta say is
if the shoe fits
and you want to wear it
you gotta lace them up
and strut your stuff
even if some care if
you got two dollar
two dollar
two dollar shoes

Le Mazet

written by ike eichenberg (bmi)
ike is one of my favorite songwriters.
he wrote this song about his visit to europe

there is a bar in paris
where the busquers used to play
the'd stop by for some guiness
when they were through in the subway
and there was gypsy music
and you could see them dance
just to be alive in paris france

there was a girl from chile
I think she was a man
I don't speak her language
I think I understand
she said she was an artist
I said I was one too
she told me she like purple
I told her I like blue

(chorus)
and I can't forget le mazet
when serge and monique
they would play
and with their hats in their hands
they would say
quo quo shos por le music si vous plait

I dreamed I saw marlena
she was standing at the bar
she smoked her cigarette
we strummed on our guitars
she broke into a song
she sang long ago
this man comes up and says
go home, go back to lubbock

well I visit paris often in my mind
I see marlena when I can find the time
we while away the hours
as the gypsies play
we laugh about the nights
at cafe le mazet

(repeat chorus)
(terri jams)

Fisherman's Blues

written by mike scott and steve wickham
blue mountain music/ dizzy heights music/
chrysalis songs (bmi)

I wish I was a fisherman
tumbling out to sea
far away from the dry land
and these bitter memories
casting out my sweet line
with abandonment of love
no ceiling staring down on me
save the starry skies above
with light in my head
and you in my arms

I wish I was a brakeman
on a hurtling fevered train
crashing headlong into the heartland
like a cannon in the rain
with the beating of the sleepers
and the burning of the coal
town after town would slip by me
I keep my soul, I keep my soul
with light in my head
and you in my arms

I know I will be loosened
from the bonds that hold me fast
if the chains all hung around me
will fall away at last
and on that fine and fateful day
I'm going to take you by your hand
we'll ride away
won't you ride away
won't you ride, and ride, and ride
with light in my head
you in my arms

with light in my head
you in my arms

The Sister's Song

you had the left side and i had the right
with a line down the middle so we wouldn't fight
two sisters sharing a room
with desk in the middle of two twin beds
i listened to every word you said
and when I couldn't face the world
i faced you instead
i saw me
it pulled me through when
i saw me
it pulled me through when
i saw me
from your point of view
we twirled around in the breeze
the years turned faster than the leaves
the seasons stopped when you left home
i remember that first night
i was so alone i kept on the lights
and stood in a half empty room on the line you had drawn
when life picked me up and spun me around
you never stopped and judged
you showed me that the way through
was to do the best i could
did you know that every holiday
when relatives mixed up our names
i smiled to myself and pretended i was you
when you were around there were so many words i never knew how to say
i've got to let you know i said them all in my own way

Wallet

written by Terri Hendrix
©1997 THM Music (BMI)

Bend like a willow
flow like a reed
live like a bird
change like a leaf
and keep my name on your mind
and my number in your wallet
for when you got the time

I gotta yard without a fence
a heart you can hold your body against
so keep my name on your mind
and my number in your wallet
for when you got the time

need need need I've got a need to be wanted
and a need to be free
need need need I've got a need to be wanted
and a need to be free

You gotta live with passion
love with the same
hold the key to all your chains
and keep my name on your mind
and my number in your wallet
for when you got the time

You've got to own your own universe
roll in the grass and kiss this earth
and keep my name on your mind
and my number in your wallet
for when you got the time

need need need I've got a need to be wanted
I've gotta need to be free
need need need I've got a need to be wanted
I've gotta need to be free

You Mangled My Dog

written by Don Metz (BMI)

Out of state license plates
Mercedes Benz
A slick city lawyer
and his slick city friends
came down my road
like a train on the tracks
and left my poor dog
in a ditch on his back

I jumped in my pick-up
and I followed that car
I met them just after
They'd stopped at the bar
I slid in behind them
and this lawyer turned red
I grabbed his silk necktie
and here's what I said

(Chorus)
You mangled my dog
you son of a bitch
you left him for dead
on his back in a ditch

You miserable coward
you never turned back around
now I'll do to you
what you did to my hound

Well he stammered and he stuttered
some lame brain excuse
he looks to his friends
but it tweren't any use
he figured for certain
he was gunna get hurt
So he grabbed a fat billfold
out from under his shirt

He counted out 50's
and 20's and 10's
I said "Hey, keep countin"
"We could get to be friends"
I left him 5 dollars
outa all that he owned
I jumped in my truck
and headed back down the road

He mangled my dog
that son of a bitch
he left him for dead
on his back in a ditch
500 dollars
won't ever repay
what he did to my dog
.....but it sure as hell helps

I get back to my place
and wasn't I pleased
to see my mutt
on the porch scratchin' his fleas
He scratched as he waited
as he snapped at a fly
for the next big city car
to come barrelling by

(Repeat Chorus)

Now 500 dollars
won't ever repay
what you he did to my dog
....happens three times a day.

Clicker

written by Terri Hendrix and Llyod Maines
THM Music (BMI)/ Art Mob Music (BMI)

Springer's on TV again talkin with the KU KLUX KLAN
Got the clicker in my hand I need to get a life
Everyone looks double dumb Backwoods moonshine low rent scum
Highlight of my night at home I need to get a life

(Chorus)
Someone asked me 10 years ago
"Where will you be 10 years from now?"
I said "I didn't know."
I need to get a life

Now we're on to Real TV videos of tragedies
Caught on tape for all to see for those that need a life
Watcha gunna do when they come for you
Bad Boys Bad Boys watcha gunna do
Mouth breathers get a clue and need to get a life

(Repeat Chorus)

You can change the channel you can change the scene
I tell myself this everyday in front of my TV screen
Yea Yea Yea Yea Yea Yea

Got the clicker in my hand
Changing channels once again
You can buy religion you can buy a life
If you send them money they'll pray for you
True believers faint on cue
I believe God is free for those that need a life
Next stop is 1-900 call a girl tonight
Blonde or black they talk back to those that need a life
I need a life I need a clue
an infomercial with a lil' glue
Something I can stick to to claim I have a life

(Repeat Chorus)
(Repeat Chorus)

Springer's on TV again with who did who with who's best friend
I got the clicker in my hand
I need to get a life I need to get a life
What could be sicker than me with my clicker

Dana Blues

written by Terri Hendrix
THM Music

There's a girl named Dana
She cooks for every man in town (yep)
There's a girl named Dana
She cooks for every man in town
She cooked for my man
When my back was turned around

(Chorus)
I get the Dana Blues
every time I see cake
I hate cake
I get the Dana Blues
every time I see cake
I hate cake
I think of my man cuttin himself a piece
of cake in the oven
beggin'... ice me please

Well, I...I kept my man fed
I kept my man fed
but he chose junk food
so I said eat at Dana's house instead

(Repeat Chorus)

Why ya hurt me, why ya hurt me
Why ya hurt me, why ya hurt me
Why ya hurt me, why ya hurt me
Why ya hurt me, why ya hurt me
Why ya hurt me like you do?

All right now, I hear my man is diabetic
I hear my man is diabetic and crazy too
and every since he ran off with Dana he's the one
and every since he ran off with Dana he's the one
and every since he ran off with Dana he's the one
and every since he ran off with Dana he's the one
he's the one
he's the one
he's the one
the one with the Dana Blues.
That, that, that, that's all!

Who Needs You

written by Darcie Deaville
Exoteric Music/ Taller Dog Music (BMI)

You asked me to your house
You seem to really care
I thought we would be friends
but when I got there
things were not what they seem
you had a different side
shown off at your party
kind of like you lied

(Chorus)
If thats the way you're going to be
who needs ya
If thats the way you're going to be
yah
If thats the way you're going to be
who needs ya
If thats the way you're going to be
yah

Time in a half
the way I see it now
its what you got to give
you figure out how
you know you done wrong
you got to try real hard
if you ever want me
to give you my regards

(Repeat Chorus)

Think your king
Think your cool
think my world
is the one you can rule
Back down baby
I'm kickin' ya out
You're somebody I can live without

(Repeat Chorus)

Tried for many years
for us to be friends
you snubbed me
I gave up in the end
There weren't any one for me to talk to
now I say the hell with you

(Repeat Chorus)
(Repeat Chorus)

Who needs ya
I don't need this from anybody
If that's the way you're going to be, oh yah!

Blue Eyed Cowboy

written by john hadley
sony/atv songs
llc dba tree/john hadley songs (bmi)
I think john hadley read my diary.

blue eyed cowboy

this city's been screamin' at me since I got here
I hide in my room with the radio on
talk about bein' where nobody needs you
if I had any sense i'd prob'ly go home

well I wasted the night like I wasted the mornin'
runnin' down leads that don't lead anywhere
I hammered the street, my feet need re-bornin'
it's ten thousand steps to the top of the stairs

(chorus)
sing me your song, you blue eyed cowboy
you're livin' in texas got your songs on the air
keepin' me company on top of this building
where nobody's singin' and nobody cares

the young women look like they've never seen sunshine
the old women all paint their hair powder blue
the old men are dyin' beneath a wet paper
they down their cheap whiskey and nothin' to do

(repeat chorus)

is everyone here be as lonely as I am
hopin' the siren don't come to their door?
dreamin' of texas and south oklahoma
drinkin' tequila and walkin' the floor

(repeat chorus)

well if I find a diamond that nobody's clamin'
i'll hitch me a ride on the first west-bound truck
i'll sing you this song when we get together
to hell with this city good-bye, good-bye, good luck

Gravity

written by Terri Hendrix
©1997 THM Music (BMI)

Freefall off the mountain freefall into space
the world spins by as I fly off into another state
why - do we crash into the blue?
why - does a high never last into the blue?
all you have to blame it on - is gravity
in you, in me, in me

I dreamed I was a satellite
doing circles 'round the earth
I woke to find myself entwined in a blanket of dirt
why - do we crash into the blue?
why - does a high never last into the blue?
all you have to blame it on - is gravity
in you, I have a lot of gravity in me
all you have to blame it on - is gravity
in you, I have a lot of gravity in me

Mayday I'm comin down
Mayday I'm gonna crash
I wake in bed in a cold sweat
and think of all these prayers I should have asked
why - do we crash into the blue?
why - does a high never last into the blue?

all you have to blame it on - is gravity
in you, I have a lot of gravity in me
all you have to blame it on - is gravity
in you, I have a lot of gravity in me
Why?
Why?

Take Me Places

written by Ike Eichenberg/Carrie Todd Pratt (BMI)

These four walls are drivin' me crazy
I'm going nuts
Just hangin round
Come on baby don't you be so lazy
Pack your bags lets blow this town

Chorus:
Take me to Mexico wake me up in Singapore
Maybe we can see morocco
Take me where I've never been before
rat tat tat rat tat tat etc...
Come on baby let's go let's go

Come on baby don't you be so boring
Let's get away just pretend
Distant lands are giving us a calling
I'll tell you what a call will do

Chorus

Think of you and me
Dinin' in Paris
Strolln' down the avenue holdling hands
We can take a plane
We can hop a train
Window shop in Amsterdam

Chorus

Drinkin' margaritas
With the señoritas
Eatin' sukiaki in Tokyo
Maybe chop sui
Just me and youi
Little little baby let's go let's go

Chorus

Take me somewhere exotic
Far away to a distant shore
A quiet beach could be hypnotic
Take me where I've never been before

If Love Was A Train

written by Michelle Shocked
PolyGram Songs, Inc.(BMI)

If love was a train
I think I would ride me a slow one
One that would ride thru the night
Making every single-solitary-stop
If love was a train
I would feel no pain
I'd never get off
I'd never get off

If love was a train
I think I would ride me a long one
Hear me talking
I'm talking fifty boxcars long
Oo, whats the use?
Most trains these days
Ain't got no engine
Muchless a caboose

(Chorus)
Love ain't no train
Love ain't no train
Love ain't no train
Love ain't no train
Ah look out here she come,
ah look out there she goes

If love was a train
I'd throw my body on her tracks
If love was a train I'd throw
My body on the tracks
If love was a train
I would feel no pain
I'd let it rolled across my back
Roll across my back

(Repeat Chorus)

But love ain't no train
Love's a broncing bull
Love ain't no train
Love's a broncing bull
and even if you manage to ride
It just shakes you up inside
Love ain't a train

(Repeat Chorus)

Roll train...............Go train......Move on train!

Wind Me Up

written by Terri Hendrix and Al Barlow
©1997 THM Music (BMI)

All's I've gots is my P.O. box
It's on the corner of Lavaca and Ninth
I do a little and the little I do
is enough for me to keep my vice
Oh wind me up and watch me go. I'm gone

Wind wind wind me up.
Watch watch watch me go
Wind wind wind me up.
Watch watch watch me go
wind me up and watch me go.
Baby I'm gone

All's I left was a pile of debts
and a man he would not work
I said didn't your mama raise you right
baby you always been a jerk
what a jerk
wind me up and watch me go. I'm gone.

And all's I left was a sleepyhead
one light town by the bay
I stuck out my thumb when I was done
Listening to what that town had to say
gossip
gossip nothin but gossip.

I check my mail on Monday morning
P.O. box key in hand
I check my mail for bills
for catalogs and for contraband........
Wind me up and watch me go. I'm gone