Dan Bern

Listening to the big guy's new CD laying in bed The one his producer thinks he never shoulda made But it gets me going gets me into the shower What a shock to be awake at this early hour And you're gone It was time to fly And all that's left Is the fac...

baby love baby love is what we got baby love baby love is what we got no good poetry coming from my mouth no neat chords ringing on ringing on ringing on my guitar just baby love baby love is what we've got baby love baby love is what we've got leav...

I'm as cranky as a bitch all I want to do is spit There's nothing to eat after that feast we're getting laid regular at least and I don't want to hurt you so stay out of my way today. every 28 days women bleed unless they get too much of your seed but...

Well this bald headed girl I know sent me a tape of Bjork and Courtney Love And PJ Harvey, called it brilliant women I put it in my car, heard it all the way down to the coast Normally if left to my own devices I don't hear chich singers much I guess it's...

Please give me notice So I can buy a ticket for a train A train I've been hearing Over and over again and again Tonight it seems you're sleepy So there ain't nothing else to do 'Cept drink and listen to Miles Davis Down in the Bakerloo Closer to you,...

The day they found a cure for AIDS The day they found a cure for AIDS Everybody took one little pill and was okay The day they found a cure The day they found a cure for AIDS Everybody took one little pill and was okay I slept with Cindy and Martha and Sue i...

I was painting a still life this morning Of a throat lozenge sitting on a copy Of Tropic of Cancer The only thing weird about it Is that a year ago, I never thought I'd paint anything again I decided I wasn't ever gonna paint again It didn't bother me t...

The sermon at the church on Hollywood Boulevard Is on Adam and the Fall of Man Now I know exactly what they mean I feel a lot like Adam myself these days Fallen to the ground in a '68 Ford Fallen from grace in the eyes of the Lord Now I think if I had to...

i met god on the edge of town where the wind meets the stillness where the darkness meets the light where the ocean meets the sky where the desert meets the rain where the earth meets the heavens on the edge of town i met god i asked god do one thing...

God came to me in a dream I knew it was God 'Cause he had a long white beard And a pink striped tunic And the word "God" was spelled out above him, and an arrow pointed at his head Well, just now it occurs to me, he could be a "Dog" He could be a "Dgo"...

We pulled into Rome With blood in our eyes After days of travelin' Months of lies Taking our various Turns at the wheel Taking booze And pot and cigarettes Anything not to feel No one had slept No one had eaten Our bodies were bad Our spirits were...

When I tell you that I love you Don't test my love Accept my love, don't test my love 'Cause maybe I don't love you all that much Don't ask what kind of music I'm gonna play tonight Just stay awhile, hear for yourself a while And if you must put me in a...

Stay where you are Plenty room for both of us And I don't want you to come any closer Than you are right now Because Jesus was a Jesus freak Jesus was a Jesus freak Jesus was a Jesus freak And I'm just looking for a place to Watch the world from Watch...

Well, they elected me King of the World I said, "Here's what I'm gonna do Send everybody over to China Except for me and you Strip ourselves naked Go to Beverly Center Watch movies and eat Cinnabons" I think I'm gonna like Being king of the world For...

Charles Manson doesn't even know his last name anymore Charles Manson's real name was Charles Krautmeyer He's forgotten it Charles Manson had a buncha people Who believed his every word Who followed his directions To cut up buncha rich people Would they...

god bless you lana, little russian girl for talking to me just when I needed it most god bless you lana, russian gothic girl for talking to me just when I needed it most I'm sorry that your mama is far away in russia, and she can't come see you and yo...

Sometimes I walk and wish L.A. were some small town in Monteray I close my eyes and ask the gods to make those cadillacs some dusty dogs I close my eyes and live I close my eyes and live another day Sometimes I think I'll melt away and in the sidewalk...

Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller (x4) But if she did He'd a taken her to Paris And if she did She'd have smoked a lot of opium And if she did She'd have dyed her hair blue And if she did She might be alive Oh-ohh Henry Miller Oh-ohh Marilyn M...

I remember Monica At the US Open She mighta been 16 Couldn't've been much more Answering some questions And giggling, I'd never seen Someone so alive on TV before Do you remember Monica Shrieking on her backhand Disguising herself as she went out at n...

I got 36-foot insulation in my house Wear 14 pairs of long underwear Stick tape inside my ears Cover myself with five bedspreads I spend every morning in an isolation tank Spend every afternoon high up in a tree Spend every evening with one of those thin...

She said love, love, love is everything I said ok, I guess, whatever She said what does that mean I said nothin, it's just good to have a backup plan She said I guess that means you don't got love I said maybe I love everyone She said that's the same as...

They look for the missing link There's no missing link They'll never find the missing link There's no missing link We're not something you can figure out with an equation We are the genetic muation Aliens came and f**ked the monkey, they f**ked the monke...

One Dance Because I love you I get tongue tied around you I never say smart stuff around you I never say anything around you That makes you want to be with me So, because I love you I will never be with you There's plenty other people Who I always fin...

I come down the steps I slip on the ice Santa Claus been lookin' Who's been naughty, who's been nice I'm lookin' for one thing real tonight Jesus, he comes up to me, Jesus, he sits down Says take this f**kin' cross off my back, I'm goin' downtown I say...

Do you got to be a queen all your life Are you gonna take that crown off your head Are you ever gonna come to bed Do you got to be a queen all your life Do you plan on speaking in this year Are you gonna keep everything inside Are you gonna keep all your...

Your hand is between my legs The dog is between our bodies as I wake up You are rollin' from me I am rollin' from you Time to join a new religion Time to overthrow the state Time to demand all my beliefs are in a new constitution I can't stop you from...

The paint is not yet dry The clothes are not yet on Only one place where I could Go to be understood Only one place Only one face Smartie mine Smartie mine Smartie mine Smartie mine I wanna go Deep down smartie mine Down a shaft of green Down a sh...

Superman said I am weary Superman said let's go home The trees were strung with crosses and with ribbons All the towns and churches had been bombed Superman stood out in the rain Leaning up against a crumbling wall Still around were mostly cats and lepers Bir...

Someday you'll walk where I am And then you'll see my footprints left in the sand I feel you moving in my wake So please try to learn from my mistakes Do not judge from where you stand Someday you will understand I want what's best for me and you And I...

I got big balls Big ol' balls Big as grapefruits Big as pumpkins Yes sir, yes sir And on my really good days They swell to the size of small dogs My balls are as big as small dogs Well, it ain't braggin' if it's true Yes sir, yes sir It ain't braggin...

The day the Elvis died Was like a mercy killing America breathed A sigh of relief We knew all about the drugs And the Vegas shows And there wasn't much of anything That looked like grief And I guess he shoulda done Like James Dean did 'Stead of putti...

look mom they're gonna fry tim mcvay she said 'the nice guy who's on the cover of all those magazines? why would they want to do a thing like that?' I said cause he killed all those people in oklahoma city she said nonsense people don't kill people.. c...

I saw the best of my generation playing pinball Make-up on, all caked up Looking like some kind of china doll With all of Adolf Hitler's moves down cold As they stood up in front Of a rock and roll band And always moving upward and ever upward To this g...

Back when the earth had two moons Back when the earth had two moons Baby, can you even remember That far back when the earth had two moons We sold it to the people of Kababa We sold it to the people of Kababa A medium sized planet in a small solar system...