Pillow Book Lyrics and Credits
Beautiful Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar, synthesizer Lee Parvin – piano, synth bass Marc Summers – cello close your eyes got something I want to show you it’s a surprise and I just want you to be blown away by this beautiful thing I found love that I was hiding from you wonderful to me you are so beautiful choose a hand could be left, could be right you’ve got a fifty-fifty chance I’m gonna show you something dreamy this beautiful thing I found love that I was hiding from you wonderful to me you are so beautiful my bed is like a raft out on a sea of madness come on jump on my body is like a ship out on a sea of gladness come on jump on get sane with me pick a card any card any card hey look there you found a queen and there’s her heart beautiful thing I found love that I was hiding from you	Hollow Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar, Lee Parvin – farfisa organ, piano Marc Games – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass Pete French – drums Jon Uhland – excellent tom fill I got a little door in my heart you can walk in sit down take me apart and I’m here on my hands and knees just looking for a love that will never, never leave I wanna know how far you wanna go every time you go I feel so hollow hell I wish I was more like you you’re so square so clean I feel obscene your path is crooked mine is straight going straight down straight down and I can’t wait I wanna know how far you wanna go every time you go I feel so hollow I’ll never be your sleep walking saint I know you think I am but I ain’t stick to me but I won’t be there just ashes ashes everywhere I wanna know how far you wanna go every time you go I feel so hollow
Harbor Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar, drum loop Lee Parvin – Hammond B-3 organ, vocals  Jim Kerwin – acoustic bass Marc Games – acoustic guitar Pete French – drums You are not welcome here with your slave ship full of thoughts with your plague ship full of thoughts into the harbor of my mind hey you raving pamphleteer you’re shouting in my ear from the inside it’s an untamable world a little wilder everyday and I’m not running away when I first met you I couldn’t wait to get away now I think of you  and I long for you as I go crashing through my day hey you just inside my gate well I recognize your face and the sweetness of your embrace it’s an untamable world a little wilder everyday and I’m not running away tyrants and murderers despots and thieves I’ve got nothing to offer you I can provide no relief hey you there with your scathing critique well your words just make me weak and I think that that’s a sin yeah I know that I used to let you in but then you occupied my skin and then you wouldn’t let me in it’s an untamable world a little wilder everyday and I’m not running away	Cherries on the Ground Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar, marching bass drum,                       hi-hat and snare, monkey-wrenching Lee Parvin – accordion, synthesizer, ego-terrorism Marc Games – acoustic guitar, asphalt eradication Paul Olguin – electric bass, tree hugging I plant a radish fairy ring and it came up in an instant all around the lemon tree and I’m looking off in the distance I’m looking off in the distance all the angels that I know are trying to get something to grow heading off the apocalypse with a leaf  a wreath  and a vine moonlight pulls the waves around ‘till there are cherries on the ground cherries on the ground ‘till every pair of dungarees has mud stains on the knees maybe we’re late for the party maybe the party is just getting started moonlight pulls the waves around ‘till there are cherries on the ground cherries on the ground you are my treasure you are my prize every time I wake up and look in your eyes all the years that we were poor well we’re not poor anymore but what’s all that money for when moonlight pulls the waves around ‘till there are cherries on the ground cherries on the ground
Sailor on a Windless Sea Nancy Hall - vocals, ukulele Lee Parvin - vocals, harmonica Jim Kerwin - acoustic bass Every light in the house is on gonna burn it up until it’s all gone you know the story how the wheel goes round we’re gonna drive it right into the ground ‘cause every dollar that I make I spend spending more that I’m making and then I dig a whole and I can’t get out I wish that somebody would tell me what this is all about ‘till the souls of my shoes are gone the nights are cozy but the days are so warm Monday’s a coma and Tuesday’s a dirge Wednesday’s like a movie and Thursday’s absurd Friday I’d be driving but they took my keys I’m like a sailor on a windless sea	Commit Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar,                        snare & hat & bongos, drum loop   Marc Games – electric guitar   Paul Olguin – electric bass We give our prayer to the underlayment below the pavement through three layers of cement sing more sigh less down the river of gratefulness life’s a test who can ring like the good bell crying out I want to shout Commit to brilliance it’s the diamond romance quaking calmly we open deep sparks in the jewel dark we stop at nothing beyond the wife and the mystery thigh the women try to deliver a message Commit to brilliance it’s the diamond romance fast and fine the angels sweat ‘cause it looks like they lost the bet this is no hard gift if you get my drift I will shine like the essential sun lock it to the cool sky symphony it’s gonna set you free Commit to brilliance it’s the diamond romance
Always Be Your Girl Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar Lee Parvin – piano Marc Games – electric guitar, acoustic guitar safe in your arms hold on to me hands around me and I’m caught oh devour me dress me feed me fold me I will always be your girl it will take two hands to hold me I will always be I will always be your girl love and affection limitlessly tears of joy tears of redemption oh deliver me dress me feed me fold me I will always be your girl it will take two hands to hold me I will always be I will always be your girl love’s a living thing love’s a work of art	Meanstreak ( the knife-thrower's wife )   Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar   Lee Parvin – piano   Marc Games – acoustic guitar, electric bass I got this treasure barely underground I can’t believe the shiny thing I found hand on your stomach and I feel you breathe this is the sound of falling leaves you got a meanstreak baby, deadly aim when you aim to please you please me you just kill my pain I confiscate everything you say collect the pages and I tuck them away I lick the ink ‘til my tongue turns blue soul crushing crush on you you got a meanstreak baby, deadly aim when you aim to please you please me you just kill my pain Oh I thought you understood I’d clear a path and make your going good savior with a ship to sail little failures that will never fail solid with no need for words I’ll be a planet in your universe I’m up to here in electric eels and kissing villains for the way that it feels hush not don’t give it away I’ll always lose these games we play you got a meanstreak baby, deadly aim when you aim to please you please me you just kill my pain you got a meanstreak baby, deadly aim when you aim to please you please me you leave a wicked stain
Man with a Megaphone Nancy Hall – voice & piano Mark Summers – cello Say what you want to I’m not afraid of you fear is an angry man with a megaphone loud as you can be I hear the birds sing over the static over everything come to my garden sad little big man tear up the roots of my trees until you get that no one’s out to get you fear is an angry man with a megaphone	Sweetness Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar Lee Parvin – Hammond B-3 organ Marc Games – electric guitar Peter Canton –electric bass Andrew Griffin – drums Lay down slow wouldn’t want to let this little bit of sweetness go I should know better than to let this little bit of sweetness show it’s a harsh world and I need some comfort cold It’s cold and your hands are warm wind will blow pick us up and put us down drowning all the animal sounds all I wanna do is kiss your neck and follow you around some it’s a harsh world and I need some comfort cold It’s cold and your hands are warm I’ll be your pet maybe I might least until I bite until then lay down here wouldn’t want to let this sweetness disappear
Fortress Nancy Hall – voice, ukulele, glockenspiel & tambourine Lee Parvin - Hammond B-3 organ Marc Games – acoustic guitar Jim Kerwin – acoustic bass Rain that hits nothing then rain that hits something rocks are roaring and land keeps on rolling rolling I remember this wordless place sleeping I remember this wordless place deeply deeply dream of a fortress that you could get lost in here is an island where I can be found I remember this wordless place sleeping I remember this wordless place deeply deeply Try to imagine this hole in the ground with the walls all around and the echoing sound a place to lie down with the pillows piled high and windows that reach out and box up the sky I remember this wordless place sleeping I remember this wordless place deeply deeply	Trampoline Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar Lee Parvin – piano Paul Olguin – electric bass Pete French – drums Oh me sitting on a trampoline eating chocolate cake and the end is coming soon Oh me I want to be jumping up and down when the rockets come and the lights are going out Oh we sitting in a hammock in a tree reading out loud or maybe dreaming peacefully oh we want to be rocking back and forth when the radio plays that siren song that’s when we get to be kids again you and me sleeping in the yard last night eyes open wide and then a satellite goes by no more no more no more no more rescuing every little thing we love we just love the things we love that’s when we get to be kids again oh that’s when we get to be kids again
Empty Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar Lee Parvin – vocals, harmonica, Marc Games – acoustic guitar Jim Kerwin – acoustic bass Everybody wants a house by the side of the lake everybody wants a house on the top of the hill everybody wants a girl in a birthday cake I never have but maybe now I will You’re leading me astray from the dogma I embrace the brokenness I face and my empty handed ways everybody wants a carefree peace of mind that’s all I was ever hoping to find but I gave away the best of me for a poverty I thought would set me free You’re leading me astray from the dogma I embrace the brokenness I face and my empty handed ways make your mark upon the land maybe we can part the sea where man has never ever laid a hand you and I make uneasy history You’re leading me astray from the dogma I embrace the brokenness I face and my empty handed ways	Pickle Nancy Hall – voice, dulcimer, glockenspiel Marc Games – banjo Lee Parvin – piano, Hammond B-3 organ Celia Malheros – pandera, surdo, ganza Back in Spades Nancy Hall – voice, acoustic guitar Lee Parvin – wurlitzer Oh I just wanted to say that everything I’ve ever given is coming back in spades the best the bad and the brave everything I’ve ever given is coming back in spades and in clubs maybe some diamonds and definitely a couple of hearts oh I am the luckiest girl everything I ever wanted raining down on me and I want what I have don’t want what I don’t have well, except for a couple of things like inner peace and chocolate without getting thick around the waist take my advice don’t bother to think more than twice and if you follow my lead know that invention is born out of need Oh I just wanted to say that everything I’ve ever given is coming back in spades