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Anne

Anne walks alone Past the Domino sugar factory She's as easy to know As a broken mystery Conversations are slow With herself in dead parking lots Hand...

Bandits

All those kisses that we stole They're all cast in fire and gold In a gold no one can weigh We made out like bandits, babe And all those Bonnies,...

Another new world

The leading light of the age all wondered amongst themselves what I would do next After all that I'd found in my travels around the world was there...

Baby that’s not all

fold yourself against me like a paper bird tonight we’ll fly awhile just give me the word and hold onto me like I hold onto you a steeple holds...

Angels On Her Shoulders

She walked right in As time slowed down But not enough To keep me from ordering up Another round In a bottomless cup That I had found In the h...

Drive Away

I don't have any questions that you cannot answer I'm pretty simple that way Any fears I have left are just ghosts of ghosts That you drove away...

A Big Enough Sky

[Chorus] Wanna go where the sweet water is Wanna go where the air is pure Out 'neath the sky so big I can give my heart to her [Verse 1] Somewh...

Best for the best

Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes Now she?s gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind And if the...

Galahad

The Angel of the Holy Grail saw Galahad come riding, so he took the Holy Grail off the shelf. And inside the Holy Chapel made for Holy Grail hiding,...

Bad actress

she’s a bad actress- but hey you give her the big lines anyway though her eyes are big as Canada and the hips are South Australia and the shoulder...

Beautiful Night

Up here in the crows nest I am swimming through the breeze One last memory from the sun as it is sinking by degrees And high above the albatrosses,...

Bonfire

You got a lot of lovers with star-crossed wrists They keep a candle burning on the corner you kissed. One day I might die, until then there's too mu...

Can't Go To Sleep (Without You)

There ain't a street in this town that I ain't walked And I know them like I know your face But they're here and you're not and it's my luck That I...

Come and find me

If I could trace the lines that ran Between your smile and your sleight of hand I would guess that you put something up my sleeve Now every time I see...

Empty Hearts

Oh, save all of your light For those who can't sleep at night And they can't even sing to their shadows Oh they ride into town And they throw the...

Dreams

All that I felt on the first time it happened Was the feeling of something bad coming true One day I was happy, one day I was laughing Then, somewh...

Evil Eye

He'll laugh and say that he can't sleep And he don't know the reason why Maybe it's the evil eye Oh, that awful evil eye Remember how he used to...

Bright Smile

now my work is done I feel I’m owed some joy oh Imogene and Abelard I’m your homeward boy but there’s another one who brings me to your door and...

Darlin'

How much do you think? How many tears do I have to drink? How much do I have left? How much blood in one man's chest? Darlin' Will you let me ca...

A Certain Light

My new lover, sweet and kind The kind of lover that one rarely finds And I'm happy for the first time, in a long time Came along and opened up the...

Bone of song

just where it now lies I can no longer say I found it on a cold and November day in the roots of a sycamore tree where it had hid so long in a box...

Blame It on the Tetons (Modest Mouse cover)

Blame it on the Tetons Yeah, I need a scapegoat now No, my dog won't bite you Though it had the right to You ought to give her credit Because sh...

California

going out to California gonna let the water warm my clothes I’m alone but I’m not lonely gonna trade the weather for the Western coast no don’t cr...

Cumberland

[Verse 1] All of my friends said "What's out in Cumberland?" "Gonna get lonesome when you get out to Cumberland" "Stay in the city, boy, winter is...

Moons

There are planets you don't know There are moons that you don't see Invisibles between the rings of Mars and Mercury The harbors that they built f...

Change of time

I had a dream last night I dreamt that I was swimming And the stars up above Directionless and drifting Somewhere in the dark Were the sirens and...

Girl In The War

Peter said to Paul: "You know all those words we wrote, Are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go." And now talking to God is...

Pretty Polly

Pretty Polly, please come on down From your home home high up off the ground In the tree dark and forlorn Where the rope hangs bruised and worn T...

Folk Bloodbath

Louis Collins took a trip out west When he returned, little Delia had gone to rest The angels laid her away Louis said to Delia 'That's the sad th...

Daddy's Little Pumpkin

You must be daddy’s little pumpkin I can tell by the way you roll You must be daddy’s little pumpkin I can tell by the way you roll It’s quarter p...

One More Mouth

Honey how you gonna make it on your own? Honey how you gonna make it on your own? When you wake up in the night and see the stars just city lights...

Me & Jiggs

Me and Jiggs staring at the ceiling the stars above the radar range Song from a station wagon laying foundations On the shadows of overpassing plane...

Mind's Eye

What's it take to make the dime drop? All these kids they think they're quick on the draw Always shootin' at outlaws I'm busy keeping my Colt cock...

Monster Ballads

Radio waves are coming miles and miles Bringing only empty boats Whatever feeling they had when they sailed Somehow slipped out between the notes...

Potter's Wheel

I close my eyes and it all returns Like the spinning of a potter's wheel Trying to stay ahead a morning As time came running with us And she beat...

Getting Ready to Get Down

[Verse 1] Mama got a look at you and got a little worried Papa got a look at you and got a little worried The pastor got a look and said, "Y'all ha...

Other Side

Say the West is a story we made up to erase Conestoga wagons left tracks you can see from space From the Northwest passage to the Great Divide Ever...

Roll On

West of her there's a place know Never have been but I'd like to go Somewhere out there I believe in me And West of her is where I'd like to see...

Naked As A Window

How hard for the covers to be pulled by from their slumbers But a ghost never gives up its sheet, tell me is it the same? For the rattlin' chains or...

My Man on a Horse (Is Here)

Waitin' I've been waitin' For the day, the hour, the moment you'd appear And now just look at you My man on a horse is here Prayin' I been pray...

Love Is Making Its Way Back Home

Dot paths the moonly road when time the crunch of snow i wonder when your smile show ’cause love it’s making it’s way back home love is making its way...

Rattling Locks

There was a time I had the right key Rolled the tumbler slid the bolt on every wandering eye I caught But something has changed this is all wrong I...

Paint Your Picture

Pictures on my wall Fifteen different colors Starting with vermilion The first flower of the summer And don't think I'll be finished Till I've be...

Man Burning

Don't stand so close to me Don't be another tragedy I've burned everybody Who had a hand to lend A man burning at both ends No one put me in th...

Mexican Home

Last night it got so hot, I swear Couldn't hardly breathe And heat lightning burnt the sky Like alcohol I sat on the porch without my shoes And...

Next To The Last Romantic

He's riding the plains living up to his name As the next to the last true romantic He knows that his story is tragic But he can't rest until he's n...

New lover

I can't pretend that all is well, it's like I'm haunted by a ghost There are times I cannot speak your name for the catchin' in my throat, There are...

Make Me Down

A little rest for a spell A little water from your well A little shade from the shade of your door That is all that I need And I believe those mig...

Open Doors

I thought I heard you pulling up outside It's just the wind whispering through the pines I haven't seen who I'm looking for Just empty shadows in m...

Rainslicker

You had your red rainslicker on Your face was turned up into rain as you watched me And I was crossing, I was crossing The street like my own Rubic...

Nightmares

I know where the nightmares sleep On what fodder do they feed For two long weeks I stayed awake Until I saw one cross your face I knew that you h...

Morning Is A Long Way Down

Wrap your arms around me And hold me close to your light I'm too weak for flying tonight I've been running all nighttime Trying to hide from the h...

Orbital

So it was that everything That went to make up everything Was wrapped up tight inside a grain Of great insistence Then someone gave the great comm...

Peter Killed The Dragon

Peter killed the dragon And he did it with his bare hands Peter killed the dragon And he did it with his bare hands Paul killed the dragon And he...

Harbortown

Brings me back to Harbortown Where me and my true love once lay We watched the lights go up and the sun go down Let the moon rise where it may Th...

Love Is Making It's Way Back Home

dot paths the moonly road when time the crunch of snow i wonder when your smile show 'cause love it's making it's way back home love is making its...

Rumors

Serenade me with rocks, love No lullabies through the locks, love I lock myself in with the band But the music's never loud enough Decibels in th...

Real Long Distance

You're a real mean mama But you got a lotta time for me And I know they ain't coming To find your kinda love for free It's a drag and a sigh and...

See How Man Was Made

Please Man ain't suppose to live alone No that ain't what he needs He needs to find a home With someone else who needs a man A man who needs a ho...

Right Moves

All of a sudden now you're back again I thought you were happy with whoever Or did you dream about me now and then? Did you look up at the stars an...

Harrisburg

Romero got married on the fifth of July In our Lady of Immaculate Dawn Could have got married in the revival man's tent There ain't no reviving wha...

Golden Age Of Radio

Picture they took of you in your cowboy hat Makes you look like you are one of the boys Out on a Saturday night Meanwhile on the outskirts of the d...

Horrible Qualities

Tarnished mirror in the hall Reflects the ghosts that come to call Dressed in dusty silken gowns Dancing in the shadowed sounds Eyes like echoes...

Spot In My Heart

She's a great actress, and I um, think we met the first time in '73 And she was doin' a little play off-broadway, Ah, Heart of a Dog And there was...

Good Man

These chords are old but we shake hands Cause I believe that they're the good guys We can use all the help we can So many minor chords outside I fell...

Heart's Ease

Gonna find me a black eared bay Gonna meet me a black haired girl Who smells of smoke and caraway I'm on my way to find my own heart's ease. The...

See Me Through

All around me the shadows of women and men And they all walk right through me And I walk through them Then I cast by my bed I cannot believe that...

Snow Is Gone

Birds beneath my window dusting their wings upon the lawn I hear them in the morning light giving last amen to a migratory song They're never lookin...

Seeing Me 'Round

[Verse 1] Stabbed me once and shot me twice Threw me off of the bridge and through the ice And after all you put me through It seems our champagne...

Still Beating

I know the dog days of the summer Have you ten to one outnumbered Seems like everybody up and left And they're not coming back The shadow that yo...

Song For The Fireflies

After all the lights had died Out behind the Palasades Park Fireflies remembered to do Exactly what they were supposed to And memories were like...

Henrietta, Indiana

[Verse 1] Henrietta, Indiana mill town Locked the factory down and shut it up tight My daddy and my brother and sixteen-hundred others Lost everyt...

Hopeful

Supposedly it was a wise wise man who said it’s better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all, never to have loved. How many times...

Idaho

All that love, all those mistakes What else can a poor man make? So I gave up a life of crime I gave it to a friend of mine Something else was on...

Homecoming

[Verse 1] I feel a change in the weather I feel a change in me The days are getting shorter And the birds begin to leave Even me, yes, yes, y'all...

Here At The Right Time

Under wide blue skies There's a place to lie For me and Evelyn To hide tonight I'll try my best to make a go But I'm not sure what I don't know...

Hotel Song

Sunday night, its supper time, the hotel's full and all is fine. You can see that No Vacancy sign from the window of room 39 Monday morning at half pa...

Southern Pacifica

Southern pacific Red, white, and blue Where are we running to? Over the wide plains Over the wide plains Take me to someplace new Remember me R...

In The Dark

We started looking for you in the darker caves We had a lot of love we thought would light the way We saw the wrecks of buildings and ships that san...

The Curse

He opens his eyes Falls in love at first sight With the girl in the doorway What beautiful lines Heart full of life After thousands of years, wha...

The Remnant

I know who you are old man keep running I caught your trail as you left the pines Out into the fields where you couldn't hide nowhere Just a thin s...

In Your Arms Again

And oh, what a thrill it was To be in your arms again And oh, what a thrill it was To be in those arms And all those plans I had, all they did wa...

Stuck To You

Well there's one thing Mama, I think you should know It is not love that makes the flowers grow But a complex electron transfer process known as...

In Your Arms Awhile

Hold me in your arms awhile Hold me in your arms awhile And I will hold you in my arms awhile I will hold you in my arms just a little bit longer...

The Appleblossom Rag

Where's the queen of my parade? She ain't coming back. The only thing she left me is This appleblossom rag Oh, the appleblossom rag Oh, such swe...

Joy to You Baby

i go to the parties throw my hands in the air i drink what they pour me the cups of who cares go up in the night sky up in the clouds fly over t...

Labelship Down

Here we go a-one, two A-one, two, three We heard it over the wires That everybody here was fine But we never even really felt hired So we felt b...

Letter From Omaha

Well I can't sleep with all these hand-me-downs Battered up chests and faded dreams Every new life seems to spin away Like sand escaping through th...

Lights

I cannot recall when I've felt like this It's been a long, old time if I ever did. So if I act strange, I'm hoping you'll forgive I've got your lig...

The Temptation Of Adam

If this was the Cold War we could keep each other warm I said on the first occasion that I met Marie We were crawling through the hatch that was the m...

Third Arm

Last night I saw Someone with your eyes Someone with your smile Someone with your smile We danced And I regret that she asked me to Cuz she didn...

Lantern

Give me light for my lantern Give me light for my lantern give me light Be the light of my lantern, the light of my lantern, be the light I need th...

Wait For Love

I wait for love, I wait for love Wait for love, wait for love, wait for love Wait for love, wait for love I got someone on my mind And she don't...

Kathleen

All the other girls here are stars You are the northern lights They try to shine in through your curtain You're too close and too bright They try...

Why

Why can't you try to be happy? Why must you always be sad? Why spend your only life waitin' To have what you know you can have? Why spend your on...

Lighthouse Fire

[Verse 1] Gonna build you a cathedral out of nothing but the rafters 'Tween the stars, 'tween stars, 'tween the stars, 'tween the stars From the Tr...

Wild Goose

All that I've learned Sometimes wells run dry It don't matter the hour or the season Gone, gone gone, is your wild goose and it never leaves givi...

Lillian, Egypt

I remember back in Illinois I found her The lily of the valley the lily of the West was a rose The daughter of the biggest big town banker He kept...

Wolves

I still remember that time when we were dancing We were dancing to a song that I'd heard Your face was simple and your hands were naked I was singi...

Lark

The golden ratio the shell The stairs ascending round themselves The trees rustle as if to kneel and listen To the heartbeat of a lark or the lark...

Last Ditch Effort (See You Try)

You have chosen dawn to leave Don't bother me while I am sleeping Life continues and though you go out I'll sleep another hour or so Though you t...

Wildfires

You must be living on wildfires You must be living on wildfires That's why your eyes Are smoke and ash You must be living on earthquakes You mus...

Thin Blue Flame

I became a thin blue flame Polished on a mountain range And over hills and fields I flew Wrapped up in a royal blue I flew over Royal City last night...

Lawrence, KS (Can't Leave This World Behind)

Dirt roads and dry land, farming might be the death of me But I can't leave this world behind Debts are not like prison where there's hope of gettin...

The Stone

[Verse 1] Change your face Change your name Rip the roots that you laid down Rip the roots that you laid down You'll keep your hurt You'll keep...

Leaves and Kings

I met you at a party or on a crowded street A silent singularity when glances chanced to meet You looked into my glasses, said you'd seen a ghost I tr...

Leaving

Making my own city lights Out of bourbon and the stars of a bar room fight Face forward in the wind If you don't know where it is but you know wher...

To The Dogs Or Whoever

Deep in the belly of a whale I found her Down with the deep blue jail around her Running her hands through the ribs of the dark Florence and Calami...

You Don't Make It Easy Babe

Here I am standing at your window again Waiting for you to say go away or come in I'm your locked door's worst knocker I'm your curtain's best frie...

Tokyo!

Tokyo! I know from all your lightbulbs that you know the real deal when you see it -- if you see it won't you tell me so? Oh we've come too far --...

Where the Night Goes

[Verse 1] Heard the word from Brenda Lee You were coming home she said Cross my heart I could not believe it Holy hell you could have struck me de...

Long Shadows

I'm not afraid of the dark We've been here before Fallen on hard times, honey We've fallen on swords But if a long shadow Falls across your heart...

You've Got The Moon

We ate May down to the rind Asked the moon for another helping It's getting on past suppertime Lights are low and it was evening Pull your dress...

Young Moses

[Verse 1] Lay down, young Moses, child Your wandering star a while Hang your heart on a quiet soul and Stay a while in the house of gold Each roo...

Lock

There was a time I had the right key Rolled the tumbler slid the bolt on every wandering eye I caught But something has changed this is all wrong I...

Wings

At night we crossed the border Following a black robe To the edge of the reservation To Cataldo Mission Where the saints and all the martyrs Loo...