(feltenberger) life as we know it has come to an end a suburban catastrophe it's time to start mourning the death of a friend who's standing in front of me an...

(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 tim...

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

(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) martha's wearing blue jeans and she's praying for the poor two midgets shop for halloween at a salvation army store and a widow with a quarter buys...

Town clock stopped tickin', but it ain't 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...

(Smith) Well I ain't no man, no I ain't 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 ...

(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...

CHORUS There must be angels of mercy Lookin' down on me 'Cause when I lok up to the sky I swear I see Angels of mercy lookin' down on me Well, I know what I kno...

(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 cou...

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" Confirming t...

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" Confirming t...

Pity my brother For how he's suffered me Pity my brother Through nameless towns For how he's suffered me And cold prairie Through nameless towns For restless w...

(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, a...

My name is Jackson Jameson, a coal miner by trade From a part of Pennsylvania even Jesus couldn't save With towns named after Indian chiefs and Union Army gener...

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 You, you drove away a...

(alexander) The big man ain't so big no more He's curled up on the basement floor His worldly goods around his feet He's lost his mind trying to keep The more ...

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...

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 turned into parking lots...

(Alexander) Well, I can see that you are gone You're here with me but you are gone It's a matter of time 'Till you can catch up with your mind And you're gone ...

Gonna paint a picture Gonna put it in a frame So I can show you how I'm feeling Without having to explain And you can hang it from your ceiling In your safe and...

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 just can't see How I can ev...

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 hadn't felt I liked you bet...

(Alexander) You have reached A number and a name But I am gone And won't be back again If you wish To leave a word or two Here it is You know what to do Speak ...

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

I climbed up the mountain, I sailed across the sea But it don't matter anymore to me I sent my money to the preacher man, I prayed for the lottery But it don't ...

(Alexander) Hush now baby, can't you see This cross I bear, it ain't for me I do my job, it's all I have To give you things I never had I had my chance in '63...

badlees/just_one_moment Written by Alexander Quote: A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone (Henry David Thoreau) SONG LYRICS: Hy...

No money man is gonna carry us No Corporate hand is gonna bury us If we had convictions we'd be dangerous Don't want their creed to guide our consequence Don't...

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

This town ain't much to look at, there ain't that much to do With the local Joe's at the stop and go and the class of '42 We go down to the laundromat and liste...

He'd eat at KFC Wore salad clothes and smelled like turpentine He talked a lot about his art With a spitting image of Ernest Borgnine They found him dead the ot...

Get a load of that with the snakeskins on Looks like a refugee from a headbangin' song Sweet July evening seems all the world we've ever known Is here at the br...

There are nights when I'm 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 ...

(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 somebody's ear somewhere someone is hearing just what they want to hear somewhere somebody's savior has final...

(alexander) Luther's 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 co...

(Alexander) 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 li...

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...

I'm 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 Someb...

(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, t...

The kings of America were falling out of fashion The system systematically was shooting out their lights Driven to the level of paparazzi comers They bid the pu...

You've got a right to be angry You've got a right to complain But just being right Ain't gonna change anything You want understanding Without saying a word You ...

I am your undisputed king of bad directions We rarely made it to the place I knew we'd shine I cannot read straight lines I misinterpret signs at crucial times ...

Well he died at 39 Some kind of pills and homemade wine He left his english bride And a love he couldn't deny behind Folks have come to say He nearly gave the l...

(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 You're my Cheshire cat You ...

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 can't leave tracks When you're on hallowed...

Janie got a present late one Christmas day Immaculate conception one could hardly say She took her little baby and all her daddy's 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...

She's the woman I chose to own me She's the woman I gave the reigns She picks me up when I'm feelin' lonely She pays the bills, I can't complain She's the woma...

Everyone that should has got their dark glasses on But it's not as warm as I expected I've paraded your photo through San Mateo Dreamin' '86 was resurrected CH...

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 cull in his cancered impala and his ...

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...

(Alexander) 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 ou...

badlees/back_where_we_came_from ALSO KNOWN AS: badlees/the_na_na_song Written by Alexander Quote: Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald (...

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 Ridge rides at starfall...

the second coming of chris (alexander, feltenberger, welsh) he'll be coming up 287 he'll be driving a rented car he'll be carrying a key to heaven and a box of...

Just be clever for clever's 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 glimp...

(alexander/naydock) when I die, call this number unencumber yourself from the details the whole thing's bought and paid for the box, the viewing and one more r...

(Alexander) There's antiques on the mantle Hank Williams in the air Bourbon on the counter And you've cut off all your hair The daisies on the hillside Watch t...

Filthy and anonymous in Jackson, a dozen keys to nowhere in his hand Black madonna, won't you change his luck and find him fifty grand? 'Cause he's tore down, m...

(alexander/naydock) marlon brando eats alone tonight I may be right but then, I don't know much about him there's a part of you my system lacks but through the...

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...