my grandfather's name was moon because his eyes were bright and round and no amount of time or liquor could dull them my grandmother's name was joy because it s...

she kills, with foreign films, the emptiness of day to day and i wait until the weekend comes so i can clear this uselessness from my brain i count the days unt...

Sitting around, no work today Try pacing to keep awake Laying around, no school today Just drink until the clock has circled all the way It's late afternoon, a...

Lately I've been wishing I had one desire something that would make me never want another something that would make it so that nothing matters all would be clea...

The language in the dimmer rooms Seems to represent the light source well How soft they speak and seem to be at peace With the movement of the music and the ma...

Here is a scale Weigh it out and you will find, easily, More than sufficient doubt That these colors, you see were picked in advance By some careful hand with a...

There is a middle-aged woman dragging her feet She carries baskets of clothes to a laundromat While the Mexican children kick rocks into the street and they lau...

The air was all dust, a night so untamed The ground opened up and swallowed all of the rain and it swallowed you too-- into distance unknown As they sat down fo...

it is not the past few days that have made me feel this way and it is not the tiny marks of doubt that cover everything i see it is just the way she looks at me...

You take your clothes off Right after school The TV's on The flame is blue And you hope it won't take All afternoon The TV's waiting To talk to you It's your na...

Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand like the songs just going to drop if its night you demand well in the dark we're just there once we're go...

Well I'm changing all my strings I'm gonna write another travelin' song About all the billion highways And the cities at the break of dawn I guess the best that...

I used to dream of time machines Now it's been said we're post-everything As a child imagining Neck ties and Coast lines I seen the show man, what a sight Drenc...

You can make a plan Carve it into stone Like a feather falling That is still unknown Until the clock speaks up Says it's time to go You can choose the high Or ...

So there is this woman and she was on an airplane, and she's flying to meet her fiancé, sailing high above the largest ocean on planet earth, and she was seated...

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed The little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head The stars in the sky look down where he lay The little Lord Jesus asleep on th...

We escape from the house As the day disappears from the sky Into night We became what we wanted to be, Like a dream, Or a ghost I collapse out of turn Near a ho...

no news that's good news, someone's gonna break see things change, i've been changing everything it's peaceful, the pitch black, when the last light on goes out...

so i'm just the medecine you take when your sick you get well and thats it i'm put back on the shelf in your mirror and it isn't exceptional the corse of our f...

The rain it started tappin' On the window near my bed There was a loophole in my dreamin' So I got out of it And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already op...

Hold on tight beginner's mind The wheel is spinning too Fast to make your move The worst must be assumed Oh how they will try to pull and pry Away what you know...

here sits the greatest liar, biting at his kneecaps, because he can't control himself they all want to feel that broken, they stand around him staring, at his ...

Well once I gave a look to you but you never gave it back So here I stand expressionless but my memory's intact I guess the past is good for a laugh A comedy so...

Claire's turning blonde for the summer i guess The sunlight just soaks into her hair And she sits next to me on the motorboat And shyly replies as to which boy ...

I'll have a blue christmas without you i'll be so blue, thinking about you decorations of red on a green christmastree won't mean a thing dear, if you're not he...

we must talk in every telephone, get eaten off the we we must rip out all the epilogues from the books that we have read and in the face of every criminal strap...

The rain, it started tapping on the window near my bed There was a loophole in my dreaming, so I got out of it And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already ...

Well if you turn the porchlight on and let the marble night withdraw You can smoke a cigarette on the wooden steps The mosquitos are not vampires The moon is no...

My serotonin's rationed, I'm coughing I kind of caught the blues But you won't catch me complaining To the super or the news Cause the carrot's gonna dangle 'Ti...

I listened to a lecture of nonsense til dawn By a plagiary poet with dark glasses on He said, "how did you ever dream up that song, the one where the baby dies?...

At the center of the world There is a statue of a girl She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry I went and looked her in the eyes And she turned m...

Corporate or Colonial The movement is unstoppable Like the body of a centerfold it spreads To the counter-culture copyright Get your revolution at a lower price...

She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts She said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars So if I ever got too hungry for a suitcase ...

Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow See the new pyramids down in old Manhattan From the roof ...

Shrill as a choir of children Urgent like the first day of May False and inflatable feeling Tugs at my senses, big as the Macy's Parade One brick on top of anot...

she invites me to a closet the night moves in her eyes and i know now what she wanted she'd been hinting it all this time and i dont mean to scare you but i've ...

contrast and compare between the busy ones and the ones that don't care until there is no one that you really know so i drift through these days of appointments...

A house of cards A supple heart Is not a place to dwell Now you have your cake Don't hesitate Come on just do it, Come on just do it Put it in your mouth Ther...

Is it true what I heard about the Son of God? Did he come to save? Did he come at all? And if I dried his feet, With my dirty hair, Would he make me clean again...

I heard you fell into a rabbit hole Covered yourself up in snow Baby, tell me where'd you go For days and days Did they make you stay up all night? Did they pai...

how many lights do you see? how many lights do you see? how many lights do you see? there's one to say that night has come and there's one that guards this jagg...

The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved Well I have been happy the past couple days Just think...

Did it all get real, I guess it's real enough They got refrigerators full of blood Another century spent pointing guns At anything that moves Sometimes I worry...

Emily, sing something sweet for me I want to feel the warmth inside your heart Emily, sing something sweet for me I need to feel those words out of your mouth E...

Don't waste the water, don't drink it now 'Cause this desert keeps growing, and we might never get out Besides, we're not even moving, we're just standing aroun...

The serotonin's rushing I'm coughing Well, I kinda caught the blues But you won't catch me complaining To the super or the moon Because the carrot's gonna dangl...

last saturday i stood in your entry way that place where we used to wait for cars to carry us away like once in this storm, they drove me and justin home the mu...

I wanted to come visit you waiting in the springtime When the leaves change I wanted to come visit You waiting in the springtime When the leaves change The grou...

tell me what you wanted to hear let me do the right thing let me do the wrong thing and if it's ever this clear i will only say it once *just let me turn the am...

all eyes on the calendar another year i claim of total indifference to here the days pile up with decisions to be made i'm sure all of them were wrong into this...

All eyes on the calendar another year I claim of total indifference To hear the days pile up With decisions to be made I'm sure all of them were wrong Into this...

How do you do the things you do to me? Well Ian says he's feeling it and so are all the boys he's with My head is clear, i'm not convinced but still say- how do...

I do my best to sleep through the caterwaul Ther classicists, the posturing avant-garde I bought a grey macaw named him Jules Vern He'll probably outlive me he'...

This is the first day of my life I swear I was born right in the door way I went out in the rain Suddenly everything changed their spread Blankets on the beach ...

Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe There's people always dying trying to keep them alive There's bodies decomposing in containe...

There is a man holding a megaphone, so he must have been the voice of God The bystanders claimed they saw angels flying up and down the block Well, they must ha...

Guess there's a lesson to learn As if i hadn't learned it before I tried my hardest to keeop it all in I aint keepin it no more Made mistakes every day And I l...

I wish there was something I could do for you I wish there were some words I could say But I know that you thought it out so well And I know there is nothing I ...

God rest ye merry gentlemen Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our savior Was born on Christmas day To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astr...

There's a voice on the phone telling what had happened some kind of confusion more like a disaster and it wondered how you were left unaffected but you had no k...

It was Don Delillo, whiskey, And a blinking midnight clock Speakers on a TV stand Just a turntable to watch Only smoke came out our mouths On all those hooded s...

Pilgrim across the water We are the same brother Hitchhiking back to Zion Holding our tears as we flip the album What if this leads to ruin? You got a soul, use...

The phone slips from a loose grip Words were missed then, some apology I didn't want to tell you this No, it's just some guy she's been hanging out with I don't...

There's lots of thing I could have done Little tokens of my love that I was always saving up to spend It's the thought that counts I guess, even one that don't ...

All eyes on the calendar Another year I claim of total indifference To here, the days pile up With decisions to be made, I'm sure all of them were wrong Into th...

Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light From now on, our troubles will be out of sight So have yourself a merry little Christmas night He...

with death may come invisible or in the holy wall of fire in the breath between the marker on some black eye eighty mile from the madness of the governments to ...

I'm staring out into that vaccum again From the back porch of my mind The only thing thats alive I'm all there is And I start attacking my vodka, stab the ice ...

The Wife forgave the Mistress for she only entertained The pain was gone the instant she cleared her throat to speak her name Said, "Both of us must suffer from...

The indecencies of city streets The cleaners' sweeping trucks from nine to noon And the factories make clouds To keep the sun from being jealous like the moon W...

Some plans were made and rice was thrown A house was built, a baby born How time can move both fast and slow Amazes me And so I raise my glass to symmetry To th...

Leave the bright blue door on the white-washed floor Leave the death ledgerr under city hall Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today Leave the lilac pri...

Meaning is sometimes hard to spot It begins with the flickering of cigarettes In the darkness of a dorm room Ssomewhere in the suffocated mid-west But if this i...

I had a girl I knew, She grew, became a woman now I think that she teaches at one of the schools downtown We used to roll the windows down and play the music lo...

Well I wish I had a parachute Cos I'm falling back for you I can see the ground approaching now But I'm not sure what to do Guess I feel like a piata Won't you ...

I woke up with this song in my head this morning I woke up with this song in my head this morning I was dreaming about your record collection and all of our scr...

Well morning came And it dressed the sky In a lovely yellow gown Now the shops they are All opening In that narrow hallway of downtown Filled with people who Ar...

You said they laid out lots of coke But you don't know how much you did Now you don't want me to go home Because you are afraid you might get sick Just like the...

Came to me yesterday and you were feeling small And you come to me today 'cause noone seems to like your style at all And you'll be back tomorrow when you've ha...

The sun came up with no conclusions Flowers sleeping in their beds The city's cemetery's humming I'm wide awake, it's morning And I have my drugs, I have my wom...

So i'm just a medicine You take when you're sick You get well and that's it I'm put back On the shelf in your mirror And it isn't exeptional The course of our f...

When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse All your friends and sedatives mea...

i dreamt of a fever, one that would cure me of this cold, winter set heart with heat to melt these frozen tears and burned with reasons as to carry on into thes...

yeah you still kiss me, but its just on the cheek yeah you still kiss me, but its just on the cheek yeah you still kiss me sometimes, but its just on the cheek ...

So, Im just the medicine You take when youre sick You get well and thats it Im put back on the shelf in your mirror And it isnt exceptional The course of our fa...

Every new day is a gift; it's a song of redemption Any expression of love is a way to return To that place that I think of so often but now never mention The on...

My brother finds comfort in calculators He assigns every number a name He believes that they add up to certainty And he's upset with the fractions that remain S...

A crucial filament is all but spent; Soon it will be dark in my basement My heart is waxing the slick floor again, Hoping I will slip and fall in love Well she ...

i spent a week drinking the sunlight of winnetka, california where they understand the weight of human hearts you see sorrow gets too heavy and joy it tends to ...

Love is real It is not just in novels or the movies It is fact And it is standing here right in front of you So if you open your eyes Oh what a sweet discovery ...

Girl behind the screen, the movie I seem to see is hardly there The glass contacts in my eyes make it hard to focus When you step out on the floor, your dress i...

Well is it true what I heard about the son of god Did he come to save did he come at all And if I dried his feet with my dirty hair Would he make me clean again...

Love, four words explode above a mnemonic device To remember how it feels when I am with you The glass can't hide My wounds will find the salt around the rim An...

No one knows where the ladder goes You're gonna lose what you love the most You're not alone in anything You're not unique in dying I feel estranged every now ...

If you walk away I walk away first tell me which road you will take I don't want to risk our paths crossing somday so you walk that way I'll walk this way and ...

Laura, are you still living there on your estate of sorrow? You used to leave it occasionally Now, you don't even bother to ride that commuter train west to Chi...

John A Hobson was a good man He used to loan me books and mic stands He even got me a subscription To the Socialist Review Listening to records in his basement ...

close your eyes the dark outside can't hurt you and i will never desert your bedside so close them tight the stars are so glad that they've found you and on the...

I keep floating down the river but the ocean never comes Since the operation I heard you're breathing just for one Now everything is imaginary, especially what ...

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