Twelve men broke loose in '73 From millhaven maximum security Twelve pictures lined up across the front page seems the mounties had a summertime war to wage The...

Lets go to the park lets go watch 'em floodin' out there after dark, don't have to think of nothin' and I love that for, for the way I'm feeling 700 foot, 700 f...

In the ulcerating silence perspective comes the way it always does-for it's random so randomlysomebody calls the phone rings and it brings Niagara Falls and 3 o...

First thing we'd climb a tree And maybe then we'd talk Or sit silently And listen to our thoughts Illusions of someday Casting a golden light No dress rehearsal...

Well there's a rockin' little spot Next to the Regent Theatre And if you wanna make the scene You'll make it sooner or later You're really hanging with the crow...

we were a blow-out of wicked proportions an accidental company if we said, 'We're gonna go out and get all tore-up tonight then we did we got a little happenin'...

I want a book that'll make me drunk full of freaks and disenfranchised punks No amount of hate no load of junk no bag or words no costume trunk could make me fe...

He was a coal miner in the spring Blinded with its dusty resolutions Broke his back for higher contributions Now he'd take anything Well she was 1970 Burning li...

Illuminate the obvious it's standing right here in front of us what our apartment does when we're not around does not concern us Simulate the obvious and it's ...

It's only human to want to inhabit every feeling you've got and more often than not let's take it to the Nth degree here he goes, 'gimmie ten bucks and a head s...

Hear the ol' whistle blowin' they're pulling the plug we got to get goin' they got our hole dug are you ready? are you ready, are you ready to love? And are you...

As I wind down the pines it?s the lines on your face playing on your face Without thinking so much as abandoning thought I went through open country over water...

You do the combat math, I'm the war artist You can't take your shots back, I have to watch them miss The basketball rim shook like a tambourine not an unlikely ...

Me debunk an American myth? And take my life in my hands? Where the Great Plains begin at the hundredth meridian At the hundredth meridian where the Great Plain...

well i think that there's a problem here her voice just don't sound right but i left myself on her answering machine said, "i'm back in town tonight" i feel i'v...

I left your house this morning about a quarter after nine coulda been the Willie Nelson coulda been the wine when I left your house this morning it was a little...

like anyone i knew a dave drove a plymouth shallow grave said, "my girl don't just walk, she unfurls" with motorcycle language he stumbled through his slange pl...

Rolling hills all covered in suede I'm heat-nervous and out of road Downtown, there's a parade But I don't think I wanna go Smart as trees in Sault Ste Marie I ...

I'd been carving you To see what form you'd take You were hiding in ivory I just wanted to free you shape Bringing me down, its too quiet to breathe Who wants ...

The sweet sound of patent approval comin' down in a not quite fog The sweet sound of patent approval comin' down in powdery sparks The sweet sound of patent app...

I had a heart, but I used to be older I'm not like I used to be Had you, but I guess it's all over You talk, but you're not like me You talk and you talk like ...

By design by neglect for a fact or just for effect when they met where they connect at the confluence of travel and sex more a trip than a quest plunged into th...

There's a cannon shooting coconut cream 40 gallons in a steady stream There's a cannon shooting coconut cream 40 gallons in a steady stream It's like wing musi...

It's hard to leave your bed The cooling hot summer sheets Hangover hanging on by the fangs Walk to work on wild feet And get to the back door Look around then ...

This is Tiger the Lion Gimme the Knuckles of Frisco - If there's danger in the language, gentlemen, I suggest no further use of the two-way radio John Cage had ...

Angst on the planks, spittin' from a bridge Just to see how far down it really is Robbing a bank, jumping from a train Old antiques a man alone can entertain I...

Country day A day in the unknown A gentle breeze gently blowin' Country day We're Mr and Mrs Smoke and thing are finally clickin' Still having trouble with the...

he's a man-sized Eldorado, hooved a doo and who could blame him where we going? what's the ticket? just the mention of berlin makes me sexy and tired of thinkin...

Watch the band through a bunch of dancers Quickly, follow the unknown with something more familiar Quickly something familiar Courage, my word it did'nt come it...

I can't imagine how you feel and this is how you feel you say your name like your no longer convinced but now they're strapping you in and closing the lid and t...

Sled Dogs after dinner close their eyes on their howlin' ways Kurt cobain, reincarnated, sighs and licks his face Then they drift past strips of Seregeneti and ...

I've often dreamt of a conversation That just keeps coming up again and again We're sitting in the Baby Bar bereft At a shadowy table out past the sentences end...

I like the tone of your trumpet c'mon let's spill some paint let's raise a glass of milk to the end of another day and to the kiss that's still intangible the k...

It was our third time in New York it was your fourth time in New York we were fifth and sixth on the bill we talk a little about our bands talk a little of our ...

Evelyn-Evelyn Where were you last night? Evelyn-Evelyn Where were you last night? waited on your front porch till the break of day but when the dawn broke I co...

well, it's 7 am and she awoke by the radio yea she rolled on over and said, "where did man go?" she's been a gunslinger's wife all her life now she fights when ...

September Seventeen For a girl I know, it's Mother's Day Her son has gone alee And that's where he will stay Wind on the weathervane Tearing blue eyes sailor-me...

Bill Barilko disappeared, that summer He was on a fishing trip The last goal he ever scored Won the Leafs the cup The didn't win another til 1962 The year he wa...

We wake up different, rifle through our dreams Another placid day, ripples at the seams Do you think I bow out cause I think you're right? Or cause I don't wan...

You triumphed over will You had immunity to kill You had your dreams fulfilled And I love you still But there's a power beyond control There's a fire in the hol...

If there's a goal that everyone remembers it was back in ol' 72 We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger And all I remember was sitting beside yo...

Bill Barilko disappeared that summer He was on a fishing trip The last goal he ever scored won the Leafs the cup They didn't win another until 1962 the year he ...

Does it diminish your Super-capacity to love Walk like a matador, Don't be chicken-shit And turn breezes into rivulets Flamenco-sweep the air And weave the su...

You're older, you're haunted, you're ahead of your time In corners of acres of blocks of straight lines Blurringly, hourly we cross some great divides some heri...

Sometimes when I'm walking I dream I'm being taken for granted It's then that I clearly imagine The Day That You Take Me For Granted You said, one day you're g...

Bring me back in shackles, Hang me long out in the sun Exonerate me, forget about me I recommend measures for ending this Lover, she simply slams the door She s...

k, this is an unreleased song that i found, i think it's from sometime early in the bands career (late 80's, early 90's) so enjoy! what's the deal with your da...

The beautiful lull, the dangerous tug we get to feel small from high up above and after a glimpse over the top the rest of the world becomes a giftshop The pen...

i remember a girl on her cellphone surrounded by her friends eyes flickering she's trying to smother her smile in her hands is it someone for us someone more wo...

He said I'm fabulously rich, c'mon just let's go She kinda bit her lip, jeez I don't know But I can guarantee (I can guarantee) They'll be no knock on the door ...

Greasy jungle metropolis noir Easy tangles the easiest so far Ah I drove down your road to Hazeldean where I tasted your funeral home's sandwiches and coffee I ...

What's troubling Gus you sound demented is it because someone talked and she told me he no longer thinks anything that moves and everything he sees is something...

Here's a glue guy performance god a makeshift shrine newly lain sod hardly even trying gives the nod I sure hope I'm not the type to dwell hope I'm a fast heale...

I'm going down to see my highway girl She just came back from around the world I'm gonna get me a gun, I'm gonna stand on guard In a little white booth in her f...

I don't wanna look for words I don't wanna work that hard I want your song in my head The way you sing it from the heart yeah Whenever I get lost Whenever I fe...

Well it's 7 am And she woke by the radio Yea she rolled on over said, "Where did my man go?" She's been a gunslinger's wife All her life Now she fights when she...

Well, it's 7 am and she awoke by the radio Yea she rolled on over said, "Where did my man go?" She's been a gunslinger's wife all her life Now she fights when s...

The moon goes up, I start to sweat Call the doctor, call the vet My brain goes numb, my blood gets hot All I need is what you got I'm a werewolf, baby, here I ...

Your smile is fading a bit so I ration it don't think about it here where the Mississippi quits where its still got a bit of Minnesota in it No one will give y...

I love you even when I don't even know I'm doing it and dismiss it out of hand cause I don't even know I'm doing it but your finger starts to wiggle and landsca...

Puffy lips glistening skin And everything comes rushing in We don't go to hell memories of us do I get a sense of connectedness Exclusive tight but nothing dan...

He said, 'fuck this' and 'fuck that' And this guy's the diplomat Stares into the blur of the tuner lights It can't be Nashville every night He said, 'we are wh...

When the colour of the night And all the smoke for one life Gives way to shakey movements, Improvisational skills, A forest of whispering speakers Let's swear t...

I need your confidence Need to know you're mine When it gets right down To the killing time I know your heart is bad But it's all I've ever had We can live you ...

We can take a bit of a breather We can skip to the practical part We can skip to the Time of Neither, when we're together and even when we're apart I'll tell yo...

You know the reasons I can't conceal You know I'm leaving you obviously you know how I feel it's not as easy as calling out your name when I'm down it's not a ...

You kissed my fingers and made me love you Last night when we went to hellWhen the blood-starred curtain fellMen were turning on their machines, making everyth...

'Do you mean the attack is routine?' a bird asked of a bird 'In this context, a concave nest, how do we learn to hurt?' 'do you mean there's no variation?' wat...

It might be late but it won't be early You got me to the gate with time for a coffee It's getting late sounds like a departure Until we meet again lets stay eng...

Cold wind blowing over your private parts I know a lack you've got And it makes a strong case for art Billboard breasts, they don't have a face, I know that fac...

It gets so sticky down here Better butter your cue-finger up It's the start of another new year Better call the newspaper up 250 for a hi-ball, And buck and a h...

They don't know how old I am Found armour in my belly From the 16th century Conquistador, I think They don't know how old I am They found armour in my belly Pas...

Does your mother tell you things? Long, long when I'm gone? Who you talking to? Is she telling you I'm the one? It's a grave mistake and I'm wide awake Drive-I...

I've got a job, I explore, I follow every little whiff And I want my life to smell like this To find a place, an ancient race The kind you'd like to gamble with...

I've been interpreted and shrunk I've been as touchless as a drunk This is as bad as or worse As bad as or worse This is as bad as or worse As bad as or worse ...

Zoo Lion sobers up and starts to scream and shout A little dose of home-fire got him all smoothed out Melancholy wine-soaked tenderness She hated it here and sh...

Is it a mean streak you'd swear you'd swear We never seen a stranger around here Is it the way the dust clings to the air You'd swear you'd swear Is it a mean ...

Whether laying down yourself beside it or slipping into its cool and rushing effects or drifting on it to where it broadens your admiration for, for its more el...

The reactor's down, I guess for labor day today It's the first day I ain't seen great plume of steam From across the lake, from across the lake Hey, that's a mo...

Everything is bleak It's the middle of the night You're all alone and the dummies might be right You feel like a jerk My music at work My music at work Avoid t...

I had this dream where I relished the fray and the screaming filled my head all day It was as though I had been spit here, settled in, into the pocket of a ligh...

he bought two fifths of lead-free gasoline said, the bottle is dusty, but my engine is clean he bought a nice blue suit with the money he could find if his brid...

Got a window-washer's head For an unmakeable bed For loneliness The past is no place to Rest your weary arms 'cept at sevens at yer sides Your face a campaign d...

Now, the apology done Applause can begin Now, the apologies done Applause begins If it bleeds it leads If it cries it flies If it feeds a need If it dies, it d...

Oh hot air baloon, your ropes drag in the ground In the light of the moon, leaving without a sound Take on that world, gonna go through the night You dont have ...

Here we are, now where are we? It's like nothing I've ever seen We got horse-throated huckster's whispered gimmicks Rubbernecking the curious cynics And headlon...

When the drugs hit you Tingly begins Conviction + tone = hope Under the threat of separation The nadir's fluorescent The shriek of a gull Suspended in air The s...

born a queen on her side, and she felt it too there's a lot you can see when there's nothing to do she got down on her knees and she dug herself out slipping to...

There's not a breath of air tonight I got my windows all thrown open wide Praying for any little breeze to move the curtains, Shake the leaves tonight Stumbled...

It was handsome at the auction, oh but when we got it home, it grew into something we could no longer contain Where's our pigeon camera, by now he could be anyw...

Spring starts when a heartbeat's poundin' When the birds can be heard above the reckonin' carts doing some final accounting Lava flowin' in Super Farmer's direc...

Writing a song about Lake Memphremagog And tonight I don't believe There are words to spare and be a tip and a nod Admitting it's half the defeat Tonight the n...

I wrote unfriendly things, truly cruel, on the day that you were born to prove that words cannot touch beauty but I was torn I put it off, I put it off, I put i...

Sharks don't attack the Irish, it's mostly Australians There's nothing accomplished by these splashing citizens From the Moon down to the surface Of the Mariana...

Held a bird's egg between her breasts there's reasons for the road, I guess to document the indigenous, to paint and sketch paint and sketch I'm starting to fai...

Win Toronto Yelled the Queen of the Furrows This is how we farm Hens cluck and roosters crow You are my heart Staring down from the pillar To be apart Is that ...

The man 'cross the street he don't move a muscle though he's all covered in dust when constitutions of granite can't save the planet what's to become of us with...

I could make you scared if you want me to I'm not prepared, but if I have to He said, I can make you scared, it's kinda what I do If you're prepared, here's wha...

Sharks don't attack the Irish, it's mostly Australians There's nothing accomplished by these splashing citizens From the Moon down to the surface Of the Mariana...

Born a queen up on her side, and she felt it too There's a lot you can see when there's nothing to do She got down on her knees and she dug herself out Slipping...