"Come on sunshine, what can you show me
Where can you take me to make me understand
The wind can shake me, brothers forsake me
The rain can touch me, but can I touch the rain"
--"Wherefore and Why," Gordon Lightfoot

"Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time"
--"Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" Sandy Denny

"I don't want to dance
I just want to jump from the prison of circumstance"
--"Labour of Love," Frente!

"I could just pretend that you love me
The night would lose all sense of fear
But why do I need you to love me
When you can't hold what I hold dear"
--"Leather," Tori Amos

"I've become the beggar now
and you've become the saint somehow"
--"Hand Me Downs," Indigo Girls