The 88

The rain keeps pouring down There’s a ghost in every room When darkness rolls around I’ll get light from that spiteful moon I’d feel better if you’d call Seems I miss you after all Yes you’re far away And it’s only that I fear It’s there you want to...

Honey hide all the light Go and shut that shade Outta sight outta mind Is the game weʼll play Itʼs getting harder to breathe But tonight weʼre safe Cause after hours When the drunks go separate ways Starry showers And weʼre not boats on different wav...

Honey I don’t think it’s funny Where is all the money I need you to save me Don’t be how’s the dope below me Take it out to show me Dying just to throw me Downcast whiplash and down in the stall You’ll believe me Baby I need hope to save me Tell me I’m...

I've been sinking through the drain of love lift my eyes to skies of up above listen to me this is how I feel since I knew you all my thoughts are real you're the only one i wanna do everything's new and it's all ‘cause of you I've been moving cause my heart...

I don't mind where you come from As long as you come to me I don't like illusions I can't see Them clearly I don't care no I wouldn't dare To fix the twist in you You've shown me eventually What you'll do I don't mind... I don't care... As long as you're her...

I have no reason to be cold And I should watch my words But sometimes honey I donʼt know if I Am really changing or Iʼm stuck to the bottom of a mess Iʼve made With thoughts so low Cause Iʼve been so afraid Oh no not that I guess Iʼll leave it in the p...

Give me your hands Show me the door I cannot stand To wait anymore Somebody said Be what you be We could be old and cold and dead on the scene But I love you more than words can say I can't count the reasons I should stay Give me some rope Tie me to...

You just all need to settle down Thereʼs no need to wake the dead Then sheʼll just be forced to come around To take all you from my head Yes itʼs true I donʼt sound so good And itʼs true Iʼve been in pain But when my gift horse is not around Iʼm me with...

I hate to say it but I can’t stand seeing you Cause every word upon your tongue is untrue Gonna tell the world about it Just so that they know Talkin’ till I shout it And I can’t talk anymore Cause it’s a bad love I hate to say it but I can’t stand see...

I know you can and you should but you won't dear took out a part of your heart when they don't cheer was it a medal you got when you woke there? on your own dear when you were young you were hung up and lied to every man with a plan got inside you was it the...

Don't believe anybody else fantasy falling for yourself I, I don't believe anything you like got to keep pulling at your life I, I I feel like I'm 18 with the bowls on the scene and the big poster wet dream wating for my by the way praying for a runaway I h...

There’s no reason to show me I can think for myself When you’re asleep I wake hungry and wide awake I guess there’s no more to tell Now the flowers are growing And there’s songs I can sell I don’t much have much to say Each time you go away I guess th...

Drag me out of eye for eye With Sundayʼs souls Who live to die And leave me in the pouring rain To know myself To feel my pain Cause Iʼve been drawing closer every day To the center of the sun And though Iʼd like to tell you I could stay I know Iʼm al...

Won’t you be safe Won’t you be true I lie awake, just thinking of you I'm all alone Honey, come home 'Cause when you're here I feel like myself And when you're not, I'm somebody else I got it bad Honey, please come back Because you need a pla...

She had a mouth that was stolen From magazines she was holdinʼ She kept her name in the papers Itʼs good for calling in favors And in the back of my mind All the signs came down upon me Right down on me And I could see Yes I could see And I could see...

Iʼm a habit Youʼre some running joke Iʼm not worth repeating Youʼre fixed but not broke But in that nothing To where I was led I searched for your reasons But found mine instead I had my eyes wide open My mouth was dry I saw the sunlight choking O...

Clean your life away under the God Mama the gun papa the gun And those sea racing sidewalk genes splicing in the midday sun Chasing the one Tell your friends today Show em your mop Everything’s good, everything’s good And those mad raving deportees rott...

Everybody loves me but me ooh ooh ooh ooh eee feel so big but then I'm small wrote the writing on the wall and I'm just looking out for me everybody needs me but me ooh ooh ooh ooh eee I got the big old fashioned head I can't believe what It just said and it'...

Well I was stranded on the ocean I was drowning there at best. So I came unto your desert where I tried to bide But I got so excited. I can gives what you wanted And he gives you what you need He don't care if you don't show up Cause a man in need is such a f...

Went to hell in my Sunday clothes Fell asleep with a bloody nose As for where I was going No one knows Then you walked up and I could tell There's no blood and there's no hell And I felt like singing, "If I fell" Go to heaven Where you are Keep your...

Well God is coming To break your heart and to show you up Yeah and I was just druggin To let me know all about the ups Yeah and I’ll be believin The itty second that he comes And I’ll be a big boy As soon as I can figure out And I will be huggin All t...

Day two made you I could hear the sign Fall down way down I would never lie I know it’s hard to be you Dust and the high that you knew Giving you hope from the sign I know everything’s fine Give me something I don’t ever own Look down way down I c...

Thank God you’re an open book Thank God you’re a scam Thank God you’re a runaway Thank God for your man I’m giving thanks that you’re old enough to hate me Thank God you’re a throw away Thank God for your fans Thank God you’re cryin meat And thank God...

I got a lot of something you ought to try I'm gonna haunt you for the rest of your life I got a lot of catching up left to do just for me and for you at the heart of something I wanna say I'm gonna haunt you for the rest of your days I got a lot of things tha...

Fallin to fall made you feel small showed up to crawl away say what you said made up my head no one is led astray now my bed is burning running around with my head cut off and the big ones see my churning giving it up like i've had enough I know it's wrong...

You don’t have to look while the world keeps changin’ You don’t have to look while your bones are agin’ Sentimental books and a paint by numbers You don’t want to wake from the spell you’re under Life will look good in a photograph Picking up steam till...

Over and over they just say no sir and now it's a big blur I hid it up my sleeve you gotta believe me hey I need it badly and they never see me those sentimental fools and I got the west coast sunshine but it don't mean a thing I'm getting over like I knew...

Back when you were down and out Up from your toes And out of your mouth Was that same old song Someone mustʼve done you wrong again Think about the things you did Cigarettes, poems, and idiot kids Theyʼre all famous now But I hope you all learned how t...

With the cops on your lips it's a holy routine If you'd stop all your trips you could see what I mean I forgot not to slip 'bout you're under 18 You had it in your hands Leave it up to me It's a known disease Keep it in your fleece Don't worry about the custo...

Thank God it's over the end never came you showed me I wouldn't be the same And I was calling just to feed your feeling but swore that I knew just what I needed I got lucky you know why I got lucky and I didn't try With love around me, I reache...

You got this songbird to sing You made me feel more than anything You gave me reason to smile And all the while You gave me love You saved a boy from himself You gave a hand when he needed help You tore me off of that wall And most of all You gave me...

It’s life like mine It’s a dope-sick play It’s a blue-faced find Gonna die today It’s a plastic heaven It’s the all white tan I’m a man It’s a black tooth mess It’s the acne scar It’s a sharp tool blessed It’s that VCR It’s a counterfeit vision...

Here I am, Its just so far to go I had you in my sight, well then you turn out all the lights I had a big idea, I was gonna let you know. But my voice was strange. it changed before I let it go But first you're so in love, then you're suffocated But when...

Don't you worry, baby, I told you I was comin' home I went into the back, Fell between the cracks, All alone So when you say you did, Well, let's say you didn't When you roll your eyes, I think you it get it, To memory, That we could never be I'm...

Reading bones in a record silly tunes break hoping to shake out of bounds up and down pick a cliche any thought is a lesson beating 'em through eating time too smoking crack in the back waiting for you feet slide and heat slide and breeze before me making tr...

Your cry seat Has the smell of a whore It might seem Never fun anymore Call up your thief He knows the score He lies believe It’s funny honey It’s a good night For a crime in the dark You saw light Has the power to spark I know you saw the kind of...

There’s a thousand hours Walking here between us And a million holes To dodge here on the floor And even though the sleeping wolves surround us There’s you and me And really nothing more And I don’t want to sing this song But I have to Let me go I d...

My gun exploded Blew a hole right through the wall And have you noticed that I come each time you call I’m gonna run through the door Down to the floor It must be true Nobody does it like you do Now I’ve been shakin’ Like a leaf up in a tree And you...

Left at the altar Proud to be seen A serpent in his saviorʼs eyes But itʼs easy to see Heʼs got that hole inside I surrender my throat My feet donʼt choke and lie Raised out of shadows Tempted with flames And brought up in a senseless night But itʼs...

I got up, I got down I could barely breathe or make a sound Then a man came to me He said I think I know exactly what you need He told me Love is the thing The thing you ought to try The thing you ought to try No need to ask me why He said that Love...

Heavy is the heart That reaches out in vain And tears itself apart And runs back for the same. And many are the songs That only go unheard. But when our body's gone We both will sing along And we'll know every word. And out in the yard Hands will b...

Melting in the sun She was undone Bringing sheets for hats Sensing I was small I became tall Swinging meats and bats Doesn’t it seem We broke it off too soon Doesn’t it seem We know the stalling tune Running out the back Dashing for crack Keepin...

Early in the morning Nigel wakes you from a pleasant dream And he tells you that he’s hungry And you’d better move Nigel can’t afford to lift His head and by the door, he sits Don’t forget you that you must call him By his second name Bojangles Wait...

1. Throw away the paper And throw away the mail Be bad if you wanna Be prepared to feel And all the expectations I will never meet Take you to the point Of never believing And you're tired of me, My love Chorus: But there's no one here who loves yo...

Bleeding from your head You should pull it out instead No one comes to see Failing from the start Taking every scene apart Loathing life and me And everybody thinks I’m gone for good But I believe I know my head Breaking up the cop Begging everyone t...

Open your ears this is a story it isn't clear is he a fool or a god? but I don't care who knows it and I don't care who sees lift up my head and roll into a dream get out the way he's never sorry lives in a play he knows it's always your fault but I don't car...

Got a new revelation wrote on the wall ya I got a new inspiration watching you fall I put a hole in your pocket that you never saw ya I put a hole in your pocket you never saw so now you wanna get back all your love that you say is coming in from above and y...

First I gave up and ignored me As for love well that’s another story I got drunk off wait and sees Found that I’m really in a war with me Now slow down I said I’m gonna get up I want it bad but enough’s enough I want to see how my own voice sounds I...

Let me outside so I can breathe I’m already flesh and blood At least that’s what I think Hand me your card and go sit still You don’t really wanna call I bet you never will And if you stray you wont get far You get reeled in politely And if you stay...

Back when I was skin and bones I looked up I wasn’t alone But I was the one And I was getting it done But something had me good Back when I was ma and pa I knew with them I held up my guard But I was engaged And I would sit in the cage But somethin...

Well it all began like a new routine We were drunk, we were tired, we were sick, we were in between And the jig was up when the sun went down It was dark, it was mean, it was black, there was not a sound And when the morning papers did not come We shook o...

I don’t know I think it just depends I’m on the high and flyin morning It’s just a Sunday afternoon I’m feeling God and I believe him I don’t know I think it’s just the pills I’m on the high and flyin morning It’s just a Sunday afternoon I’m feelin...

Donʼt be sorry Donʼt you cry And donʼt you worry Cause we donʼt die And Iʼm scared But I love you And that takes it away Donʼt be angry Or upset And when youʼre crazy Donʼt forget That Iʼm scared But I love you And that takes it away And look a...

You took their breath with just a little wink You had their heart with just a dance Had them crawling, yeah you made them think Ah that they really had a chance Down and alone And never shown how They ought to see you now Yeah you were meant for only su...

I'm gonna take this heart I'm tired of leavin' it Your kind of love has gotta poor boy believin' When I call your name Oh, all you do is run Ah, but then you whisper in my ear And all those things just disappear Take these eyes I do not need 'em I h...

When you were young What did you dream? What did you love? What would you be? A rush from your head... Down to your feet And everything stopped. And you wanted it So much. You said you needed it So much. But then you hated it So much. You said...

There was nobody home so we ran upstairs And you tore off your clothes and I sat and I stared There’s a million and one things that I’d like to try So we went to the top but we got much too high At least we felt alive We rolled like pigs in the mud We l...

And who is this before me And who is this before me And who is this before me I don’t care that no one really knows me Command my rage I wanna be your friend Command my arms I wanna be your friend Ten thousand ways For me to be your friend But I kil...

Iʼll stay down below Carve out our names in wood And under stars that glow Iʼll be away for good And if I find the sea Scratch out our names in sand And by that ocean deep Iʼll be another man Well Iʼve been stranded in a place called hell And Iʼve run...

I treat it like a high school dance waiting in the wings for my big chance but I would only stare at my shoes you belong to me I belong to you I could tell an antique lie full of all the things I want to hide but that would only lead to the truth you belong t...

If they think that I’m lucky Well, honey they’re right They can say what they want to They can all leave my sight Cause after all I will be yours tonight And it’s easy to say it It’s harder to show I can take you for granted But I hope that you know...