Jeffrey Lewis

Late at night cloudy light will creep over my old house. And the chair, where I once sat, someone new is there, and he'll stare at that wall, and we're all parts of an alphabet. Spell new words in new spots we're at. And the big round blue boat drifts aro...

Grow it black Cut it back Amanda is a scalape Anyone want some water? Amanda is a scalape Poor Amanda Oh Amanda Stop thinking Stop being Amanda is a scalape Dirty flip-flops Piss in the pool Amanda is a scalape Poor Amanda Oh Amanda Truck st...

I don't understand why you look at me And I can't understand... why you can't lick your knee (haha I have no idea) Stepped you around And you're on the floor I'm not gonna remember your name anymore Cos I've found another girl And she's cuter and young...

I lay down every night And I can't get no rest 'Cause it starts spinning in my brain And then it's pounding in my chest What if I've wasted all my youth? What if I've wasted growing up? What if I wasted my whole life? Oh man, I feel like throwing up...

Time flies like an arrow baby in a wheelbarrow swaying where the wind blows static on the radio now. Bats eat fireflies look at how the time flies baby in a wheelbarrow static on the radio now. Stayed up all night looking at the moonlight, saw another bat...

Back when I was 4 and I knew the name of every dinosaur I knew how to read ROM comic books My babysitter said I was really smart When the lights went out everything changed The radio music made me feel strange And I had a real bad dream about a gorilla in...

Banned from the Roxy... Ok I never much liked playing there anyway They said they only wanted well behaved boys Do they think guitars and microphones are just toys? Well, i've chosen to make my stand Against what I feel is wrong with this land They just...

Big A, little A, bouncing B The system might have got you but it won't get me 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 External control are you gonna let them get you? Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you? You say you want to ba yourself, by christ do you thi...

Broken broken broken heart When will you just go away You just hurt hurt hurt inside of me Every minute of the nite and day And all I do is try try not to think Not to think of anything at all If I can keep myself from thinking for the rest of my life...

Out in the forest Out past the stone wall Built by old farmers Or older guys I saw a railway With tracks all rusted Wild flowers blooming Up through the ties I set out walking Just cross-tie walking Out on the cross-ties Where I could step Some...

The Misfits are cult rock & roll Worshipped by a few but ignored on the whole Meet the Feebles is a film cult classic It's basically unknown but some say it's fantastic Most women that I meet seem totally unfazed Til sometimes there somebody who seem...

I took my darling out to the aquarium. Sea creatures stared at us and we stared back at them. My baby freaked when she peeked at that 8-legged blob with a beak. She was too scared to speak. I said: 'don't be upset it's only an octopus, don't bother it and...

I am a product. I am a symbol of endless, hopeless, fruitless, aimless games. I'm a glossy packages on the supermarket shelf. My contents aren't fit for human consumption. I could tragically injure your perfect health. My ingredients will seize up your bod...

When I got to the golden city Most of the gold was gone By that time I had some questions So I flagged down a race-car bum He said 'Sonny I don't know where it's going, But I can show you where it all comes from' And he mopped his red forehead and he poi...

Well there's blackbirds on the turnpike in the midnight sun there's roosters on the railroad look out, here they come! the sun went down three days ago & it don't look like it's coming up too soon but i'm walking like a werefolf & i've got my c...

You say you got a heavy heart You say you got a heavy heart You say you got a heavy heart And its hard for you to start Carrying your heavy old home You say you got a heavy load You say you got a heavy load You say you got a heavy load Walking down t...

How? How can it be? How can it be you still love him and not me? Does it really add up mathematically? How? How can it be? Because I'm thinking of how I made you laugh And I'm thinking of the love that we had And I'm saying it's a matter of time How l...

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Well I got it all up here, see Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Well they think they got it all out there, see Well they can fuck off, cos they ain't got me, and they can't buy my dignity, Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Let me tell you, I got it up here see. They...

This is the state of national emergency Mind-blowing massacre at the cemetery When the groundskeeper came to check out the place They knocked him down and they ate his face Little Billy Baker said he saw it first A thousand rotten carcasses Climbed out...

it only takes a moment to collect my thoughts it only takes a moment to move on it only takes a moment to collect my thoughts it only takes a moment to move on my brain is like a puppy and it doesn't know better, it gets in trouble if it gets away i go...

I wrote pages about how I could never So many phases back and forth and wherever Sometimes so quiet hearing the little mice creep While in my head the riot wouldn’t let me sleep Up hills in Portugal Across the Berlin Wall Now it’s hard to remember when...

Before the land before time, there was a time before land when the world was just slime, and Krongu was the brand. Yes Krongu green sludge was the most popular item there might have been better sludges, but no-one ever tried 'em. Bought and sold by the p...

Life is a story don't you doubt Bad times give you something to talk about The next time you feel you're all worn out Remember life is a story Don't you doubt It only takes a day for everything to turn around Love is a story they tell to you But the w...

My album's out - i played some shows Some strange things happened i'll have you know (Hey you're Jeff Lewis, you like acid, right?) Some people hear my acid song and seem to take it kind of wrong (Yeah, you're Jeff Lewis. You're the guy that likes acid)...

Punk is dead Yes that's right, punk is dead It's just another cheap product for the consumer's head Bubblegum rock on plastic transistors Schoolboy sedition backed by big time promoters CBS promoted the Clash But not for revolution, just for cash Punk b...

Reaching, reaching for a way out Reaching, reaching for a hand Walking, looking for a way home Walking, looking for someone Looking for someone that I can rescue Looking for someone to rescue me Looking for the one among the rest who I've already met a...

Scowling crackhead Ian I can't forget your face You were a foul human being way back on saint marks place A white thug when we were both pour A life struggling for one quarter more In sixth grade that's what you'd mug me for A switch blade pressed up t...

When you’re at sea, Please be careful Of the storms and the sharks And the whales and the dark Watch out for wrecks Swab the decks Steady at starboard And hard to port While a hand made of water picks you up and puts you down. When you’re at sea Wi...

Fighting for survival is such a boring Battle Want to get into my car I wanna drive out to Seattle Where the used record stores Have much better prices But I don't have a car And I don't have a license Should I take another walk to the DMV Get anothe...

Well I remember the public pool And all the trash on the ground in the park was cool All the cigarette butts fought the needles And all the of stones fought all the beetles Mirror mirror on the wall Oh come on that's not me at all Now who's that handsome...

So what if I just couldn't take it anymore, I'll just take a walk to the store looking for a bit of bottled rat poison to score, and I'll pour down my gullet to nullify the sullenness, if it's my destiny to kill me spill it in me, to begin to fulfill it...

The bus goes to the bus stop, The one way sign points up, It's springtime, it's springtime, There's blue sky in a puddle, There's a bird on the ground, Dog on the roof, Chirp, chirp, woof, woof, It's springtime, springtime, There's blue sky in a puddle...

System, system, system - death in life System, system, system - the surgeons knife System, system, system - hacking at the cord System, system, system - a child is born Poor little fucker, poor little kid Never asked for life, no she never did Poor lit...

A silver lining Take my building Take my pizza There's cloud I feel so threatened It's a dustbowl Is there hope? A cloud of dust A blue horizon Go to Texas Back to New York Where's my pizza? Where's my building? Where's my brother? How's the piz...

walkin' up 23rd street i was tired and alone it was late my housemate would be asleep when i got home the sign ahead glowin' red said the chelsea hotel where nancy and syd vicious and my friend dave once dwelled the street was black under my feet wic...

If I had a girl on 9th avenue I know exactly what she would do She would wander at dawn look around At folks Find someone better looking who tells Better jokes And then she'd leave me and I'd walk Back east alone 9 8 7th avenue Now I'm crossing Madison...

It was a night in July, I think six years ago Why did I eat the acid? I don't know I wasn't thinking and I wasn't scared Why did I eat the acid? I wasn't prepared The last time I did acid I went insane I was hanging with some friends just getting loaded...

I'm talkin' 'bout the man with the golden arm I'm talkin' 'bout the man with the golden arm I'm talkin' 'bout the man with the golden arm I'm talkin' 'bout the man with the golden arm He told me his arm was golden He told me it was made out of gold He...

Time is gonna take so much away but there's a way that time can offer you a trade. Time is gonna take so much away but there's a way that time can offer you a trade. You gotta do something that you can get nicer at. You gotta do something that you can ge...

Water goes not of its choosing Waterfalls and water dropping Water has no way of stopping Water goes down, water went into me, 90% But water can't try, never will, it's my 10% that fights uphill And when I'm dead and the water crawls out, all that 90% fa...

When you're by yourself in the kitchen What's the point of all that shopping and cooking? Sitting and eating and cleaning So much to do just to eat by yourself And when you're by yourself in a restaurant And you put down your backpack and your jacket Y...

Today I went to Major Matt's to remaster my old album And on the L train in the morning, I was pretty sure I saw Will Oldham, He was wearin' the same sunglasses he had on stage at the Bowery Ballroom Had he come to walk among the Williamsburgers of his kin...

You don't have to be a scientistto do experiments You don't have to be a scientist to do experiments You don't have to be a scientist to do experiments On your own heart I had no place to put myself but I had lots of time I had no place to put myself bu...