One I was younger than The youngest of fragile minds I ate the day with bad manners Then spit out the rind And mother told me As I looked to the sky Yes my mot...

I took so many roads to find you Full of dead ends and one way streets It took some luck just to get near you I like to believe it was destiny Come to me, mine...

If i thought for just one second that i could get away with it i'd make a bid for the foundry and save this sinking ship a friend was downtown to protest someth...

Well we're all gone good-bye see you so long And you're so young and glad to see us move on When the day's long and the moon just stares you down Notice your sh...

A train sounds off with whistle blowing Lighthouse horn sounds early warning Clean cool air with stars out shining Overcoat and whiskey drinking Hands locked ti...

Well I've been to town down every road and back Drank all the pubs bone-dry in seconds flat Been to holes in walls and bathroom stalls from the states to foreig...

Off all the blessed intervals that defined ourselves as one i may remember only the last, as it's the interval you won i've thought about it and i just don't kn...

He was spoken to just to be put down He was 22 when helped off the ground Beaten black and blue when his color was brown and shining shoes in a dirty town (Chor...

Only passing thoughts of times long gone, tonight 9000 miles away I hear your songs, but I - I seek the comfort of the bottle and then I let my mind to wander t...

The first time I met you Was up on the hill With tequilla on Tuesday And roses in well You gave me a kiss As strong as the winds That swirl through the lots Of ...

Metal guitars in every town White rap and DJ's, hard and loud You slice through strange air The new icon in eden Clueless and arrogant A beast of no real burden...

I'm just a living abortion Trying to live my life, trying to make some fun Walking down the street, people think I'm dead Gonna eat their brain with a piece of ...

Look at my face turn it around I'm the invisible man I'm the expletive deleted Give me my suit hand me my tie flash me a smile I'm the expletive deleted take of...

Drinkin beers in the pouring rain Dupont circle summer again jackin' wheels just for fun i was only 13 watch your step but it's always the same your always down...

Five lovely lessons learned today Coating my throat with the dust of a new day As the saints pray their lonely way And their deadweight lays the passion to wast...

I want to tell you how it's been but I'm not too sure about it myself I've tried to call time and time again but I misdialed, then stopped myself now I feel lik...

The fascists and their many guises Anarchists and their fantasizing It seems sometimes they're sailing the same boat Politicians mesmerizing throngs of automate...

Some sang their songs Like flying on uppers So sweet and smug That I lose my supper Some mumble psalms Of solace and virtue Hang by their palms And choke on th...

Did you ask that man On the corner for the time of day Did he shrug and glance at his wrist and say "Dunno, here you go" And hand you a fool's gold watch I shou...

There ain't nothing good about saying goodbye There ain't nothing fair about saying farewell There ain't nothing better than my baby So go to hell There ain't ...

You reached for heaven at seventeen And caught the clap from some teenage queen Took some tablets, hit it again And that's all right Sometimes you took the stac...

My bastard brother's hopeless vow Of leaving off to another town Has once again soaked deep into The cold and rotting ground He never shares his lovesick bed Or...

He resides on Mt Olympus where no mortal goes He is my charming mentor and everybody knows He'll bring you ecstasy and fill you with his grace Careening careles...

10 AM yeah I just woke up I can't clear my head Drank too much last night again I might as well be dead Well I'm just fuckin' lazy My whole life's makin' me cra...

Here's one for the tamed Runners-up and losers of the game The tried and true, the tragic and the shamed The broken hearted, sad eyed, and unnamed You've given...

"Hello again," you say to the folks at the EDD you've been dire and disgusted and come in most every day to keep yourself alive you heave insults and forever cu...

My Accordion is shining In the light of the moon from the sky And I sit here alone and drinking With the windows and doors open wide My hand got tired an hour a...

The last of the daydreams have walked out the open door avoiding any problems they might've had with the social law well, i remember Tuesday and every last day ...

Hands off I got no fingers get a load of my stingers I want a piece There's no misunderstanding I don't know where you're landing step on your feet I've been wa...

The grapes are ripped straight off the vine before ripe The fifths are drank the eighths smolder in the pipe Complaints to celebrate are fathomed and condomed S...

Let your eyes promise me lies Let your sigh be a sweet goodbye And never even write to me a letter I won't worry about tearful endeavors There was no reason to...

I'm burning in this pit i dug myself in an hour ago and up around the corner lies that bastard pub's front door and in my many changing moods and on similar day...

I try to bless myself with boredom But i still feel cursed and burdened Every day is trying on me Why, i can't say, why i can't just be There's always somethin...

You're selfishness is horrid And you're beauty is queen Puts the pain gut-wrenching And the grass a sickly green The troubles of youth Have got your hair in a m...

Now you can't help feelin' your the mother of the mad while market street's reelin in memory of the dead and capp street's greeting the tourists with good head ...

You could move faster you could move like you should (traffic on the bridges at bay) while the bitch and bastard has got you by the jewels (buried in the workin...

If I asked you where to go from here would you give me the right direction does it come to mind any paradise lost that I can win with true conviction, or am I w...

Don't want to write Don't want to talk Don't want to fight Don't want to fuck Don't want to clear my mind 'cause i'm a non-believer, babe I won't speak those li...

While I sit alone in this room I've got crates full of sorrow Even more filled with shadows That i fish out and ridicule when i'm felling lonely I'm lacking se...

"I was only laughing out loud" I say "When anybody else would've done the same" I could always shut my mouth again But it'd still come out that way again And ag...

Born on the southside you live alone Four walls a roof and it's always cold look out the window and there is nothing to see But, a Riot torn city and the death ...

"he's a shadow of what he used to be ever since i put him in his place" she's just a memory that's scarred him horribly and looks like lipstick on his face This...

My bag of tricks is down to just to a bag A home for the filthy, the filthy rich's rags Fortitude for many, a humping hole for hags No substitute nor substance,...

You're just a punk You're just a punk You're just a punk, they say, And they don't know what you want You learn to fight To bark and bite Test all the limits of...

She came over, but i was spent no money involved 'cause it came and went i'm so tired, she thinks that's bent it fills up my pockets and it pays my rent i won't...

They've laid to rest mortality, blessed themselves with immorality, gazed into the eyes of innocents as the blade was pulled out merrily i'd beg and plead if it...

Biting on rebar, cinder block mind Time was on his side until it made him unkind The filth of his work has now settled on his heart His company is doing well, b...

I have crossed this road before for many years, i'm sure don't recognize the faces, though, that pass me by i've been off and on my way again, passed marsh road...

Mr Product Man strolling by with a kind of head-held-high hypocrisy the envy of so many walks of life but not at type like me periodically searching through the...

Mr product man strolling by with a kind of head-held-high hypocrisy the envy of so many walks of life but not a type like me periodically searching through the ...

I write alone now that you're gone And it's nothing I studied all you've said and done And it's nothing The pictures perfect There's no time It's nothing Resolu...

I was a city baby raised on a well-worn street my daddy hated it because of it's fame i never noticed really i was too young at the time to care about the histo...

I was a city baby raised on a well worn street My daddy hated it because of it's fame I never noticed really I was too young at the time To care about the histo...

It would be nice if what was said was what we heard was what we read there's too many times it seems to me between the lines we have to read Politician - don't ...

I'd rest on my laurels Let some keen wit And crying awful pity sustain me But my memories leak like a sieve And fuel this fire It's deep and heavy roar defies m...

Old men run on gasoline from the stations of the past and the things that they can teach you, son, I hope to God they'll ever last The crow isn't afraid of the ...

I am not suave i am not bare there's seven pair of pants and stuff in my hair are you scared of me sitting under the tree i strike a striking pose while i'm wip...

Time has given me everything I need Lust, pride, gluttony, and relief Tomorrow weighs down like Clouds hung in the sky But right now I'm feeling like A rotten p...

The smokestack's blowing off my last few dreams and isn't that the way it's always been? she pours into the sky and chokes the trees then disappears from view, ...

Good solid build, this ripe young kid has sharpened up for killing men polished new shoes and uniform not a bad sort "just came here on a whim" And now our sold...

Are you guilty of this game that got me in this seat or grateful for the cross that kept Jesus off his feet filling up the tissue box instead of using the sheet...

The Devil Dog Has got you pinned to the ground You try so many ways And you look how that sounds You got me telling me the differences Between night and day I t...

You feel stupid Tired of losing Each game brings you misery Each situation appears Just to fool you You feel I'll with awful nausea And a subtle hysteria That k...

Cigarette Ashes And tickets to free dinners A buck bottle of wine Under a minute of my time I'll give you all that I have, son It may be less than I have, son D...

Somewhere between time to time I depend on my fuckin' alibis But now it's all a different story And it's gettin' pretty damn boring I have taken the train Fuck...

They always look in all directions Searching for prey, playing the field They're set like diamonds of pure pretension All polished, plastic overkill Teen idol ...

Well, you don't really know what you wanna do except to spend some time just being you but the game's unfair and the stakes are high what with the threat of bei...

My life's a mystery I just can't figure it out It's strange to me That the visions I see Seduce me but for now I try to focus But I can only do a little At one ...

I've been disheveled by this drink, by the pint's sight and stink, never enough times to stop and make me think I've wrapped around some fingers, riddled rich i...

Ample inquiry active, not electric but she is wirey i'm missing, i'm affected futile and fiery sights moved into you a fixture, a filed-b the blessed this fucke...

Nothing comes over me Nothing like inspiration Not even on the seaside No fantasies to ration The swell looks mighty slim And the water level's down The dirty s...

I've kept it in my heart For over twenty fucking years And all that time washing away With the stench of my spilt tears I've lingered on the amorous Transformed...

Why can't I beat the bankers Deal then find a home to ro Why can't I lie and cheat and steal Who wants an honest jo And if I curse you night and day My integrit...

Standing up to the world and all you see, now Telling yourself you've gone away for good, now But there's not enough time And there's no really good reason To r...

Bite your tongue, fight your addictions Fall in line ,fall in love and know your predictions Tomorrow is not newAnd yesterday was due Ridiculed by the fools, us...

The fog comes in and out with the tides like my pocket watch it doesn't keep the time spitting smoke combustion from foreign cars choking my family history with...

Was it something you said or was it something you did it doesn't matter much ''cause I can't leave either way I'm just a part now and I'm here to stay but I wou...

This journey started slow and free And ended wrapped around a tree Just like my self pity tangled in The willow weeds As high as right up to my knees While scra...

It's been a prosperous four years Many have come and staked their claim But now it's over and the halls are cleared And you're unpopular again It takes so litt...

I guess it's all right That we never know Just what it all means And if there are ways Of making a change Please show them to me So if I could stop time Then I...

Slow motion cigarettes hang from your sweaty lips five bottles of stale, pissy ale stumble to your pale wrists thin man with unkept hair clean shave, but a glas...

Give me just a second to grasp your two-bit theories as that's more than enough time i need to see through their innate queries you're telling me to shape up or...

Those lonely moments got you talking to yourself as long as no one's there to listen you're not ashamed those lonely moments got you drinking to your health as ...