Harvey Danger

There's a bright white light To shine shine on all the dim bulbs In the crowd tonight And there's a thin yellow line To separate the fast lane And there's a man I know He'll take apart your engine If you ask him right Let's empty all the mini bars And leave t...

I have a stinger; I am a honeybee. I am a razor; please cut your wrists with me. You're supercommon; you flaunt your pedigree. You're clear as water ooh wa a oh I'm already spinning in my grave. I'm already spinning in my grave. I am the subjec...

Jimmy Stewart follows Kim To where your portrait hangs on a wall Such a haunting vision, he forgets his partner's fall Jump into the San Francisco Bay I'll follow you in I know you can't swim When you've been dead 100 years, Carlotta Carlotta Valdez I will...

He was the king of random fancy An incorrigible flirt He liked to try to put her on a pedestal Just so he could look up her skirt But he's changin' And she is nobody's girlfriend--she doesn't mind Dormant desires which are better kept clandestine He captured...

Cannot have this, a perfect conversation Or coast on silence and lowered expectations out the door You've spent half your life talking trying to get a pause in edgewise Swallow poison tongues, oppose your thumbs, believe in nothing Cannot have a nature change...

You're doing everything your people said to I'd hate to be the one to break it to you It's only sad 'cause it's true They misled you when they bred you Somebody said some things they had no right to Somehow they stuck, then you were known as someone who Could...

Away from order, but mind the border I can't bear another perfect sunrise A wretch like me, before sleeping Give me haze displays for days and days on end We'll find direction, exit place Insert a fractured space of A bird or something else with wings To make...

The king of the swinging moods is back in town And everybody's tip-toeing around him Surround him, as he pounds a silver hammer Drops revolutionary grammar Concerning the burning of city hall And urban sprawl and decay (getting so old) Farewell to the day Of h...

I followed you as far as Spike But there were some I didn't like at all I said I liked it all Goodbye Cruel World and Almost Blue And half of Trust, to name a few The twilight of your embers I couldn't see how true your aim was Elvis, I don't love you Elvis,...

I had visions, I was in them, I was looking into the mirror To see a little bit clearer The rottenness and evil in me Fingertips have memories, I can't forget the curves of your body And when I feel a bit naughty I run it up the flagpole and see who salutes (...

Ariella, 7:30 I don't want to get up yet Listen to the morning music cursing the alarm you set As you know I've never been a praying man I don't need a God to make me feel alright But if you wonder why I never wrote you a song it's because happiness wri...

This road leads to rome, that road leads to ruin. I’m all up in the madding crowd, the general’s been screwin’ us around. The land’s no longer arable (The farmhands all feel terrible) A river red with rebel blood to sweep us off our feet, do you remember?...

Once I had a sweetheart; she kinda looked like Joan Fontaine She made mediocre art but had a fascinating brain She asked me how I felt about monogamy I didn't understand what she was telling me No Well, you can come up short And never know Another debt I'm go...

i wish the words would fail me just for once (just once) keep incommunicado (you don't say a word) live for the present tense, and come to my senses (come pick me up) just like a despera-a-ado (a-a-ado) we talked for twenty minutes, by the time the party ende...

Rake up all the leaves in pleasant valley It's the last day of my visit upstate New York To pay respects to the old man He's still got his sense of humor But his body fails him He's surrounded by loved ones But that only goes so far And does he know wh...

Holy law is written in blood of man It doesn’t bend, never breaks Sister, my sister, who you lying to? I know where you’ve been Second time you don’t come home you break your brother’s heart Stick to your own Every fear is what you vanquish Their laws a...

All alone On the floor Next to your twin-bed box-spring and mattress The door Is ajar From afar You can hear bands practicing And When they dream they all Dream of somebody like you Somebody who takes what they make Twice as seriously as they could ever hope...

Slow to marry, swift to die We leave disasters where they lie I know these lines look crooked on paper But I swear I got it straight in my head And if you’re looking for somebody to blame, I recommend the dead (I recommend the dead ‘cause they never answer b...

I had a lovely brunch with Jesus Christ. He said, "two words about inanity: fundamental Christianity," yeah. The food was very nice. But then He had to go and die for my sins and stick my ass with the check. "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy," (go...

“You are weak, I am strong, and I’ve done nothing but lead you on,” she said. Drove around all night, stoplights were interminable, But I get along all right as long I don’t have to interact With anyone else on a meaningful level, I’ll be fine Because I d...

As I write this I'm on camera an extra in some background, resembling the type which I do not the scene is a commercial the product has no function don't bother telling the crew cause who has time when we're losing light? if I conjured this as a fiction I...

Call me disruptive say I break your concentration Familiar patterns like waves that break too fast What do you do when it's so brand new that it kills you? Came on too strong couldn't stand it slow Now I know She can knock me back like a champ Disembodi...

Dog in the manger Always a danger You got me so, so wrong So what? So long Don't be a stranger It had barely started out Before it started heading south In your neverending story of a love That dare not shut its mouth I get the picture, picture I think I get...

Drive across the country, tell your story walking. No one's keeping you captive in the town that let you down (so sorry). Blame it on the television, blame it on the company; Don't blame it on the fundamental fact that no one owes you something. "I've co...

It's in Revelations 1 to 22 Scorpions and hydra breathing fire at you So mark your foreheads Seven golden lampstands to light the fury from the sky I will kill your children I know your works and labor They can't save ya Throats are parched with smoke from g...

I'm on a private helicopter with my favorite ex girlfriend Tiny little cabin in the sky Now we're alone and we can remember how we felt before we were angry: We were guilty and we were bitter (I must admit I said a few things but...) I'm still attracted...

Cross through the border states to the wrong side And look away virginia Him: Spend every day like the past is a bridge crossing twenty years Whispers away not so much Get your poison tongue out of my ear Here's a fact you cannot rise above: We'll have p...

Let it sing Let it die And roll out the carpets No such thing Mustn't pry All hail to another confession And it's losing me Where have all the merrymakers gone? Some people will surprise you with a real depth of feeling Others still may shock you wi...

Not another extastential cowboy And no more California champane Not another sattle tramp sick, sore, lonely, and out of place cryin in his coffee icecream Edyth cannot fix another engine nor paint another face on a rubber can clown she takes another temp job...

Two dozen other dirty lovers Must be a sucker for it Cry Cry but I don't need my mother Just hold my hand while I come To a decision on this Sooner or later your legs give way and hit the ground Save it for later don't run away and let me down Sooner or later...

A studio apartment in a dull part of Seattle, A strand of light suspended, By a thumb tack in the drywall, The restaurants are closed, So are the record shops, The banks, and bars, and Bartell drugs, And so's the half price book store, But the movies are alway...

Here's something beautiful Now smash it to bits Save your little wheelchair empowerment films Save your swoons, I'm spoken for It isn't pretty to think so But I can't feign interest now Dreaming of the fistfight I never got into Thinking of the mean sh...

Remember Pericles? He democratized the city with his mind A little wisdom never hurt anyone-- Tell that to Socrates! Telling the citizens what they needed to hear But still they fed him hemlock Now, the Greeks don't speak my language I don't get the relevance...

When you base Your whole identity On reaction against somebody It’s the same as being in I tend to forget when I drink. I’m doing it again I think A hand to hold, an ego to flatter, ‘Cause you were the wineskin, I was the bladder. Time passes, events fa...

You can bash your head against a wall for years, The wall is not impressed. Or you can take a giant step away only to discover, Your wound's already dressed. It's not hard to see a beautiful girl, And imagine the life that you could have with her. But you can...

He cut a stunning figure on the dance floor The people came from miles and miles A graceful gait and deathless execution He elevated every style The hometown daughters clutched their heaving chests When they watched him turn his pirouettes "Will you forget us...

There is a price tag on everything; A dying language beat down like a featherweight, staggering. (Once you've had bad credit, you'll never forget you had it). Dim innuendos are spoken aloud Where supermodels are superendowed. Fashion is the art of brainw...

And you can't see yourself in the mirror anymore And your alone and green and cold as the sea And if you go down I will follow you underground And you can't close your eyes anymore And you can't dream Just because you fucked up doesn't mean it's ok To...

Let's be war buddies Waist deep in big muddies Side by side I'd be the athiest in your foxhole any time Let's be friendly fire Body count's mounting on a bed of barbed wire Coldly stacked As soon as the morning light has broken Then we attack If nobody...

Meet me up on ninety nine beneath the mark of polo sign ill be the one one with a box of wine and a hundred dollar car they talk about the lives we've led and count the reasons we're not dead or maybe we could talk instead about the ways in which we are alwa...

St. Leonard touched a philistine--a sacred tongue, a perfect rhyme But even he was "not much nourished by modern love." So i told her that everything she does is divine and she replied with a blank expression (an object lesson in making me feel benign) Then...

Wine, women and song: I tried them all it did not take me long to figure I'd unlocked the door to happiness I figured wrong (with a capital R) All the baggage I brought wouldn't fit in a mid-size car That's why I'm walking on eggshells down the via dolorosa (h...

All I ever wanted to be was a woolly muffler on your naked neck Double wrap me when it's cold But you pulled a little tight just now And I'm afraid I feel a choke hold coming on All I ever thought we might come to was second dates And flirting eyebrows O...

Tear down the bearing wall Put up a picture window Something to look through At the bastard colors Burnt sienna Put down the wrecking ball Who has a friend who needs one? I've got a way to get to work in almost any city Doesn't matter where Take a n...

We both went to the 12 Rods show and Pretended not to see each other The only thing we swore would never happen No matter what else did And I don't really blame you, I suppose Lord knows I was a perfect letdown But I remember feeling like the only people in an...

One awkward conversation can ruin my whole day In the company of strangers with some vulgar shit to say Cocktail hour social like an obsolete machine Spitting anecdotes and boring jokes from someone else’s spleen And i always seem to miss the point completely...