Once in a while A man comes along Even his failures were favorite songs Oh to have made something so unsurpassed As certain things fall away So certain things l...

There is a swan-white curtain, Somewhere within the sky It's known of every sermon, Every anguished cry - The howls of hopeless people, Frightened and alone Th...

Did you come down to give me or take me away I had so many things to tell you But now I don't have much to say This feeling like we're hiding out, is getting in...

And now we'll sing of drowning things No wondering what might happen Upon that ship we played the popular songs Some sang along, now all that's gone Thrown bel...

another shadow on the river floor another holy man who wanted more gone, gone another gone the river knew the song that drew the man it knew, the river knew th...

I know what you're doing, I see it all too clear I only taste the saline when I kiss away your tears You really had me going, wishing on a star But the black ho...

I present to you a story Set upon a northern shore The denizens of lighthouse During times of war The foolish things they did The foolish things they said I'm ...

Such an annoying conversation I'm sorry but I'm tired of trying To be some picture of compassion and anyway it sounds like I'm lying and yes I've heard the word...

Born Scorpio boy Chased by storms Always safe Rush out of bed Tornado is dead In its wake, sunlight The land in uproot Taken down south To a hurricane town Fa...

born scorpio boy chased by storms always safe rush out of bed tornado is dead in its wake, sunlight the land in uproot taken down south to a hurricane town fa...

I know it's not fashionable To be this hopeful well laugh away I didn't think it was possible To be greateful anyway I know it's not sensible To be this passi...

What are you looking at, what do you see? Is it the truth or a strange fantasy? Whenever you're watching, changing the scene The time is a place, this place is...

Faded longing Tired of wanting Can't explain the fear that's haunting you Should I go on? I may be wrong so wrong Hear me calling from Eagle Mountain One of mi...

Green plastic watering can In the fake plastic earth She bought from a rubber man Town full of rubber plans To get rid of itself Wears her out wears her out wea...

One day maybe When I grow up A son you will have found When I change my ways One of these days I know I'll make you proud What I never say Because of busy day...

If, again, you wander If, too soon again, you wander Far away, far away Let this, too, be with you An old tune somewhere within you Far away, far away Falling t...

Maybe I'll just whisper neither humble neither proud Listen if you care to, but I will not sing too loud No, not tonight Just before i'm over and out I wanna si...

Maybe I'll just whisper Neither humble, neither proud Listen if you care to But I will not sing too loud No, not tonight Just before I'm over and out I want to ...

Clearly I'm a genius If she only knew it but somewhere in her radius I really blew it I know, I know what I said to her and I know what I did What I don't know ...

I'm awake in the afternoon I fell asleep in the living room and it's one of those moments when everything is so clear before the truth goes back into hiding I ...

I'm awake in the afternoon I fell asleep in the living room And it's one of those moments When everything is so clear Before the truth comes back into hiding, ...

Hey Casanova You don't look too good But I know times are tough You never found your paradise Like you said you would And it's all catching up It may be that ...

Don't get me wrong, I'm feeling OK But when I'm without you it's just not the same Don't misunderstand me, I'm feeling alright But when I'm without you the day ...

Had a house full of riches Threw it all away I'm not a worthy man No matter what you say I promise forever And left without a word I'm not a worthy man No matte...

Wind so restless, yearning breathless Sons and daughters sometimes they do meet I remember one September How I felt a strange late summer heat Distant oceans, ...

All the storms and oceans All the sheltering sky All this earth and she and I Wait until it happens Wait, the moment will come Wait, but all those are already ...

Here and there Haunting my closets and drawers My evermore Now and then Forgetting that everything's changed I call her name And I heard the stories She tried...

Life is like a sinking ship and you are at the wheel You see the hole is filling up, you know your fate is sealed But still you keep on trying to steer the ship...

I wouldn't mind If everyday Was like the day I had just yesterday You and I, Hanging on every kiss On all of this I wouldn't mind If all of my nights Were like...

Hold the light up to me Get underneath my skin I feel a little undefined But I want to let you in And I listen to the messages The endless train of thought But ...

For all the good you say it does It feels no better when you've had your say You may believe it's just because The words get colder when you're gone away I thou...

For all the good you say it does It seems no better when you had your say You may believe its just because Words get colder when you've gone away I thought I un...

I leave town, take a ride Maybe see the countrysdie All green and gold I'll breathe a better air I'm told The city life is fine But is seems like all the time ...

Some sweet perversion On the telephone line I've been waiting for such a very long time For her to be free The evening was nice But there were too many people A...

Simeon, he was a man Held his heart out in his hand A hollow land of autumn breeze Evenings in the brittle rain Leaves that fill the barren plain With simple pa...

Oh so cold Evening grey consumed in dark No more day to hold me sounds won't stay to play their part Only what strangers told me Why is the ghost who listens So...

Without you Lost on the moon Without you Here the world is desert gray Never do I see the day Here there is a different light There's only night, only night J...

I'm threading through the evening it's later than I thought a friend of mine is waiting for cigarettes I brought she smiles she seems so tired so nothing is re...

There is a swan white curtain Somewhere within the sky It's known of every sermon and every anguished cry The howls of hopeless people frightened and alone The...

And there, the bones do sleep And there the soul is soul And there the gods do weep When the angels fall But there the thoughts won't keep And here the blood r...

So good to meet you Mr Chess I've always heard that you're the best At housing knights and castles high up in the air So I beseech you, Mr Chess To let me slee...

He beat the drum and lit the fires He sent the messages in vain But the sound of his philosophy Rose above the falling rain And to you who find it difficult To...

Turning the wheel to emptiness They're when you breathe your final breath No one will hold you anymore Haven't they told you baby, You're always alive Always al...

You play guitar for perfect strangers You write some words they try to sell And then you sing these things in public sometimes not very well You get paid to go ...

The past we seek Some certainty The seasons we remember The light of May and the darkest days The month we call November To leave behind The wasted time And ev...

Could I change the way you feel Could I make you see there's more than holding on Can you ever let your heart believe again So this is where we are And this is...

I'm on a high, I'm on a high there's nothing more to it We are the sea and the sky and the blue that runs through it, yeah and there are some who say there are...

Standing firm on this stony ground Another wind blows up, pulls these clothes around I harbor all the same worries as most Temptations to leave or to give up th...

I hear what you're sayin' I may seem out of order Nothin's quite the same now As it ever was before her And you're lookin' at me With one of those sideways glan...

Here are your lines, now stick to the page Like the wise man said, "All the world's a stage" And don't forget, you have a role to play You can't improvise, and ...

Everyone's looking, everyone hides Everyone's telling, but everyone lies We're changing the subject, we're turning away Away from the heart of it all You say y...

And there was Gone, and there was Evermore And there was Wherefore hast thou And What heretofore But not for evermore Not for evermore, now O Lord, went away O...

She justified it then She may well justify forever She figures it's the only way To keep herself together Something about hotel rooms and horses And losing all ...

And there were mermaids -- weren't there? -- Sweet silver mermaids All through that grey Trafalgar Square, Such silver mermaids They were young, and they were ...

So what, life's tough You should get over yourself Like everyone else and enjoy The girls and the boys And everything in between Serena, in an effort to avoid T...

For all the good you say it does It seems no better when you had your say You may believe its just because Words get colder when you've gone away I thought I un...

You may not see the end of it But luckily she comes around It isn't what she talks about It's just the way she is (and she says) Ooh darlin' don't you know The...

So you wrote me a letter which I thought was really kind I don't recall which song it was but there was one you really liked And you asked me, so innocently, Of...

How many times on this merry-go-round Over and over again Up on the horse was a weak, foolish child Who never believed it would end How many smokes ‘til I'm sa...

The streets here are empty All the people went home I was just wondering if you're alone So how've you been lately I hear you're a little down Do you think mayb...

For you There'll be no more cryin' For you The sun will be shinin' And I feel that when I'm with you It's all right I know it's right To you I'll give the wor...

Playground Home-land A countryside to save Blue skies Air-space Soldiers to raise And sacrifice Strong armed Christians Oiled up and fed Safe as Houses In a...

Peace has lost its meaning now we've hit the ceiling all is said and all is done here goes start again You're better than you think so something I hold onto I'...

you and I in the room with the balcony you lie on the bed while I stare at the sea I stare at the sea on such reveries and we're riding the ponies in Mexico th...

sunrise how can this be so full of hope and ambiguity cos I've got mine and maybe you've got yours i've been down, yeah i've been down before mostly because I f...

Lieutenant Brando, brave commando We hardly know you rolling in one scene Sheriff Charles, you're a marvel You're better when you don't do anything If you have...

Hit the town, still dressing down Looking for some action Mr Jagger said it best He knows you never getno satisfaction But Mr Dylan knows That everyone is more ...

If I crack up Lose my head Try to hid beneath my bed And leave the television on So I don't think of what's gone wrong I beg the dawn Break through, save me Re...

Should I say I'm sorry For what I'm going to say I guess it's way beyond me To sleep with yesterday I want to see my future I want to know my past The everlasti...

A man in my shoes runs a liar All the papers lie tonight, That falling over you is the news of the day Aw angels fall like rain, And your love, is all of heaven...

The word is told, now The word is said The word is old, now And the stone is bread The heart is bone, now The heart is flesh The heart is known, now And the no...

All the shadows blue, in the winter moon, The stars within the darkness, They remember you, and they sorrow too, With all the winds that blow Every book you'd ...

This is how my heart heard That little thing in tears they call the truth It said, be done with her, she's done with you This is how my heart heard This is how...

Drifter, what about her conversation? Drifter, how about an explanation Where you go, when you receive And why you never let her feed On all that truth you hold...

DUNCAN SHEIK DID NOT SING THIS SONG The versions out right now by the *artist* Pancho's Lament (self titled album) and by David Crosby/James Raymond/Beth Hart B...

Promised cures for everyman Snake oil and circuses You can get to heaven, yes you can So judge the books by their surfaces Someone's taking care of business Th...

Indeed there's such a thing as ghosts And more to cause you fear You never know where or when But surely they'll appear Quiet men turn into wolves During certa...

I guess they think it's what we want A smooth and easy ride Constellations of ceiling lights Hennessey and Naugahyde America, America And this is our reward Ev...

Listen to the ways, everything communicates, Will it ever be anything more than Wishful Thinking, Oh no there you go, Looked away and missed the show How much w...

Use every chance you've been given she replied after several days It's no good to be perfect You know so well things are easy to tell There is one thing I know ...

You've really gone and done it now You've hit the lowest low You thought that you could handle this But there's a lot that you don't know You're just a child a...