Ezra Furman

Your love, lifted me higher Than I've ever, been lifted before So keep it it up Quench my desire And I'll be at your side Forever more You know your love (your love keeps lifting me) Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me) Higher (lifting me) Higher and highe...

There's something in the water, something sick in the blood and the oil Here's the white chicken grinning, here's the serpent in a horrible coil Don't be scared by the stared of the peasants on the subway car Because the way things seem in a dream is just...

And maybe God is a train going all across Atlanta, And crying in the deep of the night And maybe God is a train, shining light into a tunnel And coming on with all of its might And maybe everything's cool, and it don't make a difference what you do And maybe e...

Here come Dick, he's wearing a skirt Here comes Jane, y'know she's sporting a chain Same hair, revolution Same build, evolution Tomorrow who's gonna fuss And they love each other so Androgynous Closer than you know, love each other so Androgynous Don't get h...

And I'm rocking like the red-painted horse in the rain And I'm standing on the table chemicals in my brain And I'm driving my car real fast into the distance tonight And I'm done telling lies to all my family and friends Going totally broke, I got no money to...

So are you gonna break my heart? Are you gonna rip my world apart? Are we gonna do this now? I don't have all day. Come on and get the scissors out Show me what love is all about Do it fast and painful, just like always. Come on I've gotta rock and roll We d...

All the creatures, the strangest creatures of the deep They never slumber, they never stop to go to sleep At the bottom of the ocean At the bottom of the sea Teachers teaching, the doctors diagnosing me My messed-up parents, my girlfriend don't understand me...

Beauty is a drug and it's coursing through my veins I sit at home staring at your picture while my colleagues discuss capital gains This love's just a cloud of cigarette smoke Blows away on the wind but it stays in your throat And the coughing is worse than ev...

I've been here for so many years I've been here for so many years And I've been down down down And I've been down down down I've been down down down underneath your town I'm just down down down I haven't grown or changed one bit I haven't grown or changed I h...

My body was made this particular way There's really nothing any old patrician can say You social police can just get out of my face My body was made My body was made this particular way: Recurrent desire never totally tamed Honey I've tried and tried to expla...

Can I sleep in your brain tonight stranger? Can I rest my bones in your head? I won't make too much noise whilst I stay here I just need some kind of shelter Anywhere I try to go I'm still stuck in my own skull And lately that's no kind of place to go All the...

She's cold and she's lovely, my bird in the snow She went to my high school, her hazel eyes shone Emotional sickness I felt in my bones It never was spoken, but Caroline knows Now I'm living under a mountain of trash She gives me a signal, I'm there in a flas...

Past the wounded cars reflecting all their dirty light Past the unnamed bars, the unnamed prisoners of the night Past the Winnebago dreaming all its iron dreams Past the haunted drugstore where the fortune teller leans Past the gravel parking lot where blood i...

I don't want your money I don't want your car I don't want you to love me No need to take it so far I just wanna be held in your cold hands And I wanna be held in your cold hands I see nothing finer I see nothing to gain No particular pleasure To measure up t...

I suck all the life out of everything I see I drink a bottle of wine I've got the digital content blues I got money saved up somewhere Lost the card and the chequebook, name of the bank There's a plague in my head Come here, get away from me I believe in God...

I've got one fatal flaw: I'm a compulsive liar If I don't love you I will tell you anything And even if I love you I'll always be conniving I'll always be negotiating with the truth And I can trace the habit To when I was eleven And I thought boys were pretty...

They say it fades if you let it Love was made to forget it I carved your name across my eyelids You pray for rain I pray for blindness If you still want me, please forgive me The crown of love has fallen from me If you still want me, please forgive me Because...

Lost my job, lost my money in a flash Watching my old life turn to dust and ash Called you up on the telephone Ended up in a new town all alone Took the bus on the highway tangled up Felt the billboards' images fuck me up Buy and sell yourself awake Fall in l...

From the bums on the street To the prisoners inside From the losers cast out To the runaway child And the wandering slave Through the wilderness fog They're all lying in wait For the day of the dog I came up in the world With a pain in my back And I never cou...

Something's wrong cause my mind is fading And everywhere I look There's a dead end waiting Temperature's dropping at the rotten oasis Stealing kisses from the leperous faces Heads are hanging from the garbage man trees Mouthwash jukebox gasoline Pistols are p...

What the fuck do I do all day laying in bed Caught in a web of desire What the fuck can it mean all the noise in my head Hanging my heart on a wire Lost and found and lost again Making daddy proud Got my tongue all caught up in my throat Trying to tell you I'...

Now my tender heart had hardened I'm taking walks in my dead garden I'm shooting marbles 'cross the floor In the maintenance closet at the grocery store In my little black apartment I found love's secret compartment And now I keep my things inside That's my D...

Don’t tell my mom, don’t tell my dad I’ve been driving down to L.A. with my baby On the cliffs, he drives real fast He may drive his car into the ocean, maybe I don’t mind I’ve got big dreams in my mind I would give up my whole life for that feelin’ No, I don...

I'm gonna feel every feelin' in the book tonight Fuck the hurt, fuck the pain Fuck the panic, fuck the hate I'm wanna feel every feelin' in the book tonight And only love Only love and happiness will remain Only love and happiness will remain I'm wanna feel...

And what do we see here Washing up on the beach in November When nobody lives here Cause they've all left this beach town For the winter tables and bed frames A complete set of tarnished silver Photographs with no names More items are left with every crash of...

Some angels will carry you homeward Other angels you don't wanna meet My guardian angel's got wings of tinfoil And cigarettes found in the street My angel's got eyes like a housing project He was born inside a guitar And I can't forget his red lips and eyelash...

I am sick of ordinary life It's supposed to be extraordinary, right? I'm just like everybody waiting for a sign But now I'm through with waiting round This world gave me the run around I'm taking my life underground tonight Halley's comet only comes by once...

Hark to the music if you hate your job Hark to the melody, we're all gonna die so Hark to the music if you can't get free From the liar and the killer and the bourgeoisie Take to the bottom and destroy the rest Hark to the melody, we're all gonna die so Hark...

I'm up at six I get a slice of bread, I cut a hole in it And I crack a little egg into a frying pan And I try to get my mind turned off I'm naked now Because it doesn't really matter When the shades are down I was born this way I'll die this way I don't know...

I think it's time you brought your face Across the railroad to my place I can't share this whiskey with ya through the phone And if we drink enough of it You might just get me to admit That I never knew quite how to be alone We can sit on my back steps And i...

Tell me a line make it easy for me Open your arms Dance with me until I feel all right It's good in the dark, good in the dark But into the lover's light Here comes another fight So ring the alarm, ring the alarm Bore me and hold me and cling to my arm Here...

Well I could feel the sections of my Brain detaching I could feel the fluid in my head go bad I could see my future in his Leather jacket Shining in the darkness of My schoolboy past I lost my innocence to a Boy named Vincent Box of Girl Scout Thin Mints And...

All my friends are writing their resumes My responsible friends are applying for jobs But me, I was considering ditching Ezra, and going by Esme Baby, would you find that so odd? My dying friends are finding religion While my intellectual friends are all...

All the world is rising up like vomit Filling up my ugly little mouth There's a sickness deep inside my eyeball Got to find that tool to cut it out If there's only one way out Then tell me now Lead me through the door I get sick just laying around Let me out...

We've done a lot of things we can't take back But you can't take that so hard We'll drive all night and we just won't look back We can take your daddy's car Out on the desert when the stars come out All the cars fly by like rain I'll let you show me what you'...

I'm a little piece of trash Somebody dropped in the street I'm a little cigarette I'm a wrapper that used to hold something sweet And I'm blowing in the wind I'm blowing all around I wanna blow back home But in my little heart I know I'm only going down I'm go...

It's late at night; it's time to tell you my secrets My personality's cut up into pieces Modern society's my one secret weakness I'm out of money, and I'm out of my mind We can't fit in, so we just head for the fringes Your universe of blue lipstick and syrin...

You know I love you so bad I don't believe in love You know I love you so bad, So bad You know I love you so bad Like the kid in the back of the classroom Who can't do the math Cause he can't see the blackboard, so bad You know I love you so bad Like the k...

Those long afternoons When nobody was home but me Sun is shining but I dwell in shadow Maraschino-red dress, $8.99 at Goodwill I was looking over my shoulder At the register trying not to be seen Looking over my shoulder at all I had appointments today, erran...

Out on the open prairie The amber weighs a grain I sat and lit my fire I saw your passing train I watched your yellow windows I couldn't see your face I thought you'd always be MY ZERO I thought you'd always be MY ZERO Sitting down by the fire I cook my can...

I found out on a Monday The city I love doesn't love me In fact fuck that It would rather see me dead I hesitated for a minute But I packed my bag that evening Didn't tell you I was leaving I didn't feel safe staying here So I just left Got in my red Camaro...

One day I will sin no more One day I will sin no more But I'll keep this thought in the back of my mind Lord's up ahead and the Devil's behind And I will sin no more One day heaven and earth will be like one One day heaven and earth will be like one But until...

I'm sick of this record already Let's wreck all the preconceived notions they bring to it Check all the baggage or better yet burn it And start all over again Let's start with your life as you know it Way back in our mothers' wombs folded like notebooks We ha...

I eat an orange every morning And I take my time with the peel It's my beginner's meditation To start my little journey on an even keel I will sail, as the hours roll by In my twentieth-century automobile And a hotel employee Will sweep up the orange remnants...

Penetrate my body Penetrate my mind Penetrate to the centre Leave the rest of it behind Burn away all the excess That no longer applies I've been changed My Lord, I've been changed Have a cold cup of coffee At a quarter to five Spit your blood in the toilet W...

(One, two, three, four.) [Doo-wop refrain] It's a beautiful city We've been living in lately Never go to the South side (Don't you go down to the South side.) And there's pot holes Sleeping in the black concrete And your little rebel rebel's Just a pebble i...

Well I could feel the sections of my Brain detaching I could feel the fluid in my head go bad I could see my future in his Leather jacket Shining in the darkness of My schoolboy past I lost my innocence to a Boy named Vincent Box of Girl Scout Thin Mints And...

Ready, set, go man go I got a girl that I love so I'm ready, ready, ready Teddy I'm ready, ready, ready Teddy I'm ready, ready, ready Teddy I'm ready, ready, ready to rock and roll Going to the corner, pick up my sweetie pie She's my rock and roll, baby, she...

I set up camp in the center of town Ready for freedom when it all comes down Snapping my fingers, walking around I'm the dusty jewel in the thrown-out crown Got a bus pass to make my way From hideout to hideout in the heat of the day I got a talisman tote wit...

All the broken pieces Lying in a pile Waiting to be swept up From the bathroom tile Broke my only mirror Feeling not quite right Empty little bedroom And a long night Oh, I miss my honey so Now I'm cold and lonely Oh, and I hope she comes back home To her bo...

Lost my faith in my government, Gonna watch TV in my apartment Get up in the morning get the paper, I got a heroin girl I'm gonna save her But secretly I'm hoping she'll save me, or at least give me drugs and call me "baby" How 'm I gonna find a new drumme...

All of life Is a splash of light Through a fuzzy filter Through a blurry lens And me and all my friends We have to pretend That it all makes sense Oh, but some nights lying in bed Deep inside my haunted head I go someplace not like that Sometimes I don't wann...

I woke up bleeding in the crock of a tree TV blaring on the wall above the coffee machine Car wash waiting room outside Pasadena I'm sitting waiting for my deus ex machina And I'm forever changed by this chemical burn Skin on my fingers peeling, making way for...

Everybody talks sarcastic Everybody's in the know I think I might do something drastic If they don't let me go away from it all But I can't afford a jet plane And the price of gas is high There's nowhere that I can run to When I feel so sick and shy Gonna mak...

I'm a runaway dog, and I'm kicking up dust In a Chevy Express with a hood full of rust And a head full of dead ends And thoughts of young redheads Who don't have my number no more I'm caught in a mouse-trap I set for myself Where I sneer at ideas of material...

That's when it hit me And splintered my collarbone like a melody, and I was in love With the world, liquefied in a blender and poured through the funnel Of your eyes into an incredible little jar which I have come To refer to mistakenly as my life. Such a reve...

Poor little hairy kids out on their own They run to the festival to show that they were one They've fallen in love with all human kind So tell them you love them so they don't change their mind Write us a book of instructions or signs And if it's been written...

A song is a dream that keeps going on when it's over A man hears a song in the soft speaking voice of his lover A hero goes on when the others believe it's all over A sister is strong when she fights for the cause of her brother A crow with a broken wing stan...

I went to the mall with you You dragged me into the changing room I could have died, I felt so happy Felt so crazy I could've died I walked to the shore with you Watch the storm roll into view I saw clouds all full of lightning Flashing pink deep inside the c...

It's the search for a church in the bottom of your purse A spiritual home that you can take to the mall You dig and you dig but you can only find your wallet And your phone with a hundred missed calls You could never return them all And I watch you with your...

I am a refugee now I am running like mad across a frosty green Poland My head in a sack And the blood in my brain screaming "How did this happen?" And "Where am I now?" Who is so blue in this freeze Who is so grey with the history Rain dancing all on my face w...

I like those sounds Turn the lights off I saw a billboard Advertising God I climbed the ladder I saw the ways that the city was fraud I found it odd I sold my body so my brain could eat But I will not admit defeat I will not admit defeat I will Apocalypse wa...

Now that everyone's gone, it's just me and the Lord In this little apartment in Queens With the trash piled high and a chain on the door And the neighbors all know what that rattling means I can see through the window the moon like a stain And the neon sign's...

It's fine being drunk on the weekend But it's finer being drunk all week I feel good I feel bad I don't know I miss my mom and my dad I see hellfire in your rosy cheek I watch you go by And I watch you. I watch you go by And I watch you I watch you go by I...

I've been feeling wobbly lately I've been feeling wobbly, so wobbly Feeling like they lost me Can't find me And they're always one step behind me But they'll never catch me Won't have me Because no one can grab me Even me I've been feeling wobbly, real wobb...