Listen to my story Got two tales to tell One of fallen glory One of vanity The world's roof was raging But we were looking fine And we built that thing And it g...

We explore the men's room We don't give a shit Ladies' lost electricity; take vows inside of it Desire to dance; Too startled to try Wrap my legs 'round you, s...

Toward another He has gone To breathe an air Beyond his own Toward a wisdom Beyond the shelf Toward a dream That dreams itself About a boy Beyond it all About ...

Down in vineland there's a clubhouse, Girl in white dress, boy shoot white stuff Oh, don't you know that anyone can join And they come and they call and they fa...

Come - be my April Fool Come - you're the only one Come - on your rusted bike Come - we'll break all the rules We'll ride like writers ride Neither rich nor br...

[Originally by Jimi Hedrix] If you can just get your mind together then come across to me We'll hold hands an' then we'll watch the sun rise from the bottom of...

Moooooove! Ask the angels who they're calling, Go ask the angels if they're calling to thee Ask the angels while they're falling Who that person could possibly ...

I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the future Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caress...

Take me now baby here as I am Pull me close try an understand I work all day out in the hot sun Stay with me now till the mornin' comes Come on now try and unde...

Oh to be not anyone gone this maze of being skin oh to cry not any cry so mournful that the dove just laughs the steadfast gasps oh to owe not anyone nothing t...

His father died and left him a little farm in New England All the long black funeral cars left the scene And the boy was just standing there alone Looking at th...

Mother, as I write, the sun dissolves Blood life streaming, cross my hand And these words, these words Hope dashed, immortal hope Hope streaking the canvas sky...

Oh the story's told been told retold From the sacred scriptures to the tabloids All the fuss and fight none above a whisperThe soul of gold the belly of a boy ...

Cannons roared, in the valley they thundered While the guns lit up the night Then it rained and both sides wondered Who is wrong and who is right On the wire li...

(Smith/Kaye) Come my one, look at the world Bird beast butterfly Girls sing notes of heaven Birds lift them up to the sky Spring is departing Spring is depart...

(Smith/Ray) Here we go around again Curve of life spiraling Everything we've ever known As the seed of life gets blown And the miracle of time When will that t...

[Originally by Bob Dylan] Sixteen years Sixteen banners united over the field Where the good shepherd grieves Desperate men, desperate women divided Spreading ...

By patti smith Last night I awoke up from a dream came face to face with my face facing the Tombstone teeth of a man called chiklets he came down through the a...

One fine day these words I pray Will breathe a truth Within yourself upon a shelf A life anew So many roads It?s hard to know what to do All your dreams All it ...

By patti smith Come back little sheba I hear them calling Open your ears Awake from thy sleep High above The stars are falling Open your arms And you shall rec...

She is benediction She is addicted to thee She is the root connection She is connecting with he Here I go and I don't know why I fell so ceaselessly Could it b...

This dead city longs to be This dead city longs to be free Seven screaming horses melt down in the sun Building scenes on empty dreams And smoking them one by o...

Dead to the world my body was sleeping on my mind was nothing at all come a mist an aire so appealing I'm here a whisper you summoned I called I formed me a pr...

In the straw-colored light In light rapidly changing On the life rapidly fading Have you seen death singing? Have you seen death singing? With throat smooth a...

When, when will you be landing? When, when will you return? Feel, feel my heart expanding You, oh it's you that I yearn All my earthly dreams are shattered I'm...

Lower the thing the skin of a cat Skin it to the left just laying there No other thing is luck like that And you set it said it said nothing Went to the party ...

Outside another yellow moon Punched a hole in the nighttime, yeah I climb through the window and down to the street I'm shining like a new dime The downtown tra...

( With Michael Stipe in the album "New Adventures In Hi-Fi" ) Look up, what do you see? All of you and all of me Fluorescent and starry Some of them, they surp...

Easter Sunday, we were walking Easter Sunday, we were talking Isabel, my little one, take my hand Time has come Isabella, all is glowing Isabella, all is knowi...

I just don't know what to do tonight, My head is aching as I drink and breathe Memory falls like cream in my bones, moving on my own There must be something I ...

[Originally by Tears for Fears] Welcome to your life There's no turning back Even while sleep We will find you Acting on your best behaviour Turn your back on ...

It's been a hard time and when it rains it rains on me the sky just opens and when it rains it pours I walk alone assaulted it seems by tears from heaven and d...

I and I alone can but do for you to twist in my hand the thorn of thy youth in draw thy seed to turn in birth thy sighs thy moans I and I alone I will wash your...

Hi hello Wake from thy sleep God has granted Thy soul to keep All of the power And all of the gain Is entwined In a single Name Frederick Name of care Fast asl...

Every night before I go to sleep Find a ticket, win a lottery, Scoop the pearls up from the sea Cash them in and buy you all the things you need Every night be...

(Smith/Kaye/Ray/Shanahan/Daugherty) I had a dream Mr King If you'll beg my pardon I was trespassing A sacred garden And the blossoms fell And they dropped like...

We shall live again, we shall live What is it children that falls from the sky ? Tayi, taya, tayi, aye aye Mannah from Heaven from the most high, Food from the...

[Originally by The Rolling Stones] Oh, a storm is threat'ning My very life today If I don't get some shelter Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away War, children, it's j...

Just had to call you Knew you'd be home Know that it's late But there's something that you ought to know You ought to know Just gotta tell you Know I been wrong...

It's been a while since I've seen your face It's been a while since I've walked this place I see the monkeys riding on their bikes Racing through the impossible...

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine meltin' in a pot of thieves wild card up my sleeve thick heart of stone my sins my own they belong to me, me people ...

Hey now man's own kin we commend into the wind grateful arms grateful limbs grateful soul he's gone again I have a winter's tale how vagrant hearts relent pre...

Hey there Come and take a walk with meStroll into infinity We'll stroll alongUntil the dawn is gone Midnight take it to the twilight Just a little slice of ligh...

Those times I waited for you seem so long ago I wanted you far too much to ever let you go You know you never got by "I feel it too" And I guess I never could s...

Ours is just another skin That simply slips away You can rise above it It will shed easily It all will come out fineI've learned it line by line One common wir...

On a field of red one gold star Raised above his head Raised above his head He was not like any other He was just like any other And the song they bled Was a hy...

I'm no angel, it's hard to hide, Got a rebel mouth and a ticket to ride I'm no angel, but I'm not so tough The boys in the town are gonna treat you rough They'...

[Originally by Neil Young] There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were...

Sixty Days Honey, the way you play guitar makes me feel so, makes me feel so masochistic The way you go down low deep into the neck and I would do anything, an...

what i feel when i'm playing guitar is completely cold and crazy, like i don't owe nobody nothing and it's just a test just to see how far i can relax into the ...

When I am troubled in the night he comes to comfort me He wills me thru the darkness and the empty child is free to take his hand his sacred heart the heart tha...

Somewhere in a scrap book There's a rose you gave to me And the photograph thats torn in half And all thats left is me Live happily ever after That came after I...

No equation To explain the division of the senses No sound to reflect The radiance of time In the beginningest dream Halls of disorder Where we are swept to enc...

Little blue dreamer go to sleep Let's close our eyes and call the deep slumbering land that just begins When day is done and little dreamers spin First take my ...

(Smith/Kaye/Daugherty) Oh glad day to celebrate "?Neath the cloudless sky Air so sweet Water pure Fields ripe with rye Come one, come all Gather round Discard ...

The wall is high, the black barn, The babe in my arms in her swaddling clothes And I know soon that the sky will split And the planets will shift, Balls of jade...

The boy was in the hallway drinking a glass of tea From the other end of the hallway a rhythm was generating Another boy was sliding up the hallway He merged pe...

In a mansion high, the young man stood Ready to join his companions good Outside the scent of magnolia blossoms Down streets of gold, the children were racing ...

Sitting here in my cell writing a letter Thanking all the people who made my living conditions better And thanks to the justice system I'm making a million My ...

If it wasn't for your golden hair I would not be belonely If it wasn't for your golden hair I would not be alone If it wasn't for your piercing stare I would n...

I was alone and content in my world Dancing on air You sent to me a message that said I like your style Will you come to the temple tonight And dance for me the...

I woke up this morning feeling lonely There's so much my heart just does not understand there were times nothing really mattered now i find i care to much there...

In the medieval night 'Twas love's design And the sky was open like a Valentine All the lacy lights Where wishes fall And like Shakespeare's child I wished on t...

Make me a believer baby I want to believe in the power of love Make me a believer baby Cuz I feel the strength of your love Ooh yeah Now now I learned about lo...

Little emerald bird Wants to fly away If I cup my hand Could I make him stay? Little emerald soul Little emerald eye Little emerald soul Must you say goodbye? ...

[Originally by The Allman Brothers Band] Well, I've got to run to keep from hiding, And I'm bound to keep on riding And I've got one more silver dollar, But I'...

(Smith/Shanahan) Mother rose Every little morn' To tend to me There she stood Waiting by the door Selflessly Took my hand Took it with a smile tenderly Mother...

(Smith) In my Blakean year I was so disposed Toward a mission yet unclear Advancing pole by pole Fortune breathed into my ear Mouthed a simple ode One road is...

We waltzed beneath motionless skies All heaven?s glory turned in your eyes We expressed such sweet vows Oh till death do us part Oh till death do us part Oh-oh...

I took a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge The new graffiti says that life's a bitch And now I hear this bridge is falling down Someone will steal it before it hi...

I met a man who would be king He had a dream to see forever It was a promise in the dark It was a promise we made together I was a girl who would be queen I did...

You say heyThe state of the union Is fine fine fineI got the feeling that you're lyingLying lying lying I think we needThink we're gonna needA new party They s...

Patty Smyth (Smyth/Savigar) The summer is gone I can't believe It went so fast Why do only the cold and lonely times Seem to last Now it's late at night I watc...

Listen my children and you shall hear The sound of your own steps The sound of your hereafter Memory awaits and turns to greet you Draping its banner across you...

In the name of the fifty-three saints I will go searching says Seek out the hurt he says Where comes this pain Could it be a whirlwind spinning in the dark An a...

In the garden of consciousness In fertile mind there lies the dormant seed When blooming as charity Conscience breathes a sigh of relief The confessions of slee...

Lizzy got married on Christmas Day On the Coney Island Coast, I remember the way She stood in the cold With the sun in her hair Me and my brother were standing ...

[Originally by Stevie Wonder] They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime pa...

(Smith/Shanahan) Yesterday I saw you standing there With your hand against the pane Looking out the window At the rain And I wanted to tell you That your tear...

I was dreaming in my dreaming of an aspect bright and fair And my sleeping it was broken but my dream it lingered near In the form of shining valleys where the ...

What is the system that gets around Recruits hearts with its timeless rhythm The young glow but old men know It's all a part of some crazy schism Coming on lik...

Pissing in a river, watching it rise Tattoo fingers shy away from me Voices voices mesmerize Voices voices beckoning sea Come come come come back come back Come...

I see it all before me: the days of love and torment; the nights of rock-and-roll I see it all before me Sometimes my spirit's empty; don't have the will to go ...

I see it all before me: the days of love and torment; the nights of rock-and-roll I see it all before me Sometimes my spirit's empty; don't have the will to go ...

Oh I see you stare spi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi (spiraling) up there and ho, Oh, into the center of my brain, and baby come, baby go And free the hurricane, oh, I go into...

(Smith/Ray) Suffer not Your neighbor's affliction Suffer not Your neighbor's paralysis But extend your hand Extend your hand Lest you vanish in the city And be...

Oh I'll send you a telegram Oh I have some information for you Oh I'll send you a telegram Send it deep in the heart of you Deep in the heart of your brain is a...

Common fortune seeks us all And slips our binding rings We?ll turn our heads And make us reel We?ll bare our arms as wings Before our feet a feather drifts Bey...

Late afternoon, dreaming hotel We just had the quarrel that sent you away I was looking for you, are you gone gone ? Called you on the phone, another dimension ...

I been standin' on the water's edge Now you want to pull me in But I been standin here too long I can't remember if I can swim Do you believe that people change...

Baby was a black sheep baby was a whore Baby got big and baby get bigger Baby get something baby get more Baby, baby, baby was a rock-and-roll nigger Oh, look a...

I?ve got seven ways of going, seven wheres to be, Seven sweet disguises, seven ways of serving thee Lord, I do extol thee, for thou has lifted me Woke me up and...

Why'd you tell me that you won't see me no more I say baby, baby, baby do you wanna watch me crawl across the floor Cause anyone can learn to pull a trigger An...

[Originally by Nirvana] Load up on guns and bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend She's over bored and self assured Oh no, I know a dirty word He...

So, you want to be a rock 'n roll star Well, listen now to what I say Get yourself an electric guitar And take some time and learn how to play And when your ha...

Now, I don't want to lose you But I don't want to use you Just to have somebody by my side And I don't want to hate you, I don't want to take you But I don't wa...

[Originally by The Doors] Well, the clock says it's time to close now I guess I'd better go now I'd really like to stay here all night The cars crawl past all ...

Blood on the TV, ten o'clock news Souls are invaded, heart in a groove Beatin' and beatin' so outta time What's the mad matter with the church chimes? Here come...

"footnote to howl" by allen ginsberg Holy! holy! holy! holy! holy! holy! holy! holy! holy! Holy! holy! holy! holy! holy! holy! The world is holy! the soul is ho...

I looked upon the book of lifeTracing the lines of face after faceLooking down at their naked feetBound in chains bound in chainsChains of leather chains of gol...