Melissa Etheridge Lyrics

Similar Features
Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there
She's got similar features with longer hair
And if that's what it takes to get you through
Go on and close your eyes, it shouldn't bother you

You never had to wait for nothing in your life
I guess wanting me must have been a steel blue knife
And when night after night the scent of passion would linger
You had to have the jewels wrapped around your finger
Now you keep running down the road in your midnight state of mind
Curiosity kills if you can't read the signs

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there
She's got similar features with longer hair
And if that's what it takes to get you through
Go on and close your eyes, it shouldn't bother you

Dancing with the wall made you bitter and sweet
There ain't much you can do when they just lay it at your feet
But you could tell by the song I wanted to be the one
Did you listen again when the damage was done
Now the paint's still wet in your do-it-by-number dream
Are you gonna tell me how it felt, will you tell me what it means

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there
She's got similar features with longer hair
And if that's what it takes to get you through
Go on and close your eyes, it shouldn't bother you

Was it want with no desire?
Was it smoke with no fire?
Did I say it doesn't rip me apart...I lied
I'm sorry dear my hands are tied

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there
She's got similar features with longer hair
And if that's what it takes to get you through
Go on and close your eyes, it shouldn't bother you

Chrome Plated Heart
I got a chrome-plated heart
I got wings on these fingers trying to tear it apart
I got angels crying from up above
And they got rust in their eyes, they got rust on their love
But I have learned to leave no stone unturned
And keep the wall against my back
And the love is real as the day is long
And the night is black, as black as night

I got a two dollar stare
Midas in my touch, and Delilah in my hair
I got bad intentions on the soles of my shoes
With this red hot fever and these chromium blues
And I will feel another lover's wheel
And drive for miles and not look back
And the love is real as the day is long
And the night is black, as black as night

On my chrome-plated heart
Wings on these fingers trying to tear it apart
I got angels crying from up above
And they got rust in their eyes, they got rust on their love
And the only way I know where the train will go
Is when I'm sleeping on the tracks
And the love is real as the day is long
And the night is black, as black as night
And the night is black, as black as night

Like The Way I Do
Is it so hard to satisfy your senses
You found out to love me you have to climb some fences
Scratching and crawling along the floor to touch you
And just when it feels right you say you found someone else to hold you
Does she like i do?

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Tell me does she love you like the way I love you?
Does she stimulate you, attract and captivate you?
Tell me does she miss you, existing just to kiss you like the way I do?
Tell me does she want you, infatuate and haunt you
Does she know just how to shock you, electrify and rock you
Does she inject you, seduce you and affect you like the way I do?

Can I survive all the implications
Even if I tried could you be less than an addiction
Don't you think I know there's so many others
Who would beg, steal and lie, fight, kill and die
Just to hold you hold you like I do

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Nobody loves you like the way I do
Nobody wants you like the way I do
Nobody needs you like the way I do
Nobody aches nobody aches just to hold you like the way I do

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Precious Pain
Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are
Everybody clings to their own fear, everybody hides some scar

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Precious pain, empty and cold but it keeps me alive
I gave it my soul so that I could survive
Keeping me safe in these chains, precious pain

Everybody's got a reason to abandon their pain
How can I think of tomorrow with my sorrow in hand

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Each road that I walk down reminds me of you
This whole town is haunted, there'll never be anything new

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Don't You Need
I had a dream late last night, the water was running low
And my fields were on fire, burning my sky, my body was moving slow
And when I awoke I tasted the sweat of desire in my mouth
And I realized my heart had abducted my mind
And they were last seen headed south
Now I can't sleep, I'm so wired, and I find myself screaming out

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Don't you need, don't you want, can't you taste it when you're alone
Don't you cry, don't you feel, sometimes I wonder if you are real
Don't you bleed, don't you need

There's no quenching the thirst there's no relief for the hungry at heart
And as far as you're concerned I'm just a thief entertaining in the dark
But it's you that holds the cards now that the joker is wild

Don't you want to lay it down and feel your skin against the ground
Don't you want to ride the storm and then sleep inside the calm
Don't you want to get that high, don't you want to be satisfied
Well if you don't want it from me, don't you need

I had a dream late last night, the water was running low
And my fields were on fire, burning my sky
How was I to know that I burn every night in my dreams
And only morning can set me free

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The Late September Dogs
Just outside my window I hear the late September dogs
And I understand their warning, I understand their song
Since you left I feel the change in the air
And night after night I'm searching for mercy everywhere
So I wake in the street and I call out your name
I shout to the sky, please

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Come on let it rain, let it rain down on me
Let the rain touch my hands, let the rain set me free
Let it rain down on me

Silence is the steel that pierces and cuts me to the bone
In dreams the hand that touches you is mine and mine alone
Cruel is the light is the morning shining down on me
Hours with the Devil to understand just what you need
So I wake in the street and I call out your name
Shout to the sky come on

Come on let it rain, let it rain down on me
Let the rain fill my eyes, let the rain set me free
Let it rain down on me

Just inside the distance I hear the late September dogs
And so I beg for sleep the child who walked before she crawled
Damn my soul that remembers and clutches to this pain
The spear in your side is me

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Occasionally
I saw you with your new friends, you wear them so well
Broken shoes and loose ends, gee you look swell
Me I'm drinking my coffee, and I'm smoking cigarettes
I'm a deputy of habit, I just can't forget

I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car
I'm only lonely after dark
I'm only lonely when I watch my tv
I'm only lonely occasionally

I saw you with your envoy, a consenting adult
Technique in moderation, but vogue to the cult
Me I've got my strangers to exile in the night
I'm guess I'm just addicted to the pain of delight

I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car
I'm only lonely after dark
I'm only lonely when I watch my tv
I'm only lonely occasionally
Occasionally
Occasionally

Watching You
That's a good question, why am I standing out here alone
I guess I don't know enough to come in from the rain
I was watching your window from here below
I think I just might stay here all day cause I gotta do something

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If I can't love you, I don't want to love you
If I can't hold you, I don't want to be thinking of you
And if you don't want me, I don't want to want you
And if you won't see me, I don't know what to do
But oh keep watching you until I see right through
Oh I keep watching you

You could throw me down a cigarette
I smoked my last one quite a while ago
No, I gave it to the man that swore he had no need
You know sometimes if I listen real close
I can hear the dark side of the moon
And there's always yesterday's Times if I care to read
And I gotta do something

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Sure I'm alright, no I'm not very cold
Every now and then I can feel the subway heat
So go on inside, I'll leave you alone
Anyway Bogart's on in the window down the street
And I gotta do something

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Bring Me Some Water
Tonight I feel so weak, but all in love is fair
I turn the other cheek
And I feel the slap and the sting of the foul night air
And I know you're only human
And I haven't got talking room
But tonight while I'm making excuses
Some other woman is making love to you

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Somebody bring me some water, can't you see I'm burning alive
Can't you see my baby's got another lover
I don't know how I'm gonna survive
Somebody bring me some water, can't you see it's out of control
Baby's got my heart, and my baby's got my mind
But tonight the sweet Devil's got my soul

When will this aching pass, when will this night be through
I want to hear the breaking glass
I only feel the steel of the red hot truth
And I'd do anything to get it out of my mind
I need some insanity of that temporary kind
Tell me how will I ever be the same
When I know that woman is whispering your name

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Oh, the Devil's got my soul

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I Want You
I can see your darkened eyes across the room turn into lies and laughter
And asking for my name again then introduced as just a friend
Well it was no fantasy the passion burned
You touched me the evening turned to midnight
I can't forget the naked trust
One quenchless night of shaking lust and fire

I want you, I want you
I want you, I want you

Since that night I'm not the same desire breeds an ugly stain inside me
Satisfaction never comes, it's always dark and yet I still run
Even when I close my eyes
You torture me with shameless sighs seduction
Walking in a chilling sweat pounding heart inside my chest I'm screaming

I want you, I want you
I want you, I want you

With your heart in your fist you laugh at my situation
Tell me is it blood you want
Then take me strip me cut me see I'm bleeding

I want you, I want you
I want you, I want you