John Hiatt's sales have never quite matched his reputation. Hiatt's songs were covered successfully by everyone from Bonnie Raitt, Ronnie Milsap, and Dr. Feelgood to Iggy Pop, Three Dog Night, and the Neville Brothers, yet it took him 13 years to reach the charts himself. Of course, it nearly took him that long to find his own style. Hiatt began his solo career in 1974, and over the next decade he ran through a number of different styles from rock & roll to new wave pop before he finally settled on a rootsy fusion of rock & roll, country, blues, and folk with his 1987 album Bring the Family.
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Cross My Fingers Lyrics
John Hiatt
Baby when I put my mind to it
I slip into another gear
And I travel in another syncopation
When all I wanna be is here with you
And
Ill be true to you cross my fingers
Ill be good to you cross my fingers
Ill be true to you cross my fingers
Sure as a snake along the river
Sure as a ghost is in the trees
There is a promise love delivers
Even though you never promised me
Ill be true to you cross my fingers
Ill be good to you cross my fingers
Ill be true to you cross my fingers
I wanna stay, til my thoughts are okay
til my motive is clear, cause Im driftin away
From the weight of your arms, from your soft feather bed
To a cold white line down the highway in my head
All our little tears are icicles
Hangin on the telephone lines
And I call you up through all the cracklin static
I swear I only hear you half the time
No matter how I try to hold you baby
You only seem to slip away from me
And then were walkin out along the ocean
Or swimmin like the dolphins out to sea
Ill be true to you cross my fingers
Ill be good to you cross my fingers
Ill be true to you cross my fingers
Ill be good to you cross my fingers
Cross my fingers