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Trees Get Wheeled Away

Anchormen spike their blood Wear masks of mud Cucumbers cut to fit their eyes And so no one would know how tired they've grown Of talking and tell...

Triple spiral

I loved a triple spiral My maiden-mother-crone I folded my devotion into an origami rose Stood at her Tiffany window She said to look below Could...

True Blue

I am a blue blood I will admit that. I dance in blue shoes and wear a blue hat. Live in a blue house, on a blue street, in a blue town by a blue cr...

Well Whiskey

I get my whiskey from a well Except on holidays, then it's the top shelf But tonight I don't mind if I spend a little more Because you're a toleran...

Waste Of Paint

I have a friend, he is mostly made of pain. And he wakes up, drives to work, and then straight back home again. He once cut one of my nightmares ou...

We Are Free Men

Well, the future spills its intangibles An unknown set of variables A path that spliten infinitely up ahead So tell me what's the use to pick and c...

We Are Nowhere and It's Now

If you hate the taste of wine Why do you drink it 'til you’re blind? And if you swear that there’s no truth and who cares How come you say it like...

When The President Talks To God

When the president talks to God Are the conversations brief or long? Does he ask to rape our women’s rights And send poor farm kids off to die? Do...

Weather Reports

well i left my baby for a dream as lovely, for a love that's only in books i read. and then i hit the cities, spent all my money, i just lef...

When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass

Tomorrow when I wake up I'm finding my brother And making him take me back down to the water. That lake where we sailed and we laughed with our fath...

You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.

You say that I treat you like a book on a shelf I don't take you out that often 'cause I know that I completed you and that's why you are here That'...

Hot Knives

The Wife forgave the Mistress for she only entertained The pain was gone the instant she cleared her throat to speak her name Said, "Both of us must...

If Winter Ends

i dreamt of a fever, one that would cure me of this cold, winter set heart. with heat to melt these frozen tears burned with reasons as to carry on. i...

It's cool, we ca still be friends

Yeah, you still kiss me, but it's just on the cheek Yeah, you still kiss me, but it's just on the cheek Yeah, you still kiss me sometimes, but it's ju...

Light pollution

John A. Hobson was a good man He used to loan me books and mic stands He even got me a subscription To the Socialist Review Listening to records i...

I Watched You Taking Off

meaning is sometimes hard to spot it begins with the flickering of cigarettes in the darkness of a dorm room somewhere in the suffocated mid-west and...

I Won't Ever Be Happy Again

Well morning came And it dressed the sky In a lovely yellow gown Now the shops they are All opening In that narrow hallway of downtown Filled with peo...

How Many Lights Do You See

How many lights do you see? How many lights do you see? There's one to say that night has come And there's one that guards this jagged shore And there...

I've Been Eating (For You)

So, I'm just the medicine You take when you're sick You get well and that's it I'm put back on the shelf in your mirror And it isn't exceptional...

Let's Not Shit Ourselves (to Love and to Be Loved)

Well, the animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness. A baby cries hard in an apartment complex, as I pass in a car buried under the influence....

I Believe in Symmetry

Some plans were made and rice was thrown A house was built, a baby born How time can move both fast and slow Amazes me And so I raise my glass to...

I know you

Walking with you through the courtyard Where everything's marble and smooth You said the idea of perfection Was just fundamentally cruel And talk...

I'll Be Your Friend

You said they laid out lots of coke But you don't know how much you did Now you don't want me to go home 'Cause you're afraid you might get sick J...

I Will Be Grateful For This Day

I had girl I knew she grew became a woman Now I think that she teaches at one of the schools downtown, We used to roll the windows down And play...

I Woke Up With This Song In My Head This Morning

I woke up with this song in my head this morning I woke up with this song in my head this morning I was dreaming about your record collection And a...

Jejune Stars

Every new day is a gift; it's a song of redemption Any expression of love is a way to return To that place that I think of so often but now never me...

If The Brakeman Turns My Way

When panic grips your body And your heart's a hummingbird Raven thoughts blacken your mind 'Til you're breathing in reverse All your friends and s...

June On The West Coast

i spent a week drinking the sunlight of winnetka, california where they understand the weight of human hearts you see sorrow gets too heavy and joy it...

Lover I don't have to love

I picked you out Of a crowd and talked to you. Said I liked your shoes, You said, "Thanks, Can I follow you?" So it's up the stairs, And out of view....

Smoke Without Fire

Come on in, my weary friend The welcome here is endless These fears of yours, like painted whores They will not stay the night If all your life y...

Landlocked Blues

If you walk away, I'll walk away First tell me which road you will take I don't want to risk our paths crossing some day So you walk that way, I'll...

Lila

close your eyes the dark outside can't hurt you and i will never desert your bedside so close them tight the stars are so glad that they've found you...

Something Vague

Now and again it seems worse than it is, but mostly the view is accurate. You see your breath in the air as you'll climb up the stairs to that coffin...

Laura Laurent

Laura, are still living there On your estate of sorrow? You used to leave it occasionally But now you don't even bother To ride that commuter train We...

Ladder Song

No one knows where the ladder goes You're gonna lose what you love the most You're not alone in anything You're not unique in dying Feel estranged...

Solid Jackson

She says she's read too many fashion magazines She's forgotten what real love is like And as the basement collects more kids off the street They smoke...

Kathy With A K's Song

Love is real It is not just in novels or the movies It is fact And it is standing here right in front of you So if you open your eyes Oh what a sweet...

Jetsabel Removes The Undesirables

My brother finds comfort in calculators He assigns every number a name He believes that they add up to certainty And he is upset with fractions tha...

Lime Tree

I keep floating down the river but the ocean never comes Since the operation I heard you're breathing just for one Now everything is imaginary, espe...

Let The Distance Bring & Britt Daniel

Its so easy to say you dont care Its so easy to say you dont need it You got it all you know now every day you feel a bit less when you get dresse...

Lua

I know that it is freezing but I think we have to walk I keep waving at the taxis; they keep turning their lights off But Julie knows a party at some...

Make A Plan To Love Me

I heard you're scheming new pyramids Another big idea to get you rich Make a plan to love me sometime soon You said you had your foot in the door...

Loose Leaves

There are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the ground There's volumes in the forest, no one reads out loud If I could take them down off of t...

Singularity

Learning on the fly How to gather and analyze Nothing is living if nothing dies What an exception to make Roundly rejecting our faith When singu...

Make War

Our love is dead but without limit Like the surface of the moon Or the land between here and the mountains It is not these hiding places that have...

Supriya

agony and withdraw disrupt my wellbeing a voice flooded by the piercing and the sounds of distant lands silence is my heart i carry out my cross while...

Contrast And Compare

contrast and compare between the busy ones and the ones that don't care until there is no one that you really know so i drift through these days of ap...

Coyote Song

Loving you is easy I can do it in my sleep I dream of you so often It's like you never leave But you're gone below the border With a nightmare in...

Coat Check Dream Song

Shrill as a choir of children Urgent like the first day of May False and inflatable feeling Tugs at my senses, big as the Macy's Parade One brick...

Soul Singer In A Session Band

See the soul singer in the session band Shredded to ribbons beneath a microphone stand Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan For the sou...

Down in a rabbit hole

I heard you fell into a rabbit hole Covered yourself up in snow Baby tell me where'd you go for days and days Did they make you stay up all night...

Devil Town

I was living in a devil town I didn't know it was a devil town Oh lord it really brings me down about the devil town All my friends were vampires I d...

Southern State

Well, the songs you sung spiraled and hung round like echoes or ripples on a pond So you circled the globe spent a year on the road without ever goin...

Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come

Is it true what I heard about the Son of God? Did he come to save? Did he come at all? And if I dried his feet with my dirty hair, would he make...

Devil In The Details

A house of cards A supple heart Is not a place to dwell Now you have your cake Don’t hesitate Come on just do it, Come on just do it Put it in your...

False Advertising

On a string On a string On a string I was held The way I move, can you tell? My actions are orchestrated from above And so I swing and I'll sway...

Empty Canyon, Empty Canteen

Don't waste the water, don't drink it now. 'Cause this desert keeps growing, and we might never get out. Besides, we're not even moving, we're just st...

Feb. 15th

all eyes on the calendar another year i claim of total indifference to here the days pile up with decisions to be made i'm sure all of them were wrong...

Stray Dog Freedom

There's a skinny dog In a dirty parking lot And he doesn't bite But he begs And he knows what's true So if you are, he'll follow you If you're h...

Spent On Rainy Days

I wish I saved up for rainy days Because they're the hardest to be dry I got no self control I'm always begging into telephones I bought a little...

Emily, Sing Something Sweet

Emily, sing somethin sweet for me I want to feel the warmth inside your heart. Emily, sing somethin sweet for me I need to hear those words out of yo...

Sunrise, Sunset

Sunrise, sunset. Sunrise, sunset. Swiftly go the days. Sunrise, sunset. You wake up, then you undress. It always is the same. a sunrise and the sun se...

Feeling It

How do you do the things you do to me? Well Ian says he's feeling it and so are all the boys he's with. My head is clear, i'm not convinced but still...

Drunk kid catholic

The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved Well I have been happy the past couple d...

Spring Cleaning

Amy's got a baby in her stomach She took my hand, I felt it kick So she's crying and glowing She's 3 months and showing Seeing her now makes me wa...

Easy/lucky/free

Did it all get real, I guess it's real enough They got refrigerators full of blood Another century spent pointing guns At anything that moves Some...

Endless Entertainment

The serotonin’s rushing. I’m coughing. Well, I kinda caught the blues But you won’t catch me complaining To the super or the moon Because the carr...

Susan Miller Rag

When all the knots of tension keep you from getting loose Relax your love Relax your living And cruise... past the People's Choice and their backwa...

Entry Way Song

Last Saturday I stood in your entry way A place where we used to wait For cars to carry us away Like once in this storm They drove me and Justin...

Take It Easy (Love Nothing)

First with your hands, then with your mouth A downpour of sweat, damp cotton clouds I was a fool, you were my friend We made it happen You took o...

Falling Out Of Love At This Volume

tell me what you wanted to hear let me do the right thing let me do the wrong thing and if it's ever this clear i will only say it once just let me tu...

Exaltation On A Cool, Kitchen Floor

I wanted to come visit you Waiting in the spring time When the leaves change The ground outside is begging for the Newness that surrounds us As we da...

Everything Must Belong Somewhere

Leave the bright blue door on the white-washed wall Leave the death ledger under city hall Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today Just lea...

A Celebration Upon Completion

my grandfather's name was moon because his eyes were bright and round and no amount of time or liquor could dull them my grandmother's name was joy be...

Firewall

If there is no such thing as time, you're already there, and you're controlling this cycle. You say, "Man, look what we found here, Einstein," o...

Four Winds

Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe There's people always dying trying to keep them alive There are bodies decomposi...

First Day of My Life

This is the first day of my life Swear I was born right in the doorway I went out in the rain Suddenly everything changed They're spreadin' blanke...

A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not

sitting around, no work today try pacing to keep awake laying around, no school today just drink until the clock has circled all the way it is late af...

A Few Minutes On Friday

she kills, with foreign films, the emptiness of day to day and i wait until the weekend comes so i can clear this uselessness from my brain i count th...

Going For The Gold

There's a voice on the phone telling what had happened, some kind of confusion more like a disaster. And it wondered how you were left unaffected, but...

A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key)

The people's key Ringing through arena seats The black machine Played it all from memory A fever dream Well, I'll come back eventually To wade i...

A New Arrangement

if you could change your days arranging them in some sweet new sequence like any new arrangement is going to make a difference because it is the momen...

Gold Mine Gutted

It was Don Delillo, whiskey, me And a blinking midnight clock Speakers on a TV stand Just a turntable to watch Only smoke came out our mouths On...

Go Find Yourself A Dry Place

I wish there was something I could do for you I wish there were some words I could say But I know that you thought it out so well And I know there is...

A Poetic Retelling Of An Unfortunate Seduction

the language in the dimmer rooms seems to represent its light source well how soft they speak and seem to be at peace with the movement of the music...

A Perfect Sonnet

Lately I've been wishing I had one desire Something that would make me never want another Something that would make it so that nothing mattered All wo...

Haile Selassie

Pilgrim across the water We are the same, brother Hitchhiking back to Zion Holding our tears as we flip the album What if this leads to ruin? You...

From a balance beam

There is a man holding a megaphone So he must have been the voice of God The bystanders claimed they saw angels Flying up and down the block Well,...

Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh

The phone slips from a loose grip Words were missed then, some apology I didn’t want to tell you this No, it’s just some guy she's been hanging out...

A Song To Pass The Time

There is a middle-aged woman, she's dragging her feet. She carries baskets of clothes to a laundromat. While the Mexican children kick rocks into th...

Happy Accident

Lots of things I could have done. Little tokens of my love, that I was always savin' up to spend. It's the thought that always counts I guess. Even...

A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace

You turn on a spindle. You're so much looser now but you're not explaining how you gained such new repose. I touch the clasp of your locket, with its...

The Difference In The Shades

now that its june, we'll sleep out in the garden and if it rains, we'll just sink in to the mud where it is quiet and much cooler than the house is an...

Hit The Switch

I'm staring out into that vacuum again From the back porch of my mind The only thing that's alive, I'm all there is And I start attacking my vodka...

The City Has Sex

the city has sex with itself i suppose as the concrete collides, the scenery grows and the lonely once bandaged lay fully exposed having undressed the...

Act Of Contrition

The air was all dust, a night so untamed The ground opened up and swallowed all of the rain and it swallowed you too-- into distance unknown As they s...

All Of The Truth

It is not the past few days that have made me feel this way And it is not the tiny marks of doubt that cover everything I see It is just the way she l...

Tereza And Thomas

let's sail away past the noise of the bay let's sail away past the birth and death of the day let's sail away to where the blues and greens swirl into...

The Vanishing Act

Were you surprised that we never spoke? That in the still of the night, when nothing stirs I woke and I gathered up some clothes I never planned on...

The 'Feel Good' Revolution

come by when you get off work i will be sitting around doing nothing we can wait until the sun goes down then we will drive off deep into the night i...

Amy In The White Coat

You take your clothes off Right after school The tea is on, the flame is blue. And you hope it won't take all afternoon. The TV's waiting to talk to y...

The Big Picture

The picture's far too big to look at, kid Your eyes won't open wide enough And you're constantly surrounded By the swirling stream of what is and...

The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat

we escape from the house as the day disappears from the sky into night we became what we wanted to be like a dream or a ghost i collapse out of turn n...

The Calendar Hung Itself

Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head? And does he sing to you incessantly from the space between your bed and wa...

Time Code

Death, data entry, ant hill law Encoded arc, our common cause Drink liquid clocks until I see God Crystal display, can't turn it off Shh . . . sh...

Arc of Time

You can make a plan Carve it into stone Like a feather falling It is still unknown Until the clock speaks up Says it's time to go You could choose the...

Another Travelin' Song

Well I'm changing all my strings I'm gonna write another travelin' song about all the billion highways and the cities at the break of dawn I guess...

Approximate Sunlight

I used to dream of time machines Now it's been said we're post-everything As a child imagining Neck ties and Coast lines I seen the show man, what...

The Center Of The World

At the center of the world There's a statue of a girl. She is standing near a well With a bucket bare and dry. I went and looked her in the eyes...

An Attempt To Tip The Scales

Did you expect it all to stop At the wave of your hand? Like the sun’s just gonna drop, If it’s night you demand. Well, in the dark we’re just air...

The Joy In Discovery

Why do you lay in the grass? Why do you lay there? Don't you want to be found? Why do you lay in the grass? Why do you lay there? Don't you want...

Arienette

The fragile keep secrets, gathered in pockets, and they'll sell them for nothing a cheap watch or locket that kind of gold washes off. And the sad act...

The Joy in Forgetting / The Joy in Acceptance

There is a cat in the window of the house of my lover. Well she sleeps there alone now or perhaps with another but I try not to think about that. I tr...

Beginner's Mind

Hold on tight Beginner's Mind The wheel is spinning too Fast to make your move The worst must be assumed Oh how they'll try To pull and to pry A...

Method Acting

There's no beginning to the story A bookshelf sinks into the sand And a language learned and forgot in turn Is studied once again It's a shocking...

At The Bottom Of Everything

So there was this woman and she was on an airplane, and she was flying to meet her fiance sitting high above the largest ocean on planet earth. She...

Touch

touch, lying on the floor wishing this could last but knowing that it can't and soon you will leave and i will be on the floor, watching the tv, tryin...

Theme From Pinata

I wish I had a parachute cuz I'm falling bad for you And I can see the ground approaching now But I'm not sure what to do I feel like a pinata once...

Bad Blood

no news, that's good news, someone's gonna break. see things change, yeah i've been changing everything. it's peaceful, the pitch black, when the last...

No Lies, Just Love

It was in the march of the winter I turned seventeen That I bought those pills I thought I would need And I wrote a letter to my family Said it's not...

The Movement Of A Hand

You follow the footsteps echoes leading down a hall to a room. There is music playing tiny bells with moving parts. Here the shadows make things ugly,...

Tourist Trap

t's not the road we used to know, they tore some buildings down. The traffic's like a pack of dogs. There's fewer trees, windows, fleas, concrete...

Black Comedy

Once I gave a look to you But you never gave it back So here I stand expressionless But my memory's intact I guess the past is good for a laugh A com...

Messenger Bird's Song

The kitchen is cold But the coffee is warm The sun is coming up The day has just begun And you are already bored You're bored of cheering me up...

Middleman

I traveled though the atmosphere as a wall of feedback climbed The pegs were gold, the band was old, they played in half time Now every dream gets w...

Train Under Water

You were born inside of a raindrop I watched you falling to your death And the sun, well she could not save you She'd fallen down too, now the stre...

N'en parlons plus

I like the sound that ice will make When your glass is full and your hand can't help but shake I'm not sure what is left to say Now the dinner's done...

Mirrors And Fevers

I was cold in a dream somewhere close to the surface Between the ice and the stream there is three inches of air So I swam towards the light I let my...

Blue Angels Air Show

Claire's turning blonde for the summer I guess the sunlight just soaks into her hair and she sits next to me on the motorboat and shyly replies as to...

Cartoon Blues

I listen to a lecture of nonsense till dawn. By a plagiary poet with dark glasses on. He said "how did you ever dream up that song? The one where t...

Blue Christmas

I'll have a blue Christmas without you I'll be so blue thinking about you Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree Won't mean a thing dear, if you...

Napoleon's Hat

The barons of industry put inspiration on Hitler's tongue The next century crashed hard with a loud sound like a starting gun It's race for acquisit...

Bowl Of Oranges

The rain had started tapping On the window near my bed There was a loophole in my dreaming So I got out of it And to my surprise my eyes were wide And...

Motion sickness

There is nothing for Which I'm responsible Just this baggage I keep carrying on As if I had someone Ok, maybe there is a woman somewhere Who's still t...

On My Way To Work

there is a car parked where the block begins and there are people singing praises say it's all because of him and there is a bird perched on a fray...

Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed)

[Spoken:] Cassadaga, oh yeah, that's where you're going to find the center of energy. And they've got those in Arizona too. You know, there's, I kn...

Classic Cars

She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts She said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars So if I ever got too hungry for...

Cleanse Song

Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow See the new Pyramids down in old Manhattan F...

Neely O'Hara

in the morning when you throw up water and your skin turns a pale pale yellow well everyday you lose more color do you think that someone paints y...

No One Would Riot For Less

Death may come invisible or in a holy wall of fire In the breath between the markers on some black I-80 mile From the madness of the government...

No Prayer

There's no prayer I could say, no advice I could take, no pill that would make me feel better. There's no fountain to seek, no cup I could drink. I kn...

Closure

I hear, the wind dote in the yard, It blows through my button holes, I feel so far away from this place, Your words are still in my mind. But I’m...

Nothing Gets Crossed Out

Well the future's got me worried Such awful thoughts My head's a carousel of pictures The spinning never stops I just want someone to walk in fron...

Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)

Grey light, new day leaks through the window And some old soul song comes on the alarm clock radio We walk the forty blocks to the middle Of the pl...

Oh, You Are The Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet And Ho

I met you through a common friend In the attic of my parents' house And though I didn't know it then I soon was finding out Oh, you are the roots that...

Pioneer's Park

How did this happen? How did this happen? Such a perfect day, an unexplainable new feeling How did this happen? How did this happen? Two contented...

Road to Joy

The sun came up with no conclusions Flowers sleepin' in their beds The city cemetary's hummin' I'm wide awake, its mornin' I have my drugs, I have my...

One Foot In Front of the Other

If you walk away, I'll walk away First tell me which road you will take I don't want to risk our paths crossing some day So you walk that way, I'll...

One for You, One for Me

One for the righteous, one for the ruling class One for the tyrant, one for the slaughtered lamb One for the struggle, one for the lasting peace On...

Saturday As Usual

virginia is almost sleeping the night is getting older there is static on the tv and she's lying on the sofa the cats crawl over her jenny is in the...

Patient Hope In New Snow

the heat comes in distant shifts to fill up my room it spills out of these ancient vents to meet the new cold and i lay in my twisted sheets and stare...

Poison oak

Poison oak, some boyhood bravery When the telephone was a tin can on a string And I fell asleep with you still talking to me You said you weren't a...

One Straw (Please)

and if its true, baby, i'm the one in love with you and i guess that I've been all my life and i know and i'll try and i'll love you more than those o...

Racing Towards The New

Just forget what you cannot replace This sweet day is almost weightless and new So I talk but no one can relate To the fear I had when I was younger S...

Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra

I had a beautiful, beautiful time The drives and the talks were amazing The kind of friend I thought I'd never find I had a beautiful, beautiful time...

Padraic My Prince

I had a brother once He drowned in a bathtub, Before he had ever learned how to talk And I don't know what his name was, but my mother does I heard he...

Pull My Hair

is the passion all gone? or is it still newly wed? if all this heat is doing is making us stick to the bed then there is no life to revive. but if the...

Shell Games

Took the fireworks and the vanity The circuitboard and the city streets Shooting star, swaying palm tree Laid it at the Arbiter's feet If I could...

Reinvent The Wheel

My friend you were the model A priceless work of art Boys would fashion their emotions To the pattern of your heart And I heard you wrote that rec...

Ship in a bottle

I want to be the surgeon that cuts you open That fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place that yo...