Oh Baby, how can you lie to me? Your only friend in this misery You can't even look at me Oh Suzie Reunions make me cry The word implies something gone Somethi...

A man stands in handcuffs under the underpass He points to the sand with the toe of his boot And the deputy leads him away Mister, mister, mister what's your ga...

One cannot begin to understand how a grain of sand that's falling is the motion that they're calling time Morning after morning in the marketplace of Helltown t...

This is my nothing time Tired of always being told what time Don't follow too close behind the one that walks before you There are the insect times, everybody ...

All the revolutionaries are revolting and everlasting has tunred to never-ending All the Freestone peaches have been punctured by a hundred-thousand dirty thumb...

I saw two miners walking down the road, they had a negress in between them The dust and mire in the air made it mighty hard to see them Leading the train by the...

Thank you firemen, thank you GIs thank you operator for getting me this line But I am not well, I can just tell the bent carousel, the bent carousel I want to ...

Bright sunlight Come and open up my eyes Cause they're closed but I'm not sleeping I got morning on my mind I can't sleep at all I can't sleep at all Bright s...

She comes from sunny Santa Barbara where the seaweed sways and waves are green and glassy She is so unique, she is a mountain peak She's tiny but she's classy W...

They were playing the reels of old dreams in the back room last night You were there along with the ghosts of one hundred summer nights You were playing them ba...

I collected some nerve as I rounded the curve in the driveway the house was still light so I thought what might be the most tactful of things I could say I kno...

What's the trouble Del Mar Station? Are you tired of me hanging around? I think I need a small vacation, Some place where I can't hear a sound Images keep repea...

I passed the headliner on the street today They didn't give me the time of day But when those boys got up to play Made me want a whiskey Made me want to stay I...

how much would you sell your lifetime for? would you give up the way you were brought up for something you love? how much do you think that you've got to lose ...

Show care for the lonesome Western schoolboy Notice how his brow is cruel and true He's not going back to California The gold is in the ground but he's not digg...

I read it in the Hudson Valley Camera today and I recognized the number that was there Just a silly piece of paper shaking in my hand was all the remained of my...

Tell me what is wrong And I'll put it in a song And I'll play it on the stage Show me where it hurts and I'll write it down in words and I'll play it on the st...

There's some boys I know Who play that rock and roll They've slept on a lot of floors To get that California Soul They've got that California Soul There's a gi...

If you hear hymns and waltzes in you head and you haven't been out dancing since your daddy joined the dead don't let anyone tell you they can try to fix your h...

This is the sound Let it bring you down This is the sound Let it bring you down well I am very far from home (this is the sound) and I am very close to homesi...

No one knows what I do in my room with my girl and she won't tell you Sometimes she tells me mellow lies, when her tongue is not inside my head I talk in terms ...

In these later days we're making a living on the taking from each other all the things for which we have no further use See the people there on Friday at the b...

Life in the city's expensive today I know because that's where my girl went when my girl went away She calls me up now just to calm me down, she calms me down, ...

An anorexic young upstart struts down the runway, she is so thin but more gaunt then lean She cut down on her baby fat the fun way, checked herself into a magaz...

When a person has too much she can forget what she really needs When you pull the spike from the flesh it is then that the wound will bleed The drawer that I wa...

You used to be so beautiful In your father's house on the hill carrying your black bound book beyond the world of thrill we'd dream of blond-haired children who...

The piano scraped a note On the stage in Idaho It sounded like your sleepy voice On the long distance phone The moon is gone or else he turned his head And the...

If I listened to the song I sung In the year of 1991 I would not be sitting here In this hard and awkward chair Singing yet another one So the year has brought...

Payroll Peter's got a bottle of wine He's gonna drink it and have a good time Let's go get checked into his motel room We'll finish that bottle by mid-afternoon...

My pet foot is my left foot, I keep it close to me, closer than a beekeeper keeps his bees I kick it with my right foot when it steps out of line My right foot ...

He stands in a meadow In a deep green valley A flock of fleesey sheep all around him You hear him call your name, sweetly calling And then you feel bad about me...

The spiders and the snakes you've known me for at least a dozen centuries They know my poison's always at the surface In the bottom of the shadowed canyons is w...

You can drive up from the ocean and the road curves hard and steep The oak trees disappering as the houses start to creep Up the sweeping fields of sourgrass, t...

Would you like to come down to me from your town above the line? I saw an omen that you were coming and I do believe it's time Precious Opal, Queen of Gems upon...

You are nothing like the others You've got two feet to stand on I have two feet for walking but that is not the question I can't picture you a mother going cra...

One good thing the bad things do is pull us all together A shoulder blade to cry onto, pull us all together A friend is one who comes around when all your bros ...

I dunno about no rich little girl Walkin' around like her papa's got some money I dunno about no rich little girl walkin' around like her papa got some money ...

When I was a pale and skinny young kind it didn't make me try but try to keep myself hid, and no one seemed to see me They all ran to the boys with the boards b...

By the time I close my eyes, Sarah Bellum's rested She owes no apologies, she must do what's best For all I know she has a baby at her breast Sarah Bellum, yes...

Roll in the waves and watch it blow salt on your mind It's just a case of overly working, you'll be fine When your ship comes along to right all your wrongs Say...

Would you please not get so angry when I roll over on my side? I get tired, finally, in the morning I'll get a chance to talk to you down the line And if the w...

You say you know what's good for me But you are the worst thing I think I've ever seen And if you really want to do a favor for me Get out of here right now, do...

I so much like the things you said I can't believe it in my head But real-life touching makes me nervous I'll touch you in my mind instead Singing and dreaming,...

If I flew you to Honolulu I could do you my new tune but I've chosen very lonesome I suppose the wholesome thing to do single spoon half asleep in your hotel r...

Kickers come-on Tonight we're leaving So kiss your baby on the ear We'll be playing but she won't hear As we climb aboard the bus We don't leave nothing behind...

If you really want me to go then that means that you don't feel the same, I know Bridges only cry when the wind blows or a very heavy load If you say there's g...

Why o why should you follow me down Someone as spotless as you You should not be allowed in the dark side of town That is lingering behind my eyes so blue You ...

And what about my tailor, my slowly mending lover? She sews me clothes I could not bear to wave My hands are locusts at her work, a green and fitting coat made ...

Thank you brother for the load But I guess that all my stuff is stowed I guess it's time for me to go To get stoned up the road, I get stoned on Stoned on up th...

I've tried patches and batches of downers Bags of grasses from young out of towners I've seen the world through blue-tinted glasses My moustache is makin' my li...

So you've been confused Your confidence is disorganized, so you do your exercise as you speed beneath the bay I would tell you to sing because that would bring...

Rosy-colored baby won't you help me find my tone Make it so you get to know me like you've never done anyone else before Mostly now I'm thinking of the times wh...

I can see us lost across the mountains and our heads are filled with dental gold and counselling I do not believe that anyone here has found it but I know it's ...

Yes its true we are worried about him The loneliness is outrageous We've asked him a series of questions, But his answer never changes Who taught you how to pl...

There was a nation of people who lived on the edge of a circle and they truly believed in the notion of rotation But where is your circle, Black Elk? And where ...

This is a man who walks around with his head held high but his pants are falling down And this is a man who understands the red in his eye and the leanness of h...

On the way, On the way home I saw a rainbow beneath my feet, Flowing over the filthy street Oh yeah It's a long, It's a long way Back to the place where we use...

You got to take me home for seven days And take me where a girl can wrap me up in her womanly things And the weary voice is not the one that sings Tired wings ...

Mama, I don't think I can come home with you 'cause I saw a girl that looks like a friend Mercy, have mercy on she tonight 'cause she's standin' in the transit ...

Open up my trunk box, I think you'll find some things to wear that are not mine Multicolored garments looking for all the shelves to put themselves on Are you i...

Some things tear a little town apart and some things cut right at your heart: A dirty young man with his hand in the pre-school, a dirty young man with his hand...

This hotel will not be standing for too much longer the proprietress is a bitch, I do believe but what I got, she wants that makes her green green green maybe I...

Stepped up on my roof and I was feeling so much stronger They can't wait for me any longer 'Cause they are freezing cold and you know that they're not that old ...

Whiskey on a southbound bound for Angel Town Let those diesel engines pull me down Broke-down man at the station house crying from his head to his hands Lord, i...