|
Filthy and anonymous in jackson, a dozen keys to nowhere in his hand Black madonna, won’t you change his luck and find him fifty grand? ’cause he’s tore down, months from nowhere, with the day-to-day out of his hands One key fit the door to their apartment, another fit the business he let die A [...]
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 [...]
I’m having a conversation with some friends i know Somebody i agree with no matter where i go Somebody i never have to wait for or try to read their minds Somebody i never have to say, "are you having a good time?" Here’s to the perfect evening with me, myself and i We’ll go [...]
Just be clever for clever’s sake, starin’ at the ceiling into shadow-fakes The circle-smokes in the ladies room only got you as far as the roles assumed A glimpse of the perfect crime is just a reverie away Whadaya say we hang there a while for expediency’s sake? And fantasize the great demise of the [...]
This town ain’t much to look at, there ain’t that much to do With the local joe’s at the stop and go and the class of ’42 We go down to the laundromat and listen to that station Find out where the fire was at and see what’s in rotation Good morning to you, good [...]
This town ain’t much to look at, there ain’t that much to do With the local joe’s at the stop and go and the class of ’42 We go down to the laundromat and listen to that station Find out where the fire was at and see what’s in rotation Good morning to you, good [...]
Town clock stopped tickin’, but it ain’t broken Got a problem that no one can define While that river keeps on a-flowin’ Hang on children, it’s a matter of time Angry child, impatience growin’ Waits with her father in that unemployment line While that river goes on a-flowin’ Hang on darlin’, it’s a matter of [...]
Like a fire burning in the kitchen sink Like a choir that can’t agree on what to sing Like a wild raging river that just can’t find the will You change your mind a thousand times, deciding to stand still Better to live than to explain Better to write than to have read Better to [...]
Just be clever for clever’s sake, starin’ at the ceiling into shadow-fakes The circle-smokes in the ladies room only got you as far as the roles assumed A glimpse of the perfect crime is just a reverie away Whadaya say we hang there a while for expediency’s sake? And fantasize the great demise of the [...]
Filthy and anonymous in jackson, a dozen keys to nowhere in his hand Black madonna, won’t you change his luck and find him fifty grand? ’cause he’s tore down, months from nowhere, with the day-to-day out of his hands One key fit the door to their apartment, another fit the business he let die A [...]
There are nights when i’m in my bed Fear, like a freight train, runnin’ through my head Watch a man in the county seat Bring a gavel down and he looks like me Little eddie stares at the corn all day He says, "wonder how god makes it grow that way" They say, "watch that [...]
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 [...]
Town clock stopped tickin’, but it ain’t broken Got a problem that no one can define While that river keeps on a-flowin’ Hang on children, it’s a matter of time Angry child, impatience growin’ Waits with her father in that unemployment line While that river goes on a-flowin’ Hang on darlin’, it’s a matter of [...]
I’m having a conversation with some friends i know Somebody i agree with no matter where i go Somebody i never have to wait for or try to read their minds Somebody i never have to say, "are you having a good time?" Here’s to the perfect evening with me, myself and i We’ll go [...]
Like a fire burning in the kitchen sink Like a choir that can’t agree on what to sing Like a wild raging river that just can’t find the will You change your mind a thousand times, deciding to stand still Better to live than to explain Better to write than to have read Better to [...]
There are nights when i’m in my bed Fear, like a freight train, runnin’ through my head Watch a man in the county seat Bring a gavel down and he looks like me Little eddie stares at the corn all day He says, "wonder how god makes it grow that way" They say, "watch that [...]