Mark Lanegan

Can't write a suite for dying love Can't find the trigger for the gun oh yeah So tired of holding up the sky I'm twenty stories high oh yeah Why don't you give me one more kiss I'm coming down I can't make nothing last Coming down I wanted to say good...

I get so tired Hanging round this town Oh this old city life Sure brings a fella down Ba da da da da da Ba da da da da da da Ba da da da da da Ba da da I sure get tired Trying to sleep at night Oh these old city lights They keep on burning bright...

You take me back to the place where I cease to exist To find in a kiss Somethin' I've missed You burn away my disguise and galaxies fall Because of this Because of this It hurt God knows that it does And when it hurts sometimes You're there to quiet my mind Be...

Scenes of dying light Everywhere through a firecracker summer Suddenly alone in a beehive With a spider crawling along my spine Blue water down from the mountains Washed across the killing floor Blood rushing up from a fountain Can't undo a thing no mo...

Night train, silver moon You ask me why, I'm flyin' To float on ashen wings To choke on dust and feather I learned you are a liar It's right we should pretend And lie with one another It's right we should be twins For I have loved no other Look for me baby We...

We came to walk on this boulevard love Don't care where we're goin' While it's true in time, we might close our eyes This won't die Now we stop by the oceanside love You are all I see And it isn't wrong, that we don't belong Anymore We came to walk on this bou...

Dirt by any other name Wouldn't have a taste so sweet Tell me do I take the blame Or should I admit defeat Or go blind Or go blind Twisting, falling through the air Will there be another day Gone so long you couldn't care I hang me head down anyway...

Boogie boogie boogie now Boogie boogie boogie now Boogie boogie boogie now Boogie boogie everybody boogie now Boogie boogie boogie now Boogie boogie boogie now Boogie boogie boogie now Boogie boogie everybody boogie now 

Oh....oh (x4) Trouble comes in slowly A neverlasting light come to shine all over me Bright in the mornin' Like all of heaven's love come to shine on me And to you who never need Fuck yourselves, I need some more room to breathe Here comes the devil, prowl ar...

Up those stone steps I climb Hail this joyful day's return Into its great shadowed vault I go Hail the Pentecostal morn The reading is from Luke 24 Where Christ returns to his loved ones I look at the stone apostles Think that it's alright for so...

Where in the world have you been It's as strange as I've ever lived So you're comin' along to the sideshow I'll be fallin' all over like dominos For girls are sad in their eyes They're all standin' around bein' hypnotised And walkin' me back to the firin' line...

Come down to the willow garden with me Come go with me Come go and see Although I've howled across fields and my eyes turned grey Are yours still the same? Are you still the same? Carry home I have returned Through so many highways And so many tear...

I know you're tryin to be a big girl And keep the tears from your eyes And it's going to be a little hard To lift your head up high And you're gonna need a man A man who'll understand Whoa darlin darlin darlin Please consider me Well I know that all y...

Leaving Hollywood Sunset to the sea Where the waves Ride in on horses I'm looking for her light Creeping coastline of lights The seas and the trees Calling me She's a river between day and night I'm looking for her light Creeping coastline of lights...

Early morning, I don't mind That's when I find you Find you under orange skies I'm gonna try and shine Blue drownin' days Thought I might go crazy Blue lonesome nights away Early evening, I don't mind That's when I find you Find you under orange skies Makin'...

You were a ragged Turquoise and twilight coat I got my head hung down for you Some day you're gonna need it But it's worn or the, cloth gets torn And there's only one way to go It's gone dead, dead It's gone dead on you Take off your ragged Turquoise and twili...

death don't have no mercy in this land death don't have no mercy in this land he'll come to your house and he won't stay long you look in the bed and somebody will be gone death don't have no mercy in this land he won't give you time to get ready in thi...

Cool water divine Now I'm thirsty with nowhere to go And what else do we find But sorrow and misery untold I know you got somebody new Much better than me When that change starts to swing, keep in mind one thing Don't forget me dear And when you're los...

Baby, you're goin' down in the dark Show my lonely night is fallin' I don't have very long I think my blood might boil Then my veins might burn And you're gonna make it better for a little while Baby, you're gonna die someday See you when you're crawlin', was...

The sun is gone, and that's all I really know No angels in the air With hearts as good as gold The closer you stand to the gates The more the gates are closed These darkened days Make somebody's hunger and thirst The blessed burns the sun He's throwin' shadow...

See through the eyes of a child And it won't be real Eyes neither hateful or cruel No lies conceal Eyes that wander, eyes that strayed While the shame in your heart Remains Cryin' were the eyes of a child In pain, tonight Tears that I bled on you From the hea...

Let's walk down to the water There's hyacinth in bloom I spend my days Lovin' you I left these fields Because I never knew To be a horse To be a train I wouldn't have the heart And next to the tracks You find an apple cart Maybe we'll stay at home And be toget...

Fix It's true Keeps on rainin' baby All crystalline Your word in my head Gonna watch from the balcony Sing backwards and we Fix It's true Keeps on raining baby There's no explainin' baby Gonna drive that terraplane Across the frozen ocean We've always been tog...

I want flatlands I never cared about money and all its friends I want flatlands I want flatlands I don't want precious stones I never cared about anything you've ever owned I want flatlands I want simplicity I need your arms wrapped hard around me I w...

Grey goes black Dead white and baby blue In life there's falling away And a sad, sad coming It rise from the burning tower It walks in late and early hours Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 

So these are the halcyon days I'll do my suffering tomorrow As a kid I knocked out window panes And my perversities were limitless Now I need somebody like you Beacause I'm on my own and I'm tired, it's true Turn now tipsy elephant Do you mind me quiet...

That strange little bird makes a penny whistle sound And I'm gonna live the high life The very same thing all the fortunate have found The world on a string The high life Black light, black heat Who can resist It flows through time It slows like this...

From the dive down to the wet Usually I fall, tell myself It doesn't matter anyway That this is just another day I don't speak the truth too much Hear the roars and the hush And the cold chill of time And I'm happy murderin' my mind Oh I remember your voice T...

Here ya are, at the top of the tower Could a body take that much Alone through every waking hour Asleep without nobody to touch Whoa,whoa,whoa,and Only silence here Whoa,whoa,whoa,and Lonely silence here And I'm not the one Make your house a home Makes no sen...

Love you little girl Better than I love my Better than I love myself Want you and me Forever, ever and ever Just so far from home Just so far from home Love you little girl Better than I love my Better than I love myself Want you and me Forever, ever and ever...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ I put a spell on you Because you're mine You'd better stop the thingsyou do I ain't lying I can't stand, I can't stand Your running 'round I can't stand Your putting me down I put a spell on you Because you're mine ~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ I put a spe...

I'll go where you send me I know better now I'll go where you send me I know better now Never thought I'd see this beautiful thing I know better now Blue lights above me I see your mercy now And then to fall like nothing at all Just a dream I'll do...

I know you've been hurt By someone else I can tell by the way You carry yourself But if you'll let me Here's what I'll do I'll take care of you I loved and lost Same as you So you see I know Just what you've been through So if you'll let me Here's...

My girl, my girl don't lie to me Tell me where did you sleep last night In the pines, in the pines Where the sun never shines We shiver the whole night through. My daddy was a railroad man Killed a mile and a half from here His head was found in a driver's wh...

Death rains softly from her eyes Diamonds through her veins Chrysalis to butterfly Stitched together wings Lalala sing suicide Perfume in the air She shines black too beautyful The pig and butcherman don't care Hold on to the end of the rope Hold on...

Night train is groovy An orange jubilee Feels good comin' and goin' I'm warm all over me Fire up the crack boys And tie off my arm Cinch up my diaper Turn the TV on Give me another blow job Before I'm on the nod Say you'll always love me and Never do me harm...

Put out the lions and close the door I need you more Than I did before Old Jack's been killed and buried away Let's hang alone Outside the gate Flames scare the lions as do their dreams That's the way it'll always be Better close the door That's the way it'll...

It's a matter of time, we always get lost By going very far, it's a matter of time Like I told you before, things are alright If I fall to the floor, it's for closing my eyes I came to this place, so tired at first Kimiko's dream house So many things,...

Are those halos in your hair Or diamonds shining there Without a hope, without a prayer This rain beats down like death You turn your eyes to better men Before I go I'm hangin' a cross on the nail I hung one for you in there. Girl lay your shame to res...

Goodbye my friend I hate to see you go You brought me down the stars The last one in the world I hear you cry But let's not waste this night The last one in the world Within your lonely room I hear you whisper see you soon I sense a dying spark I watch you fa...

Went out last night, take a little round Met little Sadie and I blowed her down Then I run right home and went to bed With a forty-four smokeless under my head The girls all heard little Sadie was dead They went home to be ragged in red Come a slippin' and a...

Love with my will Love just what I can Blood, it's all there is In times of trial and loneliness Too dark for finding my ground And trees shiver and sway If you ever seen something go down To keep in mind all of your days Lord you know where I been An...

Crickets are chirpin' the water is high There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry Windows wide open African trees Are bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze Not a word of goodbye, not even a note She gone with the man in the long black coa...

I promise you a miracle And it will be done Upon this one last disappearing Bells toll, new lands and I look up Sometimes To see this old black Mary Reach down for me I need someone for my plaything So lonesome in my playground You baby, go straight t...

Your voice is a mockingbird Calling me when the day is gone You please yourself with every word Telling me where I'm going wrong Telling me where I've gone wrong Get me out it's starting to burn I can't let go for the life of me Some hold tight, and some turn...

You hear them call your name From your room Far removed Don't let 'em use you in, every way Stay unchained Around and round you go They'll never know, what you've seen Why have you turned away You can believe, believe in me Couldn't you try one time See if the...

Is there gold, is there gold in Kabul I've been there in a nest of snakes I've been there at the blackout artist Everyone tryna take my place Is there gold Is there gold I was there as a midnight watchman I was there for a masquerade I was there as a...

No cross to carry, no cause to cry We'll walk streets of gold in time And when those shadows crawl in run go get the priest And I won't miss a thing but you my little freak The million dollar arms and real blue heartache kids Stroll to rock and roll dead...

When all is done and turned to dust And insects nest inside my bones, I see I stagger in a daze outside my tent No time for being alone To bleed The hopeless singing of a round That much we know to do Before we go back underground No easy actio...

Red lights, X-ray vision A lonely drug is in my veins Blood stained indecision Holiness is burned away Midnight, midnight calling Color me insane Still-life with roses in a vase A thorn is in your hand Unsent letters in a box Frozen where you stand...

Pack up that crystal chandelier But leave some pink champagne on ice There's nothing much to mention here Should I dance around the room just like a child To make it easy on your mind No long goodbyes They say that love can make you weep But make you v...

On Jesus' program I'll wade out in the deep Oh yes I will On Jesus' program Oh I cannot sleep On Jesus' program The Holy Spirit will creep I know he'll take me, shake me Make me what I have to be On Jesus' program I'm working for Christ Oh yes I am On Jesus'...

The stars and a moon Aren't where they're supposed to be For the strange electric light It falls so close to me Love, I come to ride High on that seasick rolling wave And you know that I am Just trying to get out Oh the glorious sound Oh the one wa...

Jesus Christ been here and gone What a painful price to pay He's left his life in a thunderstorm Tears cold dark eyes upon Swing pendulum, swing low Got no place to call my own Oh my Lord don't you bother me I'm as tired as a man can be I'm as tired as a man c...

Tail lights through silver rain Somebody's excited To be goin' away Spring like December On the corner now Let the memory fade and I'll forget Well I hope she's not alone Smiling everywhere she goes So sweet Then I remember she's a little older now I...

Not feelin' any pain But I know that it's real Never see the color of the day In the darkness I kneel Prayin' for sleep Prayin' that it will come easy But there's something else I see it miles away Don't know what time of year it is I can remember th...

Day end of day Each hanging spiral Where is the shore From this clear blue silence Up to the heavens that you daydream Remembering the sun and the deep green ivy I know that sleep walking too In trying to be free Of all this damage in my eyes Making c...

Dyin' mama barely breathin' in a bed of nails To wander through the ruin smokin' and pale Came upon an angel and a nightingale Back where the darkness comes Between the earth and skies above Dead weight on my body's bones I think I dug too deep a hole Think I...

A shanty man's life Is a wearisome one Though some say it's free from care It's the swinging of an axe From morning 'till night In the forest wild and drear Transported as we are From a lady so fair To the banks of some lonely stream Where the wolf, bear, and...

Got so sad the day She done too much And though I had the same She done too much And it's a bad, bad feeling that you get When you get so lonely Nothing to talk about As another summer dies And not a thing in this world to do Except be alone in it 

It is so cold in Shiloh town Birds can hardly sing Pretty girls gonna leave the town They won't be back 'till spring War is done they've come back home But they're the ones that lost See a man and a woman alone Was it worth the cost? I'll sing hallelujah Yo...

I'll tell you how I woke up on the line My sister I almost saw the light Look my hands are tied I'll see you in another hallway Some other time Well I don't understand this big parade It's a five star decoration day Look my hands are stained I was washin' 'em...

I went down to St.James Infirmary, I heard my baby moan. And I fetl so broken-hearted She used to be my, my very own. I went home to see the doctor "She's very low' he said I went back to see my baby Good God, she's laying there dead ~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Well, she's...

The heart will pound until the breath is gone You know what I love so, put me on Something has badly gone wrong with me Livin's not hard, it's just not easy Always keepin' the dogs off Down like the rain, down like the rain Comin' down like the rain, comin' d...

Sunrise Forgot to cover up my eyes Sunrise Should've covered up my eyes Beauty wasted on me Winds are shakin' my tree With a woman too good, to believe Take the first ride out that I see Sunrise Skies are servin' my plan Grounds are movin' where I stand Pull...

I see they're comin' Just tell me it ain't true How lonely sorrow, and I fall back to you One time or another Like I want She is alone, and I don't walk that tall Memories amounting, to nothin' I can't keep Just as soon forgotten Hate is all, that her tears e...

Forget your family son The face on the clock, your foreign body The ship is just a frame Pinpoint eyes, seething decks and pain You wonder how it sholud be You wonder how it sholud go Then deny no loathsome thing Hands beyond hands beyond oblivion swin...

Oh the river rise And it's a mile high Is this worth tryin' Is this worth tryin' Cause I could fall Like a tear Well there's nothing else I can do When I'm not alone Nothings beside me What one eye sees The other's blind in Well I could fall As if I was young...

Saw God staring from the wall I was alone and lost Here to take me from this world Still alone and lost Night when the dogs from hell come out Roam my house in chains of gold The darkness dares my eyes to close Saw a ghost in the shadows smile I was sick in...

Together again My tears have stopped falling The long lonely nights Are now at an end The keys to my heart You hold in your hand And nothing else matters We're together again Together again The grey skies are gone You 're back in my arms Now where...

Hey, baby there's a vampire moon Scaling the sky Shine in your room Your eyes are open You got nothing to do Come outside and play with me Tonight Follow me down to the bushes dear No one will know We'll disappear I'll hold your hand We'll never tell Our priva...

I check out when the dance is done The world takes an overdose I feed on the easter flower And search for that starry crown I can't help it I trip on the teeth and feathers Outside the factory My horses click their hooves together And caravan down thr...

I feel your blood run cold And it's a rainy Sunday morning I count the million miles I'm driftin' From here, to hell Today Behind their windows people stare Can't recognize the kindness there Just prayers for drownin' ships at sea None for me And you It'll t...

Water will forgive me, I'm just tryin' to forget Starin' at the water as the waves turn ruby red Remembering Fear and paranoia run together in my dreams Water will accept me give me a peace I've never seen Remembering Wrap your arms around me And I'm as light...

Until you sleep And your fingers are finally still I'm going to stay awake All night Children don't weep All will be quiet in time An overcoat of prayers And lullabys La la laa la la la la La la So far acclined So hard to learn La la laa la la...

It's time that I was leavin' Shoulda left here long ago You'd rather see me sorry Than knowin' what I know I wish it was asleep instead Of hangin' here up above my head I'm cryin' In the winter time goin' Pull all my shit together Try for another breath Lone...

Carry that weight but it's too heavy lord Walk that mile but it's too far to go Out in the wintertime Lost, I can't get over Can't find my way to tomorrow There's driving rain there's ice and there's snow No place to rest, nothing to know Look for some...

Light ahead, proves that the wheels broke down Here I am, still hangin' on Well alright Shadows only disappear Just look around there's no one here A little spirit turned my light on out and now Can never be no doubt You got to walk in the morning sun And got...

When it's in you You won't wanna leave this living so soon When it's in you And now it's brand new The days roll on like sugar so sweet When it's in you The scarecrow stands at the top of the stairs And I shoot Let the radio play methamphetamine blues...

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me Tell me where did you sleep last night In the pines, in the pines Where the sun don't ever shine I would shiver the whole night through My girl, my girl, where will you go I'm going where the cold wind blows Her husband, wa...

I have to watch you come back to earth Now it's all I can do Will you still be convinced wild flowers Are waiting for you In my mind I've done good things And never cared why And my mind is an open door, with nothing inside Looks like the autum...

We got some poison in us Cyanide and nicotine More than you've ever seen More than I can believe Woe, woe, woe, woe Guns guns they all got guns Now they wanna shoot someone I'd rather be drunk than dead Or go where Jesus fled So I'll get drunk again Or maybe...