Congratulations Looks like you've finally made it, boy You're a real major-leaguer now Mama must be so, so, so proud The word around Is that your nest was too c...

The days are spent Chatting amongst the workers Of how cold it is outside, Not to mention their greatest fears Like finding their children neglected and naked I...

I sat around for hours on end For an end so clearly predetermined I shall no longer play a part of your equation I missed your boat a thousand times, I swear Yo...

The furnace burns, the baby turns She cries when she's hungry The morning paper will knock the door To interrupt their slumbers Are you satisfied tonight, oh, ...

Please hang my raincoat I guess that I'll stay a while While I wait on the return It seems the distance you've made Has since lost its meaning Meanwhile, I've m...

I want the rich boy I want the rich boy But the rich boy, he doesn't want me I like the pretty girls I like the pretty girls But the pretty girls, they don't li...

After the movies In the parking lot We stared so long And you kissed me With ripe young breath So I kissed you One night as forever In the movies Well, they ne...

who's your school friend? he left you some messages he'd love to see you again thinks your ideas are brilliant and since you've been going out for coffee with h...

Here's a new recruit With new confusion His racing thoughts should be (unmade) If he needs more time, give him more time We are (not in a prison) Here's your m...

Jeannie's been throwing up all morning Poor girl's been so heartsick ever since her boyfriend went to war Father Cole's done his best to console the girl -- mor...

For 20 years I've held this pulpit Preached the word, served the Eucharists Gained the trust of the townsfolk Made every football game, never missed a social La...

Before we ever saw straight, we were grasping at straws A debate was born, picket lines were drawn There was this big bang once, now we're learning to use our t...

There's a ghost in my bed she cries in her sleep she says I won't let her leave I lie perfectly still as she stifles her tears I don't want to disturb her 'let...

New years ago We drank and danced and left our sour hearts behind We sweetened for a kiss -- The kiss of a new year to come But those days are gone We never got...

I've got to find a way to trick myself and think everything's OK Until then, I will fool you all The simple things, I'll never let you see Impossible to get awa...

Passed out in your yard My clothes were soaking in the morning rain My head's just a bruise, like walking in a coma Like a battered drone All my limbs are numb ...

Sweating with confidence They're soiling our egos And we're locked at the hip Don't cut the too short You've cut yourself off I thought we agreed No limb shoul...

That's cool I guess you're fitted for solitude This suit doesn't fit you Lonely fish - cry in this cage Does your owner ignore you? Well, now I'm thinking that...

Dorothy, I know you've had amazing dreams We can't go chasing down each golden street Each and every rainbow, each passion, each unattainable goal We're not in ...

Hold your breath, dear This ship is going down We're all downhill Running with our timebombs These shins are cracked and splintered These lips are crusted shut ...

So he would sulk and drink and mope and cross his arms and hope to die And then a fairy came one night to bring this sorry boy to life She pulled some strings, ...

The moon in it's red light, I know it's not right It's just pretend And you, as you sleep tight, I'll protect you from bed bug bites As trains, they fly by And...

Mimicry's the most ulcerous form of mockery, It rewards me handsomely. Don't kill the mockingbird- Two teaspoons of the old elixir! Magpie looks in the mirror...

Clad I'm wearning thin my invitation I'll wear it out But it's just eight light minutes I'm offering you We could burn up so close We could burn to our cores ...

why i should leave no why i'm leaving you for him well let's see here well, let's see where should i begin? everynight you get annihilated with all your friend...

lets pretend were not needy lets pretend our hearts still beat lets pretend we fall in love tonight clumsy enough to fall for anything well stumble on our words...

Your daddy and my daddy had a drink at the bar Talking about what was best for me Without a name or a degree, Stubbornly holding onto you And you pulling away f...

I'm at my best when I'm at my worst I'm at my worst when it's not rehearsed I don't wanna know the goddamn words I don't have to spell it out Don't wanna mumble...

Harold walks down any street of this town Both crier & witness the sun drops clouds shift His legs twitch The clocks chime on cafes, pharmacies, and dime store...

Night has draped it's cape of stars Over our small town From the campus and the tavern To the chapel and infirmary We've seen their dreams We've found the goods...

A right at the light It'Â's the long way home But weÂ''ve got a long time to kill Before our guts are gutted Of bad blood theyÂ''ve spilled I left on the light...

These waves wash over me It cannot be the undertow is me Call me, call me Mr Pain As I go insane, the barbed wire cuts my veins People say that sadness sells W...

Don't wanna live in the now Don't wanna know what I know Don't wanna live in the now Don't wanna know what I know x4 We're wearing out our heels on a road to h...

Waking, shaking, it's 4 am, I can't sleep You're on my mind again These games, you play, got my dice rolling in the wrong way Over before it all begins You've ...

The Sheperd: I can't say I've always been honest; You can't say I've done a disservice The girl, she's just a child She's got a lot to learn, and I'm helping ou...

She slips out of bed It's 6 in the morning She kisses my head Without even a warning She thinks I'm sleeping But I watch her slowly dress I rot from the inside...

Loose-lipped secrets I've seen those birdies chirping Another promise perched on their fragile branches Cradle and all We all hide a diary beneath some mattres...

your navel is yearning for an extension - a ghost limb it cant detach from mothers loving grasp your starving - its burning for the nutrient it cant have were a...

I took a stroll down a primrose lane on a clear blue day Everything seemed so perfectly placed Daises lined each manicured lawn Well groomed men walked well gro...

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do Bah-duh-buh-buh-buh-buh Does it matter now, what the songs about? Do-do-do-do-do-do Buh-duh-bu-buh-buh Does it matter now, what the song...

Northern winds came whistling through evergreens Like trains One temper broods until a temperature breaks And blooms -- smashing and tearing what we've worked t...

Once a liar, always a liar Once a cheater, always a cheater Once a day you'll remember her death Once you'll love but you'll love once too many Just this once ...

Opening the Hymnal: Welcome one and welcome all To our small town The lyrics are the exit and the roses are the same? Inside this town, you'll find the guilt Th...

Here I am, once again My feet sway over the deep end This edge I'm sitting on seems Lonely, too I guess it's true, just what they say, This town kills everyone...

Strung out on leaving One leg stretched for the curb The other one grounds itself against rebirth So the swallows will stay in the barn The finches left a long ...

Anchors down We've hit the bottom A vacant resolution We've always revolved to But the pivot's loose The axis is off centered Don't look down past your equator ...

Let's get one thing straight: we don't have any answers We are proposals in a cosmic nursery And these massive stars -- they're just little twinkles If I can't ...

I'll never go back there don't make me go back there Now that God is an athiest Finally, well i can sleep at night In a hotel room With holes in the curtains ...

Our mistakes are scrawled upon the chalkboard They're scribed across stained glass They're posted on the billboards A lackluster charade And are we so naive to ...

They took the shrine to the temple, But he wasn't there They checked the mosque and the chapel, No, not there Since you've been away on holiday, The natives ar...

This is like pulling teeth Said the man with the gap-toothed smile Upon decline So the silence seeped into An impatient line Of returns and exchanges And the si...

Dear preacher, thanks for making time for me today Hope you don't mind if i hide behind the curtain It's been fifteen years since my last confession By your goo...

watching cars does anyone stop for us? or will we be passed by? be passed up? the day passes away the moment cracks along the sidewalk and we're alone imagining...

Swimming at night We've dug this hole The water's fine I wonder how far down it goes Down it goes Down it goes The stars above have lost their shine And so, my...

[Originally by Soul Asylum] Grandfather watches the grandfather clock And the phone hasn't rang for so long And the time flies by, like a vulture in the sky Su...

I'll try to make this perfectly clear I'm so transparent I disapear these words I lyrically defecate upon songs I boldly claim to create clint steps in to estab...

Oh God, no - please don't tell her What I've done I can hardly look at her Everything I love, I hurt Oh God, yes - she is love She is sex But I used her for the...

Nah nah nah I've got a plan You think it's possible To lead this band Doing the same, the same routine Doing the same, the same routine again Can you make it ...

If you got the looks and if you got the goods I suppose you could make it anywhere you want to get made And you want to get laid My model agent says you gots t...

And now we proudly present Songs perverse and songs of lament A couple hymns of confession Songs that recognize our sick obsessions Sing along I'm on the ugly o...

I?ve decided tonight I?m staying alive just kicking & screaming Blood boiling & steaming There are things far too dark to comprehend Sleep on it one more night ...

So much smaller on my own So much weaker when alone Here's my submission to you I'm beggin', please, why don't you hurt me? I'm beggin', please, just walk all o...

Everything is alright and awful Get yourself another We'll stay up all night And toast to friends we never had Stranger angels have swung around this table But ...

now and again youll remember the sound of the sails waving helpless the cables wrapping one another into knots so strong youre lost at once if not tossed into t...

There's no use going to Des Moines I heard it's just like here I guess it's just like everywhere As for us, I guess we're not immune Look at our same plain face...

Wind blown A semi capsized in the storm Stranded The rains of June have cleansed it A baptism of sufferage Take two One man beneath a waning moon Still birth T...

You seemed like such a smart young man And your Fathers got a lot of friends We didn't bother to check your references We're a successful company With endless o...

When the bitter end arrives, Will we be at war or sadly, madly in love? Will we beg for one more night? Or will we have our bags packed Waiting at the door? Wh...

The night has fallen down the staircase And I, for one, have felt its bruises Equilbrium; inebriated Our social graces have been displaced As we sink deeper in...

It's not a song about old friends, Backstabbers, leeches, or cretins It's not about you, and it isn't true It's not a song about family, How the lack thereof c...

Less talk, more dancing If we could push off the sick conversation one more night I surely would My shoes have gathered the dust of the vineyard Have I soiled y...

"Bon Voyage" And promptly he hung up the phone There was a doorbell ringing So he snuck out onto the terrace He said "If these were my last words, would they ev...

A little bit closer, I know you're not bashful There, now that's not so bad, is it? So what was that secret? What did that prick whisper to you? Was it playful ...

this is the bed that i have made this is the grave where i will lay these are the hands where i will bury my face i dont believe in wasting time searching for t...

I saw something I was not supposed to see A ghostly memory that keeps on haunting me (The kitchen door was open a crack, So naively we peeked inside) Oh, dar...

And so it's begun This is year one The birth of a child in the form of a man Wrapped in towel Passed out on the floor These drunken hours -- graces deflowered C...

I need a catalyst, to rekindle the flame That once burned within these fists where defeat remains The night has fallen down the staircase I need a catalyst, t...

Dinner's getting cold -- You haven't touched a thing So what's it gonna be? I can hold out much longer than you When it's steady I'm just acting out my roles Wh...

Words have no feeling without loaded meanings Words take too long to come across Meanings are meant for defining defintions We load them for efect, it's cheap b...

Watching cars Will anyone stop for us? Or will we be passed by Be passed on The day passes away The moment cracks along the sidewalk And we're alone Imagining w...

since I wrote this am I the culprit these useless wisdoms I dispense at your expense picture postcards a three minute essay some scribbled words to four line ve...

You're like the sun and I'm the moon A mirror reflection of your magnitude A replicate cast across the room A remedy for your solitude Cause you are my sun and...

Surrender your furniture, Push the television out the window Overmedicated, this must be the sunks So if you can't understand the blues, you dont know much With...

Here we are again You know that it's this time The roller coaster ride You're always on my mind In your mind, you know that's not the truth You're sitting on m...

And now, we proudly present songs perverse and songs of lament A couple hymns of confession, and songs that recognize our sick obsessions Sing along i'm on the ...

Hey, Are you sleeping? We've got nothing better to do Than just lay here, together Let it pass It wasn't so hard to destroy Now it's not so easy to forget And i...

The coast is clear, The coast is everywhere I must have reached the end Of the year of searching For meanings in meaning The coast is clear Tides rush in Are w...

Staring up at stars From the back seat of a stationwagon Carving the night Trees keep marching by Light poles blur into a stream Blazing laser beams All These ...

When we were burning These stained walls would swell with passion Our sweat warped the wooden floorboards You'd kick out the nightlight And let the moon bleed t...

A safe position -- a back against the wall A simple shrug to shurg the questions off When there's no action, there's no reaction Curb the dead, avert the conseq...