"Wake up!" she said, "you dreaming fool, don't throw your life away Because life's too short and you're too smart to want to hurt yourself that way And what's ...

From East Asheville Hardware This is the story she told "Can I have another quarter?" he said "What?" "Can I have another quarter?" "Why?" she said "Uh, I drop...

from How Did You Find Me Here? The warm water beads as it runs down the curves Of the beautiful surface so tan She's polishing the Jaguar again Hasn't run in a...

from Turning Point I love your sense of humor I love to see you smile I love your sense of balance I love your sense of time I love your music in the morning Y...

from How Did You Find Me Here? We made our warm bed out of blankets in the meadow way up high You took off your dress in the moonlight, to sleep beneath the sk...

from Home Again I'm standing before my old high school It's been 10 yrs since I touched the door But to heal the old pain we must face it again so I'll walk do...

from Into The Mystery When my grandfather spoke about the eagle He would raise his face up to the sky The sunlight reflecting on the water And she flew so clos...

You're leaving me That's alright People gotta go new places And on your journey You will see New friends and new faces But if you think I will forget The good t...

My daddy worked construction My brother too He got me in the union I'm payin' my dues Oh but the woman I love Has expensive taste She's never satisfied The lat...

from How Did You Find Me Here? Now when the paint jar tipped Off of the table You watched as it started to fall Glass popped, shattered and splattered And pain...

from Underneath I've got nothing to say You've been leaving all day Now it's time that you go, and let me cry You've got somewhere to be; you're still waiting ...

DAVID WILCOX BREAKFAST AT THE CIRCUS 1987 LET IT FLOW We got ice in the fridge Cold drinks comin' up Hurry on over Bring some glasses or cups Make yourself at ...

from Home Again by John Gorka "Let Them In was made into song by John Gorka from a poem found in a hospital in the Philippines during World War II The nurse th...

from East Asheville Hardware I was doing my laundry baby I thought I'd do my new jeans too Yeah, I was doing my laundry I threw my new blue jeans in too And wh...

My little white lie My little white lie My little white lie My little white lie I swallowed a secret It worked like a charm It never got to me It did me no har...

from Big Horizon A bright kite he's hangin' from Jon rides a glider above the clouds He stepped off Haleakala Ten thousand feet above the ground High up over t...

from East Asheville Hardware When you love somebody and they dick you around Doesn't that really suck When you love somebody and they dick you around Doesn't t...

from Home Again Would you like meet in Soho? This is David I don't know Just talk of how New York has been Yes its easy to imagine I've healed a lot since then...

A bright star in the winter sky Led to Bethlehem that night But only three traveled there to see And the rest just wished they might Few will chose to follow O...

You're leaving me That's alright People gotta go new places And on your journey You will see New friends and new faces But if you think I will forget The good t...

Every time i think of you I always catch my breath and i'm still standing here and you're miles away and i'm wondering why you left and there's a storm that's ...

In the future that we used to imagine The one they pictured in those old magazines Their tomorrow-land is so old fashioned A delusion of the modern dream But t...

You don't listen You just talk Always catch a ride And never have to walk You try to teach me things I don't understand by myself Awww you're something else But...

DAVID WILCOX PREACHIN' THE BLUES My name is David Wilcox I am the high sheriff of Hell My name is David Wilcox I am the high sheriff of Hell And where I go whe...

from Into The Mystery Truer words were never spoken You picked them up when you were young Maybe woven in a story That goes back to where you?re from Truer wor...

A shining drop of water rides the river to the sea With hardly time to live at all It tumbles down the waterfall And crashes through the madness, dying to be f...

from Underneath One man cruising on his ocean liner, One trying to keep his lifeboat afloat One man trying to make his mansion finer, One trying to make his ho...

from Big Horizon I wrap around you skin to skin We sleep inside this curl And after how alone we've been It's like a whole new world My heart had felt like yea...

All that time I was on my own I was so alone My heart was caving in Now I find When I see you smile I know that I I feel alive again No doubt about it I knew ...

There's no far away, There is no more far away, so these dreams of the wild west will lead us astray there is no more far away, when the war had gone on too lo...

It will change you like a lover When you dive below the reef And see the phosphorescent colors Shimmer way beyond belief But when taken to the surface All that...

You get celestial in our home And reveal the ways of where you came from Foreign fragrances spill from tubes and jars These things no man has known From the hea...

from Unreleased I grow older Getting wiser, everyday 'Cause when I fall down now I don't jump back up I let 'em count to eight Slower Getting slower I have los...

DAVID WILCOX BREAKFAST AT THE CIRCUS 1987 ON A ROLL I woke up this morning the sun was shining I went, my past in hand behind me And no more sorrow No no cryin...

from Into The Mystery Someone said it was suicide His empty chair is all - we see Not that anyone knew him well, But he sat behind me Now they come with the qu...

from What You Whispered I've got you right beside me But you've got him on your mind But I said I would drive you Cause I've got time on my side See I don't wa...

Here's a picture of a bright blue bird Standing on the open hand Of a woman with long red hair On the edge of a windswept land A long fall to the rocks below D...

Stop drinkin' coffee Start drinkin' tea This life I'm living Is gonna be the death of me I believe in miracles and I believe in love Freedom first for all conce...

from Into They Mystery Case closed I was certain in my youth God knows, I had my scientific proof In my mind, I thought I saw the truth Never looked beyond my ...

My movie house it holds me prisoner All boarded up on a dead end street In my darkest doubts I'm the only visitor Sunk down inside those dusty seats This world...

Skylight in my mind tonight A window through the storm Cloudburst in my universe A view I'd never known Close encounter with the secret sun All my darkness com...

Lightning cracks the darkness And for a moment I can see It's just a spark to start with But I follow where it leads I won't spend my whole life hiding Where n...

We finally made it to the local museum Took Uncle Lester out to see the sights Beautiful places but we've never seen 'em Though we've been living here all our l...

DAVID WILCOX PLAY ON YOUR HARP When David was a shepherd boy He killed Goliath and it filled him full of joy So won't you play on your harp little David Play...

From Big Horizon How good would it feel to be needed by me To watch me put you first time after time How good would it feel to know that I cannot, I cannot in ...

What is it in her eyes Light of love when she smiles I heard her heart beat In time with mine A million times No one can blame us For running from reason Or run...

DAVID WILCOX RIVERBOAT FANTASY Sittin' on a riverboat Havin' a party Me and my Cajun Queen She's turnin' twenty-one on the Mississippi river Headin' down to Ne...

from Underneath I respect what you can do, but I'd say the same about a gun: depends which side of you they see, some feel safe and some will run There's so mu...

DAVID WILCOX BREAKFAST AT THE CIRCUS 1987 PUSH PUSH PUSH Into the struggle we're born Some people call it a rat race Blind ambition all over his face Push can ...

I make the radio play And he smiles, a big smile He's sure that the people who sing Are inside, inside Why did I try to explain? He's got a miracle there But I...

All the horses out of the gate and right away It's bio-terror coming on with smallpox Running third is mass murder and behind him It's airline crashing and rand...

I can run, I can fly Jump at the sky, I'm getting good exercise I can fail, I can fall Learn from it all, use it to make me wise If there's a lesson inside eve...

from Turning Point Riding out into the night You know why and where to go She can't wait to roll you right She called you up and told you so The town is sleepi...

It's the loneliness, it's the love you miss It's the tears that a heart has to pay It's the same mistakes, it's the time it takes It's the years that lead you t...

from Into The Mystery I see you dreaming by the ocean window I hear you breathing like the waves upon the shore The tide is turning on your time of sorrow You ...

There's a river down from Ghost Ranch New Mexico Left by torrents that tore through here long ago It carved out sculpture and left this show When the canyon flo...

DAVID WILCOX SHAKE IT BABY Shake it baby All night long Shake it baby All night long Shake it baby All night long Ahhh shake it for me You can get it if you s...

from East Asheville Hardware Well I'm gonna drive to West Virginia Buy myself a shack Put my good car in the front yard Block it up on jacks Then I'm gonna tak...

Could be the one, could be tonight The love that will feel so right You look in his eyes, he pours the wine They shine in the candlelight It's easy to laugh, e...

from What You Whispered Could be the one, could be tonight A love that would feel so right You look in his eyes, he pours the wine They shine in the candleligh...

from How Did You Find Me Here? I don't look all that ragged for all the time it's been, But I'm weakened underneath me where my frame is rusted thin And this y...

Good news, get here quick I slip on a step 'bout to break my neck I jump in the car and twist the key I ain't got no battery But turns out, saved my skin No te...

From How Did You Find Me Here? Johnny's out cruising down the fast food strip He rides the high-wheeler Ford He's down here every evening since the school let ...

from Unreleased They'll use a saw to cut through your breastbone They'll take a jack and break your ribs apart Ah but there never was a weakness In the muscles...

from Turning Point This great cold steel that bars the way inside was molten when the Blacksmith was still living This dead heavy door that's oak by oak and al...

Long ago they built this fort of stone above the Hudson To guard against intruders, there were cannons in these walls But now it's just a park where we can come...

from Underneath There's no sense in talking about music, but talking of sex can be done The abstraction of music's confusing; the directness of sex is more fun...

Shake it baby All night long Shake it baby All night long Shake it baby All night long Ahhh shake it for me You can get it if you shake it just so Shake baby o...

From Home Again She can run beside the stream through the forest The wind will lift her hair She can almost see the moon and the waterfall The music takes her ...

When our lives give us time again Sometimes we dive right in Sometimes you're here but gone When your thinking of things to do And you let it get to you Seems l...

from Turning Point When our lives give us time again Sometimes we dive right in Sometimes you're here but gone When your thinking of things to do And you let i...

from Live Songs And Stories SHOW THE WAY You say you see no hope, you say you see no reason We should dream that the world would ever change You're saying love...

from Turning Point I used to pray for rescue by burning up my pain That's the only kind of prayer I knew back then It was a fire of desperation for any wings i...

from Underneath I have drifted down a ways along the shoreline, I just watched these ropes give way where they were tied I could have reached out quick when th...

from Unreleased In the mall outside the organ store, He plays the Lowry Genie And if you'd fake a smile and ask for more, He'd tell you that it's easy But don'...

So we raced each other downhill on the sidewalk And we raised each other, two against the world And we promised not to bow, we made a solemn vow To keep our Ind...

Somethin's shakin' Early in the mornin' People movin' Tryin' to be free If you listen You can hear them Don't they sound like you and me Up all night at a party...

from Underneath I have drifted down a ways along the shoreline, I just watched these ropes give way where they were tied I could have reached out quick when th...

from Live Songs And Stories Circus-boy run-away steely-eyed gypsy Seems to be adjusted to the clatter of the fair He says "watch your step" as he tears two tic...

from Underneath So you're driving from the funeral through the desert land, you see something moving in the wind so wild, so you stop the car and you walk out ...

from What You Whispered The secret of a happy marriage, maybe you should write this down If you want to keep a love together, the best way is to end it now Bec...

We all have moments Frozen for, no reason What we say, what we do Self-portraits Don't be afraid We can fall no further Than beyond the edge of our perceptions ...

from What You Whispered Take your situation, all your circumstances, Put it on you like its made to fit you right Take your friends and family, take the mile a...

We all have moments Frozen for, no reason What we say, what we do Self-portraits Don't be afraid We can fall no further Than beyond the edge of our perceptions ...

In a still small voice in the middle of the night, Brother Martin heard the simple truth And he followed its pleading, though it led to a crossroads, Parting in...

from Big Horizon I got a weakness for strong chemistry One touch - all my resolutions change I can say this is no good for me But I'm back for more of the same...

from The Nightshift Watchman I went to see an old friend Who was soon to pass away He said, "My life has been so good to me Now I still got one more day" Now h...

from Turning Point A tattered old kite must have been spring when you got flown but there's no leaves in sight She left you to swing up there alone tangled in ...

Tear out your heart And keep it company Set it here by me and Sing it a sad song Tear out your heart and Cry the tears you need Give it a brand new chance Reaso...

DAVID WILCOX THAT HYPNOTIZIN' BOOGIE Back in the year nineteen and five We had to have a rhythm very much alive We didn't have thing Still we'd sing We had to ...

The depth of your dreams, The height of your wishes, The length of your vision to see, the hope of your heart Is much bigger than this For it's made out of what...

From The Nightshift Watchman Clear blue sky Looking through my father's eyes Way up high A diamond made of nylon flies Out of a fishing reel The string is draw...

from Unreleased I don't know how long it had been, since these neighbors had even talked to each other I think it had been about two years, maybe And it starte...

from Unreleased To hear the swallows roosting beneath me To hear the moonlight trickling by I come down to this bridge when I'm troubled And oh I am troubled t...

Your baby is a good cook His baby has a cool look Her baby wrote a great book But my baby does the grind She does the grind She does it all the time She satisf...

from How Did You Find Me Here? by Buddy Mondlock I'm the kid who ran away with the circus Now I'm watering elephants But I sometimes lie awake in the sawdust D...

from Unreleased by Cliff Eberhardt There are the ones that you call friends There are the ones that you call late at night There are the ones who sweep away yo...

from Unreleased So Mister Einstein, what'd you do then? 'Cause there's a hole in your resume after 1910 You were a brilliant man when you were 23 But then you ...

There's a time only truth buys In the early small hours of the morning When you brushed the sleep from my eyes And told me stories Electricity The day scrapes t...

I'm the Nightshift Watchman for the planet Five days a week I watch the tube Five nights a week I'm waching radar Easy Job with nothing much to do Waiting in m...