The Cowboy Junkiesare a Canadian alt-country/ alternative rockband, formed by three siblings from the Timmins entertainment family. The group formed in Toronto in 1985. The band's name was simply a random choice as they approached their first ever gig, but it has come to perfectly represent their sound. (Some sources may credit Townes Van Zandt's song "Cowboy Junkies Lament" as the source of the band's name, but that song was written especially for Cowboy Junkies several years after they coined the name.) The Trinity Sessionis perhaps their best known record, recorded live in a single day on a single microphone in a church in Toronto. This album also included a unique cover version of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane".
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Crescent Moon Lyrics
Cowboy Junkies
Reach a hand to the crescent moon
Grab hold of the hollow
If she sits in the palm of the left
That moon will be fuller tomorrow
If she sits in the palm of the right
That moon is on the wane
And the love of the one who shares your bed
Will be doing just the same
`wont you come with me, she said,
`theres plenty of room in my iron bed
Youre looking cold and tired
And more than a little human
I know Im not part of the life you had planned,
But I think once your body feels my hand
Your mind will change
And your heart will lose its pain
Out among the fields gently hipped
Beneath the corn,
Assiniboine bones beneath the highway
He stood there and he thought of home
A finger traces the path of a satellite
Youre drawn to a distant copse of trees
A voice as sweet as mares tail
Clings to the prairie breeze
`wont you come with me, she said,
`theres plenty of room in my iron bed
Youre looking cold and tired
And more than a little human
I know Im not part of the life you had planned,
But I think once your body feels my hand
Your mind will change
And your heart will lose its pain
Do I reach for you
When I know youre on the wane?
Do I sense you when I know youre not around?
Do I search for you
When I know you cant be found?
Do I dare to speak your name?
Raise your eyes to a moonless sky
And try to wish upon a rising star
Search all you want for her blessing
But you wont find her sparkling there
Now cast your eyes to a part of the sky
Where nothing but darkness unfolds
And watch as all around you
She reveals the brilliance of secrets untold
Wont you come with me, she said,
Theres plenty of room in my iron bed
Youre looking cold and tired
And more than a little human
I know Im not part of the life you had planned,
But I think once your body feels my hand
Your mind will change
And your heart will lose its pain