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Hips and makers Your ghost If I walk down this hallway Tonight, it's too quiet So I pad through the dark And call you on the phone Push your old numbers And let your house ring Till I wake your ghost Let him walk down your hallway It's not that quiet Slide down your receiver Sprint across the wire Follow my number Slide into my hand Its the blaze across my nightgown It's the phone's ring I think last night You were driving circles around me I can't drink this coffee Till I put you in my closet Let him shoot me down Let him call me off I take it from his whisper Your not that tough It's the blaze across my nightgown It's the phone's ring I think last night (you were in my dreams) You were driving circles around me

Beestung Start with your fingers They finger the change That carries me home in our evening You're bee stung there... Press your palm to your snow-coated thought cage That carries me over your thinking You're bee stung there... Between the tall buildings Are snow-coated alleys Between us is nothing but grace Snow rides the wind down And drives past the window Falling all over your face I fly out the window And then ride the wind down You fit me into my place You're bee stung here... Start with your eyes When they eye me in twilight Picking up pieces of mine Tie me up with the twine in you eyelight String me from heaven to time You bee stung me... Between the tall buildings Are snow-coated alleys Between us is nothing but grace Help me up when you hear me behind you Falling all over the place It's not to late Teeth I could get a piece of meat From a barren tree Nothing ever spoiled on me You brought this

You dipshit Nothing ever spoiled on me That cloud stomps around my house Does whatever it pleases It teases me What the hell? Never was a baritone Till you stepped in Never dried my halters on the line This hairdo's truly evil I'm not sure it's mine You're so tall It's like I climb a waterfall That cloud stomps around my house Does whatever it pleases It teases me What I said was get me a drink Alright? What am I supposed to sit And look at you all night? All girls cry Like I said, I don't know why Sundrops You can't get any more sunshine I can't get over how it rains down Oh no no no... You can't get any more sunshine You can't get any more broken down Oh no no no... Is the car parked downtown Leave it while the sun beats down We can walk and walk and walk Walk and walk and walk You can't let any more skin show You can't let any thing in your eyes show No no no...

We can't get any more sunshine Barefoot while the heat rains down Oh no no no... There's nothing I forgot I left that paper heart Where it belonged Who it belonged to, I never knew I never never knew Paper burns and my heart melts When I tear at you Sun drops down now Down now now now now Houdini Blues Oh no, don't you put me in that box You know what you can do with those locks Bet your life I'll come crawling out again You'll have to deal with me then You'll hear me on the wind I've been on the other side of the Blue Ridge Seen the Shenandoah rolling there I stepped off the mountains edge Just to climb the golden stair I seen the streets up there I been on the mount transfiguration Been there with my Ma and my Pa On the mountain of commandment I been handed down the law You should have seen what I saw I fell to the bottom of Thales' well Caught like a theif with a lamb You know these stars they can cast a spell I've been caught with red hands I've been caught with red hands

I scaled the mountains, skiied the valleys I've done the highs and the lows I don't feel like work today Hell I won't go Bess I won't go Just let me at their locks We should all be free Oh Bess, i swear I'll call When I'm free from me We should all be free A loon Some store I'm not going back there anymore Wandered in Don't think I'll do that again No I don't think I'll do that again I swear Look at me cross-eyed and I don't know what to do No I don't know what to do Crazy loon There's a room in his pallet There's a pillow for his head Sees an offshoot in his bottle When he wants to see me dead Heirlooms A loon Never thought I'd see that silly grin Never thought I'd see that fool again Never thought I'd love that lunatic Nothing left to dance around What a hero What a black and blue bird

What a loon, A loon What a loon, A loon Velvet days Velvet Days You make your little way Pouring rain Make that face You make my little day I laugh till my heart drops Down deep You break your little freak We break don't we break don't we Blush and knock your knees That's your girl breathing I laugh till my heart stops Hold your shark skin thing That's your boy breathing I laugh till my heart stops Blush and breathe I laugh till I can't see Down deep you break your little creep Listen blush and breathe That's your soul kissing I laugh Close your eyes You can't make it You can't cry You can't make it home tonight It's to far to walk To your goddamn van

It's too hard to come by your hand Drunk on nothing Drunk all night Mad at nothing Close your eyes You could run on iron lungs It would not keep you clean Run on iron lungs It would not keep you sons of bitches clean You think that they don't shatter you You think that till they go You think that they don't comfort you Now go home You can walk in moonlight You can dance inside You can dance in moonlight Close your eyes Stop, you ruined all my memories You ruined all my memories I wanna catch the falling babies I'm falling into you My hair's in your face Eyes on your eyes Hands on my back I can't leave I can't leave A guy's asking questions about me My hands are full of straw I'm sliding really fast My hands are full of snow I don't understand I don't understand puzzles

I can't breathe Close your eyes Me and my charms You can come back When you want Just know that I'll be here I haven't left this step And when the lights go out I pick the angel up I only have two hands I she here? Is she here right now? Drive her off; don't bother to call I'm checking out today Me and my charms Me and my charms When I kiss the angel I have a taste of you When I take the angel I have a piece of you I have a piece You can come back I haven't left you yet And when the lights go out I pick the angel up I only have two left feet All I have in my hands All I have in my hands Me and my charms Me and my charms When I kiss the angel I have a taste of me and my charms

Me and my charms down on the ground You can't leave me now You can't leave me now I haven't left you yet All i have in my hands Me and my charms Me and my charms When I kiss the angel I have a taste of you When I take the angel I have a piece of you I have a piece Tuesday night When you sleep you tell me off I told you once before I can't resist you When I sleep I build you up I make you king of here I can't resist you I can't wait... I'll suck down another water While I wait I watch the clock turn blue And think of you while I wait I can't wait The moon shines through my dress And through my glass I promise not to drink Until you're home I can't wait.. The moon pales even when I thinks it holds the face Of the clock I watch for you

While I wait I can't wait... The letter September 29, 1984 Dear so and so Gather me up because I'm lost Or I'm back where I started from I'm crawling on the floor Rolling on the ground I might cry I won't go home So here's the story I am turning up in circles And I'm spinning on my knuckles Don't forget that there are circles left undone And very close to me Forgive me Comfort me I'm crawling on the floor Rolling on the ground There's a blanket wrapped around my head I'm moving in a line that's shaped like this I'm holding in my breath I have a room Can you tell if I am lying Don't forget that I'm living inside The space where walls and floor meet There's a box inside my chest An animal stuffed with my frustration Can you hear me? Don't forget that I'm alone when you're away You make me act like other people do Forgive me Comfort me You comfort me You make me die I'm gonna cry I won't go home Don't kill the god of sadness Just don't let her get you down See that man inside that book I read Can't handle his own head So what the hell am I supposed to do? I'd like to know how he died My hands are shaking Don't you love me anymore I only need a person, keep my shoulders

Stand around lie down Move your hand above the floor Gather me up because I'm lost Or I'm back where I started from I'm crawling on the ground Rolling on the floor I'm gonna cry You look for me Love Kristin, P.S. keep them coming The Cuckoo Oh the cuckoo She's a pretty bird She wobbles when she flies She don't ever hollar cuckcoo Till the fourth day of July Jack o' Diamonds Jack o' Diamonds I know you, of old You rob my poor pockets Of silver and gold Oh the cuckcoo She's a pretty bird I wish that she were mine She don't ever drink water She only drink wine Gonna build me A log cabin On a mountain so high So I can see Willie When he goes on by Hips and makers Rocking on the ocean Sucking up the sea

Every bird flies over me We have hips and makers We have a good time I married a boxer to keep me from fighting I married a brewer to keep me from drinking We have a good time They keep me dancing Finally it's alright It's alright

Strange Angels Home Hey again, up for a spin ? Pretty rain makes you smile Pretty rain makes you smile This is something Why don't you come in ? This is some swell trash This is some swell trash Jesus, he's easy The safest way to go home Hell, nothing's boring Never could panic alone Hey again, my only friend Pretty rain makes you smile Don't pretty rain make you smile ? You are something Why don't you come in ? You are some swell trash Jesus, he's easy The safest way to go home Hell, nothing's boring Never could panic alone Hyper-martyr Never could panic alone Find her, untie her My safest way to go home

Like you Excuse me, a doormat is good honest work Only the bored and the wicked rich don't know that Excuse me, you poor man, let's skip this town Who me? Oh man, was that out loud ? Ow ... Whoa, I'm on my own here You know, the devil may care You make this groovy, you make me laugh You make me woozy, a wet doormat It wasn't like that You nature lover, you country punk You bowl me over, and I'm not that drunk You're one in a million, you're one in two You're not like women, and I'm not like you I'm not like you, I'm not like you Your spell is broken but I'm still here Your mouth is open, guess I don't care You make this groovy, you make me laugh You make me woozy, a wet doormat You're one in a million, you're one in two You're not like women, and I'm not like you I'm not like you, I'm not like you Aching for you Chinese food and your sleeping back We're born-again losers It's funny Honey, you know, this is not so bad Hanging around, wired for sound

It's funny and sad and it's true I'm aching, aching for you We carry an island around on our backs We're born-again vagrants It's funny And we ask for nothing whenever we land Meanwhile, we got something, isn't that something ? It's funny and sad and it's true I'm aching, aching for you Wailing in the garage Breaking all the rulez and I don't need you You know you're truly bizarre You're changing all the rules and I don't need you But I want you bad We're all I ever had Love is a needle, goes all the way down I'm always surprised It's funny So shoot me a roll of your best paradise It's so pretty I just want to die It's funny and sad and it's true I'm aching, aching for you It's funny and sad and it's true I'm aching, aching for you Cold water coming That filthy stare He's on a tear Cold water coming for the warm water junkies I found a friend

Lost him again Poor sucker freaked, and couldn't swim with the monkeys Away, away, gone away Away to your still house In your still house You fall into icy blue Cold water That goofy gait He never waits Cold water coming For the lovers of nothing Away, away, gone away Away to your still house In your still house You fall into icy blue Cold water Some catch flies When he stares, it's like he's splitting hairs I'm a wreck when he's here, I swear Fill a glass up with shiny tacks I'm feeling sharp I am numb, I am numb, I am numb, I And when he drools it's like he's spitting jewel I'm alone when he's here, I am What a dumb-ass thing to say Plus I'm not ashamed Nobody's here I am clean, I am clean, I am clean, I He's my God, tangle till we're old

He's my distraction, and how Simple gold and no one has to know It's hectic as hell I play dumb, I play dumb, I play dumb, I A sideways look, a lighter in the dark You make it good, you do Some catch flies, some kill them till they die I just stare I do love, I do love, I do love you I do love, I do love, I do love you. Stained I guess you heard, hell you're so weird Like a spider, always here You never stay, hell you're so strange You let me drown in my own wave I'm stained, never change, never change, Stained under my nails and down my back You know the sleaziest attacks You stay, never change, never change Use me I get stronger I get weaker when you treat me like a queen You have nerves of steel, you're just like me Two spiders hanging from one tree We're sunny now, us lucky things We're smiling down one endless day I'm stained, never change, never change, Stained under my clouds and down my back You know the sleaziest attacks You stay, never change, never change Use me I get stronger

I get weaker when you treat me like a queen I never asked them in Ask me have I been trying I been I guess we just won't ever sleep again I don't forget We look much better now for all this I guess we just won't ever drink again I guess we just won't ever drink again Shake I like you when I'm in the mood As the crow flies I go too Silver slivers in your eyes make it worth every lie I ever told, they turn to gold They kept me They kept me here on this battlefield I find out what you're all about, when I think to look around I feel my toes curl half-way around the world I'm sorry now There's magic here and magic's weird Look, this is you Head in the clouds, feet underground, And when you shake the dogs howl I'm gonna live forever Head in the clouds, feet underground, And when you shake the dogs howl I'm gonna live forever Strange angels made this planet glow, then kicked us out I keep my nails dug into my half of the rug I'm sorry now, I'm sorry now You don't know how, look, this is you

Head in the clouds, feet underground, And when you shake the dogs howl I'm gonna live forever Head underground, we'll hang around, And when we shake the earth moves We're gonna live forever Hope I know I don't want you, I know I don't want you, I feel broken, I feel broken and miles away Let the brain bells ring again Let the angels sing again Drain the bottle, drink you in I won't stop till your mother brings you home Nobody's muscle can break your bone Nobody's thirst can take your tears Where do I live when you disappear Oh no not again I'm the airstrip where you land Take me to the promised land This is all I understand I broke me, I can break you too Nobody tells me what to do I saw hope in my backyard Nobody told me this would be so hard Not again I know I don't want you, I know I don't want you, I feel broken, I feel broken and miles away Pale Before I go to you I never wash my neck 'Cause when the music starts it goes straight to your head And I break out in pale

I break out in pale You better bring your fork and knife 'Till we see eye to eye 'Cause I'd rather stuff your face than hear another lie Learn to sit still, learn to stay I'm as hopped-up with the up and down as you're slow on the uptake Under the words is what you heard Wait right here for me's exactly what he said 'Course I'm too busy sitting down There are fishes that are stronger than my legs Can't wait to drown You'd better bring your fucking knife 'Till we see eye to eye 'Cause I'd rather cut your buttons off than be caught in a lie Before I come to you I never wash my lips 'Cause when the music starts it goes straight to my hips And I break out in pale, I break out in pale Baseball field Lovely empty baseball field Just one of the places to sun Like a hot pink kite with no string Heads rolling You make heads roll Whistle the day away Whistle one day away You make headway Drift 'till the stuff that you're breathing seems like air You go back there Lovely empty baseball field Just one of the places to set your lawn chair Like a hummingbird with no wings Heads rolling You have time and baby oil shine Whisper the day away Whisper one day away

You make headway Drift 'till a piece of a place nests in your hair You go back there Talking at the radio Just one of the places to shoot off you mouth Like a hot summer dog on a lawn Here today, never gone Drift today away Drift one day away You make headway Heaven In the race but out of step You struggle to hold up your head Like a river you fight your own bed I'm needing backyard sanctuary I'm on breaktime Where the sissies hang Looking for oil in the sand Like a river you gouge out the land Like a drummer who fights the wrong band I'm needing backyard sanctuary I'm on breaktime Where the sissies hang This is heaven, this is heaven, this is heaven Where the sissies hang A hot shower on a hot day Water hangs in the air like you stayed Like you never went down your own drain I'm doing rain and hurricane I am airborne

Where the kisses fly This is heaven, this is heaven And all my friends are there in heaven This is heaven And all my friends are there in heaven This heaven, this heaven Where the sissies hang Gazebo tree That sky is a-shine with sheen Those eyes are a green machine Spare me your whining In my rainy gazebo tree Deep in my silver pit The walls are all thick with it My, but you slay me In my rainy gazebo tree Bless my baby eyes Don't you know Jesus died ? I'm better off inside Strip and you lose your hide What's in that thermos man? Your female's a garbage can So you haven't filled her up Ok try to fill my cup It's moonshine from cactus Well, I guess it can't wreck us Bless my baby eyes Don't you know Jesus died ? I'm better off inside Strip and you lose your hide

Bless my baby eyes Don't you know Jesus died ? Spare me your moon shining In my rainy gazebo tree In my rainy gazebo tree In my rainy gazebo tree Gut pageant That fine fever brought us here Lambasted eyeballs When we kiss the dirt The orchids laugh What a gut pageant We could play for hours What a gut pageant Meat for the flowers You break out of a paper bag And wake up on the street Just kidding You don't have to go I asked him why the grass is blue And stray boys don't go home Why four a.m's so screwy He says " Sleep through it " What a gut pageant We could play for hours What a gut pageant Meat for the flowers Not too special not too strange Just the way I like 'em

You find an empty promise and stick by it Not too pretty, not too sweet Just the way I like you When you kiss the dirt The orchids laugh, harder than me Tell me another one I could sit for hours When anyone laughs I know I'm a coward What a gut pageant We could play for hours When we kiss the dirt The orchids laugh, harder than me. Rock candy brains Must've been on mushrooms when you wrote that pile of junk Got rock candy brains and that head of yours Full of holes, full of holes Terry cloth's about the only comfort I'm allowed What with all the rain and this house of yours Full of holes, full of holes I'm about through being your plaything I'm about through being your gin I'm about through being your water Do you want to spend another night under the porch ? We could light a candle and this rotten wood Up in flames, up in flames Your orange fingers are glowing hot I think your sneaker's on fire Up in flames, up in flames

I'm about through being your plaything I'm about through being your gin I'm about through being your water One breath after lights out The rest under night's spell Cartoons This war's Ok In a sweet old fashioned way Like a game we play Guilty of something we forgot I wasn't staring I was just looking far away Dazzled by something I forgot Here, drink this down we've been here way to long Acting this way is a craft I'll shut up soon then we'll go home Covered in band aids and casts

Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight Down in the Willow Garden Down in the willow garden Where me and my love did meet There we sat a courtin' My love dropped off to sleep I drank a bottle of burgundy wine My love she did not know And there I poisoned that dear little girl Under the flank below I stabbed her with my dagger An ugly bloody knife I threw her into the river An ugly bloody sight My father up and told me That money would set me free If I would murder thar deal little girl Whose name was Rose Connelly And now he sits by the window Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes And now he waits for his own dear son Upon the scaffold high My race is run, beneath the sun Hell is waiting for me For I did murder that dear little girl Whose name was Rose Connelly I Never Will Marry One day as I rambled down by the seashore The wind it did whistle and the water did roar I heard a young girl make a pitiful sound As she closed her pretty blue eyes In the water to drown

I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife I will live single all the day's of my life The shells in the ocean will be my deathbed The fish in deep water swim over my head My love's gone and left me He's the one I adore He's gone and I never shall see him anymore She plunged her dear body in the water so deep She closed her pretty blue eyes in the water to sleep I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife I will live single all the day's of my life The shells in the ocean will be my deathbed The fish in deep water swim over my head Sweet Roseanne Sweet Rosey-anne, sweet Rosey-anne Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna I thought I heard my baby say, I won't be home tomorrow Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, I won't be home tomorrow Sweet Rosey-anne my darling child Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna Sweet Rosey-anne my darling child I won't be home tomorrow Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, I won't be home tomorrow I'm going away, but not to stay Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna I'll be gone but not for long I won't be home tomorrow Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna

Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, I won't be home tomorrow Sweet Rosey-anne, sweet Rosey-anne Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna Sweet Rosey-anne, sweet Rosey-anne I won't be home tomorrow Poor Ellen Smith Come all you kind people, my story to hear What happened to me in June of this year It was poor Ellen Smith And how she was found with a ball in her heart Lying cold on the ground If I could go home, home to stay On poor Ellen's grave, some flowers I would lay It was poor Ellen Smith And how she was found with a ball in her heart Lying cold on the ground I come back this winter, my trial to stand To live or to die as the law may command It was poor Ellen Smith And how she was found with a ball in her heart Lying cold on the ground It's true I'm in jail, I'm a prisoner now But God is here with me and hears ever vow It was poor Ellen Smith And how she was found with a ball in her heart Lying cold on the ground Pretty Polly Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me Before we get married some pleasure to see She got up behind him and away they did go She got up behind him and away they did go Over the hills to the valley so low

They went up a little farther and what did they spy? They went up a little farther and what did they spy? A newly dug grave with a spade lying by He stabbed her through the heart Her heart's blood it did flow He stabbed her through the heart Her heart's blood it did flow And into the grave pretty Polly did go He threw something over her and turned to go home He threw something over her and turned to go home With nothing behind him but the girl there to mourn Little Birdy Little birdy, little birdy What makes you fly so high? It's because I am a birdy And I'm not afraid to die Little birdy, little birdy Come sing me your song I've a short time to be here with you And a long time, to be gone Little birdy, little birdy What makes your wing so blue? It's because I've been a-grievin' Grievin' after you Little birdy, little birdy Come sing me your song I've a short time to be here with you And a long time, to be gone Little birdy, little birdy What makes your head so red? After all that I have been through It's a wonder I ain't dead

Little birdy, little birdy Come sing me your song I've a short time to be here with you And a long time, to be gone Mama's Gonna Buy Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog Put it in his lap when she goes off Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey Go to sleep and don't you cry Mama's gonna make you an apple pie Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey I'm gonna buy you a little lapdog I'm gonna buy you a little lapdog I'm gonna buy you a little lapdog Put it in your lap when I go off Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey Go to sleep and don't you cry I'm gonna make you an apple pie Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey Fly Around My Blue Eyed Girl Fly around my blue-eyed girl Fly around my Daisy Fly around my blue-eyed girl You almost run me crazy If you get there before I do,

Tell her if you please Before she goes to make her bread Roll up her dirty sleeves Fly around my blue-eyed girl Fly around my Daisy Fly around my blue-eyed girl You almost run me crazy I wish I had some pretty little gal To tell my secrets to To heck with all deceitful gals Tell everything I do Fly around my blue-eyed girl Fly around my Daisy Fly around my blue-eyed girl You almost run me crazy Fly around my blue-eyed girl Fly around my Daisy Fly around my blue-eyed girl You almost run me crazy Banks of the Ohio My love asked me, to take a walk Just to walk, a little way And as we walked along we talked Of when would be our wedding day We walked beneath the whispering pines His heart was filled with love divine And as we neared the riverside He asked me when I'd be his bride Oh no your bride, I'll never be Another one's prepared for me And as I drew my hand from his His heart was filled with fire divine He drew his knife across my breast And in his arms I gently pressed Willy dear, don't murder me For I am not prepared to die

He took me by my golden curls He drug me down to the riverside And as he threw me into drown He watched me as I floated down He started home 'tween twelve and one Thinking on the deed he'd done Murdered just the one he loved Because I would not be his bride Three Nights Drunk [One, two , three!] The first night that I come home So drunk I could not see Found a horse in my stable Where my horse oughta be Come here my little wifey Explain this thing to me How come a horse in the stable Where my horse oughta be? You blind fool, you crazy fool Can't you never see? It's only a milkcow You're granny sent to me I've traveled this world over Ten thousand miles or more But a saddle upon a milkcow's back I never did see before The second night that I come home So drunk I could not see Found a coat a-hanging on the rack Where my coat oughta be Come here my little wifey Explain this thing to me How come a coat a hanging a hanging on the rack Where my coat oughta be?

You blind fool, you crazy fool Can't you never see? It's only a bedquilt You're granny sent to me I've traveled this world over Ten thousand miles or more Pockets upon a bedquilt I never did see before The third night that I come home So drunk I could not see Found a head a-laying on the pillow Where my head oughta be Come here my little wifey Explain this thing to me How come a head a-laying on the pillow Where my head oughta be? You blind fool, you crazy fool Can't you never see? It's only a cabbage head You're granny sent to me I've traveled this world over Ten thousand miles or more But a moustache on a cabbage head I never did see before What'll We Do With the Baby-o What'll we do with the baby? What'll we do with the baby-o? Send him off to his mammy That's what we do with the baby-o That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o Every time the baby cries Stick my finger in the babies eyes That's what we do with the baby

That's what we do with the baby-o Every time he starts to grin Give the baby a bottle of gin That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o What'll we do with the baby? What'll we do with the baby-o? Send him off to his mammy That's what we do with the baby-o That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o Throw him up in the old treetop The wind will blow and the cradle will rock That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o Wrap him up in a tablecloth Throw him up in the old hayloft That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o What'll we do with the baby? What'll we do with the baby-o? Send him off to his mammy That's what we do with the baby-o That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o Whole Heap of Little Horses Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleep little baby When you wake, right away On the pretty little horses Black and bay

Sorrel and gray Whole heap of little horses Black and gray Sorrel and bay Whole heap of little horses Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleep little baby

Sky Motel Echo White label on the backseat Glows an artificial green I crave a midnight something I crave and something hunts me down I'm scaring everybody I'm wearing everybody down White label on the backseat And something bends me over, down I crave an empty lifestyle I crave the very loudest sound I'm chasing everybody I'm shaking everybody down Do you hear the loudest sound? And you and me in the echo? White label on the backseat And something warm across my lap I never bitched at anyone I never asked for my heart back I'm loving everybody And hating everyone I see Do you still remember me? Floating out on the echo White Trash Moon The neighbors dog won't let you sleep Try not to stare at the neighbors hair Out of the chaos, my us and your daddy's fingernail Your mama's here and your daddy's hot So hush-a-bye, baby don't you cry

Out of the chaos, my us and your little fontanelle Ten thousand miles of moonscape Don't keep anybody away after all Close to the source, on a white trash moon Under the horny sun of July The neighbors gun won't let you sleep Try not to stare at their underwear Out of the chaos, my us and the coyote's lonely wail Ten thousand miles of moonscape Don't keep anybody away after all Close to the source, on a white trash moon Under the horny sun of July Fog Walk a mile, then walk another mile When you hit the fog rehearse your smile Underground, it's quiet underground Rolling in like thunder makes no sound Peace of mind and empty all the time Like sand under the snow, I make you mine Costa Rica Eyes in the back of your head Ear to the ground Love in the back of your mind We're on a hill, stay very still I would love a better drug You lucky jerk I'm so unsettled I'm superstitious You're so rattled you're suspicious You lucky jerk You left your lion on a beach in Costa Rica It wasn't tame I caught us kissing on a plane in California It wasn't tame, but just the same

I would love a better drug You lucky jerk A Cleaner Light A high That's a swell take on this situation I was trying to rectify I was trying to skip out on this high Keep away from the freaks on the fringe They only talk to you 'Cause you give them a good excuse to cry But in a cleaner light, it's ok In a cleaner light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok This strange old sunshine beats me senseless But it's supposed to be keeping me healthy It's a lie You're a strange old thing that keeps me senseless But you're supposed to be keeping me company But in a cleaner light, it's ok In a cleaner light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok I wake up feeling fragile It's nothing the TV couldn't cure Or lying here for my whole life But in a cleaner light, it's ok In a cleaner light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok

They only talk to you 'cause you're there San Francisco Breakfast at the movies Gatorade and blackjack on the bed God bless the ugly Cheap champagne and blackjack on the bed I was born in America, born with the fists of a saint Way out of range Breakfast in the hallway Pistachios and cocktails on the roof God bless the hard way You're the only easy substitute I was born in America, born with the fists of a cowboy Home on the range Cathedral Heat Arrest the boy Warm between the eyes As he jackknifes into winter Stung like a cutthroat trout in the cathedral heat Sick as a dog, shaking like a leaf You have to look close to see what this disease has done to me Arrest the boy The hayseed with the song in his heart As he writhes through the winter Stung like a cutthroat trout in the cathedral heat Sick as a dog, shaking like a leaf You have to look close to see what this disease has done to me You go whole hog when you like someone I go apeshit when you forget me Well, I forget what it's like to be kissing in the middle of a terrible dream

I forget what it's like to be kissing in the middle of a terrible storm What a terrible thing To be kissing the middle of you Husk Terrible wine Set you free Damn slap-happy sleep C'mon out, c'mon out Oh mercy, mercy me Terrible wine Draws ou out Damn slap-happy in the dugout C'mon down, c'mon down Oh mercy, mercy me And when you're smoke, how do you speak? Smoke signals? Write on trees? C'mon out, c'mon out Write with me Caffeine The best of us puking The rest of us not doing so well You can tell by the way we look over your shoulder Watching for the next big thing Caffeine in the blood, caffeine on the brain, bad well water Set off a chain reaction, a desparate set of principles I wish we were lonely I wish we were boring It's so much easier You're driving and I am your backseat shadow The radio keeps playing The radio keeps saying "Nothing lost and nothing gained" But if you don't like it then leave

What if you won't take it from me? I can soothe you I feel your heart beating I hear your soft breathing Spring Nothing like chrome when it shines No better weather to drive If you squint you can see it If you limp you can reach it All I want is Spring All I want is you, smiling All I want is green All I want is you, smiling Faithful to the finish, I'm grateful to be in this with you A fucker of a lifeline A mother of a lifetime with you Clay Feet This is no time to fuck up Scooting around the linoleum On all fours, what for again? Better yourself for somebody else This is no time to wrestle You're gonna burst a blood vessel What for again? We could be falling in love, like nobody else Tonight your dream is safe with me Tomorrow we wake up in L.A. This is no time to make love Rolling around the linoleum We fall and we'll fall again Better yourself than somebody else Walking out on clay feet Walking out the long way What are you gonna say?

What the hell are you gonna say? Tonight your secret's safe with me Tomorrow we wake up in L.A. Such a lovely dream What a lovely place Faith Was it me, or the cold? Made you give up hope Made you lose your faith in the afterlife And all she made Was it me, or the heat? Made you not believe Made you lose your faith in the afterlife and all that breathes

Sunny Border Blue Your dirty answer You know how it feels when the real world encroaches Rubbing elbows with the unemployed and you You're so beautiful You're so rude Peeling mangos on a fold out couch I'm scooped out You're inscrutable You're all mine Swimming is a 'lude Wine opens your mind Your guitar's a race car Sex is your best friend What's your dirty answer? My fantasies are unloved histories You know what it's like when mistakes go unmade It was beautiful It was you I'm giving up the ugly I thought you'd make pretty I'll be goddamned This is beautiful Hold my hand Swimming is a 'lude Wine opens your mind Your guitar's a race car Sex is your best friend What's your dirty answer ? I don't judge people

I just watch them 'til it's time to look away I want to look away now Somebody's coming I don't want to look backwards, I don't want to even look backwards It's not my fault It's not my fault you don't love me It's not my fault you don't love me When I'm drunk I'm wiped I'm so tired Carry me for a little while Spain Four days in Spain Smoky Spain And I take off again Then I take off again, smiling back The engine is idling And the car seems to be expanding Weird Blindfolded kissing Looking for the truth in your tiny moves I hate to loose Four days in Spain Spooky Spain And you're my missing thing: Too sweet and pointless Complete and somewhere else I was sick of being asked I didn't want to to anyways

Sucking down mother's milk Singing my throat away It's not an awful secret, you know It's just a secret Spitting out your blue gum Kissing your breath away I wanted you to sleep with her and Hate yourself instead of me I wanted you untrue, Hating yourself like me After all, what am I missing I haven't missed before, Sucking down the precious lies I should have swallowed way before? 37 Hours By now, I should know where you're going By now I should but I don't You're better off wherever you are off to Agile or stoned By now, I should wake you when I'm hungry Right now I should but I'm not We could be a silkworm tightrope We could but we're not I don't want this to be over You're what I do Every day the only thing That makes any sense Your liver twisting logic's Far and away the smartest thing I don't know where I am

Plus I don't know when I am 'Cause you insist on using fucked up military time 'Cause you are better off alone I've been right here for 37 hours I dropped a cigarette in my shoe And dove in the water Then I swam until my hair dreaded Like flying on fire That day I quit smoking and swimming I heard some advice from above Ducking under cramming it in Isn't falling in love I don't want this to be over You're what I do Everyday the only thing That makes any sense Your lover twister logic Far and away the smartest thing I don't know where I am Plus I don't know when I am 'Cause you insist on using fucked up military time 'Cause you are better off alone I've been right here for 37 hours Silica Let the ache out Spread it around You want to fly him in You want him Play a grownup

'Til you grow up If you could you would I swallowed some bad voodoo Caught it in the gut Wish you were here Wish I was not You hear someone wanting you How can I fume Then be bursting with kindness? A gracious cocoon in the shadows We're in good company Us lefty Lucy's Play a grownup 'Til you grow up If you could you would This is a touch prayer Praying for you Wish you were here Wish I was too Come see how okay we are Come see how okay we can be Picture her Silica Lifting her shirt to the sun Cherry neck sea Easy now William's cut It was all passion misunderstood

All passion mislaid I'm on a mission by mistake And I hate it I lost every friend I ever made But I like it too much I like it too much I like it And junkie hearts are broken How many times can you get fucked in How many different ways To separate the good guys from disaster And it's even sadder I lost every hope I ever had Cause i like it too much I like it too much I like it And junkie hearts are broken Sand stings your face and I want you back Your shell Starts to crack Fits you like a glove Sand stings your face and I want you back Your heart's Out of whack It's you under a spell Under a spell for a change It's you Under a spell for a change It's you Under a spell for a change

Summer Salt Let's back up and act like we're sober Newborn clean Head over heals for a cold blooded creature Limbic somersaults For a toxic thing you sure smell pretty Summer, salt and wine For an ugly boy you sure look pretty A cowboy frankenstein I dreamt you were playing along I dreamt you were playing along I dreamt you were playing along In your dreams When it's touch and go you blow your wad Like no one ever fails For a quiet boy you sure talk dirty A velvet bed of nails I dreamt you were playing along I dreamt you were playing along I dreamt you were playing along In your dreams While I did nfity somersaults You were thinking after all After it all I don't have to talk I don't have to talk But when I do and this is true There's nothing I won't say Trouble

( Cat Stevens ) Trouble Oh trouble set me free I have seen your face And it's too much too much for me Trouble Oh trouble can't you see You're eating my heart away And there's nothing much left of me I've drunk your wine You have made your world mine So won't you be fair So won't you be fair I don't want no more of you So won't you be kind to me Just let me go where I'll have to go there Trouble Oh trouble move away I have seen your face And it's too much for me today Trouble Oh trouble can't you see You have made me a wreck Now won't you leave me in my misery I've seen your eyes And I can see death's disguise Hangin' on me Hangin' on me I'm beat, I'm torn

Shattered and tossed and worn Too shocking to see Too shocking to see Trouble Oh trouble move from me I have paid my debt Now won't you leave me in my misery Trouble Oh trouble please be kind I don't want no fight And I haven't got a lot of time Candyland I Lost a boy And now I look for him Through every window And behind every door My son went down This isn't trauma It's not even drama anymore I was born With a sad song in my mouth He gave me a reason to sing it It's like this boy Took all my clear cold nights Left me hot and dry And when he falls I can't hear it This isnt vodka It's not even chocolate I don't know how long I can stay straight And still see straight

He gave me a reason to say it Don't wait for pain To find out you exist Don't look for shame Your better off without it Life is unkind This isn't candyland I know you don't understand So nice not to be ashamed So nice not to be creeped out Ice is unkind 'Till it freezes your enemies Life is unkind 'Till it burns up your memories Life is unkind He gave me a reason To live it Measure Do you have a face I can measure the day by How alive? White Suckers We were awake together all night long Sharing paraphernalia 'till dawn You didn't dissapoint me Not at all You never disappoint me You lubricate the morning Shining and yawning You were nice but twisted the same old story

We were a match made in purgatory You didn't disappoint me Totally You never disappoint me You animate the morning Shining and yawning You come off like a distant moth Aimless and driven Yet you seem to be living it up Walking around in your busted shoes Like you've got nothing better to do I don't like I was I don't know what I've become But shaken out of my pallour I'm filled up You didn't disappoint me Not once You never disappoint me you mutilate the morning Shining and yawning You run by like a spazzing fly Shameless and smiling Yeah, you seem to be living it up Driving around in your souped-up jeep Like you've got somewhere better to be Ruby Everybody was so pretty there And up and jumping around And easy it's easy to sleep With idiots and prophets Leaves me wondering Ruby or iridescent cough drop?

This baby's like a winter bird, raunchy and sweet With snowflakes melting in his hair The boys are supermen Wondering Ruby or iridescent cough drop? You're the great convincer, should I do this, am I good? You can smell a fever, shold I do this, am I good? Let's dive All the way down The two of us are old paint, My grandmother's horse Still alive, still kicking, not allowed to work 'Til we become beauty A fluid medium Flipside There's always drooling zombies Or at least on dick I'm having trouble focusing 'Cause all I see in front of me is You when we're finally alone He was the bone king Dead to all the world Maybe dead's like being Really high without th low But I enjoy hangovers here I could see them on the flipside of a molecule But I have all the energy I can take for now

Holy floating We're holy floating Holy shit I think I'd rather be on the ground than flying We're still fucking up in a healthy way for now How dare you save my life Then try to break my heart You make alone so goddamn lonely Makes me want to fall in love with Everything and float above the ground These days I do the same thing Commit the same damn crime If I'm not feeling out the flipside Maybe I'm supposed to be here, Maybe you're supposed to be here too I could see them on the flipside of a molecule But I have all the energy I can take for now Holy floating We're holy floating Holy shit I think I'd rather be on the ground than flying We're still fucking up in a healthy way for now And my feet dont touch the ground Listerine Listerine covers your tracks Doesn't do shit for the facts I'm lying on the couch Scary memories fill my mouth How did I love a breaking thing? How did I sleep through a kidnapping?

How'd I trust a band who'd leave me one by one? I only wanted the spark I only wanted your hearts It's hard It's hard and stupid I'm the one who let you do it I only wanted the high Wasn't much more to my life I couldn't wait to come down There's nothing here but the ground

Unreleased Tracks The Key Lightning and foam make a pelican fly Copper and snow make a dusky blue boy Your hair looks like copper Your eyes look the same We dance all night We dance all night You don't inspire a metric ton of trust 'Cause I'm on fire and so is all my stuff And we dance all night And we dance all night Lightning and foam make a pelican fly Copper and snow make a dusky blue boy Your hair looks like copper Your eyes look the same We dance all night We dance all night If I lived in a pumpkin shell I'd have the key And if I had a daughter She'd look a lot like me And we dance all night (dance all night) And we dance all night And we dance all night (dance all night) And we dance all night And we dance all night (dance all night)

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Uncle June And Aunt Kiyoti Lying all night, screaming in pain Defending the cross in the Belfast rain The billy saw me at the end of the street So I lit up my torch and embraced him with heat Town of Aintab in 340 A.D. Threw me in a quarry, no way to get free I called on Hate to give me my life And he came on his black horse, obsidian knife Happened one night, I was lying in bed Eyes wide open, I could have been dead The sky lady came with her eyes shining bright And the bears and the billies and the bullies took flight But I called them all back And the sky lady too The bears and the billies and the bullies Me and you We laid down our bombs and bows And drank to their health on the Anatolian plateau From New Scotland to Calgary The geese are high and so are we We don't even need a map We're way too fast for the highway trap

So hit the road and shine a light I think we're gonna find the path tonight Shooting star and the moon is bad It's the best damn omen that we ever had When The Levee Breaks ( Led zeppelin Cover ) If it keeps on raining the levee's gotta break If it keeps on raining the levee's gotta break And if the levee breaks I got no place to stay Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan X2 Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home, All last night sat on the levee and moaned, All last night sat on the levee and moaned, Thinkin' 'bout me baby and my happy home. Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good 'Cause when the levee breaks, you got to move Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan X4 Jesus Christ Angels from the realms of glory Stars shone bright above Royal David's city Was bathed in light and glow Jesus Christ was born today Jesus Christ was born Jesus Christ was born today

Jesus Christ was born And all they did rejoice Fine and pure of voice And the wrong shall fail And the right prevail Jesus Christ was born today, Jesus Christ was born X5 Amazing Grace Amazing Grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I was once lost But now am found Was blind but now I see 'Tis Grace that taught My heart to fear And Grace my fears relieved Now precious dear That Grace appear The hour I first believed Through many dangers Toils and snares I have already come 'Tis Grace has brought Me safe this far And Grace will lead me home When we've been there Ten thousand years Bright shining as a sun

We've no less days To sing God's praise Than when we first begun Amazing Grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I was once lost But now am found Was blind but now I see Sinkhole Well it's sundown in the sinkhole, It's sunrise up on the hill. The thieves are sleeping in Hades palm, And they're keeping very still. It's summer in Winterhaven, And the earth, she's caving in. There's no water on the land, And it's all because of sin. Mae Rose Owens lost her bedroom When the porches all fell in. Guy LaGuarde kissed his yard goodbye And it's all because of sin. No one must be told About this thieving in the night, Satan stole the landscape, It was gone with the morning light. It's sundown in the sinkhole, It's sunrise up on the hill. The thieves are sleeping in Hades palm, And they're keeping very still. It's summer in Winterhaven,

And the earth, she's caving in. There's no water on the land, And it's all because of sin. Seven recreational vehicles buried underground. Seven cranes went after them, Six could not be found. A Porsche and half a swimming pool Are lost I am afeared. The seventh crane approached the hole, Then it disappeared. It's sundown in the sinkhole, It's sunrise up on the hill. The thieves are sleeping in Hades palm, And they're keeping very still. It's summer in Winterhaven, And the earth, she's caving in. There's no water on the land, And it's all because of sin. St. Augustine in his slumber, Feels the depths of his own soul. St. Bernadette in her vision, Feels her body beyond control. The flowers of Narcissus, Are nailed to the underworld door, And Hades has the medicine, And he keeps down on the floor. It's sundown in the sinkhole, It's sunrise up on the hill. The thieves are sleeping in Hades palm, And they're keeping very still. It's summer in Winterhaven, And the earth, she's caving in. There's no water on the land, And it's all because of sin.

Can The Circle Be Unbroken (One, two) I was standing By the window On a dark and cloudy day When I saw the Hearse come rolling For to take my mother away Can the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by There's a better home awaiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky Lord, I told the Undertaker, "Undertaker, Please drive slow For the body you are taking Lord, I hate to see her go" Can the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by There's a better home awaiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky I followed Close behind her Tried to hold up and be brave But I could not Hide my sorrow When they laid her in the grave Can the circle be unbroken

By and by, Lord, by and by There's a better home awaiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky Can the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by There's a better home awaiting... Panic Pure ( Vic Chesnutt Cover ) My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler High up to the darkest sky Some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never ever be able to repeat At times I might could be accused of being Painfully nostalgic But as of late I'm looking forward to the future Though I've never been much of a planner Throwing caution into the fan Catch as catch as those catchers can And so all you observers in your scrutiny Don't count my scars like tree rings My jigsaw disposition, its piecemeal properties Are either smoked or honey cured By the panic pure Yeah, yeah By the panic pure Pennyroyal tea ( Nirvana Cover ) I'm on my time with everyone I have very bad posture

Sit and drink pennyroyal tea Distill the life that's inside of me Sit and drink pennyroyal tea I'm anemic royalty Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld So I can sigh eternally I'm so tired I can't sleep I'm a liar and a thief Sit and drink pennyroyal tea I'm anemic royalty I'm on warm milk and laxative Cherry-flavored antacids Sit and drink pennyroyal tea Distill the life that's inside of me Sit and drink pennyroyal tea I'm anemic royalty Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey ( The Beatles Cover ) Come on come on come on come on Come on is such a joy Come on is such a joy Come on and take it easy Come on and take it easy Take it easy take it easy Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey The deeper you go the higher you fly The higher you fly the deeper you go So come on come on Come on is such a joy Come on is such a joy Come on and make it easy Come on let's make it easy

Make it easy take it easy Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey Your inside is out and your outside is in Your outside is in and your inside is out So come on come on Come on is such a joy Come on is such a joy Come on let's make it easy Come on let's make it easy Take it easy take it easy Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey