Spirit of the West

mr. jones has a little problem if i had eyes i'd see that it was me he's the size of a man with the potential of a boy not what god had meant a child of its to be i'm afraid that he'll amount to all of nothing the joy of reading Yeats he'll never know an...

All packed up, the people gone. All tucked in, the TV on. Tonight a bedroom for myself. I'm gonna keep my mental health. I could burn this country down with the end of a cigarette. Why do you put up with me? Why do I put up with this when, (Chorus)...

At the corner of Elm and Northeast Houston Staring up at the Southeast window Someone circled allegedly I refuse to pay six bucks to see People posing on the grassy knoll How many was that just him and Lincoln? I was squinting through the sun, do they c...

O'Connell was a steel worker, bluecollar man he was labelled Been 21 years on the Yarrows Dock slining welding cable He married a good Catholic girl at the age of 21 By the time, he reached 28, she'd borne seven young He put in hours of overtime to keep...

Jesus hangs behind the glass Above venitian doors His window box boasts crimson flowers Fresh cut the day before And you couldn't find a smile If you nailed it to his face But Jesus Christ hangs his head with grace And if Venice is sinking I'm going...

High above the clouds Bring on the trolley Release three loons For a screw-top red And as we watch the Earth diminsh Will it linger on the finish? Rest's assured when the bottle's dead We'll leave a jet-trail across the sky Just like Armstrong and the...

Come with us we've got a car A tank of gas and a mini bar Let's go mow some bus stops down Dine and dash and clown around COme on be a guy. Be a guy Down in the canyon there's a pool Where the cold, black water has claimed some fools Crack a beer and s...

Don't let me spend my career Wound up in a bell jar the pop star gone too far Don't let me end up in here A self-centered spaceman out orbiting graceland Hey check out my placeman This is disgraceland I don't want to be the man with the big head Never l...

I never liked a bleeding heart But a bleeding heart's what I've become With a broken funny bone And a rubber crutch to lean upon How can I turn from this mistake? How can I bend? I know you'll break When you love so willingly Love so willingly Love s...

Feels a little strange mixing blood with honey spiking pain with pleasure You and I together Never been worse, never been better Love and money for the making both are there at my awakening And don't you beleive the jump is worth the fall Just look at...

And he grabbed it by the hand And he pulled and pulled 'til someone pushed And then he fell on the front page of America And all the bright stars came out and shone in his defense Rehabilitation - What a joke Is it off to Betty Ford for the handy bloke...

Can't accept the saint dying here before me passing out the pearls while reaching up to glory On my carousel I am whipping dancing horses riding up and down chasing tails and choices I miss the mortal you have shed Whose tongue was sharp like a pointe...

It's here where I feel it Funny how it's, funny how it's here Where I feel it Funny how it's, funny how it's here. 

There was writing on the walls Looked like "Circus" there for me We were smoking Karl Marx With the junkies in the park I watched the barmaid keeping track By marking X's on our mats And this is how it all began On our first campaign to the Fatherland...

Walking off the stage to the gates and off the page I'd be shot out of breath, out of everything Come back Oscar, don't stay at home. Come back Oscar, to the microphone. Speed freak, sexy beast, latin lover, crazy mother where you been. You with the wid...

You with the jaundiced eyes, drunk on your own reflection Propped up wiht desks and flags, 8 chairs short of Perfection Lines drawn here, there and everywhere None of your own volition Unrecognized you pace you shadow Stripped of all your definition Sco...

The lighthouse winks across the water Blue-white streamers; a beacon of light Standing empty, whitewashed tower Where progress and man pass like ships in the night We're watching the right hand Not watching the left hand Soon we'll be watching the world...

I offered up a weak embrace 'Till her song began to thin Slowing to a trickle down her chin Every head is cocked and still Her troubles have gone on display We knew her well before she lost her way Should she drink on that prescription? Mental's not an...

Death on the beach, without any eyes Just a hollow head, I'm surprised to feel nothing Curious but nothing Death on the beach, vultures all around Scatter for the breeze as I shuffle 'cross the ground They won't come down yah, but they're waiting And d...

the water is black the coast was clear now they're sweating dollars dripping fear what a way to end the fiscal year mopping up the dirty pool mopping up the dirty pool they've given us a new career it's the make work project of theyear oh dear god bles...

The lorries roll through St. John Street And stir up the dust It never seems to settle nowadays There's a young man on the corner Just watch the rigs roll by He doesn't know how to drive And he can't afford to learn And he collects his money every week...

I'm a part of the furniture, this boozer's my home I've been here forever, this barstool's my throne I'm drinking short whiskeys with a half pint of stout I smoke senior service or one of yours when i'm out And i'm always out The women say i'm foul, the m...

Don't smell like beer, no smoke in here In a clean glass case, lie the artifacts of the famous face That's Elvis Presley - that does distress me Looks nothing like him, more like Chris Spedding who wrote "Motorbikin" Hey, everythings not okay 'Cause nobo...

I'll take a stand for truth and justice Then line you up against the wall Loyal people gather 'round me Until someone points the finger, then alone i fall I can make you rise in anger Or watch your anger rise and swallow me I'm the bane of your existance...

I'm so content to stand in line, wait and see, pass the time, talk a streak, fall asleep, wake up late, whine and weep, I kiss the hand that slaps me senseless, I'm so accepting, I am so defenseless, I am far too Canadian, I am far too Canadian, I pi...

Said it once, said it twice It carried on through the night You were feeling big and looking bigger You came down upon her figure Six-foot-four, two-hundred pounds They held you high above the ground Get down, get down tonight You rode the wave that s...

God's apprentice fell from heaven, the angels let him drop The maker's dozen's now eleven, disrobed and caught... With his pants down, with their pants down The vestry door was shut Hands below the bible belt, it's not a stroke of luck All of god's chil...

The angel watching over me Was needed someplace else Kicked out the feet from under me And watched me fall to earth I learned a thing or two, you know it It's true Goodbye grace There are no words I'd rather say Than goodbye grace Never want to see...

this tumble down street's just a run down street ringing with the clatter of restless feet they're kicking in the windows on gottingen street just to steal the quiet for the night in the morning there will be no pain just a drug coursing through the veins...

And the Guildhall witness never said a word Just stared from the window as a head hit the curb And the bat left the boot chain hit it's mark, man stays down, house gets dark And it's showtime in the wrong place, in the wrong colour in the wrong face of a...

I can barely keep a grip on the pen I hold Better get a grip on myself I'm told I've grown bitterly, shameslessly, indescribably cold I dove well into my cups And wrote you a note full of wonderful smut The things I'll do to you for us will be Heaven...

You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best I've been gone for a month, I've been drunk since I left These so-called vacations will soon be my death I'm so sick from the drink I need home for a rest. We arrived in December and London was cold We stayed...

The difference between being on the bottom or the top Is you fight for what you have, they fight for what you've got And if what you have is what they want they'll make the laws then break them They see money, they'll remake them, they don't understand-- W...

The difference between being on the bottom or the top Is you fight for what you have, they fight for what you've got And if what you have is what they want they'll make the laws then break them They see money, they'll remake them, they don't understand-- W...

Is this where I come in? When your head is in your hands D'you rather be alone?, if you do I understand Well honestly I'm sorry I tracked mud across your plans Is there where I rush in? For I am your saving grace, healer of the herd, descending on your sp...

January follows December with a month of rain February waits for March to spring back again April, May remove your clothes so go expose your skin June comes on putting colour back into your skin July lays a hint of blond straight through your hair August...

This is what we want, you know how to get it Bring it on home, rub our faces in it Show us something shocking, show us something grim Show us something more Cause the something's wearing thin it on down Don't let me down Don't let me down Don't let me d...

I was the King of Scotland, his Excellency I was the king of all the beasts of the earth and the fishes of the sea I was your Gentle Giant, President for life Backed up with Brithish tanks, American bullets and Israeli knives And you were part of the ring...

A little bird told me a secret today, I closed my eyes and wish that he'd fly away. When you're blind with love, When you're blind with love, You need a seeing eye friend. Now I'm a part of a circle, In a line of well-informed friends... Tell me things...

they were right, we've been trying to play god without a license light the candles i'll pour tea don't pass judgement just pass the cream i work in mysterious, mysterious ways let's make a mystery with a name and a history let's make a mystery, shall w...

young boy is killed by a gun toting driver he caught him cuase the kid went too far when the mad was asked why he replied with conviction i caught the young punk throwing stones at my car stones at my car uncle sam's on the billboard stars and stripes...

...I know we've shared those days... Mildred says her life is alright She does her job and sleeps well at night And her days are filled with underwear and idle conversations Mildred says her life is alright Mildred leaves the day well behind With her u...

I feel so gentle that the lord seeps in On the back of the organ's reedy din Here where the concert choirs rehearse Here where dead poets wax their worst I take comfort here, hanging with the dead Sticks, stones, buried bones soothe my sorry head And as...

I hope you get your 15 years of fame Three square a day And a picture with your name Across your chest would suit you best How you feeling all is well? You get more than you expected when it exploded Living hell's alive and well congratulations give yo...

The day became undone she called her faith a liar She lost the lovely one whose weight was once inside her Her son was snatched from the sky his leap of faith blew him wide took him over to the other side The day began to run and stained the glass bes...

i can strum a little, i can hold a chord this ain't the gospel and i ain't the lord i'm no holy roller, but for what it's worth my freedom's a train ride to heaven on earth it's not just a train it's saying goodbye, saying hello to where we have been, w...

Our super-hero in a maple-leaf cape Was locked in the trunk of a car and he escaped He's a Moosehead muppet on an ex-pat kick Got a valid passport and he's proud of it Prairie boy-wonder why are you spittin' corn In the Yankee's eye? Aways-away and g...

I know a little place that you might not have found; It looks down on the city from the underground, This is our station in the heart of town. Leave the weather at the door, leave the rush out on the street, Let down your jewels, take the weight off your...

How long have you been hiding, 'till they found you in my riding You'd assumed a different name, another life but all the same You can take the boy out of the Reichstag Can't take the Reichstag Out of the boy Can't take out it out of the boy Can't take...

It's too, it's too bright in here It's way too bright in here With a staple gun and a can of paste We'll paper the streets with your face wall to wall, pole to pole Let the welcome wagon roll we will manage your exposure Press release with full disclosu...

Sometimes you get the scare of your life when you least expect it In a gas station reading someone elses nightmare Like a kick in the head for this first time father that's why... I believe we're right in being paranoid I believe that monsters are for r...

I was tired of being put right down By myself for not being what you thought You had found pulled hard in two directions By a desire to learn and my old affections When I tried to share my world with you You could not seem to tolerate The people I had g...

His eyes are blistered from the dog Red and swollen from the petting Through admitting to a bed it's all so upsetting A shelter for the cut and burned All those limbs gone black with bruise A box to help him pass the wait Toys that he can learn to use...

there's a cold wind blowin' through the old east side it cuts with the devil's curse they're turning our people into the streets, while the landloards line their purse with the greenback dollar of the tourist trade there's a fortune to be had make way fo...

you put the dumbest things in the strangest places behind the door, on the floor a cabinet full of empty faces let's give it a miss this time give it a miss this time is there a problem here running through the ranks loss of faith, loss of face capta...

I found my coat Had trouble with the sleeves We lifted your box And bent at the knees Know what tears the most? It's the disregard for your holy ghost You left the world, the world kept going. Now I'm alone I'm alone And I don't fit here in our home...

there's only sixty days 'til christmas so the metal must be cold as the jumper's fingers struggle with the choice to free or hold and when he looks up for compassion you only bring him down you've been waiting here for hours to see him jump, splash, and...

'Twas a November storm, not a ship dared the waters, Except Tom Hawkins' Good Times; All thirty-two feet has been chopped up like meat, And the wind sent her chills up his spine. From Lady Smith the Harbour he ran the gulf mail, Twenty years through Stuar...

You cannot stop a river if it has a place to go You can redirect the water but you can't arrest the flow You can dam it, but you'll damn yourself Then you'll never know Where the river would have taken you if you had let it Run boy, run boy The ground...

Hello love it's London calling Wave the white hanky, a breath for the belly Keep on hoping for blood in the morning Nothing's right, everything's hurting Everything's hurting Goodbye love my lids are falling Sleep with thoughts upon your middle Made an...

I'm not worried, it's a 1, 000, 000 miles away yeah i saw the news it happens every day some cronkite look-a-like numb from what he's reading wake me up! wake me up! it's one of us that's screamin' Save this house... save this house, the party's gotta...

The worst of it's we're always half afraid I've knocked you dead and had them bled and broken play the torn to someone's swollen Today I shared a coffee with the world I won't allow another starving child into my home I think I'd rather drink alone I...

they've been still in their tracks for many's the year through watching and waiting they've made their careers and they've got frozen hands like broken down clocks they wait by the door for opportunity's knock -chorus- they say there's a snake that c...

they say it's no big deal girls he's just one 's' shy of a she, sure hey it's only words they why is it he instead of her always you're moaning kick start that broken down brain in your head get smart why believe every word that you've read get straig...

Dear Lisa, I'm sorry you've lived with my folly Suppose you're wondering where I am, so am I, wondering where I am I saw that church grand isn't it, someone believes in it, someone was buried there Someone was carried there hoping to healed, that's why I l...

Everything's in order and filed inside my head I know our match was made in heaven and that love is made in bed You have my complete approval I'll put an 'X' within your square All the power to you, I know how much you care I guess I'm just a slow learne...

I moved the mountain with my finger Climbed to the top in my chair Didn't even need no Tensing To pull me up there, into thin air I need no one, I need nothing Just a free hand and a chair And it's a small, small world 'cause I can see it from the grou...

Dragged in his fathers footsteps Onto other people's doorsteps To shoe-gaze through another afternoon He's well turned out, his pants are pressed He's dripping in his Sunday best As the sun beats down in time to the sound Of his father going on about the...

spot the difference here i'm the only one not smiling i'm the only one afraid of dying i'm not the one who's up there dancing or talking with stragers small talk with strangers normal. i'm so normal i'm depressed here i'm the one who's better dressed he...

We were splitting up You split up instead You lost your head last night And your body came to bed Your face came back to haunt me When your body ran away I'd put them back together But together they won't stay Skeletons in the closet Ghosts out in the...

i was sitting in basil's with a friend and coffee thinking the world a fine place to be when the man on my right got up to leave and left a little piece of his mind with me he said, "faggots like you should be put in asylums" now tell me, who takes the bl...

Tell me what I think You drive, I'll drink, you drive me Getting tired, feeling wired and I'm treading water Tonight my evening's pleasure's in a glass Black and creamy headed, draining fast Then you crashed in, all full of questions Tell me what I th...

Well, we're good old boys, we come from the North Shore, Drinkers and carousers the likes you've never seen; And this night, by God! We drank till there was no more, From the Troller to the Raven with all stops in between. It all began one afternoon on th...

We twisted you arm over Chinese And led you astray Offered the world as we know it And a pittance in pay And your fortune read "Don't believe a word they've said" Blood through your sleeve, I just couldn't Believe that you'd been To the shop where a p...

There's a siren ringing loud A call of distress It's winding through these streets Making all you people deaf I think you're hearing fine Just choosing to ignore The house that wait outside your door I think your keeping sane By not keeping score Of t...

And around it goes... how were they to know? That around it goes... we live with our eyes closed A lone cloud lingers over the land Beauty faces the time's demands Nature rules over seas and sand And so form the mists of Crofton A native people they und...

From the old sod to the new land We came over by the score We cut the ties said goodbye And closed the old world door We settled on our praries In your cities and your towns There's another oatmeal savage Every time you turn around There's none more s...

I stole a Kiss, I broke a heart I copped a feel in the dark I tell you kids, the truth is this What starts with smiles will lead to lips Once you touch, I do believe You'll grow together thick as thieves You'll share a cell, a bed as well When you lead...

This old house is a-tumbling down The walls are gone but the roof is sound The landlord's deaf, he can never be found It's time to ring some changes They'll arrest you son if you just stand still They'll ask you to pose with your hand in the till They'll...

I remember a promise for a new tomorrow I remember a promise to save our youth Well I remember security for our aging But when you made the pudding You left out all the proof I seem to recall you mentioning the word hope I seem to recall you mentioning...

Many wondered where it was They'd seen it earlier mouthing words But the P.C. head was not invited Later on was never sighted The other head, on the other hand was full of devilment and plans To likewise entertain and shock With dark and dirty on the r...

The ceiling's too familiar Laying slackjawed on my back and words spill out like puzzles as she tries to fill the gap But my lover's not my mother And the hands that wipe my ass Are the hands that once caressed me I don't want them to detest me And I...

I'm waiting for Martin, in a theatre that's darkened I found a secret box in Christchruch Bought a new pen making sure that it works He lives in two flats that stand back to back From here rang the bells of the submarine Squeezed out from amongst the fig...

The Saint Andrews' Cross The slate rooves and the chimney pots Are dirty against the snow Speeding away from Glasgow A carriage with a view The holiday makers are few The off-season beats the peak and Sterling town's still fast asleep I'm waking the...

there's water in the well and the gate is always open there's wood out in the shed and the chimney's always smokin' the kettle's on the boil now and won't you stay for tea and help us with the garden and we'll help you rake your leaves money doesn't t...

There's something there in Williamson's Garage I think it's me trying to start a fire With autumn leaves and gasoline The flames leapt up to bite my sleeves It's only a painting But not too pretty a picture Into my home, a real native boy Full blooded b...

In the shadow of Modigliani The German punkers lie Each with a dog, on a bit of string And filling half the sky The Koln Cathedral offers calm And quiet expectations And then Elvis lit a candle on my day of revelations Threw out a wish on a long piece o...

Over the sidewalk under the archway Through the door again Planting charges seed of destruction Time is caving in Here we are at mile zero This is St. John's Newfoundland But you can hear the strains of Nero Serenade the demolition man The sun is risin...