If you want to see two circling swans On the surface of the sewer pond Don't crane your neck where you are You've got to climb to the second floor And I wouldn...

she's so musical look at her dance in a flurry who get's to lead do know it's not Arthur Murray emasculate me with your biology bend me, break me, I'm worthles...

Well, the first time I ever laid eyes on you Was my first year at marching band camp You never played the part as it was written You would always vamp You was ...

(Vic Chesnutt) I was shivering, I'll admit it I had nothing better to do Except to wheeze my lazy wheeze "Bernadette, where are you" "Bernadette, where are you"...

Betty Lonely lives in a duplex of stuccoon the north bank of a brackish riverher ears omit the noise from a nearby airstripher mind floats beyond the snapper bo...

Bourgeois and biblical Hanging on nails Mad metallic icons The old cyclone still compels Your hoity haiku lip curls The onion papers drain Constantinople Misty ...

Well, when I woke up this morning The sky was so bright It'd been a raining for days Now it seemed like everything was a gonna be alright But still those Novem...

I am a rough ball of twine I have a duty to do I been tied to the table but now I am frazzled and aloof degenerate, disintegrate the tight knots degenerate, ro...

I was supposed to tell you about the point of departure with the aim of a drunken archer I will probably stray but you can see in her bold eyebrow you can see i...

She said it She should know She'd by, told by She knows She'd been through it Quantity What can I say She should know I am what I am She'd been through Like a...

no chocolate in the duty free shop two drops of scotch gonna end up on his crotch, tonight all alone, sitting on the throne some native tounge on the TV blaring...

Holes in his sweater, fluid in his lungs The experts say there's things He should've done better But instead he is just dying young And tired of disbelieving, ...

Fa-la-la is running around All over the grounds of the hospital I was watching for her Like some people watch birds From the window of my hospital room I was t...

bricks are dirty, lakes are deadthe family dog is madbaby brother's science beakers are all brokennow the yard peacocks are all sad board games are boringmay th...

do a little rope trick move around the mildew when you stopped to make a phonecall in the glitter of a landmark she said something about a blood clot and a bad ...

Cross my heart and cross my eyes Stick a needle in my thigh Drop kick my unscrewed lid And fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle with what's inside A rusty mass o...

we blew past the army motorcadeand it's abnormal load haulagethe gravity of the situationcame on us like a bit of new knowledge the bubbliest bubble bathbroke d...

Ventolin and Vivarin and primatene secret tequila shots and a patch of morphine in the morning and in the throes what a great day to come out of a coma I've be...

Forget everything I ever told you I'm sure I lied way more than twice But understand I am not Emily post You know I'm nowhere near that precise And I struggle ...

I'm so sorry You had to kick my ass You said I ruined your life I didn't mean to do that I had to untangle Where we was entwined It was strangling me Were you ...

you file me with the libertines I fold in line my monthly dole of magazines beaming bistro shine in my ladle is your plum and my daily staple of your cutesy cr...

like a little vacation like a little old song that I want to hear like a big libation like a flattering sentence whispered in my ear that's what I want every t...

dogs are barking, birds are chirping the only thing better if I was squirting but there's no one here to love on me today for the maiden's on holiday for the ma...

a funny pilgrim on a crazy crusade a saucy chaucer, a sorry chapter mislaid whittled with an exacto knife plum right through my load bearing wall I'm horrified ...

I just never could say, "good bye" or "adieu" ooh, but the years, they have been so kind to you there's some skills that I have learned to do and I would certai...

Rave and rant in yer old Foster Grants I can see my billowy reflection You're a giant You're a giant A little late night caching A tender moving soul shake Wit...

new town reeks of lumber new town beat the crowds new town kittens discover that the birds scrape the ground and even the loneliest old ladies get social calls ...

(Vic Chesnutt) I can see my old hotel down amongst the smells I'm up above that ancient city river it's filtered by my lousy liver it's filtered by my wilted li...

thin and unshaved, drunk and mysteriousooh, I must say lifestyle is curiouswith a little touch of the sniffles and filthy socksgnawed, crumbled fingernails neve...

My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler High up to the darkest sky Some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never ever be able to rep...

(Vic Chesnutt) Where did you go after the parade I wandered, searching for about an hour Then I parked it on a bench Shifting and sulking Those pesky little mos...

I was shaking with laugther scared the bratty children did I destroy the ambience I'm sure for that hoity-toity patron it wasn't pretty when I looked into the ...

(Vic Chesnutt) Sitting in the breakfast nook Flipping through a saucy book Browsing for a bit of titillation (that's what you do, that's what you do) Morning is...

it's the plan of mostto discover that magnificent ghostwhen did I get pervertedand my innocent eyes divertedfrom a view so grandimbued with distractions I'm gre...

scratch, scratch, scratch goes the cat on the carpet she stepped in the blue water bowl twitch, twitch, twitch goes my eyelid my tounge in a cavity hole I lost...

I'm sorry for my lack of communication but as I'm staring out this fifth floor window it seems like the least amount of communication the better oh, well what a...

You're a freak of nature You are a siamese You are in a pickle jar For all the world to see Watching the sleeping man Watching the sleeping man Watching the sl...

Pleasure is melting like chocolate My blue ribbon gumption is gone All my gravy must have soaked into something And the world The filthy steps, the cold concre...

sitting in a square room my voice is freezing and the beams that are bouncing off the moon are hanging from my window like icicles just a tired old alcoholic, ...

up on the bluffwhere I wish I wastwisting up the pages of history my cold feet danglingmy bony arms gesturingto summon up a little chunk of that history in the ...

I am sick of you Expecting me to do All those puny ingratiations You know I am a terrible patient I am barely alive Ever since my daddy died And I've been sear...

Super Tuesday, on the ball Super Tuesday I am out on a stroll Super Tuesday, I'm in control Oh, super Tuesday I'm out on a stroll Oh I am out on a stroll Supe...

after the splice when the temperature's nice after the patch when everything's a match after the patch after the edit when it's had time to set when it's smoot...

suckin on a toothpick soaked with cinnamon the boys in the backroom played on Anonymous Adonis he's the one you want the boys in the backroom played on not beh...

it's a battle of the culinary artsin that boiling landyou met your mate over across that riverand some good old contraband in Thailand into our lovely story , w...

your personal pariah is in a wool cap the mirror flakes away take a long nap watching the threads disintegrate like the Krishna beads in a lockbox safe watchin...

take a lightbulb from the closetand replace the one above the faucetscrape the whisker from my facenick my lip in pointless haste take a magic marker blackdarke...

(Vic Chesnutt) knowing what I know now I should've had a cow I didn't realize you were to be despised I must have been one of history's stupidest men 'cause eve...

West of Rome, just east of the border In a static-y ramada inn Polishing his boots and pummeling his liver Steeped in the dark isolation Just what business does...

When I ran off and left her She wasn't holding a baby She was holding a bottle And a big grudge against me I tried to learn from the psychiatrist How to stay c...

she said her father looked like Woodrow Wilson she said her father looked like Woodrow Wilson presiding from behind prescription lenses she said her father look...

Oberheim, Yamaha, Steinway and the lot I must have played the wrong piano 'cause it left me with, I don't know what so don't talk to me about mistakes yes we a...