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Let's go out and dance, darling

our last of days

and grace the game with a blindfold on

the cheaters came to play

and outside the soft-handed boys

screaming cars and all their speed

music, meth, a hero beggin change

his sword across his knees


and how he prays to find a man to blame

for every sleepless night he spends

and for every well that he warned me of

but wound up falling in

and then for the kids beneath the balcony

who disregard the rain

to make sure the king won't grant

the dead man one more day


let's go out and see darling

what shines tonight

and temper your dream about the dying horse

with traffic, noise, and light

and somewhere the soft-handed boys,

bleeding hearts, and worker bees

give to the holy mother begging change

Christ across her knees


and oh how she prays to find a man to blame

for every loveless night she waits

and for every gun that she frowned upon

but still some fucker made

and then for the kid beneath the balcony

behind the garbage can

who waits for the king to come

and hold his sweating hand 

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"Take me again," she said, thinking of him "To the pond with the swans and the swimming" Far from his room the familiar perfume How it felt to her...

Sunset Soon Forgotten

Be this sunset soon forgotten Your brothers left here shaved and crazy We’ve learned to hide our bottles in the well And what's worth keeping, sun...

Red Dust

Dust gets red, and red dust plays On the wind near Daniel's place Danny's sick and smaller boy Rhythm lingers on and on On and on, on and on Dus...

Teeth In The Grass

And when you give me your clothes And when we’re lovers at last Fresh air, perfume in your nose There will be teeth in the grass And when you giv...

Smokestack Lightning

Ah-ha, smokestack lightnin' Shinin' just like gold Why don't you hear me cryin'? Whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo Ah-ha, tell me, baby What's the matter with...

Sinning Hands

Midnight, and her eyes Hide like kittens, new and wet Mine are sinning hands On her lying on my bed The river still may rise Wild and water take...

Rabbit Will Run

Last I saw mother she rose from a chair When they caught me I'd just finished combing my hair 'Cause a rabbit will rose, as a colt does along with t...

Serpent Charmer

There's a woman here with a broken record player And a dusty compass off to map the country's new behavior Strange words that we hold on back into t...

Such Great Heights

I am thinking it's a sign That the freckles in our eyes Are mirror images and When we kiss they're perfectly aligned And I have to speculate That God...

The Trapeze Swinger

Please, remember me Happily By the rosebush laughing With bruises on my chin The time when We counted every black car passing Your house beneath...

Singers and the Endless Song

When we all ran back into the briars We told our children about the foreign shore When we threw our boots into the fire We told them all about the tug...

Sing Song Bird

Give me your shoulder, I'm a sing song bird My savior says that I'm the words I map across a daylight blinding you Chicken-boned and with a 10-cen...

The Desert Babbler

It's New Year's Eve And California's gonna kill you soon The Barstow boys Bug eyes in the shadow of the moon Black houses in the hills and roadsi...

Sixteen Maybe Less

Beyond the ridge to the left, you asked me what I want Between the trees and cicadas singing around the pond "I spent an hour with you, should I wan...

The Devil Never Sleeps

Dreaming again of a train track ending at the edge of the sea (Big black cloud was low and rolling our way) Dog at the barbed wire barking at my buzz...

Wide Across The Water

I saw you wade across the river Winter coat across your shoulders Calling out, what did you say? If I wade across the water When I rise will you...

Wolves

Wolves by the road and a bike wheel spinning on a pawnshop wall She’ll wring out her colored hair like a butterfly beaten in a summer rainfall And the...

The Specter of Jasper County

The girl down the street saw my ghost on the road But I sailed the backyard asleep in my boat Both paddles broken, no sail for the wind A bathtub,...

Two Hungry Blackbirds

Lovers accustomed to tragedy See every kiss in the window across the street Breezes and blessings passing by, ah ooh-oh I'm in the shade of the do...

We All, Us Three, Will Ride

In a small far room the bed is set With trinkets all surrounding Yet alone it rests, so dry it sets With souls aside abiding There moves legs warm...

Tree By The River

Mary Anne, do you remember the tree by the river when we were seventeen? Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer and the mare in the pasture p...

The Wind Is Low

You, strong as a virgin bird Me, keeping your every word Two dots where a single was Three, counting the little one We sail in the smallest boat...

Southern Anthem

just like the way that you ran to wine when they made the new milk turn Jesus, a friend in the better times let your mother's bible burn freedom, a fe...

Walking Far From Home

I was walking far from home Where the names were not burned along the wall Saw a building, high as heaven But the door was so small, door was so sm...

Slow Black River

Lost my watch, watch and chain But time's not lost This time we walk together beside the slow black river Water-walking over mud You whisper som...

This Solemn Day

Touch me while we both have hands We won't keep them very long Watch the window curtain blowing in the breeze Keep your blessed memories It's not...

The Rooster Moans

crack of dawn, the rooster moans wake up boy, you're far from home serpentine, the tracks in flames longest path the devil laid led you straight aboar...

White Tooth Man

Said the plain clothes cop to the beauty queen “I’ve seen nothing but a spoke in a wheel” So she gave up her crown to a kid with a crutch And they bot...

Weary Memory

found your mittens behind a box of pictures you would wear them before i brewed the tea that's one memory i can easily conjure a weary memory i can al...

Someday The Waves

Waking before you I've got a fever and a childish wish for snow Seems like a long, long time Since I spun you to this borrowed radio You pick a pl...

Waiting For Superman

I asked you a question I didn't need you to reply Is it getting heavy? And then I realize It's getting heavy Well I thought it was already as hea...

Sodom, south georgia

papa died smiling, wide as the ring of a bell gone all star white, small as a wish in a well and sodom, south georgia woke like a tree full of bees...

Upward Over The Mountain

Mother don't worry, I killed the last snake that lived in the creek bed Mother don't worry, I've got some money I saved for the weekend Mother remem...

Woman King

blackbird claw, raven wing under the red sunlight long clothesline, two shirt sleeves waving as we go by hundred years, hundred more someday we...

Your Sly Smile

Blue light setting lotus style in your A-frame in the countryside Stillness slides the door and walks inside Candle on the windowsill Burnt wickles...

Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me

Fake watches in your broken hand Barely keeping time Barefoot in the city and your phone is ringing Bet you're watching all the happy kids Climbin...