He's a wounded animal He lives in a matchbox He's a wounded animal And he's been coming around here He's a dying breed He's a dying breed His daughter is twen...

Somewhere far away where I roam There live my buffalo twin in our twin buffalo home He calls me by my native name And takes good care of my native son He even l...

A cannon was fired by the light of the moon I'm waiting, the boat should be here very soon And I mind less and less all the silly pictures that hang round my ro...

Aching to pupate Aching to pup-p-p-pate [repeats 4x] Pu-pupate, pu pate, Pu-pate, pu-pupate, pu pa-ate I should peddle butterflies There's a shortage in the ...

It ain't no cover It ain't no style I shouldn't bother He's eight miles high But I adore him And I implore him Saying I love none other But this ain't no style...

All the rowboats in the paintings They keep trying to row away And the captains' worried faces Stay contorted and staring at the waves They'll keep hanging in t...

In another town don't let me forget In another town mouths full of regrets In another town please place final bets In another town but i know i know i know oh o...

I must go on standing You can't break that which isn't yours I, oh, must go on standing I'm not my own, it's not my choice Be afraid of the lame They'll inheri...

Dear someone listening In the shadows, I only talk to you sometimes And though I ask for help in riddles, It is, Clearer in my mind, Clearer in my mind Born of...

A boy on a train with a birthmark on his forehead Listening to language tapes and all he hear is birds Everyone laughs cause he brings his own chair to the offi...

She lifted the monument in her monumental arms She was the Mother Superior with her carry-on luggage charms She was this androgynous powder nosed girl next door...

You have tamed me Now you must take me How am I supposed to be I don't have my thorns now But I feel them sprouting They'll grow right through if I don't watch ...

Come on bartender, Won't you be more tender? Give me two shots of whiskey And a beer chaser Love will be the death of me Love is so fickle It starts with a floo...

If I kiss you where it's sore If I kiss you where it's sore Will you feel better, better, better Will you feel anything at all Will you feel better, better, bet...

He stumbled into faith and thought, 'God, this is all there is' The pictures in his mind arose, and began to breathe And all the gods in all the worlds began co...

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love [x2] Don't tell your secrets to anyone Because ideas are vulnerable As soon as you say your idea out loud Then i...

She was lying on the floor and counting stretch marks She hadn't been a virgin and he hadn't been a god So she names the baby Elvis To make up for the royalty h...

He was a husband who drove his wife home drunk from the parties He was a husband who drove his wife home And in the car he would gently lean her head on the sid...

I met mata hari She was in no hurry The firing squad had their guns in the air My invitation said 'Bring your own shovel' I brought my own shovel B Y O S Bring ...

Carbon monoxide Soon I'll go to sleep If I don't got my socks on right They slide right off off my feet As I walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, wal...

I had a dream Crispy crispy Benjamin Franklin came over And Baby-sat all four of my kids Then in my dream I told the doctor off He said if you don't want to do...

My rhyme ain't good just yet, My brain and tongue just met, And they ain't friends, so far, My words don't travel far, They tangle in my hair, And tend to go no...

You are so sweet Dancing to that beat There's a meat market down the street The boys and the girls watch each other eat You are so sweet, so sweet Dancing and...

On the day that Daniel Cowman stopped existing The world should have ended right then and there At precisely four-fifteen when he stopped existing The world sho...

December starts on Sunday Next Sunday, won't you feel happier then? Turn your room upside down Turn your down upside Rumors have started that you are in love ag...

In Dusseldorf I met a clown His nose, it was red In Gelterkinden I forgot to frown Then remembered again In Paris I saw a big fish Swimming slow in the Siene It...

White lines on your mind Keep it steady You were never ready for the lies White lines on your mind Keep it steady You were never ready for the lies You don't ...

It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song You can't believe it; you were always singing along It was so easy and the words so sweet You can't remembe...

(Shook it up) I never loved nobody fully Always one foot on the ground And by protecting my heart truly I got lost in the sounds I hear in my mind All of these...

I wish I'd see a field below I wish I'd hear a rooster crow But there are none who live downtown And so the day starts out so slow Again the sun was never calle...

Come and open up your folding chair next to me, My feet are buried in the sand and there's a breeze, There's a shadow, You can't see my eyes, And the sea is jus...

Some said the local lake had been enchanted others said it must have been the weather the neighbours were trying to keep it quiet but I swear I could hear the l...

A man walks out of his apartment, It is raining, he's got no umbrella He starts running beneath the awnings, Trying to save his suit, Trying to save his suit Tr...

Come in, come in Come into my world I've got to show Show show you Come into my bed I've got to know Know know you I have dreams of orca whales and owls But I ...

hello? hello? calling a Karl Projektorinski to the front of the cathedral you have won, dear sir may I congratulate you first? oh, what an honor human! human o...

I want to sing to you my love My only love and happiness Don't be so blue so blue my love Take off your shoes take off my dress I want to sing to you my love My...

It's just like the movies, i eat from the trees If i do not open the curtains then i cannot see All the people run by My heart eats beats My heart eats love Y...

We keep on burying our dead We keep on planting their bones in the ground But they won't grow, the sun doesn't help The rain doesn't help If my garden would ha...

Lady sing the blues so well As if she mean it As if it's hell down here In the smoke-filled world Where the jokes are cold They don't laugh at jokes They laugh ...

No one laughs at God in a hospital No one laughs at God in a war No one's laughing at God When they're starving or freezing or so very poor No one laughs at Go...

I don't care that flowers grow for you, And me, and me You don't know what love is till you see, Her standing there A web of skin and nails and hair A web of sk...

There was a love affair in this building The kind of love affair Which every respectable building must keep as a legend Slowly festering through an innocent "by...

Oh An incurable humanist you are Oh An incurable humanist you are Youu are Youu are, are Youu are Oh An incurable humanist you are Oh An incurable humanist You-...

I know that you cannot be here I know that you are not mine now Looking out the window At another window I see toenails changing colours Like the leaves of fall...

My eyes are bi-focal My hands are sub-jointed I live in the future In my pre-war apartment And I count all my blessings I have friends in high places And I'm u...

The man of a thousand faces Sits down at the table Eats a small lump of sugar And smiles at the moon like he knows her He begins his quiet ascension Without an...

Miss Marry Ann Kept her man In porcupine gloves, in porcupine gloves And on that day As scheduled They made porcupine love, porcupine love So stiff and stuck a...

Life inside the musicbox ain't easy The mallets hit The gears are always turning And everyone inside the mechanism Is yearning to get out And sing another melod...

My man don't treat me right Don't kiss me sweet goodnight Don't buy me flowers to smell Why he's a rotten boy from hell My man don't treat me good, He eats all ...

Down in Paris they lose their ballas and their lipdamales in the night And stumbling through the street they say, Sir do you have a light? And if you do then yo...

The food that I'm eating Is suddenly tasteless I know I'm alone now I know what it tastes like So break me to small parts Let go in small doses But spare some f...

I'm the king's thirty second son Born to him in thirty second's time Born to him the night still young Born to him with two eyebrows on And that's all I was wea...

This is how it works It feels a little worse Than when we drove our hearse Right through that screaming crowd While laughing up a storm Until we were just boun...

Your stitches are all out But your scars are healing wrong The helium balloon inside your room has come undone And it's pushing up at the ceiling And the flicke...

I could've settled down in Paris But the man who came for me Took me by the hand And said it was time to leave Margaret atwood, she could not stop him Virginia ...

The grave diggers getting stuck in the machine Picking getting slim, slimmer I hear them say my name Regin-ah, regin-ah, regin-a-ah Yes I'm putting the boulder...

Poor little rich boy, all the couples have gone You wish that they hadn't, you don't wanna be alone But they wanna kiss and they got homes of their own Poor lit...

If you're never sorry Then you can't be forgiven If you're not forgiven Then you can't be forgotten If you're not forgotten Then you can live forever If you li...

All of the prisoners serving life sentences Wait for the earth to suddenly shake For the walls to somehow suddenly come crumbling, tumbling and For the bars to ...

You don't know but that's okay You might find me anyway Don't you know that i Belong arm in arm with you, baby In a town that's cold and gray We will have a sun...

Walking home from work Stop at the supermarket, the condiment aisle A jar of pickles catches the eye Made eye contact with a solitary pickle Bought the jar took...

All my little plans and schemes Lost like some forgotten dreams Seems that all I really was doing Was waiting for you Just like little girls and boys Playing w...

Thought I'd cry for you forever But I couldn't so I didn't People's children die and they don't even cry forever Thought I'd see your face in my mind for all ti...

Wake up Put on my riot gear But in the study of my house I've got a smoking jacket passed to me from Grand Daddy It's made of bow and arrow meat Do do do do do...

She will kiss until her lips bleed But she will not take her dress off Americana, tropicana All the sailor boys have demons They sing "oh kentucky why did you f...

You are my sweetest downfall I loved you first, I loved you first Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth I have to go, I have to go Your hair was long when w...

Come on inside and i'll show you your brother He's got enough money to buy a new father He's got enough money to bother Somebody else Solder two wires together ...

Somedays aren't yours at all, They come and go As if they're someone else's days They come and leave you behind someone else's face And it's harsher than yours ...

Summer in the city means cleavage cleavage cleavage And I start to miss you, baby, sometimes I've been staying up and drinking in a late night establishment Tel...

Mr Sunshine in the morning In the morning light Won't you come down from the ceiling Won't you stay the night Baby won't you stay the night In the summer I rem...

Hey remember the time when I found a human tooth down on Delancey Hey remember that time we decided to kiss anywhere except the mouth Hey remember that time whe...

You went into the kitchen cupboard Got yourself another hour And you gave half of it to me We sat there looking at the faces Of these stranges in the pages 'Til...

It started out as a feeling Which then grew into a hope Which then turned into a quiet thought Which then turned into a quiet word And then that word grew loud...

The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them away Some of the bulbs never opened quite fully They might so i'm waiting and staying awake...

The soup, the soup, the soup, the soup The soup was hot and split pea and on the stove And michael and marry and bugsy and buster were occupied The pictures as...

Don't let me get out of this kiss Don't let me say what I say The things that scare us today What if they happen someday Don't let me out of your arms For now ...

I found a wallet I found a wallet inside were pictures of your small family you were so young your hair dark brown you had been born in nineteen fifty-three yo...

You step on all my parts And then you walk right out the door And I know that your love a'int never Coming back no more Time is all around Except inside my clo...

Two birds on a wire One tries to fly away And the other watches him close from that wire He says he wants to as well But he is a liar I'll believe it all There...

Mrs E Roosevelt never heard me shoot my gun Mrs E Roosevelt didn't even know I owned one Somewhere between the cobblestone floor and the slated wooden ceiling C...

They made a statue of us And it put it on a mountain top Now tourists come and stare at us Blow bubbles with their gum Take photographs for fun, for fun They'l...

I was sleeping by the wasteside of tomorrow But it's better than sleeping by the wasteside of today All the barbershops and funeral-homes were open And the cust...

Regina, Regina What? When is that song gonna start? Which song? The song that goes like Da, na, na, na, na, na, na, na Da, na, na, na, na Oh, it's gonna start...

Bear : ReginaRegina Reg : What? Bear : When is that song gonna start? Reg : Which song? Bear : The song that goes like 'Da na na na na na na na' Reg : Ohit...

I kissed your lips and I tasted blood I asked you what happened and you said, There'd been a fight You said I've been fighting for your honor but you wouldn't u...