Sarah Slean

I bought my angel on the Fourth of July I didn't plan it, it just happend that way. I guess faith stepped in in the end, 'Cause I needed him then. When I bought him they said, Are you sure? No refunds, returns or exchanges because once he's yours, he's...

Awake soon The mindstorm I feel I feel the stars out The fear goes I soar now As far as I can carry you As deep as deep No thief can take away from you The way you have taken from me His mouth full Of loose teeth I see I see The liar is weeping And...

I have a future I have substantial bank accounts Make lotsa money And hope it don't run out I am a beauty It just takes me four, five hours a day Is this the game I'm supposed to know How to play? I had a dram that I Was carvin' up the inside track...

Who wants a genius anyway Who worries if he's had enough sleep? I'd take the bad news anyday If it meant you were mine to keep Sweet is the certified nervous wreck Who now and then likes to appear To lecture the night and the empty space And sleep in th...

I hear them coming The blue parade They're throwing snowflakes and Singing my name In deep blue voices I hear them say, There's good love out there Just you wait... Hold on, I'm coming Don't let anybody in He don't read stars now 'cause he's gettin...

Innocent Sunday morning As plain as the Sunday before I thought as she told me her story I don't think I can hear these anymore Charting a map of land mines Asleep in the settling dust How come we never remember How many times you picked yourself up...

I was born by an old streetlight where the men lean out of their windows at night and I was a lead in the orphan choir, and I sang with all my might until I grew up too high then oh, all the notes I used to play on the double bass in the b-list balle...

I went to California I met a lovely man He rubs a wedding finger Without a wedding band He knows better anyhow His kisses are just all in his eyes I know better I know better still I wish I was By your side The taxi open window The summer on the wi...

I am the key to the lock in your house That keeps the toys in the basement And if you get too far inside You'll only see my reflection I am her face when she sleeps tonight I am the pick in the ice Do not cry out or hit the alarm 'Cause we are friends...

Why do I hide from you? Why do I play this game? I tell myself let go I know I know I know Oh I know I hear the screaming dark It's the misery of my doubt Your love is selfish (or selfless) arms and still I can't get out I realize there is reason Your truth...

Have a coffee out on the freeway I hear the morning peace I think of beaches, I think of dying I buy a magazine And change the channels Wash the windows And be my children’s dreams And frozen dinners Dark conversation What does it all mean? What does it all me...

The town is crouching A field of windmills waits, their stupid heads turning Stirring the night's bath Bundles of vapour hang over the factories Whose lights blink and loll like sleepy eyelids The moth in the lighthouse breathes with its prehistoric part...

I put my head back Where it belongs up there in the clouds I’m spreading love like a terrorist now O what a morning O what a day to be alive Sweet hope is glowing in your glorious eyes Pushing paper ain't enough I bet you think that you’re so tough...

I should go to drastic measures Steal enormous works of art Write a piece for eighteen violins It's no march But it's a start They rub their eyes and wake distracted Frantically they fill their days Please say I will never be like that Safe, politely...

Whatever happened to Duncan? He was a good boy they say The girls all wanted him to dance with, The boys to play, to play When the policeman came knocking She didn't know what to say Except his shoes and socks were all gone, It seems he ran away Oh y...

Armies and ice and dirty green Newspapers shovels sand on the breeze I think of Eliot when I smell the street And it’s sometimes wise just to shut your eyes Workers and lovers make their living space neat Bent out of shape over what to eat I dream of Eliot but...

Take me, love me, Invade the portions of me That are dark, and warm, and deep. Hero or zero, I'm glad that you're here. So take you're love and take you're leave. Now, how will I feel asleep? I'm onto ya Euphoria You built the maze In my lover's face I'm onta...

Everything by the gallon Nothing at all half-way He said to me -I guess it’s the only way Only way And when I meet my dying day I won’t be watching the clock Cause I’ve heaved, I’ve wept, I’ve overslept And squeezed out - Every drop Of you dear lips And it’s...

You can stay the night, You can look me in the eye. You can fake your way to the finish line. Don't you dare profess to love me When you're lying to another That's not love, that's just wishing Wish and love are not the same thing, yeh. Get home, get home Tak...

I have my favorite shadows Ghosts and other courts bizarre Sometimes I believe I’m your mistress Sometimes you are dying in my arms You visit when I am listening to the earth turn You ask me if I know your name I can smell the sweetness of the silence I wonde...

I watch the late night planes, leave cool, white trails And my troubles took flight Goodnight troubles, goodnight. I kissed my friend He took my hand. My troubles took flight Goodnight troubles, goodnight. Goodnight. Goodnight, goodnight. Goodnight. Free-fal...

Think I should take up smoking Maybe even cigars Think I should be leaving now I don't know who you are Have I a reason? Am I a liar? Am I poison? Am I alive? There there don't cry And I feel fine Choke and dissolve like a child I don't mind Ther...

Always wondered why your eyes closed Don't you want to see me closing mine? Heaven, help me, I'll devour him See me drawing out his spine Hey, boy, come sleep I will turn the ocean into sky How do you keep.... When the love... is making you high Out o...

So, we take the path not taken Down into the fields of war. Sword alone, the shield foresaken This is the right we're fighting for. Hopeful hearts are moving targets I don't know how I survive We go out like birthday candles Then like suns we rise We...

I'm afraid of the stars When I gaze at the skies My death is a flute And it fills up my eyes Do you wake in the night To the eyes you don't see To the horrible sound Of your heart beating free I do, Oh I do No I do, I do Should we listen to love...

Loud mouth, suits and ties Liars, with money and girls The kind you fit in your pocket I can't save them from this darkness My sisters, I love them all My faeries pinned against the wall I know what you want And I know what you want And I know Doll,...

Madeleine Shall her story end? With this aftermath music, My broken French? Heal her, if you can Pray the lions aren't waiting Take her hand I want to be brave, I want to be brave But the night goes up in flames The courage we need A fury to tame T...

Inside a heart Of freezing boys Searching for the answer In a shiny dime Who beg for sleep And piece of mind Why must the aging page Decide? Me and John the 23rd have Tasted these sour words and I Just can't shake this belief that it's not a Test...

I put this battle in a box With my military thoughts And the days where I'm almost at my end Seems to me quite clear now Now that you are here how Easily I could begin again I'm still bloody from last year's war With liars and lovers untrue And hey you with y...

Little London night Shiny pavement Yellow, red and white Oh that I have seen this The women and the men A theatre so thin and Danced to death When do they know they mean it? A grey light in an English moon My head so full of missing you You, my lover you. My...

I've been looking for someone But I don't know his name. All the faces before me, they all look the same. But there's got to be one face, and one pair of eyes that will light me on fire when they're looking into mine. O looking for someone For many good yea...

Science wears a new suit To his coffee, toast and eggs But he has to skip the stairs now 'Cause of two broken legs Whine, whine, "I cannot climb" Every time’s the same I’d be more inclined to help him If he could remember my name And you're sad, And y...

She’s looking up and out to A galaxy A fateful boat trip 'cross a northern sea And on a frosty window She writes her name O daughter, this is how she became Mary Go ahead and have your little baby Mary Toughest of the tough but still a lady I’ve al...

Here's a story 'bout me and Jerome Just convinced him to come out of his home Free as freedom with the highways to roam, he said. "I'll take a drink but I don't smoke anymore" He loosened up when we hit Tennessee Drinking bourbon and laughing at me I a...

Here comes again Blood in the vein Seven a.m., the cars come Gotta fly, gotta say goodbye Leave them before they leave me Turning the sheets Rolling in his sleep He wants me to go faster I know that she's somewhere underneath But I don't know how to...

You are what they call the human season You are all the alphabet in one You are every colour of confusion You are all the silence I've become Love me for Stupid reasons I like those most Wide-eyed but Worth believing God knows Damn the angr...

Look at you Broken bird Narcolepsy weed Highway-side Like a puppet cat You can't wake I can't sleep And now they've got you Stealing cars and chasing lullabies How will I drag you out of motel daydreams When will you realize? I don't make sugar p...

No place at all to call my own. Still wandering the world, and friends of mine all moving on. Getting comfortable cars, getting married. In someone else's neighbourhood, I hear a telephone. Who lives in those well-lighted homes with their windows aglow in the...

Notes from the underground Where the mice must write our lives down. In the night, I hear you calling out to say It's all right, love, you're in good hands Tears on a borrowed bed 'Tween walls that are painted somebody else's red. If you hear me cry out...

There’s an ogoni star in the sky shining, shining bright There are stars of your brothers in the sky, shining, shining bright And you can’t say, you’re not afraid You can’t say you’re not afraid But If I stopped to listen would I burn with them, would I waste...

Oh man, I think I did it again Oh man I think I messed up the plan And he calls whenever he please And I’ll get on my knees Oh man, oh man, oh man Oh jees, here come the secret police The rochester peeps, they’ve got no time for me And he calls whenever he pl...

Don’t you know what time it is? It’s the new time All disciples gathering by the boats But your revolution is chasing its tail, You love to take the wind out of my sail But not this time In between commercial breaks It’s a new war. Men with books have...

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A little blood and vomit on the car seat And the tooth is sitting in my lap Brother if you’re hungry but not wounded Then it’s time to stop and check the map Pilgrim Where’s your head at? Are you paying the birds to sing? Well it won’t work On the tru...

Playing Cards with Judas in the lounge of our hotel And I ask while we're playing if he likes it there in hell Judas doesn't answer, he just laughs and plays his hand Lights another cigarette and turns toward the band I have no missionary zeal I say No a...

I carried my heart unbuttoned across the lonely stage where all the fools and actors circle like birds of prey. But careful with the rose, she knows every word in every scene. O please be good to me. I let the liar have me, the forger and the cheat. Love is...

You said who you are On an Elvis postcard And I like the way you write your r’s In my little dreams Don’t know what to say That would make you want to stay That voice is clear as day So close, if it wasn’t so far away Can’t you see, no. What you are doing to...

I have been in the shadowland I heard the empty call of hatred, anorexia misery and alcohol By their hearths I warmed myself to escape from the winter years until I saw in the window myself crying fire-coloured tears. Love, the only alchemy Love, the killer...

These feet have walked so many miles, and on so many continents, still this heart is beating wild as yet of no great consequence but o when the rhythm is right I catch the wind and fly. Far beyond these Paris nights into another consciousness the fortune tel...

Old record playing on my own radio And I know it's time to go Get up and out of this black hole I gotta get it right I gotta quit these drugs I gotta get inside Somebody's arms Tonight Can't remember who I was before Tonight Oh my heart is halfway...

Just to hear the sound of water Just to put the fire on ice I am lying down in the shower Oh mercy loosen the vice Sometimes the sword is so heavy My pain has a ravenous smile In the pits of mine own making Sometimes I don't think I'll ever get out Oh...

Just like St. Francis The little birds come Lonely for a little warm You give them your music But they just want a song Oh no, I'll never learn But I'd make beautiful sounds, I'd lay you down like A lover would My pride, still standing straight But...

They're counting on a guilty conscience to save you But I'm banking on the deep blue eyes and the face too They always said always said always said you were easy If I could have just one piece of that I'd be Sold Come over to the sweet ones baby I'll te...

Will the birds be singing When my life is done And all the seasons of me have come and gone Plant me in the garden where the willow grows And from my sorrow, a rose How high the moon How deep the ocean I never knew ‘Til now As the curtain closes the...

Oh I Rented a motorbike And all night I had the Fear... But onward, Oh how the terrifying choice was clear So white! The moon was a wicked sight His cruel wife Had cut off an ear When the fog cleared I heard the voices of a million cheer This ti...

Hey Mister Paper Better get your story straight We're not from the sixties And it's Sarah with an h And, oh, sometimes The way you read things The way you see things The way you reach things Hurts my heart Oh, I fear Somehow you'll find the need T...

Once I took the universe to dinner When she failed to yield the earth's demands 'Oh,' she said 'you mean that little ant farm? I'm alright, dear, I've got other plans' And we're sad because we think we don't belong here We're guilty 'cause we think we should...

The heavens dropped a bag of red and white lights Pearls that keep the highway bright And it feels like being born, night driving The moon hangs a dangerous height Terrible calm, Terrible cold This dream I have, it's gold Easier now, a place to go Vert...

Wake up Wake up You don’t want to sleep through this Night has fallen and all the stars are coming out O the sky’s a lullaby Like That sweet little light of mine Come out come out It’s not like we’re strangers here No more lying here waiting, the sun...

What did I give to you, what did you give to me A nothing trail of silences that warp in the rain You said I don’t really know the reason, it’s just not the same Oh what a vacant breath when you say my name Do you know the weight I’m under When everything rev...

When another midnight comes to rest On the cheek of our sleeplessness All the crusaders will wake and dress Pull their flags from their pillowcases You could hear all of Eden hold its breath On this the anniversary of wonder’s death Unholy occasion what...

Willow tree by the sea Where the guards lie How I love to look at you With all my aching lie Winter comes winter kills Let it go by There’ll be better days Willow Don’t cry Willow star shine afar in a dark sky You’re the one I’m wishing on With all my weary...

In my mind-storm I did carry you Through the briars of disbelief Through the woods of lethargy Through a groaning dark so deep I thought I died In the fountain I did cool our feet Under red and rainless skies Singing ragged lullabies Through the grief...