Calexico

Alberto hits his brother on the Back of the head, looks to the north As he starts to get up His brothers still sleepy Grumbles “it's not light yet, if you want a new life, what's A few minutes wait? Darkness on the road and over the land Into the laws and...

Felt a tremor stir beneath my breath That forecasts storms on the gallup poll Waking up from the nightmare news Hoping to read a sign in the morning air Nothing changes here and nothing improves All say my friends who just want out And leave these troub...

Hush-a-bye, don't you cry Go to sleep you little baby When you wake, you shall have cake And all the pretty little horses Blacks and bays, dapple and greys All the pretty little horses Hmm, and mama loves, daddy loves Oh they love their little baby When you wa...

Yeah Said it's alright I won't forget All the times I've waited patiently for you and you'll do just what you used to do And I will be alone again tonight, my dear. Yeah I heard a funny thing Somebody said to me, "You know that I could be in love with almost...

I live out yonder where the snakes and scorpions run got myself a little goldmine to bank on but one day my heart sank when i saw madame in town i knew her love would be the death of mine l'amour passait, l'amour obsolète pourquoi perdre sa vie à cherche...

There’s a letter she keeps inside, A list of everyone she knows Behind her closed eyes That turn her in when it’s time to go She’s heading north into the haze, Raise the wire and they raise the rent She’s walking the sun back home And in the nig...

When you can't find the hours Days keep on slipping thru Avenues under construction Blocking out your sky blues Burried beneath the letters Bills and the junk in the mail Finding the strain to your heart From the troubles down the trail No sign of yo...

Spring is frozen now i’m stuck in low wrapped with wire, tapped to the heart can’t find no poison, now i’ve got no cure (the) fangs are stuck inside my skin payne county line watching unjust claims one man’s righteousness is another man’s long haul, sen...

[Something] Attracts immigrants in hard times The southwest is suffering rapid change Coal-burning plants multiply and the Four Corners grow dingy The Grand Canyon is overrun by motorized rafters and transistorites Our lust for energy dams the rivers Miss...

Her eyes are closed now that final breath is near she lets go of my hand and I fall into a see of tears search for the trail that we were both riding lost sometinme ago now i'm stranded on the mountain's edge and there's only one way back down... and dow...

Casey joins the hollow sound of silent people walking down the stairway to the subway in the shadows down below following their footsteps through the neon-darkened corridor silent desperation never speaking to a soul the poison air he is breathing h...

All the sweet mouth really wanted just fell from her grip the worst hell you can drag your soul through is trying to make all the lies stick you might as well not make an effort lots of bills lying around unpaid still i guess some things seem better than...

High atop radio towers sky darkens in the final hours marie, wrings her praying hands don’t see why the spirit won’t understand while lines are crossed hope’s broken at the knees and at a loss the world’s made of dust and dust it will return sniper su...

Who has dressed you in strange clothes of sand Who has taken you far from my land Who has said that my sayings were wrong And who will say that i stayed much too long? Clothes of sand have covered yor face Given you meaning but taken my place So make you...

Through miles of waste to cross upstream Risking all dreams for what the surface brings Free like the flow that pours from your hand Claiming its own, New River 

The people will survive in their environment the dirt, scarcity, and emptiness of our south the injustices of our greed the practices we merit the dirt, scarcity and emptiness of our south there on the beach i could see it in her eyes i only had a co...

Down the crooked road a ways A child's shadow hiding in the briar Tending to a twisted heart that's bent and broken Wounded and abandoned left amongst the rotted root to rot Moon, crimson moon Rose marie's walking down the crooked road a ways All aglow,...

Cruel, cruel grounds Leak truths never found Torturous ways Whisper from the grave A slow spun song of distortion Bitter, bitter mouth Spitin' out seeds of doubt Rituals seek root Razed before they're told Stories break like branches in the cold Se...

Marco's shadow falls on the door To the seven lost cities of gold Finds a raven's head and rattler's tail Dead in his tracks, this godforsaken soul's Unwanted here and his ghost lingers for years Amalia's face hides behind the mask Sweating on the tv fa...

When numbers matter more than the heart Your eyes are hollow and stiffness starts to take control Capsize the soul, deep down you know it's evil You've always known Be a good example show your new tricks And while you're out there they'll make the pitch...

Through plumes of smoke A few houses a blaze Your eyes scan over the water Where the city's outline is faded and erased Cries in the night After the storm Arms entangled in wave and wire Frozen below in the darkness Days float Buildings sway Tensio...

Riding through nostalgia, shaking memories by the mile the city lights are closing in on him the distance grows shorter for a while he wonders what dreams fill her heart and wonders if what they had could ever be sparked "the roads never lead where they'r...

No one knows where the night can go except for the few lovers entangled and torn from the hour the stars now are starting to leave a silent moon begins to weep and the lovers fall further and further into the dark and deep come morning, without warning...

I hear a sound it’s going through my brain i hear talk of people i feel the fallin’ rain i see a man crying ‘cause the whole world has left him kids are laughing at the funny faces of a clown my mind is like a spring in a clock it won’t unwind i ca...

I was just standing, Turning around That’s when they caught me headin’ down Keep on going don’t look away That’s what they tell me, That’s what they say Ooooh, Ooh Ooooooh Yeah, that’s what they tell me That’s what they say You’re a pretty...

Dying of thirst Could i still be alive or worse Where was i last Parked on the street when a shadow was cast Taking me out, when a struggle ensued What was that hole in my shirt And the blood that spilled to the floor Like a dead man's The focus is bl...

You say you're leaving Going back home Where's your family Where do you come from Something's missing in your life You've felt it all along Retrace your steps Balance and check Where it all went wrong The spirit is broken The path is overrun You c...

Gilbert works alone, late into the night dangling from a free way overpass he's welding rebar and sculpting concrete they're paving in the gap way out west in off in the distance, the sleepy city shines he raises his mask to take a look slip from the per...

Wait to rise long after dark Been asleep at least three solid days Wandering round this house just like a ghost Searching for something in this life That would fill the holes and satisfy Your need to please everybody else While your nerves shatter and fa...

Jump, scrape, break the switches coast low wit da bitches funky pop, drop 'n hop here come the cops güero canelo gangs, guns, knives, thugs chumps, chops, chill, chug drink malt, smoke mota i like you mucho dame un beso soma, valium, oxycontin red...

When the evening sun is setting low Blinding you on your drive home And the lanes of traffic all converge Causing you to curse every other word For to wish it all away Daily grind's got your screw stripped No can of wd40 can fix your situation Seems to...

Right outta port angeles like a bullet with no pain Driving north on the harbor freeway Up and over st thomas vincent bridge Making stops as you go, everyone you used to know Flashing your fury, gonna lay your enemies to waste Never hear them when they c...

Dialing in a forgotten voice (coming in like waves rolling off the coast) Sweeping through illegal ports (rising from the depths falling off the tongue) Ships drifting out of tune (coming in like waves rolling off the coast) Many, many more, sculpting t...

In the afternoon Of orange blossom days Hummingbirds rest Above where we lay You say it’s ok, No need to fret The weight of it all Will ease as we find The balance in each Step we make Swinging back n’ forth In a palo verde tree The wind in the ne...

Come on back here into the kitchen You gotta see this one You gotta see it close They told you be careful Don't trust no one but yourself Be careful In the kitchen with one bare light bulb The floor manager is your best of friends And out late when th...

Everyday on my way home The clouds would break and the angels Would sing their refrain This world's an ungodly place Strangled by vines unchaste So with my shining blade of steel I would cut a path wide Dipped in the ink of the fight Written clean th...

When it's getting way too late there's nothing on the slate you've got to take another break step out of the room into the street lit by the moon walk down to the tombs open the windows no one said that that time would come to finish what's begun thi...

Found a dime in the metro line Funny to see a familiar face Since you left us long ago There's never been a trace of luck to guide me Hoping to see a sign Or a lucky dime Searching as i go Hoping to see a sign Or a lucky' Someone told you long ago...

Woke up on Monday And wrote you a love song, Wrote you a love song Well the pen stopped And the paper flew out the window And the notes rang down the road I don’t know where they’ll go Get caught in the trees I suppose Ripped apart by the bird...

Wake up now little sleepyhead from your nightmarish day with the dead trip you'd be better off not to know of the wild seeds you let go from your thorny fingertips try to clean bloodstained hands that ran away and left the scene of a crime last night a...

I’m lying in my room Back’s against the wall The voices in my head Playing with my heart They say the drink won’t drown you Smoke won’t burn your eyes Idle hands are the devil’s playthings Now the world starts to fall Moon never rises Stars don’t sh...

Near the woodpile Before the rain Where he last saw the snake With teeth clenched Soured heart Lover's changed hands An axe within reach And a distant stare that weaves Through the grass and waits For a stranger's one mistake  

Le corbeau s'approche Atterit sur l'épaule de celui qui écrit Reviens lui picorer le cou Les veines sortent des chairs Le sang se répand sur la page Il crie ses dernières lignes Et s'endort Novembre et son manteau d'hiver Revers sombres Chemise blanc...

With a head like a vulture and heart full of hornets he drives off the cliff and into the blue not even the priestess with her wrenches and secret powers could save (steer) him from danger for a little while not even she could save him  

Panic open string, power grids blackout Birds all fly in numbers down to the ground Reassure the blades of green, green grass Season's still asleep more or less Wind is gearing up for a reckless ride Leaning accidental on nature's side Propeller power...

I hold your wrist You bite your lip The push becomes an embrace I touch your face You close your eyes The embrace becomes a shove I walk away You follow too close The shove takes hold And there's no where to go Take it down Take it all...

She swings on the front porch and sweeps her days into an empty sky of a dream drowned in the rain out where the land is as flat as the sea there's a train pulling out west and a box of money stashed under the bed up through the pines and down into the...

Love the run but not the race all alone in a silent way world drifts in and the world’s a stranger in a light, eclipsed and alienated in a time, occupied and invaded can’t tell what’s right, better hit the ground running in the hills where the tall weed...

When the fists of winter fly Driving bones into the snow Blackened frostbitten nights Vodka running dry The statues cloaked in white And migrants from museums Losing all the feeling now That sunrise is outlawed Strangers plant themselves Do...

Follow the current through the city that lies in ruins bottle is washed up but the message is missing heroes and ghosts, graveyards and buildings pay the price of admission haunted for years in a hallway of mirrors till i step through the window over th...

Sleeping in the valley, valley of ill fortune Waking cross the river, river of delusion Full moon lures the waves, waves of desperation Empty hearts and mouths wither away So close your eyes Slow your breath Dream of northern lights Around this dance o...

Going on their lands for sale to stake my claim burn my name in the soil out past the borders beyond the hill through seasons of nothing safe for the self-destructive world memories get altered no point of reference to hold and it feels like someone is...

On the outskirts of expansion looking out from blueprint peak the flow is flooding of urban setters panning through rivers running dry numbers roll on in smiling a lottery grin a sadness blurs the eye it's just a matter of time before they're moving on...

If you said let's go if you said i'm sick of this place i would listen to you i wouldn't hesitate and whether it's for a town a godforsaken place it wouldn't bother me i'd be ready as if i was waiting if you said up to now we've gotten by with the bl...

Si tu disais on y va si tu disais j'en tellement marre d'être ici je t'écouterais crois moi je n'hésiterais pas et que ce soit pour une ville ou pour un bled, un bout de terre paumé, crois moi ça n'me défriserait pas je serais prête comme si j'attenda...

Miles of highway poppies A stretch of maybe flowers Past Signal Hill away We were parked and searching For a hubcap rolling Into the fields of thorn Although we couldn't see a thing that night And the stars In their slowness And their slowne...

Is there anyway i can fix it Take out my tools maybe smash with it Let me destroy the parts that annoy Swallow the words i'm saving Fumble the chords i'm playing Better just break it apart Then where should they go But you know i'm just following suit...

Sonic wind, honing in, on a tune that no one can hear perfect pitch, simple glitch, promises it would never appear in the skies (disguised) change in direction where birds never fly nor roam lie 'neath green valleys and wait for the call to come firetail...

Through the gardens and fields ‘neath the tall green grass You were walking ‘neath the moon While covering your tracks Working your fingers Down to the skin and stone One hand on the hammer, One foot by the door Pushed by the wind, Fed by the n...

Started talking to a couple of wedded strangers sitting down on motorcycles who passed on the highway stepped into the service station took a piss, got water bought fuel to ride blood is flowing and mountains are blurring there is something stirrin...

It rained the whole day he spent at his lover's grave said his goodbyes to her family and friends packed his things in a rusted car and rode off in the rain came upon a church in ruin with an old man dwelling within who said, "watch where you stray my fr...

There's no one in this world for me there's never gonna be there's no one in this world needs me there's never gonna be yet sometimes in my dreams i hear... sundown i miss you, sundown i need you, sundown come on, come on, come on, come on, back to me...

Washed my face in the rivers of empire made my bed from a cardboard crate down in the city of quartz no news, no new regrets tossed a susan b. over my shoulder and prayed it would rain and rain submerge the whole western states call it a last fair deal...

Leave the heart of the city For the hert of the world Leave the heart of this city Love the way her trust unfurls Follow her hand to the dark end of the street Cross in the night, invisible to the electric eye Sippin' on a little Night Train Slippin' in...

Four In the morning the sidewalk’s asleep Dogs on the porch and spiders on the leaf Shipwrecked by night,sailing through days Nobody noticed the slipping away Connecting the dots with thorns In his side Boarded up the windows with pain and with pride The mus...

Beneath the neon hub of downtown the local hotel ghosts blow back around descend on those drugstore cowboy nights cling to the bar, then disappear from sight back to the daily regime where the late night graveyard shift dampens your dreams bitten by the...

On the longest day The vanishing mind Knows not when the day ends Who could care for you Would could understand In the room sealed shut You're not what you were So much sweeter now That there's nothing left to Remember you It's what brought you here...

Walking south along the river never had he found that twist of pleasure remembering times when they were younger setting the town on fire and watching as his fellow friends fell apart in the wake claiming it was all just a mistake when his finger pulle...

Have you read any good telephone books lately? if you ain't then let me recommend one i've already read that tulsa telephone book thirteen times if you don't know any last names it ain't much fun readin' that tulsa telephone book, can drive a guy insane e...

Wire fences still coiled with flowers of the night Songs of the birds like hands call the earth to witness Sever from fear before taking flight. Fences that fail and fall to the ground Bearing the fruit from Jara's Hands Me siento solo y perdido Una vela a...

Running through fields of flowers and smoke Leaving behind all that we've built The garden now ashes and the roof is carving in A broken hour glass Blood running thin For your life... come to my side For you life... take me from here Fro you life... op...

Light shines through darker days eyes close and lose their way slip away the night while the whole town's asleep caught between the space where you wanted to be death acts and life reacts spent time turning looking back clues along the track leave the...

The plaza in the village where mission bells used to ring is now crumbled to a pile of stench and ruin even the swallows have spring all the blossoms are burried ‘neath the waste out of the shadows grow hatred along the corrider crawls fear crushed by...

Getting late for decision What's that waiting about Horses are chomping at the bit The gate is nearly busted down Moment before the calm of the storm And everyone's blood goes wild Except yours and mine How many years has it taken Your restless heart...