What do we have for you, sir? What would you like?" "What do ya got?"> Let me in, let me in, let me in Oh please, please, please, please! I might die but I do...

You don't live the way you should You're not chaste or wise or good Oh no, when you're human I wait for you my queen I keep myself ready clean like my maker Aga...

A necklace of rubber, burning bright A burning rubber necklace for my angel's delight A holiday in a box, opportunity knocks For the rich man's militia photogra...

As I washed the blood off she yelled at me though no blows had been struck and she still looked so serene then she started to cry then she burst out laughing th...

("The way to keep people in line is to scare the shit out of 'em") Be dead Be dead ("There isn't anybody left") ("No no no!") ("Everything is running out") ("...

Green bed of bottles, open to the sky Bare head of drunk man, the beads of sweat go dry He says he's sorry, tender as a lam She says, "go", meaning, "stay", mea...

No dates to miss, no home to phone No face to kiss, no good alone No family, no history, a permenant delinquency No will to smile, no room to cry No time to thi...

August the 20th: Yes, folks, it's another cold, clammy day in England A large crowd has gathered around the police station Everybody--EVERYBODY--wishes to have ...

In the winter in a seaside boarding house The killer swigs and wheels Round his room telling how he made that Weeping spinster kneel Yellow light seeps through ...

No one comes from here And so i'm not afraid Everyone's the same as me We don't talk the same So we don't talk at all And our hosts just look on with glee I'm t...

Well, hello You can no longer depend on the land in which you were born You can no longer depend on any land in which you choose to place yourself You can no lo...

In rags in their normal place where diesel machines roar by Pale dawn, at the scrapyard gates Fast food parks and hardware mines Not smiling or frowning they, t...

At the platform's end, where the crowd grew thin And the light was dim on our shoes Where we sat there so tense, Not to touch though we meant to (I think) There...

James Jesus Angleton sells sunlamps door to door In this so-called peacetime, even spooks fight to stay alive I don't much like him, but I sit and mind his car ...

I just survive any way I can No guru, no method, no pension plan Your luck's just as plain as I'm not paying attention I'm gonna take her with me in my satanic ...

("I'm gonna kill myself over your dead body if you fuck anybody but me") ("These people[?]the shit out of these people") ("I'm with a girl and we couldn't [get ...

Written by michael kamen, bryan adams and robert "mutt" lange ("big size really doesn't matter you think i got really big muscles in my pussy?") ("what have yo...

Born to refuse, and raised to exclude Fed myths to disprove by post-colonial prudes: The city was evil, some country was evil, the hippies were evil, The writer...

In a half-faced mask made of tinted glass Walking streets of creased wet concrete Where her curse [attacks] sometime By the screaming chain-store signs You can ...

Welcome to Apeville! Now you're a citizen, too Meet Mrs Doreen Pompidou / She'd like to do the shimmy on top of you The wall is coming down / The one which hol...

Greyhair fool / Shoes undone / The fields ahead / Leaves black as coal Landmark-free / No walls, No trees To greet him on this night of his return C--So who wil...

Do you think they could see us in this base circumstance You with blood on your knees and me with my hand down your pants? If a lad wears a dress then won't Geo...

(If ever you're going hungry, there's always the graveyard) Be nice or strangle me, I don't care Good times are not what's lured me here Bad clothes and sting-...

Written by michael kamen, bryan adams and robert "mutt" lange ("big size really doesn't matter you think i got really big muscles in my pussy?") ("what have yo...

(Music/Lyrics--Sandy Denny) Warlock Music "My shadow follows me wherever I should chance to go," John the Gun did say "If you should chance to meet me as I wan...

(Lyrics / Music--Lou Reed) Published by MGM Music ([???]) ("Get your fingers in") Lady Godiva, dressed so demurely Pats the head of another curly-haired boy A...

(Lyrics / Music--Scott Engel) Published by Carlin Music Corp Long about now she's heading home Black from the rain, burnt to the ground Her ashes will rise Bla...

[Irish news report:] ("The air corps helicopter took a five-year-old girl from Achain Island") Aodhagan went hunting for food and money through the streets of ...

The mother of the nation has gone; she has hobbled off to her uncertain fate, having only a tycoon's salary given to her to fund the purchase of that monkey-shi...

See the priest in gleaming nappies Gurgling and burping child at play Signing warrents, blessing firing squads are the pleasures of this baby's day In a street...

(Music/Lyrics--Scott Engel) ©1993 International Media Holdings (BMI) There's no hold The moving has come through The danger brushing you Turns it's face into t...

He sits in the light of the carousel with his children running 'round his knees While the wind howls down through the fishing boat mast the lights sway and the ...

On Suicide Bridge, I found myself one spring morning in the frigid sunshine, weary of the humiliations of the Crouch End There I was An old lady passed me She s...

i'm not stupid -- i'm a man i'm not stupid i'm born again in hail and flames (goldrush almighty) go tell it loud to all my slaves (goldrush almighty) you scum ...

They first met at the hospital, she was checking out for good Her body patched but past repair, and there her angel stood She was feeling quite confused now tha...

(Music--Leonard Cohen/Phil Spector; Lyrics--Leonard Cohen) Sony Music Publishing/Back to Mono Music The walls of this hotel are paper thin Last night I heard y...

Somebody's threatened you, well, you know why Time now to pay for misdeeds you deny Life can be cheerless in intensive care Keep a cool head and you won't know ...

The postmark read "Asuncion" By the foul Adriatic there can be some dramatic Variations in the temperature So you can't recall which SS dress to wear But the k...

He and she, their empty house He's awake, she sleeps His eyes are for one sight alone--the purple window Now his desires, his secret wish he never lets her see...

A glass ravine The low clouds which wink The boughs burnt diesel and burning pig Wide rutted streets "666 Park Avenue", yells a big red sign as if some Anglo-Sa...

Lift up your head, lift up your head Your room in this decade of eathquake and bile awaits you like a stewardess's mortuary smile You'll miss all the fun, you'...

The jet plane draws a jagged wound along the dimming autumn sky His breath steams on ahead of him as through the tenement he does stride To knock upon some door...

I was raised to expect continuity Instead I get this The monster has red hair / The monster has green eyes She laughs and bites her quarry's nose as she pulls ...

Stronger than reason / Stronger than lies The only truth I know is the look in your eyes Your eyes Just like a car crash / Just like a knife My favorite weapon...

I'm here on a mission to tell you exactly what can go wrong if you're not careful You see, it's like this: you're running down the staircase at random You take ...

The door-to-door inspector, his knuckles bare and white, is rapping on your window 'cause he knows you're hiding here tonight He's travelled from the city to yo...

(Lyrics Music--Richard Thompson) Published by Warlock Music Ltd High up above the crowd the great Valerio is walking The rope seems hung from cloud to cloud a...

Here he comes, in the dead of the month His hair falling out, his shoulders hunched Secure with his Third World expectation [] open sewers of degredation I ha...

The model volcano by the giant gas tank The street corner gun-market next to the robbed bank The poorhouse next to the Uniroyal palace A tower of riches, beside...

This truck stop: rancid gravy A man with no hands waving and the dog 'round my leg bumps and grinds It rains for miles out there on mud and tar and still air an...

The windows watch me wait for you Mirror mirror, mirror mirror I've seen a world beyond their view Mirror mirror, mirror mirror Of course the night times are th...

You awake, lying still / while light makes landfall In the steel suburban room The windows show, row on row, all the same: More people are summoned round to cha...

A box full of groceries Rotten clothes, she's torn her knees In the main street chill She sleeps at night in broke-down cars Squirts the dreams into her arms Sh...

(Retail groceries) Do you know how Jesus feels When he's behind his sportscar wheel And the windscreen glass is all gummed up with blood? Do you know how old J...

A walk in the woods after a storm through waves of steam and graveyard gas come overground The unwalked path, the dimming light Not day or night, just always wh...

The days are chained like daisies Flung on some years-old grave On ground unmarked, found on no chart Or map or minefield aid I can only change the future I can...

Let's go round again Let loose again Off the wall again Across the floor again And come on in his chair We can make believe he's there Make our bodies answer ou...

When my taxi arrives Say that i'm dead Having swallowed my leg And come to the bedroom again Let us begin Shrinking the walls And counting our ears In sweat, as...

Her uncle won't support her now He loves his masons more But their boy scouts songs all jabble on As they [fought] to gore some whores She says, "you won't get ...

This is Mister Blank calling, gorgeous From the slum which time ignores Where folks use razor blades for toothpaste And every breath is a holy war Were you slee...

In the bright-lit railway station, 3 AM In a town whose active life is at an end I was met by a rich man dressed in a panda fur Who said, "If I can keep smiling...