Can You Hear Me Now Lyrics - Emmylou Harris

(Emmylou Marris/Malcolm Burn) 

O the walls are closin' in 

I can feel it in my bones 

Like water risin' up to my chin 

Another long night to be alone. 

I could go out on the town 

Talk too much and laugh too loud 

If I'm already on my way down 

I might as well just work the crowd. 

Can you hear me now? 

Oh, the stories I could tell 

Sometimes I really hit my stride 

We make our own Heaven and our own Hell 

Tryin' to get across to the other side. 

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But everyday ends up the same 

One step up, two steps back 

Like some old silent movie frame 

Zoom in close, then fade to black. 

Can you hear me now? 

How did the load get to be so heavy 

I used to wear my troubie like a crown 

A bad flood's poundin' on the levee 

And l'm gonna need some help 

To hold my ground. 

But I'm sinkin' like a stone 

To where in solitude this life I'll spend 

In the coldest place I've ever known 

I'm here just waitin' until the end. 

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I send up my S.O.S. 

A message in a bottle set out to sea 

It just reads "Soul in distress" 

But nobody ever got back to me. 

Can you hear me now?...