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You've been away for such a long, long time Gone from the brickyard, gone from the mine All these unfamiliar places used to find your measured paces Now it's al...

Since I first saw him, I think myself blind I look around me and it's only him I see His image floats before me so gentle and so kind He has got a clear mind an...

I dreamed you were a cosmonaut Of the space between our chairs And I was a cartographer Of the tangles in your hair I sighed a song that silence brings It's th...

Step right on up, take a good good look At the latest pie that fate could cook This is no phenom, so supermarket guru Just a revelation from me to you So don't...

Well, piece by piece and nail by nail It'll all come down someday before the fires of hell You let me in your house You let me in your house You let me in your...

When our mouths are filled with univited tongues of others And thew strays are pining for their unrequited mothers Milk that sours is promptly spat Light will f...

C'mon baby, move over, I'm sittin' here tonight C'mon baby, move over, do the thing that's right I can puff up my feathers, look real mean Be the old man that t...

You were a shameless child Bandied by stiff cross currents Anything but "my", "yes", and "no" Just simply weren't invented yet Oh yes, oh no Then one day you'...

When I was just a little boy I threw away all of my action toys I became obsessed with operation, oh Hearts and minds and certain glands You got to learn to ke...

She's got a ham in her handbag, a pig in her purse She's got two ply, no fly, baby buggers She's got a burlap sack, she's on a voter parade Gonna get some carob...

If you come to find me affable Build a replica for me Would the idea to you be laughable? Of a pale facsimile? So would you come to burn an effigy? It should k...

Studies have shown that we like sheep are prone To sure fatal doses of malcontent through osmosis But don't be sympathetic, just pass the anesthetic 'Cuz sheep ...

Go ahead and congratulate yourself Give yourself a hand, A hand is yours in the harden hours, and so And here it heals itself, it's too much And you're getting ...

Would it be easier so much easier If you never knew us Would you ever fear anymore If you never knew us Would we meet on a fatal shore On a fatal shore? When a...

Feetlips, why do you do that way? You know you'll have to pay For you're making us nauseous Feetlips, you know today's the day You turn the other way And you e...

Two stars are missing me Jet waves are driving me Thing in nicer motions We are hauled into space This force is twisting the faith with superstition A fatal pr...

Then it was dusk in Illinois a small boy After an afternoon of carting dung hung On a rail fence, a sapped thing So weary to crying Dark was growing tall He be...

Did you give it away? Did you give it away for free? Don't you give it away Let's try to keep it in the family I know you know desolation Coming home with your ...

You've got me sitting on your mantle like a little glass figurine Why must you be so mean? Don't you know I've got better things to do? I'm like a mail order p...

You know I've never been to Venezuela But everything is fine south of the Rust Belt line I think I like it, yes, those southern cats are really unique Tell me ...

Bored holes through our tongues To sing a song about it Held our breath for too long 'til we're half sick about it Tell us what we did wrong And you can blame ...

I woke with a start Crying bullets, beating heart To hear all God's creatures Roaring again Not a cricket was creaking, Or a floorboard was squeaking, And al...

Reuben, Reuben, I've been thinking Said his wifey dear Now that all is peaceful and calm Soon our boys will be back on the farm Mister Reuben started winking A...

Some say April is the cruelest And though I can be quite morose The stiff who penned it on a fool's list Of those who are chronically verbose When your head st...

His keeping busy, yeah he's bleeding stones, With his machinations and his palindromes It was anything but hear the voice Anything but hear the voice It was any...

If memory serves us then who wants to mask us how do we know whose projection is real and is it like gruel or like quick drying plaster? tell me how long til th...

Being alone it can be quite romantic Like Jacques Cousteau underneath the Atlantic A fantastic voyage to parts unknown Going to depths were the sun's never show...

If you loosen liable lips You keep sinking all my ships Oh and you're the one who sank my Lusitania But somehow it don't register as pain, at all Till it finds ...

Come what may Lay your eggs where it's warm We come here to swarm Come by sea Swarm like smoke in the dawn We were the young We were the swarm Radiolarians Mid...

Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game Come to the front of the class and we'll measure your brain We'll give you a complex and we'll give it a n...

Some people was an angry thin skinned man Couldn't get along with his one man band Quarter stick rocket and nails in his pocket And a crying shame, some people ...

Look upon the field of snow To find the desert sea Under the ice the springs will flow to release Fecundities like a natural disaster From the first drop of wa...

I'm just an old youth with a cane made of root And a dog with a nasal disease I sit when it's breezing, my dog's always sneezing I swear it's the voice of Louis...

In the Salsify mains Of what was thoughtful and sad All the calcified arhythmatists Were doing the math And it would take a calculated Blow to the head to Blin...

I got home this morning with the sun right in my eyes And there was no warning as it took me by surprise as it Hit me like an Act of God, causing my alarm That ...

I bear no grudge, even though my heart may break Eternally lost love, I bear no grudge Though you're shining in your diamond splendor No ray of light falls on ...

This isn't your song This isn't your music How can they be wrong When by committee they choose it all? They choose it all Chin chin Chin chin You're gonna gro...

Five day forecast bring black tall rains and hellfire While handpicked tenderness kid gloves tear at the inseam Their Halliburton Attaché cases are useless Whil...

You were right There was never reason to worry Money made your eyesight all blurry Making lists of pacifists Recalcitrant poses Can't you see how dangerous The...

Some people wake up on Monday mornings Barring maelstroms and red flare warnings With no explosions and no surprises Perform a series of exercises Hold your fi...

My skin is White as parchment Drier than a downtown office building Where the air is tight There's time spent Resting on her bones Waiting for the telephone to ...

Some of these days, you'll miss your honey Some of these days I'll be going away Some of these days you'll miss your honey You know you're gonna miss me, sweet ...

Sometimes when I am worth it And my mind doesn't have my best interests in mind Doesn't have my best interests in mind To times like these that my feet, they sp...

I was getting ready to be a threat I was getting set for my Accidental suicide The kind where no one dies No one looks too surprised Then you realize That you'r...

The finches and sparrows build nests in my chimney What remains of the small flightless birds that you failed to protect But the yoke isn't easy, in fact it's a...

Tables and Chairs by Andrew Bird If we can call them friends we can call them on red telephones And they won't pretend that they're too busy or they're not alo...

Well, I can tell by the way you take your infusion You've spent some time in a mental institution What a dream, life would seem if only They let you keep your e...

You remind me of you The way you shot right through and how You broke my window glass, Fast, it happened so fast I have to confess that I That I was impressed ...

There was a time when I enjoyed Vidalia There was no other fruit I dared my lips to touch But my granddad he prescribed me Vidalia For whatever ails you, heart ...

Wait, don't go too early You're tired but everyone's tired But no one is tired enough Only wait a little and listen Music of hair, music of pain Music of looms...

Quiet, quiet down, she said Speaking to the back of his head On the edge of her bed I can see your blood flow Your cells grow Hold still a while Don't spill th...

Well, you know sometimes I find myself Wishing for contentment Hoping for relentment Venting my resentment On the happy few, on the happy few, yeah Awaiting r...