stellaluna

Two from Emmylou Harris' album Red Dirt Girl:

Emmylou Harris - Michelangelo

Last night I dreamed about you
I dreamed that you were older
You were looking like Picasso
With a scar across your shoulder
You were kneeling by the river
You were digging up the bodies
Buried long ago
Michelangelo

Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl

She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl
Somewhere out there is a great big world
That's where I'm bound
And the stars might fall on Alabama
But one of these days I'm gonna swing
My hammer down
Away from this red dirt town
I'm gonna make a joyful sound

One selection from the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire:

Tuxedo Moon - Some Guys

Lonely days in the sun
Friends don't call
I watch the light on the wall
Lonelier nights
I sleep with my sweat
But I don't care
My heart remains the same the same
Inside my heart remains the same

Chicks with cellos:

Rasputina - The New Zero

It's there that no one will stare
At your jaws and your long fur
The claws in your fingers.

It's in the past when the passersby laughed
At your strange way of speaking
Your batteries leaking
Oh no

The Magnetic Fields take on various country tropes:

the Magnetic Fields - Crowd of Drifters

Sometimes the road is too long
You meet all kinds of people
Some of them cast no shadow
They have no reflections
Take a look in your photobook
I'm not there anymore

Jeff Buckley performs Edgar Allan Poe:

Jeff Buckley - Ulalume

It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir -
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.