Been traveling all too long this bear-cat trail But the love in me's grown stronger than this steel rail That I ride back to your bedroom eyes Been gone so lon...

Goodbye, black butterfly You can take those perfect wings into outer space 'Cause there's no place left in this blood For your restless fluttering, your sleeple...

Bird of prey Gonna float away To a feather cloud formation I'm gonna dig For pretty and strange Gonna open me up A black gold vein Arrow on fire Flash the nigh...

Twenty days walking so lonely and talking to myself and the rocks And sand got me to thinking 'bout going and drinking in a tavern with a clean-shaven man Just...

I'm falling off the barstool mama in this old ghost town saloon Where sunlight moves like sadness across the room Oh my sweet mama if you could only see me Now ...

I have scene after scene, after scene of you Pouring through me like sand through an hourglass It's almost empty, you with the pure heart You with the peach pie...

I will not have a child, I will be wild And not produce meat for your slaughter No more cannon fodder Company whip cracks at the break of dawn Back break work ...

Breathe life to the street from the mouth Those ruby red lips have much to give Pull life from the land with your capable hands Those life loving, beautiful, br...

I'm a chimney sweeping man You see the black lines On the backs of my hands I planted all the gardens I sent off all the hand-typed letters To the empty shells ...

Cool water… I want to fly like a scroll unfolding Float to a stone ledge Wait for a moment ‘fore spilling Words to a hedge And going away Like a poem closed in...

I was walking through the snow When I saw a distant glow Of a farmhouse nestled down beneath the trees With a guitar on my back I thought it sure can't hurt to ...

I felt my vocal chords weakening I felt my concave thoughts I felt my voluntary blindness For staring straight into the sun The romantic air of your eye patch ...

Now the raging of the forest fires end And all the mammals fled I smell in the charred darkness A little green, a little red When you sing your song Your voice...

My wooden vibrating mouth Sing me your lover's song Come with me we'll head up north Where the rivers run icy and strong The empty theater is lying cold In the...

Mermaids Shimmer in the waves Wanted to share a word Course they only waved Left me alone With the blood in my mouth To paw and to pray To tear at the fray for ...

When you sing, when you sing The stars fill up my eyes Galaxies pour down my cheeks Galaxies…they flood the street Galaxies When we dance, when we dance Eels a...

Oh I can see your tracks But I won't follow them I'll just hope for rain Or some kind of crazy wind To erase them And chase them into oblivion Oh I can smell t...

Watch, i can flash across the sky A lightning bolt from up on high And i can crash into myself Now a flower blooms in reverse And a song takes back a verse A ph...

Did you see that lady there they stripped her to her underwear She took it one step further and stripped to bare through the rising flames And smoke she laughed...

Hear the whistle blow far off in the still night without stars see the tracks laid flat With a hammer's might they're the spike driver's scars they're the spike...

Lake swimming Shucking free our deadened selves Like snakes and corn do Our bodies tore off swimming suits And all the old notions The cold ocean far away Ente...

The rose is not afraid to blossom Though it knows its pedals must fall And with its pedals fall seeds into soil Why toil to contain it all? Why toil at all? Ic...

Oh the dirty wordless fingers come again Where the mermaid singers Oh when I need them Oh how I need them Pretty words doled up on silver platters Chanting sea...

Slain By your zirconium smile I was slain By your olivine eyes Slain I was lying in piles Hoping shovels would cast me Furnaces burn everlasting Black tattoos o...

Oh midnight singer Outside my window Oh how your songs Come in strange and low And in my bed I lay silent Hoping you'd stay Hoping you'd go Oh midnight singer ...

Light of the morning day Sadly it will not stay This perfect pink for too long couple of hours from now All the sunflowers will frown and turn For the sun is to...

Nightingale sing though it's blacker than the bog Nightingale sing to me, I need to hear your song Nightingale come and perch upon my tree A terrifying light's ...

A handful of dream dust for my pirate He can hear the pPacific singing The sea meets the light in his salt water eyes Icy pictures of the water are captured in ...

Roll Ohio clouds oh roll on in Wash the cigarettes the smell from grandma's skin Clear the dank and dusty kitchenettes The bourbon bottles resting empty on the ...

I don't know where i come from but i know it's a place here on earth Somewhere in a desert near a mountain was the place of my birth If you could tell me i wou...

You're paintings scratch lines Of blue and gold and open me up Was folding into myself A deck of cards Face down empty on the shelf Your song with emphasis on ...

At the top of Phantom Mountain I saw the turquoise, brilliant burning sea The sweat on my shoulders, the silvery haze Swords of lightning, hawks and Gulf Stream...

Sorry, I was cruel, I was protecting myself Drifting along with my swords out flying Tattering my own cells and I tattered yours too Took you and wrapped you ar...

With photographs And magnetic tape We capture Pretty animals in cages Pretty flowers in vases Enraptured And doesn't the tree Write great poetry? Doing itself ...

The sky's a raven marching band black blizzard blowing across the land Come darling take my hand i'm whiskey poured into the sand Star blossoms bloom the night...

Check out the skylark Riding and singing alongside Salt cool breeze coming from the West Ships and their lawlessness Running wild and the waves Wearing their br...

Riptide pulls me out into the open sea My toes dangle for a place to stand and be Oh starry night come and chart a course Or send me a boat with an anchor set ...

Serpent tails and flying fish sup up all the wishes That you sent to the stars Chinese dragons, incandescent mirrors in the waves I want to put them in jars Wi...

Dead eye from the wood of life Hold the ropes and the rigging lines Red-eye am Here i lie Shipwreck passing underneath What of the sailor and her spinning wheel...

I'm climbing up the stairs I'm circling the waves The broken ceiling paint The broken windowpane O a smile would melt Me to an asphalt strip Where all would tra...

There's a shadow beneath the sea There's a shadow between you and me I've learned that love is scared of light Thousand seeds from a flower Blowing through the ...

I saw the violet turn to night I saw the water turn to ice A thousand snowflakes hovered "?round me The world aglow I heard a distant songbird singing A song t...

Struggling like a fly against the glass It's not clear why I can't blast Straight through Behind all the brightest smiles Twist the tortured, tortured souls wh...

The tiny midnight caravan Made its way across the black hills As I watched from a distance The slow-going glow Their wandering you know Made me pine For the lam...

I survived the desperate toll dark depression takes I may not break even but babe I'll never break Golden coins and smiles no they cannot tip my scales Cuz this...

Music in the air Plucked from the centuries Presented in the form Of a song by you to me Seagull in the air Floating on the updraft See me on the ground Think i...

Birds were falling from the sky all leaves had turned to brown The heartless cold froze everything and took my poor red down Poor old red she's dead and gone h...

Flat stone skipping the surface sink Into the golden deep Crawl inside like a honeybee Creep into the heart Give me snow and give me salt Troubles cracks and c...

I see you there, your purple hair And the rosy cheeks that I adore Tiger tattoos, my how they suit you I hope you'll let me see a little more Will you come dow...

Don't recognize my face (Everybody knows your game) Feel like I'm running in place (Every thing's changed, every thing's changed) I'm gonna move to the country...

Billy was a young man gone astray bottle at his lips all night And day mama said they're gonna send you up the river someday Whiskey ate big holes in billy's h...

A strange July storm came down From the north and pulled out the salt And it tore out the leaves From the pear tree and my canopy In the twigs and the bugs of ...

Where gravity is dead And the airplanes fly around Above the roaming bees And the buzzing town Above the tattered flags And the rotten show posters Above the cl...

Clear as ice, oh clear as ice Dripping down from a rock Spring will come and so will fall All my enemies have finally fled They've finally fled and gone Take y...

Looting the destroyed Vessels of the sea I wondered if the waves Had taken all of me All of me back Down to the black Down to the where the worms Reign silent ...