Your uncle's scandals shook the house of lords Your daddy's squeezed out as Chairman of the Board No more doctors write you no more 'scripts No more intercontin...

By Jim Carroll We should have left at once We should have never stayed Now they have drawn the line Now there is a barricade Now there's a barricade A barricad...

Everything you ever wanted Is passing with the driving rain I died like a salamander On my heart heavy like a chain I been waiting here at the Uptown theater An...

I was born in a pool, they made my mother stand And I spat on that surgeon and his trembling hand When I felt the light I was worse than bored I stole the docto...

It's when Billy's whores are re to seeorkin' They're workin' with the skeleton crew It's when the sky over Jersey That sky starts to drain from view It's when m...

She's an all-night all-night rental She's a rental Oriental Suki-Lee Oh, her eyes, yes her eyes You better pass her by Suki-Lee Each night she crosses Different...

It must be strange to just fall from the stage and snap a bone that is so close to the brain And be attended to by so many down below I saw a doctor tie you up ...

I smoke a cigarette As I wait in the bath And I wait for you For an hour and a half And I go to the window Where the sky falls down in rains And I look across t...

Day and night the shadows move too slowly From dark to light she promised she could know me Remember when I watched her on the stairway She was drinkin' w...

Day and night the shadows move too slowly From dark to light she promised she could know me Remember when I watched her on the stairway She was drinkin' w...

I hitched a ride to a desert town (I never planned this trip) I saw my past in the sun like a tongue (that slowly dripped) People faced me with Lazarus eyes The...

From A World Without Gravity: The Best of the Jim Carroll Band Every time she calls I'd like to just ignore her I think she's working both sides It's not my pa...

Each night, they surround me With the lights and the microphones With their bodies and the mile of cable Like a magic ring of bone Every night I have the same...

By Jim Carroll and Wayne Woods Evangeline My first lady, She wears satin gloves Since her hands got dirty She travels here She travels there She's on the "A" l...

He was feeling invulnerable That was foolish but wonderful But of course the first one was always free He's got one wrist in heaven, one ankle in hell Somebody ...

He was feeling invulnerable That was foolish but wonderful But of course the first one was always free He's got one wrist in heaven, one ankle in hell Somebody ...

I'm walking uptown I hear a most peculiar sound Like a seashell in my ear Like the ocean was near I go inside this store To get my head clear Once I'm inside t...

It's a garbage truck hour, I'm sleeping in the shower I'm feeling like I'm waiting on a train By the sounds from my bed I think somebody's bled All over somethi...

[Messed?] and peculiar Dancing with Julia I see no spare sky This is the last try The static from dreaming Is only now seeming To bring on disaster I told you...

"Every crowd of younger has had it's little games to prove if you're punk or not My cousin in New York plays 'Chickie', Which is two cars heading towards each o...

The blue light flashes Billy feels it's motion He says, "should I go and set it free? " Black-eyed suzie Picks up on the notion She says, "put it in the lonely ...

I want the angel Whose dreams are fatal They cause the snake's milk to run and curdle I want the angel Whose darkness doubles It absorbs the brilliance of all ...

I want the angel Whose dreams are fatal They cause the snake's milk to run and curdle I want the angel Whose darkness doubles It absorbs the brilliance of all ...

I write your name Everywhere I go Like a worn out code Just to let you know I write your name On my loneliness On the closet hook where you hung that dress Do...

"It's been hard The writing, lately, just all comes in beautiful fragments like nods now So high Guess I'd rather sleep Forever, to sleep and forget But the ned...

It's too late To fall in love with sharon tate But it's too soon To ask me for the words I want carved on my tom I think it's time that you all start To think ...

It's too late To fall in love with Sharon Tate But it's too soon To ask me for the words I want carved on my tom I think it's time that you all start To think ...

By Jim Carroll and Wayne Woods She moves through the black door She turns toward the desperate light With her breath like iodine With her filigree design She s...

Jody, what you been doing? It's been a long, long time Since we went dancing in the schoolyard, With your breasts like bleeding limes Jody, are you still hangi...

From Rancid's album And Out Come the Wolves By Rancid: The common man doesn't suffer pain like this Only the soul that has never been kissed Let us adore ou...

I was underneath the staircase I was talking with my angel He said that beauty is only terror You know, when terror is just beginning I thought I heard some fo...

I was underneath the staircase I was talking with my angel He said that beauty is only terror You know, when terror is just beginning I thought I heard some foo...

Seven blonde women They gather in the square They raise their hands up to the sun Their skin is so thin and white You know their fathers must surely be wealthy ...

Hollywood looks good at night The TVs get fine reception But last night Jean told Steve About her imminent conception She wants a plum tree for the house, for ...

Johnny's trapping stars in his car With the radio on In the parking lot Lily heard a sound While they were going down Someone on El Camino had been shot Carmeli...

You get nothin' back for all you've saved Just eternity in a spacious grave She said, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" Things just go from bad to wor...

Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old Fell from the roof on East Two-nine Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug On 26 reds and a bottle of wine Bobby got leuk...

By Jim Carroll (Recorded by Blue Oyster Cult on Club Ninja, 1986) Perfect water The dark wind braids the waves The crazed birds raid the trees Is this our desti...

By Jim Carroll, Jon Tiven, and Sally Tiven >From A World Without Gravity: The Best of the Jim Carroll Band There's a wind up in the trees Like a voice that's w...

Sirens begin, the red light spins Hungry go the thieves Betty's in the sandbox trying to detox She always wears long sleeves Desdemona in a red kimona can't g...

By Jim Carroll and Steve Linsley You're passing, I hear your shadow through the door It's outlined on my shade Like a map of some foreign shore If I could keep...

By Jim Carroll and Lenny Kaye I don't believe in sin But maybe I'll begin A vagrant evil's climbing up my skin The shadows from last week Are dancing in the st...

If give me your ear I'll whisper you wind that could soothe your burnt blood The door is right here breathing the air filled with powders and porn now comes the...

They hit you with their papers when you're living on loan They're the ones who say nothing when you answer the phone You see them in the alleys when you're pass...

Though I don't really understand her I love my sister, her name's Miranda The boys from uptown they can't stand her The more she denies them the more they deman...

Bob drives taxis when the meter runs Bobby hears the music when it's done He hears the voices He hears the voices Wheels on rain, lightning from the storm Bobby...

Those were high times back in delhi I was left for dead Everybody beat it to la So the papers read But I said, "no, this is not where I get dropped off Keep the...

The gravity here is just sick for revenge It's like my lungs are filled with chains The sky seems so low, It hasn't moved this slow Since the virgins, since the...

The bell rings It's a decade past my decadence My beast wears rings and he's waiting In the shadows of my hesitations, my silent Hesitations Each image is so...