Take me to your house And show me to all your family I don't care about The fool that it makes me seem 'Cause I know that you're 17 And I'm just an aging dandy ...

Summer's been delayed But I don't want to think about it In the shade of a Guar Gum tree 1963 Devils by the lake were spotted 1963 Way across the pond European...

Long drives Over the veldt Head full of songs Boxcars Old European Occupied zones Grey day Welfare hotel Lost in the stars With her All of my fears Melt in the...

Summer days 15 years old Rodney's on the radio The RTD and a pack of cloves Oh Oh oo Oh oo Oh Oh Oh And girls in death rock pantyhose Junes are cloudy in LA Al...

Monday morning and it's raining All over town I feel the rumble of the trains Deep underground I check my inbox but there's nothin' there I guess she's just gon...

Runnin' downtown with the drag queens Turning tricks Down by the pier A twenty'll buy a balloon and some beer It's our weakness that makes us beautiful To God,...

4 am Osaka My brain's a mess Octopus balls and sauce End of the century stress Sleeping on the floor Of a record store The girl that I love's at home Facing th...

Fallen down He's too weary Can't get up His eyes are blurry Chinatown He just fades away He's drunk up 1/2 his weight in sherry Swallowed the apothecary Whisper...

5 am, here comes the sun I hope I'm not the only one Alone in an automobile Passed out in an asteroid field Summer's gone, my fall's done come Those sparkling ...

Weather systems Baltic Sea Distant foghorns and some milky tea Amber scattered On the shores Washed up from ancient forest floors The earth pulls softly at my ...

Blue candles At noon Burn with a light That makes me think of you You went away too soon The evening We met The peculiar way You held your cigarette I knew we ...

Late afternoon A girl in a black-lit room Music plays She dances her heart away Worn out days Head full of cheap cocaine Old memories fade Of Europe in younger...

She was married to the Bosphorus She threw her ring in then she blew a kiss To the Ottomans and Byzantines Lying beneath the sea She wore a pink and yellow sum...

Agua de coco Caldo de cana Dentes de oro Confusao urbana The storm clouds roll in Set me free Fortuna It's late and I can't find my friends Caldo de cana Macu...

She smelled like a thunderstorm When I met her Down in the Tenderloin Sipping tea Vicodin pills, some scotch And a sweater Soon I was feeling Back on my feet ...

It started with a girl And some tickets ‘round the world Searching for a life less dull Bangkok and Taipei Sao Paolo and Bombay A cheap guitar and sweet pancake...

Lay down over here, Pal It seems it's getting late Look up in the sky Wild parrots in LA The sun is coming up soon It's time to go to sleep There's a heavy rain...

Deng Xiaoping A true Asada king Lay dying in Shanghai A comet tracing through the sky Chairman Mao Heard thunder in the dawn The old guard's come and gone And u...

Winter is fading away Mockingbirds showed up today I smell the sea The East LA breeze The freeways are moving so smoothly I looked in a coffeehouse door I coul...

Fades like a super 8 Shot from above the parade My mother the sad young Jew Glimpsed in a dream or two She's always my saving grace Love beneath the waves Memo...

At the weekend Face down Teargas and barricades Downtown Ahhh ? Seattle DC Gunships in Genoa Not me Anarchists Tearin' up the Beltway Molotovs As if they kne...

In a city by the sea I think of all the things I've tried to be It's raining at the beach And I'm feeling all washed up at 33 Oh no! They say it's lonely at th...

High life Sing me a sweet song You used To think I was grand Downtown Chelsea and Soho I held The world in my hand I flew The Concorde to Paris Sniffed lines O...

Last night I had a dream That you were done with me The sparkle in your eyes Had all but gone You told me 'bout a guy That you chanced to meet on a crowded stre...

Little girl from Hindustan Holds the world inside her hand Poorer than a Delhi rat Feeds the dolphins at the ghat Factory ships and market share Stocks and bon...

I miss you dear It's quiet up here Lost in the troposphere At dawn Hurricane clouds appear Roll on… An April storm Yamamba clones Lost in the troposphere At da...

When he was runnin' from the cops He said, “Baby, I'm just 19 I'm as sexy as a ballerina in a magazine Give me danger and a gun You know I ain't afraid of pain ...

Saturday night he was gone That's what she said to her mom Honey, he's trouble, he's a bum Try to forget him, move on It's strange how the years come and go Wh...

He's had bicycles and sons He's had salted fish and dark rum Now his days are almost done In the Lagos slums He was a farmer for a while Growin' plantains by t...

Lay me down Milo brown Fast asleep Like a little Cherub bean Like a little Cherub bean I've traveled far And I've traveled wide And I've seen some things That ...

LAX in a runway motel We just got off the phone You didn't seem very well At 5 years old I had no place to go But you took me in And you gave me a home The pla...

Lunch special Koreatown Cuban fried bananas Lazy, flawed & hopeless All our cars Are rusted through TV's in the garbage Lazy, flawed & hopeless Fame and Fortu...

What can I do? I'm lost over you I'm left out I sit and I drink I try not to think I'm left out De da de de de da du da de da De da de de de da du daya De da ...

Juan says she's a funny kind of girl Who sits on rooftops to escape the world She smokes her cigarettes and keeps a journal Dreaming of the day she'll fly to Lo...

He smacked her 'round one last time Sunday She called her friend, said let's run away Rooftop sunrise Sweet 16 Her cigarettes and her dreams La la la la la la ...

In 1945 A Jewish baby was born In East Van Nuys Her lonely eyes Filled with the poetry born Of suicide Haldol and ECT She met her end in a trailer Near the sea...

Walking through the streets of Amsterdam Half a pack of kreteks in my hand The rain smells like a woman That I knew long ago And I hope she's happy Hope she's d...

I'm afraid of you You make life seem brand new We stay up late at night Forget the world outside And it's been a long time It's been a long time Since I've see...

Night is here in my veins I'm losing again And not much remains Come Lay down next to me I'll tell you a bit Of who I used to be I was a handsome Golden boy y...

What kind of a man What kind of a son What kind of a guy Would just up and run An ill-fated wind Turned his good luck around What kind of a man Would just leav...

Night Train to Moscow Say good bye to the Petersburg sun The half light of winter afternoons long gone Pancakes and mushrooms Tea with the hookers at dawn The T...

We're all just dreamers From North Koreatown We have no future Just helicopter sounds The last survivors From days pre-MTV Our fates to wander In search of poe...

There's a little cloud Forming in the dawn Forming in my mind I better lie down Seaweed in my teeth In my bleeding gums Oh the winter sun It makes my brain num ...

So far away, so like a dream A cup of tea with powdered cream Or comet dust and subway steam Or 3 kilos of mangosteen Ayaaah ayaaah mangosteen An airport loung...

Pall Malls And a racing form Oh oh oh… An old man In a furnished room Oh oh oh… Had his eyeglasses Smashed again Oh oh oh… Prowlin' downtown For some teenage...

Pablo stares at the moon Pencil moustache Cheap hotel room Waiting for dawn Alone To take him home Taxi drivers and whores Kids on the street Watching for cops...

A thought occurred to me Lying underneath a peach tree A moment in the sun Our funny little lives are so brief Our frail little bones We're here and then we're...

When I see My life of sin All the creeps That I have been Makes me wonder why You stayed You're my Queen Of Summer Rain You make it all OK My Queen of Summer R...

At 14 He was an adolescent Beauty Queen Slammin' speed And working on the NY streets Oh Dear! All the boys With their leather And peroxide Rouge on pockmarked ...

Rather Stay Home Crisscrossed the country in a van A young and carefree rock and roll band Tearing up the open road Success came like an ice cold hand 5 star ho...

Lay me down On the street Where the hobos meet Southern day dreams I don't know Which way the wind blows But I'll tell you what comes and goes People grow old ...

Hills facing east The slums have a view Of the sea Towards Africa gaze Tenderly The rains last for weeks 1st of the year We'll meet in Flamengo For tea We'll s...

Ali was a sailor's son Joined the merchant fleet at twenty-one Dreams of ports in distant lands A bag of figs and some low-grade heroin As the years rolled by ...

The world can fall apart outside my door I don't care no more The air-raid siren sings the song of war I don't care no more Salt and cherry blossom tea Has the ...

Jean was a heartbreaker in her day Carefree and dancing the night away Then she turned 41 oh oh oh Had her moment in the sun oh oh oh Now she eats all alone And...

Lay down your arms (Soldier of love) And surrender to me (Sha la, la) Lay down your arms (Soldier of love) And love me peacefully (Sha la, la) yeah (Sha la la) ...

Near a star called Sun It was there that my mom came undone Sounds of a summer parade 905 in the shade She drifted off on the 4th of July A holiday look in her...

Let's make a scene ‘Cause baby, you're my queen You are my favorite time day New York in May A Barcelona rain Nothing's as moving as you little face Jet lagge...

Lay down next to me We'll stare out at the sea And make believe That nothing bad ever happens To normal folks like you and me Tell me ‘bout your life Did you e...

You were born in '67 About 9 o'clock at night A couple years before I lost control And ended up inside [Chorus} The clouds in Camarillo Shimmer with a light ...

Daylight Waits for me On the back of night Trona (x4) Low Tide Rusting hulls Barroom fights Trona (x4) Daylight Makes me feel Cold inside Trona (x4)

The oil wells and the call girls Work all night long Down in the ugly Babylon Gone are the grandmas, poets And baker's sons Down in the ugly Babylon The light...

Cumulonimbus forms The mornings down here are warm The smuggler has his charm Smoking in the dawn Under the Arctic sun The submarines make their runs The high-...

In this land of plenty What happened to our dreams Can't even find a mangosteen Can't find an ee cummings Or a Martin Luther King Just online porn & SUVs I don...