from Home Again I saw you just the other day I watched you walk a little way You vanished 'round the corner When I got there you were gone You might of heard m...

from Unreleased There was a long haired guy who drew a crowd outside He got them all angry over national pride He was talking of the war that's on our shore An...

from The Very Best of David Wilcox If you want some real contentment, to live life at its best, You can buy these dry tobacco leaves, to breathe into your ches...

from East Ashville Hardware After you orgasm the world is a different place The world is a different place After your orgasm when we slide out of bed We stay s...

from Underneath Do you believe in signs that whisper inside your mind 'till you have to follow through, leading you home again to someplace you've never been? ...

Summer lasted a generation A generation and then the winter wind The bounty harvest that seemed so endless It seemed so endless 'til it gave what it could give ...

Just across the sea on this world so round the sun's shining hot right now And even though the winter still surrounds this town I can still feel that sun someho...

from Turning Point This is where the trail just disappears This is where their story ends No one knows where they went from here But I remember when they drank...

from Into The Mystery Thank God, life's uncertain Thank God we get so scared Can?t see behind God's curtain This world seems so unfair Imagine life the other w...

from Into The Mystery Something is wrong, but nothing you can put your finger on In so many ways it's going fine You couldn't complain, you say, and day to day...

I've got a bad reputation in this town It's something I can't live down I wish I could be what people want me to be But somehow I can't come around So you take ...

CANADIAN ARTIST DAVID WILCOX Hey I don't sell it I don't deal it I don't buy it Don't have to steal it Got your blood running through my veins I ain't crying f...

She was the secret daughter of Marilyn Monroe You could guess the father if you don't know Joan Crawford adopted and called her Baby Jane But we all knew her by...

Dear darling I love you always Some things never change Our love is one of them That's what you say In your letter Of only yesterday But there's another story ...

Jesus called me hypocrite When I said that I believe He said, how can you follow love Without a willingness to leave Leave the gates and the passwords known by...

from Big Horizon They taught us kids in school between the recess breaks That the universe just sorta fell together like a Big Mistake It started with a bang t...

from Big Horizon I had a long talk with the block dog All summer he runs with the kids He's happy as a block dog Every day the choice is his 'Cause they all fe...

DAVID WILCOX BRAIN FEVER Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Br...

From East Asheville Hardware By Chuck Brodsky Every morning, I commute Mild-mannered man In a business suit When I wanna come home at the end of my day There'...

from Into the Mystery Her car is how she left it No dust has gotten in The key turns on the dash lights, and the CD player spins You hear her favorite music, t...

from East Asheville Hardware She had some extra money She wanted to buy time Her friends said it was dangerous But they couldn't change her mind She did if for...

BOOGIE RIDE Come on what's up les rue and I just wanna talk to you Umm hm Hey hey I want you to send a little love my way Hmm mm I want to turn the world around...

Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Brain fever Here's think...

from Big Horizon I try so hard to please you To be the love that fills you up I try to pour on sweet affection, But I think you got a broken cup Because you ca...

Must be more to this than I'm seeing now Or is it my eyes can't tell why or how Not exactly clear something isn't right Fell down on my head Changing day to nig...

from How Did You Find Me Here? If I had a spell of magic I would make this enchantment for you A burgundy heart-shaped medallion With a window that you could l...

DAVID WILCOX CABIN FEVER Lazy hit the highway early today And didn't slow down for his clothes Wandering feet took him on his way Where to nobody knows He hit ...

Captain Wanker hits the gas he's driving like his head's on fire Captain Wanker swerves to pass shouting over squealing tires Captain Wanker always gets annoyed...

They'll use a saw to cut through your breastbone They'll take a jack and break your ribs apart Ah but there never was a weakness In the muscles working ceaseles...

Go easy on those eyes I'm about to lose my grip Go easy on that smile I'm afraid that I might slip Lay off on that calling and tempting me to try 'cuz I'm so sc...

DAVID WILCOX DO THE BEARCAT I went to the zoo Just the other week Saw the kangaroo Had a talk with the chimpanzee He said, "Hey brother, if you want a thing th...

From Home Again CHET BAKER'S UNSUNG SWAN SONG My old addiction Changed the wiring in my brain So that when it turns the switches Then I am not the same So like...

from Unreleased I wish I had a circle driveway 'Cause there's too much for me to leave behind If I only had a circle driveway I'd just ride around and wave goo...

from Into the Mystery From the top of the towers You could see past the narrows Past our lady of the harbor To the broad, open sea See the curve of the earth O...

from East Asheville Hardware You ever wonder why you get a cold Look at the word - spell it - C-old C-OLD You're pulled over by the reaper for a warning He say...

from The Nightshift Watchman The wind is right for sailing The tide is right to go So come away to sea with me There's things that you should know There's thin...

They open their eyes in the ocean below They can't see the water They don't even know why they fly Coming alive Caught on a hook, held in the air Starving for ...

from How Did You Find Me Here? The night before she's leaving there's suddenly a change She slowly sits beside me and she softly calls my name And gives me an ...

from Home Again Dear Mom and Dad Here's why I can't come home I can talk to either one of you just fine When it's either one, alone But the Thanksgiving table ...

Here they are broI'm trying to find the tab but I might have to figure it out: If there's a storm don't blame me It isn't my responsibility To rule the world t...

From The Nightshift Watchman Look what Daddy bought her for her birthday Well it's idling beside me at the light And Sweet Sixteen is fussing in her rearview m...

from East Asheville Hardware I'm dangerously romantic When the leaves are coming down When the air was clear this morning And the frost still on the ground Whe...

from What You Whispered by David Wilcox/Beth Nielsen Chapman In the tears you gave to me I found a river to an ocean A concrete sky and a stone cold sea That c...

from Home Again It's like you pass to me this bitter cup So I can take a sip And I know that it's likely gonna burn But never mind the taste of it I take what ...

from Unreleased What's with this distortion, distortion in the line Between the things I said and your heart and mind 'Cause I can hear the echo reflecting in ...

from The Nightshift Watchman Do I dare believe and let love lead my life Could I not believe and leave that love behind? Do I dare believe and let love lead my...

I went to the zoo Just the other week Saw the kangaroo Had a talk with the chimpanzee He said, "Hey brother, if you want a thing that's hip Do the bearcat" D...

There's an awful lotta people deep in trouble you know Ain't got a penny in'er pocket, fifty million they owe So it seem like there got to be an end it sight To...

from Underneath Under the castle in the land of snore, down in the dungeon where the weird are stored all the different and the outcast sneak back home after l...

from East Asheville Hardware DOWN INSIDE YOURSELF Somewhere deep in the midwest There's a middle aged man in a midsize car Driving down the middle of the road ...

I used to wear jeans I'm in italian slacks I had long shaggy hair It's cut short and slicked back I drank three dollar wine Now it's cocktails at two Because do...

We had time to dream Our huckleberry glide downstream That's the way it seemed Time was cheap as gasoline Old Route 66 Through the sticks Was our magic carpet ...

I try so hard to please you To be the love that fills you up Try to pour on sweet affection But I think you got a broken cup Because you can't believe I love y...

from East Asheville Hardware An angel appeared in a holy vision Stood by my bedside in shivering light Spoke my name Told me my mission I could not believe I w...

from Unreleased The joke's on the Christmas tree, New Year's is here The king of the living room's out on his ear You take back the gifts that you laid at his ...

from How Did You Find Me Here? Tank is full, switch is on Night is warm, cops are gone Rocket bike is all her own It's called a hurricane She told me once it's...

from Into The Mystery Everything I knew Falls away All the shining lights and music Will not stay Everything I do Falls away All the songs that I remember Will...

Look at all the people in their living rooms With their eyes all glued to the evening news Catch 'em at a moment when they're all afraid And then sell them well...

from Home Again Walking on the railroad rails Leaning into one another Balancing so we won't fail Into timeless friends and lovers We're still holding hands Pa...

from Big Horizon We were there in the woods by the water We left our packs up against that willow tree We dove right in, keeping just what we were born with Ou...

We were there in the woods by the water We left our packs up against that willow tree We dove right in, keeping just what we were born with Our Memories, Knowle...

from East Asheville Hardware Fearless love, fearless love Fearless love makes you cross the border At your church they asked for volunteers To make a presence ...

DAVID WILCOX BREAKFAST AT THE CIRCUS 1987 FIRE IN MY BONES Hey hey hey Mmm mmm mmm I've got a fire in my bones Makes me takes me where I'm going The fire won't...

The boardwalk is loud, let's hide from the crowd Inside this booth where we pull back the shroud Time can go fast, our summer has passed So let's make a picture...

The driver right in front of me is making a mistake He's stopping on the entrace ramp, waiting for his break The more he hits his break, the bigger break he's g...

Come on pretty baby take a trip with me I'm gonna put you on tv Make you feel like a woman should Mmm so sweet so good Ooh Freeze to me mama Freeze to my bone ...

from The Nightshift Watchman I used to know a love song It was something about a flower That blossomed out to early When a sunny day turned sour Only for an ho...

The secret of a happy marriage, Maybe you should write this down If you want to keep a love together, The best way is to end it now Because when you both know i...

It's sure to take its toll on me 'Cause my heart and mind will not agree But there's something in this mystery That calls me from beyond the blue Right now I o...

from Turning Point Well, I'd be dead by thirty-three That was my best guess But hey, here I am this morning singing "happy birthday to me" as I clean up all th...

The angels don't know where to find her She went out early yesterday Spreading havoc and destruction Breaking hearts along the way The saints are laughing burni...

from East Asheville Hardware Was golden day November a one long year ago I came to stay the holiday into your mountain home I came to share your friendship and...

from The Nightshift Watchman I used to walk down every road Holding out a golden key And I would search the heart of everyone I was hoping was right for me And...

from The Nightshift Watchman Winter was gray in my small town sky When Sarah came back with a smile Something's just brought here around this whole world Back ...

Let me apologize in advance For the way my friend behaves He'll pick a fight and take a holy stance He's so proud that he's so saved I hope you don't judge Jes...

from Unreleased Soft and sweet, strong and salty Cool cream and hot coffee When we come together there's a change I know you're good for me You change me like ...

The night I saw her dancing She moved in liquid music Like every song that moved us Was the music of her soul And waking up at sunrise With the sunlight throug...

from Underneath I'm tired of all the jagged edges that cut me every time you fall and the pieces of your life come down around you And I'm tired of the worried...

from What You Whispered There's a guitar here in the window I'd like to play before its sold Its such a classic, mint condition Great shape for one this old No...

I see the look that's in you eye That says I must keep most of me inside 'Cause you'd never love me If I didn't hide the secrets of my heart Well, I'm not here...

from The Nightshift Watchman I walk the High Hill tonight It stands behind the town It was golden in the autumn sky As the sun was going down I could not stay ...

from Live Songs And Stories It's the choice of a lifetime - I'm almost sure I will not live my life in between anymore If I can't be certain of all that's in s...

from Underneath Too tired to sleep, too angry to pray, too far down to get back up, too lost to find my way Who knows what happened, I'm too confused to say, a...

from Underneath She wanted to move She wanted to try something new She wanted to live in San Francisco in a place with a view She wanted the sound She wanted t...

DAVID WILCOX HOT, HOT PAPA Well my friends all wished me a fare-thee-well And papa shoot like a bat out of hell Hot hot papa Hot hot papa I got a ten dollar wr...

from How Did You Find Me Here? The night I fell in sorrow I knew I was alone A dozen good-time friendships But my heart is still unknown I thought I saw your f...

I get carried along after midnight In the sound of the train on the tracks Where the rails run alongside the river And the water can never come back And the he...

from Turning Point Time, this time finally the moment is mine The crowd is wowed I'm walkin' to the cannon so proud The cannon fills the spotlight so shot me t...

From Into The Mystery If it wasn?t for the night So cold this time of year The stars would never shine so bright So beautiful and clear I have walked this road...

from What You Whispered IN THE BROKEN PLACES Stronger than ever now In the broken places Stronger than ever now Looking at the X-Ray you cried in fear To see t...

from Into The Mystery Sacred secret forest Where the breeze smells sweet Grateful to awaken from a Deep sleep, dreaming of The river we have known And the Rive...

In this terrarium lives a librarian Spending her money at the grocery store And there at the grocery store, out from the register Comes a quarter that she's see...

from What You Whispered I got such a mess between my ears like dishes in the sink Stuff I don't believe just tumbles in until I don't have room to think These ...

Say goodnight Now the window's broken Turn out the light Pray they're safe from the war Swallow the fright Felt but never spoken This is the terror We learn to...

Must be more to this than I'm seeing now Or is it my eyes can't tell why or how Not exactly clear something isn't right Fell down on my head Changing day to nig...

From The Nightshift Watchman Just across athe sea on this world so round The sun's shining hot right now And even though the winter still surrounds this town I...

(Covered by David Wilcox) You're sweet as a honey bee But like a honey bee stings You've gone and left my heart in pain All you left is our favorite song The o...

From Unreleased You must know someone like him He's strong and tall and lean His body like a greyhound And his mind so sharp and keen But his heart just like a...

News is always bad on the radio But the music tells a story to my soul Let the winter wind take the day away outside As we look into each other by the fire I wa...

From How Did You Find Me Here? JAMIE'S SECRET Near river bend where the stream runs clear One winter morning of a day last year I heard a secret that I now can...