Pedro The Lion

Dear, unlock the door You're acting like a child When you've said it yourself We are at war How dare you turn on me now Right when I need you most I wish I could have seen their faces When they heard the news Now that's the sort of smack That leaves a bruise...

The plants and the factories are perfectly run The workers and bosses are living as one People are equal people are good People are working as hard as they should be It's food for my family and clothes for my kids The class war is over and everyone wins It's...

At least in my dreams when i'm sleeping it seems that the needle is full endlessly, but you keep on waking me. I'm almost there, it's on the tip of my tongue and it never goes away, it never comes to stay. The chances are slight that i won't shoot up...

Here we have our dust free dining set We guarentee it won't collect a spec Freeing up the children to instead Grow into your molding Heed more of your scolding Go early to their new self-making beds It seems like you'd be tired of losing face Like you'd want...

Arizona curled up with California Then she tried to hide the whole thing from New Mexico Who knew before he saw them making out in Yuma That she had been loving someone new But California, not California, how could you? The bully loved her cactus The underdog...

Barely ever fight, she knows that I love her At first we made it every night, but I don't wanna bug her about it She just has a funny way of loving me A pair of ticket stubs in her desk - a movie I'd never seen I probably shouldn't ask - it sounds so accusing...

My jail shoes on The well kept cemetery lawn Both of them weeping Their one good son now was gone The irony To see my dad down on his knees Crying out to Jesus But Lord I've always done what's right And all the while The good lord smiled And looked the other...

Bands with managers are going places Bands with messy hair and smooth white faces But you don't believe when I say that it won't be alright Alright Alright Vans with 15 passengers are rolling over But I trust T. William Walsh and I'm not afraid to die But y...

Be thou my vision O lord of my heart Naught be all else to me Save that thou art Thou my best thought By day or by night Waking or sleeping Thy presence my light Riches i heed not Nor man's empty praise Thou my inheritance Now and always Thou and thou only Fi...

Dad, Dad, why did you let that man Push you around like that? You should have beat him down Down to the ground Down to the ground for that He said son, you're still young And you always jump the gun There's real people in the big, big trucks That you...

I saw in your bedroom The drawers had been emptied Looking for answers But you won't admit it now You don't need a reason That's what you tell me But I still don't buy it You'll drink yourself silly night after night It makes me feel so good To always tell y...

You said that you would not love me last summer And you said that you would not love me last spring But I hoped that you would change your mind by autumn Especially when I bought that diamond ring But you still said no You wouldn't have me You still said no,...

Having no idea that his youngest son was dead The farmer and his sweet young wife slept soundly in his bed In the shadow of the mountain as the cattle hung their heads Grazing only feet from where broken body lay And would lay undiscovered for another several...

Such an awful, tragic night Though I've only done what's right But even with my conscience clear I can't help this flood of tears I've got my eye on the finish line Got my eye on the finish line Got my eye on the finish line Though I've been striving for the...

I'm feeling independent I made it through another day Having a wonderful time I haven't felt the sickness I think I may have scared it away Looks like I'm gonna be fine My friend down on the corner Says it's gonna be alright He's handing me a needle He sells...

I don't want to believe that all of the above is true But I could be persuaded if you were to give me proof Why don't you come over Thursday, maybe we can talk it through As if some new information were possible to comprehend or introduce But after all, you an...

Satellites mediate for us the day's events through fiber optics I hope we can change the saying I wouldn't mind but you are my only hope I wouldn't mind but you are my only hope Clear as a bell are the short breaths That you take when you're distracted Same...

And when his tiny head emerged from blood and folds of skin I thought to myself if he only knew, he would climb right back in I do, I do, I do I do, I do, I do Now that my blushing bride has done what she was born to do It's time to bury dreams and rais...

Ultra-violet rays are washing over all the boys and girls As their moms lay tanning by the pool Oh look their dad's arriving home All the children hug his neck unaware of their inheritance All of the experts say you ought to start them young That way they'll n...

Crazy people know The special place to go When the pressure is on Neurons re-align 'Til the feeling is fine Or the trouble is gone They're in the business Of inventing saviours There's always trouble So tell yourself again That help is on the way And safety a...

You were born in KC, Missouri to a girl who wasn't married After your birth she brought you to the nursery Kissed your head and told you not to worry And then quietly she turned and slipped away In the elevator her heart began to pound To the rooftop in her s...

You got drunk drunker than you’d ever been you hailed a cab and passed out cold before you told the driver where to go so he drove you around chicago you woke up sicker than you’d ever been you threw up and shit the bed and there was no one there to cle...

Transport, motorways and tramlines Starting and then stopping Taking off and landing The emptiest of feelings Disappointed people clinging on to bottles And when it comes it's so so disappointing Let down and hanging around Crushed like a bug in the ground L...

Iit's weird to think of all the things That have not been keeping up with the times It's ten o' clock the sun is down Just begun to set the western hills on fire I hear that you don't change How do you expect to keep up with the trends You won't survive...

The sun shines and leaves blow And my hope like autumn is turning brown And I know it seems like I'm always falling down But it does not matter to me Although it seems like it should It's because I know I'm understood When I hear Him say: Rest in Me, little...

This line is metaphysical And on the one side, on the one side The bad half live in wickedness And on the other side, on the other side The good half live in arrogance And there's a steep slope With a short rope This line is metaphysical And there's a steady f...

Losing a star without a sky Losing the reasons why You're losing the calling you've been faking And I'm not kidding It's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do Be true because they'll lock you up in a sad, sad zoo Oh hidy, hidy, hidy, what are you tryi...

Blood stains on the carpet Blood stains on my hands Drag her toward the kitchen Hide the evidence Oh the toil a lie can bring That quitters never know Lies can be the perfect things If they never show Crisis posed a question Just beneath the skin The virtue...

If only the rules were built upon philosophy that i embraced i'd hug your neck and kiss your face, but it's very obvious that your ideals are not for me. you'll tell me what to do but you will see that i do as i please. Cause i want to do it my way, a...

All the time you were burning my letters You were only acting the part You think without me you'll get on much better But you don't even know your own heart Come home, darling Come home quickly Come home, darling All is forgiven, so come home quickly...

Sunken ships rest Upon the ocean floor Where i've made my home To dodge the draft once more There once was a time One could flee to the north But canada's not what she used to be Boycott the war Well she could not afford to Thanks to the new american queen S...

We were walking, holding hands With our bare feet in the sand And the seagulls overhead When I broke the spell and said "I could never divorce you without a good reason And though I may never have to It's good to have options But for now, oh, I need you But fo...

Have you ever seen an idealist With gray hairs on his head Or successful men that keep in touch With unsuccessful friends You only think you do I could have sworn I saw it too But as it turns out It was just a clever ad for cigarettes Cause if it isn't makin...

No one likes us - I don't know why We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try But all around, even our old friends put us down Let's drop the big one and see what happens We give them money-but are they grateful? No, they're spiteful and they're hateful Th...

Paramedics brave and strong Up before the break of dawn Putting poker faces on Broken bodies all day long The neighbors heard a fight Someone brought a knife It must have been the wife Husband's lost a lot of blood He wakes up screaming "oh my god" Am I gon...

Here we have our dust free dining set We guarantee it won't collect a spec Freeing up the children to instead Grow into your molding Heed more of your scolding Go early to their new self-making beds It seems like you'd be tired of losing face Like you'd want...

I'll take something to believe Something with long sleeves, cause it's unpredictable That Jesus said He'd fill my needs, but my heart still bleeds He's just not physical Why can't I see? If I look up and the sky's not there Is there any reason that I should b...

This is how we multiply Pity that its not my wife The friction of skin The trembling sigh This is how our bodies move With everything that we could lose Pushing us deeper still The sheets and the sweat The seed and the spill The bitter pill yet undiscovered...

It's so priceless when you say you have to work late When we both know you're at a motel Here's the thing that's so much more depressing Than the infidelity itself Darling, you are so unoriginal Each move more obvious than the one before it You know I always...

Wouldn't it be so wonderful if everything were meaningless But everything is so meaningful And most everything turns to shit Rejoice Rejoice Rejoice Rejoice Rejoice 

The impact the aftershave the european cigarettes The taxi the alcohol that lingers on your breath The lipstick the street lamp the woolen overcoat The front desk you tell yourself it isn't over yet Second best, oh, second best i can learn to live...

The volunteers were tired Heads were hanging low The news had spoiled their appetite For stuffing envelopes Twelve points was an awful lot To be down in the polls With only two weeks to go Shouldering the phone Loosening his tie His running mate on pricks and...

All the way to grandma's house I stayed on the narrow path But my brother wandered off Deep into the woods Bitten twice by rattlesnakes Tangled up in poison oak He fell down and broke his legs Into a great ravine When I arrived at grandma's house She had mad...

Roll me over, I want to wave at the kids Can't say I'm prescribed, cause I don't know what it is And I'm down at the track, I'm just calling to check in If you start without me say my name as you begin It's not like it wasn't all for you But like everything...

Old friend, your horse is ready to ride when morning comes. From this church town, where damning rumors drip from holy tongues. It wont go away It wont go away It wont go away The fever to find a scapegoat fast and fix the blame. I know, you never meant to l...

Hunger drives me It's got me by the reigns I let it wreck me Time and time again I decided To never ride again I don't know What happened Dad, I broke my promise to you If you're wondering where I've been I thought I knew what I was doing But I was wrong aga...

Deep green hills whose shoulders fade into thick grey tall wet grass whose flesh makes fools of grazing sheep whose fleecing makes a fool of me who shall i blame for this sweet and heavy trouble for every stupid struggle i don’t know i could buy you a drin...

You're up with the sunrise And down when the work's been done With excellence, industry, diligence Naturally, I would like to be you Just for a few habit-forming years Laziness cuts me like fine cutlery I need a miracle, someone to help me help myself Sweet...

Spring comes slowly To this old frame Still I'm frozen I still live alone In time memories fade Sense numb One forgets how it feels To have loved completely Love well, young man While you still can Once your leaves turn You won't love again Is it special wh...

The poison makes its way through my body slowly Into the pleasure centers of my brain If you were here I would admit that I'm an asshole But now its over and I can't stay sober Though it isn't like I tried And on the front porch or on an airplane on vacation...

I could hear the church bells ringing They pealed aloud your praise The members' faces were smiling With their hands out stretched to shake It's true they did not move me My heart was hard and tired Their perfect fire annoyed me I could not find you an...

If you could really see then you would ask of me She knew the well was far too deep for him to wet his lips but something told her that he spoke of so much more than all of this When he spoke she wanted to believe the things he said but who could this...

Officer Please don't haul me in Though I'm drunk again I can explain I swear to you For a week I have Been completely dry Until tonight He's been such a good example Everything he's done for me I couldn't bear to let him down Monday night Brother sat me dow...

Engine severs lower legs I feel my bruised heart beating Spinal cord remains intact Still sending and receiving Lying back on shoulder blades The cargo rushing past Missing limbs beneath the cars Twitching on the tracks Click clack, now handicapped North AM t...

What makes you think that it won't grow back, in a day or two? Husbands in winter, they know the truth But what can they do? Don't like girls the way they are So shave their legs and make them look like movie stars Then we can pretend that it's natural Put on...

A hole that big i'd never seen before in the tummy of a good ol' boy who always wanted more. then just yesterday i saw him satisfied. it seems he'd met the hole fixin' man, much to his surprise. But are you for real? mr. hole fixin' man, you fixed my...

If at first you don't succeed Try, try again If I were you I'd give up The path is too narrow The way is too steep Save your applause For the end of the show Count it a blessing That you're such a failure Your second chance might Never have come