Saw her in a sandwich shop a million miles away, She acts (if maybe not the best) and I think it's okay, She sings her simple new wave songs with alien inspirat...

Look at you, you're perfect, Hoodie hanging just right, Tattooed arm, cigarettes, Unaware of your might Yeah, sure, your pants are baggy, And your mesmer-eyes ...

You're in and out and about, At best you act suspicious, I can accept if you don't love me, Please pretend for my sanity, Just make it through this season, I ca...

I want you to know as you lie in that bed, That I miss you more than any word that I've said, And it meant more to me to touch your forehead, Than all the talki...

I take the PATH to the city, The other three take the chance to sleep, Lack of the same and I feel shitty, My commute turns to a creep, I walk in crowds on dirt...

My room with girls on the TV, They cry, I don't know what it means, I know that I'm too far away, I know that I'm too far away, I know that I'm too far away, I ...

Everybody has a question, If not an adoring letter, If not words of disappointment, I'm being blackmailed with integrity, I read every word, I cannot respond, L...

I never meant to simplify or even understand, I was in the back row, Just trying to watch the band, Oblivious to currents in performance and opinion, I guess we...

If I could have any expectation, And looked back a generation, What would be the case? My Grandmother died with the mind of a child, All she did was smile and c...

It's simplistic presentation, Your caustic realization, Motivation in TV screens, Vanguards built deliberately, Feminization on every sex, Stop, go back, re-rea...

She's an anybody, She'll be anybody's anything, She says "Anything with anyone Must surely be OK" She says she wants to have a good time, I'm somehow skeptical,...

As I lie here crushed beneath the wheels of a MUNI bus, The commuters all around me crane their necks to see, By the looks on their faces I must be a disgrace, ...

I never sleep, which is no surprise, And I don't need to justify why I like to see the sunrise A voice is very close to me, It happened quite unconsciously, No...

Your brains went black, When she took back her love, And put it out into the sun, The birds did fly, When the heavens all went dry, And the cigarettes were smok...

Words are flying at me at the speed of sound, But the machines are too loud for me to hear, He's trying hard to demonstrate something, What it is isn't totally ...

A story told in six parts, Ronin with a baby cart, When you stand at the crossroads of hell, There's no need to tell, Sleep is just a state of mind, We are dyin...

This is not a one-horse town, If there's a sound it might be coming from the underground, Maybe not, When it's hot it's really, really, really hot, Drink a shot...

Ayn Rand is dead, So put down your pen, A whole new generation, Who pointlessly defend, Ayn Rand is dead, And I can not pretend, To embrace a greed, Of unnatura...

All of my friends tell me that they wanna visit Hawaii, It must seem pretty beautiful there away from smoggy city air, But the last time I went home a sorrow dr...

Backstage passes for the both of you, Again, what does it mean to you, You think you're writing wrongs with your old typewriter, But you haven't got a clue, Six...

Roads and roads of countryside, With someone left behind, I get another letter, It's meant to remind, "Every day you seem to change", You don't know what you're...

Beverly Hills, Century City, Everything's so nice and pretty All the people look the same, Don't they know they're fucking lame? Here she comes in her stupid s...

I thought it was your turn to feel alone, But I knew I was wrong when I hung up the phone, You've got Mom's eyes and so do I, Evident in every tone So I write ...

Broken Bacchanalian blisters, It's a long way back to the city, Drunk on gin and valley heat, And feeling fuckin' shitty, Looking back to Shangri-La, It's like ...

Sweat drips down his face as he walks into the place, That he walks by every single day, He's only 21, but when his job is done, Never again will he walk this w...

Me, I'm part of the machine, The bottom rung of the company, The only time I start to worry, Is when the machine becomes part of me Me and my self esteem , I'd...

I can fill out a million forms, I can stand in lines and lines and lines, I could fill out a million more, If only I had more time I can tell that you're looki...

She's coming over, I can smell the chemicals from here, I just had to get away, And my resistance, Is I don't need it to exist, I should just give it away Dry ...

Christmas lights are colorful, A mini-disco, a pistolero, Lost in lonely heartache, It's literal this time, I'm counting up to half a million, I used to know al...

I'd recognize that song anywhere, Equal parts of hope and despair, You can't believe, But it's history, You can't decide, You can't pick sides, no He's been dr...

She had an idea, It got her the fear, And she loved her mother very much, One cigarette, Well she knew she was dead, The way dad walked out of the room An anci...

Trivial anger is our fetishized notion, We're a quick bus ride from the ocean, The city's cynicism manifests itself in greed, Every bus stop lies down in defeat...

Every day she takes the bus downtown, It's what she has to do, To keep her mind steady, She's always ready for something new, Even though she may not want to go...

Prince Charles and his troops sail away today, No flags and no colony 4, 000 Chinese troops waiting at the border, They'll carry out the order Peter Jennings ...

All of my dreams end in the drain, I'm walking outside in the pouring rain, Colors flash, colors lie, Cars all pass me by, The more you decipher and understand,...

Everything in life becomes commodity, Close your eyes and look to the east, Capital is our only reality, A cancer growing in the belly of the beast Intentions,...

I was feeling old today, I know there comes a point, When there's nothing left to say, Lately everything sounds the same, The things I hate in this fucking worl...

I can sit counting, counting every minute, Life slowly unravels, Supernatural torture, Knowing you were leaving I savored the unweaving, If you really stay in t...

1983, She had turned 15, She ran away from home to see the dream On her second night, She met a man who had nothing to hide, But turned her around to work the ...

When you were here before, Couldn't look you in the eye, You're just like an angel, Your skin makes me cry, You float like a feather, In a beautiful world, And ...

Crop circles spell out your name, It's not pure and true, But it's love, Is that good enough? Good enough to justify me and you, I've read the Guardian, read th...

Cut the shit You know it's just a part of life, Fuck that shit It was your choice to sacrifice, Don't do it because you can You are innocent in criminal times,...

It's what you do and what you don't, aha, It's what you will and what you won't, aha, Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, aha, Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh ...

The lights change to a steady blink, My poisoned mind make me stop and think, It's not a feeling deep inside of me, Just a cover to survive my misery Sad news ...

With perfect prose and a broken nose, He beats the early morning streets, He's not a king or anything and he's felt like this for weeks, The rain has come again...

No, I didn't want to hear it, But the words came from her mouth so slowly, I saw her face change, She wanted none of that sympathy, You can say what you will, B...

You are part of a trinity, Disposed to femininity, In some ways disposed to insanity, Defying logic in sanity, Cold as the rain above, A superseding love, Like ...

You got me runnin', goin' out of my mind, You got me thinkin' that I'm wastin' my time, Don't bring me down, No, no, no, no, no, I'll tell you once more before ...

Idle hands for the idle rich, The men think she's a bitch, She's a twin to one belief, For now she is a thief, She smiles and laughs and you want more, But she ...

Drinking down and standing back up, It falls into the sequence, She took me from pool hall to party to party, Clear thinking would not have made a difference, N...

An all-too sunny day, Fuckin' dogs gone crazy, I'll drown them out with my shitty walkman In the park I thought I had it made, Break my bones in the aftershock...

OK, you've said enough, You know I got the message, Now you're just trying to make me feel like shit, "You motherfucker", "You can't leave now", She was slurrin...

Every face was different, It was the same blood still on every page, In the caption was written: "The bank after a visit from the RZ" Three dead in a cell, Sta...

Here is my contribution, To your fascist radio, fascist radio show, Here is my one solution, Smash your radio receiver on the floor You say you have all the an...

Everything moves so fast, Now where was it I saw you last? It must have been [ ?] or at the show, You looked at me with sad, sad eyes, And it always takes me by...

Down in the financial zone, The steam comes from beneath the pavement, High on stress or high on speed, Nobody wants to know, Broken vending machine and yellow ...

She comes around on a Thursday night, With a six pack of Becks and a lot on her mind, I've got to work tomorrow at eight AM, I find two glasses that have not be...

Kids are doing drugs, Kids ignore the rules, What do you expect? They're just surviving school, Kids are fucking up, Kids are fucking cruel, Kids all fucking su...

Does anyone ever get their due? I don't think it will take much from you, To find out that it's scarcely true, If you take the time to watch Shampoo, Keep in mi...

Girl that's in a magazine, Do you know what you're doing? You told me that you were free, Do you know what you're doing? This is not a jealous song, Do you know...

Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know it's serious, Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know it's serious There were times when I wish I'd strangled her, But you kn...

She never leaves the neighborhood, She's a good judge of character, I see her once in a while when I go by the uptown, She says "Take care baby, take care baby,...

Back when I was 14 years old, I bought a Hondo Explorer style guitar Yeah, my first guitar, You can keep your stupid lies, You can keep your leather ties Now ...

Let's get your car and go, There's nothing new in New Mexico, And I feel it in my bones, Time stops on the Gulf Coast Gulf Breeze, Florida, Gulf Breeze, Florid...

And I thought I had it right, And I thought it was so black and white, But when the chips are down, And my friend lay bleeding on the ground, A different answer...

Did I see you down in a young girl's town, With your mother in so much pain? I was almost there at the top of the stairs, With her screamin' in the rain Did sh...

I never knew them personally, It was 1959, My mom was only 12 years old when he ran out of time, On a trail to damnation (or climax some folks say), The trail o...

I was so high I couldn't come down, She said with my mother's voice, "There's no need to be afraid" I'm not even sure why we even went out, The sun was so hot,...

You say you're going up to higher ground, You say you're going up to higher ground, To higher ground I don't think your hypothesis is very sound, I don't think ...

I won't write you a letter, I won't call you on the phone, I won't fax you at your office, Still you won't leave me alone I can't be nice to you, I can't be ni...

I have to admit it is going to be hard, It's already harder than I expected, I woke up this morning next to nothing, Arms holding nothing I won't try to stop y...

Saturday night, and it starts with a fight, A fifth of gin and a bag of ice, I know she is angry; she has every right, "You fucking motherfucker" a thousand tim...

I feel dirty with the clothes I have on, I feel dirty on the Reeperbahn, I'm walking through, I walk away, Time to lose on the motorway (motorway) An affection...

If I die, I don't care about heaven, I just wanna know, would you visit my tombstone? I would for you, I would for you, I would for you, I would for you If I d...

I've got, I've got, I've got, I've got a crazy feeling, I need more time in Auckland, New Zealand, Does he know he's just Eno? Every wall has paint that's peeli...

I'm sick of the television, Nothing is on, It doesn't mean indecision, I'm sick of my stereo, I'm sick of my CDs, I wish someone would throw them all away If I...

There's some food upon the table, boys, And if you should ever see me crying, Then you'd know that I am weak, And you are free to take me downstairs, Away from ...

She can talk in codes I only partly understand, She learned them trying to communicate with imaginary friends, She used to call them angels but now they're not ...

Carolina and Nicole are two of the best of friends, Walking home at 7:30 past five drunk Hispanic men, No sense even in listening when you've heard it all befor...

She's not a bitch, she's not a slut, But she says she is both, That was a statement but it's just her indignation, She wants a band to be the antithesis of ever...

You should have known when you met him at the party, He was the kind of guy that would have an extra copy, Of 'The Hundredth Monkey' sitting so prominently, On ...

Everything was going seemingly as planned, Until we ran out of money in Amsterdam, 22 gigs in 44 days, Everyone laughed at our naiveté Well I'm never doing tha...

Jane, Vanessa And I, I, being Jean Seaberg, Isolated in time, Living intellectual crime, Everybody's got a job to do, From "Barbarella" to "Paint Your Wagon", S...

Four dollars a pint, I went home broke but barely alive, A greasy order of fries for my unintentional appetite, Against my better judgement, I went to the gig a...

The interviewer asked, Why I play so many victims, Meaning prostitutes, But I never thought of them as victims, Meaning prostitutes, Why I play so many victims,...

Kathi tells me that she doesn't care and it's not as if she's dumb or unaware, Kathi tells me there's no reason why but she doesn't feel that eating meat applie...

They used to live across the hall from me in Hollywood, She waited tables somewhere off of Sunset, He worked when he could, She dealt with pricks from 10 to 6 a...

Taking the time to walk instead of drive, Taking the time to feel a crooked smile, Standing in the freezing cold, I love it right down to my bones, I wanna be a...

I love my baby and she loves me, I lost my baby to the deep blue sea, Gonna take my trigger, blow your head, Gonna shoot 'til you all are dead Gonna kill surf ...

Butterfly against the blue, Destination unclear, You are trapped here in my room, We can share despair Fluorescent lights define the mood, Calculated pigmentat...

When the sun burns it's not out of revenge, Merely an assertion of dominance, Or maybe definition through omnipresence, This city has it's own life in a literal...

I'm looking at the broken pieces on the floor, There goes my magic key to success, I've got to win back all of my alleged luck, I'm going to Lama Temple, Chicag...

Dear hero imprisoned, With all the new crimes that you are perfecting, Well I can't help quoting you, Because everything that you said rings true And now in my...

I've had a hunch, I've had a hunch for a month, And I've tried to let my logic transcend, Maybe just a hunch and alone it's not enough, But I doubt you'll ever ...

There is no time to sympathize, With Leni Riefenstahl, Art is not created in a void, Any act of outrage, Cannot see through the tears, Wept for the fallen Fuhre...

Everything gives me cancer, Every day the process is getting faster, And when I stop to wonder why, I think about Altadena skies, Altadena skies While I don't ...

You told me that you hated lines, Hate being told what to do, You can bitch and you can whine, But whose idea was the cue? And I know it's just my opinion, The...

Robin's in the metaphysical section, She's got "Living With The Dreaming Body", Robin's in the metaphysical section, She's sprawled out along the carpet floor ...

I feel like a pogue or just a step below, No alcohol in this examination, Am I eating or just repeating? The essence lost in a bad translation I'm not here, I'...

Ask me please, Your love spreads like a new disease, Your love breeds into authority, Your love is nothing but vanity You remind me of a movie that was more th...