catching fire

i am kneeling on my lonely grave
i recall when youth was pounding in my veins
and life was all of light and cloud and dreams
now the clocks are closing down the days it seems

oh baby baby
creation is a sorry thing
is dying love an alternative?
we are mute and undefiled
we are cold and catching fire

every time i caught your flashing eyes
it seemed that a star was burning through the sky
each time i heard your lovely sighs
watching the wind and smoke and snow blow across the ice

oh baby baby
creation is a sorry thing
is dying love an alternative?
we are mute and undefiled
we are cold and catching fire

you would not answer when i spoke
your sad eyes said your heart wished that it could
blown apart by the winds from below
as white and washed and silent as the snow

oh baby baby
creation is a sorry thing
is dying love an alternative?
we are mute and undefiled
we are cold and catching fire

criminal idea

with fiona apple criminal baseline kinda..

looking for the sun

i bought this jug in tennessee
when it was full of wine
but now it is damn bone dry

these things are made for hollywood
tested over time
stay together
when the weather favors fine

are you the only one looking for the sun?
lookin high

The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
hurt our starvin eyes
Between the two we live and die--

a shot begins in 63
and rings forever why
we're way too sad to even cry

are you the only one looking for the sun?
are you the only child looking to the sky?
clear blue sky
it's a long long way from here
that we will rest tonight
when will our comfort arrive?

must i explain myself again
or will this song suffice?
are we too young to survive?

are you the only one looking for the sun?
lookin high

alladin

weakly wonderful and saddened
tied onto the back of a car
dragged along a path like aladdin
a genie playing her guitar
you can be the one to believe me
you can be that wonderful girl
and i will try like hell to remember
to step with care in such a world

tomorrow i will start to be happy
flesh and bone scattered on the shores
imagining that silence is the thing
in forty five minutes or so
spare us all words of your weapons
the long numbers that rocket the mind
and allow me the sin of redemption
not just the waves of my own fire

scattered black seeds of the future
little waves with their soft white eyes
turn all those birds loose for
nothing lasts long in the sky
morals and religion and manners
with people still mocking the race
the world is full of invisible things
a stone look on the sorrowful face

masquerade

words can't explain this thing i see
this thing i taste, this thing i feel
words fall apart and take a life
on midnight trains to wild sides

it's a masquerade
a dream of time
it's a crying shame
we ain't got 2 dimes
to spring up tall
wrap our arms and legs
around a sounds of yesterday
again and again

i'm not bad, just uninspired
and i'm not sad, just aenesthetized
gods beware, the smoke will rise here
once again
gods green eyes

let's walk along the silent web
let's walk alone into summers bed
walk in wires, clear the mold
seals our fate above sea and wound

un-american

rough scratch tracks...



welcome sisters and brothers
it's time to troll the message curse
breaking bread with moneychangers
after church

we'll begin with politicians
with the whitened teeth
and end it with
the shouting on the streets

=======================
i don't want to lead you to the shore
that's rather un-american
and i don't want to follow you no more
that's un-american

we don't need to hear your voice at all
it's un-american
write your silly notes upon the prison wall
you're un-american
=======================

thomas paine went quite insane
went to bat for good old common sense
nowadays we're content sitting on the fence

take a side and then unwind
we'll all be drinking from the vat soon
magic potions, kool-aid
with a hint of mint

i can't bear to watch another pet
on the avenue
much more than 99 percent

we know our rights
we see the light
on the avenue
where saints and winners
bow down to sinners and saints

sub-retaliation

maybe i'm open, (down down)
maybe you're high
maybe i'm nervous (down down)
with a criminal mind
it's a metal tube in the ocean
serving death row meals
i fly by instruments at night
and i play this harp by ear

this is wild, world wide...it's gonna plague me 'till i die
stop, open, drop, open, lock
sub retaliation

i can speak in tongues....{there, there...
my child,} sweeter than a rose
i'm fred astaire, {she's ginger rodgers} - you are edgar allan poe
don't tell me i'm a-weak and a-stupid, lame and scared
you can go straight to hell, your message straight to voice mail

this is wild, world wide...it's gonna plague me 'till i die
stop, open, drop, open, lock
sub retaliation


the greeks are splitting atoms into loyal nations
and the seven seas are for submarines and unpaid vacations
in the land of milk and honey
she's a witch with wings
"viva hola you're in the dark with a canadian"
{sudden (sudden), toughen (toughen), tighten (tighter), quicken (quickest)}

this is wild, world wide...it's gonna plague me 'till i die
stop, open, drop, open, lock
sub retaliation

wall to wall (take two)

baby
you gotta save me
first you blame me
then you shame me

i ain't writing anymore
just these stupid open chords

honey
got no money anymore
no more fun
no more sun

just this fucked up wall to wall

i ain't writing anymore
just these stupid open chords

baby, we've all been used (again)

she can't stand a single thing
the tommy does and tommy sings
she can't keep her tongue no more

so she strolls out to the back
and holds onto the heavy axe
carries it on through the kitchen door

there he sits with beer in hand
and nothing on his wicked brain
cept how to increase her sorrow

and she abides him with a smile
and with a touch of borden style
skulls him like there's no tomorrow

baby we've all been used
baby we've all been used
it's a shot one in ten
lucky to find the right people

trial was a travesty
but that's the law now, basically
she's free to go back to the hollow

where freedom is a tender thing
and axes are fashioned to swing
up into the chins of such fellows

breath in (again...)

THE country has his joys
breathe in and breathe out and breathe in
Of little city girls and boys
breathe in and breathe out

When brother Thomas brings his brood
breathe in and breathe out and breathe in
To try our country air and food.
breathe in and breathe out


And O what splendid pies and cakes Their pleased and pretty grandma makes
And O, it gives him sad surprise, - There must be tears in Jesus' eyes,


Poor Thomas shepherds him a flock
Of city souls as hard as rock,
his heart beats like a clock
breathe in and breathe out

And though they will not fill his larder
He only preaches Christ the harder.
of the son and of the father
breathe in and breathe out

And O what splendid pies and cakes Their pleased and pretty grandma makes
And O, it gives him sad surprise, - There must be tears in Jesus' eyes,



But Ann, though seven years my niece,
Is still a pagan little piece
that will not be released
breathe in and breathe out

Jesus is better than any toys
For little sinning girls and boys,
For Jesus saves, but sin destroys
breathe in and breathe out and breathe in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhCRNbWh55A

follow (again)

my mama was a free women, papa was a free person
i'm chained to the old machine
without a path to the open fields
and you can't be my lover
cuz it will blow my cover
let's rewind
reset and unwind

this years been hard workin
hard work and hard talkin
and a bit of histrionics
and a touch of high dramatics
three years in the mine, three years left behind
it's a wonder i'm whole up from this hole

i will follow you
if you want me to
given what we've been through
i can't hide my faith in the water, anymore

this thing aint romantic
quick or automatic
it's a full-court press of a life
when the lightening strike this kite
3 years from a smile, 3 frozen miles
open the door, and let in the voice

sara (again)

no matter how small
every town has got one
a miniature crime
done with a miniature gun
hard as a hammer
harder than nails
got hundreds of dogs and
cats by the tail

sara sara
let me pour you some some wine
i've got a fear
you no longer mine
my love my love
my love is so unkind
it's killing me dear
it's blowing my mind

knocking them out
place neat on the shelf
god helps those who
help themselves
a wonderful lie
makes a marvelous mess
and she doesn't move
it ain't easy...i confess

sara sara...

i'm surrounded by dust
i'm captured in stills
i'm covered by dirt
and bottles and pills
collateral damage the generals say
nothing can chase this dragon away

sara sara...

god only knows
and god only cares
we're twisted and turned
split on the rail
tongue is on fire
eyes are ablaze
and hundreds of words
lost in the haze

i'll be there

i never know the way to go
the opposite of sight
could never thrive beyond the fire
cornering my mind
think of a world without the girl
and of the world within
flickering hard and fighting cards
dealt with total randomness

is it all real
electric fields
this is not a game

connecting the dots
with pistol shots
this is not my name

people will shield these strange ideas
whithout a fair exchange
turn off the light
and drive the spike
straight into my brain

two plus two (take two)

there
head down on the pavement
words whispered in payment
just don't blink when you say it
-
i'm so there
it keeps me from wonderin
if it lets any sun in
is it like or its lovin

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
is this awkward for you?
simple as 2 plus 2
-
shy dog
steady as a steamboat
in a dark overcoat
your the hero we all toast

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
does this mean much to you?
simple as 2 plus 2
-
steady
with a hand that is held up high
you will never sip read and white
in the lingering afterlight

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
i've got nothing to prove
simple as 2 plus 2

dead after dark take 2

there's up and there's down
square and there's round
day and there's night
there's black and there's white
there's taste and there's time
there's cruel and there's kind
there's other men's wives
there's pain and desire

the look in our eyes says look we're alive
rips out your heart
i wouldn't be caught dead here after dark

there's dreaming of sleep
there is dark and there's deep
losers and winners
saints and the sinners
we take and we give
as we die and we live
we drink and we drive
in the darkness and light

the look in our eyes says look we're alive
tears us apart
i wouldn't be caught dead here after dark

there's old and there's young
there's songs to be sung
nothing, it seems, is hard to believe
the slings and the arrows
the bones and the marrow
hate all the love and the fire from above

the look in our eyes it says 'look we're alive'
we sob with a start
i wouldn't be caught dead here in the dark

rain or shine

rain or shine
rain or shine
rain or shine...etc...etc...

trial (take 2)

you're alone
you must be kidding
too far from home
to know the difference

it is a fact that all of god is in your smile
and it is true that we are headed for a trial

here we go
out the window
don't ya see the storm?
don't you know the distance?

it is a fact that all of god is in your smile
and it is true that we are headed for a trial


there's a flame
in california called
that's insane
on the northern border

it is a fact that all of god is in your smile
and it is true that we are headed for a trial

41: Swept Away

There is something in my eyes
I measure every grief I meet
With clocks and spoons and devils feet

With narrow probing eyes
I wonder if it weighs as much as mine
Or is a smaller size

God is growing up above
For those of us who pray
But you could look forever
and never see his face
we are swept away
swept away

I wonder if I can
Wonder if I’ll ever hear replies
If I’ll ever get it right

I’ll play my rival hand
Cover up the visions of the son
And my life a loaded gun

My faith is larger than
The hills, so when the hills decay
A wheel must show the sun the way

This is my silent end
Graceful and mechanical and cold
We watch the times unfold

lyric 40: Emily - on and on

Can we stay on holiday?
Shedding tears for repairs
Carried on her silver heels
In the night she disappears

She fumbles at your soul
As the player at the keys
Before they drop full music
She stuns you by degrees

I took the power in my hand
Twice as bold against the world
Til’ the hurricane bisects
Separates us from the dead

Was it goliath way too large
Or was myself, way too small
The province of the almost saved
Or the science of the grave

This is my letter to the world
A world that never wrote to me
The simple news of nature told
With her tender majesty

lyr 39 - the whiskey talkin'

got to stand in and play to win for the new day dawning
landing on sin, and praying for more minds like charlie darwin
no one now can save us, blame us, shame us, stain us, for the staring and gawking

justify use of the abuse all them syncophants are fawning
critics on the loose, call a truce ...they all joking and they're barking
or hiding in the bushes, staring and a-stalking


i'm over you, the ragin and the rocking and a rollling
i'm so over you and the everlasting mocking and the moaning
and i ain't got excuses like
hey ...that's just the whiskey talking


i'll take the test of no regret with the wires wrapped and liars rocking
my shadow it will cast a net as wide at it is shocking
please lay it here a sympathetic ear when i come knocking

washing dawn my fears with warm tequila to stop the choking
steaming into the station like a comatose locomotive
all those funny faces, now erased by the consequential gunning

lyr 38? supersonic rage

hey
can't you ever find a way
to allign
with the stars and half the day

is this a hummingbird alive
is this a hanging curve on the inside?

hey
it's a supersonic rage
you can f-f-find
all you troubles melt away

rock and absurd and bitter tie
tied to the envelope of speaking from the spine

hard
it is hard to set me straight
hard
it is so hard to find the way

i'll claim this mountaintop for us
if you will please just shut the fuck up

look
this way and then away
look
again and again and again

there is a rocking horse the tells
you to go to heaven or to hell

lyr 37 - gods as monkees

we must learn to turn the pages gently
grinning at what she has
let loose and trying to dance

it is a sin to push a book aside
the hands and hips and waving arms
rocking to the reggae boom

explain to him the meaning of i'm happy
the camera backing away
two left feet missing the beat

grow to love the strageness of the language
into the crowd it just looks wrong
a little man who has a plan

lhere the gods roam freely dressed as monkeys
speaker boxes block the door
more durable than england's poor

lyr 36; rain on

rain on darkness
rain on trees
rain on moon
tossed on cloudy seas
the moon was a ribbon floating in the moonlight
we felt so alone
when the highwayman came riding by

rain on children
rain down the stars
rain down on innocent
that breaks the heart
the moon was a ribbon floating in the moonlight
we felt so alone
when the highwayman came riding by


rain down on me now
rain down on you
like the seven seas now
like a sweet perfume
the moon was a ribbon floating in the moonlight
we felt so alone
when the highwayman came riding by

lyr 35: sara, sara

no matter how small
every town has got one
a miniature crime
done with a miniature gun

hard as a hammer
harder than nails
got hundreds of dogs and
cats by the tail

sara sara
let me pour you some some wine
i've got a fear
you no longer mine
my love my love
my love is so unkind
it's killing me dear
it's blowing my mind

knocking them out
place neat on the shelf
god helps those who
help themselves

a wonderful lie
makes a marvelous mess
and she doesn't move
it ain't easy...i confess

sara sara
let me pour you some some wine
i've got a fear
you no longer mine
my love my love
my love is so unkind
it's killing me dear
it's blowing my mind


i'm surrounded by dust
i'm captured in stills
i'm covered by dirt
and bottles and pills

collateral damage the generals say
nothing can chase this dragon away

sara sara
let me get you some some wine
i've got this fear
that you're no longer mine
my love my love
my love is so unkind
it's killing me dear
it's blowing my mind

lyric..34 --- dead after dark .

there's up and there's down
square and there's round
day and there's night
there's black and there's white
there's taste and there's time
there's cruel and there's kind
there's other men's wives
there's pain and desire

the look in our eyes says look we're alive
rips out your heart
i wouldn't be caught dead here after dark

there's dreaming of sleep
there is dark and there's deep
losers and winners
saints and the sinners
we take and we give
as we die and we live
we drink and we drive
in the darkness and light

the look in our eyes says look we're alive
tears us apart
i wouldn't be caught dead here after dark

there's old and there's young
there's songs to be sung
nothing, it seems, is hard to believe
the slings and the arrows
the bones and the marrow
hate all the love and the fire from above

the look in our eyes it says 'look we're alive'
we sob with a start
i wouldn't be caught dead here in the dark

lyr 33: easy now

glass hitting her face now
easy now, easy now
nothing can erase her now
easy now, easy now

why ask for a message
if you can't read the fucking words
it's the stupidest song and rhyme
i've ever heard


in for the long term
easy now, easy now
for the blood and the fur now
easy now, easy now

why ask for a message
if you can't read the fucking words
it's the stupidest song and rhyme
i've ever heard

cruise for a blessing
easy now, easy now
a full moon is setting on us
easy now, easy now

she's comin on closer
easy now, easy now
she's the kid on the poster
easy now, easy now

lyr 32: sleep to sleep

sleep to sleep
dream to dream
all is light
with nothing in between

raise the sails
trim the heat
we'll go on
to where nobodys ever been

let's be ready for the show
let's get there - somewhere somehow
i know...i know....

endless walks
on endless streets
two right hands
and two left feet

outside ourselves
we're coming clean
and then there's this
death in the morning

raise your voice above the crown
raise your arms above the clouds
i know...i know....

if you're cold
if you're lost
if you're whipped
and nailed to a cross

she just flies
into the night
like all good children
that put up a fight

it's a place where we can go
face the sun, face the snow
i know.....i know...

old ben mcgee take 2

in a land far away on a primitive sea
spinning in time, it's like death i believe
a thousand small cuts and a thousand wet leaves

he was a man best left alone
he closes her eyes, it's like death i suppose
out from the smog and the mist the story arose

old ben mcgee, listen to me
on a black horse thats running
down the street

old ben mcgee, listen to me
these pains I cant carry
or receive

there sat a watermark deep on his face
permanent lines that tears can't erase
the memories tear at his heart and leave not a trace

a miniature part played with castanet hands
here everythings free and nothings for sale
he imagines she flew out of there like a bat out of hell

old ben mcgee, listen to me
on a black horse thats running
down the street

old ben mcgee, listen to me
this pain I cant carry
or receive

lyr #31? old be mcgee

he walks a single line mistaken for sublime
he leans on out to time cruel dances left behind

he sees her from bar so close and yet so far
if only this guitar could play how great thou art

he's wearing his heart on his sleeve, wearing his sleeve on his heart...

old ben mcgee, listen to me
on a black horse thats running
down the street

old ben mcgee, listen to me
this pains I cant carry
or receive

he dreams to take her hand and dreams of wedding bands
but he is just a man , a thousand grains of sand

and she is such a sight - as beautiful as night
an angel dressed in white - the soul would sacrafice

he's wearing his heart on his sleeve, wearing his sleeve on his heart...

old ben mcgee, listen to me
on a black horse thats running
down the street

old ben mcgee, listen to me
this pains I cant carry
or receive

lyric 30 : once or twice

fires grow by the riverside
ebbs and flows with spirit tides
it's just a dream
or so it seems

far away in another place
by committee they unleash
a thousand why's
five thousand why why's

she's a child of the sun
a bitter bandit on the run
from the sky, we will arise

she the choice the chosen one
and like everything we're done
done in time, done once, done twice

ly 29 - wall-to-wall

baby
you gotta save me
first you blame me
then you shame me

i ain't writing anymore
just these stupid open chords

honey
got no money anymore
no more fun
no more sun

just this fucked up wall to wall

i ain't writing anymore
just these stupid open chords

lyric 28: WWII

thick or fair
he throws his hands
up in the air
thin or foul
he moves his head
round and round

i'm mystified
by the look in your eyes
that says for all the world to see
i'm dead inside
and i'm paralyzed
by the sword in my side
that claims for me
the right to be utterly, totally
deceived

charlamagne
that clown is back again
what a stupid name
it is almost a sin
what his parents named him
but charlamagne
won't give in
never never never never never
give in
said winston

i'm mystified
by the look in your eyes
that says for all the world to see
i'm dead inside
and i'm paralyzed
by the sword in my side
that claims for me
the right to be utterly, totally
deceived

it 's getting hot out here
with the wind all disappeared
and it's getting clearer
that it is fear we fear
ply your wares
what the fuck, they don't care
buy and sell and sell and buy
never ever share

lyr 27: aladdin

weakly wonderful and saddened
tied onto the back of a car
dragged along a path like aladdin
a genie playing her guitar
you can be the one to believe me
you can be that wonderful girl
and i will try like hell to remember
to step with care in such a world

tomorrow i will start to be happy
flesh and bone scattered on the shores
imagining that silence is the thing
in forty five minutes or so
spare us all words of your weapons
the long numbers that rocket the mind
and allow me the sin of redemption
not just the waves of my own fire

scattered black seeds of the future
little waves with their soft white eyes
turn all those birds loose for
nothing lasts long in the sky
morals and religion and manners
with people still mocking the race
the world is full of invisible things
a stone look on the sorrowful face

lyr 26? trial : M4V04460

you're alone
you must be kidding
too far from home
to know the difference

it is a fact that all of god is in your smile
and it is true that we are headed for a trial

here we go
out the window
don't ya see the storm?
don't you know the distance?

it is a fact that all of god is in your smile
and it is true that we are headed for a trial


there's a flame
in california called
that's insane
on the northern border

it is a fact that all of god is in your smile
and it is true that we are headed for a trial

lyric 25: for a ride

last night at the pit fall....keep up...don't stall...
keep yer damn head down up down, then down down

hard right at the old store, white cotton, black doors
and the sight of the car show, bright lights on smooth floors

please folks, assemble here in a peaceful manner
you folks in the back there...can you put down that hammer?
every chance is your last chance
we all taken for a ride

it's rainin in the graveyard, amplifies the sorrow
but ya know if ya wait here it'll be sunshine tomorrow

right now it's coming down like nobodies business
cats and dogs and frogs and lizards

please folks, assemble here in a peaceful manner
you folks in the back there...can you put down that hammer?
every chance is your last chance
we all taken for a ride

lyric 24 : there's that, that there

i'm in the rough again, dixie cries
to no one in particular
i'm done and done..why's this seem peculiar?
i'm the last one out, as usual, you couldn't find me now
it's summer and it's hot out
my shoulder to the plow

there's that, that there
the final act has come
it aint good lookin
but who am i to judge?

she ran faster then she ever thought she could
he wasn't past her, then seems like still she stood
then again, it's over in a heartbeat
nothing like easy living to burn your little feet

there's that, that there
the final act has come
it aint good lookin
the stress and strain of keeping it undone

i'm on the outs again, dixie cries alone
she can't quite tell her there's no one on the phone
and back again, down again, she sighs
she's an angel, she's a sight for pryin eyes

there's that, that there
the final act has come
it aint good lookin
but who am i to judge?

lyric 23: 2 plus 2

two plus two

there
head down on the pavement
words whispered in payment
just don't blink when you say it
-
i'm so there
it keeps me from wonderin
if it lets any sun in
is it like or its lovin

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
is this awkward for you?
simple as 2 plus 2
-
shy dog
steady as a steamboat
in a dark overcoat
your the hero we all toast

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
does this mean much to you?
simple as 2 plus 2
-
steady
with a hand that is held up high
you will never sip read and white
in the lingering afterlight

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
i've got nothing to prove
simple as 2 plus 2

lyric 22 - everyday

five wrongs, still wrong
don't make no right
i raise you up one rainless august night

your name wrapped tight around my chest
you reach into my heart, you break before you bend


everyday, everyday
i'll be there for you

you taught me to live without the rain
sand, wind and sun's a buring flame


you brand the breeze the hottest blue
and keep me warm, and i was born for you


everyday, everyday
i'll be there for you



you are bread and water for the thirst
we awake and the last they shall be first

five wrongs, still wrong
don't make no right
i raise you up one rainless august night


everyday, everyday
i'll be there for you

lyric 21 - a preview of the next high tide

goddamn body rings
on the thorough fare
blameless and shameless
on the road to there

i won't go out there
got no reason why
won't bend blind ambition
to a television spy

preview of the next high tide
preview of the next ride tide

my bonnie lass
how deep in love am i
i will love you still
till the seas run dry

now the seas are runnin dry
the rocks melt with the sun
i will love you still
till the sands of life run down

preview of the next high tide
preview of the next ride tide

slow motion at the mirror
lines delivered south
you the evil doppelganger
droolin from the mouth

two eyed undertakers
rhapsody tojour
claws and knives and forks
scuttle on the hardwood floor

preview of the next high tide
preview of the next ride tide

lyric 20 - light on

if i faulter
think i can't be saved
she is dove in the rain

and if i'm colder
if my heart's a cave
she's a remedy for pain

if i'm lonely
forever alone
she's the one who keeps me sound and keep me whole

if i'm forlorn
destitute and blind
she's the one who soothes my eyes

up and down and over under thick and thin
she's the one the saves my skin

she leaves the light on
she leaves the light on

lyric 19 - the shot heard round the world

once there was a quiet boy
who never saw the day
locked in mothers pocketbook
until the first of may

magazine and wolverines
hanging from the walls
wild screams from dragon queens
standing now to fall

by the rude bridge
that arched the flood
here the brave farmers stood
facing up their enemy's
like men with familes should

no one knows if anyone or anything could stir
the population to gather the nerve
to fire a shot heard round the world

the sharp side of razor light
will lessen any pain
devote you to the lesser god
and drive the girls insane

you're that boy in pocketbooks
kept hidden from the craze
protected by your mommy
until the first of may

and let's not harbor any ills
against that fallen isle
they have the right to appetites
if not the strength lie

and let's believe that all good things
will come to boys and girls
children who have the nerve
to fire the shot heard round the world

let's have a toast to innocence
cuz that's a dying bird
let's have a drink and lets confess
our feelings for the girl

you will find some piece of mind
when all is said and done

and you will see what others see
when moons become the son

heretics on politics will summon you to war
raw courage and a flair for kicks
will keep you safe and warm

and i believe that we will see the final cloth unfurl
cuz we have the presence and the nerve
to fire the shot heard round the world

lyric 19 - i'm burning a light for you

oh my my, i'm burning alive
i'm burning alive for you
there was a day that i say that's insane
but now i've become unglued
there was a time when you would walk by
and i wouldn't give a hoot
oh my my i'm burning alive
i'm burning a light for you

now every night my soul is on fire
i am a useless fool
thinkin about you in that blouse
un the sweet sun in june
the mice are away
can the cats come and play?
will you abide this tune?
oh my my i'm burning alive
i'm burning a light for you

everywhere i stop and i stare
into oblivion
i meditate on the games we could play
a generous 'mount of fun
but this can't transpire,
cuz such is out lives
the cards we been dealt are done
oh my my i'm burning alive
i'm burning a light for you

lyric 18- baby, we've all been used

she can't stand a single thing
the tommy does and tommy sings
she can't keep her tongue no more

so she strolls out to the back
and holds onto the heavy axe
carries it on through the kitchen door

there he sits with beer in hand
and nothing on his wicked brain
cept how to increase her sorrow

and she abides him with a smile
and with a touch of borden style
skulls him like there's no tomorrow

baby we've all been used
baby we've all been used
it's a shot one in ten
lucky to find the right people

trial was a travesty
but that's the law now, basically
she's free to go back to the hollow

where freedom is a tender thing
and axes are fashioned to swing
up into the chins of such fellows

lyric 17 = we don't know

i see you me
and we dont know
we dont know
no ones' home
skin and bones
we don't know

i'm a stick
you're a stone
we don't know
we don't know
this house is so old
we don't know

she dips and dives
swoops into space
green on the wings
sky on the face
first in the light
without a trace
a golden glass
never still in one place

snowfields, snowbanks
we both know
we both know
each have minds of their own
we don't know
we don't know


i'm a stick
you're a stone
we don't know
we don't know
this house is so old
we don't know

hamilton

lyric 8 - evening song

the king hears
an evening song
it's witchin him, witchin him along

he's wierd
with an evening song
mystifies and energizes all who know

that snake has shed his skin upon the floor
he whispers from the bleaching sand and shores

but it's real
the evening song
Within a single thing, a single thrill, a single shawl
it's clear
the evening song
remains the moment fast and strong


This field has not been tended in awhile,
he whispers from the bleaching sand and shores that run for miles

lyric 16 - only the strong

song #16 : armed with a machine gun and a copy of the emancipation proclamation, tommy dresses up as abe lincoln, saddles up his grizzly bear, and emerges from his cabin in the woods, rising into the city to meet his destiny...



there ain't a lot to believing
one song and only the strong will survive
down a notch from deceiving
one song and only the strong
worse can't get much better
come along, cuz only the strong will...
ride on till your tired
as a dog, and only the strong

dead and down on the pavement
with a song bout only the strong
can the afterlife contain it
right or wrong, only the strong
wise men talk forever
then they're gone...with the weak and the strong
mountain clouds and weather
and fog...when only the strong will survive

there are your prayers, you can keep them
so long....only the strong
and fine dreams in the deep end
fight on, girl, cuz only the strong
money lies beneath us
the sea is calm when only the strong...
money cannot keep us

lyric 15 - hills slowly

hills slowly roll
on the roads to mexico
pleasantries exchanging for the gunfire

the mask on the man
reveals a dark plan
enemies complaining that the rent's too damn high

the sun is so bright i can taste it
and the desert belongs to an age long ago

she weeps in the sand
and places her hand
on the heart of the child she's forsaken

from north mexico
back to el paso
the stories are old and they're blameless

and the wind is so light i can't face it
and the desert belongs to a time long ago

send out a dove
of peace, hope and love
there's little of this south of the border
miracles arise
in the poor childs eyes
in the voices of saints who call to us

and the air is so fine i can't waste it
and the desert belongs to a girl in a song

lyric 14 - the get them river

Sleep to sleep through
a spine picked clean to a skull with hair
with nothing in between
the Night to night
on whitened teeth
Sewn into the cloth of memory

with all of our agents underground
there must be news someway somehow

this ghost of heaven have ascended
into the night
fallen angels, and evil labels
tricked for the flight

Blue smoke from a flap of wings.
On the walls of the christening


Outside fakir fireflies
rose to the sky
inside tiger appetites
ready to the bite

all who come into this world
will lift the veil, unfurl the curtain

lyric 13 - my home my home

my home my home my wicked home
is torn beyond repair
my home my home my wicked home
is where i sit and stare
my eyes, my eyes my wicked eyes
are gazing towards the east
my mouth, my tongue my wicked tongues
are speaking portugese

again and over and under and cut and run
failure grows forever in the bright blue sun

my heart my heart is growing cold
and with the ice i fear
protect my daughters and my sons
from all the worlds' dark stare

my partner folds into a ball
calls me another day
my soul forsaken for a tryst
and with a kiss betrayed

lyric 12 - nothing to it

here you are, there and
there you are, there and
You are violets with wind above them.
A child - so high - you are,
And all this is folly to the world.

Tree you are, and
Moss you are, and
You are violets with wind above them.
A child - so high - you are,
And all this is folly to the world.

The tree has entered my heart and hands,
and The branches grow out of me like arms.
and there you are girl, here you are

fair you are, and
and light you are, and
you are a song on the southern wind
a child - do fine - you are
to me you're everything my girl

lyric 11 - breath in

THE country has his joys
breathe in and breathe out and breathe in
Of little city girls and boys
breathe in and breathe out

When brother Thomas brings his brood
breathe in and breathe out and breathe in
To try our country air and food.
breathe in and breathe out


And O what splendid pies and cakes Their pleased and pretty grandma makes
And O, it gives him sad surprise, - There must be tears in Jesus' eyes,


Poor Thomas shepherds him a flock
Of city souls as hard as rock,
his heart beats like a clock
breathe in and breathe out

And though they will not fill his larder
He only preaches Christ the harder.
of the son and of the father
breathe in and breathe out

And O what splendid pies and cakes Their pleased and pretty grandma makes
And O, it gives him sad surprise, - There must be tears in Jesus' eyes,



But Ann, though seven years my niece,
Is still a pagan little piece
that will not be released
breathe in and breathe out

Jesus is better than any toys
For little sinning girls and boys,
For Jesus saves, but sin destroys
breathe in and breathe out and breathe in

lyric 10 - follow

my mama was a free women, papa was a free person
i'm chained to the old machine
without a path to the open fields
and you can't be my lover
cuz it will blow my cover
let's rewind
reset and unwind

this years been hard workin
hard work and hard talkin
and a bit of histrionics
and a touch of high dramatics
three years in the mine, three years left behind
it's a wonder i'm whole up from this hole

i will follow you
if you want me to
given what we've been through
i can't hide my faith in the water, anymore

this thing aint romantic
quick or automatic
it's a full-court press of a life
when the lightening strike this kite
3 years from a smile, 3 frozen miles
open the door, and let in the voice

lyric 9 - bitter heart

waves ride a bitter heart
bitter wings
blown apart

water breaks a missing soul
missing things
growing old

running fast and running scared
washin away
hope and cares

faith breaks our calvary
nailed right in
into the easter tree

Of the two dreams, night and day,
What lover, what dreamer, would choose
The one obscured by sleep?
or the one with everything to lose?

here lies
a mortal man
covered by the dirt and sand

good god almighty
what can we do
from lazarus to timbuktu

cloth hanging from his frame
dripping off like kerosene

annoint him now with waves of fire
climbing higher and higher

Of the two dreams, night and day,
What lover, what dreamer, would choose
The one obscured by sleep?
or the one with everything to lose?

lyric 7 - another day

are you here for another day?
chemicals in the dark rain
saddle up and we keepsakes
all of our own

abstract like a good friend
suddenly there and gone again
premise of a weekend
we take our martyrs a la mode

me first, me first say it
me got the ball and i play it now
me first me first may i
etiquette be the first thing to die

she got deep and white roots
Drunk and asleep in his boots
a canteen full of old booze
sits by her side

she hides in the tall rocks
heavy in the hemlocks
domination knock knock
we take our heroes high

me first, me first say it
me got the ball and i play it now
me first me first may i
etiquette be the first thing to die

lyric 6 - looking for the sun

i bought this jug in tennessee
when it was full of wine
but now it is damn bone dry

these things are made for hollywood
tested over time
stay together
when the weather favors fine

are you the only one looking for the sun?
lookin high

The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
hurt our starvin eyes
Between the two we live and die--

a shot begins in 63
and rings forever why
we're way too sad to even cry

are you the only one looking for the sun?
are you the only child looking to the sky?
clear blue sky
it's a long long way from here
that we will rest tonight
when will our comfort arrive?

must i explain myself again
or will this song suffice?
are we too young to survive?

are you the only one looking for the sun?
lookin high

lyric 5 - i cant be ....happy

i can;t be happy

if you can't be happy

why can't you be happy too?

cmon boy and lift up your head

eyes open and out of bed

there's a whole world waiting there for you

this life is plastic

and so fantasitic

porcupines and politics and booze

smile like you don't care

there joy laced through the air

rings of flowers on the soles of her shoes

now you're a grown man
with no blood on your hands
and nothing left to lose

sojourn and calmness
set course and cast the nets
the etiquette if fused to me and you

lyric 4 - the distance, the good fight

sounds rising in the distance
so close that you could kiss them
these the cards that we were dealt

we follow from a distance
not so far that we could miss them
mistake your son for someone else

i'll offer you a clean shot
a cigarette and a clean though
there is no in between

i'll offer you a good time
prime ticket on a good airline
there is no extreme

so many come this way
only to fade to green to grey

i worship at the front door
backs closed since the night before
why can't father fight the good fight?

for a whisper in the distance
it's the truth, we gotta listen
even if the timing aint quite right

lyric 3 - a little longer

hey stay a little longer
i'm the one who is payin you to sleep
hey just a little longer
it aint like you've got somewhere to be
cmon girl
a little closer
close enough to hear this pilgrim breathe
just a little closer
no reason to be afraid of me

painted lady
night is black and waters deep
sainted lady
moneys on the table, yours to keep

oh i shudder
to imagine all the pain inside of you
it makes me wonder
if there's a god that has got it in for you

painted lady
i think we better getta ready for 8 hours sleep

saints save us
awaken in spirits
dear and cheap

lyric 2 - next in line

words can't explain this thing i see
this thing i taste, this thing i feel
words fall apart and take a life
on midnight trains to wild sides

it's a masquerade
a dream of time
it's a crying shame
we ain't got 2 dimes
to spring up tall
wrap our arms and legs
around a sounds of yesterday
again and again

i'm not bad, just uninspired
and i'm not sad, just aenesthetized
gods beware, the smoke will rise here
once again
gods green eyes

let's walk along the silent web
let's walk alone into summers bed
walk in wires, clear the mold
seals our fate above sea and wound

lyric 1 - aint nothin, sorry town

this river's made
of blue and black
our souls be saved
in the waters lack
 the stone cold rythmn
 of the evil night
 if you take what you're given
it'll rob you blind

this aint no thing
and it ain't no sorry town
it aint no thing, and it sure don't bring
the saints to our sorry town

she had a child
sweet baby boy
then she gone and wrecked and lost that thing of joy
and we collapse, and i beg for more
to the whippin post, heed the cry for war

this aint no thing
and it ain't no sorry town
it aint no thing, and it sure don't bring
the saints to our sorry town