Don't You Leave Me Alone - Laura Francis

I want to be what you want to see
Stole from sinful dreams or old magazines
I would paint for you the perfect scene
But I see the way that you look at me

So now the songs that I wrote for you become my paper home
To shield the hurricane of the words you used to lead me on
The warmth you once had in my heart now heats the cornerstone
Yet I still wait to see your face come through that open door

I wish you’d call me beautiful
I wish you’d call me your own

Don’t you leave me alone
Cause the darkness is deeper when you’re gone
I ‘d fall heavy to the slumber of my soul
Don’t you leave me alone

I want to know why you had to go
After my first show when I held you close
And you said “Stop, baby take it slow”
I thought that you would be so much more

So now I’m trying to plant the light where only darkness grows
The vines they hold me tight but I feel so alone
I’m fighting through this forest but my roots took hold
So now I’ll rise into the sky and call the sun my home

I wish you’d call me beautiful
I wish you’d call me your own

Don’t you leave me alone
Cause the darkness is deeper when you’re gone
I ‘d fall heavy to the slumber of my soul
Don’t you leave me alone

Alone, like a rainbow streaking stark through the night sky
The northern lights will carry me home
Shocking life from my conscious like lightning 
Electric in the calm of the storm
The mirrors in your eyes show some of the soul that I left behind
And the window panes cause widow’s pain when stained with the views that yours provide
That’s why I’m trusting mine

When you leave me alone
The darkness will be deeper with you gone
I’ll fall heavy to the slumber of my soul
When you leave me alone


Don't You Leave Me Alone

My momma said "this child’s a beast of burden
Ain’t no sympathy for the devil in this town" 
But the simple life don’t give me satisfaction
I’d rather paint it black and burn it down

Cause you gotta be strong and do what you want
You gotta stand up before we can get down honey
Yeah you gotta be strong and show some heart
You gotta stand up before we can get down

You wanna shield me from the world and give me shelter
While cheering on the men that are fighting in the street
Well I’ll flip that script around so helter skeltered
Be beatless and a rebel just like me

Cause you gotta be strong and do what you want
You gotta get up before we can get down honey
Yeah you gotta be strong and show some heart
You gotta get up before we can get down

Yeah I’m the rhyme and reason of a rolling stone
Nobody knows just where I’ll go
But I’ll roll all night long
Just the rhyme and reason of a rolling stone
I’m rocking hard my path’s my own
And I’ll roll all night long

I can’t get no, I can’t get no, I can’t get no sympathy

They said I couldn’t get what I wanted
Well I did
I’m the rhyme and the reason of a rolling stone
Nobody knows just where I’ll go
But I’ll roll all night long
Just the rhyme and reason of a rolling stone
I’m rocking hard my path’s my own
And I’ll roll all night long

Rolling Stone

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