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Hey man: You’re so complicated and mean maybe your system needs adjustment She is a famous people collector I’m juggling J-O-B The Judger Maybe the words don’t mean a thing They never fill the dead man’s shoes Who killed the culture-hero trip? If it was me then it was you You can be intimidating when [...]
don’t go there” I heard her say. “you can’t stomach what you’re going to see” It’s down there, by the water’s edge wasted and bloated and waiting for someone else funny how, these little things come about when you’re tied to the teeth and mouth no sound or fury, no shot of pain there was [...]
he’s a real cannibal.” she goes: “I think I’ll call him roderigo” dress him up in darker clothes, sell him away standing underneath her gun “sit up straight or I’ll hurt you” you know he’s not her only son, just the strongest “I’m the real animal,” she goes she wants to call me roderigo tie [...]
So you’re sticky and you’re young and your head is like a sponge Go to keep yourself, keep you from becoming one Get up off of your knees! You feel a tick in your stomach and it’s eating towards your heart A subtle, constant shiver from the bottom to the top Get up off of [...]
Words keep falling from my mouth, Trying just to slow them down. Keep on spilling around, Saying, “Why do you hurt me?” And if anger is my gift, The only gift I’m fit to bring, Then put me on your shelf, See the winter in me. (Chorus) If it’s the only gift I’m fit to [...]
my my stomach hurts again tonight she says: and crashes on her floor cuts what she can’t untie ties it to a door if mercy was a cattle call she didn’t hear she didn’t want to play the role of the fool again won’t be fooled again indifference as my witness I think she’d take [...]
A young girl give me a good luck charm. Put a snake on my neck and a bird on my arm. Got one good leg ’cause the other went South. Got a brand new crutch and a brand new mouth. I got a sheriff’s name branded where I should have kept clean. If you get [...]
I am a tiny machinist. I have the smallest plans. I have a mind television. The gift of idle hands. I’ve been re-educated. To bleed technology. Even more complicated than the machines who made me. I’m a wasteland messiah. I’m a train run off the track. I’m a first time believer in. What might never [...]
My good looks won’t save my kids from their dad’s predicament. They won’t see my face like this see my face as a shadow I could be wrong or I could be strong The penny-rate my love collects could set your ass on fire Instead of praying thankful hallelujahs on the wire You turn on [...]
Time will pack a bag on you, my love organize, re-organize your Luck Pretty face, a pretty smile, a pretty shame you can’t defile The message you have made for them to see And it will be And it will be H Y P O C R I S Y HYPOCRISY This evening’s great excuse [...]
Somebody hold me, hold me down So I don’t slip tonight Punch the clocks out, Punch the wall still Somethings wrong with me Without you feels, Like the end of the world Without you feels, Like the end of the world What if somebody had told me, I’d be this unhappy What if somebody had [...]
Well I haven’t seen a doctor since I can’t remember when But she tells me I’ve been a talker since 1976 We went up to the lake and I, I remember this: my family secret Pits in my skin where I let you in This RockCrown never let you down I’m a season in Hell- [...]
Been draggin’ this mask all over town with my face still in it No one saw that I did it Things they’ve done to me you would never believe Believe me they’re true things I’ve had to do To get next to you I need a straight-away ticket to a southwestern state Have I broke [...]
If youre the worlds most lifelike girl And Im the thing you cant stand Ive seen it go like this before Fate soon begins Lets come across Before we get to my stop Dont let another light go by tonight Im wrecking someone elses train Nobody knows the way I feel Nobody knows the things [...]
She talks to her television. Changing channels with her mind. When this new world turns politic, she just slips in between their sighs. And we talk when the talking is good. Saying over and over. Maybe we should run. While the running is run down. I know forgiveness tastes like dry salt in your mouth. [...]
Play me like a player piano roll me from the corners of your dark and dusty shadows Like a player piano, I sit useless most of the time The bar gets darker it swallows up the scarlet The barkeep’s looking thin We sit together until only the piano of the player remains Tell me why [...]