Vic Chesnutt

If you want to see two circling swans On the surface of the sewer pond Don't crane your neck where you are You've got to climb to the second floor And i wouldn't've even mentioned it If you didn't seem so tuned into it You've got to climb the second fl...

she's so musical look at her dance in a flurry who get's to lead do know it's not Arthur Murray emasculate me with your biology bend me, break me, I'm worthless one wicked brand from your torturous hand you laugh when I'm tell you, you're gorgeous sh...

Where are you Mr. Mustache noveliers, I'm in need of such a little assist I'm in need of some of your little wisdom Where are you Mr. Yankee a physicist, I'm in need of some of your physical sneers I'm in need of some of your ohysical wisdom Where are yo...

Help me mama, for I have grinned Save me daddy from where I'm goin' Call out to me from the ages beyond Help me remember how to be good How to continue when I feel I really shouldn't How to remember how to be good How to continue when I feel I really sh...

Souvenirs on a dusty shelf Get out the Tarn-X, and I polish them myself Posters are falling, but who needs them at my age I've learned to smile when all I feel is rage So I think I will go to Bakersfield with Gabriel and Paul And I'll hide behind the garb...

Well the first time i ever laid eyes on you Was my first year at marching band camp You never played the part as it was written You would always vamp You was always cracking me up Messing with the band director Mocking the tuba parts In your upper regi...

I was shivering, I'll admit it I had nothing better to do except to wheeze my lazy wheeze "Bernadette, where are you" "Bernadette, where are you" she gets much acclamation for such a self ordained Faustian Bernadette doesn't like doubters she wants to...

Betty Lonely lives in a duplex of stuccoon the north bank of a brackish riverher ears omit the noise from a nearby airstripher mind floats beyond the snapper boats Betty Lonely, her green eyes are roughly staringat a point through the sliding glass doorher he...

well the big huge valley is a ribbon of light the aqueducts are snakes tonight the stars are homesteaders, staking claims my head is hopping with historical names transfer trucks are buffalos chewing up this desert road yes and i am nothing especially j...

We will remain ignorant, incapable of knowing. Insoluble is the problem. Curiosity, sleeping, killed the caterpillar. Curiosity, empty, is a blanket over the head. 

Bourgeois and biblical Hanging on nails Mad metallic icons The old cyclone still compels Your hoity haiku lip curls The onion papers drain Constantinople Misty recollections Cold outdoor acoustics Piney panorama 

"Michelle loves Willie" "Our little Sarah" "Daughters of the American Revolution" "Stryper loves Jesus" and I love a girl Against my better judgment 'Cause I feel like a squirrel My roommates got married and I booted up And a friend of ours told me th...

Caper, if you flaunt it then got to stop in the Caper ? 

Do your math! Eat your clams! I always hated the L.A. Rams. Climb up on the roof, (To watch the police ?) As a shadow wanders across your room. (Get the wind back?) (I want a paper towel?) Wishing you was Roseanne Cash and I was Roger Crowell. Groom y...

Chain, chain Every gesture, every phrase Chain Chain, chain Empty hours, out of phase Chain Anecdotal evidence Synergized with common sense Collective carnal conciousness Strains the bulging sinfulness(?) Visionary's blind ambition Unintended cons...

Me with overshedding Going at the chinaberry tree All the key players are watching me Through their simmying groove thing Swell Blood suckin Life ever-loosening Grill Chinaberry tree Chinaberry tree Chinaberry tree The biggest chinaberry tree that...

I stumbled so innocently Over all the obscene boundaries Still I might've procured the act Of concord country jubilee And the perfect order fill in the street It is there I scraped it clean I was stumbling in It was gonna be hard to heal Crowd browsed...

Well, when I woke up this morning The sky was so bright It'd been a raining for days Now it seemed like everything was a gonna be alright But still those November winds keep a blowing And I'm forgetting just where to begin And then I'm lost in confusion...

The courage of the coward Is greater than all others A scaredy-cat'll scratch 'im If you back 'im in a corner But I ,I ,I, I am a coward I, I, I am a coward Courage born of despair and impotence Submissive dogs can Lash out in fear and be Very, very dangerou...

Don't hit me with a broom I must request relief Don't hit me with a broom get another chief if you ain't Got yourself a vacuum get another chief if you ain't Got yourself a vacuum Don't keep me in the car I must get to the porch Don't keep me in the car...

He wanted a tree fort more than anything Yes he wanted to build and defend one on his own But the neighbor boys BB seige was overwhelming So he won't be building his dream tree fort anymore He received a five-speed Schwinn for Christmas So he built a ramp...

Deadline, it aint moving Deadline, stiff as a board Deadline, ending is soon But I gotta get something done done done, done done done soon. Deadline, under pressure Deadline, it's gonna snap Deadline, serious semester (?) And I gotta get something done...

When I stop breathing, My poor old heart finally gives out I will spend eternity Debriefing, debriefing, debriefing, debriefing. When I deplete the funds And am forced to pull the plug, Chisel on my tombstone Debriefing, debriefing, debriefing, debrief...

I am a rough ball of twine I have a duty to do I been tied to the table but now I am frazzled and aloof degenerate, disintegrate the tight knots degenerate, rot away the nooses degenerate, out come those tangles oh degenerate, oh degenerate acorn squ...

Everybody lies What's the big deal? It's impossible to know what is and isn't sealed Faith is the lies we tell and tell ourselves Life is the lies we tell everybody else History is a daisy chain of lies Humans love distortion Public record is a poetic d...

There's so many ghosts out there on these streets I always hate to ponder who's under those sheets Every little thing is temporary If I stay here any longer I'll end up very very scary It's just a general freak that is boiling in me And I'm terrified what...

I was supposed to tell you about the point of departure with the aim of a drunken archer I will probably stray but you can see in her bold eyebrow you can see in that fancy cup that even her freakish nipples are a kimbo no doubt she is a doubting woman n...

She said it She should know She'd by told by She knows She'd been through it Quantity What can I say She should know I am what I am She'd been through Like a gopher Down to the patch Get that panic pack She'd been to Rome yes When they do it do a...

no chocolate in the duty free shop two drops of scotch gonna end up on his crotch, tonight all alone, sitting on the throne some native tounge on the TV blaring like an old Peavey he don't aim to be rude he's fighting with his inner prude some pommes...

Holes in his sweater, fluid in his lungs The experts say there's things He should've done better But instead he is just dying young And tired of disbelieving, sick of struggling The experts busy Their gloved hands are relieving The symptoms of dying yo...

the barn fell down since i saw it last it's rubble now well so much for the past everything that i say does me this'a way everything, every little thing i say does me this'a way some call her a thief and some people call her a prophet but her cour...

Fa-la-la is running around All over the grounds of the hospital I was watching for her Like some people watch birds From the window of my hospital room I was trapped and tired She was as free as i'd ever found The embodiment of life force In a hospita...

Not the way it used to be, but it was never a perfect deal. Fish outta water is all you need Internal combustion is bustin my balls, taking my eyesight away. Throwing darts at a dartboard, slinging slobber across a hall. Opening a leather-man? To wrench o...

I am a man, I am self aware And everywhere I go You're always right there with me I flirted with you all my life Even kissed you once or twice And to this day I swear it was nice but clearly I was not ready When you touched a friend of mine I thought...

Florida. Florida, the redneck riviera Florida. Florida, there's no more pathetic place in America A man must make unpopular decisions surely from time to time And a man can only stand what a man can stand It's a wobbly, volatile line Florida. Florida, the...

A bird fell to earth Reincarnated from her birth She had fodder in her wings She had dust inside her brains She flitted here and there United States, Switzerland, France, England, everywhere With fodder in her wings And dust inside her brains Oh how sa...

Looking in the hourglass Ants in the sand Reflected in the oil lamp I can see the wrinkles in your hand You can be forthright with me You can be forthright with me Next to the pot-bellied stove Hand on the flue Photograph on the rolltop desk Is it of...

bricks are dirty, lakes are deadthe family dog is madbaby brother's science beakers are all brokennow the yard peacocks are all sad board games are boringmay they rot on the shelfbig brother's at Columbia Universityquote unquote he's tanning beaver pelts sub...

That was brutieful Fun party fun party fun party party party I went down to the shoe string store to buy myself some shoe strings I went lookin' for gold I went lookin' for silver I went lookin' for a little shoe string I went down to the shoe string store...

do a little rope trick move around the mildew when you stopped to make a phonecall in the glitter of a landmark she said something about a blood clot and a bad wild peach that nappy little news flash takes the cut right out of your crease get it on de...

Girls say: Why you wanna do that? And boys say: Well, I gotta leave And girls say: Watch out for your head And boys say: Why ya wanna be a bitch? Girls say: Can I get ya anything And boys say: Who you tryin to kid? And girls say: Ohhh, I've got a...

Giupetto! Pinnochio, Your adopted son is getting ready to go The candle wicks are asterisks You carved him yourself out of sticks A propos, had to go, He loved the alps, But he hated the snow Things switch, Chop a new niche Soon you won't remember...

I am a stranger Lurking alone in my own vicious wilderness While the meat in my chest Squeezes and teases a hulking hunger Groping in motion Balance is but a shimmering notion And lurching compelled My soul in its special hell of wet mortal limits Perp...

Cross my heart and cross my eyes Stick a needle in my thigh Drop kick my unscrewed lid And fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle with what's inside A rusty mass of mechinations Still i'm vying for the right vaccination I make a masterful selection like lo...

Gnats and bats and things with wings I know why the cagey fella won't sing Sticks and stones and broken bones I know why my words are wrong Humps and stumps and green tattoos I know why your crutches bruise Biscuit dough and oleo I know where the time g...

I couldn't get away from it I was in over my head I guess it really got to me I guess it really got to me, yes I fought it hard and heavy But I could not shake it off I guess it really got to me I guess it really got to me, yes infusion insidious Extric...

Granny, Oh Granny Whatya doin' by the kitchen sink? She said I'm just makin' up some milk 'n' cheese She said I'm just makin' up some milk 'n' cheese She said I'm just makin' up some milk 'n' cheese Granny, Oh Granny Whatya doin' with your false teeth?...

we blew past the army motorcade and it's abnormal load haulage the gravity of the situation came on us like a bit of new knowledge the bubbliest bubble bath broke down on the bank the gravity of the situation is why our old thought bubbles sank humble...

Both our families after gathering We're cutting a baby out With my grandmother's heirloom antler-handled carving knife They were under her grand chandelier Where we all, together, have shared holiday dinner But it was your father that was holding the knif...

You've been sanctified (terrorized) And I've been tried Guilty by association You've been canonized And I've been fried Guilty by association All the little loonies With a salient obsession Come out from the boonies With their sharpies and their guns...

Sitting here resting my bones, fanning my affliction Wishing I had a few clones, to act as stand in But here at the hermitage, I am privileged, with solitude, and self-cooked food? And crying time, and quirks of mind.? x2 Chesnutt's chewing his nails, the...

Ventolin and Vivarin and primatene secret tequila shots and a patch of morphine in the morning and in the throes what a great day to come out of a coma I've been in the hot seat sweating it out oh, sweating it out sweating it out sweating it out I to...

Forget everything i ever told you I'm sure i lied way more than twice But understand i am not emily post You know i'm nowhere near that precise And i struggle with these etiquettes Like you wouldn't believe I'm puzzled by the policies 'cause after ever...

Born as I was to ignorant people Too traumatized to take me home Came in a car and left on an embankment Covered with pine straw But instinct saved me Something innate Made my wet lungs scream with hate Scream with hatefound as I was fixing a flat tire...

It was the languid years, duels were fought so that bastards in the end died with honors. It was an epoch so unlike the one that we got cause people can't die anymore. I should've been buried long ago, but they electric shocked me though. I oughtta be pushi...

Do you think it makes a difference? I say yes Taking my time Working on lines Fingers in clay Everyday Head in the clouds Moving my mouth Spreading the grout That's holding it down Do you think it makes a difference? I say yes in my life yes Cuddl...

Future stepped into by field and turned it into an empire Forefathers where are you now ? Your dust is settling on my furniture I stepped out of a cloud and the ditch is close I mean the ditch is closing in. Hemingway did your fat little self justice So...

Once I dreamed I was dancing with Isadora Duncan In a silver café . It was a café that was not near here. She was planning to diversify And she say I should do the same So I whistled to her how I loved her the best. But she sang "I can't believe you own t...

I am a monster like quasimodo Or caliban the natural man Giving wild ripostes to my reflection One ugly morning in a rage Father threw an apple into my carapace And like the invisible man Directing traffic I'd be ineffective No matter how enthusiasti...

I'm so sorry you had to kick my ass You said I ruined your life I didn't mean to do that I had to untangle where we was entwined I was strangling me...were you breathing so fine The jam I was in when things weren't working out Led me to the brunt of your...

you file me with the libertines I fold in line my monthly dole of magazines beaming bistro shine in my ladle is your plum and my daily staple of your cutesy crumbs of your cutesy falling crumbs I saw you at the snazzy din-din you made me sad that I w...

hardcore greedy, greedy man loud with the ladies mister arrogant mister arrogant mister arrogant never ending sagas and such enemy of Mr. McGruff latent, blatant..latent, blatant latent, blatant..latent, blatant greasy on the hair I don't have to t...

Little Caesar has a mandate Now there is no doubt The blessing of the Senate and the citizenry Rome is bowing at his feetWhat will he do with all his power What'll Little Caesar do now What do little Caesars always do When their enemies cowerLittle Caesa...

Little, little, little, little When the heroes callin' When the heroes callin' When the heroes callin', callin' Little man Little man I miss you when the rain is fallin' I miss you when the heroes callin' I hear you when I'm kneelin', weepin' All th...

like a little vacation like a little old song that I want to hear like a big libation like a flattering sentence whispered in my ear that's what I want every time I try what I'm trying for why don't we have a little symposium where everybody takes the...

Yeh Look at me in my thirties Plowing forth, unsteady and unsturdy but I'm still alive, I'm still alive, I win a prize I'm still alive Yeh look at me, pushing forty Suiting up for another sortie and I'm still alive, I'm still alive, I win a prize I'm st...

imports and altercations my faculties on a shoe-string vacation I settled down on a hurt as big as Robert Mitchum and listen to Lucinda Williams oh, convenient lies, rubber knives I'm a dastardly villain, doing belly dives I before E except after me I'...

dogs are barking, birds are chirping the only thing better if I was squirting but there's no one here to love on me today for the maiden's on holiday for the maiden's on holiday I'm a sorry, sorry knight in a horrible castle hoping to avoid certain soci...

To-do lists on a long yellow legal pad Blue windsor knots framed by basic black Resplendent tables Great forests of paper plates Carrying the weight of the world Saps every ounce of your strength In training to run a marathon Miles and miles and miles...

An old woman in a wig and a mule eating a fig Caterpillar on a twig shouldn't flitter Fella hanging from a clock, someone falling from a dock Little ripple showing stock and then we titter Chubby kid upon a trike opened up the dyke She nearly lost her wa...

Smell the mighty monkey Trainer is a junky And the tightrope walker Has one foot in the grave Invited to inspect What is a train-wreck You don't even have to check It's evident, so evident Dancing bear is full of worms See the puny pachyderms Lion...

Miss Mary took a shower and she showed herself to me she said that God and all his glory was revealed to her carnally she said she'd been with no man, but she must have been with me and when I felt her with my finger, the proof burned my belief so how much...

Well there's a Mr. Reilly who swears That in Baton Rouge Louisiana, They don't care about, his philosophy He swears that any time in Baton Rouge Everything is the same Well we stared into the cup, But we could not see the bottom He was drinking muddy w...

Fill the basin with my hands Your strong shoulders in my head Soft soap splashing on the rim I keep wishing i was him Cobweb fluttering 12 ft up Above the basin where i (?) Soap and fingernails Dirty imagined intimate details I go to the garage where o...

I am so lonely I am so lonely I am so lonely I am so alone I am so lonely I am so lonely I am so lonely I am so alone Without you I will never find my new life I will never find my new life Without you But one thing I will find One thing I will...

a funny pilgrim on a crazy crusade a saucy chaucer, a sorry chapter mislaid whittled with an exacto knife plum right through my load bearing wall I'm horrified now that I could do such a thing but I thought I saw the singer I've heard those chimes so ma...

I just never could say, "good bye" or "adieu" ooh, but the years, they have been so kind to you there's some skills that I have learned to do and I would certainly like to share them with you you're outside hanging wet linen and I am giving a Van Dyke lis...

Absolutely no, precisely zero Mystery, mystery, total absence Complete lack of mystery, mystery Something so clear, it's not even here So thin and so sheer, it disciplines No, not any doubt, utterly without Mystery, mystery, mystery Mystery, mystery,...

The great grandfather, with his pious beard Bathed in the river, all his years Many books, that lined his walls Jews and gentiles, held him in awe Nathan stepped through the broken window And looked to the river where his mother once floated Nathan step...

Rave and rant in yer old Foster Grants I can see my billowy reflection You're a giant You're a giant A little late night caching A tender moving soul shake With all light diffused You'll wake up butch and bruised Butch and bruised Straight lines As...

new town reeks of lumber new town beat the crowds new town kittens discover that the birds scrape the ground and even the loneliest old ladies get social calls where they dine and talk about their savior and the grassroots effort to incorporate elects a...

I can see my old hotel down amongst the smells I'm up above that ancient city river it's filtered by my lousy liver it's filtered by my wilted lily liver I can see my old hotel it ain't even a hotel 5am there came some sleet or hail it was signal taps...

You're only one of many Of small account if any You think about yourself too much This touch the child with the quick touch And worked his mind to such a pitch, He threw his fellows in a ditch This little child who was so mild is grown too wild "murder...

thin and unshaved, drunk and mysterious ooh, I must say lifestyle is curious with a little touch of the sniffles and filthy socks gnawed, crumbled fingernails never doing tomahawk chops a flaky head dandruff is distinguished lacquer is red vain is the var...

It ain't over til it's over Just like some joker said When it's over it is done And when it's done it's as good as dead When it's good it sure is good Yes and when it's good it's great When it's great it's oh so wonderful But when it ain't it ain't I...

My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler high up to the darkest sky some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never be able to repeat At times i might be accused of being painfully nostalgic but as of late i'm looking forward to the f...

where did you go after the parade I wandered, searching for about an hour then I parked it on a bench shifting and sulking those pesky little mosquitoes they nearly, nearly, nearly, nearly drained me then a man dripping with vitalis said I looked like...

Phil the fiddler, Paul the peddler Joe the hotel boy The girl in the gingham dress The girl in the gingham dress The girl in the gingham dress Dick the butcher, Tom the bootblack Ralph the collier The kid with the aubergine eyes The kid with the aub...

The hand, the hand, The hand, the hand, The hand, the hand, Thoughts of another finger Typing down into a cellar The line, the line The line, the line The line, the line The line, the line The line, the line The line, the line The line, the line...

I was shaking with laugther scared the bratty children did I destroy the ambience I'm sure for that hoity-toity patron it wasn't pretty when I looked into the face oops, into the eyes, ruptured icy chaos what's the, what's the, who's the prick we was...

While I was still in elementary school I discovered Daddy's tools And amassed a small pile, of scrap lumber And I built a rabbit box And i set it facing north But i caught a possum and a kitten Both of which were a bitch to set free Cause I thought they...

Here comes the rain, the bottom fell out Thunder hit, shook the house Sunday, church is letting out The rain comes from rambunctious cloud Here comes the rain, the bottom fell out I knew it was coming But it won't help the drought At this point I just h...

Keeping it on the road Keeping it on the road Can't say i didn't rattle the load But i'm keeping it on the road Can't say i didn't rattle the load But i'm keeping it on the road 

sitting in the breakfast nook flipping through a saucy book browsing for a bit of titillation (that's what you do, that's what you do) morning is warming on your mouth last days of direct sunlight for this part of the house move into the great room ge...

Those rustic city fathers were realtors, Realtors And all that profit taking Was a beautiful awakening They built themselves a beauty by the ton, Ton by ton I went there in a panic or for fun, Or for fun I thought i had a calling Anyway i just kept d...

it's the plan of most to discover that magnificent ghost when did I get perverted and my innocent eyes diverted from a view so grand imbued with distractions I'm greedy like Senior Babbitt I'm just chasing that electric rabbit I'm a reluctant rebel...

scratch, scratch, scratch goes the cat on the carpet she stepped in the blue water bowl twitch, twitch, twitch goes my eyelid my tounge in a cavity hole I lost my passport one hairy night I think they found it in the bald-bulb light now I wait calmly i...

I'm sorry for my lack of communication but as I'm staring out this fifth floor window it seems like the least amount of communication the better oh, well what am I supposed to say "there's a bloody effigy on my wall and the complimentary carnation is fall...

you're a freak of nature you are a siamese you are in a pickle jar for all the world to see Watching the sleeping man Watching the sleeping man Watching the sleeping man Watching the sleeping man you are a guarded secret in a government home but no...

Anything we should know about your change? We were strolling hand in hand We were going to see the man We were laughing at dapper Dan We were happy as giant clams But Calamity Jane ruined everything With her body and brains She lived up to her name Sh...

It was a modern love affair completely cool and casual They hardly knew each other was there Both of them had their own getting off to do They had to dream about their own self when they were through But the modern girl was elated with what the revolution...

Narrowed eyes and soggy tongues beautiful rumors are flying about the ugly ones the girl she is by the pool yellow journalists' jewel and all those wagging fingers are silly little stingers Rabbits are cooking breakfast the fog is fragrant the girl she is wak...

Have I learned anything from all of these lectures? I think it's my attention span clipped by TV at an early age Well who heard the radio when you are five years old? I used to watch Speed Racer with that hyper attitude That carried me here to this floures...

In the pasture we run free By the spring creek we lie down In the pine thicket we are pricked In the dry wash We come across an incomplete set of bleached bones Splendidly full of life Wandering the countryside Down the logging road we stray In the o...

Pleasure is melting like chocolate My blue ribbon gumption is gone All my gravy must have soaked into something And the world... The filthy steps, the cold concrete The phony earth below my feet The ancient odour of the streets Yes the world it is a spo...

sitting in a square room my voice is freezing and the beams that are bouncing off the moon are hanging from my window like icicles just a tired old alcoholic, waxing bucolic shivering and homesick staring at a wooden floor staring at a wooden floor l...

The wall came down, yes I saw it (?) The reporter is a new age junkie, keeps his needles in a pyramid Camera on his shoulder and chips on the pavement A hundred german dollars, well don't that just about pay my rent Yes I am weak, outlook is bleak yes I'm...

Well, i guess i'm through stewing How 'bout lets roll the rock away? My bedclothes have gone all funky I've got to get out of this cave Stay inside! Well the times they are a-changin' Look at all the idlers Soon there will be no one to shear the sheep...

someday I'm gonna be rich someday I'm gonna be bona fide someday I'm gonna be just like Steve Willoughby but today I'm simply I'm simply terrified I'm terrified someday I'm gonna be bright someday I'm gonna be smarter smarter than smart someday I'll k...

Nobody heard him the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning Poor chap he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him, his heart gave way They said. Oh, no,...

up on the bluffwhere I wish I wastwisting up the pages of history my cold feet danglingmy bony arms gesturingto summon up a little chunk of that history in the corridor the shadows are longand it messes with my equilibriumand there's strains of a strange lan...

I am sick of you Expecting me to do All these puny ingratiations You know I am a terrible patient I am barely alive Ever since my daddy died I've been searching for my own little babies To misbehave and betray me I tie one on to all the others And say...

Like the contents of a cooler My thorax is styrofoam I'm a cheap spent shell And a biohazard Grind me up then mail me away Maybe transmogrified I'll be satisfied That finally at long last i'm harmless It is simply so It's my chemical makeup I slou...

I'm here because i'm a eunuch I am no threat I'm here to watch the ladies And to fan away their sweat And the sultan, so mighty Comes crawling to me When he has a little problem With the ladies I'm here because i am a eunuch I'm perfectly safe I'm...

Super tuesday, on the ball Super tuesday I am out on a stroll Super tuesday, i'm in control Oh, super tuesday I'm out on a stroll Oh I am out on a stroll Super tuesday, i'm in the door Super tuesday I am good for a bore I'd do anything for a bore 

Built a king on compliments Charisma and advertisements Still they see him shimmer ephemeral It ain't supernatural or maybe Out of body experience I flew around the little room once 0n intravenous Demerol It weren't supernatural Sudden smell certain vie...

after the splice when the temperature's nice after the patch when everything's a match after the patch after the edit when it's had time to set when it's smooth then it's time to move when it is smooth go consult your elders look into the thatch...

suckin on a toothpick soaked with cinnamon the boys in the backroom played on Anonymous Adonis he's the one you want the boys in the backroom played on not beholden to know afterwards not beholden to the afterwards not beholden to the afterwards not...

it's a battle of the culinary artsin that boiling landyou met your mate over across that riverand some good old contraband in Thailand ... into our lovely story , who do we insertbut the mighty, mighty Steve Willoughbyhe went searching for that big Buddha...

Pus on your finger, mud on your mind The tiller is broken, your garden is crying There's been too much rain, tomatoes they split Spring was a beauty but she turned into a beast Your boy is rebellious, he refuses to work Your daughter is a fine one but all...

Thought you were my friend, but you are my foe Took my trust and crushed it (Simple me to ?) Put my trust in you Ya busted my balls Thought you were my friend, but you are my foe Behind your pleasantly stupid act Lies, intentions cold and black Though...

your personal pariah is in a wool cap the mirror flakes away take a long nap watching the threads disintegrate like the Krishna beads in a lockbox safe watching the threads disintegrate like the Krishna beads in a lockbox safe watching the threads disin...

take a lightbulb from the closetand replace the one above the faucetscrape the whisker from my facenick my lip in pointless haste take a magic marker blackdarken a spot on the mapof a county on the coastwhere I was born out of a ghost underneath the ceiling...

Thoughts of your flutter are flooding my mind Not constant like a buzz But strobe thumping like a heart beat Drowning any other notion Now I am sure, now I am sure, now I am sure When I met you everything changed I burned so many bridges to be with you...

One johnny went to the newlywed school. One Johnny did a (mike landry?) One Johnny went to the ice cream shop, to have a fit in the pantry. Go Johnny go , go Johnny go. One Johnny went in the factory flame One Johnny did all his laundry One hippie Johnn...

knowing what I know now I should've had a cow I didn't realize you were to be despised I must have been one of history's stupidest men 'cause everything was perfect in my head until the lead started hitting me with benefit of hindsight I can see you...

I hope that you are through and You knew what you were doing You proved what you were proving And it was sort of soothing to see I couldn't say that it was new to me Guess you could say it but yours grew on me, I venture not a purer thing you'd ever real...

Trying to clip the creek to the bank with a clothes pin Waterlogged system, rusty spring, faulty planning Logic squeezed out like mustard at a corndog Hypertension is not wisdom, chewing the leather straps Trying to hold the sun still with a bobby pin Bur...

Virginia, Virginia, she's a beautiful queen She rules with hands that are graceful and mean She's free with her body, voluptuous, too But cross her and she'll crush the life out of you Yes, Virginia, I love you, I love you Yes ,Virginia, enough to die Ye...

I saw a blackbird Thirteen ways Then strew a fist many Mountains away My evangelism felled Brutally taken By breezes that rubbed me And lifted light raven I stretched to borrow Fine antebelleum To encase all the scrapings Of us civilised fellow I...

Warm, the body is warm The muscles twitch The posture compensates And cold, the arrow is cold The friction warms nothing But the point is pure The wound it is secure Trial by error Follow a sun And the one we have will do What is the message on those...

About your reef Over the hillock crest A breathlike aviation Glowing, showing bones Glowing, showing bones With much bellowing and rowing A cello directioning will let you out Deaf and loud Let you out A hungry, hungry awful hunter A breath, his ca...

We should be so brave: You're always pulling for the underdog I know you're always pulling for me You are a champion of the shattered I know you're always so supportive of me You're so intrigued by the oddities I always piqued your curiosity You're alwa...

west of Rome, just east of the border in a static-y ramada inn polishing his boots and pummeling his liver steeped in the dark isolation just what business does he have around here credentials are wearing out with each little bit of cheer yes it's a bad...

Like a puppy on a trampoline What do you mean? Like a puppy on a trampoline What do you mean? Like a puppy on a trampoline What do you mean? Bewildered We heard you laughing What do you mean? We heard you laughing What do you mean? We heard you lau...

When I ran off and left her She wasn't holding a baby She was holding a bottle And a big grudge against me I tried to learn from the psychiatrist How to stay calm and minimize risk But I should've kept all those appointments I'm gonna need em I'm comin...

When the bottom fell out There wasn't any doubt I just suddenly found myself free falling And from such a height The wind, it had a bite And it took all my might to fight the fight The fell in spread-eagled Must've found an airfoil Or some kinda wing...

Where were you two years ago when I was locked out there at the barn When some certain athens sacred monster was doing me in with charm We could've been chatting heart to heart on that front porch with a view Where were you girl when I needed you Where wer...

what are you doing withering away yes i've heard you've lost the will to play whatever happened to those fluid movements you were so proud of in the intimate moments what about the girl you left at the altar now now now she is planning your funeral didn...

she said her father looked like Woodrow Wilson she said her father looked like Woodrow Wilson presiding from behind prescription lenses she said her father looked like Woodrow Wilson she said her mother act like a first lady she said her mother act like...

You got one friend who's a flight attendant You got one friend who likes speed You got one friend who always wants To smoke inside of your house You got one friend who secretly likes To get peed on sexually You got one friend who is, oh, so natural And...

Wounded prince, where's your daddy? he's out watching the fat lady sing Did you break your leg? did you bloody your nose? The cameras are here, to watch your blue blood flow Your mother's being poked by some bloke in the bahamas Wounded prince, where's you...

Like at the wren's nest Like at rock eagle Ironies swirl and hearts are twisted taut Around their pivot points The stag scrapes his felt on a scrubby dogwood tree Like at the warm springs Like at key club Residuals are what get to one Reach toxic lev...

Oberheim, Yamaha, Steinway and the lot I must have played the wrong piano 'cause it left me with, I don't know what so don't talk to me about mistakes yes we all simply have got to take precautions I must have played the wrong piano 'cause now I just fe...

It's ok, you can take a condom It's ok, you can take valtrex And it's ok, you can get an abortion And then keep on keeping on It's ok, you can take a prilosec And it's ok, you can take vioxx And it's ok, you can get a quadruple bypass And then keep on k...

Zippy morocco with a hat on his head Set sail for the seven seas When his mother took to dead Barely out of teenagedom When his mental map was unfurled The next thing that he knew He found himself halfway around the world With nobody to send exotic po...