We sail on the bad tide We sail on the bad sea From your heart to my heart with sails cut from mercy From your heart to my heart From Summer to Spring We row th...

Heading south so i can go north Guided by birds but drifting off-course Read the tide-table before starting out Bbut 30 years old with chapters torn out You, wa...

In travel, there are traps When I'm writing in the back Beneath the rain, between the maps My diary bears this out but memory has it wrong I loved you when you ...

Amongst the books, an angel i've not met And time hasn't touched her yet From a to m to z she swans, as if avoiding bed Pigtails instead of wings I strung her h...

There's angel pie in the oven and everything is ok, it's alright The point at which the seasons pass each other on the way out, way in 'A confederate general fr...

1914 - 1918 i've got your letter here, i've got your memories Young men, as us - broken soldiers i've got your telegram, i've got your souvenirs 1914 - 1918 i'v...

There's rain on the line between his ear and mine Lost in translation, bad patient I'm a terrier, a black sheep, half-relation He's French, a hack, white, Cauca...

There are more people alive now than have ever lived I read that somewhere and instantly thought it impossible but if it were to be true I wonder that, if we ke...

Came to London to find myself but in ten million people Where do you start? Drunk at a party You asked me if I was someone else and I say "Yeah, if it helps you...

Look at that rich girl twitch - like me she can't sit still How would you want it seen? Just like when you were ill? When you hear the way they talk - the rosy ...

None of us are what we were I know you've heard this all before I know you've heard this all before But none of us are what we were But it's a dark age, a dange...

Get me an ugly wife - no man will look twice I can fall asleep at night and dream of someone else I found an ugly wife and she'd led an ugly life Take my hand, ...

You're life's like a comic book All shadows and childhood fantasy The people you love, disguised In a velvet glove biography But i recognize what's going on: De...

Anything can happen in life Especially nothing, mainly nothing Once you know that, you're fine Once you know that, you can retire Set your clock by your heart W...

England's dreaming, winter absent I take my books back, change my accent First in the library You queue up behind me, frost-bitten in french mittens Take care o...

I'm in my halloween boat with a hole in my heart the size of a girl Pacific postman, 30 west by 50 east on a black sea that joins up countries My life is one se...

Outside, the fairground in snow Revolves like a waltz, funeral slow And summer has gone, collapsed like a chair Like the heart of a bird, a bell on the air Insi...

I am the sub-librarian, come in on the council bus Chalk Farm to Highgate Woods, sportsbag of borrowed books A steady diet of Brautigan, 'Tapestry' on the walkm...

Started mailroom Moved up through Clerical, now Obituaries I am the teacher's son I am the teacher's son I am the teacher's son I'm the teacher's son Never seen...

I came to your party dressed as a shadow and you never knew, you never knew I rolled through the halls like a velvet wave, as quiet as an empty stage I blackene...

I must leave london It is bad for my soul It's making a hole That will erode me I cannot subscribe I cannot tow the line And robert elms, You're selectively bli...

It's the same dream that lasts all night but I can only keep this It's Halloween and I'm chasing you round the other kids On a moonlit lawn in a skull mask and ...

Well, i left home when i was 16 I had no reason, had no rhyme I did not know where i was going It did not matter at that time And there were people on the stre...

He lived a boy's life He loved his "Camp Mohawk" on Viele`s Creek And he loved to work on problems, drifting in his canoe Lightning days He hated formalities in...

It's the night of the hunter It's the night of the long knives It's the night of the hunter And you can justify all you like Sleep tight, this snowy night For ...

On the forecourts of French libraries from Reignac to Marseilles the rain rattles small cars, clouds drape over backseats I am a photograph in your satchel, bet...

I've got the snow on my side - i've got no doubts about that And though this city grows wider, i always know where i'm at I got your letter this morning I know ...

My password is a dead aunt's name A monument, a testament My password is a dead aunt's name A cenotaph, a shallow grave I'm thirty one and fading fast Forget th...

I was a postal worker from May until July I left because of allergies - the letters made me cry 8am on Fridays, 6am the rest Postal for the two months Coastal f...

Out of season, out of heart, I cross you off beneath the stars Autumn leaves a nasty scar and with the leaves, the heart departs You're off the map, you've left...

Breaking Winter up by shooting numbers from the clock The cat sleeps on the atlas in Alsace Lorraine, dreaming long grass and birds on the wire I have memories ...

Joanne comes around with a radio and absinthe We start the afternoon with polish xmas songs on shortwave She laughs as we burn the first shot, the green flame I...

Three on the backseat as we drive home from rehearsal There's snow on the drums The snare shudders like a cold ghost between my mittens in the trunk, guitars sl...

Rain starts on you as your goodbye runs me through Goodbye is nothing new but it's last breath when said by you And this world shrinks to a room - weather insid...

Geography, be kind to me, for the miles apart are killing me Tonight I would die to be by her side so speed the road, rush the lights Speed the road, rush the l...

She said, "it's ok - you'll feel better every day and all memory of this will fade away" And that's the biggest lie and i just wonder why when love dissolves we...

The canadian brought us snow and lucky strikes for john to smoke A thursday night with powercuts, in mountain socks, burning books We watched the jetsons for to...

There's no heart in the men who run these mountain bars All love extinguished by location and cold fronts Dogs in the parking lot surround the car for scraps of...

The end of a dark, tired year I slept bad, in bad dreams, on bad beer I tried to get on but you nagged in my ear And London is fucked - a busted bike with ruste...

Could it be that you drove me into your fleet of hand-melt candy Could it be that you sent me falling off the roof backwards, gently Do not let my words depress...

I have thought about you in your Summer abode In your lunatic smock, in chronicle mode The typewriter smack as you nail in the words and the turntable's drunk r...

I can't get on, i can't get on Because i live in the past And it's too strong I can't get on, i can't get on Because i live in the past And it's too strong And...

The season is long and i've got the chills The city steps back, replaced by the hills There's snow on my heart and snow on my pills The season is long and this ...

The tollbooth martyrs, 21 - 56 Leave their lives at the gate and beneath the standard issue crucifix Push their summers to the side of the plate Live their live...

You turn on your side like you have to face North Or else you can't sleep : the unwritten law But how can you sleep with my heart so loud? Like a scream in a ja...

I can't believe she said that Can't believe it's true Can't believe she's faithful, She is wicked through and through She's read too many books She's had too ma...

Your poetry is all blanks to me Your words pass through courteously I wish to be swept up, to be swished I wish to be swept up, to be swished Your delivery is a...

A Charlie Brown snowstorm for 249 Snoopy drops dead in the snow This is all that I can show for my time with someone I don't really know I met you in mittens be...

And there were those films Made in the Seventies where dolls ran through fields Late at night, after men His shirt is my dress I lost my knees and hands He drow...

You can hear the room On these long, winter nights If you'd just, if you'd just If you'd just be quiet Beneath the word There's the whisper of pipes There's the...

I know nothing of tides And i'm confused by the stars But you can never get lost When you've nowhere to go And i've got space in my heart For the next twenty y...

Your ghost, a white candle in this night Smile broken, though eyes bright as carnival rides You wander these streets, punch-drunk on the stars As the lights are...