[ti:Woman of the Phoenix] [ar:Nanci Griffith] [al:Other Voices Other Rooms] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Woman of the Phoenix - Nanci Griffith [00:13.04]Well I've listend tothe words you lovers speak [00:16.37]The sound the lover's song [00:19.39]And I've dreamed all the dreams that a wayward girl dreams [00:22.87]In a thousand places gone [00:26.25]Dallas was my late night out [00:29.38]Radcliffe's served to roust me out [00:32.72]And Houston lay like Cleavland with the color removed [00:39.28]And all I ever wanted [00:42.09]Was to wander and be wooed [00:45.27]Like a Woman of the Phoenix [00:48.73]A welcomed Waterloo [01:22.31]I've seen the sun blaze the breast of the countryside [01:25.30]I've seen her huddled in a winter freeze [01:28.52]And I've run cross paths of a thousand lives [01:31.66]Among the cactus and the white birch trees [01:35.32]Avloc ran a waterfront bar [01:38.37]Vito he was the king of theives [01:41.67]And Michael was a rock 'n roll hood from the Odessa plains [01:48.34]Now all of them were my kind [01:51.25]Wild and damn near free [01:54.05]But a Woman of the Phoenix is the medicine they need