Margo Hennebach

Talk to Me Like the Rain

© Margo Hennebach

First two lines are drawn from and inspired by the Tennessee Williams play, "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen..."

Talk to me like the rain
And I will listen
Listen to the heartbeat of the rain

Heaven knows I'm in need of assistance
My world is spinning faster all the time
Till I stop and I finally listen
To the beat of your love, it's raining on my mind

Talk to me like the rain
And I will listen
Listen to the heartbeat of the rain

I run far, I run light years away from you
I want to see if you'll come running too
When you do, which is all of the time
We run through the rain which makes us feel like new

I know you
You are a friend of mine
And I'm never gonna let you go

You know me
More than I know myself
I love you more than you could ever know

It is dark without spotlights to woo me
I am scared I will disappear
Still there's music that's raining inside me
I listen real close and I know you're here

Talk to me like the rain
And I will listen
Listen to the heartbeat of the rain

Have You Ever Seen an Angel

© Margo Hennebach

Have you ever seen an angel?
Have you ever dreamed a cloud?
Have you ever climbed a rainbow--
Followed the colors clear 'round

Have you ever seen an angel?
Have you ever flown a star?
With the world whirling by below
How does it look from so far?

I hold your hand and cry my cries
Till water drowns my eyes
But the pain won't wash away
I want to believe that you'll come 'round
And live this life again
But I know it hurts, this holding on

Have you ever seen an angel?
Have you ever jilted fear?
Pushed aside all your doubts
While holding a baby so near?

Have you ever seen an angel?
Have you ever tasted love?
You're not too old to know that
The sweetness of love is enough

I am still fighting for your life
When you've long since found peace
I need to know that you're all right
You suddenly call my name out loud
And say you're going Home
And you would like to say good bye

Have you ever seen an angel?
Have you ever dreamed a cloud?
Have you ever seen an angel?
An angel has come for you now

Winter Snows

© Margo Hennebach

Last year, about this time, we were lovers
We did those things that lovers do
There was dinner on the run
We bought ice cream just for fun
And we ate it all up

We took your mom to sing the Messiah
She started taking off her clothes
I was touched by what you told her
She could take them off at home
And you laughed and held her

Chorus:
We could be married in the Springtime
That's what you told me long ago
But Springtime has passed and Winter snows

Your mom, she died later that Winter
And things have never been the same
You say you want somebody older
And you're looking now in vain
But she's gone

I heard you moved back up to New England
It's cold, but you stay coal stove warm
And you write me one last letter
Saying leave well enough alone
'Cause you're gone to the hills

Chorus

Some people measure time by the hours
Still others figure out the moons
All I have are songs about you
There've been eight since you've been gone
Since you've gone to the hills

Chorus 2 X

Gone, gone, gone away to the hills
Gone, gone, gone away to the hills...

Still, Sweet Water

© Margo Hennebach

You got me running on empty
While you're filling up your tank
You got me pounding the pavement
While you're pulling one more prank
You got me climbing the walls
You got me feeling two foot tall
You got me wanting it all to come up roses
Once and for all.

Chorus:
So tell me, is the well always this dry?
Or will it all be different in a little while?
Get me some still, sweet water, gonna clear my head
And get me another man who'll treat me right.

You got me running in circles
While you're full steam ahead
You got me counting sheep at night
While you're in another's bed
You got me clowning around
You got me nearly underground
You got me thinking that you'll come 'round
And 'round and 'round again.

Chorus:
So tell me, is the well always this dry?
Or will it all be different in a little while?
Get me some still, sweet water, gonna clear my head
And get me another man before I'm dead.

Get me some of that water
Still, sweet, sparking water
Get me some of that water
Gonna wash it down, down, down, down, down
All over me.

You got me running for office
When I don't even want the job
You got me running around the house
While you're acting more like a slob
You got me singing this song
You got me singing it too damn long
You got me wondering where along this road
Did you go wrong.

Chorus:
So tell me, is the well always this dry?
Or will it all be different in a little while?
Get me some still, sweet water, gonna clear my head
And get me another man, that's what I said.

So tell me, is the well always this dry?
Or will it all be different in a little while?
Get me some still, sweet water, gonna clear my head
And get me another man, before I'm dead
Turn my life around while I'm still ahead
Get me another man who'll treat me right.

Tattletales - instrumental

© Margo Hennebach

Caledonia

© Dougie MacLean

I don't know if you can see
The changes that have come over me
The last few days I've been afraid
I might drift away

I've been telling old stories and singing songs
That let me think about where I came from
And that's the reason why I seem
So far away today

Chorus:
Let me tell you that I love you
And I think about you all the time
Caledonia you're calling me, now I'm going home
And if I should become a stranger
It would make me more than sad
Caledonia has been everything I've ever had

I have moved and kept on moving
Proved the points I needed proving
Lost some friends I needed losing
Found others on the way

I have kissed the men and left them crying
Stolen dreams, now there's no denying
I have travelled hard with conscience flying
Somewhere in the wind

Chorus

Well, I'm sitting here before the fire
The empty room, the forest choir
The flames that couldn't get no higher
They wither, then they're gone

And I'm steady thinking, my way is clear
And I know what I'll do tomorrow
The hands are shaking, the kisses flow
I will disappear

Chorus

Fool's Gold Paradise

© Margo Hennebach

I wonder if it's real
These feelings that I feel
Or if they're just made up
Like the down and up
Of a wheel within a wheel

But I don't care
'Cause I'm in love with a man
He loves me too
And now that we're together
There's nothing we can't do

Chorus:
If it's a fool's gold paradise
That makes the world so bright
Then let's be fools tonight
And make some make believe

I played hard to get
And you got ready set
To win my heart hands down
You got it now
The best is yet to come

But still we wonder
If it's what we want right now
And at this time
It's a little scary
Putting it on the line

Chorus

There's no guarantee
That we are meant to be
Or that our love will grow
As we get to know
All that we can be

But in the meantime
I am grateful for your hands
I love them so
You know they understand
The sounding of my soul

Chorus

Life Without You

© Margo Hennebach

There's a hole in my heart where you once lived
A hole in my state of mind
It's a hole through and through, not one you can see
Except for what's been left behind
I'm feeling rather lonesome, rather blue--
Life without you

There's a cloud in my way where you once stood
It chills me to the bone
And it keeps me blind to what's ahead
Now that I am on my own
I'm feeling rather lonesome, rather blue--
Life without you

Still, I am overdue for freedom
I am overdue for love
I want a different payment schedule
One that is enough
And I am holding out for something
Something I deserve--
Life without you

I am torn to pieces and made whole
Alive and laughing/scared
I have found my independence
Though I never cared
To ever feel this lonesome or this blue--
Life without you

If you knew you didn't love me
Why did you stay so long
It's been lonely feeling lonely being lonely
And so wrong
To feel this bloody lonesome and this blue--
Life without you

Still, I am overdue for freedom
I am overdue for love
I want a different payment schedule
One that is enough
And I am holding out for something
Something I don't want--
Life without you
Life without you

Heavensent

© Margo Hennebach

Another lonely night at home
Just me and my guitar
And the part of me that tries to still
The beating of my heart...

Words don't come so easily
And when they do, I doubt
That they are what I mean to say
Or what I'm all about...

"You know that I'm always here
And that they are only words"

I listen to the rain
The thunder and the sirens
Knowing there's a world inside them
Just waiting to be heard

The tapping on the pavement
A car goes screeching by
Another night of terror
Afraid to live or die

Music on the other hand
Flows through me like rain
Comes just in the knick of time
Before there's too much pain...

I send things up, they fall right down
Just like Newton said
But other times they come down first
I know they're heavensent...

"You know that I'm always here
And that I am heavensent"

The music moves inside me
Then rises up like smoke
Takes with it my dreams and visions
So I don't have to choke

The tapping on the pavement
A car goes screeching by
Messages from somewhere
The answers to our whys

"You know that I'm always here
And that I am heavensent
You know that I'm always here
And that I am heavensent..."

Hard Life

© Margo Hennebach

I woke up this morning
Ain't nothing on my mind
But a handful of that dreaming
It visits me sometimes
It told me I'm something
A seer and a sage
And I told it, you're crazy
Grow up and act your age

Well, what's the age of dreaming
Does anybody know?
Is it older than the mountains,
More ancient than the snow?
Well, I'm buried deep in winter now
I've never been so cold
That dreaming's just a memory
I can't begin to hold

Chorus:
Well, it's a hard, hard life, no one knows that more than I
Though I reach for the stars, I can't even find the sky
It'd be easier if I knew the reasons why
Why it's such a hard life: we're born, we live, we die

Well, dreams don't make you famous
And they don't pay no bills
They leave you wild with wanting
A better life until
You're stuck here on this island
Made of concrete and of stone
And you wonder where you're going
And will it be alone

Chorus

So you can keep you're dreaming
And I'll take winter ice
And though it leaves me colder
I know it will suffice
So that maybe in the Springtime
When I begin to thaw
I'll remember what you told me
And the promise that you saw

Chorus 2X

Witness

© Margo Hennebach

Will you be my witness?
The shadows borne by my feet
Ache in defeat
As they remember the light that was there
Will you be my witness?
Will you give them your hand
When they don't understand
That sometimes there's no one to care?

Chorus:
Yes, yes! I will be your witness
I will bring you kisses
Plucked from the sky
As you learn how to fly
Into the night

Will you be my witness?
For all the dreams not yet dared,
The hands still too scared
To find their way out of the crowd
Will you be my witness?
For all the things left undone,
The words on the tongue
That will never be spoken out loud

Yes, yes! I will be your witness
I will bring you kisses
Plucked from the sky
As you learn how to fly
Through the night

Will you be my witness?
As I discover my voice
In the silence of noise
And sing of the shadows and the light.
Will you be my witness?
As I beat on the drum
And wake up the ones
Who would otherwise sleep through the night

Yes, yes! I will be your witness
I will bring you kisses
Plucked from the sky
As you learn how to fly
Out of the night

Yes, yes! I will be your witness
I will bring you kisses
Plucked from the sky
As you learn how to fly
Into the night

Breathe

© Margo Hennebach

Breathe...
And the rest shall fall in place
Know...
That this moment too shall pass
Feel...
That your heart's so wide, you fall right in
You...
Have found your home at last

 

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