Kristin Hersh

By now, I should know where you're going By now I should but I don't You're better off wherever you are off to Agile or stoned By now, I should wake you when I'm hungry Right now I should but I'm not We could be a silkworm tightrope We could but we're not...

A high That's a swell take on this situation I was trying to rectify I was trying to skip out on this high Keep away from the freaks on the fringe They only talk to you 'Cause you give them a good excuse to cry But in a cleaner light, it's ok In a cleaner...

Some store I'm not going back there anymore Wandered in Don't think I'll do that again No I don't think I'll do that again I swear Look at me cross-eyed and I don't know what to do No I don't know what to do Crazy loon There's a room in his pallet There'...

Chinese food and your sleeping back We're born-again losers It's funny Honey, you know, this is not so bad Hanging around, wired for sound It's funny and sad and it's true I'm aching, aching for you We carry an island around on our backs We're born-aga...

Amazing Grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I was once lost But now am found Was blind but now I see 'Tis Grace that taught My heart to fear And Grace my fears relieved Now precious dear That Grace appear The hour I first believed...

The baby's so simian I guess we never evolved completely You can see it in me A naked grass widow moment Did you see his beautiful eyes In the red twilight We've done our time In the pressure cooker On arnica montana With the desperate Tearing down the h...

you walk the seven blocks to paradise and throw your arms around it part of the cattle call to harmony at dawn it breaks but much too late to wreck the night we spun a silken effort wrapping the day in softer company my favorite distant sadist the ac...

warm on your cold heart cool on your hot head a worn blanket statement of innocence a way out a way to keep lying honest if restless and frantic and you a breaking man i've studied your shaking hands and this a pretty jail bliss a beautiful jail ho...

My love asked me, to take a walk Just to walk, a little way And as we walked along we talked Of when would be our wedding day We walked beneath the whispering pines His heart was filled with love divine And as we neared the riverside He asked me when I'd be...

Lovely empty baseball field Just one of the places to sun Like a hot pink kite with no string Heads rolling You make heads roll Whistle the day away Whistle one day away You make headway Drift 'till the stuff that you're breathing seems like air You go back...

Start with your fingers They finger the change That carries me home in our evening You're bee stung there... Press your palm to your snow-coated thought cage That carries me over your thinking You're bee stung there... Between the tall buildings Are sno...

Incense, strawberry candles and soap Way to butcher a street There are spells, dizzying spells You can smell them coming A torture on the breeze Did you call me? What did you call me? Trying to turn the other cheek All clean junkies miss dirty secrets We’re...

Living this close to the bone I can't get home Um, no just panicking Did you hear the phone? Bone china Christ this is not smart I would think you'd be happy To be reminded of where Your body is in space But you don't seem to care Bone china no no Oh,...

With your bright yellow gun, you own the sun And I think I need a little poison To keep me tame keep me awake I have nothing to offer but confusion And the circus in my head, and the middle of the bed In the middle of the night With your bright silver fro...

Inspired weakness under sleepy sun And one cloud is a meltdown There’s no tomorrow Bang a left A bubble net waits over the next threshold Wearing tear stains Hovering over your shame Syringes scatter below Your body freight Baptize your weight Let it go past...

C'mon play the goddamn music I know we fell apart a while ago And, no, not everyone's all right Walking bare-assed down the hallway Is hard enough at night And you, don't you wanna do nothing And hey, didn't you say something's missing? You have a stone-...

The best of us puking The rest of us not doing so well You can tell by the way we look over your shoulder Watching for the next big thing Caffeine in the blood, caffeine on the brain, bad well water Set off a chain reaction, a desparate set of principles I...

(one, two) I was standing By the window On a dark and cloudy day When I saw the Hearse come rolling For to take my mother away Can the circle be unbroken By and by, lord, by and by There's a better home awaiting In the sky, lord, in the sky Lord, I told the...

I Lost a boy And now I look for him Through every window And behind every door My son went down This isn't trauma It's not even drama anymore I was born With a sad song in my mouth He gave me a reason to sing it It's like this boy Took all my clear cold n...

This war's Ok In a sweet old fashioned way Like a game we play Guilty of something we forgot I wasn't staring I was just looking far away Dazzled by something I forgot Here, drink this down we've been here way to long Acting this way is a craft I'll shut...

Arrest the boy Warm between the eyes As he jackknifes into winter Stung like a cutthroat trout in the cathedral heat Sick as a dog, shaking like a leaf You have to look close to see what this disease has done to me Arrest the boy The hayseed with the song i...

(... in the city of the dead) I won't stay awake if I can't kiss your fingers The creole porter misses you but I don't It's like Saint Peter said in the city of the dead The creole porter misses you but I don't It's like Saint Louis said in the city of the dea...

I didn't use you but I wish I had I never liked you but I wish I did Whether it was soaking in your poppy tea Or your southern hospitality Your voice has a singsong quality And bones were made to be broken Yes, all right, I can With sunburned lips I can bi...

This is no time to fuck up Scooting around the linoleum On all fours, what for again? Better yourself for somebody else This is no time to wrestle You're gonna burst a blood vessel What for again? We could be falling in love, like nobody else Tonight your...

You can't make it You can't cry You can't make it home tonight It's to far to walk To your goddamn van It's too hard to come by your hand Drunk on nothing Drunk all night Mad at nothing Close your eyes You could run on iron lungs It, would not k...

shrug off this wretched event stoic, detached, you relent you wonder why we crash but don't land how a purring engine sputters like these coals that never cooled why we crash but don't land you heated even the mist around this mossy existence we never f...

That filthy stare He's on a tear Cold water coming for the warm water junkies I found a friend Lost him again Poor sucker freaked, and couldn't swim with the monkeys Away, away, gone away Away to your still house In your still house You fall into icy blue...

Eyes in the back of your head Ear to the ground Love in the back of your mind We're on a hill, stay very still I would love a better drug You lucky jerk I'm so unsettled I'm superstitious You're so rattled you're suspicious You lucky jerk You left your lion...

hold the flashlight under your chin closer as the lights dim you lonely doll you lucky dog you free fall down to the living room closer as the lights dim spread the glitter on your pillow count your blessings on your fingers crawl your way back down...

Melting into slo-mo An inevitable slowing Weak in the knees and in the fists All signs waiting patiently for you to spot them pointing and your esp is on the fritz Day 3 Christen this city with the sound you grew up wanting jangle trauma in the light Bus stop...

Up this way down under the ocean Tumbled in anger by angry water Getting up is what hurts In the bath tub again watching the water drain Twisted in slow-mo by angry water Getting up is what hurts Getting up is what hurts Then you melt into the background (da...

Slipping down railings And balconies With a sleepy ease I never knew I navigate my way to you Indigent darkness Thick as a dream A liquid party underneath Though I'm still shaky and weak Knees pressed against the leather couch I couldn't find my bra and You...

Circumlocution Just a parlor game in a kissing chair Anything to make me sigh You never really changed You never really tried to detox A constellation of zits And a snail trail of snot I’m losing patience with this Hoping that you’re not an asshole Echo loc...

Rats scatter after waves on the dirty beach You're seriously losing me A shiny object caught my eye, of course These dog days always leave me with a stomach ache One dip in the well and I'm done-in Coffee and vitamins Breakfast of champions Don't touch me...

Down in the willow garden Where me and my love did meet There we sat a courtin' My love dropped off to sleep I drank a bottle of burgundy wine My love she did not know And there I poisoned that dear little girl Under the flank below I stabbed her with my da...

White label on the backseat Glows an artificial green I crave a midnight something I crave and something hunts me down I'm scaring everybody I'm wearing everybody down White label on the backseat And something bends me over, down I crave an empty lifestyle...

Peace and a fraction of a dream, El Dorado These eggs look like eyeballs and I'm too bored to eat We're floating on inflatable hope There's a blue blizzard in our heads and I'm too sore to sleep Life and a cup of instant chaos by the window I'm laughing so...

the ground's on fire the ground's on fire and so are you god left you here, too you could call for rain you could call for rain your new moguls: trees some full some lonely both help you think i'm sorry and you were right it was okay to be scared 

I would bet You don't care So i pray to the ether I thought the city air would hear me whisper When the blue expanse of morning comes You sleep while i stalk the sun, like a baby I don't break an icy blass i ache for the past, like a baby A tourist in...

Come on come on come on come on Come on is such a joy Come on is such a joy Come on take it easy Come on take it easy Take it easy take it easy Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey. The deeper you go the higher you fly...

Was it me, or the cold? Made you give up hope Made you lose your faith in the afterlife And all she made Was it me, or the heat? Made you not believe Made you lose your faith in the afterlife and all that breathes 

There's always drooling zombies Or at least on dick I'm having trouble focusing 'Cause all I see in front of me is You when we're finally alone He was the bone king Dead to all the world Maybe dead's like being Really high without th low But I enjoy hangov...

Fly around my blue-eyed girl Fly around my Daisy Fly around my blue-eyed girl You almost run me crazy If you get there before I do, Tell her if you please Before she goes to make her bread Roll up her dirty sleeves Fly around my blue-eyed girl Fly a...

Walk a mile, then walk another mile When you hit the fog rehearse your smile Underground, it's quiet underground Rolling in like thunder makes no sound Peace of mind and empty all the time Like sand under the snow, I make you mine 

i left you cracking up in the east river like some river devil both cruel and unusual thick with gold and smoking my friend under the wire again and by the way you cost a fortune and by the way you cast a shadow today i watched you crawling up through the l...

That sky is a-shine with sheen Those eyes are a green machine Spare me your whining In my rainy gazebo tree Deep in my silver pit The walls are all thick with it My, but you slay me In my rainy gazebo tree Bless my baby eyes Don't you know Jesus died ? I'...

French fries glisten in the noon-day sun I wouldn't mention this to anyone Where the hell do those sheep think they're going? As soon as I pay up, I'm getting out of here Could you leave us alone for just a minute? Lately my life has been flashing before...

A thousand voices start their screaming when you leave A thousand screamers find their voice and start to scream We already blew the glory weed Your well-done fury don't deserve to pull me down That facile magic show can't burn away my ground We already...

Inside the winter palace Crummy summer haze The whole place yellow Trouble and disappointment have come to me Help me Our lady Guadelupe 

That fine fever brought us here Lambasted eyeballs When we kiss the dirt The orchids laugh What a gut pageant We could play for hours What a gut pageant Meat for the flowers You break out of a paper bag And wake up on the street Just kidding You don't hav...

I could be a smack freak And hate society I could hate god And blame dad I might be in a holocaust Hate hitler Might not have a child And hate school I could be a sad lover And hate death I could be a neuro And hate sweat No I hate my way I make you in...

In the race but out of step You struggle to hold up your head Like a river you fight your own bed I'm needing backyard sanctuary I'm on breaktime Where the sissies hang Looking for oil in the sand Like a river you gouge out the land Like a drummer who fig...

Love these swastika trees And spitting in the wind Cold war hot war Peace Another lesson we don't need Another lesson we don't need Swimming to normal Hemingway's tell Sweet fear Spark meet gasoline And bitchy oxygen Halfway down the rock Shatter my fingers...

Rocking on the ocean Sucking up the sea Every bird flies over me We have hips and makers We have a good time I married a boxer to keep me from fighting I married a brewer to keep me from drinking They keep me dancing Finally it's alright 

Hey again, up for a spin ? Pretty rain makes you smile Pretty rain makes you smile This is something Why don't you come in ? This is some swell trash This is some swell trash Jesus, he's easy The safest way to go home Hell, nothing's boring Never could pa...

I know I don't want you, I know I don't want you, I feel broken, I feel broken and miles away Let the brain bells ring again Let the angels sing again Drain the bottle, drink you in I won't stop till your mother brings you home Nobody's muscle can break you...

Oh no, don't you put me in that box You know what you can do with those locks Bet your life I'll come crawling out again You'll have to deal with me then You'll hear me on the wind I've been on the other side of the Blue Ridge Seen the Shenandoah rolling...

Houses and rooms Are filled with perfumes And we slide away on the ice Your tears are herradura silver Twilight and dusk Snowflakes and dust All look the same on the ice Our tears are herradura silver And clean air, liquid on our tongues We're hungry...

Terrible wine Set you free Damn slap-happy sleep C'mon out, c'mon out Oh mercy, mercy me Terrible wine Draws ou out Damn slap-happy in the dugout C'mon down, c'mon down Oh mercy, mercy me And when you're smoke, how do you speak? Smoke signals? Write on tree...

One day as I rambled down by the seashore The wind it did whistle and the water did roar I heard a young girl make a pitiful sound As she closed her pretty blue eyes In the water to drown I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife I will live single all...

Damp and sour skulled We land with a thud 8 hours off our old life Nervous energy keeps us busy And violently Off our old life Your ice on It's harder then Your fight gone It's harder then A guttural hack Spit flying How do you spell that with vowels Your...

Pinned by a dream state You are fearless And your empty arms Waiting for no one You wanted to be wanted When you're head over heels In shock And the little green apples falling around you Party to this party You are blameless Ask a question You get an earful...

Slink past the stoned rasta painters on baronne Blink and the walmart of the dead blurs On baronne Found you Look around you Wild parrots and gin in the air Don’t know where to go Don’t know where to go from here Don’t know where to go to disappear...

Angels from the realms of glory Stars shone bright above Royal David's city Was bathed in light and glow Jesus Christ was born today Jesus Christ was born Jesus Christ was born today Jesus Christ was born And all they did rejoice Fine and pure of voice...

in a suburban desert a fast food high we swipe at peeling paint swat away flies the crawling milk-fed squawking cream-filled hominids ids immune to broken to wasted time to bolts of lightning bungee together your body's guards the bloodiest bond blacking ou...

Lavender lips on a full, sore mouth Where's the parade I asked his sleepy face But my lazy little shadow stayed asleep in bed Climbed another tree, an altogether different tree And you stayed so close beside me Purring like a pussy I watched the muddy ed...

Excuse me, a doormat is good honest work Only the bored and the wicked rich don't know that Excuse me, you poor man, let's skip this town Who me? Oh man, was that out loud ? Ow ... Whoa, I'm on my own here You know, the devil may care You make this groovy...

Listerine covers your tracks Doesn't do shit for the facts I'm lying on the couch Scary memories fill my mouth How did I love a breaking thing? How did I sleep through a kidnapping? How'd I trust a band who'd leave me one by one? I only wanted the spark I o...

Little birdy, little birdy What makes you fly so high? It's because I am a birdy And I'm not afraid to die Little birdy, little birdy Come sing me your song I've a short time to be here with you And a long time, to be gone Little birdy, little birdy What...

Long painting The air plays along with my chemicals Drained again But I don't feel so sorry And I don't feel so bad Paralyzed by inaction In a floodlit parking garage When my mind's as fluid as my body I finally shut up I'm sorry to say I was in love Sta...

Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog Put it in his lap when she goes off Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey Go to sleep and don't you cry Mama's gonna make you an apple...

You can come back When you want Just know that I’ll be here I haven’t left this step And when the lights go out I pick the angel up I only have two hands Is she here? Is she here right now? Drive her off; don’t bother to call I’m checking out today...

Do you have a face I can measure the day by How alive? 

You are good You are kind You are drunk all the time But never drunk enough As you're battered by the underside of what we swore we wanted Bothered by the crapshoot that has put you half to sleep A sorely needed sleep I'll hang outside the door all nig...

you paint your own tv on the wall carve out insects to feed us all lights flash by and the fast world echoes your thoughts your compass led you to the edge of a lake you'll singe your nuts down there if you take such bad advice from the love gods of hate you'...

in a deep cold you can't be brave in a deep cold you can't be safe when the wind blows you won't be strong when the wind blows you won't be strong blows with a spine-chilling moan let's drink to each other and drink each other half to death i'm jumping ou...

i couldn't sleep anyway the hole you left is full of rain morning birds screamed all night if there was just a little light left something to grow into panic homeless coming home i could not stop moving now i can't move i miss you i bet i take this lying do...

Nerve endings mutiny Put a rock into my brain I feel almost everything They're idiotic optimistic Rubbing salt into my wrist Till I feel almost nothing Could you really live in this house Could you ever live in a body Just chicken I guess Just chicken I know...

Four days in Spain Smoky Spain And I take off again Then I take off again, smiling back The engine is idling And the car seems to be expanding Weird Blindfolded kissing Looking for the truth in your tiny moves I hate to loose Four days in Spain Spooky Spain...

Before I go to you I never wash my neck 'Cause when the music starts it goes straight to your head And I break out in pale I break out in pale You better bring your fork and knife 'Till we see eye to eye 'Cause I'd rather stuff your face than hear another l...

My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler High up to the darkest sky Some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never ever be able to repeat At times I might could be accused of being Painfully nostalgic But as of late I'm looking forwar...

Peggy Lee in between midnight and sleep And the sky over Keene's twice the sky in Boston Froot loops cast a shadow When viewed from the rug I could lie there undisturbed While the sun played across my legs You could run home You could come clean Or you could...

I'm on my time with everyone I have very bad posture Sit and drink pennyroyal tea Distill the life that's inside of me Sit and drink pennyroyal tea I'm anemic royalty Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld So I can sigh eternally I'm so tired I can't sleep...

An old haunt Flint Point loop I don't think We were supposed to sleep together I've never been afraid to die I've never been afraid to live I've never been afraid before I've never been afraid before I remember you Seventeen in the dark outside a party Cr...

Did I just hear you try to lemon scent the sky? Sulphur Yellow sulphur Yellow sky I tongue a socket You feel the jolt You're like a warped godmother with your baffling love I know what's in the air I know what's in the air I know what's in the air You kn...

Come all you kind people, my story to hear What happened to me in June of this year It was poor Ellen Smith And how she was found with a ball in her heart Lying cold on the ground If I could go home, home to stay On poor Ellen's grave, some flowers I would...

Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me Before we get married some pleasure to see She got up behind him and away they did go She got up behind him and away they did go Over the hills to the valley so low They we...

Must've been on mushrooms when you wrote that pile of junk Got rock candy brains and that head of yours Full of holes, full of holes Terry cloth's about the only comfort I'm allowed What with all the rain and this house of yours Full of holes, full of ho...

Gold rush whores pelted with rain You get what’s coming, understand? This short story feels too long Hair of the dog Tell me a lie Spoken like a true close call I know i shouldn’t have been there at all That’s no system I’m concerned Your eyes gone cold Your...

the freeway's freeway close i laugh from the back the race is over headlights on your teeth race down both your backs in the dark blue car a party blue trash on the floor i hope you find your hunger in a hungry world 

Everybody was so pretty there And up and jumping around And easy it's easy to sleep With idiots and prophets Leaves me wondering Ruby or iridescent cough drop? This baby's like a winter bird, raunchy and sweet With snowflakes melting in his hair The boys...

The night of the blackout I thought I'm your protege Sticky with the heat and getting stronger every day I'm dripping wet, I'm walking sweat The sun shines at an angle Under the thunder I thought I'll never win If I'm better then it's over, if I'm worse I...

Breakfast at the movies Gatorade and blackjack on the bed God bless the ugly Cheap champagne and blackjack on the bed I was born in America, born with the fists of a saint Way out of range Breakfast in the hallway Pistachios and cocktails on the roof God bl...

Woke up wide awake and prayed Sorta know how to pray You just ache with hope 'til it goes away You only know secret codes To God and man, you only know secret codes You're terra firma on Singapore Air You're bouncing babies when we had no fear Flat on a bare...

I like you when I'm in the mood As the crow flies I go too Silver slivers in your eyes make it worth every lie I ever told, they turn to gold They kept me They kept me here on this battlefield I find out what you're all about, when I think to look around I...

I called shotgun Our car submerged Your breakneck speed slowed to a float Out on a thalidomide limb Truncated Stiff as a board But delinquent no more Can’t see the fog for the trees I lost my way on reject beach Lost my heart Lost it You can’t li...

Let the ache out Spread it around You want to fly him in You want him Play a grownup 'Til you grow up If you could you would I swallowed some bad voodoo Caught it in the gut Wish you were here Wish I was not You hear someone wanting you How can I fume Th...

He leaves suspiciously As panic enters Geography for beginners Barter for the rest of your life Feeling wasted comes in waves Orient harder Bend your molten face To smile at a stranger How much for a life you don't despise Tons and a shining silver sun...

Well it's sundown in the sinkhole, It's sunrise up on the hill. The thieves are sleeping in Hades palm, And they're keeping very still. It's summer in Winterhaven, And the earth, she's caving in. There's no water on the land, And it's all because of sin....

you soft soap the soft-shelled the porous morons like me and you're not sorry piece of cake to shake off principles hard-won scruples and pretty virtue crushed into the bottom of mud-yellow sand like a slippershell chrome like phosphorescent teeth in mud-ye...

Is it enough to grow old? Is there enough to go around? To have a box in my snailhead? I don't know Is there enough to grow old? Is it enough to have a box? In my snailhead I don't know What are you do? [repeat] And a diamond growing old Under the ocean that's...

Well I never I never saw Anybody move like that before Why do we spend so much time Here on the floor Looking up like I did before You're intoxicating movement ate away At my sad eyes and my headache I never I never thought I'd be falling I'd be caught I...

A man made of butterfat Careening around on a Sno-Cat And I can't drive any faster My hands are like ice and the moon shines On pepper trees and road grease The yellow lines look blue Snow covers Whitehall White powdered Nembutal And I can't think any mor...

When he stares, it's like he's splitting hairs I'm a wreck when he's here, I swear Fill a glass up with shiny tacks I'm feeling sharp I am numb, I am numb, I am numb, I And when he drools it's like he's spitting jewel I'm alone when he's here, I am What a...

Our crummy commie neighbors draw the blinds on gutter pissing by midnight Hard to tell when they’ve had enough Doubling up on every vice I’m doubled over on my knees again Only way i know how to be I just adopted your thing about hope as doubt Some dork hork...

Four days in Spain Smoky Spain And I take off again Then I take off again, smiling back The engine is idling And the car seems to be expanding Weird Blindfolded kissing Looking for the truth in your tiny moves I hate to loose Four days in Spain Spooky Sp...

in the boiling grip of bad love i was dizzy with hunger and oxygen and it was so goddamn cold and then i can't see my shoe to tie it eyes full of tears and i'm not a crier and you were so goddamn cold and ever since there's only heartbreaking you maybe you s...

Nothing like chrome when it shines No better weather to drive If you squint you can see it If you limp you can reach it All I want is Spring All I want is you, smiling All I want is green All I want is you, smiling Faithful to the finish, I'm grateful to be...

Head first into the head board I'm shatter proof But cranial impact Taps something true If I could grab your attention With my styrofoam rattle box You'd smile away my transgression And tap something lost A spitball to the ribcage My useless heart hit We'...

I guess you heard, hell you're so weird Like a spider, always here You never stay, hell you're so strange You let me drown in my own wave I'm stained, never change, never change, Stained under my nails and down my back You know the sleaziest attacks You s...

your mouth fell out of the sky and suddenly i had it memorized but honestly, it's like you're dead i can't shake off voodoo or your thudding making noise the pearls you cast before swine make you seem alive a pretty picture of you breathing air and you're ju...

You're a sight you look like Someone dressed as you What did you mean am I ok What did I do Sugar baby I was thinking no pain Sugar baby I was thinking no fear Sugar baby Listening to body heat Over fleeble chatter I can see you're far away What's the matter...

Let's back up and act like we're sober Newborn clean Head over heals for a cold blooded creature Limbic somersaults For a toxic thing you sure smell pretty Summer, salt and wine For an ugly boy you sure look pretty A cowboy frankenstein I dreamt you were...

You can't get any more sunshine I can't get over how it rains down Oh no no, no no no no no no You can't get any more sunshine You can't get any more broken down Oh no no, no no no no no no Is the car parked downtown Leave it while the sun beats down...

Sweet Rosey-anne, sweet Rosey-anne Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna I thought I heard my baby say, I won't be home tomorrow Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, I won't be home tomorrow Sweet Rosey-anne...

I could get a piece of meat From a barren tree Nothing ever spoiled on me You brought this You dipshit Nothing ever spoiled on me That cloud stomps around my house Does whatever it pleases It teases me What the hell? Never was a baritone Till you...

Oh the cuckoo She's a pretty bird She wobbles when she flies She don't ever hollar cuckcoo Till the fourth day of July Jack o' Diamonds Jack o' Diamonds I know you, of old You rob my poor pockets Of silver and gold Oh the cuckcoo She's a pretty bird I w...

Lightning and foam make a pelican fly Copper and snow make a dusky blue boy Your hair looks like copper Your eyes look the same We dance all night We dance all night You don't inspire a metric ton of trust 'Cause I'm on fire and so is all my stuff An...

September 29 (twenty nine), 1984 (one thousand nine hundred eighty-fourth) dear so and so Gather me up because I'm lost Or I'm back where I started from I'm crawling on the floor rolling on the ground I might cry I won't go home So here's the story I am...

We're just a little starving Two feet away and I can't reach Two feet away like a dream You rub your hands together Sparks fly The thin man and his hungry wife Fireworks for you in the sirocco Fireworks for you in the ozone snow In the ozone snow We're just...

[One, two , three!] The first night that I come home So drunk I could not see Found a horse in my stable Where my horse oughta be Come here my little wifey Explain this thing to me How come a horse in the stable Where my horse oughta be? You blind fool, yo...

my lip gloss froze off outside the airport on a hard bench beside a dingy Santa i searched every face what are you? animated soft tissue shifting neuropeptides a social pyromaniac a plate spinner and it's smoky around you i can hardly breathe i watched your...

Trouble Oh trouble set me free I have seen your face And it's too much too much for me Trouble Oh trouble can't you see You're eating my heart away And there's nothing much left of me I've drunk your wine You have made your world mine So won't you be fai...

When you sleep you tell me off I told you once before I can't resist you When I sleep I build you up I make you king of here I can't resist you I can't wait... I'll suck down another water While I wait I watch the clock turn blue And think of you while I...

Lying all night, screaming in pain Defending the cross in the Belfast rain The billy saw me at the end of the street So I lit up my torch and embraced him with heat Town of Aintab in 340 A.D. Threw me in a quarry, no way to get free I called on Hate to g...

My heart goes out to you A lover on a night with no moon I learned to fill out gaunt limbs Like parrot lady at Lake Michigan Troubled by a troubled life We hover blurry and glossy eyed We passed this way before We said this then Under the gun we run My heart...

I feel the tug of war I fight the fight But I don't have the patience Or the stamina to last one night With color mad candy mouth you Your reputation lives In spite of me Your platitudes and berzerk theories Super real fantasy That infuriating Vanishing t...

Velvet Days You make your little way Pouring rain Make that face You make my little day I laugh till my heart drops Down deep You break your little freak We break don't we break don't we Blush and knock your knees That's your girl breathing I laugh till m...

And in the subsequent solitude Flat on your backs again We think shoot You don't wanna walk me down this avenue in hell Scared that I'll bicker with the devil herself My attitude's fundamentally off I left my heart on a frozen sidewalk Kicked around and slidi...

4pm death by mosquito And vitamins V Home and the contrasting squalor A mouth full of vodka This lukewarm catastrophe Is a recipe for rebirth Or so i overheard Flat on the Afghani carpet The tub's overflowed I'm still staring through the fish tank And a...

Cease to resist, giving my goodbye Drive my car into the ocean You'll think I'm dead, but I sail away On a wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave Wave I've kissed mermaids, rode the el nino Walked the sand with the crustaceans Could...

What'll we do with the baby? What'll we do with the baby-o? Send him off to his mammy That's what we do with the baby-o That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o Every time the baby cries Stick my finger in the babies eyes That's w...

If it keeps on raining the levee's gotta break If it keeps on raining the levee's gotta break And if the levee breaks I got no place to stay Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan X2 Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home, All last ni...

We were awake together all night long Sharing paraphernalia 'till dawn You didn't dissapoint me Not at all You never disappoint me You lubricate the morning Shining and yawning You were nice but twisted the same old story We were a match made in pu...

The neighbors dog won't let you sleep Try not to stare at the neighbors hair Out of the chaos, my us and your daddy's fingernail Your mama's here and your daddy's hot So hush-a-bye, baby don't you cry Out of the chaos, my us and your little fontanelle Ten t...

Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleep little baby When you wake, right away On the pretty little horses Black and bay Sorrel and gray Whole heap of little horses Black and gray Sorrel and bay Whole heap of little horses Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleep...

Wild vanilla Clean dreams downcast eyes If you lived here you'd been home now and suicidal That was one striking phone call boy your voice at a fever pitch And here I thought that you'd just full of white noise called to bitch You messing with my head makes a...

It was all passion misunderstood All passion mislaid I'm on a mission by mistake And I hate it I lost every friend I ever made But I like it too much I like it too much I like it And junkie hearts are broken How many times can you get fucked in How many d...

How do you talk again I forgot Like sand in naked flame Oh yeah! Like winter coming Not a fighter You have to fight The harsh blows dealt you in your short life So lonely Hold me 'Til sunrise Snow geography I'm catching on Winter wears high heels Oh yeah! And...

You said aloud, “i’m not allowed, i’m in trouble, i’m in trouble” Under your breath, “i got one left in me, i’m in trouble” You step outside and hydrogen pops again on the white hot sidewalk Thunder and wonderland gone You got it backwards Thunder and wonder...

You cage, you cage You cage, you cage You can sleep me down Once called from above I spurn your love I spurn your hotel I wear your hotel, ahh So you own ugly hats You wear them well You wear them well I wish the moon wouldn't hang so low Hang over home Han...

You know how it feels when the real world encroaches Rubbing elbows with the unemployed and you You're so beautiful You're so rude Peeling mangos on a fold out couch I'm scooped out You're inscrutable You're all mine Swimming is a 'lude Wine opens your min...

If I walk down this hallway Tonight, it's too quiet So I pad through the dark And call you on the phone Push your old numbers And let your house ring Till I wake your ghost Let him walk down your hallway It's not that quiet Slide down your receiver...