(Yeah) We are the atoms of society Serve up meat as a delicacy Your breast-fed heads, what a thing of shame They got you dope, shoulder the blame (Yeah) We a...

Max Sharp was an aquanaut With the gills and fin Especially bred for the oceany bed Waterproof head and skin Going down to the submarine town 20 fathoms deep W...

Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made Those are pearls that were his eyes Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into...

These are weird times There's a widow in my street She turns her husbands into birds They've got claws instead of feet A cage is in the garden There's feathers ...

Helicopters flying overhead [0:37] Saw me see ??? (beyond?) Bad dreams inside my head Everything keeps going wrong Sometime, that's right Television in every ...

Walked like a spirit Ceratonic fog Time crawls away Like a snake or a dog For god sakes wake up You people need more For god sakes get up So we can score Pene...

The standing invitation to the back of beyond Beyond which no man dares tread They do the bossa nova in Wilmington and Dover In clover, over your head Saddle y...

China, saw your sister on the Nile/online When I asked her, he admitted they all love Come on down, we're gonna take you deeper You're gonna be fine, you're go...

They packed us up in boxes, wooden boxes And sent us home Underneath the willow, near the river By my headstone And all you do is carry on It?s snowing now it...

Attracted by the metals in your teeth and in your earth We faint in amazement Along congested reefs our leviathans are berthed In a jagged arrangement Consider ...

Red light, white light, shining, burning bright Cousin/Angel's staying overnight A ragged strip of flame, a fool's delight Drop in deep, horizon out of sight N...

Well you spoke about amnesia, as though it's where it's at Your lover had a seizure, while her brother fed her pussycat You were hanging from the railing, like ...

High, after the summer Find all the wells are drunk dry Miles and miles of starburn Branded on the hide of the night Diviner Low, before the winter Loser, the...

If you're still too big to accept my friendship I guess there's nothing I can do or say But don't rely on your friends They won't pick you up when you fall They...

Elizabeth makes abstract mistakes In chinatown when everything breaks Rain in the windows singapore eyes Under the ladder and everything twice Elizabeth green ...

Cold man is rich in luxurious heat White empty car at the end of the street Five thousand angels hang from their strings Drinking their bourbons and grooming th...

As you stumble into the future Remorselessly moving out of the past And you separate the reflex moments of living You drag down the morning into your room You ...

I knew this man, he had some kind of fatal affliction Each day, a tiny particle, a small drop of his soul, leaked or Escaped into the air, out beyond the insipi...

First you offer fire Pure, deluxe Fire island You improved deal Real fine Fire island Foreign sea premium far Fire fire fire island Fire island (repeat)

Paper flowers tacked to the walls And cotton sheets back two by two Softness where the dreamer storms Leaves are crushing up on you Different hearts play on the...

Weaving dissolving patterns Forming our uncertain terms Passing into history Going to the worms I?ll wait for you forever In my house all white with dust Fallin...

[Unreleased, from a demo reel dated Dec 14, 1983] Don't touch the snake who beckons you, his eyes are full of ice You'll be slippery just like he is, living on...

Waitress with the short hair is stoned She drifts amongst the tables Old ladies talk like birds That'd fly if they were able The coffee has a calming effect I'...

What you need is a flattering mirror A strong elixir with no hangover properties Nineteen year old lovers who can stay hard all night A million dollars with no ...

Ate up the prophets, corrupted the saints Exhausted resources made us ashamed Hollywood won?t touch you with a pole Jesus does not love you, lucifer does not w...

My birthday, the moon festival My life in the sea of tears My holiday, a misadventure My soul, a short career Like a lizard the road crawls forward Into region...

Well I came to this land where the snow and the sand Cover my footprints with ice The cool gray sea calls me "come and be free" And I almost take that advice An...

You fell through the ceiling Into the party below Somewhere south of the border Where they grow the blow And all your good ideas Celebrated mistakes/Celebratin...

Excuse me, you know I hate to complain But I never argue, I shouldn't have to explain There's a million restless reasons in here I can't repeat again Lizards ea...

Plane crash in the desert, everybody walked away Suitcase open to the breeze, light lifting up pretty heavy So we climbed out, looked around us Your shirt stuck...

I turned around to see the clown He made no sound, his face was down He was crying, dying to laugh another smile Down the empty avenues I stood inside his worn-...

Starboard and port Comes creeping in the mist I'm lost in thought Lost in the thought of this Seasick Seasick The lovers flowing in The traffic comes and goes...

Got your whiskey and Coke You may appreciate this joke You seem like a decent bloke You're doing pretty well No one could never tell that You've got your guita...

You never shoulda used magic To summon me back here The consequences could be rather tragic But that's a real good trick my dear And all the time I'm under the...

At the heart of her outrage There lies a veil of tears Stories of lost times She?ll spread among the fields And we touched the land Of weeds where nothing grows...

Hello sweet creature Won't you give me some bloodlike guarantee I've been listening to myself too long And they're making a prophet out of me I'm as empty as a ...

The silence is wrong He/You can't find the hotel It was a while back It's just a shell And the place where it stood Just a field full of weeds It's a done deal ...

Well I'm a skyscraper carnivore Living on the thirteenth floor The wife's got scabies, the dog's got rabies The kids are having fun just having babies And the g...

You are altogether beautiful Oh girl companion of mine And there is no defect in you There is no defect in you With me from lebanon my bride With me from lebano...

I am the spirit of Christmas yet to come The future, the source of your grief And all the little details and the things left undone Catching you up underneath G...

It's opening night, everything's going fine Finally finding a timeless time It's an open line And angle your way through the actors and sets Entrance, exits, d...

Music in starling st sounds like the wind Down the cafe when the daylight has thinned Harry and dorothy say let?s begin You clap your hands for a jug of fine wi...

I once had this woman, a surrealist woman She changed before my very eyes One minute revolving, next minute dissolving I wish that it had been otherwise I foll...

[Unreleased, from a demo reel dated Dec 14, 1983] (I, I, I, I) I take the things from their leather cases And I arrange them in their special places I collect...

Pinocchio he loves her Like anybody wood But if she pulls his strings again tonight I?m leaving her for good In alexandria I know a place we can go: They serve...

I walk alone, this ashphalt eden I must have outgrown Just flesh and bone, no indication, no way to get home Now feel their hands, and their demands And underst...

I can barely bear to be with you tonight I can hardy stand to see you in this light How can I even try to deny it I can barely bear to be with you tonight How ...

When it's time to say goodbye When it's time to say goodbye When it's time to say goodbye Waiting for you in the sky Born alone everyone Everything under the s...

How much do you want, how much do you want it How much are you willing to spend Superseded model bargain number special profit margin How much were you willing ...

Where'd you get the stolen impression Where'd you get the wrong direction Where'd you get the answer where there isn't one Where'd you get the idle nerve from W...

Uncomplicated, not a reason nor a whim Uncompared, and unprepared to start Satisfied our living by the steel Riding high upon your golden cart Oh tyrant Undig...

It's got a life of it's own It's got a terrible shake It's got the option for air Almost a joke that I care Almost a cloak that I wear It's covered in dust now ...

The day we left for January The maelstroms lashed outside/our side [0:45] Tore us away from the glass world obeyed/of faith [0:50] Where the impulse engines die...

Well the worm, deep down and cold Has finally turned, burned down and sold See the day, three more to go Pull up its wings and fade And you find you're easily g...

Caught in a driving winter's rain Two people wait for a train They don't know where it's going to I don't think it matters, do you? You don't know what life is ...