Live at Passim

Live at Passim 2008

A collection of live recordings of Susan Werner performing with band from two nights at Passim (May 31st & June 1st 2007) during her CD Release tour for “The Gospel Truth.” The band setup includes Werner’s long-time upright bass player, Greg Holt, as well as angelic harmonies and percussion from Colleen Sexton and sizzling harmonica, backup vocals and percussion from Trina Hamlin.

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  • 1 Time Between Trains 5:15 Lyrics

    Time Between Trains - Lyrics

    I'm waitin' at the station

    I can choose my destination
    I'm a free soul, I got no chains
    But it's a long time between trains

    I took a long nap, I read a whole book
    I got nice legs, I got decent looks
    And I'm not one who complains
    But it's a long time between trains

    And who'd have thought it all those years
    That I would find myself back here
    Feelin' restless and ignored
    Starin' at the schedule board
    Wonderin' why the fates above
    Always route love through Miami

    And somewhere lovers smile their smiles
    While I count the ceiling tiles
    And well give or take a few
    There's one thousand fifty-two
    But that depends if you include
    The eighty-eight out in the hall

    Yes I'm waitin' at the station
    With my old friend sublimation
    You know the Wright boys designed planes

    Must have been a long time...

  • 2 Lost My Religion 3:50 Lyrics

    Lost My Religion - Lyrics

    Lost my religion
    At the age of ten
    seen too much with my own eyes
    already by then
    Lost my religion
    Got a little off track
    Lost my religion
    Never really got it back

    Lost my religion
    In the holy church
    Preacher told me "girls like you
    Are more trouble than theyÕre worth"
    Lost my religion
    I guess it had to be
    Lost my religion
    Or my religion lost me

    Things we cling to
    Things we hold true
    smoke clouds, white lies
    just to get by

    Lost my religion
    Again yesterday
    When my baby said goodbye
    And turned and walked away
    Lost my religion
    But I don't need it anymore
    I found a new religion
    Down at the corner store

  • 3 Did Trouble Me 3:57 Lyrics

    Did Trouble Me - Lyrics

    When I closed my eyes so I would not see
    My Lord did trouble me
    When I let things stand that should not be
    My Lord did trouble me
    When I held my head too high too proud
    My Lord did trouble me
    When I raised my voice too little too loud
    My Lord did trouble me

    Did trouble me
    With a word or a sign
    With the ringing of the bell in the back of my mind
    Did trouble me
    Did stir my soul
    For to make me human, to make me whole

    When I slept too long, slept too deep
    My Lord did trouble me
    Put a worrisome vision into my sleep
    My Lord did trouble me
    When I held myself away and apart
    My Lord did trouble me
    And the tears of my brother didn't move my heart
    My Lord did trouble me

    ...

    And of this I'm sure, of this I know
    My Lord will trouble me
    Whatever I do and wherever I go
    My Lord will trouble me
    In the whisper of the wind, in the rhythm of a song
    My Lord will trouble me
    To keep me on the path where I belong
    My Lord will trouble me

    Will trouble me...

  • 4 After All Of This 2:41 Lyrics

    After All Of This - Lyrics

    i would like to think
    there's something
    after all of this
    when life's final kiss
    has faded
    i will have waited to see
    if there might be more
    still another door to open
    i'm hoping

    and i can say that faith
    is one thing
    i could never risk
    too much of a leap
    too steep a fall
    but after all of this
    i just can't resist
    wondering what's to come
    and there may be nothing
    but there must be something
    no one really knows

    but i would like to think

  • 5 Our Father (The New, Revised Edition) 3:46 Lyrics

    Our Father (The New, Revised Edition) - Lyrics

    Thy kingdom come to every nation
    Thy will be done in everything we do
    Lord, lead us not into temptation
    And deliver us
    from those who think they're You

    Lord send us forth to be of service
    To build the schools and dig the wells
    And deliver us from the creepy preachers
    With their narrow minds and very wide lapels

    Lord give us strength to bring compassion
    to every corner of the world
    And please allow for women in the Catholic priesthood
    And remind the pope that he coulda been a girl

    Lord deliver us from politicians
    Who drop Your name in every speech
    As if they're Your best friend from high school
    As if they practice what they preach

  • 6 Chicago Any Day 2:58 Lyrics

    Chicago Any Day - Lyrics

    You take Manhattan
    You can have that'n
    Give me Chicago any day

    L.A. may be hot
    Ain't got what we've got
    Give me Chicago any day

    Give me the down home people
    who say what they mean
    Give me the lake and the river
    so marvelous and clean
    Give me the best tall buildings
    the world has ever seen
    We scrape the blue from the sky
    so there's nothing left for Cleveland

    Don't need to see more
    of old Baltimore
    Give me Chicago any day

    Or go get lost in
    the streets in Boston
    Give me Chicago any day

    Just give me Michigan Avenue
    any time of year
    Leave and you'll wish again
    that you were livin' here
    We got Studs Terkel
    Got Wiener Circle
    Give me Chicago any day

    Give me the full length overcoat
    the two button suit
    Give me the Field Museum
    the Art Institute
    Give me the Cubs out at Wrigley
    We root, root, root
    And if the win you would say
    they exceeded expectations

    Go see Grant Park
    That ain't no scant park
    Give me Chicago any day

    Go ride the L train
    Now isn't that a swell train
    Give me Chicago any day

    Because the way I reckon
    when the reckoning's done
    You'll find the second city
    is second to none
    Enough chit-chattin'
    about Manhattan
    Give me Chicago any day

    Give me Chicago any day

  • 7 Barbed Wire Boys 4:52 Lyrics

    Barbed Wire Boys - Lyrics

    Well I come from the rural Midwest
    It's the land I love more than all the rest
    It's the place I know and understand
    Like a false-front building
    Like the back of my hand
    And the men I knew when I was coming up
    Were sober as coffee in a Styrofoam cup
    There were Earls and Rays, Harlans and Roys
    They were full-grown men
    They were barbed wire boys

    They raised grain and cattle on the treeless fields
    Sat at the head of the table and prayed before meals
    Prayed an Our Father and that was enough
    Pray more than that and you couldn't stay tough
    Tough as the busted thumbnails on the weathered hands
    They worked the gold plate off their wedding bands
    And they never complained, no they never made noise
    And they never left home
    These barbed wire boys

    'Cos their wildest dreams were all fenced in
    By the weight of family, by the feeling of sin
    That'll prick your skin at the slightest touch
    If you reach too far, if you feel too much
    So their deepest hopes never were expressed
    Just beat like bird's wings in the cage of their chest
    All the restless longings, all the secret joys
    That never were set free
    In the barbed wire boys

    And now one by one they're departing this earth
    And it's clear to me now 'xactly what they're worth
    Oh they were just like Atlas holding up the sky
    You never heard him speak, you never saw him cry
    But where do the tears go, that you never shed
    Where do the words go, that you never said
    Well there's a blink of the eye, there's a catch in the voice
    That is the unsung song
    Of the barbed wire boys

  • 8 I Can't Be New 3:25 Lyrics

    I Can't Be New - Lyrics

    Coffee, ham and eggs
    I can be your diner
    Tired aching legs
    I'll be your recliner
    And when you need a breath of air
    I'll be your balcony

    When you need a laugh
    I can be your joker
    Cut a loss in half
    I can be your broker
    'Cos all of that and more
    You have been for me

    And I'll be the release
    When the pressure's heightening
    I can be the grease
    When your wheels are tightening
    And when you need a dance
    I can be that old soft-shoe

    I can be your girl
    Through the best and worst time
    But I can't be the girl you notice
    For the first time
    There's so much I can do
    But I can't be new

    And when they're buying you steak baby
    I can be the gravy
    When they throw you in the lake
    I can be the navy
    Be that three-day leave
    I can be that bad tattoo

    I can be the sky
    The very wild blue yonder
    Still I can't catch your eye
    When it starts to wander
    As I've seen it do
    Oh at least a time or two

    I'll be anything for you baby
    But I can't be new...

  • 9 Movie of My Life 4:01 Lyrics

    Movie of My Life - Lyrics

    When they make the movie of my life
    I hope they get somebody beautiful to play me
    Somebody eloquent and beautiful to play me
    When they make the movie of my life

    And when they make the movie of my life
    I hope they get somebody famous to direct it
    Somebody famous and a genius to direct it
    When they make the movie of my life

    And everyone will see
    How hard it's been for me
    How much I've overcome
    To be someone
    Deserving of a motion picture

    And when they write the book about my life
    I hope they write about my sexual adventures
    My very legendary passionate adventures
    When they write the book about my life

    And when they write the book about my life
    I hope they mention I was very good with children
    Good with the elderly and animals and children
    When they write the book about my life

    And everyone will see
    They underrated me
    Oh how they disbelieved and misperceived
    This living saint and tiger woman

    But if they really made a movie of my life
    They'd show me going to a thousand stupid movies
    And if they really wrote a book about my life
    They'd say I read a lot of nothing little novels

    And all this is true

    And everyone will see
    My mediocrity
    How I deserve to be
    Forgotten just like everybody else

    So please don't make a movie of my life
    Don't make a musical or write me into fiction
    I don't deserve any portrayal or depiction
    Please just let me live my little
    Very very very little
    Life

    My life, my life
    My life

    Yes, yes, yes

    Brilliant, just brilliant
    Comic genius

  • 10 May I Suggest 5:05 Lyrics

    May I Suggest - Lyrics

    May I suggest
    May I suggest to you
    May I suggest this is the best part of your life
    May I suggest
    This time is blessed for you
    This time is blessed and shining almost blinding bright
    Just turn your head
    And you'll begin to see
    The thousand reasons that were just beyond your sight
    The reasons why
    Why I suggest to you
    Why I suggest this is the best part of your life

    There is a world
    That's been addressed to you
    Addressed to you, intended only for your eyes
    A secret world
    Like a treasure chest to you
    Of private scenes and brilliant dreams that mesmerise
    A lover's trusting smile
    A tiny baby's hands
    The million stars that fill the turning sky at night
    Oh I suggest
    Oh I suggest to you
    Oh I suggest this is the best part of your life

    There is a hope
    That's been expressed in you
    The hope of seven generations, maybe more
    And this is the faith
    That they invest in you
    It's that you'll do one better than was done before
    Inside you know
    Inside you understand
    Inside you know what's yours to finally set right
    And I suggest
    And I suggest to you
    And I suggest this is the best part of your life

    This is a song
    Comes from the west to you
    Comes from the west, comes from the slowly setting sun
    With a request
    With a request of you
    To see how very short the endless days will run
    And when they're gone
    And when the dark descends
    Oh we'd give anything for one more hour of light

    And I suggest this is the best part of your life

  • 11 Help Somebody 4:13 Lyrics

    Help Somebody - Lyrics

    i got plenty and then some
    what do i do?

    go out and help somebody
    get plenty and then some, too

    i got a roof over my head
    what do i do?

    go out and help somebody
    get a roof over their head, too

    i got supper on the table
    what do i do?

    go out and help somebody
    get supper on the table, too

    'cause i got it to give
    i got it to give
    and when you got enough to give away
    well it's the only way to live

    i'm going to heaven
    what do i do?

    go out and help somebody
    get to heaven, too

  • 12 Together 4:36 Lyrics

    Together - Lyrics

    there must be a time
    there must be a place
    when everyone will finally come together
    if there is a God
    with a human face
    i'm sure He'd want us all to come together

    and get beyond these bolted doors
    get beyond these awful bloody wars
    get beyond this way of settling scores
    'cause the score is never even

    and if i had the words
    then i'd make the case
    that everyone has got to come together
    if i had the hounds
    i'd call off the chase
    and everyone could finally come together

    and we'd get beyond who's right and wrong
    get beyond the need to look so strong
    and just get on with simply getting along
    'cause that's a thing we can all believe in

    'cause that's enough of the bitter tears
    that's enough of talking to our mirrors
    that's enough of separate hemispheres
    that's enough that's enough
    we really gotta come together