Welcome to my life The words on the spine, face down Trying to keep my mind from worry This is how I've learned to spend my time A painting of my days Lived wit...

[Originally by Leon Russell] I've been so many places in my life and time I've sung a lot of songs I've made some bad rhymes I've acted out my love in stages W...

This impulse, so lazy Fifteen days without a set change, Forward yes kid counter-clock cross clutches Three billion people One fucking name Raise the flag of re...

(You make a man feel safe) I live in a town where the streets are paved with glass Where the thriving upper-class just can't be bothered I live in a town where...

[Originally by Leonard Cohen] Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk at a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free Like a fish on a hook, like a knight f...

They were born beautiful, so right away They swore that they'd get themselves a house one day And read to each other, despite all the others That have passed th...

It's happening again Sorry to say you're just in time when Comedy escapes me I smile I'm doing fine I don't want to scare you Like I've done in the past I'll ju...

Faith in traffic Faith in healthy horses Faith in the salts of flesh, Faith in F sharp That quick flavor turning in a hardcore kid's eye, As if upwards to heave...

Make what you can out of nothing Keep bluffing your way to extinction You're a sick fuck to think That this, unlike anything else, will last forever Building ro...

Dumb and numb, from young and wired All I do is wait Pushy and hungry for more Curtis, do you know what our lives are for now? That it's been 3 weeks and no one...

We like the music with the vocals mixed low We speak of songs as if no one else knows So unoriginal, our MO Until something better happens Until we find another...

Our savior's fallen ill, and he won't get up We've cast away our stones, why won't he get up? So unawake with you, you let me drive your car You let me break yo...

Our savior's fallen ill, and he won't get up We've cast away our stones, why won't he get up? So unawake with you, you let me drive your car You let me break yo...

It's amazing what a light I knew It's amazing what a light I knew And if you think it's all her fault That just isn't true I didn't know that I could be so col...

Let the following days always remind us Of the presence we face, constantly dazed Let the following nights uniformly teach and conform Bless us and keep us warm...

Despite what you recommend Despite what you implement This just can't stand anymore 3 AM at my door With no one to tell you that it's wrong Drugged for some se...

I've been singing of Allison's hands in my hands But she keeps them in her pocket She hides them in the sand I remember so well dark nights, spine to spine So s...

He calls me nearly every day with what he's thinking He calls me 'cause his world is cruel 'Cause I am cruel He calls me and sex almost always comes up I wonder...

Dan and I got stoned On my porch the day your ashes hit the river I considered irony I couldn't quite think of any word "B" thinks I should write you a letter T...

I don't need it at the foot of my bed anymore And invitations of friends are howling wolves at the door We're bent backs at the bar, we see them slide in from a...

Hands down I know that there is hope Just spend this time alone I wrote this down, it must be true There's no release we can't provide We understand every chemi...

I know you like making out But there's a time and place for everything I know you like getting high But you know what they say about everyday I know you like ...

There's so much that i don't understand So i lay awake and analyze the night I have popped every pock, picked at every sca The levels aren't hot enough It sound...

[Originally by Jean Chapel and Bob Jennings] Lay some happiness on me Show the brighter side you'll see No more loneliness to be Lay some happiness on me Tell...

She thought long and she thought hard Then thought to thank me with an irregular card I buzzed out, I went low I went down on her before she made me go And I'm ...

[Written by Billy Bragg] one of them's off their food and the other one's off his head and their both spinning off down the boozer to drink a toast to the one ...

The middle man what a miracle Of common calculations, Compressed and erratic Hung out to fade like ribbons Through wall-to-wall maybes So I gave it my soul, Go...

[Originally by Martin Leaper and the Minders] Now I can smile cuz I'm off the beaten path, not even sad don't have any sorrow, and I'll feel just as glad tomorr...

If I try out and I make it Should I bail or play it fake? How deep should I look into things? What kind of chances should I take? In a world of new additions Fu...

We say I love you every time we hang the phone But it's not like you're alone A scene as awkward, but not really like an end And it's not like we're just friend...

Ready Dave? Mhmm I saw Adam leave the garden with an apple in his hand "now that you're out what are you gonna do?" "plant some crops and wait for rain Think I...

Brother friend It's not like I want this to end Sister companion It's not like I planned to abandon I have been here before Your pages get flipped I can tell by...

The food that you love has snuck up on you and what a Weight you've gained The life that you chose was getting too heavy Now you can't complain Now you can't ...

[Originally by Eric Mast] I never guessed a kiss could feel so honest I never expected a thing from you I'm not the one who's special but it made me feel so b...

chasing a lie tracing our scars moaning for help to be held and every day we feel further away from ourselves the concrete is wet, i feel too comfortable my res...

Troubled at the office, troubled at the bank I put my hands against the tree line I know it's real but it still feels fake The last thing I remember from that w...

I just finished a book with it's cover torn and it's pages worn The story starts on the day you were born in the city Where movie houses stood Raised on Elvis a...

You fill up my sences Like night in the forest Like the mountains in spring time Like a walk in the rain Like a storm in the desert Like a sleepy blue ocean You...

Bird swings, sing blue, my Paris fling Out the screen door, off and old cassette My mind was tight and ran like a engine, When you showed up it was the darkest ...

[Originally by Joni Mitchell] The last I saw Richard was in Detroit '68 and he told me, "All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk and boring...

Folding love letters and carefully placing them In a box underneath my bed When I drink I read over them I'm much stronger than I was when I knew her, But see h...

She's bright and you're bleak Then she kicked you out into the street You call her when you're weary and weak And the coma you slip into Will hold all this agai...

[Originally by Big Star] Won't you let me walk you home from school Won't you let me meet you at the pool Maybe Friday I can Get tickets for the dance And I'll...

Pull the world out from underneath you There is no one here to greet you Just days like snakes crawling up your leg The work seems worthless, at least hardly wo...

You're the same old bore I know that, no need to remind me I know from experience that nothing gold can stay Numbers one or two, it all hits the same fan And I'...

I can't articulate this sudden need for space You ask me where it hurts And the circle closes Our demographic, digital static Are we stillborn? Are we still bro...

Nowhere you'd rather be than fifteen blocks away Tonight you're embracing it, tomorrow, who's to say Deem love unconditional but the real world don't work that ...

Nowhere you'd rather be than fifteen blocks away Tonight you're embracing it, tomorrow, who's to say Deem love unconditional but the real world don't work that ...

Here comes winter trial Wishing I could remember being a child On my knees again Begging for Jesus or maybe an okay friend I have been betrayed By an anger that...

Now that it's been a while Somehow come back in style You smile at me I hear the trash collectors at night Drunk romance, soft forgiving lights It's all the sam...

[Originally by Billy Bragg] Someday boy you'll reap what you sow, you'll catch a cold and you'll be on your own and you will see that what's wrong with me, is w...

Reacclimate to my surroundings Back in a city that just seems to eat itself All I really want to do is get back into you No tension, no worries But every time i...

Pass the place where they sleep 'Hold my breath,' my sister says to me Grab a button, set an angel free The notion peaks my curiosity She spent her life under t...

I don't want to hold my breath as long as you can I don't want to starve to death just 'cause you can What happens to the mountains we were gonna clim What happ...

[Originally by Bad Religion] There's a place where everyone can be happy It's the most beautiful place in the whole fuckin' world It's made of candy canes and ...

Running home on broken legs, We turned it out, I'm heading south Would you go with me if I begged? But you're sixteen, you live alone You got your debt, you co...

Save face and leave, before she gets mean You know how to act, you scripted the scene This film's more a short, a monologue of sorts Whatevers invalidate the mi...