It was a very cold clear fall night I had a terrible dream the other night Billy Name and Brigid were Playingunder my stair case on the secaond floor about two ...

I'm just a gift to the women of this world I'm just a gift to the women of this world Responsibility sits so hard on my shoulder Like a good wine I'm better as ...

You're an adventurer You sail across the oceans You climb the Himalayas Seeking truth and beauty as a natural state You're a queen reborn Worshipped from above ...

You feel so lonely, when it's in the afternoon and you gotta face it, all through the night Don't it make you believe that something's gonna have to happen soon...

(Francis Scott Key) Oh, say, can you see By the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed At the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright star...

If I could be anything in the world that flew I would be a bat and come swooping after you And if the last time you were here things were a bit askew Well, you...

Miss Riley had a dog She used to keep it in her back yard And when the dog began to bark All the neighbours began to shout Then came a stormy night, Miss Riley ...

I ain't no Christian or no born again saint I ain't no cowboy or Marxist DA I ain't no criminal or Reverend Cripple from the right I am just your average guy, t...

Jim, livin' with you'd not such fun You're not not the only one You don't have the looks You're not the person that you used to be And there are people in the s...

I'm a little balloon and I get puffed up squeeze me and bend me it's never enough Put your lips around me, blow me up but if you prick me I will pop I'm a litt...

I'm banging on my drum, I'm banging on my drum I'm banging on my drum, boy, I'm having lot's of fun I'm banging on my drum, Yeah, I'm banging on my drum I'm ban...

When I think of you baton rouge I think of a mariachi band I think of sixteen and a crisp green football field I think of a girl I never had When I think of yo...

It might be great to have a kid that I could kick around a little me to fill up with thoughts A little me or he or she to fill up with my dreams a way of saying...

--- se --- Eins Zwei Drei Zugabe Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear caroline Happy birthday to you --- se --- In berlin by the wall You were five foo...

Betrayed by the one who says she loves you By the one who says she needs you Above all other men Betrayed by her fragile, vicious beauty Her father did his duty...

Billy was a good friend of mine We grew up together ever since we were nine We went to school, he was my best friend And I thought our friendship would never en...

Who's that peeping through my door sneaking up and down the hall I can't stand it anymore I can't stand it anymore Who's that peeping through my door sneaking ...

I'm cruising fast on a motorcycle down this winding country road And I pass the gravel on the foot of the hill Where last week I fell off There's still some oil...

Like to thank all you people for showing up tonight Sorry about the weather Let's have a big hand for my long time accompianist Manfred Gooseberry Hey Goose Tak...

Fly through the glass of a window pane fall through the sky feeling the rain Walk on broken glass your tell-tale heart Look through the bars of a dirty jail ce...

You can't depend on your family You can't depend on your friends You can't depend on a beginning You can't depend on an end You can't depend on intelligence You...

Caught in the crossbow of ideas and journeys sit here reliving the other self's mournings Caught in the crossbow of ideas and dawnings stand I Oh oh oh oh Reliv...

Caroline says that I'm just a toy She wants a man, not just a boy Oh, Caroline says, ooh Caroline says Caroline says she can't help but be mean Or cruel, or oh ...

The only thing constantly changing is change and change is always for the worse The worm on the hook always eaten by a fish the fish by bird man or worse A spot...

Everybody said that you'd better watch out Man, she's gonna turn you in And me, you know that I thought that I looked out Now look at the trouble that I'm in yo...

Don't these city lights light these streets to life All these crazy nights bring us together Any rainy day, you can dance your blues away Don't these city light...

You know, man, when I was a young man in high school You believe in or not, that I wanted to play football for the coach All those older guys, they said he was ...

[Hop Frog:] Tomorrow is the seasonal ball I propose costumes for you and the honourable ministers to wear [King:] Yes [Hop Frog:] All dress as orangutans A...

You're the kind of person that I've been dreaming of You're the kind of person that I always wanted to love And when I first seen you walk right through that ba...

Well the coal black sea waits for me me me The coal black sea waits forever The waves hit the shore Crying more more more But the coal black sea waits forever ...

He was lying banged and battered, skewered and bleeding talking crippled on the Cross Was his mind reeling and heaving hallucinating fleeing what a loss The thi...

Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel he looks out a window without glass The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet his father beats him 'cause he...

The other night we went to see Sam's play doin' the things that we want to It was very physical it held you to the stage doin' the things that he wants to Doin...

I was angry, I said things I shouldn't say but please don't turn your back Sometimes I get so upset but I take it all back Please don't go, I know I was wrong ...

A perfect day to get out of bed shower, dress, shave, kiss you on the head Then I hit the office and my head starts to swim A perfect day to just walk around s...

I was angry, I said things I shouldn't say but please don't turn your back Sometimes I get so upset but I take it all back Please don't go, I know I was wrong ...

It's been a long time since I've been spoken to you Was it the right time? Your current troubles and you know they'll get much worse I hope you know how much I ...

Picking up pieces of information Time locks Picking up pieces of information about you And how to pick locks Scouting around on the Lower East Side and matresse...

If I close my eyes I see your face and I'm not without you If I try hard and concentrate I can still hear you speak I picture myself in your room by the chair y...

If I close my eyes I see your face and I'm not without you If I trying hard and concentrate I can still hear you speak I picture myself in your room by the chai...

These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe not exactly the boy next door He'll tell you tales of horror then he'll play with your mind if you haven't heard of him...

When I was a young man - no bigger than this A chocolate egg cream was not to be missed Some U Bet's Chocolate Syrup, seltzer water mixed with milk Stir it up i...

The bias of the father runs on through the son And leaves him bothered and bewildered The drugs in his veins only cause him to spit At the face staring back in ...

Jealousy, endlessly sweeps through my mind Jealousy, often causes me to be unkind I'm sorry I said that, I'm sorry I did that I'm sorry I hit you, I'm sorry, I'...

All the things you said - you thought I was dead Everything made me feel aware Ah, you're getting old, you're doing things You're losing your hair All the thing...

[King:] Oh mellifluous dwarf prince of all the jesters Funny little thing you are Make me laugh As God's voluminous star [Hop Frog:] Gracious majesty Today i...

Faces and names, I wish they were the same faces and names only cause trouble for me Faces and names If we all looked the same and we all had the same name I w...

Wind blows snow outside my windows Crowd below runs wild in the streets Two rented brothers race down two separate alleys Heading for the finish line Down in th...

I would not run from the holocaust I would not run from the bom I'd welcome the chance to meet my maker And fly into the sun, fly into the sun, fly into the sun...

He's over by the corner got her hand by her side They hit her harder, harder, harder till they thought she might die Well, I've got a foggy notion, do it again...

Follow, follow the leader na-na-now New york, new york city na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-now Follow, follow the leader na-na-now New york, new york city na-na-na-...

(Bob Dylan) Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man so can a woman who passes herself off as a male They sang "Danny Boy" at his funeral and the Lord's Pray...

Train entering the city I lost myself and never come back Took a trip around the world, and never came back Black silhouettes, crisscrossed tracks, never came b...

Well, you covered your tracks and now I can't see you You had your ashes scattered at sea There's no grave to visit no tombstone to look at You were in the NY T...

Hey, if that ain't the rock'n'roll animal himself, what you doing bro (Standing on the corner) Well, I can see that, what you got in your hand (Suitcase in my h...

When you're in a dream and you think you've got your problems all nailed down Pieces of the scheme Seem to rattle up and to rattle down And when you start to fa...

Good evening Mr.Waldheim and Pontiff how are you? you have so much in common in the things you do And here comes Jesse Jackson he talks of Common Ground does t...

Good night Ladies! Good night Ladies! Good night Ladies! We're going to leave you now Merrily we roll along roll along roll along Merrily we roll along o'er t...

Sitting on a hard chair try to sit straight Sitting on a hard chair this moment won't wait Listening to the speakers they're talking about you Look at all the p...

Goodnight ladies, ladies goodnight It's time to say goodbye Let me tell you, now, goodnight ladies, ladies goodnight It's time to say goodbye Ah, all night long...

Some people are into the power of power The absolute corrupting power, that makes great men insane While some people find their refreshment in action The manipu...

I have a guardian angel keep him in my head When I'm afraid and alone I call him to my bed I have a guardian angel who keeps bad things from me The only way to ...

Guilty, guilty Guilty, I'm paralyzed with guilt It runs through me like a rain through silk Guilty, my mind won't leave me alone My teeth are rotted my lips sta...

The man has a gun He knows how to use it Nine millimeter browning Let's see what he can do He'll point at your mouth Say that he'll blow your brains out Don't y...

There's a downtown fairy singing out "Proud Mary" As she cruises Christopher Street And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean Where the docks and the badl...

When your imagination has too much to say When the chill of the night meets the sweat of the day And you have trouble understanding what other people have to sa...

Harry was a rich young man who would become a priest He dug up his dear father who was recently deceased He did it with tarot cards and a mystically attuned mi...

Looking in the mirror Harry didn't like what he saw The cheeks of his mother the eyes of his father As each day crashed around him the future stood revealed He ...

Heavenly arms reach out to hold me Heavenly arms entice you to dance In a world of ill will, the dancers are still Heavenly arms reach out to me Heavenly arms ...

Andy, it's me, haven't seen you in a while I wished I talked to you more when you were alive I thought you were self-assured when you acted shy hello it's me I...

Listen, I just wanna tell you a story It happened to a friend of mine Didn't have no power in the glory City took a hell of a time?? The city was ahead kind of ...

(Reed) I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can 'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein And...

I got the time I got my feet Let's go hit the street High in the city, high in the city I got my mace and you got your knife You gotta protect your own life Hig...

There's blacks with knives and whites with guns Fighting in Howard Beach There's no such thing as human rights When you walk the NY streets A cop was shot in th...

Here's to Johnny with his Jo, and Mickey's got a wife And here's to Jerry, he's got Joyce And me I'm shaking in my boots tonight For the daughters and the sons ...

Well they call me a juicy hop-frog you can see me in any wood bog don't you know that they call me the hop-frog hopping frog I'm a hop-frog a hop-frog they call...

A son who is cursed with a harridan mother Or a weak simpering father at best Is raised to play out the timeless classical motives Of filial love and incest Ho...

Valerie Solanis took the elevator Got off at the 4th floor Valerie Solanis took the elevator Got off at the 4th floor She pointed the gun at Andy saying You can...

It's hard being a man living in a garbage pail My landlady called me up, ooohhh she tried to hit me with a mop I can't stand it anymore more I can't stand it a...

You broke my heart and you made me cry You said that I couldn't dance But now I'm back to let you know That I can really make romance You do what you gotta do, ...

I remember you I remember me I remember I remember how things used to be I remember every word that you said I remember, how could I forget I remember, I rememb...

I wanna be black Have natural rhythm Shoot twenty feet of jism, too and fuck up Jews I wanna be black I wanna be a Panther Have a girlfriend named Samantha And ...

Hey, pretty baby don't you think you might give me a chance Get it on with me go down-town for some loving romance And I know I ain't nothing I ain't worth but ...

Yes I am mother nature's son And I'm the only one I do what I want and I want what I see Huh, to only happen to me! I'm so free I'm so free Oh, please, Saint ...

I'm waiting for my man Got 26 dollars in my hand Up to Lexington 125 feelin' sick and dirty for a day and a life Huh, I'm waiting for my man Hey white boy, wha...

Yes I am mother nature's son and I'm the only one I do what I want and I want what I see huh, could only happen to me I'm so free I'm so free Oh, please, Sain...

I'm waiting for my man Got 26 dollars in my hand Up to Lexington 125 feelin' sick and dirty Huh, I'm waiting for my man Hey white boy, what you doin' uptown He...

I think images are worth repeating Images repeated from a painting Images taken from a painting From a photo worth re-seeing I love images worth repeating Proje...

[Teacher:] Death by a visitation from God Death by a visitation from God [Student:] I am shadow [Teacher:] Things material and spiritual [Student:] Mater...

(feat Laurie Anderson) In our sleep, as we speak Listen to the drum's beat, as we speak In our sleep, as we speak Listen to the drum's beat, in our sleep In ou...

Standing on the corner suitcase in my hand Jack's in his corset, Jane is in her vest me, honey, I'm in a rock 'n' roll band Ridin' in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim you k...

It wasn't me who shamed you it's not fair to say that you wanted to work I gave you a chance at that It wasn't me who hurt you that's more credit that I'm worth...

You keep your jealousy and your snide remarks to yourself You know that I'm not seeing anyone else You just keep your ear down to the ground Yell your head off ...

Hey man, what's your style How you get your kicks for living Hey man, what's your style How you get your adrenalin flowing now How you get your adrenalin flowin...

All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electro shock They say, they let you live at home, with mom and dad Instead of mental hospital But everytime you t...

When she walked on down the street She was like a child staring at her feet But when she passed the bar And she heard the music play She had to go in and sing ...

LOU REED - LAST GREAT AMERICAN WHALE They say he didn't have an enemy His was a greatness to behold He was the last surviving progeny The last one on this side ...

Last shot sure killed me pour another drink Let's drink to the lastshot and the blood on the dishes in the sink Blood inside the coffeecup blood on the table to...

Everybody's gonna try to tell you what to do And never, never, never, never Let it be said that it's true Leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone...

Legendary hearts Tearing up apart With stories of their love Their great transcendant loves While we stand here and fight And lose another night of legendary lo...