Buffalo Tom

Five hundred thousand warnings I'll smash you Six hundred thousand million times that we've been through Inside an old farm house that I've never been to I'll find a thousand reasons, It's you I'll do it to Ladies of the evening, suit men of the day Blue...

The moon was full your whisky sour Oh girl there's no need to be so dour Cause when you walk with me in the beginning of the day You see, I don't need anything that way I'm wishing things could be the same When things got broken you came My moods were a...

Y'got married, in the morning Suzy, don't worry I'm hidin' your lies in I'm diggin' "New Day Rising" * Life is a maybe Because you're such a baby Life is a maybe You're crazy so lazy You're feeding me spaces I'm kneelin' cuz you're feeling You keep...

I'm out, I'm out in bushes Playing, playing with plastics Birdbrain, they say I'm a birdbrain If I am then can I just fly away shoe straps & eyelashes washing my brain Twenty-five years are just washed down the drain They are, they are a drunken bi...

When I am relaxed I drop my drink My bleeding heart Has a gate of thorns When I turn on my sink The guy next door turns his off But my bleeding heart Will not go away Six hundred thousand miles Cannot squelch its flame I wear my bleeding heart Righ...

It's blue, down that street Just like people you might meet It's true, on her face The loneliness she can't escape And who could ever take her place She was a little one Seemed like life had just begun Found out, on the phone Then we knew we were all a...

Caress inside my bones Caress inside my bones A house inside a home A bird 90 times alone A bird 90 times alone I am always alone I am always alone A bird 90 times alone A bird 90 times alone I am always alone I am always alone A house inside a ho...

Well, I clobbered you with hands so indescrete March around like a soldier in defeat I've clobbered mountains with my finger tips While you're alone on top of kissing lips Well, I clobber you And I clobber me When our eyes would meet My heart would ski...

Please crawl across the sea Please crawl across to me You can take me anywhere Please take me, I don't care Please crawl across the silent door 40 smiles 500 miles Can you take this trip Can you take this leap Into my life, one big heap Please crawl...

It's so mean It's crueler than your dreams And it's worse than it seems Add it up Stick it in your cup You're sure to get enough It runneth over now You can't complain no more Your bones are cracking now You'd better knuckle down Life's so cheap I...

Leaving She came along She came a long way to see me She came across snowy fields Baby - I've almost grown somehow I'm in between the coasts But my mind My mind must be back in Boston And you're all above the moon And you're all above the moon I'm ly...

I'm not cryin' for ya I'll let the angels bore ya I'm just tryin' to understand 1,2,3,4,5 I'm callin' Julie you just keep on walkin' I can't laugh at all that matters I can't sleep at night without a stare But I'm not cryin' for ya Is that a big box fo...

Three kinds of people, she just didn't care I've got a black and yellow box filled with her hair When she felt up to it she'd drive me around I've been taken so high, now deep in the ground Now deep in the ground She said give me a lantern-sized problem a...

You come down, change my life around I fell 40 feet today Get on the ground and feel around You found something worth my way You're whining, my magnum's shining I'm shooting bullets everywhere This gun's for two Yeah they pass through you Just as if yo...

Did it lie Or did you fall? Is that why you're now not answering my call? Now who counts on you to be home at five? Do you even care if I'm still alive? I've got to know If I'm still alive Did you collapse Or where you strong? 'Cause you know you had...

She comes to me In her prewashed bright blue jeans Bag sewn tightly Pursed lips are kissing me Back up to college Just a few miles down the road And we remember Something we've never been told Come up on dry land I've had too much to drink I'm tired...

Enemy, all over my body She's wrapped up She's wrapped up in alcohol She's wrapped up She's wrapped up in caffeine She's my enemy She's my enemy She's my enemy She's my enemy I woke up, she was painting the lattice She can't see through her mother's...

When she combs her hair she flushes stars down her back Tiny avalanches crumbling, gliding, falling down And she's calling us, calling our cause They're all waiting for her to come down from her stars When her problems come they come and go like winter tim...

Reaching back, I'm a fortune teller I'm a teller of the way There will be those days Can't make them go away There are always ways of telling They are crazy about me Grass is what I'm after Trashed out on the train What is it that you're after I can't...

I'm between the lines just one more time Read it in a book I almost looked In the frozen lake she comes and takes Give up my whole world she's just a girl In my frozen mind I'm stuck in time I can't get past this thing for one more spring See, she fits t...

Tears fall down like paper around you But I cannot get through There's nothing I can do 'Cause you steal secrets from the gods But I'm no god, and I wish I was Birds fly high and fall around you But I have to climb the stairs You climb high just like a...

Waited for an answer But I waited for twenty five years They stopped my bleeding But could never stop all these tears I waited for the day when You came out from beneath all that weight I tried to lift it But it seems I got there too Late Just to late Just to...

Maybe it's only - cuz I'm so poor That you don't count me - anymore Maybe I'm tryin' to compare Take my picture - don't you dare Maybe it's only - cuz I fall I'm so much closer - but yer so tall But I'm no baby - I ain't no child I'll get to bed soon -...

One things for sure It's not the same anymore Close the door There's a wind coming in And if it's true I will believe in you, in you, in you And if it's true I will believe you, believe you That's what I will do And if your sure Say no more It's imp...

There is a pause in my life That started when I was in the attic Just a few moments now Before the whole thing collapses See the cracks in the windows They've been there for so long And the beams falling As I run down the stair I can't wait to fall dow...

There's no time - a few hours to sleep Just drive 'til tomorrow Here I go - my drunk tank's on empty I've run low on sorrow One last lemon drop is all that's left from our last trip And that is the taste of you, of you Auld Lang Syne you're drunk all th...

I scratched my finger On the door in front of you You scratched your finger At the girl outside That's a bigger Responsibility When All My Children Is an endless bore I'm the number on your kitchen door I'm the gifted son who cannot score I'm the nu...

I'm not looking for the shell-shocked signs of life Your shadow still looms larger in the night There's a nickel on the sill for good luck's sake I left it out for only you to take. But there's pine resin green on your crimson heart Just steel yourself f...

When I sleep is when you rise Get out of bed wipe the sleep from your eyes I shut my eyes - all the world drops dead Now's the time friend of mine With a passage to A passage from Your daily missal We taught that Cat to crawl When I sleep is when you...

I close my door at night But they get in all right And she turns on the light I held her hands so tight 'Cause words don't come out right And she sees things at night Me, I'm closer to the door I don't get scared no more But I don't know the score...

The newest clown Cries an old type of tears Watch them fall There they lie Crispy, ancient and they leak Formaldahyde Going Going I'm gone Go away Going His tears they sit Crusty, rusted in a box Inside a drawer Grandpa's news Fragile words are...

All spangled up, glittering on There's a monster in the kitchen - his lights's turned on Thanks for coming - it meant a lot But you sure do know how to put me on the spot You're so green (4x) You came into the kitchen - a rose held high I never want to...

I've been turned on In that little room And I am all caved in now like a cat I've woken up 'Cause you've spoken up I'm catatonic but ready to roll Drift sense of time Turning round on a dime Crossed the thin line As I'm waving goodbye You saved my l...

I don't think you care - no, no, no And I don't like the way you stare I don't like that joke - no, no, no And I don't wanna smell like smoke I don't like that face - no, no, no And I don't wanna walk your pace But I don't like that cold Far away look I...

Hey when the need becomes too strong or long And drawn out for me to take Like a cigarette burn to the fleshy turbines of my heart That faded afternoon floats breezily into my memory Cool shafts of light appear and I'm left here Standing naked on my own...

You have spoken The photo's fading And nothing is going right A shooter's hand To turn a cheek to A cough in an empty room at night Leaves are eyes That look inside A secret society Here's victory now if That's what you're into Just take it away fr...

Rachael Thelmy is not very sure A little girl inside her uniform But Aren't you really just a penny whore? Rachael tell me what I'm waiting for Right Now! Right Now! Right Now! Right Now! Right Now! Right Now! Rachael tell me what I'm waiting for Abou...

Racine took a trip to Long Island She got so tired of Times Square Sometimes she'd look at herself in the mirror Sometimes she wouldn't even dare Racine always dreamed of Long Island Things always seemed so clean there She took a train out of Penn Statio...

I feel so cool, I feel lucky inside I feel like my worst enimies died The poison of the streets has crept inside my lungs And the blood is throbbing inside my tongue And I think that I know the reason why And I think that I know the reason why And I know...

Well, I compare you two You've got the same toothy grin And a penchant for dramatic ends See the harbor lights His five brothers down there From the salty bay back home again He went from one ball and chain His whole life down the drain With a widow i...

Everyone has their own myths If not their father's troubles It's the mother's kiss But me would you save my life Or take it away from me - stab me with a knife Hey you could find it in yourself, I know To fly across the cobalt sky And leave me down bel...

Can't get rid of this blue sun It's been so long since I've had fun She's wearing a special dress We're in a terrible mess It's been so long since I've been home Since I've had fun I'm coming home I'll be there soon I'll be there soon My retreat's in...

Gone, advice from a side road And a dying breath and yellow oak Big tall weeds and leaves of gold Now; a wasted clock hollow And I'm not the drowning man you think Though I flail my arms, I refuse to sink All I ever wanted was to see Scottish windows o...

It's a cold northern rain Two degrees above freezing day I'm standing outside the chinese With a glow lamp to light my way See to me now There's no manual to show you how But there's reams of scrapbooks in my basement And a spiral staircase down So p...

She's got everything she needs, She's an artist, she don't look back. She's got everything she needs, She's an artist, she don't look back. She can take the dark out of the nighttime And paint the daytime black. You will start out standing Proud to steal her...

I am so seasick of being out to sea It's got to be the worst thing That's ever happened to me But I've got my free pass My skeleton key I can open every door that Stands in front of me You are so crazy Should be under lock and key You've got to be th...

Watch an eyeball Take a free fall At the mention of a name In its socket And like a rocket Rises just the same Could my eyelids (could my eye) Cover what I did The shuttin of the door And could these ceilings Contain my feelings Me down on the flo...

You're a blue ribbon surprise A hot mold plastic dinosaur You're a starfish from Florida Give the machine another quarter Watch it appear Oooh you souvenir Take yourself a handful of sand And put it in your hat for awhile Or how about this rubber band...

In the colored light stands you The end is in sight - no need to fight anymore They're hot in pursuit and they're pursuing you All the way home and now you're finally alone All the way back home Now you're catching dust like desire Stockpiling stars col...

Staple my hand Staple my hands to my heart Staple my hand Staple my lips shut Staple my hand Staple my lips shut I'm staying right here I won't move 'til I'm dead I'm staying right here You can cut me in two instead I'm staying right here I won't m...

Broken By words left unspoken I thought you was joking The words you say Stymied Please come untie me You're lying right beside me Don't lie to me Lying I caught you lying You caught me trying Don't let me catch you lying Lazy Open up the daisies...

Sight unseen, sadder seas Summer song sung all along Dragged across the seven seas To the beach come follow me Summer's gone a summer song You've wasted every day, every day Cellophane, a grandma's town Summer's letters on the ground Seven pins, the...

Sunday night and now I know How the night can pass slow All kinds of ugly outside that's right And I'm all alone tonight Distant highway din Leaky roof my doubt drips in And as the street lights and my prospects dim She turns in bed and thinks of him...

I wanna hear your sad sad voice come to me loud and clear I wanna hear your lips and tongue form the words no ears should hear And I wanna watch you while your face reddens with fear And watch your eyes get all clouded up with tears This thing is such a s...

How can I follow suit When nothing seems to matter anyway Living too close to nothing new It takes a lot to get used to today But I follow suit And I follow suit anyway But I follow suit And I follow suit everyday And I'm in love with a sunflower suit...

I suppose you've lost your patience I'm just too gone to call Squint my eyes forget the reason But now it don't look so bad at all Suppose you left home in the morning And travelled on a train all day Passing nighttime by a greenhouse You'd still be a...

Sister can you hear me now The ringing in your ears I'm down on the ground My luck's been dry for years I'm lost in the dark And I feel like a dinosaur Broken face and broken hands I'm a broken man I've hit the wall I'm about to fall But I'm closin...

Breathless from the coffee I drop my newspaper down And left my eyeballs to read about some other town Your blueberry flu and message at breakfast was nice But when you shoot your mouth off expect to pay the price She's a tangerine Made in California Sh...

Bell, book and candle, murder and greed These are the things that bring your love to me How sweet the sentence, How sweet the lips? How do you expect, the same face that they kiss? It's only the Bible, It's only the Bible You're only a child and you're...

Walked home in the rain today Took the subway train today Went to my room, listened to Billie Holiday Stared down to broadway Took the bus home today Had a staring contest with a guy I did not know today Outstared everyone on the bus today Took it home...

I would walk the plank I would die with my boots on Like all good cowboys do And you could find the treasure on your shore Star spangled winter night Drags me up and out of bed I'm all riled up And I dream dream, dream, dream, dream Guys in ties and ma...

These things crawl across my floor I can't use them anymore There's a heaven in her band Alleluias in my hand All my patience love's inside She just climbed the stage and died Lights that rose and fell again Songs that thinned out near the end Oh, her...

Seasons change and I have found you Looks like you've been here a long time Looks like you're here to stay And I reason that that's O.K. When though, when will you be leaving Way up in the trees Afloat on the seas I can't afford your voice But I have n...

I thought of you, did you think of me I guess we'll wind up running down your street Twenty points for me I see that bandage lying under your sheets I see that blood, it's running down your cheek Twenty points for me Twenty points on top of me Take yo...

In the sad blue light, in the deepest shade Margaret Mary saddles, all our love away The shallow moonlight sips her milky eyes And underneath the ground, the mother sends the child And the rain buries the lonely night And the rain buries the lonely nigh...

Here she comes across the street But I'm already there downstairs to meet with her She could make my life complete But I'm already there to compete with her Climb aboard my velvet roof And smile showing me one golden tooth A simple gesture yes or no Wou...

Geez, would you just walk away If you heard me say, say so It's just a rainy day Raining outside again Now when it rains it pours Outside open doors again Geez, would you just walk away If you heard me say, say so Now when it rains it pours Outside th...

The evening light still pale I went out to the mail My movements like a snail Apologies from a friend I'm spread out so thin It's time to start again Greetings from the walking wounded Did you just see what the moon did? Maybe my eyes were playing tr...

Come back when you are done Looking down on everyone Ain't it hard when you discover that you're dumb Open up your sleepy eyes Cut off all your family ties Ain't it hard when you realize you're young All these noises in your head Last time I saw you...

The autumn leaves Me here without a tooth You've given me the shaft My friend's car's breaking down And I've got no ride home And I'm left out The apes in the evergreens The grape leaves and jasmine tea Comforts you, without me Without me And I am...

Would not be released Could not be denied I tried to say the words But got tripped up inside You can murder them with guns Poison them with lye You can take a person's life But you can't squelch his pride This city's not my own This world is not my h...

you'll never catch Him I said, you'll never catch Him she said, that's what everyone says to me you'll never catch Him she said, you know you'll never catch Him you'll run for miles but still you wont believe God (moves?) everywhere crosss your heart...

It was a time so full And as rich as me and you In a case of deja vu I forgot that I knew you Every day was like a grape Or as rich as a chocolate cake And I took all I could take And laid claim to what I'd could stake Oh I loved you in your stripes...