Fair to Midland

(Into the middle we go, into the middle we go) I smell a rat and just in case I set up traps and you're the bait, surprise, surprise, if curiosity kills cats, we'd better (we'd better), we'd better teach the cat to fight back I'm waiting for you, I don't kno...

Lucky are the leaves of the clover, she's diggin for chemistry with the butcher's tools, shifty are the eyes of the gambler, he's making his tricks and a job well done, through the motions waving wishes to your confidence and eloquence He's turning green fro...

If you're keeping score, then you're bound to win a birds eye view of a burning bridge, you've gone through ghost towns settle past, hoping the risk was worth a cause, oh, sound off the false alarm, oh, but I'll make my own colleague from wood and from ivory a...

If there's a nurse that takes your ears in rations Sets a plate to feed the stifled steel If there's a nurse that feeds your germ soaked dinners On a tray of bones and orange peels For yourself you'd crash a secret word For some love you'd fall to break your n...

Stay close if you wanna keep up, but don't get turned around, go ahead for the bullseye my friend, but oh, you're gonna get the horns, yellow-bellies never have any guts, but God, how he gets the glory, the west was won from a cheater with a gun and I hope he...

It's highway robbery and I have my receipts, the skeletons I meet say they lay on their backs just to pave our way, right back to the starting gate, they run circles around, the king without a crown, the speechless make a sound and start spreading their love w...

Bought a picture of Jesus Held it in the mirror and he saw a picture of himself Spoke life to the children You see things aren't put into words They're polished and not felt You might be right Look behind the bush lies a rivertree Hands cuffed and bo...

Rest assured they're weighing words in sympathetic ink and they don't waste their time suspending disbelief, they face the facts with thinking caps, they map out and display, but that's not the only way, common sense won't pay the rent and doesn't grow on tree...

See that car plunge into what was known as a pitiful painted pest On the verge of a casted script See them four wheels a-turn Hit the light With everything that's come to par And it's got your name on it 'Cause it's got your name on it Teiresias has an...

Go and find the bars that make us hunger Maybe with knots and uniforms And if I may add Well I've got a big gun And I know just who I'm gonna use it on Maybe it'll make for the better The beggar always has his strength His ambition is tapped Always oc...

Now heaven knows I got one short damn fuse, so come sit down a spell, while I light up the room, if walls could talk, they'd know it all, so we live in the sticks and aren't some fish you can catch, and it makes my skin crawl, I'm not the sharpest tool in the...

Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a little bit of a predicament (he said take your time, but didn't back his words), heroes and holy ghosts, which one of you steps on the others' toes? (And then risks his neck like it's a moving target, you? You?) Was that just...

Take a little dive into the shallow or spy what do you see? I see the tortoise and the hare in a rat-race and it fits like a glove under my sleeve, just wait 'till then, their heads are the heaviest in operation, he has still not lost imagination, you can hear...

Bring luck, bring luck Call the nurse I'm dropping in anchor Making stops at the pass Caught in the mix of the two with an offer Left with three times the guilt Please don't decide to roll your eyes I'm speaking from my heart She bought a book and now...

Here they come, shaking in their boots, they'll be skipping stones with your bones when these ants know where to find you and steal all your thunder, the windows will shutter and I'll wear a tie (and I'll wear a tie) Were you shaking in your boots? Did it sca...

Here is the deal, you must find guesses in this room. Cut around the block, Shake in the boots we stocked. I'll turn your onset to off. With patience and much practice of keeping all this clean. Wipe the floor with rust, Abigail's lost touch and it makes for s...

Come with the raising, Of you. Two years ago in the woods, Saw a branch, Fall in the brook. I'll lead you, i'll lead you, To your throne. But it's up to my knees now, Build me up, for the breakdown. And i carried this all for you, And you know i did. And i...

While I'm young I'm gonna waste my breath Watch as they congregate I'm gonna take his steps Repeat and circle left Right now he's still not listening While I'm young I'm gonna waste my time Because I'm already aging Can't you reason like on TV? Where...

Let me introduce you to a pair that strikes crude oil, but I see pyrite It is the same old pattern, the goose that feeds the gander, they choose to act but not I Planting the seeds you sow is easier than growing the row Let's go outside and it might restor...

You should be counting your blessings from the sky, your eagle eyes found the great blind faith, I could be kicking the bucket, but you should know I never had very good aim, the right of way is a wild goose chase It makes you wonder if shooting for stars is...

Among the sounds of all the secrets here in private lies a motive And you can't make me talk or prophesize for rubies Cause I'm the target You know things are changing when in a room of one it's hard to stand out And in the words or mine at the age of 80...

We're gone but not better, a lighted match can burn the cabin down he built, it's not long but it matters, your suit and tie are much too tight in farmersville, my daughter's a goldmine combing the hair of the white waves, a fountain of saphires under the brid...

There is a fight we fight each nightwith all our might Until we simply give in A fair game between cheaters friend And it's a gamble who'll win Follow me to the oilspill Please keep us up to date Take deep sighs near the wishing well You'll be glad tha...

He headed out to rub elbows with oysters today, what a special little sap to think that pearls fall in your lap, oh lord, saw it coming, from miles away, from where it's plain to seem because we have the window seat and we swore at the top of our lungs Riddl...

You could've been raised in africa We lacked in our vigor Been an "x" on the calendar Losing our cool in antarctica So i put my coat on ya The breeze was light burgandy I have an army suited and ready For you to simply take a bite and steer We're more than pre...

Listen to me AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Hey Rikki-Tikki, Rikki-Tikki, Rikki-Tikki Tavi I am not a machine so don't treat me like buttons Rikki-Tikki, Rikki-Tikki, Rikki-Tikki Tavi We're not identical twins So don't finish my sentence Tell me the truth, or don't...

The sideways man walks on his hands, can't keep from dragging his feet and when he tries, I try, they twist his arms to get a head start, tycoons love hitting the jackpot, to get back what they've lost, he'd have to raise the bar The desert heat left us all...

In chorus we stagger. Closed eyes Bring more light inside. Small breeze Helped us keep our strides. The large gust Won't keep you in tact. And if i'm forewarned I'll make the same mistake. Fill in the blank. And though the crane is gone i see my way, I may h...

If you croak I hope ya know I'm gonna toss you in the trash, you can't really blame us, we're only doin' what you asked, if you have yourself a son, I'm gonna tell your baby boy, that father time's chock full of lies, so don't jump in just yet, doubting Thomas...

If you listen close Make sure you ignore what they say Reaching the floor Let's make sure we hit the dirt and it flies Give me your eyes Focus on what you'll see in my space We know who controls And sunshine is in the forecast today Bet your bottom do...

Tell the world how I'll miss it's small atmosphere And wonder how it will evolve How it rose and it broke won't be trivial Stay on your feet in your hole Mr. four eyes Please remember We still hold you dear Mr. young man Blonde haired stranger What s...

Too much patience, no resistance, within shouting distance you can hear a blind man's bluff, dragging names through the mud and still bitting his tongue, the devil's in the air and I'm spitting out prayers, while the rubbernecks all eat their fill Tell me, t...

At the rate I'm goin' Little hands will be all that hold me back and The minute men they stand and watch Well fuck them through Don't lose touch Better keep those shoes And specs on the middle The minute men they stand and watch Well fuck them Still...

When you cry, try not to smile, you could fill up a lake with the tears of a crocodile, we were too young to be eating crow as if I would know (I'm scared) eleven hours 'till the electric arcs, (I'm scared) send scorches through the sky, (I'm scared) then the...

Mail order brides, turtlenecks, and trophy wives, Had the ways and means to breach, The borders of easy street, And to blend right in, We all surrounded them in a white picket fence, Now both ends meet, Sufficed to say there's a time and a place, So I wait,...

Pack up with what's worthy Lock it up in the car Don't be surprised if i drive too far Speak now and we're followed while the weakest react The nose on the siren is right on our tracks A pair of tripods eyes through streets of mercury Not as common as leisure...

What if I live up to the masses, make a choice and surrender everything, give up these eyes, what's most important, now that piper, he turns to look at me, father said home is where the heart is, as the clock ticks on, I fear a stye to know which way the answe...

I went right back home, you would have done the same and never washed your hands if you knew they'd dig up dirt again, it took a drought to wash her out So I was the sun, that slapped the rain until we all knew she'd go down the drain They're the jacks of all...

Glow but don't shine, A fuse for a blueprint devices my hands built, For these roads want the rain in my raincoat, Drown in the flash flood, For we are alive, Given air; not used to Al Fresco, Does the sun know, Today, I forgot the zeros and ones, Told you to...

Mountains of molehills, a grapevine in my ear, spots on the tiger while the townspeople gather to hear, while the nest in my hands starve forever, sticklers for cheap fun, you oughta be ashamed to trade in your heirlooms for an all-day black market parade, for...

What splendidly weaved from an atom bomb, retrieved from a teleprompt, practical you are not, break the ice with a cotton swab, a fever that cools us all, handshake's a contact sport, no one was waiting to throw out the pilot, we'll float on the back of the wi...

From hand to heart and hands to head these gritty teeth grind gears of infrared, he crash lands in dull white noise, all I hear is static in his voice, when those sweet red hands start their whirlwinds and you're the drain You're imagining things, your prete...

And there we go instead a tease that mocks the beggar, it looks so flawless, and I've seen them batt their eyes and come a dime-a-dozen, just take two steps back Hold me, no, not you, but the other, the one with the rags on, hold me, substitute rain with som...