The Rainmakers

There was a man named Jim who walked everywhere he went Cause he could never quite seem to keep his mind on the road One day it occurred to Jim that he'd taken a wrong turn Cause he was standing in a place he didn't know Jim spun on his heels thinking he's...

I met her in a bar, naturally And naturally She wanted to dance I politely declined, naturally I said I really hate this band We went for a coffee at a little cafe I had more picks in pocket Than I had spare change She said hold it right there Just st...

(One One, two One, two, three, four) I want a big fat blonde to hold my hand To keep this skinny boy from blowing away in the wind I want a big fat blonde (SOO-EY!) A big fat blonde Mama mama mama keep your skinny girls at home Cause this skinny boy w...

Come over here, out of the rain Before you get too wet Under my umbrella I promise no regrets Did you see the lightning This feels like the right thing Were you looking for perfection I'm trying to change your perception I once was a sailor man Caught...

Me and Mark Twain were having us a ball Telling each other lies floating down from Hannibal With a bottle and a worm and a cane pole We were fishing for secrets where the catfish crawl And the Mississippi River's flowing downstream Meet the Gulf of Mexic...

A man is not measured by the size of his field But by the point of his choice The grain of his voice The strength of his yield The breadth of his vision The cast of his hand Like you would not believe In a dry dry land Like you would not believe, rai...

Looking out my window, the eclipse has begun I grab your hand, we run outside and dance in the dimming sun Light through the leaves casts a zillion crescents on the ground And you say hold me tight (Alright!) Peeking through a pinhole, the eclipse has begu...

it was a one night stand with a rock 'n' roll band in a big old room with a sonic boom there were a thousand chairs there were twenty-five there and the band felt blue I guess I did too but we played and played and when we walked off the stage I swor...

The sky started falling again last night I caught what I could and I held it so tight But most of it crashed on the rocks and the sand Now words mean nothing I talk with my hands I say The sky started falling, it landed so loud I covered my ears as th...

Hey Johnny Reb where are you going Don't you know this war isn't done Hey Johnny Reb where are you going Even though this battle wasn't won There's nothing worth fighting for Any way you cut it Gonna leave that flag behind So long Johnny Reb Johnny Reb...

I used to go ride down Mystery Road roll open my window turn off my radio hear voices on the wind melodies humming low and hymns wrote themselves like God only knows but tonight I opened my window the only sound that I heard was the silence of the s...

Are you looking for some answers Well you've come to the wrong place You might find lines, but no valentines Written all over my face I bear no grudge, I wear no frown I just come with calloused hands And I don't mean to bring you down but There is no r...

The people wanted power and reputation galore So they became a bunch of bullies In the Assorted Sizes War And they sailed around the global block Looking for some heads to knock And most of them came home heroes Heroes in a box And the rainmaker came t...

Well I was thinking about Abraham Lincoln And the enemies of the truth But I could not tell a Kennedy From a John Wilkes Booth Out of my way, out of my way Out of my way, hot rocking on Reckoning Day And I feel like picking a fight With anybody who cl...

On the day that I was born Cross the plain come a red dust storm First the wind, then the rain Streaks of blood down the windowpane Hole in the roof, leak on the bed Bad baptism on the baby's head Mama cried the curse is come The mark of the reddleman's...

He keeps her shiny shiny He keeps her running like a dream 'Cause she's the closest thing to a dream That he's ever seen She's the one he never sold Some things are classic, some things are just old He keeps her shiny shiny He keeps her running like a d...

This is the story of siamese twins Where one fellow stops and another one begins Joined at the head and the finger and the toe With two completely separate vascular-cardio Systems going on underneath one skin This is the story of siamese twins This is th...

Who am I, I don't know, I have no idea When my friends look at me I wonder who they think they're seeing Search me, layer by layer But inside I'm afraid you'll find thin air Yeah, yes, guess again Who we might be underneath this skin What makes me tick?...

She reached out and touched my hand And made me dance to some local band But the beat was slow so there we stand As we move in small circles We cut out before the night was through Start my car and we drove the Loop Talked about the things we were going...

Hear tell of a man who took a hundred dollars Spent it on lottery tickets and beer Won a couple million, left his wife and children Lived himself to death in a couple of years Should have spent it on love, spent it on his children Spent it on the ones wh...

We're all growed up We're all gone wild We all been beat like a stepchild I'd help you save the world But I'm busy that day One foot on the gas And the other in the grave In spite of everything It's pretty good to be alive In spite of you in spite of...

Tattoo tattoo Some things fade some never do Like the names of me and you In my skin indigo blue Tattoo tattoo Waving boys in navy blue Whalers sailing home to you Scratched in scrimshaw tusk and tooth Tattoo tattoo Some things fade some never do The...

Betty called the sheriff and said come quick Somebody broke in my freezer and stole all my steaks The dog is still hiding, the sheriff said ma'am Sounds to me like the Lakeview Man The Lakeview Man is a wild man Lives in the woods outside of town Howls...

Well ever since I've walked I've heard men talk about the one that got away I've heard old men call I've seen young men crawl For the one that got away And in their darkest hours You can hear them say I'd give all I got For just one more shot At the o...

We're climbing to the top of that mountain, boys Just because it's there Then we're jumping off the edge of the Western world Just because we've been dared Then we're digging a hole deep in the ground Oil, gold, Chinatown Then the party's starting when t...

I want to grow old with her To have our children come And find us face down on the hill Listening to the hum I want to grow wise with her Truth pounded into bone The sound of lies dies like white noise Listen to the hum I want to grow gardens with her...

There's too many twenties, too many fives Too many numbers in front of our eyes Too many statistics that nobody reads Numbers don't lie but numbers don't bleed Who's counting when it way past plenty There's too many twenties There's too much hush money b...

Mom Mom the atomical bomb just went off Out behind the hayloft Pa where's Pa, now what'll we do Head for the root cellar I'm right behind you And the wind took The ground shook And me and my baby traded one last look The heavens squalled Push come to...

When we were youngsters Me and little brother Slip out the bedroom window Slide down that gutter Made our way Through the darkness Through the alleys And the shortcuts Climb that ladder Up the water tower We used to sit And dream them dreams Of ho...

In the '51 flood the river got mean The levee broke at a town downstream Up on our levee where the county lines meet Caught a couple of their boys with some TNT Something had to give and it gave down there My thoughts are with you but my family's here I...

Somehwere under This moon tonight My lover is holding My shadow tight She doesn't know my face Or know my name But she hears my melody All the same And we move slow Dancing in her dreams We've glanced on corners We've passed on stairs We've nodded...

Baby attends church in her pretty white dress Squeezes the hymnal tight to her breast Sings like an angel, sweats like a thief Bit me last night like Adam and Eve Hey, hey, we're sowing wild oats All you farmers' daughters gonna reap what you sow Hey, h...

dreamin' in my sleep about the people that I meet everyone that's go a ticket to ride everyone was there every one aware the angels and the devils were out on the town we rocked the house last night well we don't know where we're goin' and we won't...

takin' in the sights from my window seat from the Third World poor to the land of the free back at home it's tony night in Tinseltown you know it don't mean nothin' to the down and out from my window window to the world from my window window to the...

you remind me of someone I don't know who an old familiar face maybe a lover from my wilder youth or my mother in her younger days maybe in a former life I was a serviceman and you were my wife you remind me of someone I don't know who maybe it's b...