Amen

You’re mothers’ childbut night lays you downhair aflame, wile look in your eyeNaked belly to the groundA forest fireNibbles at your veinsCrawls up your armruns away with your mindAnd burns dry thoughts like leavesAmenEyes stare upbut something’s in the wayIn the Bible only angels have wingsAnd the rest must wait […]


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Painters

Eighty years, an old lady now, sitting on the front porchWatching the clouds roll byThey remind her of her lover, how he left her, and of times long ago.When she used to color carelessly painted his portraitA thousand times-or maybe just his smile-And she and her canvas would follow him […]


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Break Me

I will meet youIn some placeWhere the light lends itselfTo soft reposeI will let you undress meBut I warn youI have thornsLike any roseAnd you could hurt meWith your bare handsYou could hurt meWith with the sharp endOf what you sayBut I’m lost to you nowAnd there’s noAmount of reasonThat […]


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Deep Water

You find yourself falling downYour hopes in the skyBut your heart like grape gum on the groundAnd you try to find yourselfIn the abstractions of religionAnd the cruelty of everyone elseAnd you wake up to realizeYour standard of living somehow got stuck on survive When you’re standing in deep waterAnd […]


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Everybody Needs Someone Sometime

Mary heard boys talking in voices low Said she weren’t no spring chicken Like she didn’t already know So she called up Jack from a few years back She turned him down once in his one room shack She said "Now baby, you don’t look that bad" [CHORUS:]Cuz everybody needs […]


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Adrian

Adrian came home again last summerThings just haven’t been the same around herePeople talk, and people stareOh Adrian, come out and play An unforunate accident in a canoeDr. said "i’m sorry not much i can do’The air was so still, his eyes did not blinkOh Adrian, come out and play […]


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Jupiter

Venus de Milo in her half-baked shellUnderstood the nature of love very wellShe said, "A good love is delicious,You can’t get enough too soon.It makes you so crazy you want to swallow themoon."Oh, oh JupiterOh, oh be still my little heartOh, oh love is a flame neither timid nor tameTake […]


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Foolish Games

You took your coat off and stood in the rain,You were always crazy like thatI watched from my window,always felt I was outside looking in on youYou were always the mysterious onewith dark eyes and careless hair,You were fashionably sensitive, but too cool to careThen you stood in my doorway, […]


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All By Myself

When i was youngi never needed anyoneand making love was just for funthose days are goneliving alonei think of all the friends i’ve knownand when i dialled a telelphonenobody’s home chorus:All by myselfdon’t wanna be all by myselfanymore Hard to be suresometimes i feel so insecureand love’s so distant and […]


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Do You Want To Play?

Met her on a friday afternoonIn a neon dayglo pinkChiffon satin roomShe never looked backShe always looked goodDressed in blackAnd she says ohDo you want to play? She lived beneath theDisco discount storeWith pictures of Randy NewmanScattered all across the floorI said "This placeLooks sort of desolate"She said"Are you only […]


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I’m Sensitive

I was thinking that I might fly todayJust to disprove all the things that you sayIt doesn’t take a tallent to be meanYour words can crush things are unseenSo, please be careful with meI’m sensitive and I’d like to stay that way. You always tell me that it’s impossibleTo be […]


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Innocence Maintained

Ophelia drowned in the waterCrushed by her own weightHitler loved little blue-eyed boysAnd it drove him to hateBirds always grow silentBefore the night descends‘Cause nature has a funny wayOf breaking what does not bendA hero’s torso builtOf steel and NovocaneHis heart a bitter beatInside a bloodless frameThere was a hole […]


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Fat Boy

Fat boy goes to the poolSees his reflection,Doesn’t know what to doHe feels little insideAnd filled with pride Oh, fragile flameNo one sees the same Fat boy goes about his dayTrying to think of funny things to sayLike "This is just a game I play"And "I like me this way" […]


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Little Sister

Hey little sisterI heard you went to Mr. So and SoKnock knock knocking on his door again last nightYou said you needed it badAnd You know that ain’t rightCuz so many times you’ve come to meCry cryingYou said it hurt so badBut please don’t let you go back for more […]


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Down So Long

Sun sets’cross the ocean,I’m a thousand miles from anywhereMy pocketbook and my heart both just got stolenAnd the sun act like she don’t even careThe wind blows cold when you reach the topit feels like someone’s face is stuck to the bottom of my shoeI got a plastic jesusa cordless […]


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