Unextraordinary Gentlemen

A clock with no face has no hands No hands to guide it To guide it through the night A clock with no face has no sense No sense of direction No sense of direction Nonsense! Nonsense! Are you a broken child? Do you have direction? Do you? Hmm? Do y...

Moving forward never taking back a sense of freedom We never stay long we can hide our tracks Time and space mean nothing when we are Floating on something No it is nothing at all Like when you dream you're falling Almost imaginary Dreams cannot stop us We wi...

Green light flash The world turns red I cannot scream Goliath eyes are turning The nightmares emerge The night is cold I cannot sleep or dare dream A blinding glare The massacre of mankind Another flash They sweep at night for survivors A vivid sense of aimle...

There is a big black bridge and it spans over hundreds of blocks So those below catch the trash that is thrown There’s a plague don’t you know going ‘round, a horrible pox Sick are the shades walking pale and afraid They sob, “Why, oh when will it stop?” The...

The driven snow Shows you home A sugar cube trail Behold her pale coat It is a habit You cannot run from it It is a gamble you cannot win I do not and so you do I will not and so should you I halt and so you run I hurt and so will you Now you are forest for t...

Stranger pick your poison no we do not carry wine We are glad to know you we already know your kind Stranger why the hurry here is something to imbibe A dark and dirty drink called Waiting To Die It is a lovely eve for a high-strung soul Through the decay int...

Elijah the breaker boy has the black lung Elijah is one of the lucky few & it looks to me the rest of his story is no fun at all The caged bird has flown Dead and gone like all the others All the men and the boys All the boys in the mine Henry oh Henry t...

Molly She has a switch and a blade She got it made in the shadow of doorways She gets under your skin She’s a daughter A daughter of sin This terrible frame oh the sound of dirty old silver With a gun in her gowns, she stares you down Cold, this terrible turn...

Captain Nobody he saw the elephant He tried to snuff it but candles like that stay lit Up goes the looking glass Look out world the future passes Alibis won't save us now Nobody listens Nobody cares Happened all too quickly Happened all too fast He cr...

It started ugly Savagery and broken sky It was the time of maybe never After all Lonely and miserable Tragedy to see you You were so beautiful Like broken dolls can be After all the venom taken We were told was Sauvignon This is what our progress got us After...

Below and making the most of my time inside with my fever dream I’m all alone in my frozen mood taking in the half-light pulse Adrift and holding the past in my mind diving down below it all Like the shark I cannot stop or I may never swim again Trying to kee...

To your patent to the universe that you created To your headache to the shape of the 1880s I'm glad that we don't hear you any more I'm tired of fighting in your old-fashioned war To the lights to the lead painting in your homes Sunday night fears from Raw-he...

Some of us have strange ways & some of us can't stay away & Some of us have wet ways Some of us have odd jobs & some of us have fine positions & Most of us survive the best we can All clay We are all clay Bone & muscle Work & play Arou...

Lemon lime girl under the street lamp Pretty as sin all dressed in cholera Living dead girl pretending to enjoy Lemon lime girls live and learn lemon lime mm Syphilis and her sisters Jaundice and her muses Dancers on the broken glass Dancers on the broken glas...

I will be gone for awhile Searching for my heart in the low places I will be out in the wild, wild spaces Hold me, child I'll be gone a long, long time I will be gone for awhile Searching for my heart in the low places I will be out in the wild, wild spaces H...

Got gallies on Gone trolling for bit o’ fun Under the bridge where they keep the real ladies! Her name was Christina Strumpet by trade A character in Mister Soot’s Traveling Parade It’s really quite handsome It’s never a tiresome night when the petticoats twi...

We walk into the desert wind along the desert rail With bent hearts and stitched on wings Across the Tamarisk plains we tell our tale of woe To those who would hear such things We are the spirits-we are the spirits Arrived at the end of the line We are the spi...

listening to my thoughts talk in strange affected accents done waiting for my youth to get me by looking for that cloud of rain to burst with sound and vision rage open arms, empty air open arms, empty airs pardon me I make my way got to get out to the observ...

Jerry licked his lips he liked the lady at the platform of the station The girl with the pretty face and the thick legs Jerry walked right over he knows her type he smiles to himself Self-deluded dilated Jerry Jerry is a coral-monger He offers the platform lad...

With a barker shot and a plea for pennies (Skeleton goes to town) Turn of a screw and daring-do too (Skeleton goes to town) With a bone yard crawl and a priestly scowl You know he's not sugar and tea With a tall blue hat and a blade in his cane Quiet as...

Remember they will remember you not how you lived Remember they will remember what you could not give Always looking out for others was my first mistake All things to all cost us all more than you think Mark my words, my dear You and I have you and me to fear...

Smoke down to the daybreak every time & I am counting down to 1 from 99 The old gods are dead Here, take mine & we are counting down to 1 from 89 The end again mm-mm-mm The end again mm-mm-mm The end again mm-mm-mm Begin again Broke down in the gray...