she calls me Goliath and I wear the David mask I guess the stones are coming too fast for her now you know I'd like to believe this nervousness will pass all th...

I get you ready for the breakdown I'm the feeling inside you that just wants to explode I never sugarcoat a shakedown So empty all your pockets of the things th...

No communication with you Words don't believe the things they mean mean what you say say who you are No communication with you This silence is thick but listen...

She calls me Goliath and I wear the David mask I guess the stones are coming to fast for her now You know I'd like to believe this nervousness will pass All the...

that's my other hand, open and empty it wants one too I guess that's my other jaw, swollen and shameless it talks too much I know and another singer is born, wi...

It will take a fancy store For mom and dad To forget what they never had It will only take one moment To make her believe She's something worth trying on A li...

She's got a ticket but you need more than a ticket to get you there You need a string of good intentions and an easy burn Maybe some good luck with the cash tuc...

As I step out into space I wonder what you would say If you knew that I was here Perfecting my mistakes I poured that gasoline Last drop to the machine And I dr...

headstrong is willing to live like a rat in a hole headstrong unwilling to listen to anyone at all keeps her head above the water, keeps her head upon her shoul...

I am a tiny machinist I have the smallest plans I have a mind television The gift of idle hands I've been re-educated To bleed technology Even more complicated ...

It's not the clothes that she borrows just call me out - you know I'll follow Back thru the backdoor into June Luck will sleep the October June Sometimes in de...

there's a tall, a mulatto, boy I know and he comes to every party -- he stands alone viewing them the rest, from the corner of his glance it gets so clear, he's...

Yeah you in your mother's new shoes bet you like them as much as her blues Don't tell anyone - but I plan to move the first time you look away Tell me the new a...

Had a dream And you were my dream Saw your face Real in a dream Sugar mouth Stings like a bee Dreams with me at night Come around An image of you And I want The...

What's your mother say? "You never listen to me" I know you want back in you don't get it for free You better read the book, and hear what they say Best learn ...

Do you think that people get tired of themselves? Is that why the TV's on all the time? It don't take much to get it right back on track, But it won't fall from...

My good looks won't save my kids from their dad's predicament They won't see my face like this see my face as a shadow I could be wrong or I could be strong T...

Hey man: You're so complicated and mean maybe your system needs adjustment She is a famous people collector I'm juggling J-O-B The Judger Maybe the words don't...

Joliet, she says, is the darkest part of a man? It's angry and slick Into her letters writes through herself each time she thinks of him Trips her way down sou...

Margaret came to me was all he said before she know my name she was in my bed she was only sweet sixteen 20,000 days younger than me Margaret feels the world be...

Mean Mr Mustard says he's bored of life in The District Can't afford the French Quarter high says it gets old real quick and he pales up next to me scrawled on ...

Oh yeah she says: we can't tell them Oh yeah she wants up front I can't do that Oh yeah She's got backup Boyfriend and I'm him When you gonna' make up your min...

I count the cracks in the pavement Where the weeds and wishes grow Every car is a reminder That there's someplace else to go I steal a moment beside you Can you...

my my stomach hurts again tonight she says: and crashes on her floor cuts what she can't untie ties it to a door if mercy was a cattle call she didn't hear she ...

I wake up to beat the sun from her glory I'm only one cigarette away from mobility It's always punch in punch out go to work and go back home there's only one c...

I don't want to spend the rest of my life Starin' at a man, Looking down a line What's he say? "Not my style" Just a stylized version of an obsolete file I don...

Get down and pray to the oven She thinks that god is there, in there Do you see Sylvia in the oven? Colossal Fact, Daddy's ex don't let you read Here's what she...

There's a mark on my back from my last heart attack A whiskeymouthbottleneckcardstack There's a source, of course, she says: It's whispering at night like air ...

I'm going back to Virginia If it's not too late, to make my break Maybe Carolina near the company of Grace If I find New Orleans you know my will just fades whe...

Play me like a player piano roll me from the corners of your dark and dusty shadows Like a player piano, I sit useless most of the time The bar gets darker it...

"he's a real cannibal" she goes: "I think I'll call him roderigo" dress him up in darker clothes, sell him away standing underneath her gun "sit up straight or ...

Well I haven't seen a doctor since I can't remember when But she tells me I've been a talker since 1976 We went up to the lake and I, I remember this: my family...

Time will pack a bag on you, my love organize, re-organize your Luck Pretty face, a pretty smile, a pretty shame you can't defile The message you have made for ...

Words keep falling from my mouth, Trying just to slow them down Keep on spilling around, Saying, "Why do you hurt me?" And if anger is my gift, The only gift I'...

"don't go there" I heard her say "you can't stomach what you're going to see" It's down there, by the water's edge wasted and bloated and waiting for someone el...

I awoke in a sinking Manhattan I played in drunken cathedrals There were businessmen in armchairs With namebrands and short hair Detonating with evil So I scrat...

Been draggin' this mask all over town with my face still in it No one saw that I did it Things they've done to me you would never believe Believe me they're tr...

I want to know just what you're keeping in your pocket I want to taste it before anybody knows its name You can hide in here with me I'll take all the blame I n...

You and I have tried to pretend We both exist inside of a dream In my life, from beginning to end, no stranger thing has happened to me I went from highland, st...

Every season has a lesson to be learned When all the love is piled, pushed aside, and is burned No more driving with the top pulled down or laying on the beach ...

Super-Related and I think it's bigger than books when reality steps in She's a gun with a gun Super-Related and I can feel you pull through me Reality surely l...

Time will pack a bag on you, my love Organize, re-organize your Luck Pretty face, a pretty smile, A pretty shame you can't defile The message you have made for ...

A young girl give me a good luck charm Put a snake on my neck and a bird on my arm Got one good leg 'cause the other went South Got a brand new crutch and a bra...

Little miss runs away Didn't think you would ever come back As I turned my head I find my newest complication She won't run Won't fall She don't talk to Anyone ...

I imagine long walks down the road Things began to bloom, the sky explodes The Damage is undone Then I know this has got to be a dream Machines and Luxuries don...

"Don't go there," I heard her say "You can't stomach what you're going to see" It's down there, by the water's edge wasted and bloated and waiting for someone e...

I know how the good wind blows And it gives me my time Don't let them drag your hatred off the line I know how the anger goes so I bury mine You know they had m...

Somebody hold me, hold me down So I don't slip tonight Punch the clocks out, Punch the wall still Something is wrong with me Without you feels, Like the end of...

She talks to her television Changing channels with her mind When this new world turns politic, she just slips in between their sighs And we talk when the talkin...