We were the children that need those dreams the worst We asked for God but all they had left was church We took the high road and they brought up down But we ke...

Oh, the city was changing The cigarette hit the spot Oh, a simple distraction From to have and have not And the radio went silent And all our heroes had died N...

My parents split up in the first grade My father never did come back My sister liked John Travolta But I wanted Billy Jack Throwing things off of the rooftops ...

Calls him daddy calls him man Another girl they call Britney Johnny sits and mans the phones From the corner he'll come get you She wakes in the cold grey dawn...

Didn't go to work at all Couldn't even make the call Skipped payments on my truck Grabbed my last hundred bucks Bought you a pretty dress But still you weren't ...

God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Take a first step and miss the whole first rung Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled It beats pickin' cotton and wa...

Coming down on a Monday, another work day When I saw her the first time She tapped her nails on my window She said, "Lets go", and we left it all behind Here s...

All your love Is not enough The ferry pulled away From the Block Island bay It had been so many eyars And an ocean full of tears Oh she's a beautiful baby and o...

I was thinking about another time still in my mind When I used to know a little girl high on this world Your baby loves you more than you know Raised on rivalr...

The last car on the line I guess you're back doing time The ghost of Christmas past Left Walt Whitman in the trash You started out with nothing but lonely days...

A new generation, now my whole world shakin' We were born in flames, maiden names Suburban homes, make your bones Bite your lip, take the fifth Know your right...

That's the way you know the story goes Between euphoria and the afterglow I don't believe in what the good book says I close my eyes and then I go to bed With ...

I'm a witness to the sickness In a place I call my home On the weekend hit the deep end With the secrets that I own Like an old song with a new girl She never g...

Over mounts over money over time Newspaper lovers break up on Page 6 Bust stop single mothers Dream of getting rich Hollywood sons and daughters The teenage Jes...

There's a girl smoking cigarettes Looks like you, she looks like you There's a feeling that I can't forget Coming through Baby blue Well they tore another buil...

Once I bled into a letter It didn't get any better Took a PBR vacation Played the college station Through the flower beds You walk down to the park Like ancien...

Well I've been strung out on a song For a place where I belong As the lyrics start to fall She's in my bed, I'm off the wall Call me up call me up Call me up C...

Marilyn's queen of the scene In a humble abode, by the bowling green Marilyn, she collects names With picture profile, computer games to hang on In the modern ...

It's been an Indian summer And I just lost another I've been thinking about my mother As the plane touched down I feel lost and found Coming home Daylight's go...

We sing along to broken songs We work all week in double speak We celebrate like strangers I can make it happen I can make it happen Little star When the rain...

Some might wake up in a doorway Some live in mansions, sick and sad Some decay without the glory And never realize what they had I'm not wasting away my dreams...

I've got a message Oh, as I was told Summer's fadin' And California seems so cold Lucinda, Lucinda A child of the water Lucinda, Lucinda A child of the sea In...

Steven's selling Marijuana uptown to the primadonnas Medicate the counterculture 9/11 baby boom Paulie's waiting to retire smoking like a forest fire Putting on...

The cocaine cowboy is going back to war Another strip mall opens on route 4 Call it love baby on your cyber screen Mother nature is trying to get clean Put the ...

When my high top sneakers hit the ground On the run from heavens' hand me downs I want to see your face When I fall from grace, baby Hold me close in the New Y...

Oh, well, I had super heroes Silver patroned saints I've seen the movie I even made that face I been building it up and tearing it down And doing it all my lif...

You say you want a revolution Something you can touch Like an age old contradiction With alcohol and lust And all the things you have are broken And you can't g...

The Harlem mammas they are laughing They call me punk rock think they're cute The pizza boys they keep on starin' I guess they finally made it off their stoop ...

You start with spin the bottle And you learn how to forget A broken home but now you've grown You play Russian roulette And the dogs bark out in defeat Scars o...

Opening Lines Standing on the corner Where I first saw her In the summer sunset She came in from the Midwest Books that she's reading We'll all dropouts anyway ...

When the rain comes down Ni this northern town It was a banner year In the world of fear I though I'd drop you a line When you comb your hair And you're unawar...

Na, na, na, na, na, na, etc On a winter's day I don't need anyone On the month of May I don't need anyone Got some cigarettes I don't need anyone And no real re...

I am the swingin' man perpetually on the lam Free as a bird or the girls in Amsterdam Yellow taxi ride hey I never exercise The devil when I speak or when I ris...

Calling Mrs America Have you heard She's out in California writing spoken word Moved in with her parents Gave the kid away She broke needle now she can't play ...

I was that kid in the picture Lost in the green grass and blue skies Gimme a scene on the silver screen Buy me a beer or a love supreme I'm happy the man, in th...

Wendy left me all alone No postcard or telephone Wintertime down by the beach In a jukebox bar way out of reach She liked Tom Waits and the poet's hat Sixties ...

Christmas is coming down Ten dollar bill in my pocket I let my baby down I want to blast off like a rocket People are on my way Children await the surprise I t...