Cops and junkies hurl their sophistries And hail cacophony Try not hard to shake this off of me Howl you fools, it's all for naught But on 16th street we wait ...

Oh when the summer sun come cutting Like a clean razor blade And I wake to the day and all the visions I've made Reached out my hand for the curl of her hair An...

Let this be our last goodbye No need to wonder why Never had the time to try But don't blame me Don't let me down so slow Damage done now you can go But a few ...

On the 22 Slowly crossing town You looked at me Yea you were lookin' You were lookin' down at me So low in subtlety Well I'm not the victim here That much I kn...

Well now Crow Jane don't make no sense to me Left me hangin' from the poplar tree No I've never ever felt so free Look here mama what you're doing to me Cause i...

Well, it's just the fault of circumstance The game of youth, the threat of chance And I can't seem to find another way To justify my loss of words But some day,...

Well it's finally time For this makeshift and rhyme And misery she hids inside words sublime And listenin' in colors And significant others just by And the voi...

I guess by the bloodstain on your lips And the wander of your fingertips I should proof true to my emptiness And stay here Well I'm just a kid of I'll repute B...

Well I don't want no woman She stay out all night long Lord no She stay out all night long Don't want no woman don't know right from wrong And I don't want no l...

You don't listen when he says, That you don't love him for his brain but for his head, So pretty and so safe and so misread, You don't need this kid, Could it b...

Well now Jesse was a gambler Night and day He used crooked cards and dice Son of a guy, good-hearted He but had no soul His heart was hard and cold like ice Jes...

Well once I knew a railway girl Her age was 17 I gave her all I had to give, But the baggage of my dreams Stole me from the games we played Scorned me for my ma...

Fly low ye carion crow Seize my body for the dead I owe Drop me high into the depths below For the things I've seen no one else should know It's just you and m...

Fly low ye carion crow Seize my body for the dead I owe Drop me high into the depths below For the things I've seen no one else should know It's just you and m...

Listen up because I bear the news And I do my best to counterfeit some blues Or better yet just rearrange some truths I'll tell you what you need to know I choo...

Oh sweet Jesus, I don't know what to do I got a long-legged woman but she's in love with you I'm her man, but she don't treat me right I bring her daisies ever...

Oh sweet Jesus I don't know what to do I got a long leg woman But she's in love with you Well I'm her man But she don't treat me right I bring her daisies ever...

I was daily growing Dressed in red from head to toe You were all the thought I was knowing And the sun gave shine, no care the season While I learned my one, t...

Well I spent last night in Las Cruces Jail Raining hail, born to fail Nobody come for to go my bail Sun, don't you rise no more Well I shot one man on the coun...

Step out to clutch the evening air Distraction from your disrepair And all of those who say they know And walk the balustrade 'til dawn You won't blink you won'...

Well, the summer day make a white man lazy Well, all I've ever known is poor Owe my skin to the country store Throw my walls, my roof, my door But he tells me ...

Well I went down in empty lane Searching for a song Came back an empty man My whiskers they hung long Lord they hung long And yes I am your native son Despite ...

Well I went down to the train depot When that train came rollin' by Thinkin' 'bout the woman that I love Goin' down that railroad track She's gone She's gone Sh...

My baby breaks by the sea Floats her arms around me They pretend to be free She don't mean nothing to me This broken opera just screams What don't get said in ...

Your visions been blessed if I'm still fully dressed, But before you leave me, here's one last request, Well no I don't care, no I don't mind, If you don't hear...

Takes a boy like me to make the moonlight dance Takes a boy like me to make the moonlight dance And a girl like you split me right in two I still take the chanc...

Well my kind's been around forever And I claim to be one of the few But the lost cause of words walks away with my nerves 'Cause I'm gay as a choir boy for you ...

Darlin I can't wait For you to leave this town You just got here too late And no one wants you 'round With one foot on my back And the other on the rail I don't...

Oh lady fair, your stranglin' hair ribbons 'round my tongue I try to speak but my thoughts grow weak from all the yarns you've spun I heard them say that evil m...

Baby, let your light shine on me When I'm lost on the road You know you could set me free You could ease my load Days get so dark that I can't hardly see I've b...

And I'm a go make my bed Tuck in the other side These confessions are mine But I'll not claim a word This restless parade Yes I watched it go by Through the cr...

You might have seen me 'neath the pool hall lights Well baby I go back each night If you got a throat I got a knife Steady rollin', I keep goin' Well I come fr...

So now let me tell you about this girl of mine Hard like all men's dreams in the days of '49 Hallowed, we must swallow Fast away she breaks But distance keeps h...

Oh, the razor in your apple, the affection of your glove The prison of your company, the snake oil of your love The heights to which you drag me, just to hurl y...

Well, I've been a disclaimer for twenty-four years Poor mother drowned in a pillow of tears I'm well known in story, famous in song The black sheep, the blemish...

Well I don't know if I can take this anymore, She's thinking as he shoves (her) against the wall, Screaming 'well then what good are you for, You don't give me ...

Why must it come to this You disown me with a kiss Another number on your list Guess that's me But old girl, what have I done Another fool blind by the sun Whi...

Gather 'round you wounded people; Shadows fall upon the steeple Soon shall come the closing of, The closing of the gates For there is word of plague among us Cu...

'Well I don't know if I can take this anymore' She's thinkin' as he shoves her 'gainst the wall Screamin' 'Well than what good are you for, You don't give me no...

My Daddy was a rounder Had to make himself some change Climbed down off the mountain Shaved his head and caught a train But I keep my skillet greasy Keep my lam...

Why must it come to this? You disown me with a kiss Another number on your list Yes that's me But oh girl what have I done? Another fool blind by the sun Oh whi...

My darling, my darling Are you as composed as the space you fill? You know there's little reason to demand What can't be given from the heads you fill And you...

It's all downhill from here So bottle up your fear Head's on a bit unsteady I think you'd better steer See, I'm north country bound Gone, but still reknowned Ma...

Pray betray the deceased, Such an infamous freedom, such a militant peace How dare they distrust, do they know who we are? And Your progeny's brave, Their tract...

Come bastards, come poor boys Come come to my side And I'll give you shelter For the water is wide God bless my disciples They're proud and they're tame I break...

Well the blues come down on me this mornin' Like a shower o'rain Makes me think of my sweet woman Can't recall her name Can't recall her name my lord, can't rec...

I can't forget the day, baby you walked away, I can't forget the day, mama you walked away, Can't forget the day that you walked away, When you come back next t...