Don't know if I saw you, if I would kiss you or kill you; It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow
I'll see you later when I'm not so out of my head,; Maybe next time I'll let the dead bury the dead.
The party's over, and there's less and less to say
If your mem'ry serves you well,; You'll remember you're the one; That called on me to call on them; To get you your favors done.
Well, the road is rocky and the hillside's mud; Up over my head nothing but clouds of blood
Wealth is a filthy rag; So erotic so unpatriotic; So wrapped up in the American flag
Then she says, "I know you're an artist, draw a picture of me!"; I say, "I would if I could, but, ; I don't do sketches from memory."
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
Sooner or later, one of us must know; That I really did try to get close to you
The sun's not yellow it's chicken
Well I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink; Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think
And you, you took me in,; You loved me then; You didn't waste time.
There's always some new stranger sneakin' glances,; Some trigger-happy fool willin' to take chances
I'll give you more gold; Than your apron can hold; If you'll only let your hair hang low
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
They say you're usin' voodoo, I seen your feet walk by themselves
We grew up together; From the cradle to the grave; We died and were reborn; And then mysteriously saved.
Well, you're so bad and nasty; But I love you, yes I do
Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody
People on the platforms; Waiting for the trains; I can hear their hearts a-beatin'; Like pendulums swinging on chains
As his youth now unfolds; He is centuries old; Just to see him at play makes me smile; No matter what happens to me; No matter what my destiny; Lord, protect my child
Don't you cry and don't you die and don't you burn
A saxophone someplace far off played
Junk is piling up, taking up space
Twenty years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift
I'm in a cowboy band
I still got my voice left, I can take it anywhere I go
When we meet again; Introduced as friends; Please don't let on that you knew me when; I was hungry and it was your world.
The night passed away so quickly; It always does when you're with me.
She says, "What'll it be?"; I say, "I don't know, you got any soft boiled eggs?"
she's true, like ice, like fire
The country music station plays soft; but there's nothing, really nothing, to turn off
Your magnetic movements; Still capture the minutes I'm in.
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, remind me to show you the, scars.
They tell me everything is gonna be all right; But I don't know what "all right" even means
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
You don't need a weather man; To know which way the wind blows
How did I meet you? I don't know.
Don't trust me to show you beauty; When beauty may only turn to rust.
But I mean no harm nor put fault, On anyone that lives in a vault, But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
He said, Are you lookin' for somethin' easy to catch?; I said, I got no money. He said, That ain't necessary.
Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.
The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you have to explode.
Gonna take dancing lessons do the jitterbug rag; Ain't no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag; Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove
No knife could ever cut our love apart
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,; Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
Did I miss the mark or; Over-step the line; That only you could see?
When there is no more,; You cut to the core; Quicker than anyone I knew.
Oh, ev'ry thought that's strung a knot in my mind,; I might go insane if it couldn't be sprung.
Well, they're not showing any lights tonight; And there's no moon.
Now, when I was just a bawlin' child,; I saw what I wanted to be
Not one more night, not one more kiss,; Not this time baby, no more of this,; Takes too much skill, takes too much will,; It's revealing.
Well, he can be fascinating, he can be dull,; He can ride down Niagara Falls in the barrels of your skull.
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Put your body next to mine; And keep me company,; There is plenty a room for all,; So please don't elbow me.
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore; You may not see me tomorrow.
Shall I hold you close?; Or Shall I let you go by?; Tell me.; Tell me.
