Forget everything you think you know about Patty Griffin either as a songwriter, singer or performer. With the release of FLAMING RED, her second album for A&M Records, you are about to really hear her for the first time. Unlikely her 1996 debut recording, the sparse, universally-acclaimed LIVING WITH GHOSTS-which was actually a collection Griffin's demos which featured her accompanied only by her acoustic guitar-FLAMING RED is an album chock full of big guitars, drums, keyboards, percussion, and her stunning, evocative voice. "What I did here was give myself the right to do whatever I wanted, to indulge every rock and roll fantasy I had and to deliver both lyrically and musically songs that challenged me as an artist. I don't want to be led around by classifications as to what I can and can't do. I'm not a kid and I want to indulge everything, even confusion" Produced by Jay Joyce, who also provides most of the album's stunning guitar work, FLAMING RED also features one of the greatest percussionists around in the venerable Kenny Aronoff. The ensemble provides Griffin with the support she deserves in delivering what will establish her as an artist of vision and ability to be reckoned with. "I just wanted to make the record I wanted to make this time out. I love the sound of loud guitars as well as acoustic pianos and stings" says Griffin. "In releasing the demos first, I basically placed my songs in their most naked settings, but working like this, with a full band of very capable musicians, I got to look at all the kinds of music I am interested in." "What we did, Jay and I, was to give all of these songs of mine new lives , a life apart from their writing, a way to exist out in the world on their own. An the wonderful thing is, that they are all mine, they are all me-, I feel perfectly at home in singing everyone one of them because they all access a different part not only of my past, but more of my musical present and the restlessness I feel in trying to express myself and say what I need to say." "I am looking for the song to reveal itself to me, and these songs have taught me a lot about them. I wrote many of them while discovering the ins and outs of this business in the last couple of years and they reflect all sorts of emotions, from tenderness to anger, and then there is the side of my personal life that comes out in there too, the side that needs to discover what it's all about for me in living this kind of life. They are all emotional, all coming from the same well."

Track list: (Click on Track For Lyrics) flaming red one big love tony change goodbye carry me christina wiggley fingers blue sky big daddy go now mary peter pan Griffin has a busy summer planned, touring with a full band instead of just her guitar. The next year will find her headlining her own dates as well as being featured on this summer's Lillith Fair, she will be reaching an ever widening audience while surprising and delighting existing fans. FLAMING RED is an album that will challenge and amaze, and more than likely push her into the limelight as an artist who sees the magic in a song and tries, by whatever means necessary to find it and make it her own. PATTY GRIFFIN'S FLAMING RED IS OUT ON A&M RECORDS -JUNE 23,1998.

Flaming Red

I look a walk around the block
I bought a candle It was flaming red
I thought a thought then I forgot
So I sang the happy song in my head

I wore my red shoes
Wore my red shoes again
They're gettIng worn out from
All the wandering
Worn out and holy
Holy as Jesus
Me and my red shoes
Nothing can please us

Stupid girl she was dressed like
She deserved everything that she got
Bloody pumps
Dead girl
Hey world thanks alot

I wore my red shoes
Wore my red shoes again
They're getting worn out from
All the wandering
Worn out and holy
Holy as Jesus
Me and my red shoes
Nothing can please us

Words & music Patty Griffin
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



one big love

lets take a ride to the seaside
we can go out swimming in the hightide
just wear your shorts and your long hair
don't forget the lawn chair
everybody's gone to the movies
everybodys gone and its groovy
they went to the one about the big war
I didn't, I'd seen it before

i guess I'm taking my chances
giving up the ring throwing in the gloves
i guess i'm taking my chances
trading in my things
a couple wings on a little white dove

and one big love, one big love

everybody do like a Monkey
if you want to go on and be funky
no need to talk Iike a hero
talk a walk count down to zero
no sense defending your honor
just go on and kiss him it you wanna
everything before is gone or is going somewhere

i guess i'm taking my chances
giving up the ring throwing in the gloves
i guess i'm taking my chances trading In my things for a couple wings on a
little white dove
and one big love one big love

i don't know where we are
and I don't care
and now we're out of gas
and riding on air
and one big love, one big love

Words & music Patty Griffin & Angelo
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



Tony

Anyone remember Tony?
Quiet boy, a little over weight
He had breasts like a girl
When I wasn't too busy feeling lonely
I stared over his shoulder at a map of the world
He always finished all his homework
Raised his hand in homeroom
For the morning attendance
And to pledge allegiance to the gloom

Hey Tony, what's so good about dying
He said I think I might do a little dying today
He looked in the mirror and saw that little faggot
Starring back at him
He pulled out a gun and blew him self away

I hated every day of high school
Funny I guess you did too
It's funny how I never knew
There I was sitting right behind you
They wrote it in the local rag
Death comes to the local tag
So I guess you finally stopped believing
That any hope would ever find you
I knew that story I was sitting right behind you

Hey Tony, what's so good about dying
He said I think I might do a little dying today
He looked in the mirror and saw that little faggot
Starring back at him
He pulled out a gun and blew him self away

He pulled out a gun and blew him self away
He pulled out a gun and blew him sell away

Words & music Patty Griffin
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



Change

Dog comes howling up behind you, sinks his teeth in your leg
Tells you how now things are going to be a little different
And he takes you down a peg
You make him ashamed for you, he buys you a new dress
Because you make him ashamed for you, he'd like you to took your best-

So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (2 more times)
And the dog bites down a little harder

Somewhere out in the wild wild west
That silly little thing that we tossed, tossed, tossed
Somehow we don't talk about nothing else but that
Silly little thing that we lost, that we lost, that we lost
And now there's no name for you
Come to find out none of that shit was even true
But now there's no name for you
I understand that we lost that too

When you change oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (2 more times)
And the dog bites down a little harder

Change ...........

Man said 'Woman I'm a little tired of you"
And she said "Don't leave me baby I'll do anything you want me to"
And he said 'Can't you do something about the mess around this place"
She said 'Anything baby, anything, I'll cover my face'

You make him ashamed for you, he buys you a new dress
Cause you make him ashamed for you in your nakedness

So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh (3 more times)

Change

And the dog bites down a little harder

Words & music Patty Griffin
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



Goodbye

Occured to me the other day
You been gone now a couple years
Well I guess it takes a while
For someone to really disappear
And I remember where I was
When the word came about you
It was a day much like today
The sky was wide and bright and blue

I wonder where you are
If the pain ends when you die
I wonder if there was
A better way to say goodbye

Today my heart is big and sore
Trying to push right through my skin
I won't see you any more
I guess that's finally sinking In
Cause you can make somebody see
With the Simple words you say
All their beauty from within
Sometimes they just look away

And I wonder where you are
And if the pain ends when you die
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say goodbye
Some better way to say goodbye

Words & music Patty Griffin
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



Carry Me

Maybe they come by land
Maybe they come by sea
Maybe they've already come
Maybe they come by me
Slipping into the twilight
I ride the broken wave tonight
An old song on the radio
You knew a long time ago
An old song on the radio
Going out over the ocean

Maybe it's World War I
Maybe its World War III
Maybe it's Vietnam
Maybe we're on TV
Falling into the tall grass
Melting into the tall grass
Spilling out over the lip and
Into the Ocean
Into the ocean

Carry Carry Carry me
Over the ocean, over the ocean, over the ocean, over the ocean
Over the sea

Maybe I've come so far
Maybe I'm on my knees
Maybe I'm dead or alive
Maybe I'm dead or alive
Maybe I'm none of these
Just an old song on the radio
Someone put on a long time ago
Going out over the ocean
Over and over the ocean
Over and over the ocean
Over and over the ocean

Words & music Patty Griffin
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



Christina

If you had the real thing how would you tell
Liars can say it all just as well
Every single word you've heard in vain
Baubles of gold stars, stars in your hair
Reflections that told that they were not there
And the diamonds on your cheeks have turned to flames
And up in the air they would write your name there
But love would fall to pieces in the rain
Who would know better than you
A hundred love letters and none of them true

Christina, Christina

It's a wondrous world of ridiculous things
With nothing so rare as the love that it brings
In the silence of a smile that understands
A piece of the action. pieces of gold
Everyone's paid well and does what they're told
For the simple daughter of a simple man
And up in the air they would write your name there
Their love will fall to pieces in the rain
Who would know better than you
A hundred love letters and none of them true

Christina, Christina
Christina, Christina

Words & music Patty Griffin
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



Wiggley Fingers

I'll never be sad and I’I'll never be lonely
I'll never be hungry and I'll never be homely
Never make a noise when I'm kissing a boy
Amen, Amen

Oh John Paul is keepin a tab
In his big red folder
At night he Is dreaming of hollow candle holders
Big is the weight of the world on his shoulders
Amen, Amen

Yeah and he's keepin those dirty little wiggley fingers to himself
And he sees you keeping your dirty little wiggley fingers to yourself
Cause he's always keeping those dirty little wiggley fingers to himself
Always keeping those dirty little......

Shaking the tree baby you should she'll be shaking the bed
Rocking the boat baby, she'll be rocking your head
All the family's watching 60 Minutes instead Amen, Amen

Yeah and your keepin those dirty little wiggley fingers to yourself
Keeping those dirty little wiggly fingers to yourself
Keeping those dirty little wiggly fingers to yourself
Always keeping those dirty little.....

And they'll send you flying right out of St Francis Xavier
With a note to your daddy about your unspeakable behavior
And who the hell is gonna be your savior now

Everyone says love is a labor
And so I guess you go call a sex line
If you want love your neighbor
I’II just stay right here and I’II just get a little safer and safer
Amen, Amen

You know I'm always keeping my dirty little fingers to myself
Always keeping my dirty little wiggley fingers to myself
Keeping those dirty little wiggley fingers to myself
Always keeping my dirty little....

And they'll send you flying right out of St Francis Xavier
With a note to your daddy about your unspeakable behavior
And who the hell said I need a savior anyhow

I got dirty little wiggley fingers
I got dirty little wiggley fingers

I love to feel the little wiggley
I love the dirty little wiggley
I love to feel the little wiggley
I love the dirty little wiggley

I to feel the little wiggley
Ii the dirty little wiggley
I to feel the little wiggley
I the dirty little wiggley

words & music Patty Griffin
C 1997 One Big Love MUSIC/ Chrome 009 MuSIC(ASCAP)



Blue Sky

The farther I come the farther I fall
Whatever I knew it was nothing at all
Nothing at all, just making me small
Smaller and smaller
I fall back

Sooner or later with a view from the ground
Chasing the race and the races run you clown
Sooner or later with a view from the ground
And a tear in your eye
You say baby why can’t we fly
Into the blue Sky
High
Into the blue sky

Be my singing lesson
Be my song
When I tell you I'm falling
You tell me I'm strong
You say trees have grown tall
birds have flown high
Higher and higher
Goodbye goodbye goodbye
I'll fly over a rainbow
I'll be sun kissed
Sail around the planet Venus
And send a long letter
Way back home
That says all that I know
All that I know is the blue sky
High in the blue sky

The farther I come the farther I fall
Whatever I knew it was nothing at all
Trees have grown tall, birds have flown high
Higher and higher
Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye

Words & music Patty Griffin & Jay Joyce
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



Daddy

We're rocking big daddy
How bout that
How bout that
Here he comes again
Me and my friends
We all laugh at him
Cuz he's so funny
Warm and fuzzy
We're rocking big daddy
How bout that
A celebration!
A celebration!
He caught a little fish
He had one wish
Daddy
We're rocking big daddy
A celebration!
A celebration!
Please throw the little fish back

Words & music Patty Griffin Jay Joyce
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



Go Now

Here's your moon
Here's your stars
Go now
Go now
Here's the sun
Here's the birds
Here's you are
Go now
Go now

Got a stellar reputation
As the star that never fell
As the train that left the station
As the secret that no one could ever tell

Here's the lamp
Here's the landing
We might never understand it
Go now
Go now
Here's the trees red and gold
Here's the snow
Here we go now
Let’s go now

I was waiting for the leap year
And got caught out in the rain
Singing like a sparrow
Always planning my narrow escape

Here's the morning shining on us
Here's the twilight upon us
Here's the moon
Here's the stars
Here I am
Here you are
Let's go now

Words & music Patty Griffin
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



Mary

You're covered in roses you're covered In ashes
You're covered In rain
You're covered in babies, you're covered In slashes
You're covered in wilderness, you're covered in stains
You cast aside the sheets, you cast aside the shroud
Of another man who served the world proud
And you greet another son and you loose another one
On some sunny day and always you stay
Mary

Jesus said mother I couldn't stay another day longer
He flies right by and leaves a kiss upon her face
While the angels are singing his praises in a blaze of glory
Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

Oh Mary
She moves behind me, she leaves her fingerprints everywhere
Every time the snow drifts, every way the sand shifts
Even when the night lifts, she's always there

Jesus said mother I couldn't stay another day longer
He flies right by and leaves a kiss upon her face
While the angels were singing his praises In a blaze of glory
Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

Oh Mary
You're covered in roses, you're covered In ruins
You're covered In secrets
You're covered in free tops, covered in birds
Who can sing a million songs without any words
You cast aside the sheets, you cast aside the shroud
Of another man who served the world proud
And you greet another son, and you loose another one
On some sunny day and always you stay

Mary

Words & music Patty Griffin
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)



Peter Pan

Hey, Peter Pan
I'm going home now
I've done all I can
Besides I'm grown now
I'll think of you all painted with the night
You sit and watch from somewhere
As one by one the lights go out

I wrote a note to tell you how you matter
When the rain came down
All the letters scattered
And washed away
Drifted off to Never
Where you'll be safe from me now forever

I believe you now when
You say that this will hurt
So I don't have to go and
Play with you in the dirt now

Hey Peter Pan
I'm going home now
I'm all grown up
Your on your own now
I'll think of you all painted with the night
You sit and watch from somewhere
As one by one the lights go out


Words & music Patty Griffin
1997 One Big Love Music/Chrome Dog Music(ASCAP)