I can't believe I'm here With all the deaths I almost died And then woke up in another place Disoriented, I shook my head What, where, how Who, when, how much W...

Well your brain is weary and your manner rough Well OK but that's enough Crazy lights, crazy fights Cotton's on the way hey Walk along sing a song and pray Mr G...

My mother was a tailor She sewed these new blue jeans My father was a gambler Down in New Orleans The only thing a gambler needs His suitcase and a trunk The on...

(Jandek and woman's parts are simultaneous, not sequential) Jandek: You know Up at the house The house up on the hill You can drink your fill I'm going to the h...

How many places have you called your home How many faces look the same as your own How did you do it when they stripped you of your pride Would you say it's tim...

I know you know the humility of pain But I must tell you to understand The personalities of your fellows As long as you keep your life You got to know where to ...

Just because you're lonely Just because your mother took your daughter from her only Da da da da da da Just because you're lonely Just because your mother took ...

I can not You can yet Such is love is Such love is As I see it [2x] Continuously After being rescued Sit helpless [3x] Outside of you I guess I can not Do witho...

It's about two things Power and luck And they come from the love and knowledge Embrace your chances for a miracle You got it at your doorstep Just open the door...

Hey diggedy daggedy, what you been doin' I been sittin' in my front room Where people just pass through and Don't spend no time It's got the best furniture It's...

Oh, I like calls at night It's not serious enough I'm off for the day I shut out the lights I watched the day pass And in these moments I intermittently escape ...

I don't want to go to Las Vegas I like better Carson City I'm like a dog for you I just wanna be with you I got my casino all wrapped around me I just acknowled...

I hardly saw you right away But I heard about you, all good things It's important we go in the right direction And I took all those soft words Changed all the d...

I'm standing firm at the front room You can't take me away I might just go now In my own time I will come out of my body And make you run away I got a new idea ...

I decided to live for man instead of God I don't know how it happened I learned when you live for man, you die for man I didn't have to die It takes a lot longe...

The rocks crumble Unto dust they die Once hard stuff of mountains Now soft powder among the sand Who dares crush a rock Oh rock, no rock Reduced to the winds Sc...

I know that the time We spent together Weren't always meant to be Oh the voices outside that we heard so clearly Weren't meant for us to hear So it's true I was...

Can't come around the way you do Say that you're somebody new I knew you from before That's the way you are once more Can't come 'round here Say you're somebody...

You saw what happened at the Tower of Babel They couldn't even talk to each other Shake my hand tightly Hold me dear I love you it's true Oh Jesus, this is your...

Da da da da da da Da da da da da da Fire in the hole (?) Count me once Count me twice You better not count me three times You better just wait and see I may no...

I got at least one more thing to say I'll make you the first choice And then we'll see what happens I'm gonna give it all that it needs [3x] It doesn't need wat...

Oh she looks so good I've got her real good in my mind I've told her a thousand times God knows she understands Every day she marches into my eyes Roam around m...

I been through your nursery rhyme I been through your nursery rhyme I took all your nickels and dimes But you left me cold You wouldn't let me hold On longer th...

Come back to me babe I never left you anyway You had your way Now I say Come back to me babe [3x] Never be so silly you Want me to take hold of you Tell you of ...

I passed by the building you were working in I wanted to step inside it I wanted to lie in your arms again I passed by the building that you live in And I wante...

I want to go back To that lost place Waiting, waiting, waiting For that lost place I see the open door Just step in Close it back But wait, wait, wait Resolve t...

I don't know anything Not where I've been Not where I was gone What did I think of When I stared and not moving For hours on end Now I know where I have been An...

I stopped the world And I stepped out of it I cut a clean path I stepped out of it I've gone and stepped out of everything Everyone in this room Saw money comin...

I talked to you today It was so nice You laughed, sounded happy, in a surprised way You got me excited Oh, I'm very, very excited I'm thinkin' about you I'm thi...

I threw you away So I could play I wanted the other side What I didn't know I was walking so fast Now walking slow Around (I ran?) to the butcher He cut me up I...

[Jandek] I want to know why [Jandek] Tell me why, tell me why [Jandek] I, tell me why [Jandek] Why, he wants to know why [Jandek] I'll tell you why [Jandek] Why...

I want to look in I don't want to look out Because if it's out there There's the place to be Think about the adjectives Describe the way it is It's not uncommon...

I was a king When I was twelve You couldn't touch me No, no, no, no I kept you away I didn't think about it It wasn't important I was made Get out of my way But...

Cold dark and lonely I look round for my shoes [4x] I put them on I went for a walk In the snow and ice So cold

First I went to hell Then I went to heaven Can I catch you on your way to hell Take the life that's coming out of you And when it's heaven I can't go with you w...

Sometimes I sit and think of Wonder if goodbye was worth it I sit alone, and all I do is think of you You Sometimes it get's so very boring without you I like t...

The desert is calling me But I'm not that good God help me to take the risk That I have to take I want to go down fighting What's holding me back You know I wan...

If you want to know why you're a woman It's 'cause you don't want to be a man Yeah, just wanna have one You know I have fantasies about you Laying down, saying ...

Say if your fortune fails you You can say I was no good Say I led you to destruction Bye bye I was outside of you When you were all around me Curtains (?) ??? I...

All day long we knew we were playing with fire We could tell by the burn marks All day we was inside the cave We was playing with fire What else happened, we di...

Last night I saw you again I couldn't believe my eyes You were in a car, on the passenger's side I saw the corner of your eye from where you saw mine It was an ...

I programmed my abdomen I don't think about it anymore It doesn't tell me what to do I got the network to my nerves now It's oh so automatic I just command the ...

You see me walking I go here and there You hear me talking I say this and that But it's the front side You don't know the back I play the game But I don't keep ...

Oh please don't ask me Not again — it wouldn't work It would be a paragraph or somethin' It would only be action I know things I must get out Oh but I'm weak — ...

It's only you, my darling You're the one with me The distractions out the window Are only a curiosity I've got a spell on you I tried the hardest I could There'...

Arrest yourself, don't wait any longer Cause yourself to cease Stop and think about it Stop and think about it Just stop moving, keep yourself still Know that i...

The next time you talk Talk to me Got eyes for you Got ears for you And I'm watching And I'm listening What do I see? What do I hear? The next time you walk Wal...

Well Jackson flowed on down the Mississippi Now Jackson, you're in the Atlantic ocean You know Jackson sailed to some land To the sea what you have not seen Now...

You got quite a lotta habits for a janitor See you wash clothes three times a day See you think about dirt quite a lot That's a disgrace the way you keep your b...

Think you want another punch Think you want a bunch of grass Do you like the early night Or is that the sun I sight? Is your female here tonight? Has she gone t...

Sure is clanky that hobnail Janky Cleaning my boots in the pebbles and the sun Along come Janky he sure is clanky That Janky is clanky all the time Clanky Janky...

Go gently to your chambers Jessica Take your ruffled skirt by your dainty hand Understand, then go gently to your chambers Jessica Go gently to your chambers Je...

A dozen drops fall from your face Shaking the rain in a quiet place Shining clean a fresh new day Wakes up the world in a fragrant bouquet Listen to the sound o...

Death comes knocking at your door You don't have to go Asking for You don't have to go asking what for It's not a question Of yes or no You just go, oh no Yes I...

Snowing Russian obelisks Horses wild in the meadows Just try and tame the wolves and bears Walk alone, you fickle fool It thought you loved me Only goes to show...

I was walkin' down a road I was movin' down a road Walkin' down a road, movin' down a road And saw you comin' by I was walkin' down a road I was movin' down a r...

Out there crying in the noonday sun Gentleman come but she didn't get none A year ago she was a friend of mine Didn't need a fix, just a little wine Wish I didn...

Killer cats in the Caribbean Careless cod slithering in the nets Green blue yellow red And the rain and the oil slicks In the watery parts of the street And the...

You think I got time for you? You're just somebody in the snow I don't even know why I think about you Somehow I just keep seeing you around Everybody's coming ...

Shirley ran with the big fat man All over town with a nervous frown If you behave then you can save A license for your liquor store Shoot a hen, run down again ...

Your foot's a-getting colder Look over your shoulder The one you are seeing That's what you never knew Hey, please Mom, I'm aching My feet and my legs are Begin...

Got to move Into a cellar Just to feel A little bit loose Got to slip From the sky My hands are nervous I'll keep a place Up in the sky For you to live Until yo...

Who's got a license to kill Tell me who's got a license to kill Tell you, I got a license to kill I got a license to kill myself Wanna die, wanna die die die Wa...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm You come in Say you're my friend Whoa and then you Tell me it's the end You walk by Close your eyes And then you tell me Goodbye...

All right, bet you don't know What you been working for Maybe I got a clue I been working for you You've got big blue eyes And your face's white I kept you by m...

Oh you lofty rider All peppery and gawk You make me feel like mercury Out for a liquid walk Do you think that I don't have you All wet from a fresh cocoon All t...

I heard this from the management Don't think twice just pay the rent There's a lot of days that you've just spent Living in a long gone wilderness tent Wilderne...

I ain't got no home When I leave some place, I'm gone Come back another time To read the wanted sign You left me here alone Now I have to look around Try to fin...

Looking out at the heads of the people Looking out from a window so high Lost the shape and time of things It's all a river just floating by I guess I earned a ...

I just want to be real And if this life ends soon I'm done Crush crush crush crush I don't hurt you now — I don't Oh now, you don't a-have to wait Just look aro...

Listen to me baby it's a lost cause Pretty Patty baby it's a lost cause And all of your friends are a lost cause Everyone's gone to the lost cause Take off my s...

Love love is the only way Love love is the only way The only way Love everybody, love yourself Make yourself the best person you can To give to everybody some w...

If you want a friend in South Carolina look up Charleston (?) Wish I never have to leave Charleston May 3rd We go back very much the same as how we came Goodbye...

I take three baths a day Wash out all my mind Each time I get so gay It takes me out of my mind To get a clean mind To wash out my mind For a fresh new time And...

First I came to see the doctor, told him I was unemployed Asked me what I did for money, told him I was overjoyed To reach into the basket, take a bunch of dime...

First I came to see the doctor, told him I was unemployed Asked me what I did for money, told him I was overjoyed To reach into the basket, and take a bunch of ...

Then I came to see the man at the center of the town Said hey there Mister Leader, you're looking at a clown I don't engage in nothin' except hangin' around I'm...

I got life and death stains on my pants It's coming and going out of my clothes This here my soul, I'm dead I never knew what living was For God's sake I'm aliv...

It's only that I'm waiting Waiting And I can't see the end Or where it all begins Only that this waiting Has me here again Waiting Oh and I can't see the end So...

Rain on my head and it's mostly all from you Rain on my head and it's mostly all from you Layin' in bed and it's mostly all from you Rain on my head and it's mo...

Making others happy is such a part of you You're always kind and thoughtful in everything you do That's why this special message comes with love to say Thanks f...

You say that your turkey is rising in your blood now Take a load of juicy juice Just turn your self loose Button up your directions Let loose as a goose Turn ar...

Hey, spider You've got me in your web You know exactly your prey And I disappear into you It's time to plan my escape Because you found me, I must go Maybe I'll...

I got a vision, a teenage daughter Who's growing up naked in the afternoon I know a brother close to his mother Who stays out late in the evening time I keep re...

Countless days in times of woe Heady haze and bits of splendor Conscious maybe yet half asleep Wondering when the nice times leave They were always at my side B...

A dozen drops fall from your face Shaking the rain in a quiet place Shining clean a fresh new day Wakes up the world in a fragrant bouquet Listen to the sound o...

When it comes and you get the very shudder And maybe you were not so much being like the other So get in line you're losing time Don't burn golden eagles just t...

Dance bright and ??? it seemed Right onto the night's star dream Brings down the fortune black Tore this body off the track (???) Soon I see the day grow dim I ...

It was a crushing victory Napoleon and his army Marched across some other soil Took the farmers from their toil Waged a war that could never be won Dream of mas...

Kill all that kind Kiss the bad disease Smother in the sulfur heat Freeze it, kill the pain Breed in sin eat you out Festering sores of crime You took several t...

Been goin' too tight You're rotten, you know Got iron buzz around your neck Oh no your body can't get out Oh no nobody can get in Sealed off in a chamber Of you...

You're only as young as your heart Though the years pass on and on If it's new and you grow With each moment And the air and the vision You see out your eyes Ch...

I thought I would send you The last song I wrote I thought I'd recommend you With six words that I wrote The last time I saw you Was I don't know when That's wh...

Sometimes go to Niagra Sometimes go to the grave Crazy about your dream Crazy about your dark night You think you're crippled too Cripple me a cripple, oh I thi...

Oh Texaco and seven south Montague avenue Red and green and yellow Two thousand ??? All those white lines And bumping time Keep off the median There's an air fo...

Get loud, get it loud, loud (woman mumbling) Get up and go to work You're a jerk, go to work I ain't got nothin' I ain't got nothin' I ain't got nothin' I ain't...

Something got inside of me and started hurting me I just let it happen It's not too late I said why you'll hurting you'll No more, I'm over I see it clear right...

I've been needing a rest For a mighty long time But you gave me your best You threw me a line Well, I'm shutting my door From now until then And if you wanna co...

Not even water Crossed my lips How many, I can't move The stars are sinking Not even water Crossed my lips I'm a gone, goner, goner Hanging out to dry The win...

[Jandek] Nothin's better than God [woman] Nothing is better than God [Jandek] God [woman] I thank God, he's a real good friend of mine [Jandek] God [Jandek] The...