The Medicine Show (02:31)
Melissa Etheridge: electric guitar, keyboards, lead vocals, background vocals
John Shanks: electric guitar
Victor Indrizzo: drums, percussion
Chris Chaney: bass
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
Let’s all go to the medicine show
High-ho high-ho
E-I-E-I-O
Let’s all go to the medicine show
High-ho high-ho
E-I-E-I-O
Did not come here to say I’m sorry
Now it’s a party like Mata Hari
I’m on a magical safari
Got reborn yeah a unicorn yeah
I got a tiger by the tail and by the horn yeah
They say I’m savage survey the damage
I got more than I think you can manage
A little remedy never do you no harm
Come on down to Mama’s farm
Let’s all go to the medicine show
High-ho high-ho
E-I-E-I-O
Let’s all go to the medicine show
High-ho high-ho
E-I-E-I-O
I got legit yeah I took a hit yeah
In North Dakota ‘cause I’m a rocker and a roller
Got to walk yeah but can we talk yeah
There’s still too many in the pen we cannot fault yeah
But we can change this or we can blame this
We are the people and our thoughts can rearrange this
A little remedy never do you no harm
Come on down to Mama’s farm
Let’s all go to the medicine show
High-ho high-ho
E-I-E-I-O
Let’s all go to the medicine show
High-ho high-ho
E-I-E-I-O
2. Wild And Lonely (04:36)
Melissa Etheridge: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lead vocals
John Shanks: electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Victor Indrizzo: drums, percussion
Chris Chaney: bass
Max Hart: keyboards
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
Dangerous I must confess
I hold my tongue I hold my breath
Another night a long dark road
With miles and miles and miles to go
A raging hollow emptiness I feel
The night is cold and I’m alone
Come take the wheel
CHORUS
Because you, you’ve seen me in my cage
Cursed I’ve been betrayed
Oh tonight I’ve lost my way
And I feel so wild and lonely
Don’t you wanna save me
Don’t you wanna stone me
If I could and I know I should
I’d be over this I’d be understood
A howling moon and an ancient song
I got miles and miles to go till dawn
An angry craving seeps into my skin
It’s all too much I need to touch you once again
CHORUS
I feel so wild and lonely
Don’t you wanna steal me don’t you wanna own me
Don’t you wanna drive me drive me on the highway
Don’t you wanna save me
Don’t you wanna stone me
Wild and lonely
3. Shaking (03:11)
Melissa Etheridge: electric guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
John Shanks: electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Victor Indrizzo: drums, percussion
Chris Chaney: bass
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
Runnin’ down the road
Breath is misty cold
Everything I touch leaves blood on the stone
The hounds are on my trail
I see the cross and nails
Everything is fail deep in my bones
But I try oh I tried how I tried
Every time I got close I could never get inside
So I wait how I wait every night and day I wait
But the fear is closing in and the ground has started
CHORUS
Shaking all my dreams have started breaking
Hold me honey I’m still aching
I’m sorry but I
I’m sorry but I can’t stop
I’m sorry I just can’t stop shaking
I can’t get away every door I take
Leads me back into the maze
A laughter or a scream everything’s extreme
Come on look at me
How much more can I take
But I try oh I tried how I tried
Every time I got close I could never get inside
So I wait how I wait every night and day I wait
But the fear is closing in and the ground has started
CHORUS
Look me in the eye tell me you still believe
I can make it through the night
I just have to breathe
Breathe in breathe out
Breathe in breathe out
Breathe in breathe out
Breathe in breathe out
Breathe in breathe out oh I just can’t stop
CHORUS
4. Woman Like You (03:53)
Melissa Etheridge: Acoustic guitar, Keyboards, Lead vocals
John Shanks: Electric guitar, Keyboards, Background vocals
Victor Indrizzo: Drums, Percussion
Chris Chaney: Bass
Max Hart: Keyboards
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
You went out looking for yourself
What did you think you’d find
You thought that you would change the world
You just kept changing your mind
You want a stairway to heaven
But you won’t take the journey
One step at a time
Too long a climb, a climb
CHORUS
But a good-looking woman like you
Never had to wait for her dreams to come true
Once upon a time it was all you had to do
Was be a good looking woman like you
Walk through the door you turn the heads
Let them think they stand a chance
Turn down the lights turn down the bed
You lead them to the dance
You give a piece of your body
But still you keep the darkness of a heart that’s blind
It’s weighing heavy on your mind
CHORUS
Your book’s been judged now
Cover to cover
And time has made you
One of the other
Every choice you made
Has been written on your face
And in between the lines
You can find the grace
Of a woman like you
CHORUS
5. Faded By Design (3:45)
Melissa Etheridge: Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar, Lead vocals, Background vocals
John Shanks: Electric guitar, Background vocals
Victor Indrizzo: Drums, Percussion
Chris Chaney: Bass
Max Hart: Keyboards
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
I’m undomesticated in a hot on savage night
Oh it’s not so complicated I’m sure I’ll be alright
You wanna change me don’t bother
Cause I can read the signs
Just rearrange me don’t call the doctor
The cure is in my mind
CHORUS
Oh yeah I’m feeling all my angels
Oh yeah I’m faded by design
It’s hard to love sometimes
When I’m a stranger in my own mind
I swim through someone else’s pain
My teeth in someone else’s chains
I am humbled by the truth now
As it leads me on
It will take me to find the answer
All my shame is gone
CHORUS
Just a twist of fate
Swirling in the heavens
Asking me to dance
I pick up the broken pieces
I put them back into the sky
I will illuminate the sweetness
It’s time for me to fly
CHORUS
Oh don’t worry I’ll be fine
Don’t worry I will be fine
6. I Know You (04:34)
Melissa Etheridge: acoustic guitar, keyboards, lead vocals
John Shanks: keyboards
Victor Indrizzo: drums
Chris Chaney: bass
David Campbell: synth strings
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
You do not touch me as you rise
Your silent footsteps on the floor
Could you be believing the harsh words and the cries
All the weapons from the night before
Oh no no, oh no I think I know you
Inside the vacuum of our sighs
The crushing truth of all our years
Instantly I find my mind
In the morning after light it’s so clear
I know you baby I know you
Oh I know you baby I know you
Last night the lightning in your eye
Flashes of anger we disagree
I know the heat when our thoughts and our fears collide
Comes from the same fire when you are underneath me
Yeah I know you
Come on lover look me in the eye
You know I’d never do you no harm
Don’t let the fear drag you down
Come closer now honey let me keep you warm
Cause I know you baby I know you
Cause I know you baby I know you
Cause I know you baby I know you
Yes I know you baby I know you
We will forget everything that we whispered
We will forget everything that we screamed
Come closer no closer now
Let it go by, it’s gone like a bad dream
I know you baby I know you
I know you so well
7. Love Will Live (04:17)
Melissa Etheridge: electric guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
John Shanks: electric guitar
Victor Indrizzo: drums, percussion
Chris Chaney: bass
Max Hart: keyboards
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
I can smell the lies like a filthy net on me
All over my skin
Suffocates my innocence unwelcome hands on me
All over again
CHORUS
There’s a lie in the shadows saying I’m to blame
And it’s feeding on my fear
My confusion and my shame
There’s a lie in these years I’ve wasted on this pain
Things are gonna change
Right now
I did not shatter did not crumble didn’t die
I have chosen to live
I’m no longer down I am so much stronger now
I’ve got so much to give
I know that it’s forgiveness that saves me from this fear
I’ll get there someday
I’m clear that it’s this moment that gets me outta here
And I know the way
CHORUS
Not my fault
It’s my time
Oh
Love will live love will love
Love will live love will love
My love will live my love will love
I did not shatter did not crumble didn’t die
I have chosen to live
I’m no longer down I am so much stronger now
I’ve got so much to give
I have chosen to live
8. This Human Chain (3:57)
Melissa Etheridge: electric guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
John Shanks: electric guitar, drum programming, keyboards
Victor Indrizzo: drums, percussion
Chris Chaney: bass
Max Hart: keyboards
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
Break my heart until it opens
Move my stars across my sky
Shine me up I have seen the omens
I am two spirits to the naked eye
CHORUS
Time to come together
Time to realize
I cannot blame the other my life is my design
Time to come together
Time for me to see
My brothers and my sisters just another part of me
This human chain will be unbroken
By and by lord by and by
This human chain goes on forever
It’s you and I it’s you and I
CHORUS
9. Here Comes The Pain (04:01)
Melissa Etheridge: acoustic guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
John Shanks: acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Victor Indrizzo: drums, percussion
Chris Chaney: bass
Max Hart: keyboards
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
Well the bones get broken
And the skin gets torn
And the scars still bleed
Like the day they were born
When the mouth gets wise
To the hearts disguise
CHORUS
Here comes the pain
Here comes the pain
Well the dreams get lost
In the clouds of sorrow
And the hopelessness
Is hard to swallow
Beyond repair
What the soul can bear
CHORUS
It feels like kissing Jesus
As it melts into your veins
When the whole damn world is broken
There’s no need in being sane
Beyond repair
What the soul can bear
The nerves will tear
Dying a death of despair
CHORUS
Hold on
I’m coming
10. Suede (04:04)
Melissa Etheridge: lead vocals
John Shanks: electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Victor Indrizzo: drums
Chris Chaney: bass
Max Hart: keyboards
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
I never understood your skin
Sharp and hard like leather never ever broken in
Discarded on the path of your perfection
I learned that beauty lies in the eyes of the deception
Fingers like a silver chain
Soft around my neck how can I ever trust again
Lying in the path of your destruction
Sifting through the ruble for the ghost of your seduction
CHORUS
Just like the marks on my guitar
Just like the scratches on my heart
Some things ain’t ever gonna fade
I’ll never get back all those years
But now I’m taking back those tears
Tonight I’m falling into suede
Deep in the night I see my fear
But if I try to touch them they only disappear
The needle and the thread just a temporary mend
Days and days I’ll never put together again
CHORUS
All the smoke all the wine
The stains deep in my mind
I am fringe in the breeze
All my threads like denim on my knees
CHORUS
11. Last Hello (4:01)
Melissa Etheridge: keyboards, lead vocals, background vocals
Victor Indrizzo: drums, percussion
Paul Lamalfa: synths, electric bass
John Shanks: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards
Music contractor: Shari Sutcliffe
In the morning light I feel my heart
Cold like wet cement it falls apart
I can’t believe it’s so
That was our last hello
How was I to know
CHORUS
This day will end and oh I miss you
I will rise again and oh I miss you
I’ll find the strength within
To shout never again
Wish I could see my friend oh I miss you
If you could see this moment
See how the world is waking
It’s more than just a moment
See how the world is changing
To comprehend is slow
That was our last hello
How was I to know
CHORUS
What started first as confusion
Is turning into revolution
What can I do what can I be
No child should see what I have seen
How was I to know
That was our last hello