Bright Eyes

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 because it spilled out of her heart and bathed her precious children in its warmth and there was happiness in li...

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 the days until she arrives those precious minutes when she is mine as we walk from my front door to her car we a...

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 afternoon as you walk through the rooms of a house that is quiet except for unanswered telephones you stand near...

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 into the water Another and another We go Form some kind of code The bodies float And form some kind of co...

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 moment that you are living in and not the one that follows that makes the mess you are cleaning in your head and ti...

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 would be clear then But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief moments And watch it all dissolve into a sin...

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 and the madness that is pulling me into this and the shades of the lamps are woven red the light, it stains...

Here is a scale. Weigh it out and you'll find, easily, more than sufficient doubt that these colors, you see were picked in advance by some careful hand with an absolute concept of beauty. They are smeared and these blurs come in random order and they color t...

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 the street and they laugh in a language I don’t understand. But I love them. Why do I love them? So the ne...

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 picture held, some secret you wouldn't tell but let it choke your neck. So we imagine a darkness where all sha...

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 sat down for dinner they waited for you to get home yeah, they set a place for you. So don't believe everythin...

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 looks at me with a love so complete That I have never seen And from this grows a strong, undying guilt The feel...

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 you. It's your naked body on white velour, But there's no feeling Just weight on you. But you get nauseous now...

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, So the house might dissolve. Once we’re gone, who’s gonna care If we were ever here at all? Well, summer...

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 the best that I can do now is to pretend that I've done nothing wrong and to dream about a train that's go...

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 a sight Drenched us in approximated sunlight The crowd was small and mostly blind But kind, you're too kin...

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 high Or the lower road You might clench your fist You might fork your tongue As you curse or praise All the t...

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 like lepers, they stick to the shadows and long to ring bells of warning to tell of their coming so that the...

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 was seated next to this man she had tried to start conversations, but the only thing she had really heard him...

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 light on goes out. i'm stranded in my bed, so i think about, the bad luck, the bad blood, that may have come...

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 Away what you know now Beat and beat it out Leave a drum that makes no sound A snuff film on a JumboTron fo...

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 comedy so dry and black That it makes my stomach hurt so bad, I cried So two thumbs up we give this one Despite...

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 which boy she liked at her school. so I am reminded of things I've forgotten. the way doors can open and peopl...

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're not here with me I'll have a blue Christmas, that's certain When all those blue memories start hurting Yo...

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 already open Just my nightstand and my dresser Where those nightmares had just been So I dressed myself and...

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 the baby dies." I said I'll tell you the secret which one's your good ear? Yeah, people are made up of water...

[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 know that there's wonderful grounds that have vortexes. That you might be interested in going to. And then go...

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 a suitcase or guitar To think of them all alone in the dark So I laid some nights beside her in a bed made...

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 From the roof of a friend's I watched an empire ending Heard it loud and long, the river's Om Time marching...

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 not supposed to think of you anymore, No, I’m not supposed to think of you anymore. And I know that I make...

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 on top of another Such is the measure of man Planets are inset like diamonds On a gravity halo, eternity's...

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 appointments and promises made they will all end up broken and quickly replaced. weeks are slow, days drag on; e...

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 between I'm sending the coyote To bring you back to me Where there's a fancy hotel waiting In south San...

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 mouth There is only now Tomorrow has to wait But know there’s no backing out This is gonna be reality You can...

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 didn't know they were vampires It turns out I was a vampire myself in the devil town I was living in a devil t...

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 me clean again? They say they don't know when, but a day is gonna come, when there won't be a moon and the...

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 Did they paint your face that pasty white You're thirsty but your appetite is chased away The sun turns us...

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 days Just thinking of the women who've taken your place And every night I think I certaintly won't ever sleep...

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 Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippent thoughts I never really dreamed...

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 your mouth. Emily, sing somethin please I want to taste life behind your eyes. 

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 standing around. But I must admit that when it comes to this, I'm as scared as the rest, feels like something's...

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 carrot’s gonna dangle Until the diamond is appraised. And all the talk made me feel rich baby But, tell me, who...

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 home The music was just being born It was all I was longing for Now I'm on a plane Of singing my songs aga...

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 leave the lilac print on the linen sheet Leave the birds you killed at your father's feet Let the sideways rain...

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 dance back through the screen door In the sunlight of mid-April. But the glow won't stop the smiles That are spr...

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 turn the amps way up so you can hear nothing and if i die tonight then i guess i die tonight let me go on just s...

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 Wave my hand, kick my leg And it's always right with the music (Until all that swaying starts to make you...

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 into this song, i send myself and with these drinks i plan to collapse and forget this wasted year these wast...

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 say- how do you do the things you do to me? Well if throwing up is 'feeling it' then Justin is just not intere...

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," or whoever you're talking to, Tesla - whoever you're talking to. Problems of the future can be solved by mank...

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' blankets on the beach Yours is the first face that I saw Think I was blind before I met you I don't know where I...

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 decomposing in containers tonight In an abandoned building where A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl With fi...

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, they must have been attached to wires I saw one laying in the lawn with a broken arm So I called 911 So th...

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 nothing I should say Figured it all out, figured it all out And nothing stands up to biology And truth is buil...

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 you had no knowledge. No, the chemicals covered you. So a jury was formed as more liquor was poured. No need...

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 all those hooded sweatshirt walks We were a stroke of luck We were a gold mine, they gutted us And from th...

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 got a soul, use it All this despair forgiven Rolling away on the Wheel of Sevens Seems like the Queen of S...

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 with I don’t know, the past couple weeks I guess Well, thank you and hang up the phone Let the funeral sta...

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 one that don't make sense. Even when it's easy to forget. To much time for the self-employed. I heard you...

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 Stab the ice with my straw My eyes have turned red as stoplights You seem ready to walk You know I'll call...

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 suffer from the same unending ache" The world was not of interest though her days were never dull Her bed...

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's one to call the children home And there's one to light the path they take How many lights do you see? How m...

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 symmetry To the second hand and it's accuracy To the actual size of everything The desert is the sand You...

Walking with you through the courtyard Where everything's marble and smooth You said the idea of perfection Was just fundamentally cruel And talked about joining the circus And trading your face for a mask Oh, I know you want to I just don't believe t...

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 if this is real then i was mistaken and if there is truth then why can't we find it? beauty comes to those who...

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 the music loud Smoking out in her car Lost in west Omaha, And we'd get drunk and kiss Our bodies twist...

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 all of our scratched affection I woke up with this song in my head this morning With no singing There's no...

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 people who Are shopping for Their lovers and their friends So they won't ever be lonely again Well a forest fence...

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 Just like the bad news you accept Just like that boy you're gonna get It's all the drunken promises I'll be...

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 The course of our fate So, people love and they hate And I guess it's just our turn to hate Yeah, you were...

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 sedatives mean well But make it worse Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt Better find yourself a plac...

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. into these twisted months i plunge without a light to follow but i swear that i would follow anything just get...

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 just on the cheek You pull away so easily And I still call you, but I get your machine yeah I still call you, b...

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 mention The one the voice in the back of my head says that I don't deserve Come fire, come water, come karma,...

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 that remain So I examine these maps with my eyes And at best I can trace with my finger all the way To that t...

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 tends to hold you with the fear that it eventually departs. and the truth is i've been dreaming of some tired...

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 discovery There is hope, and there is joy, and there is acceptance So now let all of the light that collects o...

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 every now and then Fall asleep reading science-fiction I wanna fly in your silver ship Let Jesus hang and...

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 walk this way And the future hangs over our heads And it moves with each current event Until it falls all...

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 West to Chicago To stroll through the greenery In the park pass the statues How eyes seemed to follow you Like...

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 dressed by yourself and assume its just yourself you could know? (this part i dont know) and there is just so much...

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. The city's driving me out of my mind. I've seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity. He falls from...

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 in his basement Old folk songs about the government It's love of money not the market He said, "These fucker...

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 and on the blankets that surround you they shine their light they shine their light rest your head and i will...

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, especially what you love You left another message said it's done, It's done When I hear beautiful music it's a...

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 that mountain shelf We used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now yeah We're all too busy working,...

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. No prying eyes. I poured some wine. I asked your name; You asked the time. Now it's two o'clock. The club is...

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 actor’s west side loft Supplies are endless in the evening; by the morning they’ll be gone. When everything i...

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 You buy and then you sell, you buy some more Make a plan to love me sometime soon Life is too short Death...

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 kept us innocent But the way you taught me to just let it all go back So we learn to be as faithless Stand...

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 Bored of calming me down Bored of drying my eyes But there was once a time when you were the one You were...

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 bit of footage Viewed from a shitty TV screen You can squint at it Just snow and static To make out the me...

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 whittled down just like every fool gets wise You will never reap of any seed deprived of sunlight So I have...

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 breath get there first When I opened my eyes I saw myself in the mirror And I knew I would do like my father h...

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 thinking of me Or a girl with coal black hair Who's haunted in her dreams But what they've seen Well, it wasn't...

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 and the sun's been put away I guess you may sense you should leave But you look so cute with your hair attache...

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 acquisition and to make more things that glow I got a knack for dodging bullets and flying zeros So I act like I am...

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 your mirror? so you think that things sound different at the time when you speak well there are visions much...

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 your fault And you've been good to me Just lately I've been feeling Like I don't belong Like the ground's not...

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 governments to the vengeance of the sea Well, everything is eclipsed by the shape of destiny So love me now Hell...

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 know of nothing that ever grew younger. But the universe it must go on forever, just like two mirrors that are f...

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 front And I'll follow the leader Like when I fell under the weight Of a schoolboy crush I started carrying he...

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 sleep beneath my feet And hold the earth in place Each time a faucet opens Words are spoken The water runs aw...

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 place we heard that everything would be And there were barricades to keep us off the street But the crowd kept...

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 frayed wet wire and his voice sings out for a lover but its covered by the choir of voices reaching way beyond...

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 walk this way The future hangs over our heads And it moves with each current event Until it falls around...

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 One for you, and one for me One for the Führer, one for his child bride One for the wedding, one for the suic...

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 other guys its cause you mean the world to me you're exactly what i need baby, i'm waiting for you to stop shak...

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 her say it once, Padriac, my prince I have all but died from the sheer weight of my shame You cried but no one...

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 out at the snow still thinking of the next few months, my cold and lifeless eyes I've never felt so separate...

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 shapes entwined under the trees Nothing prepares you. No, nothing prepares you For such an endless dream to...

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 afraid to die In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in...

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 You have a beautiful, beautiful smile The way it curls and collapses on your lips When you touch me I shake li...

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 hunger is still there, buried somewhere inside covered up by the boredom we've been trying to hide then dig i...

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 Somehow I knew I'd end up empty and alone We all accept in the same tired way The gentle shift of continuous ch...

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 record For a girl you loved but died I'm here sewing mine together Just hoping you're alive And I know you'll...

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 woman they keep away my loneliness My parents, they have their religion But sleep in seperate houses I read...

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 garage she's got the car in neutral she rolls it out so quietly it's saturday as usual it always is and me I'...

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 change my mind, change the paradigm Prepare myself for another life Forgive myself for the many times I wa...

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 you feel safe I want to be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the...

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 singularity comes We will be fully revealed Wandering limitless fields When singularity comes We will be abstr...

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 you've done what's right Dont say you felt obliged Come on along, is your timid tongue Too shy to tell your...

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 themselves to death waiting for the band to begin They've been tuning up there for an hour now And I don't th...

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 you call your apartment. And you sink in your chair, brush the snow from your hair and drink the cold away. An...

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 soul singer in the session band A red carpet bagger makes a Blackberry call To the plastic piranhas in the cit...

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 going home More than a couple of days then you leave right away Run to a girl you barely know But you like how...

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 from my brother's friend Well, just to get me by I don't trust his cut The effect is never as high as the m...

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 want to live But her man's got an angry mouth He once told me to rot in hell He's poisonous, reasonless Dem...

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 headed home All the way So we let him finish Every dinner plate And we watched his tail say thanks, thanks,...

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 sets. You’re lying while you confess, keep trying to explain. a sunrise and the sun sets you realize then you fo...

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 the son suffers away the clouds reveal the chariots of venus restrictions of time and space retile while her...

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 backwards attitudes. When you've done no sleeping and all your dreams fall through Relax your rush Relax your gr...

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 off your clothes, left on the light You stood there so brave, you used to be shy Each feature improved, each...

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 gray let's sail away let's sail away past the cradle of these waves let's sail away past the tide and its slo...

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 don't care where we are going as long as i'm going with you the summer swells in with the heat comes a new kin...

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 near a house lying still in the grass and felt the heat from the ground rising up to contract and expand like a...

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 what was Well, we've all made our predictions But the truth still isn't out But if you want to see the fut...

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 wall? Does he walk around all day at school with his feet inside your shoes? Looking down every few steps to pre...

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 And she turned me into sand. This clumsy form that I despise It scattered easy in her hand. And came to r...

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 their wounds for each other and there is a boy in a basement with a four track machine he's been strumming and sc...

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 and there is no clocks or phones to wake us up because i have learned that nothing is as pressing as the one who...

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

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 try not to think at all. I get cocaine from this girl I met and my brother buys me alcohol. And I stay up all ni...

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, an effect quite undesirable. The bold and yellow daylight grows like ivy across the wall and it bounces off o...

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 this but it's the way it goes And now it all seems too familiar like pages turned on calendars We get the s...

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 you take a swing at me If you could just crack the shell open I think inside you would find something sweet...

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 . . . shhh . . . shhhh Don't talk, don't talk 

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, trying hard to find a reason to move i'm frozen in one place, staring at the screen listening to the rain falling o...

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 on the lawn. There's people here, but you are gone. And I'm fine, still swimming through time. Afraid some...

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 streets are wet Body of water Toxic and timeless Atlantic ocean New York skyline I always get lost When I l...

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 telling their lies While your TVs change stations Scroll messages Vctims and Christians both drinking blood A...

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 I see the town was burning? Could I see the broken prison? Could I see that it was time for me to go? The...

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 creek. I write my blue songs with my blue pen. I sing the blue notes to my blue friends. Kid I don't know tha...

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 out of paper. I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover. And I tried to tell him he had a sense...

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 choose From what you should or shouldn't do? That's time spent better sleeping in your bed Or wide awake in...

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 you’re right? Why are you scared to dream of god When it’s salvation that you want? You see stars that clea...

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 left my whole life in a taxi cab. cause it's just a memory, i can't love completely, when you're really wit...

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 tolerant woman and the world is at war I know you witnessed my decline You used to push back the darkness like a f...

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 father. I will not desert him. I will not desert him. No matter how I may wish for a coffin so clean Or these t...

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? Does God suggest an oil hike When the president talks to God? When the president talks to God Are the conson...

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's the reason you stay here How awful that must feel You said you could be my dream I could have you every ni...