How can I explain to you the picture of this avenue? The rain falls on the street outside my window on this Thursday afternoon I sit alone inside these sinful w...

We were born without time Nameless in the arms Of a mother, a father, and God When the world would wait for us A thousand years in the crush Of our eyes, fearle...

All of these grateful looks All these grateful eyes All the furious stares and the fretful sighs Promising everything To everyone We'll be back soon You're my ...

I can only say these things to you when you're sleeping I hear the hum from the wires and the sounds of the morning creep in I lie awake and pretend you can hea...

All these buckets of rain, I've heard enough about You say that I lied I am a gentleman didn't I ask for a place I could stay? What were we both thinking? The n...

And the funny thing is it has no end I try to call you up, at 2am In a crowded bar, your ringer tones Grab my mind I can see you through the phone, The phone, ...

Five, six, seven, eight! All the time, awake You're still on my mind But we were on our own Almost all the time And she'll step away For a second or two And I...

On the night that we met You said that you wanted Something more from me And it was all that I could do I remember your face, like a child The way that you bl...

And speaking of Little Miss Catherine I feel swell, oh well Because losing you Was something I always Did so well I guess I just can't tell anymore And the fee...

Bit by bit as plucky falls to sleep She sits there in the night of terror and watches her TV And it's so quiet here in tonight, she looks skinny in the light In...

I want to dissapear And, I'll just sleep all day These spots on my face Theseteethmarks on my wrist And the air so cold I shudder and I can't sing The carpet o...

Well I never knew my mother But I can't say that that's so bad She was still a girl of seventeen The night she met my dad He was just six months out of chino Tr...

Missy got off the bus one day In a crowded depot, downtown LA She looked around as if to say, 'I'm home' But I'm home I find someone to love And some place to ...

I held my head in my hands, and I trembled The cries from the crowd and the girl in the camera I said, in a prayer, a kind of surrender I wished her peace, wond...

All dressed up, no place to run No car, no girl, no pills, no fun Nothing to do in this empty room I gotta get my head together soon Alone again, no plans, no ...

What's passed these hands? All these drugs and one night stands So I tremble when I think of she'd do She'd say something like: "You're no good, You're like the...

And it starts Sometime around midnight Or at least that's when You lose yourself For a minute or two As you stand Under the barlights And the band plays some s...

It's so quiet on this wind swept day The city's lights are golden rays Of sunlight on a subway's tracks Are you mad again? If you like I'll take it back They're...

The other day when we were walking by the graveyard near the house, you asked me if I thought we would ever die. And if life and love both fade so predictably, ...

Well I made some mistakes At least privately it takes And here's another one And I said "it would be okay" "But that's a lie, man" I mean "Hey we're all dying Y...

We all sit on the cur And we stare at the rain in our boots The car, the clouds, the sky While Ishmael wraps himself in the sheet again He'll clench the fists a...

Standing at your doorway With my stomach all tangled n tight Have it your way Oh God, where are you tonight? Cuz I don't know what I'm doing here Or where to be...

Well It's another fine day of the nation built Well let's have a parade You can dance on the graves and the bones of the children If you know what to say And yo...

Standing on a bus stop Feeling your head pop Out in the night On the kind of night Where you want to be out On the street, on the street Crawling up the walls L...