The Jim Carroll Band piosenki

Your uncle's scandals shook the house of lords Your daddy's squeezed out as Chairman of the Board No more doctors write you no more 'scripts No more intercontinental trips No more luxuries No more luxuries No more crystal pistols up your nose The dry...

We should have left at once We should have never stayed Now they have drawn the line Now there is a barricade Now there's a barricade A barricade Who makes promises? Who makes promises through a thick lead door? Through an intercom on the 23rd floor?...

Everything you ever wanted Is passing with the driving rain I died like a salamander On my heart heavy like a chain I been waiting here at the Uptown theater And it's all becoming clear that It's too much head And not much heart But if you think about...

It's when Billy's whores are re to seeorkin' They're workin' with the skeleton crew It's when the sky over Jersey That sky starts to drain from view It's when my woman pawns her voice so So she can make her old excuses sound new But I just want one clue...

She's an all-night all-night rental She's a rental oriental Suki-lee... Oh, her eyes, yes her eyes... You better pass her by Suki-lee... each night she crosses Different borders Each night she's someone's Refugee crimes of passion You'll pay the price...

It must be strange to just fall from the stage And snap a bone that is so close to the brain And be attended to by so many down below I saw a doctor tie you up from so far above And you start singing just like light through a black floor You start sliding...

I smoke a cigarette As I wait in the bath And I wait for you For an hour and a half And I go to the window Where the sky falls down in rains And I look across the river Where they dance the night away I watch the couples On the corner of town Men...

Day and night . . . the shadows move too slowly From dark to light she promised she could know me Remember when . . . I watched her on the stairway She was drinkin' wine . . . and she told me what the Stars Say . . . Some destinies, they should not be...

I hitched a ride to a desert town (I never planned this trip) I saw my past in the sun like a tongue (that slowly dripped) People faced me with Lazarus eyes They were red and dazed like fat horse flies I was lost in twelve directions I was searching for my ow...

Each night, they surround me With the lights and the microphones . . . With their bodies and the mile of cable Like a magic ring of bone Every night I have the same dream: A man behind the door With a tattooed erection And no reflection And his eyes...

Evangeline My first lady, She wears satin gloves Since her hands got dirty She travels here She travels there . . . She's on the "A" list Everywhere I can't take it anymore If she calls back, Tell her I went uptown to the downtown store Evangeline With he...

He was feeling invulnerable That was foolish but wonderful But of course the first one was always free He's got one wrist in heaven, one ankle in hell Somebody pushed or he just fell He's riding the subway watching the lights play Red yellow green he's always...

I'm walking Uptown I hear a most peculiar sound Like a seashell in my ear Like the ocean was near I go inside this store To get my head clear Once I'm inside the air is fresh as a lie You are greeted by a civil servant She is dressed in beads She jo...

It's a garbage truck hour, I'm sleeping in the shower I'm feeling like I'm waiting on a train By the sounds from my bed I think somebody's bled All over something someone's keeping clean I don't need anything, just make it bright Then turn it low You do...

Messed and peculiar Dancing with Julia I see no spare sky This is the last try The static from dreaming Is only now seeming To bring on disaster I told you, I asked her All she said was, "No" Sometimes you need a matador Sometimes you need a chargi...

obby died of leukemia. He got it two years ago, but had such a strong body. He was always the best at sports that he kept Biding it off. They gave him six months at first, then he turned to trick and got better, even got out for a while. Though it Was a diff...

The blue light flashes Billy feels it's motion He says, "should I go and set it free? " Black-eyed suzie Picks up on the notion She says, "put it in the lonely tree" He says, "baby, we best sharpen our imagination." He says, "it seems like the rest Don't compr...

I want the angel Whose dreams are fatal They cause the snake's milk to run and curdle I want the angel Whose darkness doubles It absorbs the brilliance of all my troubles I want the angel That will not shatter Every time I whisper, "Girl it does no...

I write your name Everywhere I go Like a worn out code Just to let you know I write your name On my loneliness On the closet hook where you hung that dress Don't you see You turn this trust To wind and dust and it's choking me It's hard to touch...

It's too late To fall in love with Sharon Tate But it's too soon To ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb I think it's time that you all start To think about gettin' by But I have that need to go out and find somebody to love It's too late T...