Send me to bed My head's drowning out the thick and blurry sounds Of horses on the highway The days are running down And i'm drowning out this overwhelming sad ...

I can see the chill in the air between us I can feel a winter coming we're frozen in our stares And we know there's a world outside Of these insults and injuri...

You flipped the sign in your window But, baby, are you really closed? I got nowhere else to run to I sure as hell ain't running home We could crash back at your...

A Valentine's Day party, I didn't think you'd show You don't like making entrances alone You've got a new friend You've got a new friend Likes to go to movies L...

I hate it when you say you need me. You don't need me. I hate even worse that I need you. It kills me. When I was young I loved to be by myself, all alone. Now ...

What strange and lovely dreams Crashing through the streets Driving off the cliff Smashing on the stones Tossed out to the sea To drift, and sink, and sleep An...

The first time that I met her I was throwing up in the ladies room stall She asked me if I needed anything; I said, I think I spilled my drink” And that's how i...

In pile of unpaid bills There's a letter sent from Philadelphia In a familiar hand, she hasn't opened it just yet There's no telling what is says Oh darling ple...

He broke his old guitar He couldn't make it sing The strings had grown so worn They made his fingers bleed Soon after the event he made an acquaintance Whose f...

Yesterday came and went and I wasn't present The weeks were laid out like pavement Work and drink and sleep, repeat Upon the beaten path I kept on my blinders D...

Black Out (Track 01) you try too hard for the perfect beginning you're so let down when the beauty starts fading once beaming with confidence now brooding with ...

You try too hard For the perfect beginning You're so let down When the beauty starts fading Once beaming with confidence Now brooding with doubt Pack those pict...

Monday left it's callus on my feet I tried so to keep up It kept dragging me behind Tuesday lashed it's blisters upon my hands I wish to clench them in defense...

Like a butcher that picks on the day's remains Purchased on the TV Lackadaisical, lacking any will to be Anything other than depressing Dear sister I really mi...

You said you're a wreck, you get so upset You said that you'd ruin everything The first chance you get But your chances come day after day As I drunkenly slande...

You thought you had it made Like the songs would write themselves But your words ran out of ink And your fingers lost the chords You lay around so bored And you...

What you're looking for is never what you find Nothing ever seems to turn out right Still running around still searching all these long indifferent streets For...

Out a little late aren't you? What's out there I don't give you? Don't I drink and sleep with you? What you want you'll never get- What you want is infinite You...

I'm not an artist, I'm an asshole without a job, Making money off alcohol Making money off calling myself out, "Look at me! A fraud, a phony!" Entertainer- That...

I thought I'd start this simple song with something you could sing along like "Na na na na na na" But then I felt a bit cliche- I started Beaten Path that way- ...

Friction Nightclubs, nightstalkers Fast women, fast talkers Loose lips, loose limbs The lovely loveless Sunset to sunrise Black dresses, black eyes Tangles of ...

Grandma's gone The priest had such lovely words for us What a holy lady lost She'll remain in all our thoughts Her great grandkids run through pews Remind us ho...

Well here I am, yeah, I'm back again In the town that I used to call my residence Now it seems I dwell in a silver van You might have seen it once, yeah, it's p...

You stop stopping by to say hello You started starting up each time I phone I only call when I get the blues You think at least I could turn to you But I'm sure...

I tried to be curt Tried not to be callous I tried to be casual Like nothing was wrong But nothing was right So nothing was left But for me to move along So I ...

Mostly i sleep it off It's easier in the morning To shrug off the evening's Drunken pathetic pleas 'cause the night's tragic rambling Is the next day's apologie...

When you said you loved me, did you really love me or did the words just spill out like drool on my pillow 'Cause I was naked when you said those words, but I f...

Keely Aimee sat next to me My hair stood up on end And Keely Aimee, maybe one night We could be better friends I know this town's been hard on you I've seen the...

On Stage at the Orpheum Waiting for a diploma Lookin' 'round at my classmates, Ready to disown them My bags were packed, I was ready to leave, For University- I...

La la la la la la la la la Ooh It's going to take a lot of love To change the way things are It's going to take a lot of love Or we won't get too far So if you...

I swear to speak the whole truth, nothing but the truth oh, so help me God, I wasn't cheating on you Yeah I've got a spotty record, but I've been renewed If you...

You never fell for me, You fell for how it felt You felt for being held, So, who's gonna fill in Now my arms refuse to bend? Who's gonna fill in… And who's gonn...

I can't do this anymore: Stay in, black out, hit the floor I've forgotten what i'm hiding from But mama called and cried to me, "baby, your anniversary was last...

1994 A girl pukes out the window on her car door Her childish eyes say, I don't want this anymore I want to be a woman No, no, see, I don't want to be no whore”...

I know a girl with cuts on her legs I think that she hates the way she was made, but we never spoke of why they were there, I just squeezed them and kissed them...

Drunk at the bar at last, last call My babys home on her night off, So Im involved in a serious talk with a girl I had known growing up So we buy a six; decide ...

It's different when you're lonely, The whole world's in love. Holding hands between bar stools, And you're holding your tounge. Hold on - you're so fucked up......

I stumbled in at three am, but you didn't want to, I tried again at half past ten – you still didn't want to, Your hips have this way of saying no way; an impen...

Well I'm trying to be patient But the wheels keep turning round But it's a treadmill and I just dragging my feet I'm so tired of everything Defeated by routine ...

Things are good We should take a polaroid, a memento Before the moment's destroyed We constantly bicker, these flickering moods We're hardly making any sense Ei...

There's no talk of future plans There's no romance There's no good reason we should be in love So I've been making shit up We're even sleeping in different beds...

What are you really after? What are you hoping to gain? If nothing has ever pleased you What makes you think you've changed? You're running in circles, darling ...

We could recognize our faults We could admit when we're wrong We could try to talk things out Instead of yelling from the wells of our lungs But we don't But we...

Called in sick for work Said the fevers getting worse There's a lot of that going around I packed a duffle bag With some clothes from the attic It's getting col...

I must've seemed to you a shipwreck I looked at you, I saw an island So I was swept ashore, to lie forevermore Or at least for the evening So we went to your a...

They're draining all the pools They're flooding down the streets The drains are clogged with autumn leaves I swore that i would stop When summertime was through...

Yesterday came and went and I wasn't present The weeks were laid out like pavement Work and drink and sleep, repeat Upon the beaten path I kept on my blinders d...

He met this girl from reno Whose life was a competition She looked just like a china doll With porcelain skin she knew he'd let her win So he fell for her, As ...

Tell me, dear, Is there anything you'd like to hear? One last song before we disappear? Some broken hearted ballad Built for two By the way, it seems my notebo...

i can't do this anymore: stay in, black out, hit the floor i've forgotten what i'm hiding from but mama called and cried to me, "baby, your anniversary was last...

You don't know You don't know how hard it's been I've tried to hard to be good but I just can't win So I've got no mother now No one to slap me on the wrist No ...

"bon voyage" was something that i once said And eventually regretted Well, it's come up againand i wonder if The same mistakes i used to make Could be remade C...

It's been two years this month since the last time we spoke And it's starting to seem that the only thing everlasting Is this vow of silence Well, I guess that...

You look at me like you've been saved From another one that got away So I'm your latest cup of tea To keep your cold hands company, And I will warm you I will c...

When the horses come to drag me away, I won't fuss and fight i won't plead or beg And wherever they dump me i'll lay my head I'll sleep it offi'll sleep alone ...

I'll try to describe the way that it felt To tell my own mother her son is a failure His heart is too cold to love anyone but himself It's like stabbing an icic...

He sees her face The highway signs The traffic lights And she's turning red At a motel On a double bed He swears he feels her lying there And she whispers in h...

still i wonder how you are and what became of all of this did you cry when winters end? stole you from that fertile land did your mother hold you dear? to ease ...

Is he out with your cousin again? Don't you know where your cousin's been? I heard he's running with a prostitute Oh, your aunt's so upset And your man is keepi...

You're trying to remember why you cut all your hair Were you trying to be someone you weren't? You don't hang around the old haunts anymore, no, all the of thos...

I think I'm about to give in To a love that was doomed to begin with And what would those naysayers say? They'd say "I knew she would leave you It's the least ...

Still i wonder how you are, And what became of all of this Did you cry when winter's hands Stole you from that fertile grave? Did your mother hold you dear To ...

I'm shyer than your share of men I'd be honored to be one of them You're a fool for the wounded I'm a man in need of bandages So, wrap me up and take me home Yo...