• Ahead of the Storm
    Gotta trust my name No fork in my tongue Gotta trust my name Never saw it blow Never saw it blow The clouds rained money Never saw it blow The clouds rained mo...
  • All for This
    I come from nowhere I was nowhere bound never once believed this was my restin' ground but somewhere between here and that rest I heard ya callin' my name All f...
  • Almost Wisdom
    Got an earthquake shack near Elbe Got a garden of dyin' cars Covered up deep in the mud of the powerline road And at night I can hear the lockjaw, And the swag...
  • Big Black Car
    ( written by Alex Chilton ) Driving in my big black car Nothing can go wrong I'm going and I don't know how far So, so long Maybe I'll sleep in a Holiday Inn ...
  • Blown Away
    Out past the trees there is nothing to burn Just an empty gas station, left to me in a will Just a plate of bad habits and plenty of salt for the wounds Just a ...
  • Blue Head Flame
    tongue tied, said my prayers 20 years or more seems like yesterday hung your secrets from the judas tree watched 'em blow down to the valley floor blowin' home,...
  • Bones Of Contention
    Well the fires are tended And my blood it just boils (Hey there pass your hat) And the fruits of hard labor Have been drowned in snake oil (Hey there pass your ...
  • Bordertown
    I can sleep it off, Sleep it back to sleep, I can be most anything I want A long way from the shade, The north side of the moon Down here only rich men lose the...
  • Break It Down Gently
    It soon appears Long rented shores Too big to name And second to none Save horses' hair In pockets deep Remember skies Second to none Black rain Black rain wi...
  • Breakneck Speed
    The season has come When nothing gets done Save copycat killin' Away from windows asleep on the floor The wheel of misfortune spins in the yard And by the way...
  • Buffalo Ballet
    When Abilene was young and gay And thunder storms filled up the days The cattle roam outside the town Sleeping in the midday sun X4 Then tracks were laid acro...
  • Celio Song
    Strange face, with your eyes So pale and sincere Underneath you know well You have nothing to fear For the dreams that come to you when so young Told of a life ...
  • Cello Song
    ( written by Nick Drake ) Strange face, with your eyes So pale and sincere Underneath you know well You have nothing to fear For the dreams that come to you wh...
  • Christmas Valley
    It's breathin' time In Christmas Valley herons fly by night and crash into the pines and when we're gone from Christmas Valley no one will remember you leave no...
  • Cold Eye
    painted so many towns painted them up and down down to the broken ground pointed the last one, for now soon I will stow away into the cool nightshade watching f...
  • Comfort of a Stranger
    A stranger came To this forsaken place To shake me from my whiskey guilt To cure my tremblin' ways Now there is not a door That I will not kick down No lock I ...
  • Crime Story
    thunder laughs and thunderclaps the afternoons round here, well they're just like that I know ya' don't spook easy I know ya' won't up and quit let's keep it l...
  • Dead Man Rise
    Wake up dead man, there's a noise You must attend It will not quit Wake up dead man, there's a noise Your sleep is done Your secret's out Dead man rise You're...
  • Dear Darling
    Why would you run ? I beg stars above A thing of such beauty Must be called love Why would you go And give me to cry? A thing of such beauty Might never die Yo...
  • Death at Low Water
    I could hear you callin' Through the whisperin' woods I could hear you call my name from the back porch door Said Prosper come here quick It's worse than we ex...
  • Desert Skies
    blacklight fades headlights switched off the engine burns as we're rollin' to a stop let's get out here lie down in the middle of road ain't no cars comin' on...
  • Drag This River
    Quick, burn it down to the wick Burn it down to the heart So the ending can start Here, behind the riverhaus door With an unloaded gun And an unsettled score ...
  • Drown
    somethin' of a shambles another wicked tangle still I believe that love is drawn from the emptiest of wells a shadow of a mystery the way you can't forget me s...
  • End In Tow
    Storm it shook ya down From the burial ground There was mud on your face Barely lost and barely found And the shrunken heads around your neck Just replicas of ...
  • End-In-Tow
    Storm it shook ya down From the burial ground There was mud on your face Barely lost and barely found And the shrunken heads around your neck Just replicas of ...
  • Fairground Blues
    I can still remember the coat I wore that day yellow as a plastic moon with a weave as thick as chains walkin' past the sideshow tents drunker than we knew coul...
  • Feast Or Famine
    In a trailer park with hungry dogs Eat stolen bread With stolen credit cards With half a brain I'd torch this mess Have all these things So I don't ask for mo...
  • Feel Like Going Home
    Lord, I feel like going home I've tried and I fell and I'm tired and weary Everything I've done is wrong And I feel like going home Lord, I tried to see you th...
  • Feeling No Pain
    Will you crash the engine of our ruin? Who'll spill the flat cars of our shame? I'm beat up tired from always doin', What I shoulda done in the first place Yo...
  • Findlay's Motel
    Findlay was on his last legs But he made the rules Said suffer fools gladly But never end up as the sufferin' fool He shook me down Though it was my first week...
  • Findlays Motel
    Findlay was on his last legs But he made the rules Said suffer fools gladly But never end up as the sufferin' fool He shook me down Though it was my first week...
  • Firetrap
    Come back in the winter, Won't steal away too long And when I'm back I'll set it all ablaze Got Jesus in my pocket And matches in my coat I won't have to work a...
  • Follow Me an Angel
    The city's shiverin' Shivers in the heat That we call summertime And I'm deliverin' The one piece of the puzzle That you could not find Follow me an angel Follo...
  • Forever Gone
    Streaks of light On the graveyard walk Your bright star was crashin' Crashin' the dark Dreamed of a cold night To freeze it in place Dreamed of ship bells and t...
  • Forgiveness Song
    Bang out the night song on an old kettle drum don't ask for no ransom ain't payin you none ground to a halt with suspicion for all you say "watch me fly" I supp...
  • Free Money
    Every night before I go to sleep I find a ticket and I win a lottery I scoup them pearls up from the sea I cash them in and buy you all the things you need Eve...
  • Glad Nation's Death Song
    These are the ghosts that I half believed Guns & liquor & the carnival freak But then one day the whole world shook And I got arrested for stealin' a look And ...
  • Glass Palace
    A crooked road on a country mile The widow walks from a letter found (And) ties her hands in knots and chokes her disbelief (That) what's done is done and it's ...
  • Gold
    see my silly watch every second lost, hmm lost in a strange arcade got drunk on girls night out If they're the good years, I don't know what you call the hard ...
  • Good Luck Morning
    Maybe you should disappear, And now I've warned you so Bury your clothes out in the woods, And hide your letters 'neath the stove There's a big house down in W...
  • Goodbye
    Wisecracks and hijacks And contracts to sell Old wine in new bottles Times are the same Diggin' the ditch quick And quick to escape The patent is pending On flo...
  • Goodbye To All That
    Wisecracks and hijacks And contracts to sell Old wine in new bottles Times are the same Diggin' the ditch quick And quick to escape The patent is pending On flo...
  • Grand Theft Auto
    In this town The blood will make you rich Yeah, in this town The blood will make you rich In this town I will do you one better I'll change the truth When I ch...
  • Hangman
    Hangman take these heads from me And swing 'em from your money tree Hear me laughing in my steps These heads are yours, they're yours to keep Please don't skip...
  • Harbour Lights
    Harbour lights will change your plans More than judge or jury can What a sight Flickerin' like prayers of grace How could you ever lose this place? What a sight...
  • Heartless
    This is where it starts This is where it stops And when it finally stops I hope, starts right up Walk the glitter mile Past hotels of sand People say'n lots of ...
  • Hell's Soup Kitchen
    Rolled in the mud But I could never come clean Counting blessings on my middle finger There in the back she'd Pricing heads to the pound Told to shut up, I was ...
  • Hells Soup Kitchen
    Rolled in the mud But I could never come clean Counting blessings on my middle finger There in the back shed Pricing heads to the pound Told to shut up, I was o...
  • Hightimes
    hightimes, undermine tell me somethin' I don't know hightimes, can chase em 'til your blind tell me somethin' I don't know now you're lyin' next to me the one...
  • Hole In The Mountain
    Carved your name on the numbering hill, Now it looks on the town with the promise to kill everything We lit this valley with atomic power, But the lights went d...
  • Home As Found
    Well it should have been the first place But instead it was the last It was a place that only you could love All the gin was spiked with water From a fever or ...
  • Immaculate
    Said this was our town The joke it was on us We were just passin thru' On the way to givin' up Joked this was our town That someday we'd be thrilled By anything...
  • Inauguration day
    I'm up to my neck In the mud of Inauguration day They say it's one in fifty years That storm, that blew my dog away And they say the road has been washed out ...
  • Jack Candy
    Jack Candy was as old as my father But still I took a likin' to him He said: "You will be somebody's treasure, But no one has discovered you yet" Jack Candy li...
  • John Reilly
    Fair young maiden All in the garden Strange young man Passed her by Said: "Fair maid Will you marry me?" This, then, sir, Was her reply "Oh no, kind sir I cano...
  • Jumping Off
    Dressed in jealous clothes She drove to the black hole Out past to where the roads turn into sand No crmies worth a dime 'Less you look it in the eye And she dr...
  • Last Ditch
    This is the last ditch ever I dug Once there were motives but they have been lost Dig through the sand still you end at the rock This is the ditch that I dug T...
  • Last Tears
    These are your last tears for the century don't cry them for me these are your last tears, before the party starts don't throw them away use em' wisely, use e...
  • Laughingstock
    Why we can't fake it you won't ever say Both arms hangin' from the ball and chain Tongue tied and twisted from braidin' the rope Both arms hangin' from this fad...
  • Let's Burn Down The Cornfield
    Let's burn down the cornfield Let's burn down the cornfield We can listen to it burn We'll hide behind the oak tree Hide behind the oak tree Stay out of danger...
  • Lets Burn Down The Cornfield
    Let's burn down the cornfield Let's burn down the cornfield We can listen to it burn We'll hide behind the oak tree Hide behind the oak tree Stay out of danger...
  • Life Full Of Holes
    A life full of holes, a life full of wind The devil's dust it blows through me again Don't look for me, I ain't easy to find The Barbary trail is where I've gon...
  • Lift Your Burdens Up
    Been a lot of rain out there Rainin' blind Summer's comin' slow this year It's rainin' blind If ya come back tonight I'll let it fall away If ya come back ton...
  • Like A Hurricane
    Once I thought I saw you in a crowded, hazy bar, dancing on the light from star to star Far across the moon beams, I know that's who you are I saw your brown ey...
  • Long Black Veil
    Beyond the reach There are rows of tender hooks Where nothing seems To justify a second look And not a soul is found To tear them hooks on down Famous times Ta...
  • Long Time Here
    If you want good times I know where to look And if you want good times I will They're thrown on your bed With your junkyard religion At the best of the western...
  • Loom of the Land
    It was the dirty end of winter Along the loom of the land When I walked with sweet Henry Hand upon hand And the wind it bit bitter For a girl of no means With n...
  • Lover's Crime
    Way up north, my love lies sleepin' Her lonely grave, beneath the pines How sadly I recall her memory She was my own true love devine One night I found her wit...
  • Lovers Crime
    It was the dirty end of winter Along the loom of the land When I walked with sweet Henry Hand upon hand And the wind it bit bitter For a girl of no means With n...
  • Medicine Hat
    Steal it from the yard Medicine hat she wore Mother's protection Protection from the open sun What is gone was never here And what is here is second-hand Trust...
  • Mr Clancy
    If you're ready and the creek don't rise If you're ready with the furnace full Trees were shakin' and the break was good Finally lost him in the neck of the woo...
  • Murdering Stone
    Man came down from the field A lonely horseman Headin' back to the stable Said he was sorry But his cain was not able To save us all from ourselves Man sees th...
  • Never Gonna Fall
    Don't matter if I told you this before But I'll never fall again Never gonna fall again Don't plan to give up, everything to change But I'll never fall again N...
  • Nightbirds
    The nightbirds stumble in Like broken pendulums The nightbirds stumble in Flown from thick to thin 'Neath a cloud of suspicion You're a lucky man Say it again T...
  • Nightdrive
    Check the main road one more time Check the main road but I'm sure that you will find It is late and closin' down There are lights out there but they do not see...
  • Nights Between Stations
    Caught when our center was broken Caught when our troubles were true On a three state run, from the merciless sun We ripped up the letters from home Caught on ...
  • No One The Wiser
    our healin' mark was reached above this floodlit street beneath a sliver moon undone leaning with intent to fall your gaze a perfect blade my hand, a shadow dr...
  • Nothing Is A Stranger
    Spent another season in the valley of the bones Spent another season in the valley of the bones But higher grounds was callin, callin me back home But higher gr...
  • Old Crow
    Now all of us knew Old Crow as the patron drinker's curse He paced along the barstools, beggin' quarters for his thirst Nobody knew where he came from, And nobo...
  • On The Beach
    The world is turning, I hope it don't turn away The world is turning, I hope it don't turn away All my pictures are falling From the wall where I placed them ye...
  • On the Day
    behind the bric and brac there will be no lookin' back and between hell and hello there will be no lettin' go no there won't and you can't be serious no you c...
  • Pass Me On Over
    Lead you over to the water, Said "Hold it down until it does not breathe" Tried drowning it on dry land for too long, But it was not supposed to be This reckles...
  • Polly
    If the wild-bird could speak He'd tell of places you have been He's been in my dreams And he knows all the ways of the winds Polly, come home again Spread your...
  • Poor Side of Town
    How can you tell me how much you miss me When the last time I saw you, you wouldn't even kiss me The rich guy you're seein' must have put you down So welcome ba...
  • Prayer for You
    When you burn your kingdom Through the ashes I will come I know it makes no difference But I can't leave ya to your fun Usin' up your torch song gifts Why do yo...
  • Promised
    Promise me my soul to keep And promise me you'll never sleep And promise me that when it's over, We will drink the whole world sober Promise me that lines get ...
  • Rebecca Wild
    Gathered by the riverside the current pulls 100 years each way savin' souls and singin' songs They beg and smile, but murder just the same watch me slip into th...
  • River Blood
    Highwater is everywhere, highwater is telling me to go There's poison in the course it runs, there's ashes from the factory on the hill Watch it all fall down ...
  • Sand & Gravel
    The sky is always heavy here, And the mules they roam in packs And the skulls we dragged from waterholes, By the woodshed in a stack And fear don't ever come o...
  • Satisfied Mind
    How many times have you heard someone say "If I had his money, I could do things my way?" Little they know that it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a ...
  • Shelter for an Evening
    Howling like a banshee in the middle of the night Don't you know it's me at your back door I'm wounded and scared with no place to go Won't you give me home for...
  • Sleep Will Pass Us By
    I keep thinkin' that she's goin' down My second sight a fixed on her demise A slow and silent stretch, broods like the riverbed Swirlin' round the big and muddy...
  • Slow Red Dawn
    We need a better idea, here quick Before the sun's beatin' down on our necks We need a better idea Watch us speed, to the end of the world Promise all, that we'...
  • Smokestack
    Swept the floor of dreams Live ones in the cracks Crawling from the woodwork Just to break your mother's back Hail the future king No surprises left Formula is...
  • Snake Mountain Blues
    Mr ten dollar man Let me tell you where you're bound When you drink your green liquor Lord, you'll roll to the ground But you come around here With your money ...
  • Specimen Days
    Oh one night of mercy Give me one night of merciful Shocks to the skull Watching these specimens grow Small miracles stuffed In old powder kegs Can't mix boot ...
  • Stir The Ashes
    All dressed up for the day of the dead I have been waiting It's coming soon enough The doors are open and the prowlers have all fled So tired of waiting So tir...
  • Storm Crazy
    This ain't the time to be reasonable Can't put much stock in that now Yhe storm front it hangs, a silence gone strange Can't put much stock in that now Storm go...
  • Straight To The Stars
    don't wait any longer not a second more don't wait for the century to click ya' never can be sure put my hand just where you want it been movin' much too slow ...
  • Sundowner
    Deaf as a fence post Alone on a winter's night I'm drunk as a racehorse But I'll never fade outta sight There's a wild below me A wild up there in the stars Th...