We don't gamble, we don't do the stock exchange We paint paintings, we write scenes for the stage We will talk about welfare, we will talk about sex Talk about ...

Sunday nights that you wanna Black velvet cake Sweet heart can bargain Half price mistakes She will go down with her ship Like a good captain You're sitting on...

Oh, avalanche in apartment Everywhere white's what I've seen I've never lived alone so near the ocean breeze I can finally afford high anxiety Reach up, cold a...

I'm dreaming from a subway car, leaving my shoes for that seven story mountain I can't remember ever climbing anything Because my fingers are snapping two years...

I sold you for parts, you get what you want Bet I wanted to, I know who you are Don't know who you're not, I don't dare ask Come back, use the stove We'll make ...

Thought I was laying in the gutter In milk cartons and bones But I was standing on a mountain top Looking over your homes Thought I was laying in my garden Wit...

Every man I fall for drinks his coffee black Love and hate are tattooed on his knuckles And my name is on his back Every man I fall for works the graveyard shi...

Don't bother grandma 'cause she's right Or you'll be in some mess I see how you see her creaky bones, bitchin' 'bout IRS Well, take a look child through this p...

Holding out, she knows what I'm about I start to play the silent card You make this easy Or you play me like a shark Arms folded, nose to the floor It's got to...

Backseat of your family station wagon Listenin' to mom 100 years of solitude and only 12 years old God make up your mind God make up your mind Do you wanna pla...

Thick fog grows in waves on the Golden Gate I was checking my watch seven minutes in my shift When I spot a black skirt on the rail Straddling the bar like it's...

Conversations that went on terrible paths don't talk about that No no, don't talk about that We're coming back loud and end this conversation Said you let your...

Careless in our summer clothes splashing around in the muck and the mire Careless in our summer clothes splashing around in the muck and the mire fell asleep w...

There's nothing to do here some just whine and complain in bed in the hospital coming and going asleep and awake in bed at the hospital tell me the story of ho...

How's it gonna feel when summer ends Out of money, out of friends? I've seen enough of nothing new The blackest stain on history or last laugh blues Not gonna ...

All my windows were barred, The sun made stripes of shades I was sitting round like a zombie feedin my own face I was counting my chi, I was digging my strange...

Back door, exit doors Now I wanna be your dog, tape winding up Hot tide, rattling off Say goodbye to the friends you brought run with us Oh, where I walk now, ...

You were changin' colours like the leaves in fall I was savin' up for the long winter Summers wind, hideout in my car When it broke down we didn't care We'd fig...

On the night that my love broke through On the night that my love broke through Revelations that came unglued On the night that my love broke through Cell door...

Look up from the hymnal, look 'round at the faces of families closing their eyes We're taking Communion and passing the offering hat around at the same time I ...

Sliver to see speaking in tongues deft as a surgeon's knife cloven through bone pregnant with doubt you figured out tricks of the trade to make a whisper shout...

He pours the wine into his coffee cup His gin has dropped It's time to pick it up Too fed, he rose out of his bus and left Tearin' slow he's barkin' something c...

Flash flood, you got too comfortable So I showed you, who's really in control You gave all of your savings to the poor Lightning on the river and you're shiver...

Sulkin' Walkin' 'round the city after dark Need protection from street toughs Who clip the locks And rip the doors off rough - Like cowards And all this life w...

Why I make that face? Oh why would I? Why would I test my faith? Oh why would I? Oh why? I see that raincloud coming right for me Why would I say my name? Oh w...

So let's go deadbolt your shed door Cram your paper money snug, closer than before Chandeliers are falling in graveyard rows And your eyes are shifting dials li...

Supper time in the hole Supper time in the hole Shame my family, Shame my home Supper time Old st john on death row, He's just waiting for a pardon Old st john...

Something is not right with me Something is not right with me Something is not right with me How was I supposed to know? Something is not right with me Somethi...

Speak about Greenly now that she's gone take my time when I go to bed and I sleep, Lord I'm getting over rolling over I said can you just wait to tell me in the...

I kissed the kids at noon Then stumbled out the room I caught a ca Ran up a ta On 7th and flower Best recital I had to ruin Missed my son's graduation Punched ...

Whistle blowers, gotta get outta school They don't want poets they want pigeons on a stool You're examining fossils, defending criminals I'm clock watching get...