(feltenberger) Life as we know it has come to an end A suburban catastrophe Its time to start mourning the death of a friend Whos standing in front of me And ...

(naydock) Ten times I stopped by Cause she said to stop by Nine times we flowed Like good rhythm and rhyme I was a good ear A welcome companion 90% of the time...

You stand on your platform and present your views You hand out your opinion like it's the daily news While your checkin your look in the mirror From your head d...

(naydock, palladino) With flu I dream of you In light as blue as neon when it's blue Past visions of rolling hills In movie stills A panoramic stew Above the s...

(alexander) Marthas wearing blue jeans And shes praying for the poor Two midgets shop for halloween At a salvation army store And a widow with a quarter Buys h...

Town clock stopped tickin, but it aint broken Got a problem that no one can define While that river keeps on a-flowin Hang on children, it's a matter of time A...

(smith) Well I aint no man, no I aint no man I can run and I can hide, fool the best of them I can tell you a story, you'd believe again But you'd see right th...

(alexander) There was a man who sang the blues No one could deny he spoke the truth He shouted through the microphone But no one could care less He lived his l...

(naydock/badlees) Her parents house exudes a reborn air The bathtub virgins in the midnight air Seem to smile in celebration What an intercession All inertia w...

(alexander/badlees) (chorus) There must be angels of mercy Lookin down on me Cause when I look up to the sky I swear I see Angels of mercy lookin down on me ...

(feltenberger, yashinsky) We live for the mountains Cause the mountains give us life But the pits were too inviting And they stripped away our lives If I coul...

(alexander) A lot of folks do well enough leavin' well enough alone But that was never true for me and you Livin' like the characters in "like a rolling stone"...

(alexander/naydock/badlees) Pity my brother For how he's suffered me Through nameless towns And cold prairie For restless women At the end of the line Who tend...

(alexander, naydock) Charge admission and rope me off She said, I do believe I see income here Eight hundred and seventy pounds From a thyroid condition, and o...

My name is jackson jameson, a coal miner by trade From a part of pennsylvania even jesus couldnt save With towns named after indian chiefs and union army genera...

(alexander/naydock) I thought I felt her ghost again last night And I kept a fire burning through the morning light You, early morning diner on the neon range ...

(alexander) The big man aint so big no more Hes curled up on the basement floor His worldly goods around his feet Hes lost his mind trying to keep The more you...

Like a fire burning in the kitchen sink Like a choir that can't agree on what to sing Like a wild raging river that just can't find the will You change your min...

(alexander/badlees) Last night I dreamt of flying Over hillsides in the snow And I dove down through the clouds Into the valley there below When the fields tur...

(alexander) Well, I can see that you are gone Youre here with me but you are gone Its a matter of time Till you can catch up with your mind And you're gone Th...

(alexander/badlees) Gonna paint a picture Gonna put it in a frame So I can show you how Im feelin Without having to explain And you can hang it from your ceili...

(alexander/feltenberger) Chorus Heaven on earth, for worse or for better Some say paradise is nice but you can't make it last forever Heaven on earth, now I j...

We used to drink our bacardi Behind the old school And bitch about dreams That would never come true Then you heard a callin That I hadnt felt I liked you bette...

(alexander) You have reached A number and a name But I am gone And wont be back again If you wish To leave a word or two Here it is You know what to do Speak y...

(alexander) Don't know what it is you want from me, babe Don't know what song it is Im supposed to play But even though Im singing out of key, babe I mean ever...

I climbed up the mountain, I sailed across the sea But it dont matter anymore to me I sent my money to the preacher man, I prayed for the lottery But it dont ma...

Hush now baby, cant you see This cross I bear, it aint for me I do my job, its all I have To give you things I never had I had my chance in 63 To start my own ...

(alexander) Hypocrisy as it oughta be, that's called good business Sometimes it really bothers me how I got in this Took this job a-thinkin I'd be movin up som...

No money man is gonna carry us No corporate hand is gonna bury us If we had convictions wed be dangerous Dont want their creed to guide our consequence Dont wa...

Sunday morning the kids are playing in the street Lookin for pennies in the cracks of the concrete And Im looking down at them while Im sittin on the roof Prayi...

This town aint much to look at, there aint that much to do With the local joes at the stop and go and the class of 42 We go down to the laundromat and listen to...

Hed eat at kfc, wore sally clothes and smelled like turpentine Talked a lot about his art with a spitting image of ernest borgnine They found him dead the other...

(alexander/naydock) Get a load of that with the snakeskins on Looks like a refugee from a headbangin song Sweet july evening seems all the world weve ever know...

There are nights when Im in my bed Fear, like a freight train, runnin through my head Watch a man in the county seat Bring a gavel down and he looks like me Li...

(smith) Once was a man who didn't do too well He spent more than a little time down in his little hell He had time to decide even if it was worth the ride He ...

(smith) A letter of acceptance, from an old forgotten friend A little piece of history, you thought you'd never see again Like the broken plymouth, and the boa...

(alexander) Somewhere the wind is whispering into somebodys ear Somewhere someone is hearing just what they want to hear Somewhere somebodys savior has finally...

(alexander) Luthers windows are littered with nothing A crystal, a picture, a dead potted sage A dusty white curtain, the nose prints of a dog A shot glass col...

Mama they must be crazy Cause I can't make heads or tales Or someone must have lied In your fairy tales Cause I tried to walk that straight line Sweat clean to...

Im having a conversation with some friends I know Somebody I agree with no matter where I go Somebody I never have to wait for or try to read their minds Somebo...

(alexander/naydock) Dreamed a misfit came a calling days at a time A malcontent from the look alike ball and she was mine She said, take all preconceptions, ti...

She probably still keeps herself inside herself Her head it ruled her heart with a tune I'll never hear Summer, like self-portraits we were hit or miss Never t...

(alexander/naydock) The kings of america were falling out of fashion The system systematically was shooting out their lights Driven to the level of paparazzi c...

(alexander/badlees) Youve got a right to be angry Youve got a right to complain But just being right Aint gonna change anything You want understanding Without...

(feltenberger/badlees) Well, he died at 39 Some kinda pill and homemade wine He left his english bride And a love he couldnt deny behind Folks have come to sa...

(alexander) You are my poison ivy You are my disease You are what I must walk through To get to what I need You are my vaccination Youre my cheshire cat You a...

(alexander/badlees) Well, I take off my shoes When I walk in her door And try my best to levitate cross her living room floor cause you cant leave tracks When ...

Janie got a present late one christmas day Immaculate conception one could hardly say She took her little baby and all her daddys cash The guilt stayed forever ...

(naydock/badlees) When the rain is sports arena loud In the evening of a self-inflicted day And you're contemplating sides that might collide The hemlock socie...

Shes the woman I chose to own me Shes the woman I gave the reigns She picks me up when Im feelin lonely She pays the bills, I can't complain Shes the woman who...

(alexander) My how you have changed You silly little man Now everybody loves you For reasons they dont understand And it was all in the name of getting you The...

(alexander/naydock) Everyone that should has got their dark glasses on But it's not as warm as I expected Ive paraded your photo through san mateo Dreamin 86 w...

He was the king of the back seat Of drunk reverie Saw him escorted out of a mets game On network tv Kept his head in the clouds With any cheap high he could cul...

I was just a young boy, barely 17 A regular poster child for the american dream I spent some time in college, tried to learn that system well Left a problem dri...

Well I met her in college Hanging out at sigma chi Singing stoned and drunken versions Of american pie We picked up and married Soon as she got out of school I...

(alexander/naydock) They met up in rockport Where the moon rose early and the days were short And the miles between were still too many to mention The blue ri...

(alexander, feltenberger, welsh) Hell be coming up 287 Hell be driving a rented car Hell be carrying a key to heaven And a box of te-amo cigars Youll see him ...

Just be clever for clevers sake, starin at the ceiling into shadow-fakes The circle-smokes in the ladies room only got you as far as the roles assumed A glimpse...

(alexander/naydock) When I die, call this number Unencumber yourself from the details The whole things bought and paid for The box, the viewing and one more ri...

(alexander) There's antiques on the mantle Hank williams in the air Bourbon on the counter And youve cut off all your hair The daisies on the hillside Watch th...

Filthy and anonymous in jackson, a dozen keys to nowhere in his hand Black madonna, wont you change his luck and find him fifty grand? Cause he's tore down, mon...

(alexander/naydock) Marlon brando eats alone tonight I may be right But then, I dont know much about him Theres a part of you my system lacks But through the c...

I was sad and lonely as can be When an angel appeared in front of me And she said to me "you're not the only one" And i said "darlin', darlin' you don't unders...