Pearls Before Swine

Rapp The clock has metal hands It throws the hours down On the ground with a thud The sound of blood And if you do not forgive me I do not know What I will do As the time goes by As the time goes by In the Spring when he was born The soil was soft...

Where have you been to? Where did you go? Did you follow the summer out When the winter pushed its face in the snow? Or have you come by again To die again? Try again another time Did you follow the Crystal Swan? Did you see yourself Deep inside the...

Crissinger-Rapp The amber lady seated at her harpsichord in velvet Room of eastern wonder Gazing through the verdant window Wrapped in arms of silk and sorrow. Rebecca sighs and perishes beneath the harp Leila, Leila, she loves anon On high fields of...

Cohen Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a worm on a hook Like a knight from some old fashioned book I have saved all my ribbons for thee. If I, if I have been unkind I hope that you can just let...

Rapp Butterflies are very strong They only cry when they're called upon I wish I knew The butterfly in you The moth will play with the dirty flame And end up burning inside But the butterfly she is the flame When there's so much pretty There's so muc...

The man with the shadows, on his face sits in a chair Calls the cobwebs lace Behind his painted smile, the desert looms for miles in Casablanca. In the millhouse, another man spirals 'round Now and then and after He drinks from a pitcher of warm spit but...

I have crawled across the burning sands to the city of gold When I scratched upon the gates, oh Lord, and I felt so old. My talking, it was only words, my smile was only teeth Though I had so many friends there, I knew I was alone, oh Lord, I felt like a t...

Give you all my happiness, baby Throw in my troubles for free Things just ain't the same That's the way that they used to be Come to me, come to me Know that you're in pain, baby Know that you're dark inside But no one's gonna find you If you don't kno...

Drop out with me, just live your life behind your eyes Your own skies, your own tomorrows Don't you worry now, don't you worry Whole world's in too big a hurry Just be yourself, no one can step inside your mind From behind, if you just walk and Don't yo...

These in the day when heaven was falling The hour when earth's foundations fled Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead Took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended They stood and earth's foundations s...

When you're out wandering In the morning rain And the sky falls down around you Like a blanket of pain Just listen for the footsteps All around you in the rain Everybody's got pain [Listen for the others] Everybody's got pain [Listen for your brothers...

Perfection of a kind was what he was after The poetry he invented was easy to understand He knew human folly like the back of his hand He had an interest in armies and fleets When he laughed respectable senators laughed at his feet But when he cried the l...

The sun again over the harbor Changes the windows Like old yellowed mirrors On Rembrandtsplein The pipes in their places Beside floral couches Where you lie Evening encounters At Paradiso with him The gentle poetry Of fingertips The verses drifted...

The frog in the window will sing for you The frog in the window will smile for you With his straw hat and his cane And you know that you will not be the same 'Cause the frog in the window will dance for you He'll tap out the rhythm in bright red shoes An...

God save the child Lost in the sea God save the child God save the child You didn't even say goodbye When you left me Bye bye bye for now An empty bed was all I heard After hanging on your every word For so long Been so long God save the child Go...

You know that your guardian angel is dead, you have said You say in the world is not a safe world to be For all of your trying and all of your crying it seems It's raining outside umbrellas are harder to find All of the pain in the world is outside your b...

I saw the world Spinning like a toy Hate seems so small Compared to it all So why don't you do joy Hate is a chain It all comes back again Everything you do Returns at last to you So why don't you do love Why must you stand Holding your own hand...

They say ev'rything can be replaced, Yet ev'ry distance is not near. So I remember ev'ry face Of ev'ry man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released. They say ev'ry man need...

When I am dead And over me bright April Shakes out her rain-drenched hair Though you should lean Above me broken-hearted I shall not care Words that were not said Songs that were not sung Tears that were not shed Deeds that were not done I was not...

I am going to city Gonna leave my footprints On the paths of glory When I get there I'm gonna sing my song Fourteen angels gonna greet me Fourteen people gonna wonder why Fourteen people gonna cry out their eyes I'm gonna leave 'em all behind I am g...

Was a time Lost on Mobius Street With no where to go Well the times were so low Couldn't find another rainbow If you don't want to, I don't mind Time is gone When you came along Disguised as the rain But I know just how you felt 'Cause no one is ever...

Images of April Summer in the air April in your hair All is gone I remember Days inside your mind The brave new mirror I would find All is gone The sea has left the sand The sun has left the land As helpless as my empty hand All is gone You are...

Island lady Won't you stay I will bring you Baskets of flowers Every day Until the pain is gone Island lady, How long has it been? Over a year. Won't you let me Open up your door? Island lady Hear my words All the battles Are somebody else's For...

The halo morning has dissolved The day is gone And nothing's solved For you The sand castles are merely sand The sea has crawled back From your hand Too soon In fields where Susan sings The leopard brings Yesterday In upon a string And all your...

In her eyes, centuries are Hair as black and straight as lonely streets are Look into her eyes Look into her eyes Have you ever been there You wander lost along the sea shore Ask the reason why All the villains always live And all the heroes always di...

The man in the tree is staring at me All of the blood dripping down He says: where are you bound? Said: I'm going to town to pawn my crown And never come back here again My lady in waiting is weaving a robe Of silk and moonlight and now And she never a...

Margery I am a wanderer The ocean is my home In the green saltmagic of the sea, and The mysteries of sand There are supermarket maladies A sickness on the hill All the good men are in prison There's something wrong somewhere Wisdom hides in bullets n...

Mon amour Ne me quitte pas Parce que je suis comme enfant Perdu dans un monde Que tourne toujours Je ne veux pas tous ces changes J'ai peur de ce monde Sans toi Mon amour Ne jete pas Des perles devant les cochons Gagne dans ce jeu Que tourne toujou...

My father always promised us that we would live in France We'd go boating on the Seine and I would learn to dance We lived in Ohio then, he worked in the mines On his dreams like boats, we knew we'd sail in time. All my sisters soon were gone to Denver an...

It seems so long ago, Nancy was alone Looking at the Late Late show through a semi-precious stone Well, in the House of Honesty her father was on trial And in the House of Mystery, there was no one at all, there was no one at all. It seems so long ago, no...

Once upon a time in a faraway land You know I don't mean here Well, the old men shook with fear as the water rose. Doo bop dop ... The fishes knew the sign that there is a tide The children they called it change But the old men in their chains. What...

Anne Rachel-Dowell Well, playmate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door And we’ll be jolly friends forever more. Well, playmate, I can’t come play with you...

The theatre is letting out From the roof the raindrops fall Like a river they should flow But what does a raindrop know ? Admission is a penny now The theatre is burning down All the faces in a crowd Like the raindrops in a cloud Like the river they s...

The past Is broken like an hourglass And the scattered sand Of circumstance Was blinding Me to you The rain Is whispering to my window pane And drawing Crazy patterns On the blind Your face Is invading the portals of my eyes And drawing Crazy p...

First I will describe the scene to you Do you have it right? In 1944 the Riegal she went down She went down with 4,000 prisoners Asleep on board Well now do you, I want to know if you Have it right, is it like The borders of a dream Have taken you in...

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. 

My father was a rocket man He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars My mother and I would watch the sky And wonder if a falling star Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside My mother and I Never went out Unless the sky was cl...

I have just come back from the land beyond the mountain This is not a story I was told When all the people are made out of wood They build their houses of bones Sail away, Oh sail away The edge of the world is near Sail away, Oh sail away from here I...

Adieu, Emile, my trusted friend We've known each other since we were nine or ten Together we climbed hills and trees Learned of love and A B C s Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees. Adieu, Emile, it's hard to die When all the birds are singing in the sky...

She's gone She's rolled up the windows Put all the curtains away And your hair isn't silver It's gray Stop kidding yourself You're old You're old So she's gone She's been saving up seconds And putting them away In a secret kind of bank And she's so...

When I was growing up And times were hard Many people often thought They owned me When I got older I knew that they were wrong But now that conviction Has outgrown me Once I knew a beggarman Like you or me He cried out: I want no one to hold me. He...

She's the snow queen She knows the ways of ice What they did to her in her young days Wasn't often nice With the sand run out before us The seagulls are the chorus All the sounds inside the roar Must be so lonely We must touch each other In our blindn...

This is a song about a rose Or perhaps it's a song about the shadow of a rose In the morning the apple sellers congregate on corners of their own But you and I we sing our song about a rose or perhaps the shadow of a rose With the children of Fribourg and...

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea But sad mortality o'er-sways their power How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? 

Suzanne takes you down to her place by the river You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night forever And you know that she's half crazy but that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China And jus...

Tell me why The rain must fall On all the children of the world They do not have Some sunny land Where white knights Will take them by the hand They are born They live alone for so long Why can't you leave them alone Some day they may Sing your so...

Did you dream of unicorns ? Did you dream of broken horns ? Did you dream of roses or did you dream of thorns ? You knew that people die Before their bodies do He said : 'Why not use your body before it uses you ?' Afraid inside your loneliness Your r...

The jeweler has a shop on the corner of the boulevard In the night, in small spectacles, he polishes old coins He uses spit and cloth and ashes He makes them shine with ashes He knows the use of ashes He worships God with ashes The coins are often very...

I am just a crewman, you can listen to my story if you want to I started out on the Captain's trip so many years ago He was looking for something more than what he had. He said : 'I want to see his face, I want to touch his hand' 'I want to see his face a...

The old man sat on the corner He had a magic ring And when the day was on fire He called up serpents and things With his magic ring The serpents flew to the mountain Changed into butterfly trees Took the jewels from the morning dew Took the stars from...

She stays with Timothy in black vibrations alley Love makes statements in the closet mouths of cloth Please, stay awhile and die with me. Word-witch in the dutch plane with the quiet beggar Heaven near the womb of silence sense The gold about hang chains...

There was a man came to our town He wore a suit of red He memorized with secret eyes That he hid away in his head He had a scar upon his head Where there used to be a crown But he sold his robes at the five and ten And lived on the edge of town That...

There was a Persian king Who wanted to know What he could say on Every occasion That always would be so Illusions, circles and changes Illusions, always changing Like the wind and the rain He summoned three wise men From his eternal throne One from...

The translucent carriages Drawing morning in Dawn inside their pockets Like a whisper on the wind The soft touch of your words Has been betrayed like love grown old Or the silhouettes of children Crying somewhere in the cold The ancient night is comi...

I am Trumpeter Lanfried, one of the surviving trumpeters of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. I am now going to sound the bugle that was sounded at Waterloo and sound the charge that was sounded at Balaclava on that very same bugle the 25th of Octo...

The wind winds the platform Blows through your suit creases You want us To crucify the enemy for Jesus With your chamber-of-commerce soul You talk of war so bold God is on our side, but He's lost in your wallet-fold And the widows a-sighing The child...

The aisle it was long and dark, garbage cans kept the watch The chapel walls were old and lined and the streetlamp lit its mouth The altar was the lesser half of an old forgotten couch. The bride stumbled nervously, a box fell in her flight She cursed her...

When I was a child I lived all alone All my trials I bore them alone Sometimes I would smile but often I'd grieve Growing up was learning to disbelieve When I was a child there was me, there was them They were all holy 'cause I was in sin They were the...

When the war began, she worked in an office and played the violin on her own time But the winter came in on marching feet, she met him and was gone He was gallant, he was fine Turned the summer days to wine She came from a small town near Turino She wore...

Everything you see all around you Will roll away on wheels of tomorrow Down misty willow rivers of because Into the land of was You know you only have to be my friend The world outside can teach and astound you Build a wall it will only surround you W...