Angels Of The Silences

Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand Did it make it any easier to leave me where I stand? I guess there might not be too many who would stand beside you now Where’d you come from? Where am I going? Why’d you leave me […]


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Butterfly In Reverse

Maryann you’re better than the world They took a lot of time getting it right on this girl I said Maryann you’re better than the world They did a lot of things right on this girl I had a lot of girlfriends I should have known them Click your heels […]


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Four Days

All I want is something goodIt gets harder every timeShe is leaving here tonightTake a breath, take your timeSpread your wings and rise Make a mark upon the wallPaint your face and pass the timeClose your eyes and she ascendsHold your breath and ease your mindForty thousand timesTime fades into […]


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Raining In Baltimore

This circus is falling down on its knees The big top is crumbling down It’s raining in Baltimore fifty miles east Where you should be, no one’s around I need a phone call I need a raincoat I need a big love I need a phone call These train conversations […]


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Rain King

When I think of heaven Deliver me in a black-winged bird I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers And all other instruments of faithand sex and God in the belly of a black-winged bird. Don’t try to feed me I’ve been here before and I […]


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Have You Seen Me Lately

Get away from me This isn’t gonna be easy But I don’t need you Believe me You got a piece of me But it’s just a little piece of me And I don’t need anyone And these days I feel like I’m fading away Like sometimes when I hear myself […]


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Amy Hit The Atmosphere

If I could make it rain todayAnd wash away this sunny day down to the gutterI would just to get a change of paceThings are getting worse but I feel a lot betterAnd that’s all that really matters to me Amy hit the atmosphereCaught herself a rocket ride out of […]


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Ghost Train

I took the cannonball down to the ocean Across the desert from the sea to shining sea I rode a ladder that climbed across the nation Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me "How do you do?" She said "Hey, how do you do?" She buys a […]


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American Girls

She comes out on Fridays every time Stands out in a line I could have been anyone she’d seen She waits another week to fall apart She couldn’t make another day I wish it was anyone but me I could have been anyone you see She had something breakable just […]


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I Wish I Was A Girl

The devil’s in the dreamingHe tells you I’m not sleeping in my hotel room aloneWith nothing to believe inYou dive into the traffic rising up and it’s so quietYou’re surprised and then you wake For all the things you’re losingYou might as well resign yourself to try and make a […]


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St. Robinson In His Cadillac Dream

Staring out of his window as the world rushes byArthur Robinson closes the glass and replies,"I dream of Ballerinas and I don’t know whyBut I see Cadillac’s sailing" And I was born on the shores of the Chesapeake BayBut Maryland and Virginia have faded awayAnd I keep thinking tomorrow is […]


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Monkey

All dressed up No place to go Hey monkey, when you gonna show your face around me? I know all the wrongs and rights And I just want a little light to fall on me Hey monkey, where you been? This lonely spiral I’ve been in Hey monkey, when can […]


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Omaha

Start tearing the old man down Run past the heather and down to the old road Start turning the grain into the ground Roll a new leaf over In the middle of the night there’s an old man Treading around in the gathered rain Hey mister if you want to […]


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Another Horsedreamers' Blues

Margery’s dreaming of the middle of the day Tiyuri to win Perfect Dozen to place Money is the matter that’s been on her mind Time ticks by her one race at a time She’s tryin’ to be a good girl And give ’em what they want But Margery’s dreaming of […]


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Hard Candy

On certain Sundays in November When the weather bothers me I empty drawers of other summer’s Where my shadows used to be She is standing by the water As her smile begins to curl In this or any other summer She is something all together different Never just an ordinary […]


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