Steven and I hitch-hiking Our day off to Hanover Beat up car with young girl driving Slow down and pull over In the rear view mirror Like co-conspirators we di...

I been down I been around I been lost And I been found I been dum I been num I been blind But the miracles still come There's always a reason Sometimes invisi...

I can feel you in the crowded bar room As I get into my car Music playing, beads of sweat descending Down your skin to where your secrets are And I wanted To g...

There is an ocean in the sky The road is a river The shoulder I'm following is crumbling Started as only half a lie Indian summer It was my fortune I was gambl...

Born with blue eyes filled with pain In March of 1922 Mystic fire in your veins Mama's apron strangling you Mama's apron strangling you Mama's apron strangling ...

Strip away the bar and gun shop Strip away the lonesome telephone lines Strip away the faded black top Strip away these things, I'll tell you what you'll find ...

We had our day in the sun And it was a good day You thought maybe I was the one And I felt the same way But now the walls are crumbling down around us And there...

The ties that bind unravelled on an August night She left his tired love behind, in a laundromat, in black and white The powers that be decided it was time to l...

Stood a building by the river in a place called Bordertown Me and my friend Little Steven used to take our money down We were only seventeen then, starving for ...

Raised on words like "punishment" and "God will get you If you don't do what you're told" Nuns turned children into fearful right Handed little Servants of the ...

Out in the deep end I'm alive, not that you would know Wasted the week-end Drivin' by places where you go I know that you like 'em dangerous And I ain't dangero...

She wears her sex like a crown She tears the little boys to pieces When they come around She's pretty like a magazine I am her victim And how she loves to watch...

Once you get a taste of freedom It's hard to settle down Once you get the hang of flying It's hard to touch back down Girl I know you're from the old school Fin...

I took the long way I took the low road And when I got home It was morning, where'd the time go? She sat waiting She had her coat on Said, "This can't go on" Gu...

Treetops spinning at the outskirts of my vision In the back yard of a stranger on the edges of my mind I lay broken with my belly up to heaven, I guess Drinking...

Well the check's in the mail, might get there by Monday And I got two children, I might see them one day And I keep on drinking even though I quit Sobriety'd be...

Child of fear, child of anger Traveler on the open road An ancient car she bought With money that he gave her When he died, oh oh That was the only thing he ev...

Saw the wave hit the shore Saw it clear, like I never had before It was spiritual, I nearly lost control Felt it in my soul Now I can't remember, try as I may E...

As I travel down the path of least resistance I don't stop To wonder what it's all about Money talks and beauty fades and misery loves company, but hey It ain't...

After all this time You're still feeding me that same old line You don't know how you feel You got a love inside You got a love locked up way down deep inside ...

I walked the world alone so long Lost on my own trip I had to see it, touch it, taste it Or it did not exist I was a faithless man Empty heart and hand A tired...

I was getting slightly intoxicated I was going half way out of my mind So I walked over to the pay phone and I waited For some helpful voice to come on the line...

Do you ever stop believing In the power of the human race? Do you ever start perceiving, In the image in the mirror A decided fall from grace? It's a product of...

Snow on the railroad tracks Dogs in the moonlight Stoned out on Kerouac Tryin' to get it just right A phone in a dim lit room Rings out forever In a time that ...

Guess I was not thinking about anything I guess I was just coasting along Don't know how I ever let her get away I guess that I just lost it in the sun Sorrowf...

Well I don't know why It makes me cry And I don't know how we Came to be When I think back on The things we done So far away from Where we were And I don't kn...

Take the darkest of the darkest nights Combine it with the brightest of the sun's bright rays And you'll see what I see in my head What I see every day From th...

Destitute, desolation Angels eyes shine upon my curse From this mountain I make my way Along the railroad earth Steam train blazing a lonely hill Damaged cargo...

I was dabbling in the affairs of the heart Against the backdrop of a broken one And I was grappling with a promise I'd begun If only an unspoken one But in the...

I want to get close to you But I don't know where you are I had a dream, it woke me up But now I can't remember what I saw Am I alone again? The room still loo...

In the dark heart of my journey On the dark night of my soul I felt an old familiar yearning For what I did not know You see I had to have my freedom So I hit t...

Here I stand On the proving ground Mortal man Hiding my failures And I can Leave here without a sound But then where would I be? Broken again, lonely and free W...

My father told me, he told me, "Son, There was one year in my life, I felt so close to God" He said, "I lost my way on and off again Since that time oh but you ...

She got a tattoo of a bracelet on her wrist The love of strangers on her Christmas list She ain't sentimental, she don't like to reminisce She's a champion of a...

I'm a fool You're a liar I'm a dry stick of wood You are a fire I thought it through Baby I thought it over Only thing I got to do now Is tell you it's over B...

Thirty seven kinds of coffee Thirty seconds to decide As the line backs up behind me Say, "I'll take number nine" Things have gotten complicated There's confus...

I went down to Leo's Lounge To look at the faces, listen to the sounds Bartender Bernie, look my way he say, "Tell me son, how do you feel today?" And I say: C...

I could go to anywhere, Head hung low in shame Buy new clothes and dye my hair, Maybe even change my name But the past don't ever disappear, And to run's a losi...

In a small, Pennsylvania town the kind that Looks like a postcard from a distance There sprang a true love, a God-forbidden new love Complete with romance and r...

She says that she is going home now She says that she has seen enough She packed her bags, She's leaving in the morning On that 7:30 am Greyhound Bus I want to...

"Burn down the mission!" So said the noon day sun On a wearisome expedition, When the vision quest had begun Unbeknownst to the drifter, Unbeknownst to the soli...

In the dark before the day You're still drunk from yesterday When there ain't nothing left to say Maybe then you'll find a way To the heart of everything When ...

The crescent moon sits waxing in the clear, blue sky tonight Joanna sits relaxing down by the riverside The cigarette she's smoking, a symbol of her sin The wor...

It started on a lonely Friday The world was gray and overcast again I couldn't find no one to be my friend Locked the bedroom door as always Saw my brother's r...

Don't know why I run and hide Make myself so lonesome You just say, "That's okay Hey babe I'll catch you later" It took a while To put it all together You can'...

The sunlight hits me and I shiver I rub the sleep out of my eyes I pull the mail box open And hope to find a sweet surprise I stumble back into the kitchen I d...