Gold Dust

sights and sounds pull me back down another year i was here i was here whipping past the reflecting pool me and you skipping school and we make it up as we go along we make it up we go along you said – you raced from langley – pulling […]


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Strange

strange thought i knew you well thought i had read the sky thought i had read a change in your eyes to strange woke up to a world that i am not a part except when i can play it’s stranger after all what were you really looking for and […]


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Pancake

i’m not sure who’s fooling who here as i’m watching your decay we both know you could deflate a 7 hurricane seems like you and your tribe decided you’d rewrite the law segregate the mind from body and soul [CHORUS:]you give me yours i’ll give you mine cause i can […]


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Amber Waves

well he lit you up like amber waves in his movie showhe fixed you up real good till i don’t know you anymore from ballet class to a lap dance straight to video and the pool side news was that he would be launching you [CHORUS:]into every young man’s bedroom […]


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I Can't See New York

from hereno lines aredrawnfrom hereno landsare owned13,000 and holdingswallowedin the purringof her enginestracking the beaconhere"is there a signalthereon the other side"on the other side?what do you mean side of what things?and you said and you did and you said you could find me here and you said you would find […]


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Another Girl's Paradise

you caught me lingering in another girl’s paradise the way she paints the world — i want that in my life emeralds, you should know, are renting in her meadow with a stroke beauty lives how could i resist you are desire when it all is said said and done […]


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Don’t Make Me Come To Vegas

don’t make me come to vegas don’t make me pull you out of his bed i am vigilant that it will not be you on the menu he’s serving up for his friends don’t make me come to vegas don’t make me pull him out of your head athena will […]


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Sweet Sangria

i know you know every desperado and sharp shooter in the west you say that i can’t see behind the mask of those who call themselves the good guys in this who take and take "so are you with me or not you say this time decide" balmy days sweet […]


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Scarlet’s Walk

if you’re a thought you will want me to think you and i did invite a guest up until you announced you had moved in "what do you plan to do with all your freedom?" the new sheriff said, quite proud of his badge "you must admit the land is […]


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Mrs. Jesus

life lines and suicide crimes — he found me in a state grabbed my purse and hitched a ride with a mrs. jesus "how you been" i’ve been cruisin’ a good invention but in some ways i don’t think it gets any easieryour walking on the water bit by far […]


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Taxi Ride

lily is dancing on the table we’ve all been pushed too far i guess on days like this you know who your friends are just another dead fag to you that’s all just another light missing on a long taxi ride taxi ride and i’m down to your last cigarette […]


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A Sorta Fairytale

on my way up northup on the venturai pulled back the hoodand i was talking to youand i knew then it would bea life long thingbut i didn’t know that wewe could break a silver lining and i’m so sadlike a good booki can’t put this day backa sorta fairytalewith […]


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Crazy

not sayin’ not charmed at all not sayin’ that you weren’t worth the fall and i was alone when i knew it was real down the canyon when i knew i had come to the line through the dawn to the light to the turn when you said you could […]


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Carbon

carbon made found her at the end of a chain "time to race" she said "race the downhill" behind crystalline irises loons can drive where the world bleeds whitejust keep your eyes on her keep don’t look away keep your eyes on her horizonbear claw free fall a gunner’s view […]


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