R.E.M.

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#9 Dream

So long ago Was it in a dream, was it just a dream? I know, yes I know Seemed so very real, it seemed so real to me Took a walk down the street Thru the heat whispered trees I thought I could hear (hear, hear, hear) Somebody call out my name as it started to r...

(Don't Go Back To) Rockville

Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filt...

1,000,000

Secluded in a marker stone Not only deadlier but smarter too, smarter too All along the tomb, secret in the ruin Secluded in a marker stone Not only deadlier but smarter too, smarter too I could live a million, I could live a million, I could live a mill...

11

This world is big and so-awake I stayed up late to hear your voice This light is here to keep you warm This song is here to keep you strong I made a list of things to say But all i really want to say All i really want to say is Hold her and keep...

7 Chinese brothers

This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy, woman offers pull up a seat Take in one symphony now, we've just begun to battle Wrap your heel in bones of steel, turn the leg, a twist of color Autumn waited hold it to you in the colored come another Seven chinese...

9 9

Steady repetition is a compulsion mutually reenforced. Now what does that mean? Is there a just contradiction? Nothing much. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord, hesitate. Got...

A girl like you

I get so disturbed...I'm all alone I feel so funny t-t-t-talking on the phone I fall apart when I hear you speak Believe me girl, I just feel weak I wonder how I got involved with a girl like... You want to tell me that I'm not you're kind of guy You b...

A Month Of Saturdays

Five o'clock Friday All my work is done I can hardly wait Let's take the server Let's sling it around Let's make it taste so sweet I wanna take all the Saturdays I wanna stay up late I wanna stomp my feet on the ground I wanna celebrate A month of...

Academy Fight Song

Walk into my room Ask me jerky questions Don't mean what you say Immaculate Conception Play by the rules So close to the chest, chest Show that all's not lost This is not a test Stay just as far from me as me from you Make sure that you are sure of everythin...

Accelerate

Sinking fast, the weights chained to my feet No time to argue with belief I'm not alone, a thousand others dropping Faster than me What put me here? Nothing to hold on to Nowhere to brake Where is the rip cord, the trap door, the key? Where is the cartoon esc...

Action

I do the dancin' You do the hoppin' You do the boppin' I do the shakin' I'm just romancin' You do the dancin' I see your sequence It's looking smashing You make the action, action happen happen Action, action Happen happen I'm finger poppin' You do the dan...

Afterhours

If you close the door The night could last forever Leave the sunshine out And say hello to never All the people are talking and they're having such fun I wish this could happen to me But if you close the door I'll never have to see the day again But...

Aftermath

Now the radio stutters. snaps to life. Some sour song that sets it right. And when London falls He'd like to call But the stars collide. They're beautiful and much maligned. In a universe where you see the worst, And it's up to you to fix it. Now you'...

Ages of you

Postcard stowaway within Pristine indigo without Banded ottoman as such Sofa seated one too much All along the range all along the range Ages of you Train pulls over hanging bridge Conductor looks up, thinks out and down, hands stuck to the left to...

Airportman

He moves efficiently beyond security. great opportunity awaits. airport fluorescent creature of habit labored breathing and sallow skin reyccled air moving sidewalks great opportunity blinks. great opportunity blinks. discounted. the peole mover t...

All I Have To Do Is Dream

Dream, dream dream dream, dream, dream dream dream When I want you in my arms, When I want you and all your charms Whenever I want you, all I have to do is Dream dream dream dream When I feel blue in the night And I need you to hold me tight Whenever I...

All i want

I don't want a lot for Christmas There is just one thing I need I don't care about the presents Underneath the Christmas tree I just want you for my own More than you could ever know Make my wish come true... All I want for Christmas is You... yea yea...

All The Best

So over me So pie in my face So talk to me Tell me where to place this in my Quasimodo heart That's where I slipped and fell I rang the church bell 'til my ears bled Red blood cells I think I'll sing and rhyme I'll give it one more time I'll show the kids how...

All the right friends

I know you say Maybe some day I need never be alone I know I say It's the right way But you'll never be the one I've been so alone now For a long long, long time I don't wanna hang out now With the folks that just stopped by While you party You've...

All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)

humming all the way to Reno you've dusted the non believers and challenged the laws of chance now, sweet you were so sugar sweet you may as well have had 'kick me' fastened on your sleeve you know what you are you're gonna be a star you know what you are you...

Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter

I feel like an alligator Climbing up the escalator Climbing up the escalator I feel strong I feel like an aviator pilot Thinks you wouldn't buy it I'm feeling violent Beat your bleeding eye in Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn I have, have got a...

Animal

Hey what's the big deal? Tell me how to feel? I know where we boomeranged and fell from grace. Point me to the stars I'm up for the chase. I know where we fell on our face. Jump with me. You jump with me. Hey, what's the big deal- I'm an animal. (The...

Apologist

they call me the apologist and now that I’m at peak you know at first it really hurt we joke about these things I’ve skirted all my differences but now I’m facing up I wanted to apologize for everything I was....so I’m sorry, so sorry... did you understand me...

Arms of love

Maybe tonight you're achin' For someone you're dreamin' of Tomorrow you'll be wakin' Into the arms, into the arms of love Maybe tonight you're cryin' Like a poor wounded dove Tell me you'll soon be flyin' Into the arms, into the arms of love Mayb...

Around the sun

I want the sun to shine on me I want the truth to set me free I wish the followers would lead with a voice so strong it could knock me to my knees Hold on world 'cause you don't know what's coming Hold on world 'cause I'm not jumping off Hold onto this boy a...

At my most beautiful

I've found a way to make you I've found a way a way to make you smile I read bad poetry into your machine I save your messages just to hear your voice. you always listen carefully to awkwards rhymes. you always say your name. like I woulden't know i...

Auctioneer

She didn't want to get pinned down by her prior town Get me to the train on time, here take this nickel make a dime Take this penny and make it into a necklace when I leave What is at the other end, I don't know another friend Another wife, another morning...

Baby, baby

Mmmm...You're so pretty Not to talk to you would be a crime Let me put my arms around you Just wanna use up a little of your time And I'm going... Baby baby baby Baby baby baby Baby baby baby Won't you be my girl? You're eyes, they're so pretty The...

Bad Day

A Public service announcement followed me home the other day I paid it nevermind. Go away. Shits so thick you could stir it with a stick- free Teflon whitewashed presidency We're sick of being jerked around Wear that on your sleeve Broadcast me a joyfu...

Bandwagon

Come on aboard, I promise you you won't hurt the horse We treat him well, we feed him well There's lots of room for you on the bandwagon, The road may be rough, the weather may forget us But won't we all parade around and sing our songs, A magic kingdom, open-...

Bang And Blame

If you could see yourself now, baby It's not my fault You used to be so in control You're going to roll right over this one Just roll me over, let me go You're laying blame Take this as no, no, no You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang blame, blame, blame You ba...

Be Mine

I never thought of this as funny It speaks another world to me I want to be your Easter bunny I want to be your Christmas tree I'll strip the world that you must live in of all its godforsaken greed I'll ply the tar out of your feathers I'll pluck the thorns...

Beachball

Tonight's alive the beach ball's set to fly those well tequila'd guys who smile at strangers ŕ tes souhaits ŕ tes amours chéri you give a little sneeze and dance the rhu-rhu-rhu-rhu-rhumba this life is sweet we're dancin' in the street who knows wh...

Beat a drum

The sun reflected in the back of my eye I knocked my head against the sky the dragonflies are busy buzzing me seahorses if we were in the sea halfway from coal, halfway to diamond. my fall knocked a mean chip out of me. I'm gathering as far as I can r...

Begin the begin

Birdie in the hand for life's rich demand The insurgency began and you missed it I looked for it and I found it Miles Standish proud, congratulate me A philanderer's tie, a murderer's shoe Life's rich demand creates supply in the hand Of the powers, the only...

Belong

The world collapsed on a Sunday morning She got up from the kitchen table Folded the newspaper and silenced the radio Those creatures jumped the barricades And have headed for the sea, sea Those creatures jumped the barricades and have headed for the sea Sh...

Binky the doormat

This is horror movie stuff. The muffin is peach, you're makin' love You mean this opera involves handcuffs? I lay defeated. Yeah, sour milk mouth, horseradish sweet. She's a girl and she's loving me. But distance is my tendency. I am defeated. Have you los...

Bittersweet me

I move across, innocence lost all flashing pulsar I move across the earth in my new pattern shirt I pass satellites. "You're so bitter," your complaint I can't give you anything. I don't know who you're livin for I don't who you are anymore. I'd soon...

Blue

Feels circus left the stakes A broken ropes useless mud The ties that bind, ha-ha I can be bad poet Street poet, shit poet Kind poet too Subway, almost 4 A.M., Halloween night I've had enough to drink to make my own party All my fellow riders in half...

Body count

All the young kids learn to dance in the combat zone Never dared to take a hcance Goin' home alone But it gets so very cold When it's late at night Leave the foxholes on their own Do you sleep well at night? Bodycount...feeling hot Bodycount...keepi...

Boy in the well

Look at this, it's me, walking away. Look at you drowning, on display. every time I've dropped by, I've tried to say the water is rising. you don't want to stay. It's that sinking feeling. you know what it's bringing on. you might as well say it, I see...

Burning hell

Women got legs, men got pants , I got the picnic, you got the ants, Put it in the fire heaven knows Take my torch and touch your toes in hell It's a burning hell You can burn in Hell It's a burning hell You can burn in hell It's a burning hell Women...

Camera

From the inside room when the front room greeting Becomes your special book, it was simple then When the party lulls, if we fall by the side Will you be remembered? Will she be remembered? Alone in a crowd, a bartered lantern borrowed If I'm to be your camera...

Can't Get There From Here

When the world is a monster Bad to swallow you whole Kick the clay that holds the teeth in Throw your trolls out the door If you're needing inspiration Philomath is where I go Lawyer Jeff he knows the low-down He's mighty bad to visit home (I've been there...

Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars)

There's a secret stigma, reaping wheel Diminish, a carnival of sorts Chronic town, poster torn, reaping wheel Stranger, stranger to these parts. Gentlemen don't get caught, cages under cage. Gentlemen don't get caught Box cars (are pulling) out of town Box ca...

Catapult

Ooo, we were little boys Ooo, we were little girls It's nine o'clock, don't try to turn it off Cowered in a hole, opie mouth. Question: Did we miss anything? Did we miss anything? Did we miss anything? Did we miss anything? Catapult. Catapult. Catapult. Catapu...

Chorus And The Ring

Hey there now young wholly, Swing along Quote the scriptures, Keep them guessing Which pit you crawled from. Just defy it, just deny it, was it fun? Your time is come - What have you done? What have you done? That's when the insults start to sting You can't...

Circus Envy

Here comes that awful feeling again Welcome the ugly animal I hold my breath to watch you swing, My high rope acrobat ball and chain I'm not afraid, I messed it, messed it, messed it, messed it up I've got my telescope head in the haystack I'm getting tired o...

Country Feedback

This flower is scorched This film is on On a maddening loop. These clothes, These clothes don't fit us right I'm to blame It's all the same It's all the same You come to me with a bone in your hand You come to me with your hair curled tight You come to me wi...

Crazy

You're funny and you don't know why You're funny and you can't even cry You're funny and you don't know why You're funny and you don't even try Cause your head's shaking cause your arms are shaking And your feet are shaking cause the earth is shaking Cause y...

Crush With Eyeliner

I know you I know you've seen her She's a sad tomato She's three miles of bad road Walking down the street Will I never meet her? She's a real woman-child Oh my kiss breath turpentine I am smitten I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing) Have you seen her co...

Cuyahoga

Let's put our heads together and start a new country up Our father's father's father tried, erased the parts he didn't like Let's try to fill it in, bank the quarry river, swim We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red This is where we...

Dangerous Times

These are dangerous times Nothing to care or die for These are dangerous times What you want, someone will buy for you Don't get away It's so easy to wait You've been wearing the green I've been wearing the fall And you said that all was just agreed...

Dark Globe

Oh where are you now? Pussy willow that smiled on my sleeve When I was alone, you promised a stone from your heart My head kissed the ground, I was half the way down, treading the sand Please... please lift a hand, I'm only a person Whose armbands...

Daysleeper

receiving dept., 3 a.m. staff cuts have socked up the overage directives are posted. no callbacks, complaints. everywhere is calm. Hong Kong is present Taipei awakes all talk of circadian rhythm I see today with a newsprint fray my night is colored...

Departure

Just arrived Singapore, San Sebastian, Spain, 26-hour trip Salt Lake City, come in spring over the salt flats A hailstorm brought you back to me Salt Lake City, come in spring over the salt flats A hailstorm brought you back to me Here it comes (I'm carried a...

Diminished

I watched you fall. I think I pushed. Maybe I'm crazy Maybe diminished Maybe I'm innocent Maybe I'm finished Maybe I blacked out. How do I play this? I will give my best today I will give myself away I have never hurt anything Is the jury wavering?...

Disappear

I've dragged my feet across the seat And jumped out the passenger side The only thing worth looking for Is what you find inside But that had not yet appeared lost invisible here. Tel Aviv and Agadir, Taroudant or Olomouc Before I learned to see the vanishing p...

Discoverer

Hey baby this is not a challenge It just means that I love you As much as I always said I did I was wrong I have been laughable wrong Sandpaper, paper-mache, chalk And hung out wet On the city and your skin now I didn’t have to be afraid I didn’t hav...

Disturbance At The Heron House

They're going wild, the call came in At early morning pre-dawn, then The followers of chaos out of control They're numbering the monkeys The monkeys and the monkeys The followers of chaos out of control The call came in to Party Central Meeting of the green a...

Draggin' The Line

Makin' a livin' the old hard way Takin' and givin' by day by day I dig snow and rain and the bright sunshine Draggin' The Line My dog Sam eats purple flowers Ain't got much, but what we got's ours We dig snow and rain and the bright sunshine Draggin' T...

Drive

Smack, crack, bushwhacked. Tie another one to the racks, baby. Hey kids, rock and roll. Nobody tells you where to go, baby. What if I ride? What if you walk? What if you rock around the clock? Tick-tock. Tick-tock. What if you did? What if you walk? What if...

Driver 8

The walls are built up, stone by stone The fields divided one by one And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We've been on this shift too long" And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We can...

E-Bow The Letter

Look up, what do you see? All of you and all of me Fluorescent and starry Some of them, the ysurprise The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 a.m. This letter Fields of poppies, little pearls All the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed Each and every one a...

Electrolite

Your eyes are burning holes through me I'm gasoline I'm burnin' clean Twentieth century go and sleep You're Pleistocene That is obscene That is obscene You are the star tonight Your sun electric, outta sight Your light eclipsed the moon tonight E...

Electron Blue

you´re on your ear, the ocean´s near. the light has started tofade. your high is timed. you find the climb it´s hard to focus on more than what´s in front of you, electron blue. adventure rings with a page. and when, it dawns on you, it singes blue, your buz...

Every Day Is Yours To Win

With the walk (walk) and the talk (talk) and the tic-tac clock (clock) With the rock (rock) and the roll (roll) and the bridge (bridge) and the toll (toll) With the brilliance (brilliance) and the light (light) with the stink (stink) and the hype (hype) and...

Everybody Hurts

When the day is long and the night The night is yours alone When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on Don't let yourself go 'Cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes Sometimes everything is wrong Now it's time to sing alon...

Exhuming McCarthy

You're beautiful, more beautiful than me You're honorable, more honorable than me Loyal to the Bank of America It's a sign of the times It's a sign of the times You're sharpening stones, walking on coals To improve your business acumen Sharpening stones, wal...

Fall On Me

There's a problem, feathers iron Bargain buildings, weights and pullies Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air Buy the sky and sell the sky and tell the sky and tell the sky Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for) (It's gonna fall...

Falls To Climb

I'll take the position Assume the missionary part You work by committee You had me pegged from the start. I'll be pounce pony Phony maroney, Pony before the cart. I'll be pounce pony This ceremony Only fills my heart. Who cast the final stone? Who threw the...

Favorite Writer

In Corsica The engines blew Your favorite writer died In a car In a crash Died in a fire imagine that In a car In a crash Die in a fire imagine that Engine, engineer The fire blew the balls main out It was likened to a whistle spout Hitch a ride Hitch a ride...

Feeling Gravity's Pull

I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around Peel back the mountains peel back the sky Stomp gravity into the floor It's a Man Ray kind of sky Let me show you what I can do with it Time and distance are o...

Femme Fatale

Here she comes you better watch your step She's going to play you for a fool it's true It's not hard to realize Just look into her false colored eyes She'll build you up to just put you down What a clown Cause everybody knows the things she does to please Sh...

Final Straw

As I raise my head to broadcast my objection As your latest triumph draws the final straw Who died and lifted you up to perfection? And what silenced me is written into law I can't believe where circumstance has thrown me And I turn my head away If I look I'm...

Find The River

Hey now, little speedyhead, the read on the speedmeter says you have to go to task in the city where people drown and people serve. Don't be shy. Your just deserve is only just light years to go. Me, my thoughts are flower strewn The ocean storm, bayberry moo...

Finest Worksong

The time to rise has been engaged You're better best to rearrange I'm talking here to me alone I listen to the finest worksong Your finest hour Your finest hour Another chance has been engaged To throw Thoreau and rearrange You are following this time I beg y...

Fireplace

Crazy crazy world crazy crazy times Crazy crazy world crazy crazy times Hang up your chairs to better sweep Clear the floor to dance Shake the rug into the fireplace Crazy crazy world crazy crazy times Crazy crazy world crazy crazy times Hang up your chairs t...

First We Take Manhattan ( cover Leonard Cohen )

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from within I’m coming now I’m coming to reward them First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I’m guided by a signal in the heavens I’m guided by this birthmark on my skin I’m gu...

Fretless

He's got his work and she comes easy They each come around when the other is gone Me, I think I got stuck somewhere in between I wouldn't confide in the Prodigal Son The die has been cast, the battle is won The bullets were blanks, a double aught gun...

Funtime

(Fun!) baby, baby, we like your lips (Fun!) baby, baby, we love your pants All aboard for Fun Time (Fun!) baby, baby, we ham to Dracula (Fun!) oh, and his hips All aboard for Fun Time (Fun!) baby, baby, we want in (Fun!) we want some, we want some Al...

Furry happy monsters

Furry happy monsters laughing (oh, that’s great!) Monsters having fun, Happy, happy See them jump and run. Happy, happy laughing all the while Cheerful cheerful Flashing a big smile That’s a perfect sign That they’re feeling fine Furry happy monsters feeling...

Future 40's (String Of Pearls)

Hey man I'm making moves and I am so much stronger than you I am so much stronger I am so much stronger than you. Everybody thinks the way that we thought, we thought ahead and look what we got. I did not invent this world Call my words a string of pear...

Galveston

Galveston, oh Galveston I still hear your sea winds blowing I still see her dark eyes glowing She was twenty-one When I left Galveston Galveston, oh Galveston I still hear your sea waves crashing While I watch the cannon flashing And I clean my gun And I drea...

Gardening At Night

I see your money on the floor I felt the pocket change Though all the feelings that broke through that door Just didn't seem to be too real The yard is nothing but a fence The sun just hurts my eyes Somewhere it must be time for penitence Gardening at night is...

Get Up

Sleep delays my life (get up, get up) Where does time go? (get up, get up, get up) I don't know Sleep, sleep, sleepy head (get up, get up, get up) Wake it up...up (way up ahead) (get up, get up) You've got all your life (way up ahead) (get up, get up, get up)...

Ghost Rider

Ghost rider motorcyle hero Baby baby baby baby he's a blazin' away Like the star star stars in the universe. Ghost rider motorcyle hero Baby baby baby baby he's a blazin' the truth Ghost rider motorcyle hero Baby baby baby baby he's a lookin' so cute...

Good Advices

When you greet a stranger look at his shoes Keep your money in your shoes, put your trouble behind When you greet a stranger look at her hands Keep your money in your hands, put your travel behind Who are you going to call for, what do you have to say? Keep yo...

Good King Wenceslas

Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even. Brightly shown the moon that night, though the frost was cruel, when a poor man came in sight, gathering winter fuel. Hither, page, and stand by me...

Green Grow The Rushes

The wheelbarrow's fallen Look at my hands They've found some surplus, cheaper hands Rubbing palms and pick and choose, Who will they choose? Here is the news. Look at that building, look at this man Haloed and whitewashed Gone to find a cheaper hand He'll offe...

Hairshirt

I am not the type of dog That could keep you waiting For no good reason Run a carbon-black test on my jaw And you will find it's all been said before I can swing my megaphone and long arm the rest It's easier and better To just beat it from the chest Of desir...

Half A World Away

This could be the saddest dusk I've ever seen Turn to a miracle High alive My mind is racing As it always will My hand is tired my heart aches I'm half a world away here My head sworn To go it alone And hold it along Haul it along And hold it Go i...

Hallelujah

The world is an oyster, the bitter refrain The lord is my Shepard, I cannot stay This blessed earth, this beautiful lamb A new day breaks, the dawn I am the tide, the oceans sing I am the anchor, I hold the brass ring I am the action and the deed of our...

Harborcoat

They crowded up to Lenin with their noses worn off A handshake is worthy if it's all that you've got Metal shivs on wood push through our back There's a splinter in your eye and it reads "REACT" They shifted the statues for harboring ghosts Reddened thei...

Have You Ever Seen The Rain

Someone told me long ago There's a calm before the storm, I know; It's been coming for some time. When it's over, so they say, It'll rain a sunny day, I know; Shining down like water. CHORUS: I want to know, Have you ever seen the rain? I want to know, Have y...

Hey, Hey, Nadine

Pretty blond hair swinging as she walks Child-like smile glistens as she talks Dangerous eyes in a small town girl Seen everything all around the world If I could only make her see my way Maybe we could spend a while some day in a place far away from he...

High Speed Train

When I look into your eyes Your drop like an anchor eyes I scudded and clipped the sky Just shy of making it And you almost got away I told you I was afraid Did I really want to try You're holding me to my claim I jump on a high speed train I'll nev...

Hollow Man

I've been lost inside my head, Echoes fall off me. I took the prize last night for complicated mess For saying things I didn't mean and don't believe. Believe in me, believe in nothing Corner me and make me something I've become the hollow man, Have I...

Hope

You want to go out friday and you want to go forever. you know that it sounds childish that you've dreamt of alligators. you hope that we are with you and you hope you're recognized you want to go forever you see it in my eyes. I'm lost in th...

Horse To Water

I could have kept my head down I might have kept my mouth shut I should have held my own You lead a horse to water And you watch him drown. You're only as big as your battles Rattle my cage with your shadow I'm a bantamweight with A mouthful of feat...

Houston

If the storm doesn't kill me, The government will. Gotta get that out of my head It's a new day today and the coffee is strong I finally got some rest So a man's put to task and challenges I was taught to hold my head high Collect what is mine, Make...

How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us

blood from a stone water from wine born under earplay design a stroke of bad luck wrong place, wrong time this flyer is out of the lime the story is a sad one, told many times the story of my life in trying times just add water, stir in lime how the west was...

Hyena

Night time fell at the opening In the final act of the beginning of time Hyena take your role, the stage is set The town is safe again tonight Hyena (I see the day ahead) Hyena (and all that I've cried through) Hyena (God knows you're doing that, don't...

I Believe

When I was young and full of grace And spirited - a rattlesnake When I was young and fever fell My spirit, I will not tell You're on your honor not to tell I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract Explain the change, the difference between What yo...

I Don't Sleep, I Dream

I'm looking for an interruption, Do you believe? You looking to dig my dreams Be prepared for anything You come into my little scene Hooray hooray hip hip hooray There's one thing I can guarantee: You won't have to dig, dig too deep Said leave me to...

I Remember California

I remember redwood trees, bumper cars and wolverines The ocean's Trident submarines Lemons, limes and tangerines I remember this I remember traffic jams Motor boys and girls with tans Nearly was and almost rans I remember this History is made Histor...

I Took Your Name

I wore the clothes you wanted I took your name If there is some confusion, who's to blame? I signed your living will I smiled your face I'm ready to close the book on NASA in outer space If there is some confusion who's to blame? who's to blame? I...

I Walked With A Zombie

I walked with a Zombie. I walked with a Zombie. I walked with a Zombie last night. I walked with a Zombie. I walked with a Zombie. I walked with a Zombie last night. 

I Wanted To Be Wrong

You know where I come from You know what I feel You're Yul Brenner Westworld Reporting from the field I threw it into reverse Made a motion to repeal You kicked my legs from under me And tried to take the wheel I told you I wanted to be wrong But e...

I Will Survive

At first I was afraid, I was petrified, Kept thinkin' I could never live without you by my side, But then I spent so many nights thinkin' how you did me wrong, You know, I grew strong, and I learned how to get along, And so your back, from outer space, I...

I'll Take the Rain

The rain came down The rain came down The rain came down on me. The wind blew strong And summer's song It fades to memory I knew you when I loved you then The summer's yawn, now hopeless. You laid me bare You marked me there The promises we made....

I'm Gonna DJ

Death is pretty final I'm collecting vinyl I'm gonna dj at the end of the world 'cause if heaven does exists With a kicking playlist I don't wanna miss it at the end of the world Hey steady steady Hey steady steady I don't wanna go until I'm good an...

I'm Not Over You

I feel great. I lied to save your feelings, Truth convened, my head smashed through the ceiling. I lost an arm, no one harmed, You diplomatically alarmed. I sulked away to lick my thin skin. I'm not over you I'm not over you I'm not over you. 

I've Been High

Have you seen? Have not, will travel Have I missed the big reveal? Do my eyes Do my eyes seem empty? I've forgotten how this feels I've been high I've climbed so high But life sometimes It washes over me Have you been? Have done, will travel I f...

Ignoreland

The bastards stole their power From the victims of the Us v. Them years Wrecking all things virtuous and true The undermining social democratic Downhill slide into abysmal Lost lamb off the precipice into The trickle down runoff pool They hypnotised...

Imitation Of Life

charades, pop skill water hyacinth, named by a poet imitation of life like a koi in a frozen pond like a goldfish in a bowl I don't want to hear you cry that's sugarcane that tasted good that's cinnamon, that's hollywood c'mon c'mon no one can see you...

It Happened Today

This is not a parable This is a terrible This is a terrible thing Yes I will rhyme that, after, after all I've done today I have earned my wings It happened today. Hooray! Hooray! It happened. Hip, hip, hooray! We'll leave the allegory to a different...

It's A Free World Baby

I was hungry when I said I never got to sleep You go ahead You can get whatever you want There's a feeling in my belly It's the new tomorrow scene It's an interesting job It's the fireworks CHORUS I don't need it (I don't need it) I hit my head (he...

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

That's great, it starts with an earthquake Birds and snakes, an aeroplane, and Lenny Bruce is not afraid Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn World serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt, no, strength The...

Just A Touch

Well what in the world? Women in black Don't you remember, Sonny's packed A day in the life, well nobody laughed Look to the days how long can this last? Kevin heard it on the radio Hugh informed word of mouth Carla read it in the news Caught it all ju...

King Of Birds

A thumbnail sketch,a jeweler's stone A mean idea to call my own Old man don't lay so still you're not yet young There's time to teach, point to point Point observation,children carry reservations Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold, leaves...

King Of Comedy

Make your money with a suit and tie Make your money with shrewd denial Make your money expert advice If you can wing it Make your money with a power ply Make your money with a buyout bribe You can lie as long as you mean it I'm not king of comedy Grea...

King Of The Road

Trailers for sale or rent Rooms to let, fifty cents No car, no pool, no pets I ain't got no cigarettes It takes four hours of pushing broom To buy a four-by-twelve two-bit room I'm a man of men, by no means King of the road Trailers for sale or rent...

Kohoutek

Who will stand alone? She carried ribbons, she wore them out Courage built a bridge, jealous tore it down At least it's something you've left behind Like Kohoutek, you were gone We sat in the garden, we stood on the porch I won't deny myself, we never ta...

Laughing

Laocoon and his two sons Pressured storm, tried to move No other more, emotion bound Martyred, misconstrued Lighted in a room, lanky room Lighted, lighted, laughing in tune Lighted, lighted, laughing Laocoon and his two sons Run the gamut, sated vie...

Leave

Nothing could bring me closer. Nothing could bring me near. Where is the road I follow? Leaving, leave It's under, under, under my feet. The scene spread out there before me. Better I go when the land touches sea There is my trust in what I believe. T...

Leaving New York

It's quiet now And what it brings Is everything Comes calling back A brilliant night I'm still awake I looked ahead I'm sure I saw you there You don't need me To tell you now That nothing can compare You might have laughed if I told you You mig...

Let Me In

Yeah, all those stars drip down like butter, and promises are sweet We hold out our pans lift our hands to catch them We eat them up, drink them up, up, up, up Heyyy, let me in Heyyy, let me in I only wish that I could hear you whisper down, mister fisherman...

Letter never sent

It's been pretty simple so far, vacation in Athens is calling me And knock, knock, knock on wood, I thought I'd left you behind Heaven's yours, heaven's yours, heaven's yours where I live The thought of the catacombs left my soul at home This letter never...

Life And How To Live It

Burn bright through the night, two pockets lead the way Two doors to go between the wall was raised today Two doors remain before your others and your own Keep these books well stocked away and take your happy home My carpenter's out and running about, ta...

Lightnin' Hopkins

When I lay myself to sleep pray that I don't go too deep Lightnin' won Lightnin' won Because it's cold down gold down there, crow! Flat lands low lands on the track Shows the water pan the track Lightnin' won Lightnin' won Close up hands to silhouette,...

Lisa Sez

Too...too...took her so long I was only having fun I guess I'm really hung I guess you'd better run That's what Lisa said While you running all over town Why don't you settle down I told her we were just friends She believed it till the end That's...

Little America

I can't see myself at thirty, I don't buy a lacquered thirty Caught like flies, preserved for tomorrow's jewelry, again Lighted in the amber yard, a green shellback, green shellback Preserved for tomorrow's eyes, in treebeer tar-black brer sap The biggest...

Live For Today

We had this bright idea one late summer night Candy-coated popcorn strung like a beaded curtain hung over your door I guess the heat got to it, dripped and melted all over the floor Chocolate-covered cherries in tin foil boats float around the floorboard I had...

Living Well Is The Best Revenge

It's only when your poison spins Into the life you'd hoped to live And suddenly you wake up in a shaken panic now You had set me up like a lamb to slaughter Garbo as the farmer's daughter Unbelievable, the gospel according to...who? I lay right down. A...

Losing My Religion

Life is bigger It's bigger, and you And you are not me The lengths that I will go to The distance in your eyes Oh no I've said too much I set it up That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losing my religion Trying to keep up with you An...

Lotus

Hey hey Hey hey I was hell Sarcastic silver swell That day it rained Tough spun, hard won No ocean flower aquarium Badlands, give a hand Honey dipt, flim flam Hey hey Hey hey That cat can walk like a big bad man So happy to show us I ate the lotus Say, have...

Love Is All Around

I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes Love is all around me and so the feeling grows It's written on the wind, it's everywhere I go So if you really love me, come on and let it show You know I love you I always will My mind's made up by the way th...

Low

Dusk is dawn is day Where did it go? I've been laughing Fast and slow Moving inta still frame Howling at the moon Morning found me laughing Up and down, down Low low low Night suits me fine and morning suits me fine I've been so happy Way up high...

Low Desert

It happened fast, it's over quick A little dust and the engine kicks Did your hands drift down off the wheel? A road owl hit your windshield. An eyelash or a little bit of sleep? Time stands still. Just call it now and you're on your way. All the asht...

Make it all ok

You threw away the ballast and you rowed your boat ashore Didn't you, now? Didn't you? You made your ultimatum too big to ignore Didn't you, now? Didn't you? So you worked out your excuses, turned away and shut the door. The world's too vast for us now, and y...

Man On The Moon

Mott the Hoople and the game of Life Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match Monopoly, Twenty one, checkers, and chess Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess Let's play Twister, let's play Risk See you heaven if you make the list Now Andy did you hear about this...

Man-Sized Wreath

Turn on the TV, what do I see? A pageantry of empty gestures all lined up for me - wow! I'd have thought by now we would be ready to proceed But a tearful hymn to tug the heart And a man-sized wreath - ow! Throw it on the fire Throw it in the air Kick...

Maps And Legends

He's not to be reached, he's to be reached. He's not to be reached, he's to be reached. Called the fool and the company On his own, where he'd rather be. Where he ought to be, he sees what you can't see, can't you see that? Maybe he's caught in the lege...

Me In Honey

I sat there looking ugly Looking ugly and mean I knew what you were saying You were saying to me Baby's got some new rules Baby said she's had it with me It seems a shame you waste your time on me It seems a lot to waste your time for me Left me to love Wha...

Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando And I

We live and dream about the future Please ask Neil, I need to pow-wow now So through the annals of our flavored times Our heroes and all their fatal flaws Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I sing... Lay me down, down, down, down Lay me down, down, do...

Merry Xmas Everybody

" Merry Xmas Everybody" Are you hanging up your stocking on your wall? It’s the time that every Santa has a ball. Does he ride a red-nosed reindeer? Does he turn up on his sleigh? Do the fairies keep him sober for a day? So here it is merry Xmas Everybody’s...

Mine Smell Like Honey

I would dare you, but I know I don't need to You're going to do just What you want to You're going to take The leading chair at the fairground You're going to sing the praises Of your fruit Mine smell like honey, uh! Mine smell like honey, uh! Min...

Monty Got A Raw Deal

Monty, this seems strange to me The movies had that movie thing But nonsense has a welcome ring And heroes don't come easy. Now, nonsense isn't new to me I know my head, I know my feet But mischief knocked me in the knees So just let go. Just let go. I saw...

Moon River

Moon River, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style some day You dream maker You heartbreaker Wherever you're going I'm going your way Two drifters off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see We're after the same rainbow's end Waitin' round th...

Moral Kiosk

Scratch the scandals in the twilight Trying to shock but instead Idle hands all orient to her Pass a magic pillow under head It's so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk Inside, cold, dark, fire, twilight Inside, cold, dark, fire, twilight They...

Mr. Richards

Mr. Richards, your position Is a messenger pigeon Left behind you when the camp moved on You thought that you had listened But the words had never crystallized Into a truth that you might own, hey hey Mr. Richards, your decision Pay attention, pay at...

My Youngest Son

My youngest son came home today his friends marched with him all the way the pipe and drum beat out the time while in his box of polished pine like dead meat on a butcher's tray My youngest son came home today my youngest son was a fine young man with a wife,...

Mystery To Me

Living in cities, living in cars Living the way you never wanted to Living in alleys, living it down Living the way you always thought you'd do Shakin' it up shakin' it down Shakin' the way you never wanted to Living in cities, living in cars L...

Narrator

When I was watching TV back in '73 A skinny old man sure appealed to me His name by now, I'm sure you know The man who played a starring role in Jacques Cousteau And ever since then I've written the dude Dreaming of swimming around the coral reef I'd e...

Near Wild Heaven

whenever we hold each other we hold each other there's a feeling that's gone something has gone wrong and I don't know how much longer I can take it house made of heart break it take my head in your hands and shake it in this near wild heaven not near...

New Test Leper

I can't say that I love Jesus That would be a hollow claim He did make some observations And I'm quoting them today "Judge not lest ye be judged" What a beautiful refrain The studio audience disagrees Have his lambs all gone astray? Call me a leper, call me a...

Nightswimming

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago, Turned around backwards so the windshield shows Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse Still, it's so much clearer I forgot my shirt at the water's edge The moon i...

Oddfellows Local 151

Oddfellows local 151 behind the firehouse Where Peewee sits to prove a sage to teach Peewee gathered up his proof Reached up and scratched his head Fell down and hit the ground again Firehouse. Firehouse. Why do the heathens rage behind the firehouse...

Oh My Heart

The kids have a new take a new take on faith pick up the pieces get carried away i came home to city half erased i came home to face what we faced this place needs me here to start this place is the beat of my heart oh my heart oh my heart (oh my h...

Old Man Kensey

Old Man Kensey wants to be a sign painter First he's got to learn to read He's gonna be a clown on TV Flags at his elbow, time to breathe (That's my folly) I believe Drink up the lake, Kensey's away (That's my folly) That's my mistake Old Man Kensey wa...

On The Fly

You said that loving me Was falling off a log You always had a way with words I'm in a barrel over Niagara Falls I wonder if I am the first If I asked of you just one wish Would you turn on me And take the fifth? You're off again on some Epic celebra...

Orange Crush

Follow me, don't follow me I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush Collar me, don't collar me I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush We are agents of the free I've had my fun and now its time to Serve your conscience overseas (over me, not over...

Pale blue eyes

Sometimes I feel so happy Sometimes I feel so sad Sometimes I feel just about everything Lately I'm just feeling bad Lately I'm just feeling bad Linger on your pale blue eyes I thought of you as my mountain top I thought of you as my peak I thought o...

Parakeet

You wake up in the morning and fall out of your bed mean cats eat parakeets and this one's nearly dead. you dearly wish the wind would shift and greasy windows slide open for the parakeet who's colored bitter lime. open the window and lift into your...

Passenger

I am the passenger and I ride and I ride I ride through the city's backside and everything will be alright and everything is yours and mine tonight. la la la la La-la-la-la La la la la La-la-la-la La la la la La-la-la-la La la I am the passenger...

Perfect Circle

Put your hair back, we get to leave Eleven gallows on your sleeve Shallow figure, winner's paid Eleven shadows way out of place Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Standing too soon, shoulders high in the...

Permanent vacation

Gotta get away..gotta get away I'm on a permanent vacation Nothing left to move I want a revelation Nothing left to prove I could take it with me Leave you all behind Got some kind of feeling Burnin' on my mind Sleeping late in the morning Stay out all night...

Photograph

found this photograph, underneath the broken picture glass. Tender face of black and white, Beautiful, a haunting sight. Looked into an angel's smile, captivated all the while. From the hair and clothes she wore, I'd place her in between the wars. Was she wil...

Pilgrimage

Take a turn, take a turn Take our fortune, take our fortune They called the clip a two-headed cow Your hate clipped and distant, your luck, pilgrimage Rest assured this will not last, take a turn for the worst Your hate clipped and distant, your luck a t...

Pop song 89

Hello, I saw you, I know you, I knew you I think I can remember your name...name Hello I'm sorry, I lost myself I think I thought you were someone else Should we talk about the weather? (Hi...hi, hi) Should we talk about the government? (Hi...hi, hi, hi)...

Pretty persuasion

It's what I want, hurry and buy, all has been tried, follow reason and buy, Cannot shuffle in this heat, it's all wrong Try to put that on your sleeve it's all wrong it's all wrong He's got a pretty persuasion She's got pretty persuasion God damn, pure confus...

Radio Free Europe

Beside yourself if radio's gonna stay Reason: it could polish up the grey Put that, put that, put that up your wall That this isn't country at all Raving station, beside yourself Keep me out of country in the word Deal the porch is leading us absurd Push tha...

Radio Song

hey, I can't find nothing on the radio yo! turn to that station the world is collapsing around our ears I turned up the radio but I can't hear it when I got to the house and I called you out I could tell that you had been crying, crying it's that sam...

Revolution

your revolution is a silly idea, yeah all your friends are feeling had it's like you need a reason to be feeling bad you sport an armband when your good and mad la la la la revolution (the future never happened) la la la la revolution i don't kno...

Romance

Nations call Par-parallels Neighbors call All in all in all in all in all That's worth saving up for Put our heads down on the chest Mustn't even race for rest Easy come, easy go Easy come Easy go Easy come Easy go Stares conceal Par-parallels...

Sad Professor

If we're talking about love Then I have to tell you Dear readers, I'm not sure where I'm Headed I've gotten lost before I've woke up stone drunk Face down in the floor Late afternoon, the house is hot I started, I jumped up Everyone hates a bore Ev...

Saturn Return

Easy to poke yourself square in the eye Harder to like yourself, harder to try These Elvis poses, Postcards and neopryn Roses a dollar a stem Everyone's sleeping or pulling a long haul The keys in the cooler, it's three A.M. And Saturn is beckoning no...

Second Guessing

Why're you trying to second guess me? I am tired of second guessing What will be your look this season? Who will be your book this season? Why're you trying to second guess me? I am tired of second guessing What will be your look this season? Who will...

See No Evil

What I want, I want now And it's a whole lot more, anyhow I wanna climb a mountain I wanna jump, jump, jump, jump a mountain I understand all destructive urges It's seems so perfect I see, I see no evil I get ideas, notions I want a nice little boat...

Shaking Through

Could it be that one small voice doesn't count in the room? Yellow like a geisha gown, denial all the way Could this by three be ten? Honor marches on. Yellow like a geisha gown, denial all the way Shaking through, opportune Shaking through, opportune...

She Just Wants to Be

It's not that she walked away Her world got smaller All the usual places The same destinations Only something's changed. It's not that she wasn't rewarded With pomegranate afternoons And Mingus, Chet Baker and chess It's not stampeding fortune Or pri...

Shiny happy people

Shiny happy people laughing Meet me in the crowd People people Throw your love around Love me love me Take it into town Happy happy Put it in the ground Where the flowers grow Gold and silver shine Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy peopl...

Silver Bells

Silver bells, silver bells It's Christmas time in the city Ring-a-ling, hear them ring Soon it will be Christmas day City sidewalks, busy sidewalks Dressed in holiday style In the air there's a feeling of Christmas Children laughing, people passing Meeting sm...

Sing For The Submarine

It feels, in dreams That everything's there for you The city breathes and pulses Its fuel electron blue. I knew that you could see right through it So this is where you give in to the machine Lift up your voice, feel gravity's pull And drown out the sir...

Sitting Still

This name I got We all agreed See Could stop Stop, it will Red We could bind it in a scythe We could gather Throw a fit Up to Par and Katie bars the kitchen sign But not me In Setting trap (for the big kill) Wasting time Sitting still I'm...

So Fast, So Numb

You're moving through rough waters, motel boy And swimming in your sleep How could I be so blind, mis-sighted, Not to see there's something wounded deep? Anyone could scratch your surface now It's all amphetamine You're blasting yourself into the present To...

So. Central Rain

Did you never call? I waited for your call These rivers of suggestion are driving me away The trees will bend, the cities wash away The city on the river there is a girl without a dream I'm sorry Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are dow...

Sponge

pleasure is melting like chocolate my blue ribbon gumption is gone all my gravy must have soaked into something and the world... the filthy steps, the cold concrete the phony earth below my feet the ancient odor of the streets yes the world it is a spon...

Spooky

In the cool of the evening When everything is getting kind of groovy I call you up and ask you If you'd like to go with me and see a movie First you say no, you've got some plans for tonight And then you stop and say all right Love is kind of crazy with a spoo...

Stand

Stand in the place where you live Now face North Think about direction Wonder why you haven't before Now stand in the place where you work Now face West Think about the place where you live Wonder why you haven't before If you are confused check w...

Star 69

You don't have to take the bar exam to see What you've done is ignoramus 103 What've I got to hang my hat on You don't have a pot to pee in All this just to be your friend I was there until the end Extortion and arson, petty larceny I know you called -...

Star Me Kitten

Keys cut, three for the price of one Nothing's free but guaranteed for a lifetime's use I've changed the locks And you can't have one You, you know the other two The brakes have worn so thin that you could hear I hear them screeching Through the door from o...

Staring Down The Barrel Of The Middle Distance

Now the hope for the future Took a pounding in the parking lot And the answer for today is all I got When your name is called The lights went down The time is the essence Excuse me And I'm blinking at the Vanishing pointxof what I thought Staring dow...

Strange

There's something strange going on tonight There's something going on that's not quite right Michael's nervous and the lights are bright There's something going on that's not quite right There's something going on that wasn't here before Keep your eyes g...

Strange Currencies

I don't know why you're mean to me when I call on the telephone and I don't know what you mean to me but I want to turn you on, turn you up figure you out, I want to take you on these words, "you will be mine." these words, "you will be mine." all the tim...

Stumble

We'll stumble through the yard We'll stumble through the yard We'll stumble through the A-P-T We'll stumble through the yard Force fields. Explorer racing home, the ancient star Yellow mixed with golden hue Scan the graveyard, dead there be Ball and...

Summer Turns To High

Mercury is rising still Turn the fan on high I won't step on my own shadow No one wants to cry Someone put a pox on me I'll spit in their eye Summer turns to high With my bedsheet cape and sandals Circle citronella candles Summer's here, the light...

Superman

I am I am I am Superman and I know what's happening I am I am I am Superman and I can do anything You don't really love that guy you make it with now do you I know you don't love that guy cause I can see right through you If you go a million miles away I...

Supernatural Superserious

Everybody here, Comes from somewhere, That they would just as soon forget, And disguise. At the summer camp where you volunteered, No one saw your face, no one saw your fear. If that apparition just appeared, Took you up and away from this base and shee...

Suspicion

Now my suspicion's on the rise I have known, I have known your kind. please don't talk, don't make me think order up another drink let me let imagination drive. can't you see I need nothing too deep. imagination come alive suspicion t...

Swan Swan H

Swan, swan, hummingbird Hurrah, we are all free now What noisy cats are we Girl and dog he bore his cross Swan, swan, hummingbird Hurrah, we are all free now A long, low time ago, people talk to me Johnny Reb, what's the price of fans? Forty a piece o...

Sweetness Follows

Readying to bury your father and your mother, what did you think when you lost another? I used to wonder why did you bother, distanced from one, blind to the other. Listen here my sister and my brother what would you care if you lost the other? I always wonde...

Talk About The Passion

Empty prayer, empty mouths, combien reaction Empty prayer, empty mouths, talk about the passion Not everyone can carry the weight of the world Not everyone can carry the weight of the world Talk about the passion Talk about the passion Empty prayer, em...

Texarkana

20 000 miles to an oasis 20 000 years will I burn 20 000 chances are wasted Waiting for the road to turn I would give my life to find it I would give it all Catch me if I fall Walking through the woods I have faced it Looking for something to earn...

That Someone Is You

With the restraint of New Order covers Young marble giants I sat quietly waiting For someone else to Make the first move Someone else to make the first move... That someone is you! That someone is you! That someone has pulled me up and out of Cartoon...

The Ascent Of Man

So hesitation pulled me back I'm stronger when I don't attract In your eyes I'm a lamb without a rack And I am getting confused I'm a cactus trying to be a canoe As you pan for ore In the desert, floored I say to you That I could never imagine a plac...

The Flowers Of Guatemala

I took a picture that I'll have to send People here are friendly and content Peoplda here are colorful and bright The flowers often bloom at night Amanita is the name The flowers cover everything The flowers cover everything There's something here I f...

The Great Beyond

I´ve watched the stars fall silent from your eyes All the sights that I have seen I can´t believe that I believed I wished That you could see There´s a new planet in the solar system There is nothing up my sleeve I´m pushing an elephant up the stairs I´m tos...

The Lifting

Grounded, 5 a.m. The nitelite is comforting But gravity is holding you Once settled into sleep You have watched, on repeat The story of your life Across the ceiling, And in review You've said the air was singing It's calling you you don't believe T...

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

In the jungle, the quiet jungle, the lion sleeps tonight In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight Aweem away, aweem away, aweem away, aweem away Aweem away, aweem away, aweem away, aweem away Aweem away, aweem away, aweem away, aweem away Awe...

The One I Love

( Chorus 1 ) This one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I've left behind A simple prop to occupy my time This one goes out to the one I love ( Chorus 2 ) Fire!!! Fire!!! ( Repeat Chorus 1 ) ( Repeat Chorus 2 ) This one goes...

The Outsiders

You took me to the restaurant where we first met You knocked a future shock crowbar upside my head I got caught with the stop of the tick-tock, tick-tock clock When you told me what you knew Lost in the moment The day that the music stopped And I do remember...

The Sidewider Sleeps Tonite

this here is the place I will be staying there isn't a number, you can call the pay phone let it ring a long, long, long, long time if I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more if I don't pick up, pick up... the sidewinder sleeps, sleeps,...

The Wake-Up Bomb

I look good in a glass pack I look good and mean I look good in metallic sick Wraparounds blackout tease I scud along the horizon I chew some sweet tree I get high in my low-ass boot-cut jean I like being seen I look good in my drink-eat-no-sleep, take-a-leap...

The Worst Joke Ever

You see there's this cat burglar who can't see in the dark He lays his bets on 8 more lives, walks into a bar Slips on the 8 ball, falls on his knife Says, "I don't know what I've done but it doesn't feel right!" Some things don't hold up over the course...

The Wrong Child

I've watched the children come and go A late long march into spring I sit and watch those children Jump in the tall grass Leap the sprinkler Walk in the ground Bicycle clothespin spokes The sound the smell of swingset hands I will try to sing a happy...

Theme From Two Steps Onward

If you hear this...look again Don't be a stranger Don't be a shadow to this boy A penny on it's side Write a letter...give a call Let me know you're alive And doing well A quarter past three The quarter you live in haunts my eyes I'm hand over head...

There She Goes Again

There she goes again She's out on the street again She's down on her knees, my friend Won't have to ask her please again Look a little closer There's no tears in her eyes You know she won't make it with just any guy What can you do See her walking dow...

These Days

Now I'm not feeding off you I will rearrange your scales If I can, and I can March into the ocean, march into the sea I had a hat I put it down and it sunk, reached down Yanked it up, slapped it on my head All the people gather Fly to carry each his b...

This Friendly World

In this friendly, friendly world With each day so full of joy Why should any heart be lonely? In this friendly, friendly world With each night so full of dreams Why should any heart be afraid? The world is such a wonderful place To wander through Whe...

Time After Time(Annelise)

Ask the girl of the hour by the water tower's watch If your friends took a fall, are you obligated to follow? Time after time after time When the bull's on his hooves When you gather friends by the tower If you try to refuse, will they judge your worth...

Tired Of Singing Trouble

I'm tired of singing trouble to keep myself alone Somebody come and help me, lord to carry a heavy load (repeat) 

Tom's Diner

I am sitting In the morning At the diner On the corner I am waiting At the counter For the man To pour the coffee And he fills it Only halfway And before I even argue He is looking Out the window At somebody Coming in "It is always Nice to see you" Says th...

Tongue

call my name, here I come 90 to nothing, watch me run you call I am ashamed to say ugly girls know their fate anybody can get laid you want a room with a fire escape I want to tell you how much I hate this don't leave that stuff all over me. it pains me please...

Toys In The Attic

Light voices scream nothing seems real's a dream Leaving the things that you learned behind Leaving the things that you love behind All of the things that you learned were real Nothing except for the years Voices scream, nothing seems real's a dream Toy...

Try Not To Breathe

I will try not to breathe I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees These eyes are the eyes of the old, shiver and fold I will try not to breathe This decision is mine. I have lived a full life And these are the eyes that I want you to remember,...

Turn You Inside Out

Divide your cultured pearls in haste I'm looking for to lay to waste Of all the things I cannot taste And this is not the racy race They spoke loud I believe in what you do I believe in watching you It's what you do I could turn you inside out What...

Überlin

Hey now, take your pills and Hey now, make your breakfast Hey now, comb your hair and off to work Crash land, no illusions, no collision, no intrusion My imagination runs away I know, I know, I know what I am chasing I know, I know, I know that this is changi...

Underneath The Bunker

I will hide and you will hide And we shall hide together here Underneath the bunkers in the row I have water I have rum Wait for dawn and dawn shall come Underneath the bunkers in the row 

Undertow

I know what I wanted, I know what I wanted I know how I wanted this to be Get down to the water Drink down of the water Walk up off the water, leave it be This is not my dream, sister It is cold in heaven And I'm not sprouting wings I'm drowning, me I'm d...

Until the day is done

The battle's been lost, the war is not won An addled republic, a bitter refund The business first flat earthers licking their wounds The verdict is dire, the country's in ruins Providence blinked, facing the son Where are we left to carry on Until...

Untitled

This world is big (this world is big) And so awake (and so awake) I stayed up late (I stayed up late) To hear your voice This light is here (this light is here) To keep you warm (to keep you warm) This song is here (this song is here) To keep you strong...

Voice Of Harold

Reverend Bill Funderburk sings "He Cared That Much For Me" Charles Surratt introduces his own composition "On Calvary For Me" "The Joy Of Knowing Jesus" is a song of pure delight featuring John Barbee; The pure tenor quality of the voice of Harold Montgom...

Walk It Back

Walk it back Walk it back Walk it back What What would you Have had me say Instead of what I said? Where Where would I go How could I follow that Except to do what I did Which is to Walk it back, Walk it back, Walk it back Time Reverse and...

Walk unafraid

As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down These heavy notions creep around It makes me think Long ago I was brought into this life, a little lamb A little lamb Courageous, stumbling Fearless was my middle name But somewhere there I Lost my way Everyo...

Wall Of Death

Let me ride on the wall of death one more time Let me ride on the wall of death one more time You can waste your time on the other rides but this is the nearest to being alive Let me take my chances on the Wall of Death You can go with the crazy people i...

Walter's Theme

Hey this is David I've got a hat the size of Oklahoma Put on my boots and going down to Walter's Get me some barbecue Bring some home to the misses He'll give you a bag to put it in This is David, signing off 

Wanderlust

Looks like I pulled a fast one Looks like I went to town Looks like the world revolves around me Looks like it's falling down I thought I'd kicked the traces I thought the wheels would spin I thought I'd jumped the fence and bolted Looks like I'm back...

We All Go Back To Where We Belong

I dreamed what what you were offering Imagine lying next to me You should, and your reputation talks I will write our story in my mind Write about our dreams and triumphs This might be my "Innocence Lost" I can taste the ocean on your skin That is where...

We Walk

Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall, oh oh oh Take oasis, Marat's bathing We walk through the wood, we walk Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall, oh oh oh Take oasis, Marat's bathing We walk through the woods, we...

Welcome To The Occupation

Hang your collar up inside Hang your dollar on me Listen to the water still Listen to the causeway You are mad and educated primitive and wild Welcome to the occupation Here we stand and here we fight All your fallen heroes held and dyed and skinned...

Wendell Gee

That's when Wendell Gee takes a tug Upon the string that held the line of trees Behind the house he lived in He was reared to give respect But somewhere down the line he chose To whistle as the wind blows Whistle as the wind blows, with me He had a dre...

West Of The Fields

Long gone, intuition to assume are gone when we try Dream of a living jungle in my way back home when we die West of the fields West of the fields West of the fields West of the fields Long gone Long gone Long gone Long gone West of the fields Dre...

What If We Give It Away?

On the outside underneath the wall All the money couldn't buy You're mistaken no one's standing there For the record no one tried Oh I try to What if we give it away? Overlooking with a hollow eye What's pretending is it right Eye for order a hand fo...

What's The Frequency, Kenneth

"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed I thought I'd pegged you an idiot's dream Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen I never understood the frequency, uh-huh You wore our expect...

Where's Captain Kirk?

I was beamed aboard the Starship Enterprise What I felt what I saw was a total surprise I looked around and wondered can this be Or is this the start of my insanity Oh but its true As we went warp factor 2 And I met all of the crew Where's Captain Kirk I wen...

Why not smile

The concrete broke your fall to hear you speak of it I'd have done anything I would do anything I feel like a cartoon brick wall to hear you speak of it you've been so sad it makes me worry why not smile? you've been sad for a while. why...

Wichita Lineman

I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road Searching in the sun for another overload I hear you singing in the wires I can hear you through the whine And the Wichita lineman is still on the line I know I need a small vacation, but it doesn't...

Wind Out

Windout, if you're out of wind Windout, if you're really spent Windout, if you're young and red Yeah, tick tock, it's tine o'clock Once is good enough, you really go... So find out - if you're really spent Find out - if you're out of wind Windout - if...

Windout

Windout - if you're out of wind Windout - if you're really spent Windout - if you're young and red Yeah, tick tock, it's tine o'clock Once is good enough, you really go... So find out - if you're really spent Find out - if you're out of wind Windout -...

Wolves, Lower

Suspicion yourself, suspicion yourself, don't get caught. Suspicion yourself, suspicion yourself, let us out. Wilder lower wolves. Here's a house to put wolves out the door. In a corner garden, wilder lower wolves. House in order. House in order. House in...

World Leader Pretend

I sit at my table and wage war on myself It seems like it's all...it's all for nothing I know the barricades, and I know the mortar in the wall breaks I recognize the weapons, I used them well This is my mistake Let me make it good I raised the wall a...

Yellow River

So long, boy, you can take my place I've got my papers, I've got my pay So pack my bags and I'll be on my way To Yellow River Put my guns now, the war is won Fill my glass now, the time has come I'm going back to the place that I love To Yellow River...

You

Let the sun beat through the clouds Let me kiss you on the mouth All my childhood toys with chew marks in my smile Let me hold your syrup close to mine Let me watch you, Hollywood and Vine And I want you like the movies, touch me now I love you crazy, ju...

You Are The Everything

Sometimes I feel like I can't even sing I'm very scared for this world I'm very scared for me Eviscerate your memory Here's a scene You're in the back seat laying down The windows wrap around To the sound of the travel and the engine All you hear is ti...

You're In The Air

You wanted a challenge that's calling You higher I landed on my feet by Crawling I remember standing alone Trying to forget you idling I hate to Admit that that's my reference point But there it is you say you want me I'm what you found I'm upside down...