The Afghan Whigs

- Dulli - You walked in Just like smoke With a little come on, come on, come on In your walk Well, come on I've been waitin' Are you waitin? For my move, well I'm makin' it So tell me baby, can you shake it? If I can move it with ya Will you let...

Flamed, the time when nearly changed Still I was a slave, waiting to be saved Dream, the body sleeps but I Am not to proud to roll On the back streets So, so simple when you know You'll know this when it's time to go Strange, the sooner you leave behin...

(Paul K.) hey man what is that yr thinkin maybe YOU can get away there must be lots of pressure & lots of bills to pay amphetamines & coffee it almost makes you gag too many big decisions no more time to play slip into something classic turn...

Now that you've gone All that's left is a band of gold All that's left are the dreams I hold Is a band of gold And the memories of what love could be If you were still here with me You took me from the shelter of my mother I have never known or loved a...

Are you back in my life to stay Or is it just for today Oh that you need me If it's a thrill you're lookin for Well honey I am flexible Oh yeah Just.... Be for real Wont you baby Be for real Wont you baby You see I, I don't want, to be hurt by love again You...

(Dulli/McCollum) Ladies, let me tell you about myself I got a dick for a brain And my brain is gonna sell my ass to you Now I'm OK, but in time I'll find I'm stuck 'Cause she wants love, and I still want to fuck Now that I'm ashamed, it burns But the w...

the way people smile and say, using me in every way it's ok times are changing life is upside down no reason to cry now oh no reason to cry now beware of who you listen to beware of what you believe ain't nothing i can do to you to make you love me...

(Dulli) My lust it ties me up In chains My skin catches fire at the Mention of your name No matter what I tried 2 do I could not lose it Now I know my heart Is being used But what I'm not allowed to have I never could refuse No matter what I tried...

(Dulli) Love I can't hide But it's been easier Since I said it now Love It don't end And I can't buy A friend I waited long The waiting's over So get on down This time we go a little lower The sun has broke I stretch it out And throw some gas...

Start the car Check the mirror Shut the door Slot the gear We leave tonight Ain't nothin' but the stripes Ain't nothin' but the stripes See the light Be the night Feel the road River rise, synchronize Bleed some more We leave tonight If I'm unci...

I've heard people say that Too much of anything is not good for you, baby Oh no But I don't know about that There's many times that we've loved We've shared love and made love It doesn't seem to me like it's enough There's just not enough of it There's just no...

- Dulli - Jean Content He wake up everyday In a government yard Deep down inside Citi Soleil Roll some bones and catch a fire Evil minds, they will conspire The moon to lose its light The stars sink into night Across the town A young girl plays guit...

I've been cryin' (for you) cuz I'm lonely tmiles have all turned to tears tears won't wash away the fear That you're never ever gonna return to ease that fire that within me burns it keeps me cryin' baby for you keeps me sighing baby for you (for you...

(Dulli/McCollum) i walk around with this all over me i cannot wash it clean you've got the ball you've got the ball i'm taking it from you and today it's in the blood i left it in the blood you see so put the words together i'll be with you forever...

(Dulli/McCollum/Curley/Earle) i smell your blood, my love but i can't taste it yet i have your mind, my love but i can't waste it yet please understand my love i find this sickening my head is ice my love my skin is thickening but oh! my love we cou...

- Dulli - Whatever did happen to your soul? I heard you sold it To some old boy who lived uptown Who could afford it So what's gonna happen to you now? Therapy... The pharmacy Crazy That's what you'd like to believe But it ain't easy When yer goin'...

(Austin) The 22nd of loneliness and we've been through so many thangs I love my girl with all honesty But I know she's cheatin' on me I look her in the eyes but all she tells me are lies that keep me near I'll never leave her down though I might mess...

(Dulli) Tonight, tonight I say goodbye To everyone who loves me Stick it to my enemies, tonight Then I disappear Bathe my path in shining light Set the dials to thrill me Every secret has its price This one's set to kill Too loose, too tight, too da...

(Dulli) Hear me now and don't forget I'm not the man my actions would suggest A little boy, I'm tied to you I fell apart That's what I always do This ain't about regret My conscience can't be found This time I won't repent Somebody's going down Fe...

(Dulli) my love don't comfort me she toys with my sincerity on that i can depend i've found that nothing's straight my twisted mind is bent all out of shape but you will come back and you will live on indeed i know but you wouldn't lie when i told yo...

Criminal I'd bet you're bad See the knife in the water Send you back to bed All over your body This electricity It was all that I wanted Now it's killin' me You say you're ready If I'm an animal Let's get a room real soon We'll talk the supernatur...

(Dulli/McCollum) It was a Saturday I came home early drunk with love And other things I must confess I love it all Pretend that I can hardly wait To wipe that smile off of your face It's only when On that you can depend Later that afternoon My para...

(Dulli) You can believe in me, baby Can I believe in you? What you don't know Can hurt you, child All the things a mind can Do to you If I go bad From time to time Love to love but love is not My only crime Bathe the path, shine the light Better...

(Dulli) Angel, I'm sober I got off that stuff Just like you asked me to Angel, come closer So the stink of your lies Sinks into my memory She said baby, forever, but I don't like to be alone So don't stay away too long Baby, forever, well it's Tuesda...

(Dulli) Your attention, please Now turn off the light Your infection, please I haven't got all night Understand, do you understand? Understand, I'm a gentleman I stayed in too long But she was the perfect fit And we dragged it out so long this time...

(Dulli) Lover mine Get your coat and come outside I wanna take you for a ride On into town Lover fair We'll be looking sharp, I swear I want them all to stop and stare When we take 'em down Go to town, burn it down, turn around and get your stroll...

i smoke a pack a day i hit the pipe sometimes & drink my pay screw my friends understand my need to offend come home & smack the woman around tried to apologize but she deserved it that i know strangled with her pantyhose what's with the flowe...

(Dulli) eat my imagination taste my imaginary friend i know your ass is fine but i'm the only who one can say... that it's mine 

(Dulli) Got u where I want u Motherfucker I got 5ive up on your dime And if u wanna peep on something Peep what I got stuck between Your eyes And since I don't believe A word u say Save it for another, baby brother Swallow time 2 pay Up on the ladder they si...

(Austell/Graham) I wanna leave you But I just can't leave you I keep coming back For a little more of your love I wanna go away But honey, I just can't stay I keep coming back For a little more of your love And I can't understand When I try as ha...

he liked to kiss the boys he liked to kiss the girls he liked to kiss the inbetweeners rub his tongue on their gums rub his tongue on their gums & lie with them & lie to them & light it up i know your little secret watch my eyes they see...

(Dulli) get off that stuff she said and i'll stone you instead unchain yourself said she and tie yourself to me i'm on the floor i play with knives you can call and ask your wife she's been over once or twice likes to use me and i'm her slave but i...

(Arlen/Harberg) When a man's an empty kettle He should be on his mettle and yet I'm torn apart Just because I'm presumin' that I could be kind of human If I only had a heart I'd be tender, I'd be gentle and awful sentimental regarding love and art I'd...

(Dulli) What should I tell her? She's going to ask If I ignore it, it gets uncomfortable She'll want to argue about the past Still I think she believes me Every word I say I think I'm starting to believe it all myself Go ask the gentlemen who play it...

- Dulli - Hey... Welcome home I got a little wine Some Marvin Gaye Come on and taste me Come on and take me, I'm yours Dance, little sister, dance This is my girl you're talkin' to There isn't anything I wouldn't do So take me... Taste me... Erase me...

(Dulli/McCollum) hypnotized by this endless summer filled with nothing i keep with me won't let them take this nothing from me won't let you waste my time for me i've been a good boy so give it to me and keep your brothers away from me they know i took...

(Dulli) all alone, all alone no one to play with your eyes are all swollen from crying feeling sick you open it and discover your lover between the legs of another and he's loving it let me lie to you i'll be kind when i deceive you but you must nev...

(Rodgers/Hart) Sit back and count your fingers What else is there to do? Oh honey I know how you feel I know you feel like you're through Sit back, count, count your little fingers My unhappy, little, little girl Sit back Gonna count those raindrops Feel it...

Talk to me And I better not hear a word Do me baby I better not feel it girl I still got one bullet left in my nine Finna do a love crime Love crime Finna do a love crime Murder murder murder she wrote Love crimes Love crimes Murder murder murder she wrote Lo...

Now that the blood has begun I'd like to see how it's done Behind my back Up to my face Let's take the money and run Before you go for that, son You better think about luck While you're debating I'll be waiting for the sound of a bomb Boom Boom Boom...

(Dulli) if i stepped it off walked outside your trance crawled inside your mind and got my hands into your pants wouldn't that beat all wouldn't that be great and all the things you do to me we could exaggerate now everybody knows or everybody wants...

(The Ass Ponys) The storm was blowing from the South The blood was running from your mouth Glass was shattered on the floor A hundred pieces maybe more I remember you were crying Just befoere you sent it flying Silent sounding pounding on my floor Yo...

(Dulli) You hurt me baby I flinch so when you do Your kisses scourge me Hyssop in your perfume Oh, I do not fear you And slave I only use As a word to describe the special way I feel for you You look like me And I look like no one else We need no ot...

(Dulli) I hear the whispers, baby If what they say is true They say I killed the brother To fall in love with u These words I heard them once before A conversation I believe How does a man begin 2 fall When he does practice 2 deceive? There was a vo...

(Holland/Dozier/Holland) My world is empty without you, babe My world is empty without you, babe And as I roam my way alone I find it hard for me to carry on I need your strength, I need your tender touch I need the love, my dear, I miss so much My wor...

- Dulli/McCollum - I knew a girl, extraordinary Suggested something, unsanitary As I asked her for a moment To consider her kind offer She blew a kiss and said to me... I know you know You want it so I want it too, so see it through 'Cuz when I do...

(Dulli) Repeat these words After me In all honesty Repeat these words After me If you dare to believe this Yourself Am I vain? Have I shame? Are my thoughts of a man Who can call himself sane? Do I blame, all my pain On the wickedness I have arr...

mother's very proud of YOU son come & sit upon her knee i've got some new denial i want to change my plea i've seen through alcohol raise up the sheets again told YOU that YOU should fear me i love to pretend if i was to correct YOU every time YOU...

(Dulli) Since you're aware of the consequences I can pimp what's left of this wreck on you Bit into a rotten one, now didn't you? Now I can watch you chew Did you have blinders on my dear Or were you just willing? Or was I unaware of the damage a lie c...

- Dulli/McCollum - Up all night, again Az for sleep, no comprende I don't sleep 'cuz sleep iz the cousin of death Least that's what Nas say Sleep iz a state of mind And to know iz to be on your way I bought some bad drugs Off these snotty little rave k...

If time can incinerate what I was to you Allow me to illustrate how the hand becomes the fuse If they've seen it all, show em somethin' new And put out your innocence or you're gonna be smoke When she turns out the lights You're gonna make me break down...

(Dulli) if i stepped it off walked outside your trance crawled inside your mind and got my hands into your pants wouldn't that beat all wouldn't that be great and all the things you do to me we could exaggerate now everybody knows or everybody wants...

television's gone and i'm alone with Lucifer what a drag muthafucker lied to you muthafucker took me head you're never alone with your jones and all you can't forget so roll on up the price is down so come on come on come on come on. today the retard s...

The only way I can get through the day Is to make our life like it was yesterday I get up in the morning after crying all night long Laughing and talking like there ain’t nothing wrong. Cause if I ever, if I ever face reality I know, yes I know that it’s...

- Dulli - I got your phone number, baby I'll call you sometime I think I might, be out tonight Maybe give you a ride Cocktails for two, down lover's lane I wantcha so bad, after tonight I'll never walk the same And you're to blame I wanna getcha hi...

jane had a bottle of pills she kept beside her bed she took a couple when the sky came falling down "what do you see in me" she used to say out loud i see myself in a year if i'm still around & i don't feed the doll no no jane used to touch herself...

one eye open baby both hands tied behind my back surprise acomin in a cross street smile how so the changes have come slow takers drivin got to take the wheel we got their lives ahanging & their souls to steal give me a break [give me an arm] wishbon...

(Dulli) Whenever the light shines And the stillness is shaken And the drug of your smile has gone And left me alone I need it bad, I need it now Won't you come and give me some? I need it sweet, baby please Won't you answer the phone? Step into the l...

(Dulli) Did you feel the breeze? My love Summer's kiss is over, baby Over Do you know the words? Sing along with me And put on your rose fur coat, baby It's 1973 My love, this dream I have each night I stare into a blinding light Alone, I stare...

(Penn/Moman) At the dark end of the street That's where we always meet Hiding in shadows where we don't belong Living in darkness to hide our wrong You and me at the dark end of the street You and me I know time is gonna take its toll We have to pay...

- Dulli - Baby Don't make me worry aboutcha You look so sad What'd ya do, to make ya so blue? I have to ask ya, where do you go? You look so faraway sometimes I don't know, where do you go? I wanna go Miles away and miles above The vampire only wa...

Moneylenders and Merchants: Roll on up--for my price is down Come on in--for the best in town Take your pick of the finest wine Lay your bets on this bird of mine Roll on up--for the price is down Come on in--for the best in town Take your pick of the f...

(Dulli) this is my confession angel let's not make too much about it this is my confession angel let's not make too much about it don't say a word don't do a thing lock yourself inside my dear this is what i mean i'm lying now i always do i know my...

(Dulli) hey, baby there's a vampire moon scaling the sky shine in your room your eyes are open you got nothing to do come outside and play with me tonight follow me down to the bushes dear no one will know we'll disappear i'll hold your hand we'll...

how many girls would choose a cotton-dress world when they could have satins and lace? to stand by her man through good times and bad and still keep a smile on her face? how many hearts would feel the winter's wind blow and still not turn cold? true lo...

(Dulli/McCollum/Curley/Earle) untie the boat and turn on the water i'm gone, i'm gone, i'm gone it's alright untie the boat and turn on the water i'm gone, i'm gone, i'm gone it's alright carry me out deep into the ocean save me a prayer and let me ov...

- Dulli - Uptown again Nobody home Feelin' surrounded Should never left me on my own Remember nothing, hypnotize They say the eyes they never lie Your eyes have failed you dear, deny Deny, deny I know you'll try Baby, untie me now I'm ready to get...

(Dulli) I'll warn you, if cornered, I'll scratch my way out of the pen Wired, an animal The claustrophobia begins You think I'm scared of girls Well maybe But I'm not afraid of you You want to scare me then you'll cling to me no matter what I do Tell...

(Dulli/McCollum) Baby, I see you've made yourself all sick again Didn't I do a good job of pretending? You're saying that the victim doesn't want it to end Good. I get to dress up and play the assassin again It's my favorite It's got personality I shou...

honey yer junkie ass is fryin honey why don't YOU stop yer whinin yer barn door opens & YOU don't say black the sidewalk swallows don't YOU step up on the crack hhhhhhoney i know what worth was waiting for YOU got yer white coat mama YOU got yer hear...

so what YOU make me hard if i was harder now i would crack into a million things things i didn't really need but how i wanted so what a nice dream didn't want to wake up so i kept it dark all the time dark enough so not to see but not as dark as the pl...

You've changed That sparkle in your eyes is gone Your smile is just a careless yawn You're breaking my heart You've changed You've changed Your kisses now are so blase You're bored with me in every way I can't understand You've changed You've forgotten the w...