What's it all about, Alfred Hitchcock? I saw every one of your films 12 times My grandmother brought me to the movies When I was only 5 years old To see The Tr...

Funny how this begins Holding court over a bottle of gin He says, "You don't know what it's like to be me" She says, "No, don't talk to me like I'm dumb" He say...

Daddy's on the back porch playing with a blow torch standing by the front door Avon Ladies For the Poor Meanwhile Mama smiles, "Get your lover down the aisle be...

I'm all alone in this blue room The chair's on fire, but I don't move, just turn my head from side to side I'm all alone in this blue room Count the windows; t...

I want to be beautiful, so I got a magazine But it made me so sleepy, and now I'm in a dream A voice says, "Go down to the river between the bridge and the ravi...

You know, and I know, but we don't say a word Cause we're cowards And your friends all really like me and tell me that I'm good for you, and I think it's true ...

We sat around the table and drank a bottle of wine And it poured around us like a moat till no one could get us, and I was fine And I said, "Haven't I paid my d...

You smile at me and I smile right back There's nothing to say; Just a laugh track TV trays and plastic spoons, metal skies and cardboard moons You kiss my lips ...

Hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on Oh yeah, he's coming down the road With his dad's guitar hanging over his shoulder He takes that Woody Guthrie pose And says,...

Why am I crying for you? You're the one who feeds me with empty hands When I try to find my way back you won't let me go But what I feel is not what you intend ...

Driving into Santa Fe Dreaming of the day I'll make it mine That day is coming Ani DiFranco on the tape player Thinking of the things I'd say to her if I could...

I left that wild side long ago I'm here to tell you something you already know Concerning me and my best friend, sleeping in her big blue bed We liked the same ...

We meet at three I have coffee, you have tea 'Cause you're such an anglophile But I'd take Paris anytime And look at me, I'm smiling And I'm not even trying A...

I used to be young Now I'm old I used to be hot Now I'm almost cold I used to be hard Hard as candy Now I've been sucked on too long, so long, so long I used t...

It's been so long since you called my room pretending to be someone else I have not seen your face from across my plate; nor have I read your poems in the dark ...

All I seem to see of you now is the back of your head All I seem to ask of you now is "When will you be ready?" And I want to tell you I've gone away and won't ...

In the hush before the heartbreak Everything is beautiful In the hush before the heartbreak Everything's cool In the hush before the heartbreak I'll be your foo...

I remember much Walking down to the lake at dusk You dare me, I dare you Hanging down from a rope Chorus Innertube Innertube Innertube Innertube You climb the...

Message to all my friends I've fallen down again Please send help Please send your horses and your men Please send your very best doctors and lawyers to put me ...

Julia makes up lies for children; she only wants to be their friend Julia turns her mirrors to the wall; she only wants to begin again And Julia, do you have a...

Julia makes up lies for children; she only wants to be their friend Julia turns her mirrors to the wall; she only wants to begin again And Julia, do you have a...

I watch you come out of nowhere, your three ships and your hunch You take my hand and kiss it then you ask me out for lunch You say I'd be all right with just a...

You drive your car, check the road, watch the miles ticking by I change the station, you say "Stop," so I stop Hours pass with the miles, not a word has been sp...

When I was twelve, my mom and I Left New York for California sky Dad had gone, it was Mom and me In our Chevrolet, two-part harmony The car broke down west of O...

Your words are kind and your eyes are sweet All of my beginnings end in defeat Meanwhile I know it's time to go home Your whispering kings I cannot believe I do...

I don't feel much like dancing You scrape the ice off my glances We walk through a cold and moonless winter night You recognize the coal in a snowman's eyes Ch...

William's my friend; he'll never change he's my friend the outlaw at home on the range He wears his hair long in a neat ponytail To prove he's still searching f...

You would not be strong If you were not furious You would not be wrong If you were only curious And I know where you go at night And I know what keeps you tight...

In a picture I sit by the lake November blue sky on the water How hard is it for you to see me as somebody's daughter? I've never been able to fake it; to prete...

She is waiting in line for a meal that is free There's a boy with a beard and a patch on his knee She already knows what the conversation will be This happens a...

We could at least agree that someday we'd have coffee There's a little place I know; OK--neutral territory How was I to know that you'd go into video? Or that y...

You and me and she and he and he And we agree to be happy happy happy And we will be completely in control We want to go to Paradise, everyone there says it's ...

There hasn't been a train here for about two thousand years Maybe there never was one but the tracks are everywhere And my pale imagination makes me think there...