A cat came drifting onto my porch from the outside cold And with eyes closed, drinking warm milk from my bowl, Thought: "nobody hears me!(nobody hears me) As I...

In everywhere we look (x6) Allah, Allah, Allah! In everywhere we look In everyone we meet (x6) Allah, Allah, Allah! In everyone we meet In every blade of gras...

I said my goodbyes to the sun My little one, so far away And how strange, how small we must become Yet as familiar as yesterday The bluest iris that I'd ever s...

Every thing I thought I'd learned Ambition and illusion turned To drawings on a loose leaf sheet Of tarts and cakes I couldn't eat What in her do I require? Th...

Let us die, Let us die Then dying we reply, Oh don't you tell us About your suffering, Now look in our eyes- Look in our eyes Let us be, Let us be Our closeness...

Our house wrapped in disrepair, A small mouse peeked out from a hole beneth the stairs Nearby to where my dad sat in his favorite chair, Thinking about the gov'...

On a bus ride into town I wondered out loud "Why am I going to town?" And as I looked around at the billboards and the stores I thought "Why do I look around?" ...

Call me outside I'll come running down When I satisfied each need invented by my eye I was a nest by a fox's hole or dirt underneath your boots soles When I sat...

I have my pictures of you, you don't look back at me A smile I'd almost forgotten, bruises I don't see Never forgive you for a sky turned from gray to black Com...

Every thought a Thought of You No more thought, I ought to do When there ain't a thing we see Or touch we trust is true Every thought a thought of You Every lo...

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt "As we melt let's make no noise Oh the profanation of our love To tell the world our passing joys! And we, besides, ...

It's the end of the morning What have i done? It's finally getting warmer Oh God what have i done? Prayers for your soul while hoping mine Would leave this awfu...

I wrote a four word letterwith post-script in crooked lines, "Though I'd lived I'd never been alive" And you know who I amyou held my hem as I traveled blind, L...

I wrote a four word letter, with post script, in crooked lines, "Tho I'd lived I'd never been alive" You know who I am You held my hem as I traveled Blind liste...

We never met, you and I We were always inside, we were somewhere inside one another And I'll live without you love, But what good is one glove, without the othe...

(This is an acoustic and extended track of the song I Never Said That I Was Brave which starts on the 10:51 mark on track 12, enjoy) You might sleep, but you'...

You might sleep, but you'll never dream Onward! Progress! Or so it seems You might laugh, but you'll never smile Come on in and waste away awhile When dreams ...

You might sleep, but you'll never dream Onward! Progress! Or so it seems You might laugh, but you'll never smile Come on in and waste away awhile When dreams o...

The bird that plucked the Olive Leaf (has) been circlin' like a record 'round the spindle of my mind Where the needle's worn the grooves too deep, And scratched...

January, 1979 Saw a terrible crash and i couldn't help but laugh, As my ear pressed against the past like a glass on a wall of a house in a photograph My forehe...

If you fail to see a problem, (Which I find hard to believe) Or if you're hanging on from branches Licking honey from the leaves you say "The hopelessness of li...

I do not exist, but faithfully insist, Sailing in our separate ships and from each tiny caravelle Tiring of trying, with unecessary dying, Like the horseshoe cr...

My exit, unobserved, my homesickness, absurd I said "water," expecting the word Would satisfy my thirst! Talking all about the second and third When I haven't u...

You were a song that I couldn't sing You were a story I couldn't tell I've only ever loved myself But I've loved myself so well And how defeated I return! (you...

Without a queen the locust swarm Turned the ground to black, Descending like a shadowy tower opon a fish's back And scattered the sticks who crawled Like snakes...

A note we wrote the other day To any mice who pass this way On crumed and sugared countertop: "we must insist Your traffic STOP" In their defense, they don't ...

Not one motion of her gesture could I forget The prettiest bag lady I ever met Pushing her cart in the rain Then gathering plastic and glass She watched the day...

He made the world a grassy road before our bare, wandering feet, And crushed the stones into the softest sand between our toes, But we're wondering where to sle...

Don't waste your lips on words I've heard before Kiss my tired head And each letter written wastes your hand, young man Come and lead me to your bed You gave me...

I'll ring your doorbell Until you let me in And I can no longer tell Where "You" end and "I" begin Grape on the vine, grape on the vine, We've been alone a lon...

In a sweater poorly knit and an unsuspecting smile Little moses drifts downstream in the Nile A fumbling reply, an awkward rigid laugh I'm carried helpless by m...

The Angel of Death came to David's room The Angel of Death came to David's room The Angel of Death came to David's room He said, "Friend, it's time to go"' Dav...

The cure for pain is in the pain, So it's there that you'll find me Until again I forget, And again he reminds me, "Hear my voice in your head, And think of me ...

First came a strong wind, Ripping off rooftops like bottlecaps And bending lampposts down to the ground Then came a thunder shattering my windows But you were n...

Through mostly vacant streets, a baker from the outskirts of his town Earned his living peddling sweets from the ragged cart he dragged around The clever fox cr...

I'll lie down for the last time And fall far, I'll fall well away from her And I insist that I'll be dearly missed (please, say never) I'll pour down like water...

God is love and love is real, But the dead are dancing with the dead And though all that's charming disappears All things lovely only hurt my head As I gather s...

Daniel broke the king's decree, Peter stepped from the ship to the sea There was hope for Job like a cut down tree, I hope that there's such hope for me Dust be...

I was looking at the leaves Climbing to the tops of the trees But you were nowhere to be found, Just beneath all the green You were buried like a little seed (A...

Why burn poor and lonely under a bowl Under a lampshade or on the shelf Beside the bed where at night You lay turning like a door on it's hinges? (First on your...

Save my skin, I need a medic Hold me down, I'm only sewn down Save my teeth, show me you meant it Catch my death, I'm only sewn together My eyelids are heavy, ...

It's the smell of hot summertime trash, It's the city noise of a busy street It's a train derailed and two car head on freeway crash Each time we meet "and if i...

We took the twine we used to use To tie up tight our tattered shoes Twisted twigs and crooked cross A necklace for the deeply lost Builder with the broken brick...