Heavy Birdless sky Breath hanging like Your silence Close your eyes Heart pounding Like shoes in a drier Want a cigarette now Thought I quit years ago I will ma...

Here we go Falling out of ranks You're unafraid of consequence I'm faking it as if you hadn't guessed "Heave ho" Throwing out the past You will speak for optimi...

I've been angry And I have strayed I said words I never thought that I could say And you were sad and sweet Like a Wilco song But I'll be back up on my feet bef...

Leaning through windows, stories high I get to take in the damage, looking down As they clean up the mess We pull pinions, placing bets Cold cash or coke, we ca...

I had a lot that I thought I needed but Give it up for you, give you what I got It's time that you know it, (Fucked up and I'm going) Back to where I came from...

Too much too soon Try to find the patterns What the mind wants matters most Pour into me But who knows what we're missing So much more is happening I'm sure An...

You grew up alone in a big empty house With a pool and a maid, mom and dad always out And I always thought that you had it so good Just imagine my surprise when...

All my life I've disappeared Tell myself it would get better So my wife, you lead me here To Chapel Perilous I enter And all the blessings of the world Could n...

Ever since I was a kid I've been cleareyed, cleareyed I can't forget but I forgive, did you notice? Are you all right? On the edge of memory where shapes take ...

There comes a time in life To pull on your coat and go outside To taste the vinegar of life, bitter life To taste a second time, it's sweet surprise Sweet surpr...

At the start of the conversation I didn't have too much to say I was needing some inspiration And you just got in my way I took a shot at an easy target You wer...

Been waiting to find You could've been happier given the time If he'd make up his mind You'd give yourself to anybody Who would cross that line Chorus: And it ...

Dad's in the garage In a cardboard box Some would think it was wrong But I say it's not Dad's in the garage There's a legend and fable He'll be missed but not l...

Is it this place that makes me fall from you Forget the words that once rang so true Did we expect that life was ever fair, my god I sowed a field of rose and r...

If I lose my faith Just remind me, just remind me When my shadow's longer Stay beside me till it's brighter How easily I forget How beautiful to see it once aga...

Curious the smile Tenuous the hold Embarrassed and uncertain We enfold His hands are held together So it looks just like he praying But they've never once been ...

I came here unexpected I came here as a friend And this time they've been investing Had no place to spend And my [polls] hanging open Look like Heaven said Didn...

I've got gardens growing, got quiet days Clothes on my back, food on my plate Got friends to help me if I call for them I don't need anything that I don't have ...

I was the driver for the drive-by of the neighbor's dog Dad had always hated him so he said "Come on son, "Get into the Vega now and I'll go get my shotgun" It ...

Someone's in the backyard banging on the door Daddy's gone away, he's coming back no more His baby's curled up on a stranger's floor Momma's thinking family din...

I am the son of a soap opera town Mayberry rebel, a middle class clown You were the backflip, doe eyed Tree climbing angel from heaven who finally came down I ...

I don't know what to say, I don't know what to do Everything seems lost, everything but you I'm not sure what it takes, I'm fuzzy on the rules And everything's ...

Do I make you better still? And isn't that what brought us here? Look for some excuse to get us both nowhere Life is never easy but it's almost fair And there ...

Oh my enigma, I'll never forgive ya You have confirmed my suspicions as if they had mattered You're so removed, I can't approach With an attitude beyond reproac...

Another day I call and never speak And you would say nothing's changed at all I can't feel much hope for anything If I won't be there to catch you if you fall ...

You opened the door and in came the night Curled round a woman and turned out the light And finally got it figured out But it's too late to go back now Proud a...

I am barely aware when I talk too much So easy for me to get out of touch Though I'll miss my part in the show You'll do much better sir if you let me go There...

I want to see you some time Come find me, I'll be home Just between the Costco And the Barnes and Noble Behind the mom and pop grocery That shut down in the 90'...

Gabriel, listen I'm in need of a friend Gabriel would you listen? Faith alone is a prison And I can't sleep with the fallen Gabriel would you listen If you are...

Dad's in the garage In a cardboard box Some would think it was wrong But I say it's not Dad's in the garage Place of legend and fable He'll be missed, but not ...

Let us be humbled tonight In these depths show us the light Give us peace, lay down the mighty In these depths, show us the light, please Oh God, I pray to the...

Greer zoller you make me holler Blew me a kiss and I threw you a dollar But you had eyes like deep cool water Greer zoller from the minute I saw her I knew I h...

Count down the rings Or pick up the phone But she's sure to know That you're not alone More on the side And less at the home Dust and dry earth Where a garden s...

I've seen the dark spot on your soul I've felt you cruel, I've held you cold I know the parts of you that you don't think you show But I still love you I've se...

The water's getting deeper and I can't feel my feet I keep on bailing buckets, but it flows right back to me And everything is put away, the children are asleep...

One thread, we hang Swinging, dangling It breaks, we fall Bye bye, that's all A balance fine A sweep of time Nighting as the day ends Take it slow as we can Y...

I sit on the bed Watching evening descend With a fistful of marigolds And the dim light is traced On your skeleton face Your hands are impossibly cold Close my...

I want the woman who would want me Velvet temple of her body Seeing lovers crushed together Doesn't make it any better Maya, maya Kiss me through the veil I won...

She came from Austin, Texas, she liked his custom van And his pit bull Francis Even when he took a chunk out of her hand They liked to dance in the desert and s...

They all went away and left me alone And now there's nobody around anymore Just this big empty house, big empty street In a big empty town and a big empty state...

No one likes us-I don't know why We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try But all around, even our old friends put us down Let's drop the big one and see ...

Well it took five neigbors To get him in the hall And down the three flights of stairs Out the building's door I know that it's easy to say That it couldn't be ...

I miss something that I never had Clear sky and virgin land Hard work to make me strong Cool nights and Guthrie songs Nothing I own I can't fix with myhands I'...

Clouds rumble, earth will shift Walls tumble, hearts will skip Things changing Everywhere but here Small window, tiny room Sun hits in the afternoon For one min...

I'm complication, live wire down I'm agitation, distorted sound You're celebration, a girl on a swing Passion and patience, an unbroken ring It's simple, simple...

I've done it again Made spectacular claims And I lied in the name of a good love I think I recall Someone brought me here But the memory's not clear Just what i...

He's got a thing about losing control Carries it a mile just to see how far he'll go And he brushes up his chops as he tries to fake a smile A friend indeed but...

You made this world You made this world You made this world Thank you, thank you You gave me life You gave me life You gave me life Thank you, thank you Your l...

Forgive me this sin I'm falling over Flashing tin grins And rolling in clover So ready to get out And eager to please Well, it's late in the day in the middle o...

Behind the house The ground has opened up And it's so deep, a hole It's bottom can't be found It sucks the air inside and makes quiet sea sounds We sometimes s...

They got my number down They know how tight to twist One day they'll claim me 'Til then I'll be here Tic-toc the hour goes Junk food, junk TV shows I can't reme...

This is no exaggeration I truly am alone A hundred million clicks And eight long months from home But I'm holding to my promise I'll land and plant the flag Fo...

She looked just like a train wreck That could've been avoided In a third world country By a long stretch of farmland Where the waters had run high And washed th...

So how, how did I lose the thread When you reeled it in again I could be caught on that line Spending my time swimming with you You love is often unkind, bitte...

If I'd been dreaming Wouldn't you just wake me Senseless sleeping You were always waiting Doubt come slowly It surely overtakes me Am I among the lonely You we...

There's almost nothing left You eat my kind for breakfast What did I expect To come here and find anyone? Find open arms to feed me I sicken myself so much And ...

He is a lot like me Didn't know it He is a lot like everyone he meets Says he has dreams And I was laughing at him Promised no more lies I crossed my fingers th...