We’ve been together since way back when
Sometimes I never want to see you again
But I want you to know, after all these years
You’re still the one I want whisperin’ in my ear

You’re still the one I want to talk to in bed
Still the one that turns my head
We’re still havin’ fun and you’re still the one

I looked at your face every day
But I never saw it ‘til I went away
When winter came I just wanted to go
Deep in the desert, I longed for the snow

You’re still the one that makes me laugh
Still the one that’s my better half
Still the one who makes me strong
Still the one I want to take along
We’re still havin’ fun and you’re still the one

Changing—our love is going gold
Even though we grow old, it grows new

You’re still the one that I love to touch
Still the one and I can’t get enough
We’re still havin’ fun and you’re still the one

You’re still the one that can scratch my itch
Still the one, and I wouldn’t switch
We’re still havin’ fun and you’re still the one

You are still the one that makes me shout
Still the one that I dream about
We’re still havin’ fun and you’re still the one

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

Dance with me
I want to be your partner
Can't you see
The music is just starting
Night is calling
And I am falling
Dance with me

Fantasy could never be so killing
I feel free
I hope that you are willing
Kick your feet up
And pick the beat up
Dance with me

Let it lift you off the ground
Starry eyes, and love is all around us
I can take you where you want to go

Dance with me
I want to be your partner...

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

Half moon in a night-time sky
Seven stars
Heaven's eyes
Seven songs
On seven seas
Hope to bring your sweet love
Home to me

If you move me like a mountain
Rock me like the sea
Lifetimes pass and then at last
Your love brings life to me

Rings of fire
Arms of flame
Wings rise up
To call your name
Sun rolls high
Burns the ground
I'll roll and roll my fire
For that first good love I found

Move me like a mountain
Rock me like the sea
Lifetimes pass and then at last
Your love brings life to me

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY 1970

Sometimes I stop and wonder
Why can't I let myself enjoy
The space I'm in
and all the wonderful places I've been

My eyes are on the future
And I can't think about the past
My aspirations
Always exceed my grasp

You've got to reach
A little bit higher
When the light within
Becomes a fire
Stretch your soul
And you'll never grow old

When the habits of a lifetime
Become a painful cage
You want to break out
But you don't know how to change

You may have a vision
Or you may have a friend
Who will come to you
And say these same words again

You've got to reach…

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

Just give me the warm power of the sun
Give me the steady flow of a waterfall
Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay
Just give me the restless power of the wind
Give me the comforting glow of the wood fire
But please take all your atomic poison power away

Everybody needs some power I'm told
To shield them from the darkness and the cold
But some may seek a way to take control
When it's bought and sold

I know that lives are at stake
Yours and mine and our descendants in time
With so much to be gained and so much to lose
Every one of us has to choose

Just give me the warm power of the sun…

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY 1979

Life isn't easy
No one ever said it was
But if you are lucky
You will love and be loved

May the rain always fall soft upon your fields
and the sun pour down like honey where you stand
May the wind be at your back and the road rise to meet you
And your soul rest at last in the hollow of God's hand

Trouble and sorrow
carve the lines on your face
But don't fear tomorrow
You've got to meet it with grace

May the rain always fall...

May your friends be as many
as the promises that you keep
And your laughter in heaven
cause the devil to weep

May the rain always fall....

By John Hall,  Johanna Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs/SONY, Brother’s Mother Music

All God's children know the world is round
Not the only circle to be found
Spinnin' infinity into space
Dark horse running in the human race

Golden sun, and the rain that falls
Turning, turning around us all
All life springs from the smallest seed
Which comes first: desire or need?

We live on a circle
All we give comes back again
Got no way of knowing when, my friend
We all share this circle
We all share a single cell
Dancing spirals parallel
Stories that we tell

Slippery start for a desperate soul
Darwin climbs up out of his hole
Symphony of death and birth
No relief for Mother Earth

Einstein playing with the ring of time
I'm just praying that you'll be mine
I want to give you the best I can
Break it all down to a woman and a man

We live on a circle
All we give comes back again
Got no way of knowing when it will end
We all share this circle
We all share a single cell
Dancing spirals parallel
Stories that we tell

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs/SONY, Brother's Mother Music

I remember you when you were the thoughtful kind
to always say hello and goodbye
You’d look me right in the eye
I could be sure of you, you’d never lie
You’re so different now
Are you going down that cocaine drain?

You’re up all night feeling like a shining star
Will the morning light let you forget who you really are
You’re a fragile thing after all
Remember that even a heavenly body can fall

And I’m afraid you’re falling
Falling down that cocaine drain

Well you’re keeping up with some pretty fancy company
But if things get rough you know you can always come to me
But please don’t wait too long
I’ve known a few before you that are already gone
And I don’t want to see you
Slipping down that cocaine drain

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

We’ve been counting on spring
For a very long time
Searching the skies for some kind of sign
that could melt our cold hearts
as the sun starts its climb
We’ve been counting on spring for a very long time

There’s a freeze on the lake
and snow in the fields
And the scars of the plow
look like they’ll never heal
But the birds will return
when there’s fruit on the vine
They’ve been counting on spring for a very long time

Just when it’s coming nobody knows
But we travel these dark roads like there’s somewhere to go

I’ve been counting on spring to make everything right
To wake up one day to a change overnight
That comes up through my shoes and down through the pines
I’ve been counting on spring for a very long time

As I look in your eyes, I’m hoping to see
Maybe it’s you who’s been waiting for me
Though I might be a fool to think you could be mine
We’ve been counting on spring for a very long time

By John Sebastian and Johanna Hall

The alligator closes her eyes
Giving herself to the feeling
No negligee no need for disguise
I think you'll find me that appealing
But I know if I back away
You will follow and beg me to stay
’Til you win the fight

Remember romance
Is doing the dance of life

Safety forsaken in the thrill of the chase
The doe eases out in the open
For sweet negotiation with the male of the race
Like her I am waiting and hoping
Our perfume, the powerful pull of the full moon
Is working on me—will it be soon?

Retreat and advance
We're doing the dance of life

All over the world in kingdoms far and wide
It's boy meeting girl, falling in love tonight

So show me your most sophisticated move
The one that's a sign of your species
My witty conversation will only prove
It's the animal in me you're reaching
So take me, I'm not araid
The decision is already made
Nature's having its way

I can tell by your stance
We're doing the dance of life

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs/SONY, Brother’s Mother Music 1988

You're beside me every night
Your tender kiss begins the day
I wake up to your beating heart
You go to work and let me play
The ways of man and woman
Not revealed to me
Though I watch and wonder
It's a mystery

Do you love me
Say the magic words that keep me alive
Do you love me
I'm only asking 'cause I know you won't lie to me

You like my dog
You break the fog that gathers round when I'm alone
You make me laugh
Forget the past
You say that your house is my home
I hear you bragging of me to somebody else
Catch you watching me and smiling to yourself

But do you love me
Say the magic words that keep me alive
Do you love me
I'm only asking 'cause I know you won't lie to me

I won't take for granted that you're mine
You told me yesterday but say it one more time

Do you love me?

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs/Brother’s Mother Music

It seems you only dream under cover of the night
Once you awake, no risk you take
You try your hand at love and never get it right
Pull the blinds down til your light burns out

Keep all your secrets inside
No one will guess what you hide
Silence is golden
Let mystery hold him
Don't give yourself away

You blend in perfectly, inside you stand apart
Your traps in place, mask on your face
You hunt this forest and you camouflage your heart
While your desire could set it all on fire

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Pine Lane, Brother's Mother Music

Such a pretty planet coming back from the moon
It's like seeing your old lover walk into the room
And it feels like coming home
Feels as though I've flown a million miles

I came out here in ninety two to have a look around
And it took a while before I felt my feet on solid ground
The pay was really good I never thought I would be coming home

There's an earth out tonight
Shining big and bright
Blue and green and white in a velvet sky
And something in this earthlight makes me cry

It's not so loud, not so crowded here as it is back home
Some men never have a chance to be alone
I thought I would forget her if I only got away
I never thought this love of mine was really going to stay
Now I'm staring at that world where I know my girl must be laughing

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

I’m tired within and I’m tired without
I’m too smart to lie to
and it’s too late to change
Will you listen to the words we’re sayin’?

You never I didn’t
You couldn’t
I won’t
We always
You have to
It wasn’t
We don’t

It’s all I can do to deal with this stuff
Enough enough

Catching the truth in the space between
knowing and trying to say what I mean
Anger burning, silent resolve
I hear myself screaming
talking through walls

I never
You didn’t
I couldn’t 
You won’t
I always
We have to
It wasn’t
I don’t

All I can do to deal with this stuff
Enough enough

When will we finally graduate
from the pain that you and I create
It’s all I can do to deal with this stuff
Enough enough

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Pine Lane, Brother’s Mother Music 2000

The memory of your mouth which I have yet to taste
Keeps coming back to mind
Like a shock wave from the future so strong
It's echoing back in time
When you're standing next to me I can hardly breathe
But air isn't nearly enough
Electricity fills the space between us
It's starting to feel like love

I can't believe that we just met
And I haven't even kissed you yet
Your face is all that I can see
I have a feeling that tonight will be
One I'll always want to dream about
But I'm staying in the here and now
Feels a little like deja vu
Do you know that I am making you
A future memory

The clock on the wall is ticking away
And we're just wasting time
Stop all this talk, darling won't you walk
Over here and put your lips to mine
It's really good to see such sensitivity
And patience in a man like you
How can I phrase it? This might sound crazy
But I've always been in love with you

Someday we'll laugh when this is our past
and we’re living in a dream come true

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs, Brother's Mother Music 1988

Everyone on earth has things they need
Things that they cannot do without
When they're old enough to chase their dreams
They pack their childhood up and they set out
To find a trade on which they can survive
Four walls, a roof, a door to call their own
And as the seasons change they laugh and cry
Learn what it's like to live alone

But when they need someone to talk to about anything at all
Someone who will catch them when they're just about to fall
Someone who will listen and then miss 'em when they're gone
When they need someone to love 'em they go home

They're searching for some meaning in their lives
Look around for something that will last
They find it in a husband or a wife
And so begin to recreate the past
Their babies learn to walk and then to run
And soon they think they're ready for the world
There's no way you can stop what you've begun
Just give 'em love someday they will return

When they need someone to talk to about anything at all
Someone who will catch them when they're just about to fall
Someone who will listen and then miss 'em when they're gone
When they need someone to love 'em they go home

Home
No matter how the world keeps changing
When you show up at the door
You know that it's still yours

When I need someone to talk to about anything at all
Someone who will catch me when I'm just about to fall
Someone who will listen and then miss me when I'm gone
When I need someone to love me I go home

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Don Schlitz
Siren Songs/SONY 1988

We walked through the park with the sun on the rise
I saw the dawn in your dark grey eyes 
Bright flower children in a city of stone
Wandered the world no longer alone
How blue was the sky ‘gainst flaming red leaves
But they paled by the fire you kindled in me

How green was my mood ring then
Our love was a new thing 
How green was my mood ring then
The colors were singing
How green was my mood ring

Green like the water in a secret pond
Green like the ancient tree we leaned upon
Green as I was then not knowing what to do
Green and lush growing closer to you

Bell bottom trousers, velvet beret
Incense and jasmine perfumed every day
We made love not war, our passionate peace
Danced in the dark and found our release
Outside our door the battle raged on
But we always felt safe in each other’s arms

How green was my mood ring then
Our love was a new thing 
How green was my mood ring then
The colors were singing
How green was my mood ring

Like the apple that we shared that day
Like the emerald you gave away
Green like the grass, like olives, like the sea
Green and growing like all love should be

How green was my mood ring then
Our love was a new thing 
How green was my mood ring then
The colors were singing
How green was my mood ring
How green was my mood ring

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs, Brother’s Mother Music 2000

When the whole world turns against you
And your back is to the wall
Even your brother has come to resent you
And you're sure you're going to fall
Nothing holding you up but your anger and your pride
Don't worry, baby—I am on your side

When the heat of the race
Has you weary and depressed
Let me be your shady tree
Come here to take your rest
My roots are deep enough and my love grows high and wide
Don't worry, baby—I'm on your side

You don't have to hide all the things
That you don't want the world to see
You don't have to hide what you think
What you feel, who you really are from me

When the child that lives within you
Is ashamed to show his face
And you feel you've been abandoned
In a dark and lonely place
Trusting for no good reason that one day you'll see the light
Don't worry baby—I am on your side

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs/Brother’s Mother Music

Shot like an arrow from a bow
I'm coming home to the best thing I know
This 747 is moving way too slow

He had to stay, I had to go
I've been gone so long that my blues are indigo
The closer I get the more it's starting to show

And he'll be waiting when this plane finally lands
I like that in a man
There'll only be one thing he will demand
Slow, sweet love
I like that in a man

He drives a car that's older than he is
If there's a handsomer sight I'd like to see it
He's such a genuine gentleman I can't resist

He has conviction you can see
In his quiet dignity
His actions always speak much louder than his words do to me

He doesn't have to say where he stands
I like that in a man
He works with his hands, his beautiful hands
I like that in a man

That's what I like in a man
I think he ought to hear it from me first-hand

He helps his brother out whenever he can
I like that in a man
Passion and compassion, he understands
I like that in a man

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs/Brother’s Mother Music

If you were a rainbow and I was the sun
Getting up too close might make you run
But if you were a sailing ship and I was in your hold
It would feel just like a pot of gold

If you were a fish and I was a hook
We would get acquainted in a babbling brook
If you were a tree and I was the sky
We would be together until we die

If you were a queen and I was a king
Our throne would be love and the song we sing
If you would let me kiss you and hold you through the night
The ending to this story would be all right

If you were a riddle and I was the reply
We would never have to question why
If you were a shadow and I was the wall
We would come together when nighttime falls

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

There’s a place on the corner mixing gossip up with gin
And the face in the window can always tell you who’s been in
Well you moved to the country to lose the smoke and the crowd
But nights like this you always wind up
Where the air is thick and the music’s loud

Every breath has its meaning
You’re blowing out and I’m breathing in
So take care what you do
Cause it all comes back again

There’s a sign on the highway telling everyone to rejoice
Every moment is a crossroad, everyone must make a choice
So when you love, take it easy
Cause shortcuts are a waste of time
And the years bring back people you’ve been holding in your mind

There’s a man in a white house selling everyone a used car
And he plays with his prophets, dreams that he’s a football star
But the dreams rain down fire on the little plastic men
And if you think it doesn’t hurt you, you had better think again

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

My grandfather got on a boat
When he was only five years old
His father told him of his dream
Of freedom, hope and cities paved with gold

They left the life they knew behind
Soon they saw the shoreline
Of America rising from the sea
In the new world their new home
Had a view of the Statue of Liberty

Keep your light held high
Keep the dream alive
Watch over me
Lady Liberty

My mother grew up on a farm
In northern Idaho
Her father told her of his dream
That a working man could make the wheat fields grow

When the chores were done at night
She studied by the candlelight
To learn about her country's history
From around the world her people came
Drawn by the light of justice and liberty

Keep your light held high...

I live in California now
With a family of my own
I tell my children of my dream
To reach out and discover worlds unknown

Someday we're going to take a trip
Descendants of the immigrants
Fly through the skies from sea to shining sea
To stand where so many dreamed their dreams
Beside the Statue of Liberty

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

I needed to learn patience
I wound up in a traffic jam
I learned to handle money
As it slipped right through my hand

Wanted to travel the whole world over
That's when I lost my home

If you ain't hurtin', you ain't learnin'
I'll be a genius before long

When they all turned their backs on me
I learned the value of a friend
Learned unconditional love
In the arms of a faithless man
Wanted to get more independent
’Til I found myself alone

Watch what you wish for
It can come true
In a way that may
Be a big surprise to you

I didn't know myself ‘til everything I had was gone
But finding out my weakness has only made me strong

These blues have cost me
They almost lost me
I found my way out in a song

If you ain't hurtin', you ain't learnin'
I'll be a genius before long

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs, Brother’s Mother Music

In the darkening night
In the empty street
I can still taste your kiss
You’re still holding me
And baby it used to feel
Like a loss of control
Now I’m never alone
It follows me home
And it comforts my soul

And the longing is deep
It’s a crazy ache
And it’s wrapped around you
In a sweet embrace
It’s a feeling so strong
That it verges on pain
I’ve felt it so long
It wears your name

And the longing is true
As it was from the start
Whatever road you’re on
However long you’re gone
You’re never far from my heart
And it runs through my mind
Like a midnight train
The things we will do
The way I’ll love you
When I see you again

By Matraca Berg, Johanna Hall, and John Hall

They didn't own a house, no crib no toys were waiting
Still they had their love for the child they were anticipating
He was born one winter night on a road between two towns
They wrapped him up so warm and tight and said
It looks like heaven's come down

There was a new star shining in the sky up above
By its light that winter night
They found peace and perfect love 
If we want to find it, I know we always will
For that new star is shining for us still 

He worried how to feed him on the trade that was all he knew
It was hard enough to make ends meet when they were only two
But the cold, the dark and hunger couldn't take away their joy
And she knew that they would find a way for their precious baby boy

There was a new star shining in the sky up above
By its light that winter night
They found peace and perfect love
If we want to find it, I know we always will
For that new star is shining for us still

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY 1986

There was a time before you
Nights were restless and blue
But that seems lifetimes ago
Without a doubt you and I should know
Now more than ever...

Now more than ever
We got to come together
hearts and hands entwined
We’ll soon discover
We need each other
to weather these stormy times
Now more than ever

Love is what binds us it’s clear
What tears us apart’s only fear
When the wolf is at the door
When the winds of winter moan
We’re stronger united
than we could ever be alone

The sun still is hiding
But green shoots are rising
How does love keep persisting?
Our spirits are lifting now

By Johanna Hall and John Hall

Hello old friend
Let me reach out my hand
Tell me how you’ve been
I don’t know anymore
What I was doing before you pushed open my door
Did life turn out like you wanted it to
You were there for me
I am here for you
I’ve had the chance since you were away
To decide what I wanted to say

We walk this earth ’til the dream is through
In rain and wind and fire
We do what friends are supposed to do
And then it’s time for us to move higher
Remember me
I will remember you
Remember me
I will remember you

Goodbye old friend
Are the hardest words I have ever said
I could fight this change
But there’s no way to remain the same
We fool ourselves with these routines
Our everyday how safe it seems
Forced by luck to say goodbye
I am proud to say you are a friend of mine

We walk this earth ’til the dream is through
In rain and wind and fire
We do what friends are supposed to do
And then it’s time for us to move higher
Remember me
I will remember you
Remember me
I will remember you

You turned to me for affection
I love your wandering sense of direction
Your easy generosity
Your goofy smile
Your loyalty

And we walk this earth ’til the dream is through…

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs/SONY, Brother’s Mother Music

One thing I know about love
It will come when least expected
That perfect world you're dreaming of
Will never be perfected
With your sweet kiss
In this ignorant bliss
My heart can't be protected
From the one thing
The only thing I know about love

You write me pages of poetry
Wear your heart on your sleeve
I can't figure out what you need
When you say please, please, please, please

One thing I know about love...

It's no sin to jump right in
But it's a hard way to live
Everything you want from me
You've got to give, give, give, give

One thing I know about love....

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY, Brother’s Mother Music 1993

Had we met at night
I might have blamed the starlight
Champagne or a full moon
But it was afternoon
Had there been a crowd
Words that passed between us
Might not have seemed so precious and true
As the ordinary splendor of you

Waltzing in a room in the latest fashion
Would have been a distraction from
How well you move in those old tennis shoes
Had we been in Rome, Rio De Janeiro
I might not have noticed the view
Of the ordinary splendor of you

I don't need a fantasy, a wish upon a star
Just the very ordinary man you are

You didn't come to me a knight in shining armor
You're a casual disarmer, it's true
You catch my drift and throw it back to me
Your conversation's poetry
The ordinary splendor of you

I don't want a king who'd flaunt the things that he's made of
Just a very ordinary man to love

You didn't come to me a knight in shining armor
You're a casual disarmer who knew
To catch my drift and throw it back to me
Your conversation's poetry
The ordinary splendor of you

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs/SONY, Brother's Mother Music

When I wake up hungry, please be there
When I’m dark and thirsty, please be there
On the lowdown Sunday, please be there
When I need somebody, please be there

Talk to me and I’ll talk to you
Ain’t it nice to know that you’re breaking through?
Anything that you want me to
Ask me now and it’s coming true

Come with me and I’ll go with you
When the buds outside still wear the dew
You said last night that you dreamed you flew
Take my hand that’s what we’ll do

Please be there, I can hardly believe it
Please be there, because you really see me
Please be there, so don’t ever leave it
Please be there with me

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

Hard times in the global village
People just cannot get along
In the cradle of civilization
They don’t act civilized for long
All the kings and pharisees
Lords of fear and poverty
Living lives of luxury
While in a quiet place
The gift is given with unspoken grace
A child is born who could take the sins of all the world away
We need him even more today

Soldiers of the sovereign nation
Kick the door down in the night
Tear the babies from their mothers
Send the fathers off to fight
In the name of righteousness
They build the hate inside of us
Inciting and dividing us
While in a quiet place
The gift is given with unspoken grace
A child is born who could take the sins of all the world away
We need him even more today

And though good will seems out of reach
That child’s alive inside of each and every one
Will these dark ages ever pass
And let us find a peace that’s everlasting
In a quiet place
The gift was given with unspoken grace
A child was born who could take the sins of all the world away
We need him even more today 

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs/SONY, Brother’s Mother Music

Sails are just like wings
You can fly from things
Run before the wind
Lord, let it blow

Let it rock me slow
While I sleep below
Dreaming dreams
That only sailors know

It will soothe your mind
Smooth away your lines
Set your clock back on your own time

If you sail with me
We will find the sea
We will find our love
Over again

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

Once you had the power to hurt me
When I was young and you owned the world
Now you're the one who's feeling cold and helpless
and I'm no longer that fragile little girl
and I am unashamed
to give these feelings names
strong enough to pull the sword of truth
from the stone that my heart became
and I am

Slaying dragons, armor bright
Rescued princess, fearless knight
The warrior I must be to
Set the captive free, my
fire-breathing dragon
has no more power over me

Some would seek the cup of forgiveness
but you are not a pilgrim of that kind
You like to think there never was a witness
but here I stand, a victim of your crime
and though this tapestry
of scars can still be seen
colors deepened by the spirit
herald my victory, and I am
Slaying dragons...

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs/SONY, Brother’s Mother Music

I’d like to get snowed in with you
Nothing to do the whole day through
We never spend enough time alone
A knock on the door
A ringing phone is calling
Now the snow is falling

I want to be snowed with you
Nowhere to go but to each other
I want to be snowed in with you
Be the world to one another

The fridge is full of things you like
Enough to eat well for two days and nights
Clouds are gathering thick and low
Weatherman says three feet of snow are coming, dear
I wish you were here

I want to be snowed with you
Nowhere to go but to each other
I want to be snowed in with you
Be the world to one another

I’ve got enough wood to last a week
And the bed is ready with clean white sheets
I can hear my heartbeat saying your name
Over and over like a refrain
Come back to town before the snow comes down

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

I came to the great big city
I was only seventeen
Got me a job in a big skyscraper
Keepin' the restrooms clean
I meant to save all my money and bring you east some day,
But the neon lights burned holes in my pocket
And the money just slipped away

My sweet Johanna
I'm hitchin' a ride back to Indiana,
Back where I started and poorer than the day I went away
My sweet Johanna
I'm hitchin' a ride back to Indiana
Just to tell you that
You wouldn't like to live in New York City anyway

You wrote me long love letters
And I read them through and through
The concrete seemed a little bit warmer
Just knowin your love was true
But still I got so lonely sittin' in my room at night
That I had to go out just anyplace
As long as the lights were bright

I went to the bar on the corner
Thought I'd have just one beer
"How 'bout one for me, hon'?" a voice whispered in my ear
I hadn't heard a friendly word for seven months or more
So I had to defend my lady friend
When somebody called her a --
We all went out to the alley but I woke up alone
With an empty wallet, an achin' head and nowhere to go but home

By John Hall and Johanna Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

Ticonderoga moon halfway up the sky
Icy cold and far away like a love that has to die
Ticonderoga moon where lies my lover now?
Guess I won’t be holding her till you rise and fall again

Light the way
Show me how to make it to the day
Ticonderoga moon
Wash my love away

Ticonderoga moon
A dog walked round a cat
Roses closing for the night
Got to shut her out like that

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

Time passes on
Like a river that must always run
Now you are gone
But I will have you ‘til time is done
You can never take away
The love you gave me yesterday
I don’t have to capture you
‘Cause you’re here in my memory

My life goes on
Like a song that is never still
I’ll sing that song
To the emptiness I’ll never fill
I don’t need your photograph
To see your face in front of me
We may never touch again
But you’re here in this melody

What once was will always be
And you’ve left your imprint on me
Sometimes I think it’s the spark of conflict
With which we affect most heavily
But I hope if you think of me
You’ll remember only harmony

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

Well, I might not be able to say it out loud
But I've been watching you from across the crowd
Just as soon as I get the chance
I'll happen to be there when you want to dance

Got to tell you how I feel
Words won't say it but my body will
I get so shy when I'm standing still
I get tongue-tied when I have to speak
Tongue-tied, but I can move my feet

Some other guys might hand you a line
If you like sweet talk, I guess that's fine
I won't deceive you with grandiose plans
When I put it to you, you'll know I'm your man

Got to tell you how I feel…

Tell me why it should be
That you have this effect on me
Why should I be shy with you?
Well, I guess body English will just have to do

Some people sit and talk for days
They say funky music's a passing craze
Once we start to work it on out
We'll give them something to talk about

Got to tell you how I feel…

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY 1973

You've got the ring of good crystal
Hot as a pistol
Refined but still rough and ready
And I wouldn't mind something steady with a treasure like you

You do me good
You do me in
I'm more in love than I've ever been
I'll drop my guard
Lay down my cards
Give my hand to you

Everything about you is fine
You're the top of the line
The kind that only comes along once in a lifetime

I have patience I can wait
I know you'll only appreciate
There's no price too high to pay
For a treasure like you

Like precious stones born of a fire
Some would give their life to acquire
The danger only makes the value higher

You're the greatest story ever told
You're worth your weight in gold
And I know how to hold
A treasure like you

By Johanna Hall, John Hall, and Jonell Mosser
Siren Songs, Brother’s Mother Music

Now the time has come again when all your work is done
And you need to rest a while though it seems you’ve just begun
Come lie here beside me, we can lay our burdens down
Let the battle rage outside ‘cause we found our peace for now

We’re here together such a short time it’s true
(Won’t you please)
Turn out the light, kiss me goodnight
And let the darkness shine through

I can see as your eyes close what a rough day you’ve had
But one night in my arms will show that things aren’t really so bad
The dark side’s a blessing when you have done all you can
I can’t change the past now but we can dream of a sweeter land

We don’t need electric light
Because the moon is full and bright
We got our own electricity
I can feel it when you’re close to me

Turn out the light
Kiss me goodnight...

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

I met a man who told me his contacts were so fine
I could be a big star if I signed his dotted line
I wanted to believe so it took a while to see
The only connection that he really had was me

It’s a two-faced world from the bottom to the top
Two-faced world, now where’s it going to stop?
(Not yet)

I gave my friend some money when his was running low
I thought he’d always be there if I need a place to go
I found out that he’s just my enemy
The good friend’s been saying some bad things about me

It’s a two-faced world, everywhere you look
Two-faced world got me on the hook

I had a good, true lover—at least that’s what she said
So I was really shocked when I found her in his bed
I really loved that woman but it took a lot of gall
To look me in the eye and say, ”I just slept here, that’s all”

It’s a two-faced world, caught me in its trap
Two-faced world, sitting in the devil’s lap

Once I had a country called the land of the free
Pledged my allegiance to justice and liberty
Now I think there’s justice in the crack in the liberty bell
We give them all their freedom by bombing them to hell

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

Wake up, people, wake up!
See what you’re doing to the land
Wake up, people, wake up!
You’re tying God’s providing hand
You know a day’s gonna come when man’s a ghost
And there’s one concrete slab from coast to coast
A day’s gonna come when you see what you’re doing to the land

Wake up, people, wake up!
Stop dumping shit into the sea
Wake up, people, wake up!
Can’t you let the fishies be
You know a day’s gonna come when you need a drink
And you just get oil from your kitchen sink
A day’s gonna come when you see what you’re doing to the sea

Wake up, people, wake up!
Look what you’re doing to the sky
Wake up, people, wake up!
It makes you have to cough and cry
You know a day’s gonna come when the sun won’t shine
And you won’t see the shit for the grease and slime
A day’s gonna come when you see what you’re doing to the

Sky and sea and snow and lightning’s weight upon the summer air
Birds in flight and seasons giving signs that life is growing there
Sky and sea and snow and lightning’s weight upon the summer air
Birds in flight and seasons giving signs that life is growing there

Wake up, people, wake up!

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs 1974

You might think I’m settled, you might think I’m satisfied
Got the sweetest woman a man ever lay alongside
So it seems so strange that this restlessness keeps building up inside

Got to wander, got to see what I can see
Because wanderlust got a hold on me

You know how to love me, you give me everything a man could need
I get you when I want you, but you understand if I have to leave
There’s a hunter in my blood, I don’t know if I can stop the flood

Got to wander, got to get out on the street
Because wanderlust got a hold on me

I’d never leave you, I love you too damn much
Just sometimes I get hungry for the thrill of a stranger’s touch
Don’t think you’re losing just because I’m out there cruising

By Johanna Hall and John Hall
Siren Songs/SONY

We sang some carols around the tree
I kissed the children and Nora Lee
I told them that even on Christmas Eve
A farmer's work can't wait

There was a newborn lamb to tend
I had to go out to the barn again
The silver starlight stopped me as I leaned upon the gate

I wish I could've been there Underneath that desert sky
To shield them from that cold night air
And hear that child's first cry
Standing in the darkness, a witness to the light
I wish I could've been there on that night

I laid that lamb on fresh turned hay
And as I turned to walk away
That Christmas Eve began to play
Its music through the trees
My old barn seemed like a shrine
As His words echoed in my mind
Whatever you do to the least of mine
You also do to me

By John Hall, Johanna Hall, and Tad Richards 1986