He said his prayers in the barroom Whisky was his holy wine And the bar became an alter His friends were angels in the their time His hand was steady on the gla...

The Terminal Tavern By David Wilcox Ah, what a beautiful place It is so lush and quiet in these walls It's a place where the sound really stands a chance of fin...

from Turning Point (Spoken) In the deep of the darkest night There's a beacon of yellow light (singing) At the Waffle House At the edge of the dark abyss The c...

From What You Whispered David WilcoxTom Prasada-Rao She couldn't sleep She fired up the engine Cause she had no place to go She likes the window open She's lis...

from What You Whispered David Wilcox/Tom Prasada-Rao She couldn't sleep She fired up the engine Cause she had no place to go She likes the window open She's li...

This old car, was once brand new On the day, that you were born But sixteen years, have rolled right through And soon you'll drive me on your own Sixteen years...

from What You Whispered With this tattoo you make a promise of who you are and what you think this will be your binding contract written down in blood and ink ...

All three brothers love their father and he's called them here today To see these papers and these lawyers and divide the old estate All three feel that they're...

from Unreleased The time between the lightning and the thunder, The time to wait before her fate arrives She looks out at the sky and starts to wonder If a mir...

The righteous and the infidels Just outside the gates of hell Waiting for their judgment to fall They looked around from face to face So different in their fai...

I'm a coke shoe bopper From New Orleans I take every kinda drug That you ever seen I've eatin' inside, outside Bring in the twist I gotta fire my missle 'Till i...

from East Asheville Hardware The top of my head shines through my haircut Even when I brush, shape and style Top of my head smiles at the young man Telling me ...

from Home Again Say good-bye to your twenties Tomorrow is the "Big 3-0" For my birthday present I've got a place where we can go It's a lesson in motion To rid...

from Turning Point Just one turn to steer your fate or wait for fate to spin you Your trusting's fine but much too blind Your compass is within you These days ...

from Underneath I know that compassion is all out of fashion, and anger is all the rage Grow up and give in to that cynical spin that you see on most every pag...

The mountains were high from the valley below But back in those days they didn't know What was waiting for them over the divide And who would be the first to se...

from Unreleased - words and music by David Wilcox and Cliff Eberhardt My fingers tingle My foot's alseep Pins and needles sticking in me My chicken's missing M...

I'll keep my vow of silence now forever It's the only way If you can't hear my heart when we're together There's nothing I could say The trees explain the wind...

in the deep of the darkest night there's a beacon of yellow light at the waffle house at the edge of the dark abyss when confusion descends like this deeper and...

from Unreleased In a boxcar in the moonlight In the open in the place You are sleeping on my jacket And I'm waiting for a change When we started at a crossing ...

from Turning Point This is where the trail just disappears This is where their story ends No one knows where they went from here But I remember when they drank...

from What You Whispered I've got time walking down this road Got a mile and a half to go to see you in the evening When you take my hand and lead me down the p...

Summer lasted a generation A generation and then the winter wind The bounty harvest that seemed so endless It seemed so endless 'til it gave what it could give ...

CANADIAN ARTIST DAVID WILCOX Dear darling I love you always Some things never change Our love is one of them That's what you say In your letter Of only yesterd...

From What You Whispered You say you get so haunted by these memories Well of course there must be plenty that you'd just as soon forget Here's a chance to wash...

I was born on a barstool Tellin' lies to the lady on the right Nobody to come home to Just hangin' out all night Lone wolf howling at an empty glass Way past cl...

I was born on a barstool Tellin' lies to the lady on the right Nobody to come home to Just hangin' out all night Lone wolf howling at an empty glass Way past cl...

From Unreleased "Kill your television" Said the poet on the street It's just mental anasthesia And it's putting us to sleep 'Cause they copy what's been copied...

From Unreleased I must say it's provocative You tease your tongue across your lips To catch that drop of wine Are you just tryin' to hurt me? It's just a tiny ...

Midnight Rider Riding through town Late every nighttime Cruising around (Midnight Rider, Midnight Rider) (Riding through town) (Midnight Rider, Midnight Rider)...

from Home Again When you pick a sprig of balsam pine, On your hike along the mountain view, You can wrap the scent in corduroy, And bring the mountain home wit...

A ghost of you is dancing through Memories of this town I can see you and me Before the ride shut down Lights on the boardwalk shine for miles Places to go exp...

from Unreleased With the little that I know about dancing, With the little that I know about left-foot-right, Maybe I can turn these blues into something brigh...

Words Alone David Wilcox When I'm afraid of dying ashamed Of never doing what I'm here for I'm afraid being afraid and wasting precious time I'm afraid growin...

from East Asheville Hardware It might look to you like nothing much to see But you should see the way it feels to me Here's the sidewalk I used to ride my bike...

YOUNG MAN DIES There's a young man dying as he stands beside the sea You can see him smiling, unbelievably free: wind in his hair, light in his eyes He looks a ...