Lyrics Michael's Song - Nanci Griffith
There's
a
light
out
on
the
freeway
says,
"It's
time
to
go"
I'm
wasting
my
time
counting
stains
on
a
barroom
floor
Thinking
'bout
my
hometown
and
the
friends
I'll
leave
behind
Mostly
'bout
the
man
who
writes
his
songs
with
smiling
rhymes
And
I'm
holding
on
to
a
smoky
view
of
his
dreams
in
the
midnight
light
Michael
counts
his
songs
in
the
years
of
wasted
miles
I
used
to
think
he
was
really
part
of
that
fantasy
in
rhyme
Looking
back
on
all
his
tunes
of
butterflies
and
sunshine
There
was
only
one
about
the
man
he
kept
inside
About
the
time
he
crossed
the
line
and
let
a
tear
come
to
his
eye
I
used
to
hide
out
in
his
pretty
smile
Hope
it
would
shine
me
through
the
morrow
Until
I
learned
the
way
it
feels
to
be
the
man
Who
sings
the
world
a
smile
Without
a
soul
to
share
his
sorrow
The
light
here
at
the
freeway,
well,
it's
turning
green
to
gold
The
stains
on
that
barroom
floor,
ten
miles
back
down
the
road
Thinking
'bout
how
that
old
bar
brought
Michael
back
to
mind
How
I
can
sing
his
blues
and
be
smiling
here
inside
I
guess
a
weary
soul
will
always
sing,
Michael's
smiling
rhymes
I
used
to
hide
out
in
his
pretty
smile
Hope
it
would
shine
me
through
the
morrow
Until
I
learned
the
way
it
feels
to
be
the
man
Who
sings
the
world
a
smile
Without
a
soul
to
share
his
sorrow
1 Love At The Five And Dime
2 I Remember Joe
3 Alabama Soft Spoken Blues
4 Michael's Song
5 Song for Remembered Heroes
6 West Texas Sun
7 There's A Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)
8 Dollar Matinee
9 Montana Backroads
10 John Phillip Griffith
11 Can't Love Wrong
12 Marilyn Monroe/Neon and Waltzes
13 Heart of a Miner
14 Julie Anne
15 You Can't Go Home Again
16 October Reasons
17 Wheels
18 Workin' In Corners
19 Waltzing With the Angels
20 Trouble With Roses
21 Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown
22 Poet In My Window
23 Ghost In The Music
24 Love Is A Hard Waltz
25 Roseville Fair
26 Mary & Omie
27 Friend Out In The Madness
28 I'm Not Drivin' These Wheels (Bring The Prose To The Wheel)
29 Time Alone
30 Ballad Of Robin Winter-Smith
31 Daddy Said
32 Once In A Very Blue Moon
33 If I Were The Woman You Wanted
34 Year Down In New Orleans
35 Spin On A Red Brick Floor
36 The Last Of The True Believers
37 St. Olav's Gate
38 More Than A Whisper
39 Banks Of The Pontchartrain
40 Lookin' For The Time (Workin' Girl)
41 Goin' Gone
42 One Of These Days
43 Love's Found A Shoulder
44 Fly By Night
45 The Wing & The Wheel
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