First I stand then I crawl I became all mankind as I drip From mine eyes I washed away to a smaller size we'll wait One-thousand years until the end of time we'...

I was born in nineteen eighty-nine All we could do No shakes or coughs or burst relief Or lists of all our things Just minutes making minds I was born in ninete...

Through crooked teeth and mouthed up ties They spit you up river just like all those lions That walked the banks They said, "Paint me that river And would you o...

They lead us out from our zoos A fixed escape still, we didn't know just what to do It was steps and steps on missing backs And our hands had been bent backward...

I'm just the shadow of a bigger man Glowing brighter with each year I am I was standing on a mountain Just looking down (on you on you) It's like my daddy said...

Some were reborn Some were simply shaken free And some were the colors That took to the streets They found in their later years Yeah, they see what we need It'...

If I were a bear, I'd be the greatest of all With a speech like god so dark and foreboding Standing up tall from the top of that hill I'd growl up your fears fr...

Look at him working wearing his hands to the Bone just to prove where he came from The man's always worried, the man only worries Himself if his pay and his bel...

Children come in, Find a seat you're sure to do Lengths of snakes, they match each silent syllable Hello You missed the sparrows mark A breath of rockets shone...

The pig's spitting taxes and unwanted tasks We say, "send me to the battle please sir!" Chicago is dancing in xylophone laughter We say burn the fucker down Bu...

Birth me of blood oil Salt sugar water pales Build me black jesus Cause jesus can't save me Shackles pulling at your hair Shine me from roots out Wash me form t...

Sell me, I'm a skeptical boy And if you need help I'm not easily found We met the man in the deep deep south With the gritty smile and the dirty old church mout...

Ahhh Ahh ah All the needy still need And all the losers still lose All the preachers still preach But they ain't bringin no change I'm not afraid to die 'Cause...

I don't know how we're created But I know we all die Go pick up all your tools and build a roof I'll pick up all mine and build one too I just do as I do Yeah...

Because it's safe at the bottom this lake We know what your gonna do when you get there Sit down and listen We built that cold hearted fool and on that Shit he ...

Do you understand the people that we are Do you believe right from the start Do you see that everybody needs Do you feel when you're burning in that hell Yeah, ...

Conductor stood up and took role call He sent love and happiness into the next car "Are you in today?" The bags are in and we plan no stops? Just fearing sleepi...

The sun bent down and spoke with the last of the lips They spoke of hell and things they knew they'd never miss Bridge shelter and the cold creek bed That break...

This can't be living now If so, then show me how We'll shake, shake, shake the night away We shook, shook, shook the night away Wanna love like this love was y...

We took a trip down in '87 We were looking for a place where we don't fear heaven Yeah, we got some guns, got some dogs But just like them dogs, well those guns...

Where have all the people gone Whose lives are no longer of use to them But this system bites habit forming But this single file is so contagious But black eyes...

I was shaking from the neck down, Shaking down to my toes Wondered if I'd ever feel that cold again If I'd ever see that snow Because People always talking and...

I was born without a name A soldier for The streets they say This kid's on a mission Running high on fame of the guillotine No roots to find and no one to miss ...

Born and raised that giant was a fighter Mississippi On that canvas Dirty streets The people stood up to wave those white flags The devil had died through the v...

Palms are fitted black and finely tuned To triggers that cause bodies that tremble But this mud looks shallow from the beach When we hide behind such ugly face...

Basking briefly in this overeating indulgence of insides But I fear he's lower than before Though he's stronger than he looks He's made of feathers mixed with o...

I remember things, not many things I don't remember where my feet touch the ground But I remember every word and every sound I remember things, not many things...

Crawl from the fire into the pan, What we don't need, hell will demand, Higher, higher, higher, higher. Higher, higher, higher, higher. Well I'm not in need the...

Woke up late on that sunday morning Woke up late yeah the sun was burning Slides and chutes spilling explanations slides and chutes offer alibis Where the free...

Mornings go best with the sunrise, The sunrise I used to see But will never see now, Even if I was waiting, we would just build it all up, We'd look around u...

Stepping steps of floating floats that float above Such shining notes They know (Just where/why their feet are moving) Just where we should rest Policed and wai...

No I'm not jesus, but I'm more than a man I'll never grow older, lonely or sad Still I'm never pleased From the corners until I wake up walking as careful can b...

I slip back down where we found A meter milling maze And the rest that we find sound Will it find us on the bottom Will we find our way Will we fall apart usele...

Shepherds they came Stripped of their names And we were all the daughters That fell from her to ground Because she needed us She needed love But we're all gone ...

Giants always find you Where sheep share friendly information While slowly south bound sifting Through patient air their legs are bending Back to find the roots...

Hear that outside? Go feed the dogs They're begging barking bashing at their homes Cold and wet and dirty like the earth That mashes molding muddy marching boot...

Save me, I can't be saved, I won't I'm a president's son, I don't need no soul All the soldiers say "It'll be alright, We may make it through the war If we mak...

Someday we'll find a home, Someday we'll find a lonely lonely home Where we'll pass time where we'll bring change, Where we'll bring change (I found the way out...

My legs are all buried in salt, the way As my lips move out all of my words, the way But this can't be all the we have to wait Pressing pulling this pains, th...

Back to the world, The acrobats spinning around With his head in the bay, Stepping in close to that door Shivers in pain, His mind slipping back in to Behind hi...

Claims, they crawled from those clouds and Over mountains cried Into the streams where they ran the length of Past and time that called out With their hands bes...

Share with me the sun You forget sometimes it's yours Can't you see you're not the only one The doors all lead outside Feel it soak into your mind Can't you see...

I hear them calling me back to the ground, Back where I belong I take my time with summers slowed Share me with the bread and blood digging deeper Than the worl...

As I finally meet my end I won't be scared, I won't defend The things I've done I don't need him like you do I don't fear him like you do As the world revolves ...

Shave our heads Strip our clothes Burn them books but The mind still grows A sheltered mind with Fears of rings Fear of time And missing links We all once were ...

If pain was a color to paint on you, Your heart would be the color blue. Be a painting, hung up there til your body met your head. Which were made of silver. Yo...

I met a face with ring rounded pocket eyes That shaped folded banks inside As he shivered out thoughts They went: "golden and pale wind whispers breathe New Orl...

Did you ever see anyone Did you ever known anyone Speech trial come and lead my palms Soil pressed to the knees and below Because standing tall will make you gr...

Heavy were the words dripping from my brain Flow about and sink in little bitty bits Where I know I know myself where floors were found Shores were shaping door...

Summer came and I lost my shoes While them purple gold linens, pressed them down in the basement And if don't you know or see them clouds Will step to the sky a...

How High Soldiers pull boys through rain Ground to their toes ground to the dirt (Oh) my They spilled down the steps Filed in rows like hair likes to pour Like ...

Do you ever listen to the sounds that your hands make? Did you know that we could make sounds? I don't know what the palace knows, But I don't run with sheep, t...

If you look real high You just might find Sitting in the stars Glistening, glistening Waiting for the band to come Just waiting for that man to come Oh, I wonde...

Tommy was a preacher's son Now he's running through the jungle "yes sir!" Fingers cold and fire When you get so tired and we're so tired Lazing back in this de...

Under blankets these hills cover neatly We'll take steps to make sure our failures are hidden But it's hard when our voices echo over ripples? That form on the ...