I have a mandolin I play it all night long It makes me want to kill myself I also have a dobro Made in some mountain range Sounds like a mountain range in love ...

Eligible, not too stupid Intelligiable, and cute as cupid Knowledgeable, but not always right Salvageable, and free for the night Well my heart's runnin' round...

A pretty girl is like a minstrel show It makes you laugh It makes you cry You go It just isn't the same on radio It's all about the makeup and the dancing and t...

Abigail can you feel my heart in the palm of your hand and do you understand why I can't stay Abigail an evil wind is blowing through the land and they need eve...

Don't fall in love with me yet We only recently met True I'm in love with you but you might decide I'm a nut Give me a week or two to go absolutley cuckoo then,...

Acoustic Guitar, I'm gonna make you a star, Get your picture all over the world Acoustic Gutiar, You can have your own car, Just bring me back my girl She alw...

You are a splendid butterfly It is your wings that make you beautiful And I could make you fly away But I could never make you stay You said you were in love wi...

if i make it tonight it'll be all right it'll make a good song or something i've been trying to give myself reasons to live and i really can't think of one thin...

Sad as a painted clown, a beautiful boy in an ugly town but when your circus closes down don't walk away from me you've been asleep too long, the birds are brui...

A pity she does not exist A shame he's not a fag The only girl I ever loved was Andrew in drag There is no hope of love for me From here on I'm a stag The only...

I've seen you laugh at nothing at all I've seen you sadly weeping The sweetest thing I ever saw Was you asleep and dreaming Well you may not be beautiful But i...

Where the workers stand in querulous rows awaiting dislocation I will be there too When you're cashing in your food stamps When you're sleeping in a cattle trai...

The moon was singing the blues The stars in the sky harmonized singing it too and I, far below was singing low and slow for you and I know all the world was sin...

I spend my evenings alone talking to your picture, babe Love is wrapped around my heart like a boa constrictor, babe My mother should have murdered me What jury...

Some roads are only seen at night Ghost roads, nothing but neon signs But some nights the neon gas gets free- Turns into walking dead like me And I've been mak...

I should have forgotten you long ago But you're in every song I know Whining and pining is wrong and so On and so forth, of course of course, But no, you can't ...

Candy, it's been really nice, but I've got to go 'Cause I can't be the part of your life you don't wanna know and I can't keep lying all the time And I know yo...

Eligible, not too stupid Intelligiable, and cute as cupid Knowledgeable, but not always right Salavagable, and free for the night Well my heart's runnin' round...

Come back from San Francisco It can't be all that pretty, when all of New York City misses you Should pretty boys in discos distract you from your novel, rememb...

Sometimes the road is too long You meet all kinds of people Some of them cast no shadow They have no reflections Take a look in your photobook I'm not there a...

The summer came and passed us by We didn't care We just let it die But when we dance, just you and I (C): When we walk hand in hand in the rain When we're young...

You didn't have to say that I'm no good, 'cause I know There's no point pointing pistols at me now, I'll just go I never should have asked you to be kind, but I...

I'll be the madness that carries you away I'll be the sadness to light your darkest day I'll be the desert island where you can be free I'll be the vulture you ...

Don't look away I don't think I could stand it So don't look away 'cause my heart couldn't handle it There's a fire in your eyes And it's melting the ice In my ...

Lost roads and towns of which nobody's found the name All the children drowned and there's no one around to blame Lost roads and towns left to wilder in seed an...

"Caution: to prevent electric shock do not remove cover No user-serviceable parts insde Refer servicing to qualified service personnel" Let this be the epitaph ...

She can make you feel like filth She can make you feel like a star She will scratch till her hand is bloody But she'll love you more for the scar She remembers ...

I know you've tried I know you've cried I know you're died A little inside but (C): Baby you could be famous You could see your marble face all around Baby you ...

It was the army train that took her daddy from her It was the bible train that took her momma too And that high loud whistle made her horse run away But the str...

Fido, your leash is too long You go where you don't belong You've been digging in the rubble Gettin' bitches in trouble Fido, your leash is too long Fido, your...

Should time allow us to describe our prowess It would be quite hard to overrate, For we are the king of the boudoir old thing and the king doesn't like to wait ...

If I was the Grand Canyon I'd echo everything you say but I'm just me I'm only me and you used to love me that way so you know how to love me that way If I was ...

how fucking romantic all the stars are out twinkling twinkling twinkling and fluttering about what a tacky sunset what a vulgar moon play another charming roge...

The only thing that I could ever feel I can't believe it wasn't real The only thing that I could ever feel I can't believe it wasn't real You can't open your mo...

You wanna know if we fell in love too fast You wanna know if this is well too good to last You're asking the wrong questions You're opening the wrong doors I lo...

I die when you walk by So beautiful and strong Each day you pass my way In your bubble where nothing goes wrong You think your youth A perminent truth But here ...

They say there's a sun in the sky They say there's a sun in the sky But me, I can't imagine why There might have been one Before you were gone But now all I se...

So you quote love unquote me Well, stranger things have come to be But let's agree to disagree Cause I don't believe you I don't believe you You tell me I'm no...

True, I'd give my right arm To keep you safe from harm And true, for you, I'd move to Ecuador And I'd keep a little farm Chop wood to keep you warm But I don't ...

I don't want to get over you I guess I could take A sleeping pill and sleep at will and not have to Go through what I go through I guess I should take Prozac, r...

We have walked in ancient times And we've been burned for many crimes We have ended many lives But we never really died You have the sun, I have the moon You ...

The Magnetic Fields : I Looked All Over Town I wandered in these big blue shoes, till we had nothing left to lose Nobody wants you when you're a circus clown I...

Bang there was you too gold too blue You told the truth I cried You flew You called me mad (and I am mad) as a hatter Some fall in love I shatter You make it ra...

Time stands still All I can feel is the time standing still as you put down the keys and say don't call me please while the radio plays "I Think I Need a New ...

You told me you loved me I know where and when Come sunrise, surprise surprise, the joke's on me again I know you don't love me, You know i don't care Keep it h...

I was born -- I hate this part Being someone new Being torn -- seeing someone who died As you grew Growing older is killing a child Who laughed and smiled At an...

I wish I had an evil twin running 'round doing people ill I wish I had a very bad and evil twin to do my will to call and conquer cut and kill just like I would...

A single rose in your garden dwells Like any rose it's not itself It is my love in your garden grows But let's pretend it's just a rose Well I'm sorry that I lo...

I'm tongue tied and useless I'm weak-kneed and brainless And then I mumble some jumble You kiss me I'm history I'm tongue-tied and useless again My heart pound...

Now the clock is striking one So we might as well begin it, As there's dancing to be done And our time is not infinite If there's such a thing as love, If ther...

Softly the crystals falling on 17th Street do their dance and die and are Gone Millions of crystal balls roll around your feet and nothing gets done An hour goe...

Sing me the kind of song You hear in an operetta Sing me the words I long To hear out of Violetta In an operetta She will fast be outcast From her castle, with ...

You were mean to me and broke my heart now you've gone away but we're apart but I've got a special machine to take me where things turned out differently and yo...

Time swings like a wrecking ball into things Youth fades as quickly as a hit parade But as the days go by in the gray world outside days grow on colorful trees ...

It was infinitely late at night The stars are still out there But they're all out of light Don't worry about me, I'll be all right It's just infinitely late at ...

Irma waits by the window, Vaguely looking down at her socks And humming Possibly her Father will come home with a box Of chocolates Possibly Not Father's memory...

Feels like December but it's May I've gone as pale as Doris Day The blue sky's torn assunder By clouds that warn of thunder Is this what they used to call love?...

Why would I stop loving you A hundred years from now? It's only time It's only time What could stop this beating heart Once it's made a vow? It's only time It'...

We were young like the future, we were young and always wrong We were young like our country, learning old ways to be young Random driving around with you in ...

If I were Napoleon, you could be my Josephine We could go to drive-in films in my red convertible If I were Napoleon, I might be in magazines I'd write some sci...

All day snow covered us Night-time: it was always night The people on the street were made of meat Black girl, trucks ran us down Blue boy The people on the sid...

He is my lord, He is my saviour and He rewards my good behavior My secret soul, I know He's seen it He says, come here baby and kiss me like you mean it He call...

It was a shallow ocean It was a very low scar They're not too wide to get around Given the old-school try And you must have had Nothing better to do I've been ...

If you knew how I long For you now that you're gone You'd grow wings and fly Home to me Home tonight And in the morning sun Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits L...

You're in your own little world: an expensive birdcage; Like a plastic baby in a Faberge egg I saw you today at the Cafe Blase And thought of the nights when we...

I'm never going back to Jackson I couldn't bear to show my face I nearly killed you with my drinking Wouldn't be caught dead in that place Lonely highway, only...

Your eyes are long Vermont roads With a tacky song on the radio And your eyes are toothless young men In Tennessee in the rain again And fireflies never go to ...

Someone told me you'd be here Whispering these familiar things Talking to my little pet, smoking the same old cigarettes "¦I would have laughed I saw you last ...

i'm counting the habits you made me break i'm counting the drugs you won't let me take i'm counting my friends you won't let me see i've had enough, you never ...

The woman with no nose I know where she goes The old guy with the gold eye We go back, he & I Don't smile We don't do that here baby Love in the Shadows Was ne...

It makes you blind, it does you in It makes you think you're pretty tough It makes you prone to crime and sin It makes you say thing off the cuff It's very smal...

Love is like jazz You make it up as you go along and you act as if you really know the song but you don't and you never will so you flaunt your mistakes and you...

They say everyone you touch turns to gold They say we're too young I think we're too old Ugly as sin, pale, and thing They've been wrong before They say you're...

Meaningless? You mean it's all been meaningless? Every whisper and caress? Yes yes yes it was totally meaningless Meaningless like when two fireflies flouresce ...

Billie you're a miracle and God knows I need one Sing me something terrible that even dawn may come You and me, we don't believe in happy endings Hey, Lady Day,...

I'm a hopeless romantic You're a terrible flirt Cool and unfazed, you're always amazed when someone gets hurt I live on the blue planet that I saw in your eyes ...

If you don't mind why don't you mind Where is your sense of indignation You are too kind Much too kind Where is the madness that you promised me Where is the dr...

Dance with me my old friend once before we go Let's pretend This song won't end and we never have to go home and we'll Dance among the chandeliers And nothing m...

Was there some part of you - tail, or hunchback; That, when they cut it off, grew back? You were a little girl with starry eyes Now you're a sad young man and n...

I like your twisted point of view, Mike I like your questioning eyebrows You've made it pretty clear what you like It's only fair to tell you now that I leave ...

I'll linger here your ring upon my finger dear and sing till dawn a song of you and me and what and why for time is all I have to keep between these walls and h...

What if the show couldn't go on What if we all got jobs and got to bed before dawn What if Old Joe had to retire What if all the stage hands were let go or fire...

My girl is the queen of the savages She don't know this modern world and its ravages Instead of money she's got yams and cabbages She lives in a dome I don't ca...

I will not sing your ugly song I won't put on your ugly play I cannot join your ugly priesthood And if I die I won't come home Railroad boy of mine I bought you...

Reno Dakota there's not an iota of kindness in you You know you enthrall me and yet you don't call me It's making me blue Pantone 292 Reno Dakota I'm reaching m...

The saddest brown eyes I'll ever know You gave crying so long ago, But come outside and watch the snow Softly falling Sad Little Moon in the big black sky All ...

i know all the names of your tears and numbers of these lonely years i know all the someones somedays don't believe them anyway when you love someone you can't...

Someone else's world goes by As my train runs through this night Someone else's rain comes down But no rain can touch me now (C): Smoke and mirrors Special effe...

Well you've got a really long name It won't fit on any forms You gave me all your mirrors and they made me deformed You're sending smoke signals I know your se...

Strange eyes, blue clocks without hands two lives lived in distant lands little blue mysteries what did they see in me Strange eyes, early Picassos call me even...

You held me upside-down Till I couldn't breathe anymore Then you held me like a baby Television, like wine; and cigarettes, like grains of sand; And raspberry s...

Please forgive me for all the things I've done Sugar give me the love I need to carry on living Living without you I'd just die With you, with you I can hold m...

We used to dance like it was going out of style when you loved me for a while and I remember every word you ever said; every kiss We used to sing all the oldest...

Well I don't care what people say Life is too short to hang around So I stay so long in a place And then move on to the next town Oh Sunset City I've got to se...

There's an hour of sunshine, For a million years of rain But somehow that always seems to be enough, When love falls from the sky, nobody ever asks why You just...

I read your manifestoes and your strange religious tracts You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks Planets crash, the world goes nova, Sun explo...

You used to slide down the carpeted stairs or down the bannister you stuttered like a kaleidoscope 'cause you knew too many words you used to make ginger bread ...

Tar-heel boy sings a song Bout a girl who ain't comin' home By n by, by n by She worked too long in the mill She's gone to those rolling hills in the sky We're ...

The book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing It's full of charts and facts and figures and instructions for dancing but I I love it when y...

The cactus where your heart should be has lovely little flowers so though it's always pricking me my ardor never sours The cactus hwere your heart once was has ...