I think of your room I think of you there I think of you draging you body upstairs With your bed and your chair And your stale perfume I never knew anybody As l...

She was naked in the smoky room The man were pressed up tight The painter, he was near her As she danced in the blue light A missionary wondered How it was she'...

I was closed mouthed I was closed minded Bangin' my head on the wall I was blinded But you did it You put the light in my eyes What's happened to me I feel bor...

Born in Karachi Grew up North American Mother in a sari Father dressed like a businessman One foot in the old world One foot in the new And always the pressure ...

Live out of a suitcase in the back Wash in the restrooms at the Shell Get my meals in the Taco Bell Eat in parking lots from a paper sack Duck out of the window...

The stars are bright in the velvet night You could read a book in the full moonlight Flyin' in the clouds, what a heavenly gift If I was afraid to fly, I'd be a...

I found these chords on the piano And they searched me to my very soul I've got a friend, a divorcee' Now he's always cryin' to me Cryin' to me, cryin' to me Y...

Desire, but you can't have what you want And you want it so bad Desire is burning you out You want it all right in your hand Desire you haven't ever got enough ...

Pedro lives at hte Wilshire Hotel He looks out a window without glass The walls are made of cardboard He's got newspapers on his feet And his father beats him '...

They'd shout at me when I was chasing rainbows They'd shout at me for staring at the moon Nothing came soon enough to satisfy me The fun was always over all to ...

Lost in the crowd today No on with nothin' to say You've got to make your pay And your sense of humor Fades away Do you dream of being somebody Do dreams reall...

Fallin', fallin' off the high wire Fallin', I don't wanna die Fire escapes, cats howlin' at me Got no father Just frustration Uptown party girls, Cadillac cars...

Dusty old farmer out working your fields Hanging down over your tractor wheels The sun beatin' down turns the red paint to orange And rusty old patches of steel...

Snow is fallin' on the corner As my honey comes home from school She don't feel right with the world I always thought it was wrong But it's gettin' harder to ge...

When I go down to the harbour, Watch the boats go out to sea I sometimes wish that one was takin' me I could hide down in a lifeboat Watch the fishes jump for j...

You're born in debt And you're never free You work all your life For the company And the smoke pours down on your Mercury As the paint chips off your walls The ...

I've worn out my welcome In the local bars I've walked the sidewalk lookin' In the windows of familar cars I know exactly what ya look like But I only see the d...

Heroes don't think that their heroes And get all swelled up in their chests They're just quietly workin' They don't give up tryin' They're happy just to give it...

Smell of the sweetgrass seems to carry on the breeze Light of the moon Washes through the windshield of the car While we wonder what we are We put a lot of mile...

It was the year of 1946 The war was just a memory There was a young man Spending his last dollar Cheerfully That airplane didn't look too ready To tame the nort...

I can tell what's going to happen If we sit too long Where the light's too dim and the drink's too strong We'll hear the song But we'll have to say no thanks We...

That ground gets harder every year I find as I shake some from my ear Well I'm trying for the prize But sometimes I wonder why As I watch that horse do two jump...

It's springtime now The wild geese fly Heading north along their highway in the sky Something's changed in me I want to let the world go 'round I want to let th...

If the wind could blow my troubles away I would stand in a hurricane Get washed away in the drivin' rain If the wind could blow my troubles away Blow my trouble...

It was down by the Atlantic Sea Where the concrete bunkers lay And the rusty eighty-eights Look down where the seagulls play I heard the ghost bugles reveille ...

I remember shooting craps in Gary's Bar Watched the money dissapesr on every roll So I had a drink on someone else's paycheck Lady Luck you smiled on me no more...

Little brothers of the woods You're nobody's fool No I can't keep goin' if I can't catch you I need a muskrat, a mink I need a beaver too No I can't keep goin' ...

The miles roll by and your back is wet And the shadows grow so long It seems a million miles And a long long while Since you turned that motor on The three-piec...

I watched your lightnin' matches at you table The white haze fired up your brain And you laughed like hell at somethin' nobody else could see And you weren't ho...

There's you standing on the swing bridge I'm the captain on the ship below But at six o'clock I'll get a taxi on the dock And be an actor in a TV show Well the ...

It's too wide a world for one man to know Life is a strange kind of song The sea-gulls fly We've seen eye to eye for so long The market is walking They're hawki...

I remember how you were I don't think that you do Now you're gone on the midnight train To think it all through All the fools that you left in the bar Think abo...

You could shoot off a cannon Down the middle of Bond And attract no attention in downtown St John's This getting nowhere is getting to me Wondering where can yo...

When you work all day Don't you want to get rid of your pay When the whistle blows and they put the IBM's away And a Friday don't mean a thing If it hasn't got ...

Look me up when you don't pretend That the bottle is your only friend Look me up when there's no farther down When you're on your last go 'round No way to tell...

There ain't no man can measure up To one who's in the past Real men give you arguments And take your comforts last You hold on to a memory And pray that it will...

It's a poor boy's life In a rock n' roll band All the money that you make Just changes hands If you're young enough It dosen't grind you down You're just poor b...

Happy days are here again I dig them when they're round When nothin's there to tie you down There to tie you down Of all the things that don't tie me down You'r...

I started with a shovel I started with a dream Stoking up the firebox To get a head of steam Coal dust on my hands I had cinders in my eyes I remember mamma wav...

I guess I'm just an asshole Must have lost my mind Got my head firmly stuck Up where the sun don't shine The dog don't scream at heaven 'Cause God didn't give h...

My eyes were all wrong for a cowboy Sometimes they were black and blue And how I come to this prairie town Is something that I never knew A kid in love with the...

I'm running out the door I feel so tied down I'm walking on quicksand I want solid ground I don't feel alive I must be halfway dead Sooner or later you'd find o...

A kid came up while I was Walkin' down the street today And asked if he could shine my shoes For two bits worth of pay I wasn't in no hurry And it wouldn't take...

I'm gettin' tired of rememberin' when Now it's just a drag to see you again Lookin' for younger and younger men 'Til you find some little boy's heart to break a...

I've seen bare rock standing Where the trees once stood Three hundred thousand acres That ain't no good Tried to stop that wildfire When it's burnin' bad And al...

Suddenly the walls around you crumble And all of your defences start to fail Someone that you thought was just a memory Come back to remind you that you failed ...

She didn't look what you'de call fallen But I would say she looked preyyy tired A couple of guys were looking her over With more than a little desire She had an...

Who's gonna see You get your paper tonight Who'll see your freight gets towed Who's gonna save you When your ship don't come in I know, I know, Iknow She ain't...

Sonny you got it made That's what the teachers said, I just had to laugh Leave it up to Sigmund Freud And you'll never be a happy boy Be a lover or a paranoid O...

If I knew what was goin' on Wouldn't never ba a stranger Wouldn't walk the lonely streets Talkin' to myself Got a long past Nobody knows a thing about Nobody he...

Here's a plain simple song, without much to say For times when plain circumstance Finds me with someone whose world is all wrong So they feel like they don't ha...

You can take my life But don't take away my automobile It means nothin' to you But it'll take me away from here And when I roll, I will feel no pain You'll neve...

Hangin' out on the corner Lookin' for blood Don't care 'bout news Don't care 'bout nothin' Violent crime on our minds Don't care 'bout fear Don't let me ever ca...

Twenty-five miles south of Sable Island On four steel columns Rising from the cold sea below With our drilling tower rising And a jagged grey horizon Lord I fee...

He's livin' in the past He ain't livin' now Picking up bad habits that the law does not allow He's the man who thinks you wear a woman like a suit He's the man ...

We leave the shore on the sea of life We sink if we don't swim Sure as the sun will rise again We're whistling in the wind Springtime comes and all's made new N...

I saw the sky fill up with engine Heard the world fill up with noise Laid a penny on the track, got a flapjack back As the driver waved to the boys I watched th...

Hey girl' what you gonna do? If you get too sentimental He's gonna have a better hold on you You're gonna have to pay For every minute you stay If you want to d...

Well well well You should have known better Than to live with a man these days Your soul soul soul Is in stormy weather In the mirror there's a stranger's face ...

When I feel like I don't understand I take myself to thise North African sands Find a trenchcoat and a cigarette Find the man that nobody forgets When this worl...

When you're a poor boy You ain't no one The doors don't open The horse don't run When you got no money You're finished and done But when you're a rich boy The t...

When you're young and you don't know nothing Life is in the back of a van Wondering who's getting what from whoever else And wondering if you can Wasting your t...

There may be no end to makin' those same mistakes again Nobody can sail your ship Nobody can guide you in Some people just keep the hammer down Never look up 't...

Whispering rain, careless emotion Rising and falling waves On the ocean Carry you on 'til nothing remains Only the sound of the whispering rain Life sometimes ...

If life is a river I'm in white water Swept along to I don't know where Try to run across the fire But I fear it's getting hotter If life is a river I'm in whit...

Got a lot at stake at doin' what comes naturally Got a lot of reasons to try and make sure That the love keeps flowin' And if the magic slipped away between you...

Got a lot at stake at doin' what comes naturally Got a lot of reasons to try and make sure That the love keeps flowin' And if the magic slipped away between you...

When the good times come at last It's only when the bad times rest Someday they're going to lay you down Even though you did your best All the heroes of the war...

Nothin' much to say It's windy today You sit lookin' out Through your windowpane Thinkin' 'bout him How you lost at love again Singin' little girl's blues While...

With your leather boots and coat You were walking side by side With the revolutionaries But there's something that you hide You got no time to fool around You'r...