Anne walks alone Past the Domino sugar factory She's as easy to know As a broken mystery Conversations are slow With herself in dead parking lots Hands not bein...

The leading light of the age all wondered amongst Themselves what I would do next After all that I'd found in my travels around The world was there anything els...

Fold yourself against Me like a paper bird Tonight we'll fly awhile Just give me the word And hold onto me Like I hold onto you A steeple holds a bell The night...

Up here in the crows nest I am swimming through the breeze One last memory from the sun as it is sinking by degrees And high above the albatrosses, on the wing ...

Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes Now she?s gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind And if the best is fo...

Just where it now lies I can no longer say I found it on a cold and November day In the roots of a sycamore tree where it had hid so long In a box made out of m...

Now my work is done I feel I'm owed some joy Oh Imogene and Abelard I'm your homeward boy But there's another one Who brings me to your door And the boat she we...

Going out to California Gonna let the water warm my clothes I'm alone but I'm not lonely Gonna trade the weather for the Western coast No don't cry I'll be back...

I had a dream last night I dreamt that I was swimming And the stars up above Directionless and drifting Somewhere in the dark Were the sirens and the thunder An...

If I could trace the lines that ran Between your smile and your sleight of hand I would guess that you put something up my sleeve Now every time I see your face...

I don't have any questions that you cannot answer I'm pretty simple that way Any fears I have left are just ghosts of ghosts That you drove away Don't drive aw...

So save all of your light For those who can't sleep at night And who can't even sing to their shadows Oh they ride into town And they throw the shots down And t...

Louis Collins took a trip out west And when he returned little Delia'd gone to rest The angels laid her away Louis said to Delia, "That's the sad thing with lif...

Peter said to Paul you know all those words we wrote Are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go But now talking to God is Laurel begging H...

Picture they took of you in your cowboy hat Makes you look like you are one of the boys Out on a Saturday night, meanwhile on the outskirts of the dance hall I'...

These chords are old but we shake hands Cause I believe that they?re the good guys We can use all the help we can So many minor chords outside I fell in love wi...

Romero got married on the fifth of July In our Lady of Immaculate Dawn Could have got married in the revival man's tent But there ain't no reviving what's gone ...

Under wide blue skies There?s a place to lie For me and Evelyn to hide tonight I?ll try my best to make a go But I?m not sure what I don?t know Oh chariots, if ...

Sunday night, its supper time, the hotel's full and all is fine You can see that No Vacancy sign from the window of room 39 Monday morning at half past eight, e...

All that love all those mistakes What else can a poor man make? So I gave up a life of crime I gave it to a friend of mine Something else was on my mind The onl...

We started looking for you In the darker caves We had a lot of love We thought would light the way We saw the wrecks of buildings And ships that sank in starlig...

all the other girls here are stars—you are the Northern Lights they try to shine in through your curtains—you're too close and too bright they try and they try ...

Give me light for my lantern Give me light for my lantern give me light Be the light of my lantern, the light of my lantern, be the light I need the light in my...

The golden ratio the shell The stairs ascending round themselves The trees rustle as if to kneel and listen To the heartbeat of a lark or the lark in my heartbe...

You have chosen dawn to leave Don't bother me while I am sleeping Life continues and though you go out I'll sleep another hour or so Though you think that I am ...

Dirt roads and dry land, farming might be the death of me But I can't leave this world behind Debts are not like prison where there's hope of getting free And I...

I met you at a party or on a crowded street A silent singularity when glances chanced to meet You looked into my glasses, said you'd seen a ghost I tried my bes...

Making my own city lights Out of bourbon and the stars of a bar room fight Face forward in the wind If you don't know where it is but you know where it's been ...

I remember back in Illinois I found her The lily of the valley the lily of the West was a rose The daughter of the biggest big town banker He kept her like a pr...

There was a time I had the right key Rolled the tumbler slid the bolt on every wandering eye I caught But something has changed this is all wrong I'm out here i...

I'm not afraid of the dark We've been here before Fallen on hard times, honey We've fallen on swords But if a long shadow Falls across your heart I'll be right ...

dot paths the moonly road when time the crunch of snow i wonder when your smile show 'cause love it's making it's way back home love is making its way back home...

Don't stand so close to me Don't be another tragedy I've burned everybody who had a hand to lend A man burning at both ends No one put me in this hell I lit a f...

Me and Jiggs staring at the ceiling the stars above the radar range Song from a station wagon laying foundations on the shadows of overpassing planes I'm feelin...

What's it take to make the dime drop All these kids that think that they're quick on the draw Always shooting at outlaws I'm busy keeping my Colt cocked I'm gon...

Radio waves are coming miles and miles Bringing only empty boats Whatever feeling they had when they sailed Somehow slipped out between the notes Out on the des...

There are planets you don't know And there are moons that you don't see Invisibles between the rings of Mars and Mercury The harbors that they built for the shi...

How hard for the covers to be pulled from their slumbers, but a ghost never gives up its sheet Tell me, is it the same for the rattling chains or whatever you w...

He's riding the plains living up to his name As the next to the last true romantic He knows that his story is tragic But he can't rest Til he's next To you All...

Honey how you gonna make it on your own? Honey how you gonna make it on your own? When you wake up in the night And see the stars just city lights And you can't...

I thought I heard you pulling up outside It's just the wind whisperin' through the pines I haven't seen who I'm looking for Just empty shadows in my open door T...

So it was that everything That went to make up everything Was wrapped up tight inside a grain Of great insistence Then someone gave the great command All things...

Say the west is a story we made up to erase Conestoga wagons left tracks you can see from space From the Northwest passage to the Great Divide Everybody's looki...

Pictures on my wall, Fifteen different colours, Starting with vermillion- The first flower of the summer, And don't think I'll be finished Till I've begun to un...

This is it my dear old friend Our paths it seems are at an end for now Though in time we floated free We're are pulled by separate gravities to ground But it's...

Peter killed the dragon And he did it with his bare hands Peter killed the dragon And he did it with his bare hands Paul killed the dragon And he did it with hi...

I close my eyes and it all returns like the spinning of a potter's wheel Trying to stay ahead a morning as time came running with us And she beat us to the fini...

You had your red rainslicker on Your face was turned up into rain as you watched me And I was crossing I was crossing The street like my own Rubicon Coming back...

You're a real mean mama but you got a lot of time for me And I know it ain't common to find your kinda love for free It's a drag and a sigh and that's not all I...

I know who you are old man keep running I caught your trail as you left the pines Out into the fields where you couldn't hide nowhere Just a thin stitch up agai...

All of a sudden you're back again I thought you were happy with whoever Or did you dream about me now and then Did you look up at the stars And feel something f...

West of her there's a place know Never have been but I'd like to go Somewhere out there I believe in me And West of her is where I'd like to see West of her the...

Serenade me with rocks, love No lullabies through the locks love I locked myself in with the band But the music's never loud enough Decibels in the belfry Hey ...

Please Man ain't suppose to live alone No that ain't what he needs He needs to find a home With someone else who needs a man A man who needs a home Man ain't su...

well theres one thing mama I think you should know it is not love that makes the flowers grow but a complex electron transfer process known as photosynthesis wh...

Birds beneath my window dustying their wings upon the lawn I hear them in the morning light giving last amen to a migratory song They're never looking round for...

After all the lights had died Out behind the palasades park Fireflies remembered to do Exactly what they were supposed to And memories were like coins that tum...

Southern pacific Red, white, and blue Where are we running to? Over the wide plains Over the wide plains Take me to someplace new Remember me Roxy Anne You kno...

I know the dog days of the summer Have you ten-to-one out-numbered Seems like everybody up and left and they're not coming back The shadow that you're standing ...

She's a bad actress- but hey You give her the big lines anyway Though her eyes are big as Canada And the hips are South Australia And the shoulder blade is Afri...

He opens his eyes falls I love at first sight With the girl in the doorway What beautiful lines and how full of life After thousands of years what a face to wak...

If this was the Cold War we could keep each other warm I said on the first occasion that I met Marie We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile sil...

I became a thin blue flame Polished on a mountain range And over hills and fields I flew Wrapped up in a royal blue I flew over Royal City last night A bullfigh...

Deep in the belly of a whale I found her Down with a deep blue jail around her Running her hands through the ribs of the dark Florence and Calamity and Joan of ...

I wait for love I wait for love Wait for love, wait for love wait for love, wait for love I got someone on my mind And she don't make me wait the way you do Bu...

Why can't you try to be happy? Why must you always be sad? Why spend your only life waiting to have what you know, you can have? Why spend your only life hoping...

At night we crossed the border following a Black robe To the edge of the reservation—to Cataldo Mission Where the saints and all the martyrs look down on dying ...

I still remember that time when we were dancing We were dancing to a song that I'd heard Your face was simple and your hands were naked I was singing without kn...

Here I am standing at your window again Waiting for you to say go away or come in I'm your locked door's worst knocker I'm your curtain's best friend I'm trying...

We ate May down to the rind Asked the moon for another helping It's getting on past suppertime Lights are low and it was evening Pull your dress up to your knee...