I was playing every Monday on Burgundy in some shitty little bar I was working on a novel called New Orleans Ain't No City - It's a Scar The heroine does heroin...

Heaven i need drug Her eyes are all but fixed upon her coffee cup And looking down she tells you things are looking up Take another slug Heaven I had a dream B...

I watch, as it stops for a girl, A moment, elaborate and weak I am easy in her midst, Why elaborate, when there's no need to? But I do, all night, My words rin...

When you were just a little girl in Pine Bluff, Daddy disappeared without a trace Now there's no more little girls in Pine Bluff, They all ran like tears out of...

The Empty Bottle was half empty, tide was low, and I was thirsty Saw her sitting at the bar, you know how some girls are, Always making eyes, well she wasn't ma...

I've been lightin' matches in the boiler room, Wearing sulphur perfume (Don't I smell nice?) You come sniffin' around just like you own the joint, You know it'...

Big brown eyes, and a gust of wind, And the cherry burns the corner of the page that says "The end Is coming soon," but not soon enough Restring all your guitar...

I left you last night on the left coast I'm writin' you a letter right now The things that you do are rendering you Something I can't live without Maybe maybe ...

These storms they gather forces unbeknownst to fools like me They hide on the horizon too far gone to see I could have swore the heart you wore upon your sleeve...

She drove a blue car around Bloomington She was a thin girl but she had substance She said that most girls who come to Bloomington Only come here to find husban...

Rowboat lightning I kissed her yeah it didn't mean a thing Seems like years ago it was yesterday Fire drill yell freeze don't hang around long face disease I go...

The hat on your head the ghosts before breakfast The lump in your throat the name on her necklace She's certain she'll never be caught You can buy her things no...

In a hotel room just off Times Square it's like a closet I can watch the dancing class go round In a hotel room that costs as much as my apartment I can watch t...

Do you wanna mess around? Do you wanna spend the night? I've known both kinds of love But I want to get it right this time I don't wanna settle down I don't wa...

There was a fine rain There was a red wine There was a long whistle and it was a good sign There was a band playin' Somewhere off-screen There was a girl sayin...

can't get a line to telephone you why you holing your company? I been moaning Oh! Lonesome Me you made a pigeon of my heart and I'd go anywhere to know you take...

I turned my microwave on and I cooked my chicken ravioli The last ten years of my life I've been feeling kind of lonely I don't do love I don't do women named H...

Well, I turned my microwave on and I cooked my chicken ravioli The last ten years of my life I've been feeling kind of lonely I don't do love, I don't do women ...

You're gonna crash on the barrelhead son You'll regret the things that you done One of these days you're gonna rue All the messed up things you do You're gonna...

Cryin', cryin' Cryin' drunk Walker lives on the island I'm still stuck in the south Walker lives off his hands now I still live off my mouth The only differen...

In a western town, beneath the northern lights, where the pine trees pine for the fall of night, you believe in cards, you believe in signs and I'll be leavin' ...

Underneath the foreign stars In a foreign place where they don't love you, I do care In the pale moonlight your eyes are wide And the band plays, everybody want...

Standing on the corner of 6th and How To Forget Trying to do right by you all night Annette You can go ahead and get married and this will be our secret thing I...

alternate chording Last night I dreamt of you, Abbie Hoffman peddling your books, I gave five bucks to you, the other kids just gave you dirty looks I said "I'm...

(Hitchhike to Rhome lyrics Minor variations found on Wreck Your Life) When I first met Doreen She was barely seventeen She was drinking whiskey sours in the ba...

I might have wound up in LA panning for gold Found me a woman to warm up with when the water got cold But I heard that there ain't no gold there There's just li...

I've been reading books when no one's lookin' I've been listenin' to the sirens in the night Robert says I'm goin' straight to hell, yeah If I hang around here ...

I've got eyes for you And I keep them in a jar up in my room When you walk in they open wide Lids are gone, no place to hide I've got eyes for you I've got eyes...

You looked like my mother did when she was nineteen not afraid to die I started planning our future but you were just nineteen still a firefly You got terrible...

I got a four leaf clover It ain't done one single lick of good I'm still a drunk and I'm still a loser I'm living in a lousy neighborhood I got a real live hor...

I was a debater Was not a stoner nor an inline skater Was not a player nor a player hater I was just a bookworm on a respirator Who's to say that's wrong I was...

Getting' out of the house I'm gonna go for a ride 'Cause I got me a five-o Ford And the good Lord knows I tried To make friends with you And everything went wr...

Hands off I had a dream they took my hands off Although you probably think that I'm soft boiled, I'm still in love with you Girlfriend, don't sit 'round waitin...

Now me, I work at Harold's Super Service We specialize in service all the way And there's only one thing that really bugs me Is that big ol' guy in his stripped...

You work for 37 years Drivin' trucks, not shiftin' gears He never got it in his head To settle down, he'd never wed He liked the river how it flowed Unlike the...

Do you wanna wind up in a graveyard? Like a number on a scorecard They're gonna wrap you up in corn silk They're gonna cry like you were spilled milk You'd bet...

I remember the Alamo, I don't recall who won They had swords, they had horses, I hear we had mighty guns Like the ones from Navarone last night on Channel 21 It...

Time knows your done Time as you fall I'm in the middle Letter's you've signed In your cursive, cursive style Going down tonight It's different for Boys and Gi...

Well the room was Mediterranean and the meaning was two- fold We got busted by your mother though you're 29 years old And the pictures wrapped in cellophane lik...

What remains of the day remains to be seen By the TV that we never turn on Each other's enough I never had it so rough Ever since I been gone White noise swell...

Just like California was not even there Since it's gone I'm so withdrawn I ain't got no one nowhere Right beside the ocean my darlin' Clementine Well the water...

I was in a real bad way When you turned the power on And you made me feel for all the world Like I was the king of all the world I was on a window ledge When y...

I was in a real bad way When you turned the power on And you made me feel for all the world Like I was the king of all the world I was on a window ledge When y...

I was in a real bad way When you turned the power on And made me feel for all the world Like I was the king of all of the world I was on a window ledge When yo...

There was a half a harvest moon up on the hillside Our love is made almost entirely of downside Who would have thought it could feel so much better then? Now th...

I don't want no aggravation When my train has left the station If you're there or not I may not even know Have a round and remember Things we did that weren't s...

It was a lonely holiday I was alone -- you were away In Fayetteville or in another state There's so many towns I hate When you leave me, it breaks me like a bo...

Making love with you is like swimming in glue And I don't think I can do it anymore Well It started 6 months back, when you faked that heart attack But I brough...

Merle Haggard, Bluebook Music (BMI) First thing I remember knowin' was a lonesome whistle blowin' And a young-on's dream of growing up to ride On a freight trai...

In the front row at the Melt show I fell in love with you and that was three weeks ago We fooled around, you let me have it for free Yeah it worked out real ni...

Oh have you seen Miss Molly Her cheeks are rosy red Her lips are soft as satin and they taste like ginger bread Oh Oh Oh Me oh my Miss Molly, I'm in love with ...

There was a girl back in my town But I shouldn't bring up what I can't put down She was above reproach in everyway One day I left the town I'm from And as hard ...

And the hole In the screen is barely big enough for you And not near enough for me to go And the whole damn complicated Situation could've been Avoided if i'd ...

And the hole In the screen is barely big enough for you And not near enough for me to go And the whole damn complicated Situation could've been Avoided if I'd ...

This time is special for you I don't think you ever fell for someone like i do Every now and then I think of you But this time is time for rock on Hey do you r...

In the court of our friends' opinion In the right-cut eyes of all our friends in the way the phone goes dead in the way you lose your head i can see how this th...

Nineteen Is not the age of reason I didn't have a reason For setting you free I've seen A lot of love go sour But that's not our love You see the problem was ...

Eighteen-hundred miles from this old nightclub A girl is turning 22 today How am I supposed to entertain you? My fingertips are useless when my mind's so far aw...

In the valley of the shadows I'm waiting For mother and the other ones I love So know I'll always love you Until we meet above In the battle of the bottle I'm ...

The Empty Bottle was half-empty tide was low and I was thirsty Saw her sitting at the bar you know how some girls are Always making eyes well she wasn't making ...

By the time you leave I'll be saving all my green For a homebound train to carry me On old familiar steam I wish you'd hurry up, And leave or come around Well ...

Me and this girl we've been falling in love Beneath a quarter moon beneath a quarter moon Me and this girl I've been living above On a road called Oppenheimer ...

Well I worked hard and I got lots of money Well I tried hard but I don't wanna stay Yeah I've seen too much trouble, I felt too much pressure bubble I knew ther...

What will you say to St Peter When you meet him in the by and by? Will you grease your way into Heaven? Oh can you even look St Peter in the eye? Oh will you t...

She woke from a dream Her head was on fire Why was he so nervous? He took her to the park She crossed her arms And lowered her eyelids Some day somebody's gon...

We put on Ray Charles and broke up You were packed and gone when I woke up Ray just kept on singing He had Georgia on his mind You just keep on leaving You keep...

Roller skate skinny and the terrible twos How can you have everything and nothing to lose You and nobody see eye to eye You're gonna wake up with a ghost instea...

alternate chording Salome, uncross your heart I know what goes on inside, it's over before it starts Well I'll stay all night, I'll wait right here The full moo...

well you can tell it to the radio tell it to the television they are not listening they are only machines i could sit around all day worrying and wishing i was ...

She's a singer I'm a smoker Dragging up all my extra store She was singing I was smoking Saving butts all I can afford I'm just a smoking up what I got heavy i...

Outside St Ignatius, outside of the law, You walk by so gracefully, I just stand in awe You're a goddess You're the hottest oddity I've found We can go swimmin'...

Well I must have been stoned when this whole started, 'Cause I just can't seem to think straight anymore Can't figure out where I'm at, maybe Memphis, maybe Me...

I've been down, I've been down too far to care - I keep getting in my car but I'm not going anywhere And I've been had, well at least that's how it looks - And ...

Verse 1 The new kid, he's got money The money I deserve He's got the goods but he's not good for his word I should be rolling in it Up in it working stuff As fo...

One old brown shoe falls in slow motion, And the bedsprings hover right above your head, As bed springs do, when you're beneath them Someone else just climbed i...

I got a time bomb, in my mind, Mom I hear it ticking but I don't know why I call the police but they don't like me I hear 'em whispering when I walk by I got a...

I got a time bomb, in my mind, Mom I hear it ticking but I don't know why I call the police but they don't like me I hear 'em whispering when I walk by I got a...

I got a timebomb, in my mind Mom I hear it ticking but I don't know why I call the police, but they don't like me I hear 'em whispering when I walk by I got a ...

Come on and write, write, write me a letter Send that letter by mail Send that letter in care of The Tupelo County Jail Wish me the best of luck, Dear There's ...

I'm gonna tend a bad fire until you come around I'd sing you real live love songs If I could get the feeling down I want to make you happy but the devil's out ...

Heartbreak, old friend, goodbye it's me again Of late, I've had some thought of movin' in Of all the many ways a man will lose his home, Well, there ain't none ...

To dream as if lovers of the ultra-familiar Hover above her as she's checking you out Wander around her but never sleep with her Watch her though windows as she...

This is the story of victoria lee, She started off on percodan and ended up with me She lived in berkeley 'til the earthquake shook her loose She lives in texas...

This is the story of Victoria Lee, She started off on Percodan and ended up with me. She lived in Berkeley 'til the earthquake shook her loose. She lives in Tex...

This is the story of Victoria Lee, She started off on Percodan and ended up with me She lived in Berkeley 'til the earthquake shook her loose She lives in Texas...

Well the roadmaps of west Texas never gave me good advice The trains all roll where the roads don't go, now I lay awake at night, Just wondering where the rest ...

I've got my wife, the other women, and the whiskey killing me The first two make it so that I see red The third one makes it so that I can't see If I had half a...

I reckon Heaven is a place Where time is nonexistent, yeah And the things that are important, yeah Don't take any time at all An awful lot like like outer space...

your cracking up on a radio in a tunnel below the city and i'm losing you 'cause you move too slow and i'm wishing you could keep up with me i'm in love with yo...

Well the hour is late for a visit on a whim Well the hour is late for a quiet drunken talk I don't begrudge you the anger in your voice No I don't begrudge you ...

Why aren't you here? It's almost 4 am I finished up all of your beer, Now I'm startin' on your gin I went through your diary, flipped through your phone book -c...

You're a bottle-cap away, from pushing me too far Well the problem's getting big and it's a compact car So I won't feel so bad, I did all I could do Now I'm on ...

Augustin Lara, english lyrics by Ray Gilbert (APRS, BMI) You belong to my heart Now and forever And our love had its start Not long ago We were gathering star...