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You may love me But you won't have me Seems like you sleep with anybody else but me I may love you But I won't have you And I'm gonna sleep with anybody else but you So leave your clothes between the sheets With anybody else but me Taste the salty, taste the s...

Driving home, staring, utter boredom Are you really listening? Say "yes" or "no" in all the right places Now your eyes are blistering Are these things of fascination Or are they just chatter? Will you have to slap my face To find out that you matter? I saw fig...

Lyrics to At Your Word I'll take you at your word and as far as I can throw you leave you with the baby and I hardly even know you it's gut check time for daddy when it's loaded and unlocked got to go in to press some skin and leave it gleaming in the dock wo...

I live under a giant cloud Well it's my shield and it's my shroud At home on the range But alone in a crowd I plug my ears when it gets too loud So get that kinky noise out on the stage With your spinning curls in a purple rage The sun in our eyes And the burn...

The rain is busting the fog with holes and you're wheezing like a stricken deer I will punch the wall with the flash of headlights through the spit and beer Scrape off the mud, this is car crash love Scrape off the mud, this is car crash love F. Scoot screams...

Take off your old black shoes Come have you heard the news? Have you been hittin' the booze? Your politics have all gone sour Well, I see you getting sicker by the hour Take a look now it's raining in my shower The sun is shining and it's a beautiful night Tak...

Making babies, buying houses A French guy's name is on our trousers We used to be such rabble rousers Before the world revolved around us I've been domesticated blind Family fills my mind There's more problems than there's time I've been domesticated blind Bre...

My droopy-eyed Madonna A triple fire alarm All the other rogues & darlings Get sent to the farm I don't need to deceive you 'Cause I feel no pain Maybe I should let you Come on & eat my brain There's an art to perception So see it as you will Can you a...

I'd like to build A ladder right up to the sky Then I would climb I would climb so high I could step right over every mile Between you and I To hold you in my arms would be Eternal ecstasy To feel your body near would be Eternal ecstasy Now and forever I hold...

Double speak Well hold it a minute You will defend your stake in it Please pretend and keep crusading It's the only way to make sure that you Look foolish and History sets precedents Unless you change and use your common sense Monkey see and monkey do again Du...

There is always someplace safer than the playground So let's walk to our private beach at night We could always roll these drums down the sand dunes Into the surf and continue to think that they're safe, sealed up tight, up tight I'll be gone before the things...

Like ghost games I conjure up pictures of events in my mind The swearing and the cannons of laughter buzz of static counting out time What I wish would have happened I now paint and dress it up well and send it like truth to the tape letting history swell Fing...

It's early morn the birds are gone no need to wake up the bed's so warm and open wide there's no one sleeping at my side it was the break of dawn I thought I heard you wrong the body's here but the soul's not near I'm hiding out and yet I'm still here It's aft...

A brush with death could make me beautiful who gave the crow that telling voice? felt good enough to go and do some damage releasing that important crowing noise It's gonna hurt me It's gonna hurt me as much as it hurts you Low on meat and high on flies you we...

Could it be you're the one? Maybe I'm now the lucky guy Or should I turn and run? It's so easy to see that I Could wash your feet And fill your womb And I would be your man Well it hurts to know but I don't think I can Is it gonna hurt if we try? Is this the c...

Loose tie-rods and a fire full of coal blowing smoke out the ears As I head for the hole without a ten-foot pole I don't like the feeling of being out of control You knew the reason but you let it start This vice would be your end And now the end has come You'...

John was a metal-headed monster he caught a piece of the earth and sometimes he flew off the handle and that was his handle Jack Hammer c'mon, c'mon good buddy he's Jack Hammer Jonathan, Jonathan H-A-M-M-E-R He had a fist full of dirt had a shirt he had boots...

There was bread Now it's crumbs Inside each head There's a piece that's small and dumb When something's big and beautiful give it time I'll make it small and dirty Just to make it mine I'll make it mine I'll be King of the Heap I'll make it mine I'll be King o...

Sail into the holy land Stick your flag in the air Metal dressed-up conqueror Make murder everywhere Put your sword in the stone And leave it there 'Cause when you pulled it out You started a nightmare One day the seas will rise up And cover all the land All t...

Swords and pens and tears and blood Emotion, demotion and skin that's so tough If I can live through this then that is enough Learn and earn devotion and trust Love is the subject and nothin' else nothin' else Life is the course love is the subject Notes and j...

We're not accustomed so much to this type of discussion as we are to a different thing What you bring to something I don't know about so please feel free to tell me to tell me the love of minds grows for longer than a lifetime the love of bodies takes you ther...

Look outside it's nice enough but we'll stay in with all our stuff this is dedication more than love my cowardice is what you need so your vanities can breed plant your flowers in my weeds When I call you beautiful it's cause I can and when you think I'm sucki...

My heart's getting bigger so I need a new pant size When you're the tower of strength people climb up your backside So you don't stay that way too long You're only temporarily strong I've got mercy, mercy to go I've got mercy, mercy to go And then it's all gon...

You so much feel for the one you love Not knowing when is somewhere bound Caught in the seaming seeing of your beauty form She is not an unknown emotion She is an ocean of love Should I tell her about it? As if she doesn't know No warning no No warning no Wrec...

First I drank insecticide a little more each day followed by dirty and sugary foods grown where the light was grey later my thoughts were small and sharp adapted to their purpose to extract the fuel from fat under the lovely surface Cause nothing beautiful not...

Drinking like a teenager Using up the kleenex Staring at the CD rack asking myself which fuzzbox band would sound the best I try on your lipstick I try on your clothes I wanna be you for a little while And I'm freaked out enough to bloody my own nose Oh sorrow...

A city cloaked in orange, glowing, heavy clouds all the belches of indigestion weigh heavy all around a small car buzzing down a wide road drifting out of bounds out to a place where the noises of light make a distant tiny sound When out come the stars pinhole...

Now I rush to the finger of light I guess I tore my head off I hope there's something waiting for me To make my exit pay-off Taste and smell and touch Have faded from pollution As a last resort I chose the stupidest solution The first thing I did when I got in...

Add it to the list of square-jawed decisions I refuse to make for the same reason San Fransiscans don't leave on account of an earthquake There are textbook moves and trails to blaze No shortage of advice So I'm blindly staying put Like a deer caught in the he...

Say you mean it (say you do) say you don't (or maybe not) say it's stupider be the genius (make your mind) or be a clown (open wide) be the witchdoctor and cast your spells around (now you see) underground (the best of me) it's so beautiful and She's my wonder...

Smokescreen, oil patch, road full of thumb tacks, stilletto umbrella Steel bowler hat and spectacles made of bulletproof glass Armour in the rat race, vaseline for when it chafes, pepper spray necklace, aerosol mace The mail's got to get there so puppy gets it...

In natural selection I've avoided all detection and the tender bits underneath all with window dressing and calculated guessing and a bark bigger than my teeth It was the suit that got me the gig It was the tear that got me the girl I'm a sheep in this wolf's...

An embarrassment of riches up ahead between the ditches steady on pails of blue grass beads and baubles in the toilets of the supermodels steady on watch what you wish for as someone else pollutes it some see the rarest bird and hunt it down and shoot it Let m...

You're so far out that you've gone right in and you're so turned in that you've turned right off Let's not forget about the reason Let's not forget about the slow dance Cause I wanna know your sweetness & love Taste the flow of your sweetness & love Ge...

In a fluid notion give away your best make a forward motion and in the heat undress nearly forty hours it's a living death if we could only catch our breath When your tears and laughter fall like rain turn around and things still look the same Time to make an...

I don't play the fool 'cause I'm not acting Don't know the angles, I've stopped protracting The earth is flat unless you're an astronaut This tune is vibration if your hearing is shot And all that I know is every day I know less and the best things in life don...

Carrying your ashes from bar to bar I'm in a mess & you're in a Mason jar With you under my arm like a football I'm not ready to let go & that is all you were never big on conversation and that hasn't changed since your cremation And I feel most times...

People will tell you where to go so I've heard it said I laid down to take a little nap but there was wet concrete in my bed and now you're hanging out your lantern The fire is burning bright Not a good time to be paranoid or afraid of the light I'm gonna die...

We all know she's not alone That doesn't mean she's not lonely We said goodbye I felt sick inside Leaning on a rail I watched her as she shied away To our passion her defences held no ground But by the light of morning kisses I could see her face turn down Lov...

Accept it, live with it, move on it right now The world is sailing you must turn and face the bow The sting of loss is stinging, voice drowned by the wind La vé??it? le courage La vé??it? le courage Sitting on a fencepost for the last three years Safe but sore...

Awaken from your slumber And get up for the train You were caught at the station And waiting for the rain Well I call and you answer And I answer you again So remember to answer Remember the way it ends The truth untold Will always lie between us We may never...

Your tear walked down from my fingertip Like a ladybug sidetracked from it's fated trip We never got to the touching & feeling Cause the skin's too sensitive when the wounds are healing Like ice cream too close to the playground I'm no good for you but you...

I was sitting there watching TV Wendy came and sat on my knee She put her finger in my ear But I pulled it out so I could hear What the mewsman on the television said He said the king of rock' n roll was dead And in the spooky television light She said, "Don't...

Everything's a mess I sleep but don't undress drinking all but the Tia Maria I never finished any of those books hanging open like house plants Begging for water and a little reading Holding that one big idea I'm needing I know what I don't want I really know...

Friends will agree with a pregnant pause and silently draw out their claws It's hard to say no to your face running away's as easy as running in place Yes means it's hard to say no to you and that means I'll do things I don't want to These are a few of my dang...