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Songs: What Is Not But Could Be If, Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer, Suffering Jukebox, My Pillow Is The Threshold, Strange Victory, Strange Defeat, Open Field, San Francisco B.C., Candy Jail, Party Barge, We Could Be Looking For The Same Thing, How to Rent a Room, Pet Politics, Black and Brown Blues, Ballad of Reverend War Character, The Right to Remain Silent, Dallas, Inside the Golden Days of Missing You, Albemarle Station, The Frontier Index, Pretty Eyes, Punks In The Beerlight, Sometimes A Pony Gets Depressed, K-Hole, Animal Shapes, I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You, How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down, The Poor, The Fair And The Good, Sleeping Is The Only Love, The Farmer's Hotel, There Is A Place, Introduction II, Trains Across The Sea, The Moon Is The Number 18, Advice To The Graduate, Tide To The Oceans, Pan-American Blues, New Orleans, The Country Diary Of A Subway Conductor, Living Waters, Rebel Jew, The Silver Pageant, Random Rules, Smith & Jones Forever, Night Society, Federal Dust, People, Blue Arrangements, We Are Real, Send in the Clouds, Like like the the the Death, Buckingham Rabbit, Honk If You're Lonely, The Wild Kindness, Slow Education, Room Games and Diamond Rain, Time Will Break The World, I Remember Me, Horseleg Swastikas, Transylvania Blues, Let's Not and Say We Did, Tennessee, Friday Night Fever, Death of an Heir of Sorrows, Canada, The Walnut Falcon, September 1999, SVM F.T. TROOPS, The Unchained Melody, Secret Knowledge of Back Roads, I Love the Rights, Jackson Nightz, The War in Apartment 1812, West S, You Can't Trust It To Remain, The Wild Palms, Welcome to the House of the Bats, Bar Scene From Star Wars

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Starlite Walker (1994)

  1. Introduction II

    Lyrics: Introduction II

    Hello, my friends
    Hello, my friends
    Come on, have a seat
    Come on, in my kitchen
    My friends, take it easy
    My friends, have a seat
    My friends, don't you know that I never
    Want this minute to end
    And then it ends...
  2. Trains Across The Sea

    Lyrics: Trains Across The Sea

    Troubles, no troubles on the line
    And I can't stand to see you
    I can't stand to see you
    When you're crying at home
    
    Scotch and Penicillin
    Please try Carlton
    A cold black maple hanger
    And husbands on the run
    
    I just got back from a dream attack
    That took me by suprise
    And in there I met a lady
    Her name was Shady Side
    And she said
    
    "It's been evening all day long
    It's been evening all day long
    And how can something so old, be so wrong?"
    
    Sin and gravity
    Drag me down to sleep
    To dream of trains across the sea
    Trains across the sea
    
    Half hours on earth
    What are they worth?
    I don't know
    
    In 27 years, I've drunk 50,000 beers
    And they just wash against me
    Like the sea into a pier
  3. The Moon Is The Number 18

    Lyrics: The Moon Is The Number 18

    Instrumental
  4. Advice To The Graduate

    Lyrics: Advice To The Graduate

    If you got a message
    Leave your name and number
    And we'll get back to you
    
    Sleep on your back and ash in your shoes
    And always use the old sense of the words
    Your third drink will lead you astray
    Wandering down the backstreets of the world
    
    On the last day of your life
    Don't forget to die
    The things that you do
    Will always make your mama cry.
    
    Well, I know you got a lot of hope for
    The new men
    The new men
    
    So you've got no friends and you wander through the night
    And now you watch the sunrise through a rifle-sight
    Well, don't believe in people who say it's all been done
    They have time to talk because their race is run
    
    So get in some licks
    And hold your head up
    And soon you'll be drinkin' from that crystal cup
    
    Well, I know you got a lot of hope for
    The new men
    Well, I know you got a lot of hope for
    The new men
    
    Good morning to the new world
  5. Tide To The Oceans

    Lyrics: Tide To The Oceans

    Tides across the ocean
    A million chuckers never felt wrong
    Looking at you, I'm a staring
    Looking how you make me feel good now
    Broken like you know the child diction
    Over at the naked show
    Sarah couldn't make you feel down now
    Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down now
    
    Wait, for the last man
    Last man never had a chance
    So he went out behind the shed
    And bought himself a little cigarettes
    On the ground digging for a treasure map
    Find your answer
    When you ask, please ask me
    Ask me to stay.
  6. Pan-American Blues

    Lyrics: Pan-American Blues

    A fifth on decoration day for the doctor
    That fixed my arm. The federales back
    From Tuscon, each one got an arm gone.
    Limehouse Pratt got dim inside, can't see
    The painted ladies runaround at night.
    A wood-paneled room, my cigarette fumes
    Waltz and dissolve just for you.
    There's gonna be a truce(x3) but
    First you got to set your horses loose.
    A jaguar simmering in a cage, give him
    A chance, can you tell the answer from the
    Ants. History's got it's walking papers
    Can't get enough of the make-up
    That makes it look so tough.
    Well it ssssseems just like a freeze out
    (X3). an undisclosed, deeply wooded
    Loose your way route.
  7. New Orleans

    Lyrics: New Orleans

    I'm scared, I swear, of you
    In the tunnel, in the darkness
    The darkest walls of blue
    
    There's beasts
    And there's men
    And there's something on this Earth that comes back again
    
    Alpha
    Delta
    Gamma
    Everybody's smoked
    
    Well, you can't say
    (You can't say)
    That my soul has died away-ay-ay-ay-yeah
    
    No, you can't say
    (You can't say)
    That my soul has died away-ay-ay-ay-yeah
    
    Oh, well, there's trouble in the hall
    And trouble up the stairs
    And trouble in the trouble that's troubling the air
    
    Well, please don't say
    (Please don't say)
    That my soul has died away-ay-ay-ay-yeah
    
    There is a house in New Orleans
    Not the one you've heard about
    I'm talking 'bout another house
    They spoke of gold in the cellar
    That a Spanish gentleman had left
    
    I broke in 100 years ago
    With a dagger tucked in my vest
    Legends of gold, I've tried to hold
    In the grey half-light of the hallway at night
    
    One
    Two
    Three, four, five
    We're trapped inside the song
    
    Well, we're trapped inside the song
    Trapped inside the song
    Trapped inside the song
    Where the nights are so long
    
    (Now we're) trapped inside the song
    Trapped inside the song
    Trapped inside the song
    Where the nights are so long
    
    Traps inside us all
    Traps inside us all
    There's traps inside us all
    And that night was so tall
    
    The night was so tall
    The night was so tall
    The night was so tall
    Tall, tall
  8. The Country Diary Of A Subway Conductor

    Lyrics: The Country Diary Of A Subway Conductor

    "O get him out of there!" What if it cost 25c
    To wake up in the morning? A dollar, ten dollars?
    I'd pay it all the way to the poor house. It's not made
    If it's made in Roanoke. Night pulling up in front of
    The house like a bus. It came at me with shears. Her
    Sweater had faces, famous faces knitted all over it.
    The porch swing ticked off Central Daylight time.
    "How many hours do you think it'll take me to smoke this
    Cigarette?" she said with a smile. The smell of fried
    Food came drifting out one of the castle windows.
    "Lets go around back" I said "my brother buried some
    Stuff back there." We ducked down and walked through
    The black bushes. My shoe made a sucking sound in
    The turf. "He can afford anything" I said "he's got
    Dogs that blow on trumpets." "Priests!" she cussed.
    Thunder cracks over Ben Franklin's shop. Who wrapped
    My dreams in a blanket and led them outside to the black
    Book in the yard? "Hey what indian tribe occupied
    Southern california? They were a lucky bunch of fellers!"
    Sting Bible, More Sea Bible, Knur & Spell. In moments
    Downhill, towards sleep in the stillwater shop. Imagining
    Places I was almost sure I'd never been & had taken to
    Assuming were the memories of my grandfather somehow
    Deposited in my mind. They were there and gone, just before
    I could get my bearings, catch any names or find out
    Where the hotel was. Just a pile of glass shavings that
    Could never be reassembled into the gone order
    Of buildings & the shade pouring off of them. "WATER!"
  9. Living Waters

    Lyrics: Living Waters

    Now people are good and people are bad
    And I'm never sure which one I am
    So, come in out of the storm
    What you need is an imitation of home
    
    Your at home
    You're all alone
    And nobody's calling on the telephone
    
    Now people are good and people are bad
    People they butch, people they brag
    People they test, people they breast
    People make sex, it's their favourite thing to do
    
    So if you run, then run to me
    And if you can swim then swim to me
    Just come in out of the storm
    What you need is an imitation of home
    
    Your at home
    You're all alone
    And nobody's calling on the telephone
  10. Rebel Jew

    Lyrics: Rebel Jew

    In the times I dream Jesus
    It's like he's coming through the walls
    When I'm working at my desk at night
    I hear his footsteps in the hall
    
    You can believe me not believe me
    I'm just a bird upon the sill
    And these words just pour right through me
    Like water through a mill
    
    He was a rebel jew
    He was a rebel jew
    And he died for you and your sins
    He was a rebel jew
    He was a rebel jew
    Let him in
    
    Sometimes I dream of Texas
    Yeah, it's the biggest part of me
    And the planes look like the sea at night
    Oh, she wants to be so free
    
    She is a rebel state
    She is a rebel state
    And it's not too late for her to break
    From a sick, sick union
    An unhealed wound and separate
    
    All the time I dream of Michelle
    And the towers in her mind
    Some women lie down with killers
    Oh, my baby's not that kind
    
    She is a real good girl
    Yeah, she's a real good girl
    And she stops the world so I can't see
    That she's a good, good girl
    A good, good girl to me
  11. The Silver Pageant

    Lyrics: The Silver Pageant

    Instrumental

The Natural Bridge (1996)

  1. How to Rent a Room

    Lyrics: How to Rent a Room

    No, I don't really want to die
    I only want to die in your eyes
    I'm still here below the chandelier
    Where they always used to read us our rights
    
    I want to wander through the night
    As a figure in the distance even to my own eye
    Have you ever rented a room?
    Have you even ever rented a room?
    
    Anchor let's you see the river move
    Now that your evil dreams came true
    There on your face
    A row of teeth will come to replace
    
    I know you laughed, when i left
    But you really only hurt yourself
    You see your curtains move in the wind
    You can bet I'm betting against you again
    
    'Cause I'm a man who has a wife who has a mother
    Who married one but she loved another
    
    You're a tower without the bells
    You're a negative wishing well
    
    Should have checked the stable door
    For the name of the sire and dam
    You were always at the dog track
    With your brother and all his friends
    
    Chalk lines around my body
    Like the shore line of a lake
    Your laughter made me nervous
    It made your body shake too hard
    Now there's a lot of things that I'm gonna miss
    Like thunder down country and the way water drips
    When you're runnin' for the door in the rain
    
    Read the metro section
    Read the metro section
    Read the metro section
    See my name
    
    No I didn't really want to die
    I only wanted to die in your eyes
    
    Grant me one last wish
    Life should mean a lot less than this
    Grant me one last wish
    Life should mean a lot less than this
  2. Pet Politics

    Lyrics: Pet Politics

    Guard my bed
    While the rain turns the ditches to mirrors
    By a vase of carnations from central Ohio
    Where the looking machine can't here us
    Deep in the night we dream of positions
    There's a line for the phone in the hall
    And in the cold places where Spanish is spoken
    Most wars end in the fall
    You never know where your pet will go
    Pet politics
    Pet politics
    Pet politics
    Pet politics
    Still wearing last nights' mascara
    Now that her pet was gone for sure
    She was shivering so hard
    It looked like there were two of her
    I could see through the sleeve of her blouse
    The plans of her architect lover
    A tattoo of a boarded-up house
    And ink door that belonged to another
    When the rain hits you
    It hits you slow
    Stitch after stitch
    Stitch after stitch
    Stitch after stitch
    Stitch after stitch
    Adam was not the first man 'though the Bible tells us so
    There was one created before him, whose name we do not know
    He also lived in the garden
    But he had no mouth or eyes
    One day Adam came to kill him
    And he died beneath these skies
    I find it so amazing how
    I go where I'm led
    I go where I'm led
    I go where I'm led
    I go where I'm led
    I suspect we could be losing now
    Please guard my bed
    Please guard my bed
    Please guard my bed
    Please guard my bed
  3. Black and Brown Blues

    Lyrics: Black and Brown Blues

    Baby let's get dressed up
    I got two pairs of shoes
    Darling you look so beautiful
    When your hair's all hung in jewels
    And sometimes I find it really hard to choose
    Between a pair of black and a pair of brown shoes
    When I'm high on batwings
    Up by the silvery moon
    I think of a certain sad eyed king
    Trapped in his golden room
    And I dream of a cold river on the way
    To come and sweep that king into this black and brown bay
    Well the water looks like jewelry
    When it's coming out the spout
    And nothing could make me feel better
    Than a wet kiss on the mouth
    Fake I.D.'s and honeybees
    The jagged skyline of car keys
    I never knew the bird could fly so low
    Rub out the catlight,
    Rub out the village
    Red and white exit light
    That's exodus damage
    Why don't people think of who they use?
    Why don't you try and come and get me: Black and Brown Blues
    It's raining triple sec in Tchula
    And the radio plays "Crazy Train"
    There's a quadroon ball in the beehive
    Hanging out in the rain
    And when there's trouble I dont like running
    But I'm afraid I got more in common
    With who I was than who I am becoming
    When I go downtown
    I always wear a corduroy suit
    Cause it's made of a hundred gutters
    That the rain can run right through
    But a lonely man can't make a move
    If he can't even bring himself to choose
    Between a pair of black and a pair of brown shoes
  4. Ballad of Reverend War Character

    Lyrics: Ballad of Reverend War Character

    Miss Mary Jane measures rain in a cracked cup on the sill
    In Embry's last photograph he disappears over a hill
    Darrell Dotson waits in the grass for a fight
    The stars don't shine upon us
    We're in the way of their light
    
    The new girl in Tahoe has swallowed Sinatra's cum
    A Russian primadonna dances slow on valium
    After the game the benchwarmer can't get a ride
    In space there is no center
    We're always off to the side
    
    John Parker III steps over a bird on a Wall St. window ledge
    Little Wilkie finds a dead cat rotting deep inside the hedge
    Mahalia Roach dies on a Greyhound coach in July
    In a horror movie when the car won't start
    You give it one last try
    
    Guinnevere orders one more beer in the smokey pick-up bar
    A burnt out tramp by the exit ramp waits for one more car
    The Latin teacher always smelled like piss
    The census figures come out wrong
    There's an extra in our midst
  5. The Right to Remain Silent

    Lyrics: The Right to Remain Silent

    Instrumental
  6. Dallas

    Lyrics: Dallas

    I passed the thirteenth floor
    The CPR was so erotic
    A blizzard blew in through the door
    And little glowing cum buckets in her ankles
    O Dallas you shine with an evil light
    O Dallas you shine with an evil light
    How did you turn a billion steers
    Into buildings made of mirrors,
    And why am I drawn to you tonight?
    Once you taste the geometry of a church in a cul-de-sac
    You're gonna want to sit with the bad kids in the back
    Cruising down Commerce
    Killing time in the blazing sun
    Is it true your analyst was a placekicker for the Falcons?
    We saw B.B.King on General Hospital
    In the Oak Cliff dramhounse where we stayed
    And when Clancy whipped her with his belt buckle
    He cleaned her cuts and then we prayed
    O Dallas you shine with an evil light
    Don't you know that God stays up all night?
    And how did you turn a billion steers
    Into buildings made of mirrors,
    And why am I drawn to you tonight?
    Watching the makeup girls make out with the mannequins
    "Hey boys, supper's on me, our record just went aluminum"
    Poor as a mouse every morning
    Rich as a cat every night
    Some kind of strange magic happens
    When the city turns on her lights
  7. Inside the Golden Days of Missing You

    Lyrics: Inside the Golden Days of Missing You

    Inside the golden days of missing you
    With the people of Cleveland
    Who've suffered for so many years
    The shattered glass cussed
    And when it broke it spoke to us
    It said "Hey"
    It said "I know you... what's your name?"
    
    I wish they didn't set mirrors behind the bar
    Cause I can't stand to look at my face
    When I don't know where you are
    Then the feeling fades away
    But you sort of wish it would of stayed
    Inside... the golden days of missing you
    
    What if life is just some hard equation
    On a chalkboard in a science class for ghosts
    You can live again
    But you'll have to die twice in the end
    In the end/ we'll meet again
  8. Albemarle Station

    Lyrics: Albemarle Station

    Call me from Albermarle Station if you can
    I hope you find your concentration beneath those ceiling fans
    We used to dance in this split-level ranch
    When moonlight flooded the room
    Now you're gone and the shades are all drawn
    In my air conditioned tomb
    
    Bad roads, bad snow, bad bridges
    Could turn a once bad man religious
    If your kingdom ever comes
    You better run
    
    There must be a spanish word for this feeling
    The rush I get when I am stealing
    From the Dust Congress
    Whose dollars and dimes
    Say "in dust we trust"
    (The world is not ready for you)
    
    I passed an abandoned drive-in
    With ivy growing over the screen
    It was like I caught Hollywood sleeping-
    Sleep without dreams
    
    A magic shop in Colonial Watts
    Something gets pushed by the wind
    The worlds not ready
    The worlds not ready
    The chimes of rabies are ringing again
    
    Bad roads, bad snow, bad bridges
    Could turn a once bad man religious
    If your kingdom ever comes
    You better run
    
    There must be a pool out behind the church
    Cause he looked so cool in the back of a hearse
    After a fortnight of his trial
    All the citizens began to dress in his style
    (It's a beautiful world)
  9. The Frontier Index

    Lyrics: The Frontier Index

    Of all of the people I knew
    I always looked up to you
    And after millions of years of crime
    The sun still shines and shines
    
    Look, a horse, of course
    Gallops through the desert light
    I make such good time through sub-space
    When I dream all day and write all night
    
    Robot walks into a bar
    Orders a drink, lays down a bill
    Bartender says, hey, we don't serve robots
    And the robot says, oh, but someday you will
    
    Prison's a good time for some
    Many people get caught with a gun
    This trucker says it's good to be free
    Says he knows lots of folks who agree
    
    Bumper stickers talk to him
    Say, let the stars get in your eyes
    Time, cum, sand, and surf
    These are the building, building blocks of life
    
    Boy wants a car from his dad
    Dad says, first, you got to cut that hair
    Boy says, hey, Dad, Jesus had long hair
    And Dad says, that's right, son, Jesus walked everywhere
    
    When I was younger, I was a cobra
    In every case, I wanted to be cool
    Now that I'm older and sub-space is colder
    Just wanna say something true
  10. Pretty Eyes

    Lyrics: Pretty Eyes

    Everybody wants perspective from a hill
    But everybody's wants can't make it past the window sill
    I can see you in yourt room at night
    The pictures on your walls
    Little forest scenes and high school halloweens
    But they don't come to you
    They don't come to you at all
    
    All houses dream in blueprints
    Our house dreams so hard
    Outside you can see my shoeprints
    I've been dreaming in your yard
    
    One of these days these days will end
    Thru the kitchen window the light will bend
    You'll be carving a pumpkin with a knife
    When someone at the table says
    "That's not what I call a life!"
    
    The elephants are so ashamed of their size
    Hosing down I tell them "you got pretty eyes"
    Out in the backyard I used to make like I was a cowboy
    I'd set my dog before a hoop and say "now boy, now boy!"
    
    When the governer's heart fails
    The state bird falls from its branch
    Icicles on hell's higher hills
    Meanwhile back home at the ranch
    I still get up early in the morning
    And I never knew a better place
    
    I believe the stars are the headlights of angels
    Driving from heaven to save us
    To save us
    Won't you look at the sky?
    They're driving from heaven into our eyes
    And though final words are so hard to devise
    I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes
    Your pretty eyes

American Water (1998)

  1. Random Rules

    Lyrics: Random Rules

    In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection
    Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction
    Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake
    I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake
    I know you like to line dance, everything so democratic and cool
    But baby there's no guidance when random rules
    I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls
    Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls
    But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed
    And that's why it scared me so when you turned to me and said
    "Yeah, you look like someone
    Yeah you look like someone who up and left me low
    Boy, you look like someone I used to know"
    I know you like to line dance, everything so democratic and cool
    But baby there's no guidance when random rules
    I asked the painter why the roads are colored black
    He said, "Steve, it's because people leave
    And no highway will bring them back"
    So if you don't want me I promise not to linger
    But before I go I gotta ask you dear about the tan line on your ring finger
    No one should have two lives
    Now you know my middle names are wrong and right
    Honey we've got two lives to give tonight
    To give tonight
    To give tonight, oh oh oh oh oh
  2. Smith & Jones Forever

    Lyrics: Smith & Jones Forever

    Are you honest when no ones lookin'
    Can you summon honey from a telephone
    They sat there with their hooks in the water
    And their mustaches caked with airplane glue
    Oh come let us adore them
    California overboard
    When the sun sets on the ghetto all the broken stuff gets cold
    
    Smith & jones forever
    Smith & jones forever
    Smith & jones
    Forever together
    Forever and ever
    Together
    Forever and ever
    
    Build a stage for autumns bitch
    They walk the alleys in duct tape shoes
    They see the things they need through the windows of a hatchback
    The alleys are the footnotes of the avenues
    Oh come let us adore them
    California overboard
    Holdin' up their trousers with extension cords
    
    Smith & jones forever
    Smith & jones forever
    Smith & jones
    Forever together
    Forever and ever
    Together
    Forever and ever
    
    Got two tickets to a midnight execution
    We'll hitchhike away from Odessa to Houston
    When they turn on the chair somethings added to the air
    When they turn on the chair somethings added to the air
    Forever
    To the air
    
    Forever
    Smith & jones
    Forever together
    Forever and ever
    Together
    Forever and ever
  3. Night Society

    Lyrics: Night Society

    Instrumental
  4. Federal Dust

    Lyrics: Federal Dust

    They don't walk and they don't talk in Malibu.
    They don't vote and they don't smoke.
    I know you're blue…
    They don't cream and they don't dream in Kansas City.
    They don't crack and they don't act.
    I know you're ready…
    They don't cry and they don't die in South Dakota.
    They don't match and they don't hatch in South Dakota.
    Here comes the coda.
    Not much water coming over the hill…..
  5. People

    Lyrics: People

    Moments can be monuments to you
    If your life is interesting and true.
    It's just the same for a man or a girl,
    The meaning of the world lies outside thw world.
    People love people and they understand
    if you wanna renovate your background mind
    (a federal woman needs a municipal man)
    people gotta synchronize to animal time.
    You can't change the feeling
    but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two…
    People always come around.
    I'm studying the ceiling on a little afternoon
    and when I paint my dining room
    people gonna come around.
    I love to see a rainbow from a garden hose
    lit up like the blood of a centerfold
    I love the city and the city rain,
    suburban kids with biblical names.
    People ask people to watch their scotch.
    People send people up to the moon.
    When they return, well there isn't much.
    People be careful not to crest too soon.
    The drums march along at the clip of an I.V. drip
    like sparks from a muffler dragged down the strip.
    I really hope you'll come around.
    It's sunny and 75. It feels so good to be alive.
    Come on baby don't stay inside.
    Everybody's coming out tonight.
  6. Blue Arrangements

    Lyrics: Blue Arrangements

    I see you gracefully swimming with the country club women
    in the Greenwood southside society pool.
    I love your amethyst eyes and your protestant thighs
    you're a shimmering socialite jewel.
    
    From the Carbon Dioxide Riding Academy
    to the children's crusade marching through the downtown.
    Well I think I'd die see, if you just said hi to me.
    When something breaks it makes a beautiful sound.
    
    Sometimes I feel like I'm watching the world
    and the world isn't watching me back.
    But when I see you, I know I'm in it too.
    The waves come in and the waves go back.
    The kids in the corner all covered in dirt.
    Caught trespassing under the moon.
    My father came in from wherever he'd been
    and kicked my shit all over the room.
    
    The room is dark and heavy with what I want to say.
    I see murals in the radio static and on your blue jeans.
    What would you say if I asked you to run away?
    It's been done so many times I hardly know what it means.
    
    I took these blue arrangements and threw them in the sea
    when older waves from older caves brought them back to me.
    I took these blue arrangements and stored them on a shelf.
    With change on the mantle and time in a candle,
    in the end a boy raises himself.
  7. We Are Real

    Lyrics: We Are Real

    Up the hill past 694, at the stone wall make a left,
    And I will see you soon my friend if these old directions still direct.
    Is the problem that we can't see or is it that the problem is beautiful to me?
    The birds of Virginia are flying within ya
    And like background singers they all come in threes.,
    Like background singers they all come in threes.
    
    Won't soul music change
    Now that our souls have turned strange.
    Once a day, twice a day...
    And when on and off collide
    We'll set our souls aside and walk away.
    
    We've been raised on replicas of fake and winding roads
    And day after day up on this beautiful stage
    We've been playing tambourine for minimum wage
    But we are real, I know we are real.
    
    Repair is the dream of the broken thing.
    Like a message broadcast on an overpass
    All my favorite singers couldn't sing.
    My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors
    And they help me see, that everything in this room right now is a part of me.
    
    Won't soul music change
    Now that our souls have turned strange.
    Once a day, twice a day...
    And when on and off collide
    We'll set our souls aside and walk away.
    
    Realizing is how it feels inside when it happens to you.
    So I took a shot of sugar like snow dumped into the blood
    And children wander off into the ultra-economic
    But we are real I know we are real.
  8. Send in the Clouds

    Lyrics: Send in the Clouds

    Send in the clouds
    Bring down the rain
    Shut all the blinds and turn out the lights
    I feel insane when you get in my bed
    
    I am the trick
    My mother played on the world
    Seventeen doctors couldn't decide
    Whether I should be allowed in the game
    
    Why can't monsters
    Get along with other monsters?
    Soi disantra, soi disantra
    Soi disantra
    
    I know a puppy
    Who walked from Kentucky
    Made to East Virginia by dawn
    He had seventeen ideas in his head
    
    Windex tears flow down the robot's face
    He never felt a mother's embrace
    My mama named me after a king
    I'm gonna bury my name in you
    
    Why can't monsters
    Get along with other monsters?
    Soi disantra, soi disantra
    Soi disantra
  9. Like like the the the Death

    Lyrics: Like like the the the Death

    Like like the the the death
    Air crickets, air crickets, air crickets, air crickets, air
    Mother and child with magazine
    Into a story, into a dream
    Why is there something instead of nothing?
    And how is the asking built into the hunting?
    Do you believe in MGM endings?
    Everybody's coming back to Christmas for Texas
    Folks who've watched their mother kill an animal know
    That their home is surrounded by places to go
    And the west has made a deal with the sun
    My life at home every day
    Drinking Coke in a kitchen with a dog who doesn't know his name
    Alright, could've been anyone
    Grass rabbits, grass rabbits, grass rabbits, grass rabbits, grass
    Nobody cares about a dead hooker
    Looking like one, standing for many
    Life finds a limit at the edge of our bodies
    A stranger begins wherever I see her
    Let's live where the indoors and outdoors meet
    All the kids in the commonwealth are free
    Every morning you forgive me, every evening you relive me
    And the thing itself is what you give me
    And the morning has cut a deal with the east
    Like like the the the death
    Air crickets, air crickets, air crickets, air crickets, air
  10. Buckingham Rabbit

    Lyrics: Buckingham Rabbit

    Back then I had a Buckingham rabbit.
    I'd been lonely since she found Christ.
    Now is the time to depend on the law:
    the nights of my professional life.
    
    I was living in a very young city.
    Grand piano, great lakes, good-bye.
    If you ask me my name, it's high-low-jack in the game.
    I can track a single bee to the hive.
    
    Every single game was a blowout.
    And the Nascar blurred into porn.
    Scenic this, scenic that,
    don't fall for the traps of the man who was never born.
    
    And so the rent became whiskey,
    and then my life became risky:
    shattered dogs on the rocks.
    
    At the back of the bar there's a couch
    where the lonely people go and lie.
    They talk to the honky tonk psychiatrist
    into the wee hours of the night.
    
    The factories on muscle relaxers.
    The pine perfume of hilltown floors.
    The lover, the thinker, the talker, the singer
    won't be lucid for her anymore.
    
    (chorus)
    
    When you know how I feel I feel better
    When you're 15 you want to look poor.
    Do unto others, and run like a mother
    I don't want to look poor anymore
    
    Jesus in a runaway shelter,
    said "The deaf have pictures of you."
    From the digital fountains to the analog mountains,
    let the mirror express the room.
  11. Honk If You're Lonely

    Lyrics: Honk If You're Lonely

    Radio's on, feeling all right
    Cruising the strip on a Saturday night
    Smile and I wave and I hide all my pain
    But the sign on my bumper gives me away
    Honk if you're lonely tonight
    If you need a friend to get through the night
    A toot on your horn, a flash of your brights
    Honk if you're lonely tonight
    I know honky-tonk where we can go
    A booth in the back with the lights way down low
    The jukebox is playing a sad melody
    For heart-broken lovers just like you and me
    We'll laugh and we'll flirt and we'll dance every dance
    And 'fore the night's over we'll take a chance
    The morning will find us with a smile on our face
    And we'll be together in a lover's embrace
    Honk if you're lonely tonight
    If you need a friend to get through the night
    A toot on your horn, a flash of your brights
    Honk if you're lonely tonight
    I know it seems sad to be so damn blue
    But there's always the chance that you'll meet someone new
    I know that somewhere waiting for me
    Is a sad lonely lover with a bumper that reads
    Honk if you're lonely tonight
    If you need a friend to get through the night
    A toot on your horn, a flash of your brights
    Honk if you're lonely tonight (I am so)
    Honk if you're lonely tonight
    Honk if you're lonely tonight
  12. The Wild Kindness

    Lyrics: The Wild Kindness

    I wrote a letter to a wildflower
    on a classic nitrogen afternoon.
    Some power that hardly looked like power
    said I'm only perfect in an empty room.
    Four dogs in the distance
    each stands for a kindness.
    Bluebirds lodged in an evergreen altar…
    I'm gonna shine out in the wild silence
    and spurn the sin of giving in.
    Oil paintings of x-rated picnics.
    Behind the walls of medication I'm free.
    Every falling leaf in a compact mirror
    hits a target that we can't see.
    Grass grows in the icebox.
    The year ends in the next room
    It is autumn and my camouflage is dying
    instead of time there will be lateness
    and let forever be delayed.
    I died my hair in a motel void
    met the coroner at the Dreamgate Frontier
    He took may hand said I'll help you boy
    ff you really want to disappear
    Four dogs in the distance
    each stands for a silence.
    Bluebirds lodged in an evergreen altar…
    I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness
    and hold the world to its word.

Bright Flight (2001)

  1. Slow Education

    Lyrics: Slow Education

    When God was young
    He made the wind and the sun
    And since then
    It's been a slow education
    And you got that one idea again
    The one about dying
    
    Oh, oh, oh I'm lightning
    Oh, oh, oh I'm rain
    Oh, oh, oh it's frightning
    I'm not the same
    I'm not the same
    I'm not the same
    
    There's a screen door banging in the wind
    Remember you wanted to be like George Washington back then
    Everybody going down on themselves
    No pardon me's or fair thee wells in the end
    And you got that one idea again
    The one about dying
    
    Oh, oh, oh I'm lightning
    Oh, oh, oh I'm rain
    Oh, oh, oh it's frightning
    I'm not the same
    I'm not the same
    I'm not the same
  2. Room Games and Diamond Rain

    Lyrics: Room Games and Diamond Rain

    I'm gonna love you for a hundred years
    Through suffering and celebration, dear
    'Cause only you can make my lies come true
    You can make lies real
    And you can make me feel
    Like drinking wine in the shade all afternoon
    
    You keep finding and reminding me
    That you only can be kind to me
    When you got with me and started dreaming my dreams
    But, darling, there's a gun in the garland
    And you need to know
    That the dream is not all dream
    
    Room games and diamond rain
    It's a fox hunt
    It's an f stop
    It's a ten acre wood
    Outbound on a western train
    It costs a quarter, man
    Out on the border land
    I can dance real good
    Real good
    
    A freight train rattles a chandelier
    And if we're like plug in reindeer
    Whose cords can't stretch far enough to fly
    We're gonna take a ride in the dirt
    We're gonna die 'til it doesn't hurt
    Then they can bury us side by side
    
    Room games and diamond rain
    It's a fox hunt
    It's an f stop
    It's a ten acre wood
    Outbound on a western train
    It costs a quarter, man
    Out on the border land
    I can dance real good
    Real good
  3. Time Will Break The World

    Lyrics: Time Will Break The World

    The sun and the shutters and the sun shattered hair.
    The butler hesitates at the top of the stairs.
    A kitten from Great Britain sleeps behind the drapes.
    An old silver bowl filled with apples and grapes.
    It's so very cold in the mansion after sunset
    Snow is blowing through the baseboard outlets.
    And I have no idea what drives you mister.
    tanning beds explode with rich women inside.
    All my poor hungry children x3
    Time will break the world x3
    The snow falls down so beautiful and stupid
    Fore the black silhouette of Abraham Lincoln trees
    The sky is low like a Japanese table.
    And the horse's legs look like four brown shotguns
    The icicles are dripping like the whole house is weeping
    On an evil little car with gull-wing doors.
    And I have no idea what drives you mister
    But I've killed you in my mind so many times before.
    All my poor hungry children x3
    Time will break the world x3
  4. I Remember Me

    Lyrics: I Remember Me

    He almost walked into a wall
    Oh, man, she was a sight to see
    And at the party down the hall
    He said, "you are the highest apple in the tree"
    
    Out the window, in the harbor he saw a little ship
    The moon was worn just slightly on the right
    And they slow danced so the needle wouldn't skip
    Until the room was filled with light
    
    And I remember you
    And I remember me
    The sunshine walking inside you
    And the man you could see in me
    
    So I remember me
    And I remember you
    So many beautiful days in a row now
    And the nights were perfect, too
    
    Hand in hand down a waterslide in Chattanooga
    They did not hide from love, you see
    A winter's plane flight to Aruba
    Where he threw a boombox into the sea
    
    One day they were cutting flowers for something to do
    On the bank of the road 'neath the cotton woods
    And he turned to her to ask if she'd marry him
    When a runaway truck hit him where he stood
    
    So I remember you
    And I remember you
    And I remember you
    
    And I remember me
    And I remember me
    A blackhawk nailed to the sky
    And the tape is from the trees
    
    Everybody said she needed to move on
    That he was all but lost, so deep was his coma
    When he finally came to the girl he loved was long gone
    She'd married a banker and gone to Oklahoma
    
    He bought a little land with the money from the settlement
    And even bought the truck that had hit him that day
    He touched the part where the metal was bent
    And if you were there you wouldn't hear him say
    
    I remember her
    And I remember him
    I remember them
    I remember then
    I'm just remembering
    I'm just remembering
    Just remembering
    I'm just remembering
  5. Horseleg Swastikas

    Lyrics: Horseleg Swastikas

    I'm drunk on a couch in Nashville
    In a duplex near the reservoir
    And every single thought is like a punch in the face
    I'm like a rabbit freezing on a star
    
    On the wrong side of Sunday morning
    Shattered in the terrible light
    Working for a bankrupt circus
    On the wrong side of Saturday night
    
    And I wanna be like water if I can
    'Cause water doesn't give a damn
    Water doesn't give a damn
    
    Chased by a floating hatchet
    You can't just shoot your way out and go
    I could tell you things about this wallpaper
    That you'd never ever want to know
    
    But there's an alter in the valley
    For the things in themselves as they are
    And the triumph the obstacle
    And horseleg swastikas
    
    I wanna take a ride on the back of a sunbird
    Up into the highest number
    Up into the highest number
    
    And I wanna be like water if I can
    'Cause water doesn't give a damn
    Water doesn't give a damn
  6. Transylvania Blues

    Lyrics: Transylvania Blues

    Instrumental
  7. Let's Not and Say We Did

    Lyrics: Let's Not and Say We Did

    Let's go hunting blackbirds, let's throw snowballs from the bridge
    The fireplace burns backwards, let's not and say we did.
    There's a trapdoor in the country where we can disappear.
    These giant evergreens are a promise redeemed
    Let's walk down the glassy top of a frozen pasture stream
    Our minds can dream like soda machines
    And that's exactly what we did.
    
    Let's ride down the ridge to the military bridge
    You can't be against forever, let's not and say we did.
    There's a party in the country, where we can disappear.
    Dig if you will, a picture of you girl
    Finding the fiercest way to live
    We can ride all day in a one horse open sleigh
    And that's exactly what we did.
    And that's exactly what we did.
  8. Tennessee

    Lyrics: Tennessee

    I saw the river playing in the valley
    Rushing 'round a bend and skipping stones
    I saw the meadow wobble in the moonlight
    I've come to get my girl and take her home
    
    Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster
    Her sister never left and look what it cost her
    We're gonna live in Nashville and I'll make a career
    Out of writing sad songs and getting paid by the tear
    
    Marry me and leave Kentucky
    Come to Tennessee
    'Cause you're the only ten I see
    You're the only ten I see
    
    I've looked through offices and honky-tonks for men man enough to be
    Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
    Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
    
    Punk rock died when the first kid said
    "Punk's not dead, punk's not dead"
    You know Louisville is death, we've got to up and move
    Because the dead do not improve
    
    Goodbye users and suckers, steady bad luckers
    We're off to the land of club soda unbridled
    We're off to the land of hot middle-aged women
    Off to the land whose blood runneth orange
    
    Marry me and leave Kentucky
    Come to Tennessee
    'Cause you're the only ten I see
    You're the only ten I see
    
    I've looked through offices and honky-tonks for men man enough to be
    Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
    Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
  9. Friday Night Fever

    Lyrics: Friday Night Fever

    I love the sound of a jukebox playin'
    So I sit here while she's staying home
    Watching Dalls on TV
    I love the taste of whiskey straight
    The strongest thing she ever takes
    Is a sip from a small glass of chablis
    
    I've got that Friday night fever
    Sometimes a man just needs a breather
    She knows I love her and I need her
    And I'm no cheater
    I've just got that Friday night fever
    
    She wouldn't change me if she could
    I wouldn't change her, she's too good
    Sometimes a man just needs a change of pace
    I've heard all those come on lines
    But I go home at closing time
    I know no one could ever take her place
    
    I've got that Friday night fever
    Sometimes a man just needs a breather
    She knows I love her and I need her
    And I'm no cheater
    I've just got that Friday night fever
  10. Death of an Heir of Sorrows

    Lyrics: Death of an Heir of Sorrows

    I wish I lived in the power and light
    I wish it wasn't Saturday night
    'Cause I can't raise hell
    No, I can't raise hell for two
    
    I wish I had a thousand bucks
    I wish I was the Royal Trux
    But mostly I wish
    I wish I was with you
    
    When I was summoned to the phone
    I knew in my bones that you had died alone
    We'd never been promised there will be a tomorrow
    So let's just call it the death of an heir of sorrows
    The death of an heir of sorrows
    
    I have not avoided certainty
    It has always just eluded me
    I wish I knew
    I wish i knew for true
    
    I wish I had a rhinestone suit
    I wish I had a new pair of boots
    But mostly I wish
    I wish I was with you
    
    We'd never been promised there will be a tomorrow
    So let's just call it the death of an heir of sorrows
    The death of an heir of sorrows

Tanglewood Numbers (2005)

  1. Punks In The Beerlight

    Lyrics: Punks In The Beerlight

    Where's the paper bag that holds the liquor?
    Just in case I feel the need to puke
    If we'd known what it'd take to get here
    Would we have chosen to, would we have chosen to?
    
    So you wanna build an altar on a summer night?
    You wanna smoke the gel off a fentanyl patch
    Ain'tcha heard the news, Adam and Eve were Jews?
    And I always loved you to the max
    
    I loved you to the max
    I loved you to the max
    I loved you to the max
    
    If it gets really, really bad
    If it ever gets really, really bad
    Let's not kid ourselves
    If it's really, really bad
    
    Punks in the beerlight
    Burnouts in love
    Punks in the beerlight
    Toulouse-Lautrec
    Punks in the beerlight
    Two burnouts in love
    
    I always loved you to the max
    I loved you to the max
    I love you to the max
    I love you to the max
    I love you to the max
    I love you to the max
    I love you to the
    
    Max
  2. Sometimes A Pony Gets Depressed

    Lyrics: Sometimes A Pony Gets Depressed

    Where does an animal sleep
    when the ground is wet?
    Cows in the ballroom
    chickens in the farmer's corvette
    
    Sometimes a pony
    Sometimes a pony
    Sometimes a pony gets depressed
    
    How does an animal see
    once the sun is set?
    Bandits in the capital
    limited civilian unrest
    
    Sometimes a pony
    Sometimes a pony
    Sometimes a pony gets depressed
    
    What kind of animal
    needs to smoke a cigarette?
    Grass in the pasture
    is sharper than a bayonette
    
    Sometimes a pony
    Sometimes a pony
    Sometimes a pony gets depressed
    
    Happiness won't leave me alone
    says a bird in his nest
    Get a load of this fuckin' view
    its the best in the west
    
    Sometimes a pony
    Sometimes a pony
    Sometimes a pony gets depressed
  3. K-Hole

    Lyrics: K-Hole

    I've been living in a k-hole
    Ever since you went away
    I've been down here day after day
    
    I'd rather live in a trash can
    Than see you happy with another man
    Closed sign swinging in the window of the liquor store
    Better get inside the kingdom and close the door
    
    Andre was a young black Santa Claus
    He didn't want to be like his daddy was
    Better take the gun with you when you go
    He'd rather be dead than anything he knows
    Girl in the special economic zone
    
    Closed sign swinging in the window of the liquor store
    Better get inside the kingdom and close the door
  4. Animal Shapes

    Lyrics: Animal Shapes

    Gold and Green
    Red and Blue
    Are the lights on the signs that line Charlotte avenue.
    From the corner window, I watch the falling white flakes.
    God must be carving the clouds into animal shapes.
    
    Animal shapes, animal shapes
    God must be carving the clouds into animal shapes.
    
    We have no goodwill, no goodwill to give.
    To those who try to take away the things we need to live.
    Friend, this is from your friend, offa Natchez Trace.
    The last dream left worth believin' starts with animal shapes.
    
    Animal shapes, animal shapes
    Nothing better get in the way of whatever it takes.
    
    Later on, somewhere else, I said some things I didn't mean.
    Yes, I know everybody's on a first name basis with the king.
    From a corner window, I watch the falling snowflakes.
    God must be carving the clouds into animal shapes.
    
    Animal shapes, animal shapes
    God must be carving the clouds into animal shapes
  5. I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You

    Lyrics: I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You

    Baby won't you take this magnet
    Maybe put my picture back on the fridge
    I must've been crazy to let you get away like you did
    Like a brown bird nesting in a Texaco sign
    I got a point of view
    
    And the kicker is that
    I'm getting back
    Into getting back
    Into you
    
    I guess over time we became ducks
    I never seemed to see you much
    Then the world turned and got away
    We fell out of touch
    
    I've been working at the airport bar
    It's like Christmas in a submarine
    Wings and brandy on a winter's night
    I guess you wouldn't call it a scene
    
    Now my ex-wife's living in the suburbs with her guru and her mom
    Now she finds her consolation in the stardust of a barn
    You can call it a spinoff, say it's a knockoff, title it part two
    
    But I'm getting back
    Into getting back
    Into getting back into you
  6. How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down

    Lyrics: How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down

    Fast cars, fine ass
    These things will pass
    And it won't get more profound
    
    Time is a game
    Only children play well
    How can I love you
    If you won't lie down
    
    My youth for a bell
    Who's who in hell
    My kingdom for a crown
    
    Time is a game
    Only children play well
    How can I love you
    If you won't lie down
  7. The Poor, The Fair And The Good

    Lyrics: The Poor, The Fair And The Good

    The river winds 'round these little green hills,
    And stays in the woods for days.
    We were built to consider the unmanifested,
    And make of love an immaculate place.
    
    I hear a smile and a tear in you voice.
    Don't lay the groundwork for a case of remorse.
    When you feel that first ice cold twist in the wind.
    I'll come back the way that I came.
    Shot of dixie hemlock will take care of the pain
    
    Now a man keeps his money folded square in his pocket
    And doesn't take everything that he could.
    He'll rise like a lion and line himself up
    With the poor, the fair, and the good.
    
    When you feel that first ice cold twist in the wind
    Will you hang a lamp at the end of the lane?
    Black-eyed susans from the Maryland shore.
    We'll trim back the thorns around the hospital door.
    More will be seen than will be understood.
    Go with the poor, the fair, and the good.
    The poor, the fair, and the good.
  8. Sleeping Is The Only Love

    Lyrics: Sleeping Is The Only Love

    I heard they were taming the shrew
    I heard the shrew was you
    You might as well say fuck me 'cause I'm gonna keep on
    Keep on loving you
    
    I'd crawl over 50 yards of broken
    Glass just to hold on your hand
    Sleeping is the only love
    Sleeping is the only love
    
    I had this friend, his name was Marc with a C
    His sister was like the heat coming off the back of an old TV
    Their folks were slain in their Red Boiling Springs home
    It was the worst of the Lord, some of the worst of the Lord
    
    Later, I come to find
    Life is sweeter than Jewish wine
    Give a box of candy or a foot massage
    Some people don't take the time
    
    I'd crawl over 50 yards of burning
    Coals just to make it with you-oo-oo
    Sleeping is the only love
    Sleeping is the only love
    
    Sleeping is the only love
  9. The Farmer's Hotel

    Lyrics: The Farmer's Hotel

    The lights went out in New York
    Then they went out in Goshen
    I got stuck in Goshen and that was sad.
    The townsolf stared hard
    Like their minds had been marred
    By life in a district so downtrodden and drab.
    
    I flagged down a stranger
    In a worn wooden wheelchair
    And when I asked if he knew of a hotel
    He said "if I get your meaning
    Then I'm definitely leaning
    Towards recommending the Farmer's Hotel."
    
    As I left to find the place
    A mother loooked me in the face
    And whispered "please sir, not the Farmer's Hotel."
    Once where I was headed
    She swore I would regret it
    Though what might happen she wouldn't foretell.
    
    The old place it was vicious
    Wicked and pernicious
    "Please stay clean of that rank abbatoir"
    Though her words alarmed me
    I was stuck until morning
    And in the end we must be who we are.
    
    With no light on the door
    I wasn't quite sure
    If a night clerk was working within
    From behind a red curtain
    Limped a perilous person
    He appeared to have some egg on his chin.
    
    This old yankee warlock
    Brushed back a gray forelock
    And bid me to sign in the book
    With no bonhomie
    He proffered the key
    Never once did he give me a look.
    
    I thanked the old codger
    And in my role as the lodger
    I headed upstairs for to sleep
    There was no air of slumber
    The doors, they had no numbers
    Which room was intended for me?
    
    The passage kept on going
    Like the carpet was flowing
    Towards that thing at the end of the hall
    My own eyed had adjusted
    This account can be trusted
    Because I know that I saw what I saw.
    
    I heard animal noises
    And tangled up voices
    Chanting more and of rumors of more
    There's no natural law
    That can explain what I saw
    Spread out on that straw-covered floor.
    
    Now I've put an ocean
    Between myself and Goshen
    To get away from the Farmer's Hotel
    If you get a nation
    To travel to Goshen
    Please stay away from the Farmer's Hotel
    
    The lights went out in Goshen
    Just like poetry in motion
    And I checked into the Farmer's Hotel
    Things to unclean
    Are better left unseen
    Please keep away from the Farmer's Hotel
  10. There Is A Place

    Lyrics: There Is A Place

    There is a place past the blues
    I never want to see again
    THere is a place past the blues
    I never want to see
    
    Black planet
    Black freighter
    Black sea
    
    Police conversation 1783
    
    I saw God's shadow on this world
    I saw God's shadow on this world
    I saw God's shadow on this world
    I saw God's shadow on this world
    
    I could not love the world entire
    There grew a desert in my mind
    I took a hammer to it all
    Like an insane medieval king
    
    I saw God's shadow on this world
    I saw God's shadow on this world
    I saw God's shadow on this world
    I saw God's shadow on this world
    
    I could not love the world entire
    There grew a desert in my mind
    I took a hammer to it all
    I took a hammer to it all
    
    I saw God's shadow on this world...

Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (2008)

  1. What Is Not But Could Be If

    Lyrics: What Is Not But Could Be If

    What is not but could be if
    What could appear in the morning mist
    With all associated risk
    What is not but could be if
    
    What was not but could have been
    Was my obsession way back when
    Now I just remember this
    What is not but could be if
    
    What is not but could be if
    We could be crossing
    This abridged abyss into beginning
    
    And failure's got you in its grasp
    And you're reaching for your very last
    It's just beginning
    
    One has lived life carelessly
    If he or she has failed to see
    That the truth is not alive or dead
    The truth is struggling to be said
    
    So how do we get out of this?
    Family shadows all of this
    Through what is not but could be if
    With all associated risk
    
    What is not but could be if
    We could be crossing
    This abridged abyss into beginning
    
    And failure's got you in its grasp
    And you're reaching for your very last
    It's just beginning
  2. Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer

    Lyrics: Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer

    Aloysius was a bluegrass drummer
    He was just a normal kid
    Blooming, tripping flowing under
    Just as I once did
    
    At a 24 hour restaurant
    Open to the end of time
    He was washing dishes there
    When he met brick butterfly
    
    She was a no age singer for a country act
    Working at a region ten
    She was all strung out on hard street fat
    But he didn't know it then
    
    First a look then a spark
    Sound of Velcro in the dark
    His heart is spinning like a bicycle wheel
    She and he laid the stems down flat
    In the middle of a field
    
    Brick butterfly had a history
    Of sleeping with the kitchen staff
    She was a hardcore gobbler
    And longtime guzzler of hydrogenated crap
    
    Suet, tallow, liquid squeals
    Great mounds of plastic lard
    That's what she got the lad to steal
    On the night that he got fired
    
    Aloysius woke at five am
    The hungry girl was gone
    There was blood in the bedding
    Forks in the ceiling
    And bones all over the lawn
    
    Like any strong young poet would
    He packed his bags for region ten
    I guess now I know him less than I ever knew him then
    Yes I guess I know him even less than I ever knew him then
  3. Suffering Jukebox

    Lyrics: Suffering Jukebox

    Planes on the downtown skyline is a sight to see for some
    It ought to make a few reputations in the cult of number one
    While these seconds turn these minutes into hours of the day
    All these doubles drive the dollars and the light of day away
    
    Suffering jukebox, such a sad machine
    You're all filled up with what other people need
    And they never seem to turn you up loud
    Got a lot of chatterboxes in this crowd
    
    Suffering jukebox in a happy town
    You're over in the corner breakin' down
    They always seem to keep you way down low
    The people in this town don't want to know
    
    Well, I guess all that mad misery must make it seem to true to you
    But money lights your world up, you're trapped, what can you do?
    You got Tennessee tendencies and chemical dependencies
    You make the same old jokes and malaprops on cue
    
    Suffering jukebox, such a sad machine
    You're all filled up with what other people need
    Hardship, damnation and guilt
    Make you wonder why you were even built
    
    Suffering jukebox in a happy town
    You're over in the corner breaking down
    They always seem to keep you way down low
    The people in this town don't want to know
  4. My Pillow Is The Threshold

    Lyrics: My Pillow Is The Threshold

    I take decaf coffee
    Two sugars and one cream
    I don't see the use in staying up
    Just to watch tv
    
    I unplug all the neon
    Turn the ringer off the phone
    Throw my thoughts like tomahawks
    Into this world which I disown
    
    Because the pillow that i dream on
    Is the threshold of a kingdom
    Is the threshold of a world
    Where I'm with you
    
    Its a dark and snowy secret
    And it has to do with heaven
    And what looks like sleep
    Is really hot pursuit
    
    I hold your picture in my mind
    It makes me warm when I'm cold
    It gets me up, it makes me walk
    It makes me question what I'm told
    
    Somewhere in a foggy atlas
    Lookout mountain, lookout sea
    First life takes time, then time takes life
    Now the next move's up to me
    
    Because the pillow that I dream on
    Leads to some fantastic glory
    It's a threshold of a world
    I can't ignore
    
    Like time on school from heaven
    Did you find me sleeping in your doorway
    Now I'm here for good
    I won't leave you anymore
  5. Strange Victory, Strange Defeat

    Lyrics: Strange Victory, Strange Defeat

    Squirrels imported from Connecticut
    Just in time for fall
    How much fun is a lot more fun
    Not much fun at all
    What's with all the handsome grandsons
    In these rock band magazines?
    And what have they done with the fat ones?
    The bald and the goatee'd?
    
    Strange victory!
    Strange victory!
    Strange victory!
    Strange defeat
    
    A tale is told of a band of squirrels
    Who lived in defiance of defeat
    They woke up in the nightmare world
    Of craven mediocrity
    They said, "We're coming out of the black patch!
    We're coming out of the pocket!
    We're calling into question
    Such virtue gone to seed!"
    
    Chorus (x2)
  6. Open Field

    Lyrics: Open Field

    Open Field
    Open field with a window
    Open field with no child
    
    Open Field
  7. San Francisco B.C.

    Lyrics: San Francisco B.C.

    Old San Francisco, San Francisco B.C.
    I lived with my true love and she lived with me.
    "Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie"
    Was the very first thing she imparted to me
    We had sarcastic hair, we used lewd pseudonyms
    We got a lot of stares on the street back then.
    
    Since her dad, a local barber, had been beaten to death
    She had become a vocal martyr in the vegan press
    The cops had failed, they couldn't catch a bus
    They were looking for a male with a bad hair cut
    Enter tumbleweed, exit love and our affaire d'amour
    Was set on self-destruct.
    
    She said "you don't make enough to provide for me."
    I said "what about the stuff that we quote believe?"
    She said "I left that on the sands of history
    I've found a new man to take care of me
    He dresses for success and emergency
    And he moves a lot of concrete on the QVC."
    
    Little, asian, deadly, like a cobra in the shade
    Sat in the midst of the smoke that he made
    His name was Mr. Games and he owned the place
    It was a lonely bar and grill in the Lower Haight
    He had a jeweler's hands and a blurry face
    He knew I needed a chance so he gave me a break.
    
    "If I hire you now, can you start today?
    I got a high-rise job down by the bay.
    Just a couple of rocks and some firearms
    There's not many locks and just one alarm
    My step-son Gene will pick you up and drive
    Try to be his friend, he's got a friendly side."
    
    Doll-house lightning and the next thing I knew
    We were back at our point of rendezvous.
    I was in the possession of burglary tools
    Children's fur coats and diamonds and jewels
    Gene's talking about insignificant shit
    Just like crooks in the movies when they do that bit.
    
    He said the power of metal will never be harnessed.
    I thought the wages of metal should be heavily garnished.
    We were waiting for his dad to meet us there
    Gene took off his hat and I noticed his hair
    It was neatly trimmed but a patch was bare
    I knew it wasn't the wave, it was human error.
    
    Before I knew what I said, I said "killer cut."
    I watched him silently putting out a cigarette butt.
    Then he came at me with some fist cuisine
    I had to duck aside and that was bad for Gene
    Cause when he went by me he tripped and fell
    Through the glass coffee table at the Wong hotel.
    
    Right there and then Mr. Games walked in
    With my ex-true love on his gamy limb.
    So her dad's killer's dad was her new beau
    And Games had a wife, whatta you know?
    She got real real quiet till we chucked the kid
    Then she went her way and I went his.
    
    Old San Francisco, San Francisco B.C.
  8. Candy Jail

    Lyrics: Candy Jail

    Pain works on a sliding scale
    So does pleasure in a candy jail
    True love doesn't come around any more than fate allows
    On a Monday in Ft. Lauderdale
    
    I came all this way to see your grave
    To see your life as written paraphrased
    I have tried be it is written in the furnace of affliction
    This is what you couldn't face
    
    Life in a candy jail with peppermint bars
    Peanut brittle bunk beds and marshmallow walls
    Where the guards are gracious and the grounds are grand
    The warden keeps the data on your favorite brands
    
    Jelly beans and cookie dough
    Country restroom on the radio
    I got a number on my name
    It's hard to rise above the shame
    I'm a branded man made in the mold
    
    These terms engulf the waking mind
    Like cherry, grape and lemon-lime
    Like candy corn and licorice
    Like bubble gum and Swedish fish
    It happens to me all the time
    
    Living in a candy jail with peppermint bars
    Peanut brittle bunk beds and marshmallow walls
    Where the guards are gracious and the grounds are grand
    The warden really listens and he understands
  9. Party Barge

    Lyrics: Party Barge

    Father drove a steamroller
    Momma was a crossing guard.
    She got rolled when he got steamed
    And I got left in charge
    Living in a little town with my pedigree in charge
    I chopped down a weakened willow tree
    And built this party barge
    
    Ports of call, dayglo bait
    Why not see a legend while it's still being made?
    Think it's kind of squirrelly when you're sleeping in the park
    Jam too far propagating in the night
    My colleagues and associates have kicked out all the lights
    Like I said they say, nothing stops a party barge
    
    "This is lake directory, calling party barge.
    I'm on the phone with pump control, they say you are at large
    Send us your coordinates, we'll send a Saint Bernard"
    Think it's kind of squirrelly when you're sleeping in the park
    Chicken fried pigeon in a sunny jane sauce
    Satan's jeweled laughter has your wife in its claws
    Like I said they say, nothing stops a party barge
    
    "Send us your coordinates, I'll send a Saint Bernard.
    Send us your coordinates, I'll send a Saint Bernard.
    Send us your coordinates, I'll send a Saint Bernard.
    This is lake directory, calling party barge."
  10. We Could Be Looking For The Same Thing

    Lyrics: We Could Be Looking For The Same Thing

    Way way out past where the sidewalks disappear
    And up through bright blue blocks of sky
    Where the days turn to weeks in the months the year
    And we're together, you and I.
    
    We could be looking for the same thing,
    If you're looking for someone.
    We could belong to each other,
    If you're not seeing anyone.
    
    I hope I don't come across as a coyote in your eyes
    But I've been around some and I've seen
    Enough to know we could both spend happy lives
    Inside the days of you and me.
    
    We could be looking for the same thing,
    If you're looking for someone.
    We could belong to each other,
    If you're not seeing anyone.

Early Times (2012)

  1. Canada

    Lyrics: Canada

    Canada
    Canada
    Minnesota, Quebec, Montreal, Calgary
    Lonely, had a beer, had some money
    Traded in, gave my money, took my hat
    At the border, where's it at?
    On a fair book, took my pants, now they're hot
    I was in the Alberta Territories
    They told me a story of oil
    But it never came true
    I never flew down past Aurora
    All the new wave girls I met
    Wearing cowboy boots on
    Cowboy hats on their heads
    Living the good life style
    Wanna see the world, come on, you're for
    Canada
    Canada
    Minnesota, took my woman
    Went aboard, had a gun
    Wore it out, got back
    In time, to go rent
    And the hockey boys were the best
    Best team in the world
  2. The Walnut Falcon

    Lyrics: The Walnut Falcon

    On a snowy mountaintop
    Two rams go head to head
    The horns go squawk
    The horns go squawk
    And I'm looking for my snowy bed
    A snowy bed
    I left back there
    I don't know the way
    
    I dream about the swarm
    I dream about the swarm
    I dream about the swarm
    I dream about the swarm
    
    A walnut falcon comes flying down
    Wingspan as long as this town
    Sees the prey in its little black eye
    The eye is shifting
    Looking for the place I go
    Then the walnut falcon will soar
    Will soar
    Into my arms
    Away from the harm
    
    I dream about the swarm
    I dream about the swarm
    I dream about the swarm
    I dream about the swarm
  3. September 1999

    Lyrics: September 1999

    I don't know what I wanna feel
    I just gotta think I think it's real
    I can't think I thought about you today
    You just try and want to go away
    Drive my teachers make my heart go fly
    Who wants to go walk and run and fly
    Try to figure out the fragments of time
    I'm just wasting all my life and time
    All of the fragrance I can remember
    Makes these 1990's December
    Makes these 1999's December
    Makes these 1999's December
  4. SVM F.T. TROOPS
  5. The Unchained Melody

    Lyrics: The Unchained Melody

    The soap opera fags, the soap opera fags
    I met them last night, they were alright, alright
    
    Come back
    And all of the kids with their little do's and did's
    And their don'ts and their but's and their won't's
    Make me jagged
  6. Secret Knowledge of Back Roads

    Lyrics: Secret Knowledge of Back Roads

    You wanted it
    The priceless sword
    You're close to dying
    Close the door
    
    You wanted it
    The priceless sword
    You're close to dying
    Close the door
    
    I see it all there
    I see it behind you
    Behind your Southern mind
    Crystal clear
    
    Haunted call
    And he wants to be
    All by himself beside the sea
    Haunted all
    And he wants to be
    Beside himself by the sea
    
    I see it all there
    I see it behind you
    Behind your Southern mind
    It's all there
    
    Kick the can
    And he kicked the sand
    He kicked it in the face of another man
    Kick the can
    And he kicked the sand
    Kicked it in the face of another man
    
    And I seen it there
    I see it behind you
    Behind your Southern mind
    And it's all new
    And it's all new
  7. I Love the Rights

    Lyrics: I Love the Rights

    I heard Bobby cry "rise above, run out the door"
    Pour myself a drink, dial up my whore
    On the day I was born someone didn't shine
    Picked up my shovel, walked to the mine
    There are bits of Saturday
    Wolverine chasing me through the snow
    It's a deadly afternoon
    I was in cunts I didn't even know
    I've always had the right
    To trust my light
    I've fallen in love with my life
    I've got rights
    I love the rights, I love the rights, yeah
    I always wanted to be a hero
    I always wanted to die young
    When's my time to go?
    I lost my nerve in the snow
    I heard Bobby cry "rise above"
    He ran out the door
    Susan broke his heart
    My heart was broken too
    He ran down Willow Avenue
    He ran along as hard as he could
    He was a Jew with all his heart
    I've always had the right
    To trust my life
    I've fallen in love with my life
    I've got rights
  8. Jackson Nightz
  9. The War in Apartment 1812
  10. West S
  11. You Can't Trust It To Remain
  12. The Wild Palms
  13. Welcome to the House of the Bats

    Lyrics: Welcome to the House of the Bats

    Welcome to the house of the bats
    Welcome to the house of the bats (baby)
    Welcome to the house of the bats
    Welcome to the house of the bats
    Staircase is black
    Staircase is black
    Staircase is black
    I could probably climb to the top of the staircase
    I could probably climb to the
    Welcome to the house of the bats
    Where my family is napping
    Welcome to the house of the bats (my friends hang there)
    Welcome to the house of the bats (Halloween is the queen of the night)
    Welcome to the house of the bats (and she's
    Smeared with Vaseline, and it's night)
    Pulled up in a '77ish (staircase is black)
    Got on a card sweatshirt
    Nothing on the back
    Welcome to the house of the bats (my baby)
    Welcome to the house of the bats (my baby)
    Welcome to the house of the bats (my baby)
    Staircase black (don't forget to leave your hat)
    Staircase black
    My mom found this Frederick Remington sculpture called "Cowboy
    Descending Mountain" at a Petersburg flea market for $
    800. It's seven foot tall, but at the bottom it said "
    Copyright Frederick Remington," and, uh, we want to know
    Whether that's a real Frederick Remington or if it was
    Like, poured out of a mold, and it's, uh, made out of bronze
    Welcome to the house of the bats
    Welcome to the house of the bats (my baby)
    Welcome to the house of the bats (my baby)
    Staircase black
    Staircase black
    You know that staircase is black
    You know that staircase is black
    Staircase is black
    You know that staircase is black
    Staircase, staircase, staircase, staircase
    Staircase, staircase, staircase, staircase
  14. Bar Scene From Star Wars
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