Your eyes, they conjure up those cliffs of Moor Far away I'm not listening anymore Dreaming of life on another shore Not here, not now with me the bore So I st...

I'm siphoning gas from the high school bus Into the tank of my beat-up bug So I can drive away from the shouting and misery I drive into the night, to the hill ...

The autumn leaves drift by my window The autumn leaves all red and gold I see your lips The summer kisses The sunburned hand I used to hold But since you went a...

I want to be somebody I want to make a difference Little boy caught in a drive-by Witnessed the killer who made his daddy die, And 'cause he identified and sig...

Pulling on the apron strings looking up Standing on the chair to be grown up I feel so little, I need my pillow I hate time, I hate the clock I want to be a dog...

Why do you think she wears those black boots Why do you think she dyes her hair black She's awfully insecure She's trying to be cool She's hoping to be more in...

(chorus) Carmen, I don't know if I can go back Carmen, I'll never be the same again Carmen, Carmen, Carmen The way you set the table The way you lean into tel...

(ke-ar -p-skoor o: the relationship of darkness and light in a painting or pictorial setting) Goya and El Greco, Gaugin and Van Gogh Painted light in darkness...

You mean the world to me I knew the moment then Your eyes pour into mine, I saw myself You now are home to me It's in the little things We now have years betwe...

Lord make me a lightning bolt to burn off this ring (comin' down, comin' down), Lord make me a Skilsaw to cut through these chains (comin' down, comin' down), L...

Tell me how the story will unfold, I know you see everything Tell me all about the torch and scroll, I know you know everything So why do you come to me? Why w...

I'm black on blacker velvet, Milk skin and veins, Like some El Greco painting, So full of pain So full of longing for light of day I thought I knew who I was in...

Who is this hurting mother? Don't want to be her now. Who in the hell's that sad reflection? How did I lose myself? How many times I walk the river, wondering w...

Love, love You make me feel like a sticky pistil leaning into a stamen You make me feel like a mister sunshine Himself You make me feel like splendor in the gr...

I keep walking down the same city streets The same city lines, to the same lonely beat People say hello but I don't know what to say I don't know how I feel, I ...

Here I am, a black-eyed bird, remaining silent I simply watdch, your little life from high above Wanting to call you, wanting to sing, Inside youre ears and lip...

Whether it be across that sea Kosove, Baghdad, Korea Or here at home, right under our fingertips In new slavery prison systems Holding one in four black Americ...

Whether it be across the sea Kosovo, Baghdad, Korea Or here at home, right under our fingertips In new slavery prison systems Holding one in four black America...

I remember the pain in my mother's eyes, I remember the pain of her compromise years ago I always wanted to help to make it go away, I didn't know it was her fr...

Where's my white knight, My prince to save the day? I've always paved my own way I'm all alone, Bringing home the bread, Raising the kid, fi xing the bed I wan...

There is a diamond inside of me that lights up the sky of my soul Where fell the diamond when I believed that all of the hurt was my fault I'm opening the hear...

Litte boy, tries to hide, From the fire in his backyard Burning cross, white cloth, It's the second time this year Hitler's brothers are still alive, They're w...

long white arms losing their strength and form sixty year man on twenty year old skin skeleton your eyes have lost their warmth look to your father for some sup...

Long white arms Losing their strength and form Sixty year man on twenty year old skin Skeleton, your eyes have lost their warmth Look to your father for some su...

I nearly died I suicided softly I saw her shadow through the cafe window I watched you lean across the table I watched you whisper in her ear And she is your h...

It all started nine years ago You sat to my left back in school The future showed itself to me The god in you, the god in me, stood together like two trees I w...

It all started nine years ago You sat to my left back in school The future showed itself to me The God in you, the God in me Stood together like two trees I wa...

So open up your morning light, And say a little prayer for I You know that if we are to stay alive then see the peace in every eye She had two babies, one was ...

So open up your morning light And say a little prayer for I You know that if we are to stay alive And see the peace in every eye She had two babies One was six...

So open up your morning light, And say a little prayer for I you know that if we are to stay alive Then see the peace in every eye She had two babies One was s...

So open up your morning light, And say a little prayer for I You know that if we are to stay alive Then see the peace in every eye She had two babies One was s...

I wanna kiss you I wanna kiss you I wanna stop the conversation, I wanna kiss you Oh, lie beside me now, Funny papers, morning sunlight streams, Oh fantasize m...

(Holding on, holding on, holding on) Here in this vacancy, Where we existed, I carry on in life like some puppet acting her part The very core of me, An empty...

That quiet voice inside of my soul, It's rising up again Oh I know it's the time, life is short Gotta grab the wheel of my life Indecision, should-haves, could...

Chorus: Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, I'm beggin' of you, please don't take my man Your beauty is beyond compare, with flamin' locks of auburn hair With ivor...

(Didn't your Mama tell you how to behave, girl? Didn't your Daddy tell you not to wear that little thing?) Been told you never get something for nothing My st...

Hold me close and hold me fast The magic spell you cast This is la vie en rose When you kiss me, Heaven sighs And though I close my eyes I see la vie en rose Wh...

Looking backward No one after Last November Seems so long, long, long ago I was happy With what we had But it was little and now it's gone, gone, gone, gone I u...

(Didn't your Mama tell you how to behave,girl? Didn't your Daddy tell you not to wear that little thing?) Been told you never get something for nothing My step...

Spin the globe, stop and start Come to a place that's torn apart Here's a secret, it's my heart, Oh well, It's only Broken shutters, whistling wind, Vultures c...

Crimson cardinal sees his life, Into the glass he fl ies The perfect partner he does spy, A moment's glance of eyes Refl ections of a future love, Feel the pull...

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside I am not the one who laughs at people's jokes I just pacify their egos I am not my house, my car, ...

I'm big and proud all over, not just on the stage My secret self has many sides that laugh and crash and stare I'm red and thick like fire I like it from behin...

The need for love, the insecurity. Cutting me down, to the fourteen year old girl, The Father Figure criticizing me. Go on – through the darkest night, Cause ...

How many times did I have to hear you say to me Self obsessed artist Center of your universe Well I believed your every word And I believed you were my god Cho...

How many times did I have to hear you say to me Self obsessed artist Center of your universe Well I believed your every word And I believed you were my god CHO...

How many times did I have to hear you say to me Self obsessed artist Center of your universe Well I believed your every word And I believed you were my god CHOR...

Oh John, oh John, oh John Never lose the memory of April twenty six Your hands designed my body You autographed my hip I lost all my worry I lost all sense of ...

Walking the mountain is easy for the medicine Man who follows makes sure the Indian Never returns His revenge, his revenge Rising His revenge, his revenge Risi...

Walking the mountain is easy for the medicine Man who follows makes sure the indian Never returns His revenge, his revenge Rising His revenge, his revenge Risi...

Humility on Bleecker Street Exposed my faults until I'm left defeated It's been three years into this relationship This is longer than I could ever commit But ...

Out on the lawn Labor Day Popsicle melts down your face Cicadas beat their wings Barbecued chicken and meat When will it snow? When will it snow? Sweat holds ...

To the critics and the cynics who don't understand the lyrics To the atheists and the pessimists Wanting company in their darkness You may see me as a fool,yes,...

Welcome to the church of me Where they stand in a line in need Of water from my eyes and a song for comfort You say Jesus Christ, well I feel like him I feel on...

Sometimes I'm too bold for my own good, I go out swinging hard and fast This world is beating me broken I need a home to rest Too quick in the first round, Too...

Lost in another world, oh Saturn, Saturn Girl Far away, to an infinite world I escape I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid Sunless days, in my sheltered Milky Way ...

Come down here and lie with me, Tonight the soil is wet and ready, I watched the way you danced tonight, And I'm picturing you as I touch my inside Full pink li...

She was on the floor, her face was in her mother's arms She had said that she'd been out late with the boys Just another evening, like every other evening Every...

Idiot kitty to New York City Living in a kennel and lookin' big and pretty Meet the munch for business lunch But your feet bleed under the table But Suwannee J...

What a fall from Grace, what a cruel deceit, What a lack of love behind the sociopathy. Used me for your secrets, used me for some dimes, Breaking blood upon ...

Climbing, climbing, climbing, climbing Look, at how futile this is, I'm so weak, so fragile, so torn Going round and round, going inside To the circle, to the ...

So call me a bitch in heat and I'll call you a liar, And we'll throw stones until we're dead There you go again, you cut me off from talking You bask in the gl...

Where do I put this fire This bright red feeling This tigerlily down my mouth He wants to grow to twenty feet tall CHORUS: I've left bethlehem I feel free I'v...

I slip out the backdoor into the night I can still feel the sun on my bare feet tonight I am waiting to meet you And waiting to see if you feel the same way abo...

Crumbling down, My life, All these lies, I put on a pedestal Walking around, Broken down shoes, Broken down vows, My same broken heart And I know the silence ...

Until the philosophy which holds one race Superior and another inferior Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned Everywhere is war, me say war That ...

Watch the woman's hands as she cultivates the land, As she plants the seed, as she's on her knees Watch her fingers smile as she holds the little child, As she ...

Oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy Why don't we go sit down in the shade Take shelter on my front porch The dandy lion sun scorching, Like a glass of cold lem...

As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is ...