Mrs Potter's Lullaby
Counting Crows - This Desert Life
well i woke up in mid afternooncause that's when it all hurts the most
i dream i never know anyone at the party
and i'm always the host
if dreams are like movies
then memories are films about ghosts
you can never escape y
ou can only move south down the coast
well i am an idiot
walking a tightrope of fortune and fame
i am an acrobat
swinging trapezes through circles of flame
if you've never stared off into the distance
then your life is a shame
and though i'll never forget your face
sometimes i can't remember my name
hey mrs potter don't cry
hey mrs potter i know why
but hey mrs potter won't you talk to me
there's a piece of maria
in every song that i sing
and the price of a memory
is the memory of the sorrow it brings
and there is always one last light to turn out
and one last bell to ring
and the last one out of the circus
has to lock up everything
or the elephants will get out
and forget to remember what you said
oh and the ghosts of the tilt a whirl
will linger inside of your head
oh and the ferris wheel junkies
will spin there forever instead
when i see you a blanket of stars
covers me in my bed
hey mrs potter don't go
i said hey mrs potter i don't know
but hey mrs potter won't you talk to me
oh the blue light reflections
that colour my mind when i sleep
and the lovesick rejections
that accompany the company i keep
oh the razor perceptions
that cut just a little too deep
hey i can bleed as well as anyone
but i need someone to help me sleep
oh so i throw my hand into the air
and it swims in the beams
it's just a brief interruption
in the swirling dust sparkle jetstream
well i know i don't know you
and you're probably not what you seem
oh but i'd sure like to find out
so why don't you climb down off that movie screen
hey mrs potter don't turn
hey mrs potter i burn for you
hey mrs potter won't you talk to me
when the last king of hollywood
shatters his glass on the floor
and orders another
well i wonder what he did that for
cause then i know that i have to get out
cause i have been there before
so i gave up my seat at the bar
and i head for the door
we drove out to the desert
just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars
we stand up in the palace
like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars
oh we shout out these songs
against the clang of electric guitars
ah you can see a million miles tonight
but you can't get very far
oh you can see a million miles tonight
but you can't get very far
hey mrs potter i won't touch
and hey mrs potter it's not much
but hey mrs potter won't you talk to me
hey mrs potter won't you talk to me
hey mrs potter won't you talk to me
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|---|---|---|
| A Scottish Soldier | Traditional | |
| Accidental Kelly Street | Frente | Marvin the Album |
| All the Lilacs in Ohio | John Hiatt | The Tiki Bar is Open |
| And | Anya Stevens | Silhouettes |
| Angel | Sarah Slean | Universe |
| Annie's Song | John Denver | Back Home Again |
| Barrett's Privateers | Stan Rogers | Fogarty's Cove |
| Big Yellow Taxi | Joni Mitchell | Ladies of the Canyon |
| Birdhouse in Your Soul | They Might Be Giants | Flood |
| Black Day in July | Gordon Lightfoot | Did She Mention My Name? |
| Blue Parade | Sarah Slean | blue parade |
| Book Smart, Street Stupid | Sarah Slean | Night Bugs |
| Both Hands | Ani diFranco | Like I Said |
| Brick | Ben Folds Five | Whatever and Ever, Amen |
| Bullets | Hawksley Workman | For Him And The Girls |
| Climbing Up The Walls | Sarah Slean | Universe |
| Coffee Stain | Sarah Harmer | You Were Here |
| Crash and Burn | Savage Garden | Affirmation |
| Crash Into Me | Dave Matthews Band | Crash |
| Democracy | Leonard Cohen | The Future |
| Diving in the Deep End | Natalie Imbruglia | Left of the Middle (Japan) |
| Don't Speak | No Doubt | Tragic Kingdoms |
| Down So Long | Jewel | Spirit |
| Duncan | Sarah Slean | Night Bugs |
| Eliot | Sarah Slean | blue parade |
| Elisabeth | Billy Gilman | One Voice |
| First Sight | Dancing for Nickels | Dancing for Nickels |
| Free Fallin' | Tom Petty | Full Moon Fever |
| Fuel | Ani diFranco | Little Plastic Castle |
| Graceland | Paul Simon | Graceland |
| Gulf War Song | Moxy Fruvous | Bargainville |
| Gummi Bears Theme | Rockapella | |
| Haircut | The Waifs | A Brief History |
| Hanging By A Thread | Jann Arden | Happy? |
| High and Dry | Radiohead | The Bends |
| Holiday in Spain | Counting Crows | Hard Candy |
| Home For A Rest | Spirit of the West | |
| I Don't Like Mondays | The Boomtown Rats | The Fine Art Of Surfacing |
| If I Had A Million Dollars | Barenaked Ladies | Gordon |
| Innocence Maintained | Jewel | Spirit |
| Iris | Goo Goo Dolls | Dizzy Up The Girl |
| It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) | REM | Document |
| Karma Police | Radiohead | OK Computer |
| Knockin' On Heaven's Door | Guns N' Roses | Use Your Illusion II |
| Late In The Evening | Paul Simon | One Trick Pony |
| Life Uncommon | Jewel | Spirit |
| Lightning Crashes | Live | Throwing Copper |
| Lost Together | Blue Rodeo | Lost Together |
| Man On The Moon | REM | Automatic For The People |
| Mary Ellen Carter | Stan Rogers | Home In Halifax |
| Meet Virginia | Train | Train |
| Morning Has Broken | Cat Stevens | Teaser and the Firecat |
| Mrs Potter's Lullaby | Counting Crows | This Desert Life |
| My Country 'Tis of Thee | Ani diFranco | Up Up Up Up Up Up |
| My Number | Tegan and Sarah | This Business Of Art |
| Never is a Promise | Fiona Apple | Tidal |
| Nightswimming | REM | Automatic For The People |
| Northrop Frye | whiteelephant.ca | |
| One Voice | Billy Gilman | One Voice |
| Rain King | Counting Crows | August and Everything After |
| Rest Stop | Matchbox 20 | Mad Season |
| Round Here | Counting Crows | August And Everything After |
| Sailor's Rest | Stan Rogers | Home in Halifax |
| Silent All These Years | Tori Amos | Little Earthquakes |
| Slide | Goo Goo Dolls | Dizzy Up The Girl |
| Stay | Lisa Loeb | Tails |
| Streets of London | Roger Whittaker | Legendary |
| Summertime | Gershwin and Heyward | Songs for Clem |
| Sumo | RASA | |
| Superhero | Dancing for Nickels | Dancing for Nickels |
| Superman's Song | Crash Test Dummies | The Ghosts That Haunt Me |
| That Day | Natalie Imbruglia | White Lilies Island |
| The Drinking Song | Moxy Fruvous | Bargainville |
| The Freshmen | Verve Pipe | Villains |
| The Longest Time | Billy Joel | An Innocent Man |
| The Sound Of | Jann Arden | Happy? |
| The Sweetest Thing | U2 | The Best Of 1980-1990 |
| Tomorrow Morning | Natalie Imbruglia | Big Mistake (Australia) |
| Trudeau | whiteelephant.ca | |
| Uniform Grey | Sarah Harmer | You Were Here |
| Untouchable Face | Ani diFranco | Dilate |
| Walking In Memphis | Marc Cohn | Walking in Memphis |
| We Want A Rock | They Might Be Giants | Flood |
| Wish You Were Here | Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here |
| Witch of the Westmorland | Stan Rogers | |
| With Or Without You | U2 | The Joshua Tree |
| Yesterday | The Beatles | "Yesterday" ...And Today |
| You Had Time | Ani diFranco | Out of Range |
| You Were Here | Sarah Harmer | You Were Here |
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