• Made Life Simple
    She went out on Friday night, She didn't come home 'til it was light, She spent six hours just walking around, She just knows it was so cruel, She knows she has...
  • Marge Schott
    All the faces are dressed up in blue, And there's not a lot I can do, Conspiracy, 1973, At the age of 32, All the dreams I had, all the visions that I had up un...
  • Mariachi Bands
    Jesus was a guy that I met at El Tin Tan about a year and a half ago, Drinking shots and shooting pool, 'Cause in the Men's Room they were doing lines of coke ...
  • Marie Provost
    Marie Provost did not look her best, The day the cops broke into her lonely nest, From the cheap hotels up on Hollywood West, July 29 She'd been lying there fo...
  • Mary's Moving Out
    Mary's moving out today, I can't say that I blame her, How could she survive in the house of aging and self-loathing? Mary's moving out today and Chuck is gonna...
  • Mature Shower Curtains
    She leaves the window open, She leaves the door unlocked, She leaves the porch light on, She thinks that it's enough She wants mature curtains, To keep her bat...
  • Misery
    Again, tonight I went to a bar with a friend, Again, totally drunk holding on to this pen, I see the whole world and it's staring back at me, Sitting here in mi...
  • Mistake/Missed
    I always fall in love with the wrong character, I always fall for the one who dies, Watch it over again, Watch for my mistake, What could I have missed again? ...
  • Mr Backrub
    He was the biggest sleaze in the office, Years later he'd be known as Mr Backrub, He'd melt you with his mini-pony tail and goatee, And kill you with his "in to...
  • My Favorite Place
    Floyd calls me on the phone, And I usually don't mind if he won't leave me alone, But today has been a busy day if there is such a thing anyway, My cats look bo...
  • My Lie
    Now it's good-bye, Not much to declare, This good-bye, It's all mine The feelings you find, Were from a better time, Affectionate memories, I keep in my mind ...
  • Names And Places And Thesis
    From the beginning, My understanding, I am dying and I was born that way Names and places and thesis, It's all a bit too late, Names and places and thesis, The...
  • Never Happy
    She is never happy with the weather, I don't know why I try to understand, She acts as if it's always getting better, And dresses in accordance with her plan, S...
  • New Book
    You're staring at your watch, You're staring at your watch again, You're staring at your watch, You're staring at your watch again You're staring at your watch...
  • New Dreams Broken
    Tonight the lights are bright over the cityscape, I'm miles away from where the skies are gray, It's wider than a postcard, More than I could hope for, I no lon...
  • New Year
    I'm hoping that this new year, Is better than the last one , 'Cause me and my loneliness, Could sure use a divorce Not that it's any fault of my own, Not that ...
  • New York Times Book Review
    Grady's Bar is no saloon, Drinking on a Monday afternoon, The air has it's unique pungent smell, Unique to the Seneca Hotel, I close my windows every night, But...
  • Night Time
    The night time is the right time for you to leave that old wheelchair behind, The night time is the only time you don't feel I'm staring at your lifeless legs, ...
  • No Doves Fly Here
    The sky is empty and it's turning different shades of colour It never did before and we never asked for more My mind is empty and my body different shades of to...
  • No Jazz
    At close proximity, we fire mortar rounds of intellect, Our spheres of influence are drowning in the subtext, A spontaneity despite your education, A new simpli...
  • No Surprise
    I can't sleep, A tidal wave of stress is overwhelming me, When I finally clear my head, It's only when I feel the world is dead, And back at school, I never was...
  • Nostalgic For Nothing
    What's left behind , A room that is big and undefined, A dying light, I lie awake alone at night, And I don't care, I know that life cannot be fair, I know that...
  • Not Given Lightly
    Hello my friend, It's morning, time to wake up, Your body and mine, Entwined will have to break now, But I want your flesh, your warmth to stay beside me, Oh ho...
  • Nothing City
    We're burning down your galleries, You know that galleries only breed disease, Teachers teach the wrong history, You know that classrooms only breed disease We...
  • Nothing Worth Knowing
    Smiling newscaster, She reports the tragedy, We must share the same secret joke, Or aren't we laughing at the same thing? Public feigning outrage, But these ar...
  • November
    As the rain falls hard it fills the cracks on Mission Street, There's a hole in my shoe and it's letting water soak my feet, I don't know why I curse the sky be...
  • Now You Realize
    Now you realize that she's never coming back, You finally come to terms with that very simple fact, Now you've reached the point where you can think of her, Wit...
  • Nowhere
    The dirt in the air is some atmosphere, The sun hangs low, There's nowhere like here, School is out and we pile in the car, Get away from everyday, but never to...
  • On Dying Alone
    I'm shaping shy shame into words, I'm tongue tied, left mouth dried and absurd, I know I can't drink it away You couldn't have been anyone, If I could choose f...
  • Open Road
    This is no Vietnam, A battleground mechanical of sexuality, This is a haunted house, Ghosts of our dead fathers walk the halls here eternally When all your ban...
  • Over Compensation
    What the hell is she trying to prove, She can claim it's unintentional, What the hell is she trying to prove, She's on television all the motherfuckin' time Sh...
  • Overconfident
    History is all a mystery, Fiction's all we ever have, You worship Nico, You spit on Yoko, Here's another thing that you don't know We are nothing more than all...
  • Panama
    The Captain is crying at the helm, While the crew sits and laughs, His daughter is staring at the moon, It's over at last The passengers don't say a word, Old ...
  • Parkas And Flags
    Hey, does the sound just grate? Hey, well it's a bit too late, The mods look like Vulcans in parkas and flags, The mods look like Vulcans in expensive rags, The...
  • Part Of The Problem
    Burn down the buildings, riot in the streets, Just stay out of my neighbourhood, Carry your banners in your protest march, But I don't feel it does any good I ...
  • Parts Unknown
    When counting houses on my street, The architecture ain't so unique, The walls crawl and the windows creep, Don't lie, they tell no stories I'm dying underneat...
  • Picture This
    The sound is coming through the trees, And we stand paralyzed, The corporate godhead demands a sacrifice, And it's a present day danger, We're a human plantatio...
  • Planet Earth
    Only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain, I heard you making patterns rhyme, Like some new romantic looking for the TV sound, You'll see I'm right...
  • Plastic
    Empty glasses made of plastic, So unlikely and fantastic, I might cruise in coffee houses, I'm returning naked glances But if the mediocre (vision) you boring,...
  • Priest
    The priest waits for the train, He leaves today, He says "How could I have been so wrong for so long", He lights his last cigarette, He quits today, What better...
  • Quickstep
    Pond Scum Plum is as cool as they come, And he's swinging from the chandeliers, He doesn't even care about his girlfriend's affair, As long as he can spend the ...
  • Racked
    This morning I was racked by an all consuming feeling of regret, Vague memories of tragedies, Dionysian polemics, Emphasized by my splitting headache This forg...
  • Radical Chic
    Radical chic, it's your mystique, Your so-called movement will be dead in a week, Lesbian chic, Thelma And Louise, It's all so simple on the big screen I want ...
  • Reaching For Thoreau
    When I think about my useless limbs, I see a sad defeated army, A million cells, some MIA, Are we waiting for our Midway? The reptile mind runs parallel, To the...
  • Rich And Young And Dumb
    You're telling me that it's guaranteed, You're the next big number one, You may be right but there's a pretty good chance you're wrong, You're telling me how it...
  • Rock'N'Roll Museum
    There's no reason to feel down, Just because the Rock'N'Roll museum is in your town, There's no reason to feel down, Just take a book of matches, burn it to the...
  • Rockville
    Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus, Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough, Going where nobody says ...
  • Sacrifice
    She said she wouldn't sacrifice a life constructed on passion, A red device, To say she could be traded or bought, I know that it's a bankrupt thought, I know, ...
  • Sadie Mae Glutz
    Sadie Mae Glutz was just a fan, When she got the big call to the masterplan, On a still hot August night, She dipped her hand in the blood and began to write S...
  • Sam Rivers
    Chitty, chitty chat, chitty chat, Surrounded by the sycophants, But he's a cool, cool cat, He is 79 years old, He's heard it all before, He'll hear it all some ...
  • San Francisco Thespians Part 2
    It was not her first film, But she starts to wonder why, A brand new co-star, Who looks just like Susan Sarandon, At first so clever, At first so clever, She'll...
  • Santa Cruz
    I know that it's not cool to cruise the boardwalk in Santa Cruz, But we had nothing better to do on a boring afternoon, No level of sophistication could prepare...
  • Secrets
    Last night I saw your skin go red, From your smelly little feet to the top of your head, Why do I feel so ashamed? I know, I know, I know, I know You read old l...
  • Seventeen
    Come and talk to me, You know the call is free, To me it feels like such a long, long time, I saw the magazine, You looked seventeen, It makes me feel like thin...
  • She Says
    He says "I've wasted my life, All seventeen years of a life, On just one girl", He says "It's over It's over" He's lying in the clover, And there's nothing left...
  • She's So Mean
    She is the girl that creates her own world, What makes you think that it's the right idea? Her perfunctory glance still feels like random chance, It's a plan to...
  • Simple Gesture
    No domination, Just exploitation, You don't need total control, When you use us all I'm waking up in the noontime sun, The late night show is not for everyone ...
  • Sleep
    Someone is sleeping on my street, I step over them because I need my coffee, Someone is playing in the hall, I hope they don't grow up at all, And burn my house...
  • Smell It Rot
    Rock and roll is history, It's like reading in a library, It's got little or nothing to do, nothing to do with me Rock and roll is as cold as clay, It's time t...
  • Smoke In My Face
    I don't drink everything, She won't stop at anything, She won't wait for me, I don't smoke anything, I don't mind living at her place, I don't mind her smoke in...
  • Snot Rags
    If I could live my life again, There are so many things I'd want to change, As if I could know I'd be destined to relive the pain again She's got pictures on t...
  • Socialist Newspaper
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's no good, Just a magazine for firewood, You can play make-believe, But it's not worth killing trees, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're ...
  • Society Is A Carnivorous Flower
    [Part 1] One more day to stare into space, One more day in this boring place, Blank expression on your face, Drink your coffee, complex aftertaste, One more da...
  • Soliloquy
    While I feel lucky, I still regret, I never got my second chance, The photos I took as documentation, Blend my personal mythologies A sad soliloquy, As much fo...
  • Sound Guy Smiley
    He's going to say what little he has to say, He's going to say it in the longest possible way, He knows what he's doing, You are wrong, he is right, He will rem...
  • Star Of The Show
    Ignoring the messages on your machine, Even your name is sounding obscene, It's all I can do to keep to myself, When I set next to you Deep in the Valley I fee...
  • Stars Are Exploding
    Early tomorrow I am disgusting, Phantoms and subways, Clustered hallucinations The sky is spitting thunderbolts at random intervals, The wind breaks it's cours...
  • Static
    When you fly west over hours of excess, Your breath grows short and weak, Down on the ground, You take ten trains to the next town, You're travelling interplane...
  • Stinking Seas
    All the dishes in the sink sit as cold as the floor, It's a monument to affluence, Words carry no quintessence You're out of time, You're out of time, you're o...
  • Stupid Lesson
    Another stupid lesson I didn't want to learn, Standing in the rain waiting for my turn, It's my human condition that makes my world complete, But tonight I just...
  • Styrofoam
    She has a wall made of Styrofoam, She's a Catholic girl from a Catholic home, She stares into the space of her computer screen, Schizo between hyper and fatigue...
  • Sunshine
    Sunshine, Boring sunshine, Tripping amphetamine, Sick inspiration, Sunshine, Who needs sunshine? Leaves me paralyzed, Sweet perspiration And I don't want you a...
  • Swallow
    I have no reason to think this season is in itself to blame, The phone it doesn't ring, And so I do my thing, What time is it back home? "You've got no message...
  • Sweet And Sour Plums
    Another bag of sweet and sour plums, It's like clockwork at this time of year, A little gift and hopefully a memory, But I know it isn't working It's your home...
  • Sweet Talkin' Woman
    I was searchin' (searchin') down a one-way street, I was hopin' (hopin') for a chance to meet, I was waiting for the operator on the line, She's gone so long, w...
  • Switzerland
    I am drawn by intrigue, Could I ever live in Switzerland? Could I ever please any number of secret societies? This isn't Socrates, It's not the roots of ancient...
  • Symbols
    I've got anticipation, You see the complication, The heat is rising from the centre coil, Someone's talking, Someone's nodding, And I'm waiting for my water to ...
  • Tea Time
    Put the dishes in the sink please, Or the roaches will have a feast, The leftovers in the fridge please, It's time to have some tea The things you are forgetti...
  • Telephone Line
    Hello, how are you? Have you been alright, Through all the lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights, That's what I'd say, I'd tell you everything, If you'd...
  • Terror Or Love
    Romance may be a bankrupt term while we watch the city burn, I have to wonder if it's true and I'm so glad I'm here with you, Planting bombs - robbing banks, ca...
  • The Devil And I
    I will get you back if it's the last thing that I do, I'm taking classes every night for my revenge on you, I may get a gun I'm still not sure what I will do, B...
  • The Doctor
    I am the doctor and I Keep you mutilated and I Keep your body perverted and I'm Lost in inertia, You're getting better, You seem to be improving, But there's ne...
  • The Dramatic History Of A Boring Town
    Like the old cliche, "alone in the crowd", At the top of your lungs you still won't hear a sound, The unlocked cage both protects and surrounds, The dramatic hi...
  • The Heroic Trio
    Something had to happen, Something had to change, Babies vanishing, sacrificed, To a eunuch with no name, Make a move, Things to choose, Either way you're bound...
  • The Legend Of Rita
    Like I said before, "We speak in codes", Underneath the Eastern snow, We don't believe in Western modes, Race around the Berlin roads, Rita in your mind; she is...
  • The Overwhelming Smell
    He's got a million lines for each of your ears, He's telling you exactly what you want to hear, He's telling you what you want to hear, His hands are sweaty mov...
  • The Satanists Convene
    Nothing is the same anymore, The Satanists convene on the shore, Their creatures disappeared from the sea, The gateway vanished into eternity The Church Of Sat...
  • The Star Hotel
    If nobody remembers the Star Hotel, And it's sad, lurid ghosts, It's probably just as well, Thinking through the stinking is not thinking a lot, Reach into your...
  • The State Of Things
    I think it's time to slow down and take it easy, City life can always get me down, The heat is so much gentler when it's breezy, The city doesn't need me around...
  • The Track
    January blows through the track, You're too hot to feel it on your back, All alone with everyone, Do you still remember fun? Tonight the darkness of the 'loin, ...
  • The Versace Killer
    You're safe in your home, You're safe yet all alone, Violence transcends your bank account, You crawl, you beg, You're climbing up my leg, Mercy comes in most f...
  • Thirty Second Song
    Thirty second song still sounds too long, When everything I say seems to come out wrong, Nobody wants to know, They all just want to sing along Thirty second s...
  • Tide Of Fate
    Riding in the back, in the back, in the back with no shell, Trying hard, trying hard, trying hard, trying hard to stay warm, Trying to keep the bugs out of our ...
  • Tightrope
    They say some days you're gonna win, They say some days you're gonna lose, I tell you I got news for you, You're losin' all the time, you never win, no If you ...
  • To The Moon
    I've got customs, nothing functions, Tongues and different hues, I've got sizes, slices eyes, That know you're nothing new, I've never wanted to go to the moon,...
  • Traffic Jam
    Woke up in the morning, Aggravation AM, Last night's entertainment came to a toxic end, My body takes the poison, My mind prescribes the dose, My personal lie w...
  • Transvestite Show
    Come on, come on, let's go, Let's go check out the transvestite show, We can laugh at the spectacle, But someone still goes home alone He can't sleep, He never...
  • Travelers
    They were standing in broken doorways, Trying to hide their faces, Trying to hide form the chilling, chilling hand of light, But the blue light circled back on ...
  • Tree House Of Love
    We used to stay up all night, Watching movies 'til light, Sometimes picking a fight when I knew she was right They'd be riding their bikes, All my friends they ...
  • Tricky
    This is not a good sign, You say you're losing your mind, People say it's no exaggeration, Was it something I said? Was it something I did? Or was it something ...