After one long season of waiting After one long season of wanting I am breaking open My insides are pink and raw And it hurts me when I move my jaw But I am ta...

I've got my eye on the scar That runs clear from your temple to your jawline You will tell me about all your thoughts right this minute And I will tell you mine...

When I worked down at the liquor store Guy with a shotgun came raging through the place Muscled his way behind the counter I shot him in the face This morning ...

Your house is depressing Your house is dirty Why don't you come outside a little while Why don't you step out into the sun Let me take you down Let me ease you ...

I eat a couple Milky Ways for breakfast I take my coffee light and sweet Show up for dinner when you tell me to I heap the sugar high and white on everything I ...

I hear you starting up again I seee you standing on the deck I hear your voice start to carry I see the veins throbbing in you neck And I know what you're sayi...

My hand brushes against the lock of hair that hangs down past your ear to your jaw My hand brushes against the lock of hair that hangs down past your ear to you...

The morning comes to a stuttering halt The cool breeze that blows is somebody's fault The summer heat tries to burn through And I look over to warn you but some...

the house was pretty and the yard was wide and I felt strong, with you at my side your eyes at night, had a beautiful glowing in them and I knew in my heart, ju...

All the lengthening hours of the refinery Belching fire into the sky We do our best vampire routines As we suck the dying hours dry The night is lovely as a ros...

You say again that nothing's wrong I'd really like to play along Your ruby red mouth is full and moist I'd like to give in to your oboe reed voice But as sure a...

you've been away, for quite some time and now the rules are different, now everything's mine backtrack hey say, what's the problem? here's the problem: everythi...

I was sitting in the street when the news came my way (x2) Good news (x4) I was sitting in the street when the messenger came by I was sitting in the street whe...

When I see you in your new blue jeans I know you're lying, and I know what it means When I see you take your place among the poor I know you're a fraud for sure...

Two tall glasses of sweet iced tea, underneath the sweet gum tree And the love we once nurtured, you and me Disintegrating violently Stick your tongue out Catch...

When you saw the evening star Shining in the freezing sky I saw somthing dark and silent passing by Full moon Deep grass Cold water When you said your name ou...

Will I see you there When the final trumpet blows Will I see you there When the final trumpet blows If I don't see you there I will run a comb through my hair A...

'36 hudson in the garage, All sorts of junk in the unattached spare room, Dishes in the kitchen sink, New straw for the old broom, Friends who don't have a clue...

I know you see mars in the sky tonight I know you can see venus rising and veering off to the right But can you see that young star overhead? It's the one that ...

when the sun came up, i got up 'cause you were saying my name backwards in your sleep again the field outside was wet and green, and the most goergeous cow i'v...

The wax paper that I taped over the windows Melted as quick as chocolate in the heat And it'll probably never come off now The windows look like frosted glass i...

Sun just clearing the treeline when my day begins Slippery ice on the bridges, northeastern wind coming in You will bruise my head, I will strike your heel Driv...

Rainbows shown on the glass, dew drops gathered on the grass And the yellow sun came into view Another goddamn message from you Well despite your best efforts, ...

She came in on the red eye to Dallas, Fort Worth All the way from sunny Taipei Skin the color of a walnut shell And a baseball cap holding down her black hair A...

This song is for the rats Who hurled themselves in to the ocean When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold Were just about to blow This song is for th...

they're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon and the canterbury tales will shoot up to the top of the best seller list and stay there for 27 weeks ...

Alright I'm on johnson avenue in san luis obispo And I'm five years old or six maybe And indications there's something wrong with our new house Trip down the wi...

One day in september you come here You pull my head down And you whisper in my ear And you tell me the sidewalk is as far as the world really goes But that's a ...

The reception's gotten fuzzy The delicate balance has shifted Put on your gloves and your black pumps Let's pretend the fog has lifted Now you see me Now you d...

We stank of hair dye and ammonia We sealed ourselves away from view You were looking at the void and sat unblinking The best that I could do was to train my eye...

I found an old rock In the dry dirt outside The door of my hotel room It was a triangle with soft rounded edges And a split down the middle of one corner It was...

On venus it rains sulfuric acid And the raindrops evaporate before they hit the ground Japanese red-crowned cranes by the water here Trouble in town I feel li...

There was a new song on the air I saw you coming across the square And a white bird broke the dark korean sky As the rest of my life went by I had your warm ha...

When you were nineteen I first laid eyes on you The small stream that ran through the center of town Carried your name to me Your hair was dark and your eyes we...

Down here where the heat's so fine I'll drink to your health and you'll drink to mine As we try to make the money we scored out in Vegas hold out for a while We...

Bad luck comes in from Tampa Bad luck comes in from Tampa On the back of a truck Doing ninety up the interstate We have bad dreams the night he rolls in We have...

I am wearing a white long sleeved button-down The pink colors behind the clouds tonight Mirror the softer shades of your nightgown As the neuro-transmitters go ...

Hurry the bottle mama It's grapefruit wine Kick off your high-heeled sneakers It's party time The girls don't seem to care what's on As long as it plays 'till d...

I saw the ceiling spin And I saw the room shift And I watched the television flicker And I let my mind drift I would give anything in the world up for you, But ...

Turn the volume up real high All of that money look at it fly And you smoking like a chimney Shadows crawled across the living room's length I held onto you wit...

I will rise up early and dress myself up nice And I will leave the house and check the deadlock twice And I will find a crowd and blend in for a minute And I wi...

I know what I want And I know what we need When the first fruits of the harvest Begin to blacken and bleed And the purple fruit gives way when you press it Even...

It is the only appliance that grinds the grain into flour And kneads the dough in the same container I cut myself a two-foot switch from some tropical hardwood...

I looked you up and down I liked everything I saw From the fragile outline of your hips To the trembling movements in your jaw But when the coffee cup shattered...

I'd like to say hello to all our friends from chino to the people of chino, hello I'd like to say hello to all our friends from chino to the people of chino, he...

The most remarkable thing about coming home to you Is the feeling of being in motion again It's the most extraordinary thing in the world I have two big hands a...

you were all were dressed in green! clouds bounced against the edges of the sky you had the prettiest hair I'd ever seen we saw the world passing by there was ...

Saw your arms hanging at your side Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide Saw you moving real slow Nowhere to run to, nowhere to go I heard the wind blow I sa...

I saw you at your window I saw you in the sun I saw you in the window, looking out I reached my hand in there, then I touched your hair and felt myself burn, i...

The ghostly sing-song Of the children playing double-dutch I felt the wind come through the window I felt it turn around and switch back In the second story roo...

I been drinking that coffee you sent me from thailand I've been watching the lamps burn I've been listening to the wind chime I've been waiting my turn And I'm...

There was a barn owl trapped in the rafters The ground underneath us was wet and cold We heard the owl thrashing about Trying desparately to get out We stood ou...

it's heaven up here, but it's heaven down there! and you're gonna leave me now I don't care it's heaven outside, but it's heaven indoors well, go on and leave ...

in the morning, i looked down through the 3rd story window overlooking town across the water, somewhere, you were sleeping over there i couldn't believe it, i c...

The cave mouth shines By pure force of will I look down on the world From the top of this lonesome hill And you can run, and run some more From here all the way...

It was raining outside, so I cleaned house today Spent half of the morning throwing old things away Try not to get caught up, Try to think like a machine Focus ...

You are sleeping off your demons When I come home Spittle bubbling on your lips, Fine white foam I am young and I am good It's a hot southern california day If...

Tile floor of the bathroom Scrubbed clean and bright Checkerboard white and gray Towels from the Ritz Carlton hotel In Kingston, Jamaica I can still see the ru...

When the seashells crumbled in your hand You looked up up at me And the sand shifting underneath your feet Softened for you and incredibly the sun went through ...

Gotta keep moving Gotta keep moving Blues falling down like hail Gotta keep moving Blues falling down like hail And the daylight keeps moving There's a hellhou...

Wipe down the windshields and roll down the windows Let's go where the jackals are breeding Wrap this bandanna around your head Don't let anyone see that you're...

We heard the rats in the rafters scurry by And we wondered about the color of the sky outside In warsaw in 1939 It was alright just to be alive It was good that...

sun flashing red and then orange then opting for secession on the day when you came to the door with you terrible confession i know you've come to take my toys ...

The wind blew in across the water And the wind blew through you hair And I walked around the lake's perimeter And then I saw you there I will grab you by the e...

I who have sat by thebes below the wall and walked Among the lowest of the dead All I know is I'm in love with you Even though you say that we are through I kn...

This place with it's old plantations These roads leading out to the sea This day full of promise and potential More clay pigeons for you and me All of them all ...

When the villagers come to my door, I will hide underneath the table in the dining room, Knees drawn to my chest When the villagers come to my door, I will brea...

The day I turned my back on all you people I felt an itching in my thumbs The salt air like a broadcast from the distant, dark beyond When my transformation com...

Autumn came around like a drifter to an onramp There were wet leaves floating in gutters full of rain Took to walking barefoot around town Melodies from grade s...

My love is like a powder keg My love is like a powder keg in the corner of an empty warehouse Somewhere just outside of town About to burn down My love is like...

I saw you in the blazing light When the lotus caught fire In the middle of the night It froze me It froze me I saw you coming closer real slow You grabbed hold...

Meanwhile out where nothing starts Out where the railyard ends The sun above is trying to kill himself We were watching the skies again Why do we come down to ...

After three nights in jail, I head north from Toyaville Switch to 285 in Pecos, head up to Red Bluff My walk's real steady and my eyes are real cold When I fee...

You roared into the driveway of our Southwestern ranch style house On a new Kawasaki, All yellow and black, Fresh out of the showroom Our house faced west So th...

[spoken:] it's a quarter till 2 on the 23rd of february and this is a hank williams song now if you stay out, and start playing around, your baby's gonna burn...

I saw you I saw your hair I could spend the rest of my life in there I saw you, and I sank into your eyes I'm not going to apologize because you, with your ow...

We gathered up our worldly goods And stole off in the dark as quickly as we could You were quieting the baby when we came to the dock on the outskirts of town A...

Martin calls to say he's sending old electrical equipment That's good we can always use some more electrical equipment In the cold clear light of day down here...

Gentle hum of the old machines Here we come scrubbed and scoured Patches on our jeans When the drone sounds In the cool night wind We pick up the call Kick all ...

The king of the jungle Was asleep in his car When your chances fall in your lap like that, You gotta recognize them for what they really are Nobody in this hou...

alright hit it 1234 doctor, doctor can you help me please? all these pills and problems, keep piling down on me (here's your lonesome surprise) x3 go allen ...

King saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong, And joseph's brothers sold him down the river for a song, And sonny liston rubbed some tiger balm into his g...

Feed the kittens in the kitchen Set food out for the strays Try hard to do your best The magpie will have his way Fill your mouth with berries By the full ligh...

Lying in the hot sun today Watch as the clouds run away Thought a little while about you The sky was a petrifying blue And while the geese flew past For no reas...

Most of the brine has got to boil away Most of the air has got to choke you Most of june I spent in jail again I don't mean jail exactly Up in the pine tree A r...

A bad dream shook me in my sleep and I woke up sweating Ran through the dark to the shower, Already forgetting Tried to think good thoughts Trying to find my wa...

When I came back from finland The taxi took me down the street I saw the red flowers growing like they used to by the roadside In the smothering summer heat Yo...

Seeds came in the mail from holland And the language on the package is wonderful and strange All sorts of flowers that grow up from the earth And goodly colors ...

I came to see you up there in intensive care They had handcuffed you to your bed There were tubes going into you and out from you Bright white gauze bandages at...

Deep is the midnight sea Warm is the fragrant night Sweet are you lips to me Soft as the moon and sand Oh when shall we meet agin When the night has left us Wi...

Went down the the gas station for no particular reason, Heard the screams from the high school -- It's football season Empty lot the station faces, will probabl...

There's a capsicum pepper plant growing out in the backyard There's a capsicum pepper plant growing out in the backyard And I I am a monster I can't believe the...

You've had it up to here with my west country talk You can hardly understand a word I say The shortest tree around here is a hundred feet tall It's gonna rain t...

Shadows on the broad lawn, canopy of trees Sometime after midnight, the ground is gonna freeze Birds in the frosty air, what are they doing there? Greenhouse fu...

when i got home i meant to give you some sweet chrysanthemum the wind chimes were ringing all wrong and you were standing in the doorway singing along and i tri...

I hope that our few remaining friends Give up on trying to save us I hope we come up with a failsafe plot To piss of the dumb few that forgave us I hope the fen...

Well, guy in a skeleton costume Comes up to the guy in the superman suit Runs through him with a broadsword I put the television off Bring all the bright lights...

From the housetops to the gutters From the ocean to the shore The warning signs have all been bright and garish Far too great in number to ignore From the citi...

I know what my weaknesses are Probably better than you do Revolutionary chinese propaganda The color of blue I thought I knew what my weaknesses were anyway The...

When I hear the screeching weather vane In the wild wind and the pissing rain I know that one of us, I'm not saying who, Has got rocks in her head The rain come...