we'll correct collegiate mistakes a shower of formal ideals completely soused the hearts on our sleeves, as they drowned we could hear them screaming, "oh, what...

I took the 405 and drilled a stake down into your center, And stated that it's never ever been better than this I hung my favorite shirt on the floorbaord, wrin...

And when i see you I really see you upside down But my brain knows better It picks you up and turns you around Turns you around, turns you around If you feel d...

Whenever i come back, the air on railroad is making the same sounds And the shop fronts on holly are dirty words (asterisks in for the vowels) We peered through...

you'll be given love you'll be taken care of you'll be given love you have to trust it maybe not from the sources you've poured yours into maybe not from the di...

And if it was just how you wanted You'd be glued to his bones and his brainstem And changing your image and attitudes Won't bring you back into your bedroom Amp...

Leaving the central state from shallow ground Home in the valley but the rent's paid south You said the urn was half full when I said it was half empty With wha...

I know I got a bad reputation And it isn't just talk talk talk If I could only give you everything You know I haven't got I couldn't have one conversation If i...

Gravitated towards a taste For foreign films and modern plays But that machine could only Bend to squares five to six times Before your fingers came unwired Wei...

I descended a dusty gravel ridge Beneath the Bixby Canyon Bridge Until I eventually arrived At the place where your soul had died Barefoot in the shallow creek...

I don't mind the weather I've got scarves and caps and sweaters I've got long johns under slacks for blustery days I think that it's brainless to assume that m...

You may tire of me as our December sun is setting 'Cause I'm not who I used to be No longer easy on the eyes These wrinkles masterfully disguise The youthful bo...

Every scream went bleeding through these paper walls and all the make-up in the world couldn't hide the scars I leave today, I'm packing light: a suitcase, some...

Cath, she stands with a well-intentioned man But she can't relax with his hand on the small of her back And as the flash bulbs burst She holds a smile like some...

I think i'm drunk enough to drive you home now I'll keep my mouth kept shut from under lock and key That's rusted firm, no lie 'cause all these conversations wi...

burn down like old cathy candles marked up with the choir vandals reading: destroy destroy destroy two-speed cycles streamered handles evenings with the roman ...

The snow's coming down I'm watching it fall Watching the people around Baby please come home The church bells in town They're ringing a song What a happy sound...

We won't get far Flying in circles inside a jar Because the air we breathe Is thinning with the words that we speak That we speak You and me That we speak You ...

I'll take the best of your bad moods and dress them up to make a better you, 'cause all the company calls amount to one paycheck I'd squeeze a heart through my ...

Sitting on a carousel ride without any music or light Everything was closed at coney island, and i could not help from smiling I can hear the atlantic echo bac...

It was one hundred degrees As we sat beneath a willow tree Whose tears didn't care, they just hung in the air And refused to fall, to fall And I knew I'd made ...

You were the mother of three girls so sweet Who stormed through your turnstile And climbed to the street But after conception your body lay cold And withered th...

The workadays were propping the bar quietly erasing the week and i was in a cornerbooth thinking (pretending to read) about the impossiblity of one to love unco...

Alone on a train aimless in wonder An outdated map crumbled in my pocket But I didn't care where I was going They're all different names for the same place The...

Isolations, dotted lines Seas of concrete, wild eyes Streaking colors, blurred to one Always moving, blinding sun Blinding sun Coldest comfort, safety glass Sea...

Having dreams about you I want to scream about you I'm having dreams about you I want to scream about you Everything you've done You were the girl who seemed to...

Earth angel, earth angel Will you be mine? My darling dear, Love you all the time I'm just a fool, A fool in love With you Earth angel, earth angel The one I ...

Sometimes I think this cycle never ends We slide from top to bottom and we turn and climb again, And it seems by the time that I have figured what it's worth Th...

Bent at the knee, a last resort Backfired and made things worse Once on the bus, it was quite possible You'd be the jailhouse queen Jury and judge were screamin...

I can't begin to compete with you and everyone knows I know you know it, too It's a complicated fear that grows with every year and it's walking on it's own fin...

Once when my folks were gone I saw a lot of liquor I saw my tomcat Famose I saw my tomcat What? Tomcat What? My tomcat Tomcat I saw a bowl of milk And I said "...

This won't be the last you'll hear from me it's just the start I hope that he keeps you up for weeks like you did to me I will hold a candle up to you to singe ...

When the wind picked up - the fire spread And the grapevines scene, left for dead And the northern sky looked like the end of days The end of days A wake up ca...

Starched white shirts, so neatly pressed by domestic muses Feed dilusions that everything is working out right, But your ribs can't withstand increasing weight ...

Here comes the rain again Falling on my head like a memory Here comes the rain again Tearing me apart like a new emotion I want to walk in the open winds I want...

Three wasted years, standing still As you opened up, 18 miles wide On this country drive I can't keep up 'cause you're so far gone And it's all too much hindsig...

Maybe I'll be a hometown But I'm not battery operated Or as sharp as you're seraded And maybe I'll be a steam train All metal and black, If you'll lay down my ...

I put on my overcoat and walked into winter - my teeth chattered rhythms And they were grouped in twos or threes, like a morse code message was sent from me to ...

Will I have learned so very little when these bones are old and brittle? I wait to talk when I should listen And cloud mistakes with false revisions All my fri...

Love of mine, Someday you will die, But I'll be close behind, I'll follow you into the dark No blinding light Or tunnels to gates of white Just our hands clasp...

How I wish you could see the potential, The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound, But in a language that you can't read just yet You gotta ...

I intentionally wrote it out to be an illegible mess You wanted me to write you letters, but i'd rather lose your address And forget that we'd ever met and what...

Jealousy rides with me Such a faithful companion no one could be And he sits on my shoulder and whispers the things That make me so bitter, it's sick Jealousy ...

There's a tear in the fabric of your favorite dress And i'm sneaking glances Looking for the patterns in static They start to make sense the longer i'm at it I...

There things take my time and energy Don't stand too close without apologies Cutthroat; cut out candid glimpses and Wind me up; i'm ready Can't escape this line...

The Eiffel tower built to smaller scale The freshest oxygen I'd ever inhale I tapped a bottle against a safety rail, killing time And you were like a walking c...

You'll discover that casual friends kept notes in their pockets to remember your name And all thses places we went to see sights just gave them excuses to get i...

His head was a city Of paper buildings And the echoes that remained Of old friends and lovers Their features bleeding Together in his brain And once it started...

Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am home again Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am whole again Whenever I'm alone with yo...

You've been forewarned of the shakedown Opinions stamped on the pulp of the tabloid newsstand gossip that's stacked at your door You swallowed the last of free ...

If I could open my arms And span the length of the isle of Manhattan, I'd bring it to where you are Making a lake of the East River and Hudson And if I could op...

Meet me on the Equinox Meet me half way When the sun is perched at it's highest peak In the middle of the day Let me give my love to you Let me take your hand ...

She may be young but she only likes old things The modern music it ain't to her taste She loves the natural life, captured in black and white She see's mirages ...

You tried you all 13 channels, but they burned me out again 'cause it's over whenever they say I quit sending postcards 'cause no one know what to revere, and t...

Last night i dreamt that i was you i was dressed all in black with dark glasses and attitude Such a pose i could simply not hold through days in a northern town...

When I was young, lying in the grass I felt so safe in a warming bath Of sunlight Of sunlight Fast open sky could do no harm Like an embrace of a mothers arms ...

I roll the window down And then begin to breathe in The darkest country road And the strong scent of evergreen From the passenger seat as you are driving me hom...

I remember when the days were long and the nights when the living room was on the lawn Constant quarreling the childish fits and our clothes in a pile on the ot...

I think you caught me on the downslide, downturn I was busy writing with a pen and paper thin dream And all your plastic people with plastic hearts and smiles T...

I have such a envy for this stranger lying next to me Who awakes in the night and slips out into the pre-dawn light With no words, a clean escape, no promises o...

Lying in a field of grass/glass underneath the overpass Mangled in the shards of a middle/metal frame Woken from the dream by my own name Well I was such a retc...

I saw the scene unfold on a rainy Sunday Creases indicating folds that kept four walls from caving in I took a little more of what I take for granted And filled...

Just admit that you're wrong and I'll give back what I borrowed or stole From the parent's house, from the studio, it's the principle of You said wait here, pr...

Hang around, Willy Boy Don't you raise the sails anymore It's for sure that I spent my whole life at sea And I'm pushing age 73 And there's only one place that ...

What ghosts exist behind thses attic walls? There's got to be a simpler explanation, 'cause i scrimped and i saved just to find that they've been splicing my in...

You don't know how you move me Deconstruct me And consume me I'm all used up I'm out of luck I am starstruck By something in your eyes that is keeping my hope a...

I can't expel the truth It's much more than i thought i could do And with time my worth with stain And split your heart from my name So drive away your mouth fr...

Sleep tight, we'll drive all night Turn pikes across state lines Hand claps are fading fast, but you still can believe it's passing These night are fading fast...

I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be lov...

Photographs of the best time you had, windows smugded by the speed Leaving home with our bags from Iron Street, as morning turned into California, And smoke tra...

I want to live where soul meets body And let the sun wrap its arms around me And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing And feel, feel what it's like to be n...

I've got a hunger twisting my stomach into knots that my tongue was tied off, my brain's repeating, if you've got an impulse let it out but they never get past ...

We left from the south, increasing the altitude Then drove through to play to the college crowd But they didn't show and we played on a big rock stage making bi...

St Peter's Cathedral built of granite and ever fearful of the answer When the candle in the tunnel is flickering and sputters and fading faster It's only then t...

time for the final bout rows of deserted houses: all our stable mates are highway bound give us our measly sum: getting the air inside my lungs is heavenly we'r...

Time for the final bout Rows of deserted houses All our stable mates highway bound Give us our measly sum Getting the air inside my lungs is heavenly Starting o...

I don't know if you can hear me I'm feeling down and can't think clearly Even though it's complicated We've got time to start again I don't know if you can hear...

Holding fast until the rent checks wear thin because it hasn't sunk in so far Well it's a drab routine, the dust storms building and then it's hard to come cle...

Life is sweet in the belly of the beast In the belly of the beast And with her song in your heart It can never bring you down It can never bring you down Lost i...

It's gotten late and now i want to be alone All of our friends were here, they all have gone home And here i sit on the front porch watching the drunks stumble ...

There's a saltwater film on the jar of your ashes i threw them to sea but a gust blew them backwards and the sting in my eyes That you then inflicted was par fo...

Squeaky swings and tall grass The longest shadows ever cast The water's warm and children swim And we frolicked about in our summer skin I don't recall a singl...

Oh, my talking bird Though you know so few words They're on infinite repeat Like your brain can't keep up with your beat And you're kept in an open cage So you...

Technicolor girls are always on the phone Talking about their homes And the conversations continue endlessly Technicolor boys, transistor radios Blasting their...

(That's incentive) You see nothing to be adored, when obsession takes it's toll You can't place you in between the pages of fashion magazines Paper cuts from t...

Leaving the central state from shallow ground Home in the valley but the rent's paid south You said the urn was half full when I said it was half empty With wha...

And so it is Just like you said it would be Life goes easy on me Most of the time And so it is The shorter story No love, no glory No hero in her sky I can't t...

We spread out and occupy the cracks in the urban streets Idle now i rearrange the furniture as you sleep It's so appropriate the way we amplify the sound, And t...

And I'm standing up in my practice room I'm all alone Speaker's almost blown And my new Gibson amp Oh what the hell Things are not so different in my vocal mas...

So this is the new year And i don't feel any different The clanking of crystal Explosions off in the distance (in the distance) So this is the new year And I h...

I've got a hunger Twisting my stomach into knots That my tongue was tied off My brain's repeating "if you've got an impulse let it out" But they never make it ...

On two bicycles On a hillside desolate Could nature make a man of me yet? Under this charming car This charming man Why ponder life's complexities When the le...

the morning sun's about to break, i'm looking in as you create someone, you lift your head and brush your teeth, and make your bed as if you won't sleep again, ...

This is the moment that you know That you told you loved her but you don't You touch her skin and then you think That she is beautiful but she don't mean a thin...

The glove compartment isn't accurately named And everybody knows it So i'm proposing a swift orderly change Cause behind its door there's nothing to keep my fi...

Left uninspired by the crust of railroad earth that touched the lead to the pages of yout manuscript I took my thumb off the concrete and saved up all my streng...

Believe in me, im sad and blue Left with nothing but a picture Third or fourth weekend in June December seems to come too soon Will you wait until tomorrow? Wi...

The atlantic was born today and i'll tell you how The clouds above opened up and let it out I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere When the water...

summer's gone i overslept and woke up to the chill of fall overworked and now i'm all used up this tv haze sucks me through i watch the world from me inside ove...

Try to scrape it off the thought of skin against skin Move it front to back and start it go again With the depression and time we will multiply I've got more m...