• 27-Work
  • 27
    I'm not seventeen And going on nowhere fast A decade lost in the East Bay fog Birthday cards thrown in the trash Last years' calendar On the wall, collecting du...
  • Achin To Be
    Well she's kind of like an artist Sittin' on the floor She never finished, she abandons Never shows a soul And she's kind of like a movie Everyone rushes to se...
  • Anniversary Song
    I drove a wedge between the day and night My fear is casting a shadow This guilt trips driving down the street tonight My spirit takes me through this avenue T...
  • Asheville
    I was falling through the cracks Now I'm piling up bricks I was clutching for straws Now I'm gonna take the fifth I'm gonna say nothing but my name And that wil...
  • At Your Funeral
    At your funeral Things will be different I will feel so good I'll pass out cigars Bring a big ol' cake And a keg, yes! I can hardly, I can hardly wait Until t...
  • Backyard Flame
    I heard a song tonight It made me think of you All the pain the loss of love That's gone from inside You both seem so happy you could cry She says she don't lov...
  • Backyard Flames
    I heard a song tonight It made me think of you All the pain the loss of love That's gone from inside You both seem so happy you could cry She says she don't lov...
  • Beastly Bit
    When you're just a sickly mess You're worn + tired and scared to death Well you, you can come to me And we can share a disease And talk and roll around in the d...
  • Before the Accident
    Well here's to you And your old crew For when you used to run this town Before the new kids came around Before you came back Before you went away Before everyth...
  • Benicia by the Bay
    They're so proud of this city's history Like an old war hero reveling in his faded glory But the present day, that's another story The old buildings they're so ...
  • Big Yellow Taxi
    Well I'm thinking about all the losers Who showed up to make this scene Where did they go when things didn't work out, When they burned out on the streets? And ...
  • Black Mountain
    Lippold wanted "To create a memorial Something large enough to walk through Like architecture, linear, in pure experience Otherwise nonfunctional" Like a novel...
  • Brother
    Once I had a brother ANd we grew up Looking out for each other And when he fucked up I did me best to cover his lies I hid him from the cops When he was a runaw...
  • Buffalo
    Buffalo once roamed The great expanse of our country Now they stand in the sandbox In the corner of the city We had our picnics in the park Watching the bison m...
  • Cabot Gal
    Election night in that wonderful crowd The President's speech wasn't half as loud as you I listened, too New Years Eve at Rice Street again We fell into the Eco...
  • Certain Things
    He is good at certain things Like making you feel guilty And disappointing everybody At breaking promises and plans And talking shit behind your back And tellin...
  • Crazy Horse
    This girl at another table Started singing "Danny Boy" And staring at me With a mischevous grin Drawing me in with her eyes And then she held me there With her ...
  • Dull
    Like a dull pain in my head Buried by my fantasies and Crowded by old memories I can't isolate the disease So it spreads Like a dull ache in my heart Just one t...
  • Find My Place
    Gotta find my place in this world Gotta find my place in this world I want to be more than just a face in the crowd I want to be proud of my time in this world ...
  • Future Daydream
    Now Now I want to see All the skyscrapers and the factories Crumble down to the ground and we'll go walk around And pick through the wreckage scattered in the s...
  • Glossary [From Carry the Banner]
    Bunk on your ears: sleep on the floor without covering Carry the Banner: walk the streets Day olds: stale bakery goods Fishing: stealing with a stick and hook F...
  • Hey Now
    Hey now I'm laughing at you Cuz you're stomping around, You want everyone to know that you're feeling down Did you have a bad day? Did you have a bad day? Well ...
  • High Maintenance
    I stroke your ego with a lubricant Until it stands erect Instead your limp guilt trips You should have come with a warrantee Cause talk is cheap And I think I'd...
  • Homesick Hopes
    No one wants to hear his story ANother boring kid in town again Who stares at photograpghs Of far away friends Frustrated, he can't think clear His aspirations ...
  • I Am an Elephant
    Wow, look at you Your pathetic It's amusing It's depressing It's amazing Tell everyone What your not And they believe you They proceed to Emulate you Now you've...
  • I Am the Stranger
    I'm glad you taught your kids my name They scream it as they run away They say it's getting worse out there Let me welcome you to the climate of fear I am the s...
  • I Used To
    I used to want you Now I want to make you nervous Now I want to make you hate Now I want to make you crazy So that we can still relate And we could get drunk al...
  • I Walk Alone
    I walk a crooked twisting path That seems to be landing nowhere I lead a loner's life Not what I meant to do I do what seemed to be the right thing at one time ...
  • I Wanna
    I want to work to make ideas real Sometimes far-fetched but I still feel That we could try and maybe they Would just work out But you say no, don't even try I a...
  • In Control
    You screw him over before he can screw you Tell him you don't need him before he says he needs you You lead him on, stringing him along Then put the blame on hi...
  • Junkpile
    I kicked the shelf at the junkpile, one big crash Sluggo's collection of broken glass I said, everytime I take my shoes off Someone's gotta come along and try t...
  • Kathleen
    I was sitting with a bloody head Outside of X At the Berkeley Square In my proud boy dumbness Half drunk, half sexed, Half conscious Lenny had said, "Shouldn't ...
  • Keeping Warm in the Night Time
    Keeping warm in the nighttime Burning hopes and dreams and even impossible schemes Seem possible, anything's possible, every thing seems so clear When your bloo...
  • Keeping Warm in the Nighttime
    Keeping warm in the nighttime Burning hopes and dreams and Even impossible schemes seem Possible anything's possible every Thing seems so clear when your Blood ...
  • Landlords
    Cold floors, landlords Knocking knocking should we let him in Should we lock the door + throw away the key What should we hide first? Should we Throw away the d...
  • Letter From An Old Friend
    Oh, what a tiny boy A little tiny boy A big lifestyle change for me He keeps us very busy Oh, what a child he is He says the smartest things Of all the people I...
  • Life During Wartime
    Yeah, we say making changes starts by making changes in the little things you do "Revolution beging at home" Byr for most of us, it ends there too We're doing s...
  • Losers of the Year
    Well I'm thinking about all the losers Who showed up to make this scene Where did they go when things didn't work out, When they burned out on the streets? And ...
  • Mahogany
    Do you know where you're going to Do you like the things that life is showing you Where are you going to Do you know? Do you get what you're hoping for When yo...
  • Mpls Song
    Iggy Pop is playing downtown And I'm outside in the rain Listening and lurking around It's another dreary night And I'm waiting for the 6-C bus To come and get ...
  • My Boot In Your Face Is What Keeps Me Alive
    What happened to our dumb plans? Did we lose them once again? Did we change? Did we win? I don't think so Was it ever a good idea? Was it really necessary? Wha...
  • New Blood
    Don't look back on your lost Days of burning down the ground From where you stand Don't count out on your back The ashes of your last Destroyed heirloom When y...
  • On The Ave
    We chased each other wet and soggy like a crashing wave Grey and filthy in the gutter breaking all over the place Down the ave in the pouring rain Saying, even ...
  • Once More Without Feeling
    Your time in the lights Came and went just as fast Stolen from you in your moment of glory It's an old story It's an old ghost you can't forget And you regret t...
  • Porch
    I don't wanna write I just wanna drink all night On the porch with paddy HEY! HEY! another day starts a new Waste half of the that one too On the porch with Pad...
  • Porch Song
    I don't wanna write I just wanna drink all night HEY! HEY! another day starts a new Waste half of the that one too On the porch with Paddy HEY! HEY! sleep right...
  • Reach for the Bottle
    I'd love to stay and have another beer And we could waste another year Saying how last one was better Do you remember the time? Now the only time I see you smil...
  • Second Street
    There's a girl who lives on second street, she cries on every time we meet She's the only girl, I want her to be On the sidewalks going out tonight, and the str...
  • Song Of My Returning
    The weary world is waiting For ambition to be played Now young and not afriad I've got a challenge Every Challenge that I know For I am just a sailor On a ship...
  • Swan Song
    Maybe I'm defensive cuz it's my favorite song but you cheapen the passion every Time you sing along and laugh you take The photograpgh and recreate it piece by ...
  • The Great Divide
    Whatever happened to yours truly? Now I'm so spun, so high strung That I can't even sleep I just lie in be awake Grinding down my teeth Get back up to go back o...
  • Train Station
    Pacing, Thinking, Pacing, Thinking waiting, waiting Waiting by the phone that never rings Waiting for the letter That the postman never brings Telling me that y...
  • Walkin Catastrophe
    Pacing, Thinking, Pacing, Thinking waiting, waiting Waiting by the phone that never rings Waiting for the letter That the postman never brings Telling me that y...
  • West Side Highway
    There's a million Jews in New York And I'm one of them! There's a million stars in the sky And a million cars on the West Side Highway Back at home, I didn't f...
  • Without Me
    People came and go there's a lot of Places believe me I know worth Going to worth leaving from but Please take me when you leave or Believe in me and stay If is...
  • Work for Food
    30 days of traveling In Whitville, Tennessee Got 3 dollars in my pocket Got 3 kids to feed My sign says I will work for food My eyes say I'm in 'A working kind ...