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he was the king of the back seat (alexander/naydock) of drunk reverie saw him escorted out of a mets game He was the king of the back seat on network t.v. Of drunk reverie kept his head in the clouds Saw him escorted out of a mets game with any cheap high he could cull [...]
(alexander) Martha’s wearing blue jeans And she’s praying for the poor Two midgets shop for halloween At a salvation army store And a widow with a quarter Buys herself a plastic ring A little faith is a precious thing Santa in december The circus in july The fat man he has mouths to feed Just [...]
we used to drink our bacardi (alexander/welsh/badlees) behind the old house and bitch about dream We used to drink our bacardi that would never come true Behind the old school then you heard a callin’ And bitch about dreams that i hadn’t felt That would never come true I liked you better Then you heard [...]
(feltenberger, yashinsky) We live for the mountains ’cause the mountains give us life But the pits were too inviting And they stripped away our lives If i could holler from this hollow For just a little help I’m sure the neighbors would come running Just to see for them selves And i don’t give a [...]
CHORUS (alexander/badlees) There must be angels of mercy Lookin’ down on me (chorus) ‘Cause when I lok up to the sky There must be angels of mercy I swear I see Lookin’ down on me Angels of mercy lookin’ down on me ’cause when i look up to the sky I swear i see Well, [...]
(alexander) There’s antiques on the mantle Hank williams in the air Bourbon on the counter And you’ve cut off all your hair The daisies on the hillside Watch the sun goin’ down Hopin’ that time turns around Hopin’ that time turns around Police at the pawnshop Vampires at the mall Country boys in gangster clothes [...]
I was just a young boy, barely 17 A regular poster child for the american dream I spent some time in college, tried to learn that system well Left a problem drinker and cynical as hell Chorus They say there’s two kinds of people Those who have and those who don’t Some of us will [...]
You stand on your platform and present your views You hand out your opinion like it’s the daily news While your checkin’ your look in the mirror From your head down to your shoes But you don’t know A better way, a better way to save the world Your are not my conscience and you [...]
No money man is gonna carry us No corporate hand is gonna bury us If we had convictions we’d be dangerous Don’t want their creed to guide our consequence Don’t want their shadow casting darkness on our future tense They’d make a killing but we’re making sense With the last great act of defiance To [...]
Well, he died at 39 (feltenberger/badlees) Some kinda pill and homemade wine He left his english bride Well, he died at 39 And a love he couldn’t deny behind Some kinda pill and homemade wine Folks have come to say He left his english bride He nearly gave the land away And a love he [...]
I thought i felt her ghost again last night And i kept a fire burning through the morning light You, early morning diner on the neon range You, you drove away as it began to rain Twenty months of feedin’ off original sin Ain’t shut the door blown open by what should have been Chorus [...]
(naydock, palladino) With flu I dream of you In light as blue as neon when it’s blue Past visions of rolling hills In movie stills A panoramic stew Above the scientific Element, content We spy the view (chorus) A fever’s brought me close to you In ways we can not be A fever’s brought me [...]
Well I take off my shoes (alexander/badlees) When I walk in her door And try my best to levitate Well, i take off my shoes ‘Cross her living room floor When i walk in her door ‘Cause you can’t leave tracks And try my best to levitate When you’re on hollowed ground ‘cross her living [...]
They met up in rockport Where the moon rose early and the days were short And the miles between were still too many to mention The blue ridge rides at starfall Oh, the epic scope of it all Those days before the double-edged blade of contention Chorus Sometimes passion’s like a cigarette Burning clean out [...]
The second coming of chris (alexander, feltenberger, welsh) He’ll be coming up 287 He’ll be driving a rented car He’ll be carrying a key to heaven And a box of te-amo cigars You’ll see him at your reunion You’ll see him at the orchid lounge He works in nyc, got a cool goatee Tell everyone [...]
(naydock/badlees) When the rain is sports arena loud In the evening of a self-inflicted day And you’re contemplating sides that might collide The hemlock society and life insurance salesmen And you discover all your coupons are for things you hate And all your pennies are canadian and you curse that paperweight Drown it all and [...]
Her parent’s house exudes a reborn air (naydock/badlees) The bathtub virgins in the midnight air Seem to smile in celebration Her parents house exudes a reborn air What an intercession The bathtub virgins in the midnight air All inertia washed away Seem to smile in celebration What an intercession CHORUS All inertia washed away Resplendent [...]
A lot of folks do well enough leavin’ well enough alone But that was never true for me and you Livin’ like the characters in "like a rolling stone" Confirming things that we already knew You were young and pretty – me, well, i was young Leastways young enough not to need a reason I [...]
Janie got a present late one christmas day Immaculate conception one could hardly say She took her little baby and all her daddy’s cash The guilt stayed forever but the money didn’t last Chorus Tell me no more secrets Tell me no more lies When the road you thought you were on Ain’t the road [...]
Last night i dreamt of flying over hill sides in the snow And i dove down through the clouds to the valley there below when feilds turned into parking lots my freedom turned to dread the ground rose up to greet me and i jumped up out of bed you can fly fly fly off [...]