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Parade

What does this look like to you? A mark so fine, you barely see You have one just like it too A twisting vine, a mark so fine 'Cause I love you w...

Richard Pryor Addresses A Tearful Nation

Sometimes I think I've almost fooled myself Sometimes I think I've almost fooled myself-- Spreading out my wings Above us like a tree, Laughing no...

Animal Skin

I see in you an animal trace That's quick in your blond and deep in your face, Mine has been tamed; I'm shamed to pretend When I'm this close to yo...

Stations

Bring me the head of John the Baptist Show it round and shine His cloudy, marble, crossed and final eyes Once more into mine. Give me a leg up hi...

Progress Of Love

This is the progress of love that I fear You retreat just as my defeat finally nears What's only to lose, myself I volunteer So all of your spoils...

Shut Me Up

The song wants to repeat just now, It sings itself to show you how, It throws away its finest line Just to keep the feel and time. Just to keep T...

Room At Arles

Just behind that wall, I think, She pulls her stockings on: The creaking floor speaks through the door Of one foot then the other The curtains wa...

Reckless Child

Won’t you come and lay with we let your easy laugh undo what has risen up to leave the hole that I have fallen through. Take the pieces in your h...

Parker's Mood

Where's my sock? Where's my other shoe? I didn't know what time it was When I came o. The only light in here Is fmy flickering TV Watching back...

Piano Furnace

Let's pull this piano Out from the wall, Clear the young children From out of the hall, Stuff it with tender Put 'paid' to it all … Let it stok...

Alice

There’s a train already come, There’s a train already come, Her hands are birds, her heart a drum – Lo these many years There’s a horse upon a ya...

Strung

I keep wooden boxes like traps strung with wire In the light of old tires, piled on the fire Wearing their smoke like a flower in bloom Cut like t...

Rough And Tumble

Here's that rainy day That you said was bound to come, Funny—now you took my hat I can still feel it like it's on; O baby I wonder how You ever l...

Sault Sainte Marie

In Sault Sainte Marie The hills glow without the help of God You can almost see The river in November turn to steel; If only I knew how To wish...

Suit On A Frame

There's a suit on my frame like a shadow of birds Stitched all together by a murmur of words That hang like a moon in the thread of the air And spe...

Bob & Ray

There’s something caught in my teeth And a cricket that won’t let me sleep, He sizzles like a radio Another world away; He laughs at me in my bare...

Scare Me To Death

I've seen the best And the worst you can be, And all while you're getting the better of me. You're fragile but wicked And fleeting as breath, An...

Plainspeak

A blind man looks out through your eye, He hears the color of your sigh Tastes a laugh upon your thigh, then roars Oh, let's be clear, my sighing b...

A Friend To You

Day after day I wonder why This still should be Any kind of surprise; Nothing has changed When I open my eyes — I’m just a friend… I'm just a f...

Dark Tears

My camera doesn't lie to me, I see dark tears behind its eye, My camera doesn't lie to me, I see dark tears behind its eye It looks backwards on...

Slide

Oh, cursed morning— Who told you to rise? When time's a sliding mask that may still Roll back with our eyes. Oh, blessed falling, Crawling into n...

Skin And Teeth

Have you seen enough? Then go and see Have you seen enough? You might as well Leave the sun, it's dreary face Leave me something in your place...

After The War

A dog-eared mind sniffed my heart Like a pocket full of German marks Long after the war was through Stood me on a rusted rail Turned my face and...

Cold Enough To Cross

Just think what a day's rain can do A bridge once between us is lost, I set it to sway And now here I stay Till it's cold enough to cross I stan...

Sign

I was born in Montreal, A winter's slip that bloomed in fall Due my father's lot in life, I got his name and I killed his wife As if her blood I'd...

Sparrow

It wasn't peace I wanted So it wasn't peace I found, I wouldn't stand for reason And it never would sit down. The bird upon my shoulder Has not o...

Scar

What does this look like to you? A mark so fine, you barely see. You have one just like it, too— A twisting vine, A mark so fine; Cause I love yo...

Short Man's Room

This is a short man's room The better you watch your head I've still got my one good eye I keep it right next to my bed I keep my money down here...

The Diving Bell

Can you tell Is that dog tied? Are your hands that cold now Or is it mine? Time ago, it was on Meeting Street, You pulled me close to you; Now y...

Buckdancer's Choice

Shoot the street light out Leave the porch light on, Give away a shout From whoever's side you're on; Bury every hope you ever dreamed of Deep e...

Stop

Don't tell me to stop Tell the rain not to drop, Tell the wind not to blow Cause you said so; Tell me love isn't true It's just something we do,...

She Always Goes

She will always go Every time this story's told I know it won't ever change No matter how I rearrange; I can't make this story bend Or head it of...

Sold

Please don't speak another truth out loud Whatever else you do, I only want you keep me lost in your cloud I'll do the same for you. Don't believe...

Sticks & Stones

Tell the hour: go take another, Or go down, Moses, without a fuss Give in to the lawless water And send a later boat for us Sticks and stones, bl...

Angels

If I know my angels, I know what they'd say. Be still my little butcher boy, you'll give us all away. Be still you wretched little freak, give us ro...

Some Champions

Why look, he's getting up again Some people just don't know when to quit, He's up on his knees And someone has come to wipe his chin a bit And h...

Stars

I could have sworn this was the way when we started down I thought we'd left a light on dear but I can't see it now I can't even find the chance whe...

Best To Believe

She stands and unfurls her Clean bed clothes by the door Like a barber shakes all that falls From your shoulders to the floor; And I find a letter...

All Blues Hail Mary

From the mountain comes a soul And the stones grow up like trees From the mountain comes a soul And the stones grow up like trees All blues hail...

Edgar Bergen

Dear Marion, as I write this down— Dear Marion, I just make the bed then I need To go lie down. But Baby knows that I love to cry Over every littl...

Swayed

In a scene from better times Your traitor hangs up right there next to mine. The afternoon shakes down the trees Like they owed it money –hey buddy...

Bellwether

I'm going to climb that hill and look out across Climb that hill and look out across Climb that hill and look out across A long ways off from here...

Channel

How can I change the lights The color of this room Why can't this channel find A kinder afternoon I feel the fray of every letter To cross your...

Struck

I've been having wicked thoughts Terribly wicked, selfish and cruel, Imagining I stood high on a ledge And fell just out of the reach of you; Just...

Flag

Take that noise out in the street, This rubble out from under my feet No rest for the weary in here, And make a fuss, you're a volunteer. These da...

Civil War

I don't know you to wear a hat But I came home late and there it sat, You rose to show what hats are for When living through a civil war, When liv...

Deathbed Versions

How do you like your blue-eyed boy? How do you like your blue-eyed boy? Now the rabble have been jailed, The moon is up, had hung and paled The ho...

Death To The Storm

There's a song we used to know A kind of weary blues Some broken tune from long ago Some of us still like to use It hangs up high in the rafters...

Charlevoix

“Long ago” is just a whisper From the eaves and the pines To the rumble-wheels once bearing Endless fortune from the mines; Still the night is for...

I Was A Playboy

I was a playboy In love with the world I walked with the angels Every stone left unhurled Every breeze took me higher Every door set me free Oh...

Dead To The World

There's a truck pulling up to the house next door However, I'm dead to the world, There's a hat blowing off of your head to the floor Now I'm dead...

Coda: Light No Lamp When The Sun Comes Down

Light no lamp when the sun comes down The dark will speak, has things to say Something lost and never found Hides from the cold watchful eyes of da...

Every Sorrow

Safely in strong arms I lie now, Torn, the flags, but still they fly now; Memories of the cold Decembers Trampled roses, cloves and embers— Gone t...

Dirty Magazine

A cut-out picture of a sugar tart With olive skin and a purple heart, Concrete shoes, and it's just the Start Of bigger things unseen. Heroes of o...

Flower Girl

Of course there was no gold mine I freed the dogs, burned their sled I killed the guy asleep in bed I pushed him off into the drink Who needs to k...

Eyes Out For You

A fence is stretched across my brow A divided country: then and now, And you the border guard My caravan waved off the track With dusty miners hid...

Flesh And Blood

Aaaah come sit beside me, That'll do for now The night has come and left me Just the light that you allow. Come speak my name, Fill my head with...

Grand Street

His foot held the door, To the alley in back Where the hotel's kitchen let out And the night butcher stood 'Neath a dim iron moon And spoke to h...

Fireman's Wedding

There's a fireman's wedding tonight In the Cloverland Dell There's a hook and a ladder And we'll dance 'Neath a big paper bell, And everyone will...

Fat

Hey, look alive I’m coming down There’s no one Could stop me now No rider's pleas No riding free Just save your skin One for me Oh no, not th...

Medicine

Everybody knows the crash Left me on my back, Everybody knows that this is Just my medicine; I staked it like a claim And it pushed me like a bro...

Heaven's Escape

They're showing a movie on the side of the bank Oh, I'm in love with all creation And the warmth of the hood of the car in the dark Oh, I feel I'm...

Grave Angels

We are gathered together, We are hidden from view— In a tangle of laurel, we tear at our sorrow Like bread and we start up anew; Where a circus st...

Leaning

I can't stay here in my room I can't hold my own against the heavy lean Of your perfume; That tries to keep your pillow down and low Across my fac...

Great Lake

Teri comes in laughing Shakes her coat off And I just can't bear to look Anymore I hear somebody laughing I just figure, I've been took She stand...

Fuse

Here comes the night, there go your knees, reaching for the floor. You say I'll stand guard down here, she stands in the door, With a pony on the te...

Go With God (Topless Shoeshine)

I like when I can stand up here When the night is cool and clear And everything is at my feet, Nothing in my head; Words, they seem so thick and s...

God Only Knows

Darkness settles on the ground And leaves the day stumbling blind, Coming to a quiet close And maybe just in time: We'd almost lost the heart to k...

Good Fortune

I will come back for my things then I'll go the way I came back down your crooked steps two at a time; And to the morning sun I will call as I run...

Invisible Hour

I left the yard then came back in, I drank up your bathtub gin— And though I lived, it left me weak But I raise myself back up to speak… For it hi...

I Will Write My Book

If anybody asks what's new I say, "not much," and it's mostly true, But when my stars align with you Then I will write my book. I turn my face fr...

Lead Me On

The day draws a shade Pulls the thread of your frayed lace undone, It falls like the evenings That charm then devour their young— The face of the...

Kindness Of The World

I'd like to see your badge Who are you to be so brave? With one arm free to catch yourself And you're using it to wave; Who are you to be so stron...

Lock And Key

Holy cow, look what you've done You've got me now so I can't speak; I wonder how you turned out the stars I hear your laugh Like falling railway c...

Like She Was A Hammer

I know she's right behind me now without looking back. I know she will untie me; how, then, will I pay for that? And like she was the railroa...

I Flew Over Our House Last Night

That old Kentucky moon was shining bright as day The stars were all alive in the Milky Way The pilot said, "If you look close, there's Frankfurt on...

Love Is Enough

Lincoln Street is howling It's empty, growing colder, The night has come on limping and It's bleeding from the shoulder. Headlights fake a prison...

King's Highway

I might just change my mind Sometimes you can never tell Where a story will unwind How deep is the shallow ground Sometimes you would never guess...

Helena By The Avenue

Outside your crowded doorway past the steel and mortar the avenue before you, you walk beside yourself and me. How well do you hear me and what d...

Last One Out

Somehow I wound up with the keys I guess it’s still my turn to close, I’ll give the pastor hit last drink for free And maybe have my ride home when...

Lighthouse

Oh, my dear, I’ve swallowed the moon, And left it dark like a ring Burned on a spoon. But now all the stars They fall around you, And land at yo...

Loves You Madly

The ground wants you back The ground wants you badly The ground wants you still Like some lover, so madly. It pulls at your feet, Gets into your...

One Day When The Weather Is Warm

One day when the weather is warm, I'll wake up on a hill, And hold the morning like it was a plow, And cut myself a row And follow it until I kno...

Ohio Air Show Plane Crash

Just before the crash I was at the bridge I remember now, somebody shouting But I couldn't hear too well And when it went into a dive We all cam...

Mean Flower

How beautiful you've made yourself How cruel you've become, How so much like another That it's no surprise That I don't recognize you now so Beau...

Monkey

I’ll keep your monkey I’ll treat him good I’ll talk to him like he talks to you I’ll cut your corn And I’ll keep it dry And maybe someday, some...

Odetta

Whose chickens are those in my yard? They pick at every shiny thing, Stitching down this earth so cold and hard, Low and tight across my wings, An...

One Shoe On

Norman, take the wheel I’m feeling none too well A light has filled my face But I can’t feel my hands; Take my jacket and cover me And keep the b...

Our Song

I saw Willie Mays At a Scottsdale Home Depot Looking at Garage Door Springs At the far end of the 14th row His wife stood there beside him She w...

Truce

I clawed at your skirt like it was a dirt floor And I could dig my way free of myself taking more But prisoners know nothing of victory at war Let'...

Who Would Know

You don’t have to think I'm right And chances are, I'm not tonight, But any chance at all is one we owe And it’ll be just us and who would know?...

This Close To You

I'll have to be As brave as you With no star to guide us Blazing above; And no moonshiner's river To carry us through And no way to speak When...

Third Reel

Well, they've torn up the streets and Burned off the fields, And turned all the dogs to the woods; They took up the cross But they lost the third...

The Man I Keep Hid

Nobody knows the man that I keep hid Nobody knows the man that I keep hid He's raised my face like a pirate's flag A phantom nation's tattered rag...

The World And All I Know

The dark great river bends below me, A void of light now tells me so Where tiny towns crowd its shoulders, Between the world and all I know … Thun...

Want to Much

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Tomorrow Is October

Now that fires have been contained These ashes are of our own making, Clouds hang up on radio towers And sirens sing one song for hours Here begin...

Unspeakable

You tug at my sleep, A tangle of thread, That knots at the lock At the foot of my bed Swinging the door To a perilous view Where all my unspeak...

This Afternoon

On the afternoon That the revolution began, I was in a hotel pool with another kid And an Australian business man. And nothing there would make yo...

Time Is A Lion

If you fear the angels above while you sleep Then I'll be the blood, you paint on your door Your dream is a worry that nothing will keep, But time...

Water Between Us

A holy ghost hangs in our trees A cool eye watching over these, And every perfect, crooked thing; While every crooked dream Imagines that it walks...

This Is My Favorite Cage

Oh this is my favorite cage It grows up around me like silver strands Of briar and roses, wisdom and rage To cradle my heart like a bird in your ha...

Widows Of The Revolution

What can I write home about? The water's cold, the pilot's out. I keep my children out of sight And my man never came home last night. What will...

Tiny Voices

You wild beasts and you creeping things Get down in your place, Down with all the absolutes God's awful grace. Who wants to see this coming? Who...

We'll Meet Again

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when,
 But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day We’ll smile through, just like we always do,
 'Til t...

Trampoline

The floor will have its way, it seems It fights me like a trampoline It won't let me on the ground So this time I'm not coming down This time I'm...

You Can't Fail Me Now

I know that fan is moving air I can see it in your hair But I can't bear to Breathe it in somehow- I'll rise and fall with you Cause you can't fa...

Your Side Of My World

Thought that bell was in my dream, All in my head, Until the trucks were in the Yard And the fire was in my bed. Oh, can you hear the ringing bell...

Wave

I waved to you as my boat was leaving Hats flew up and everybody cheered, But you turned as I guess someone spoke to you, And in a sea of arms you...