I’m coming home with a stone Strapped onto my back I’m coming home with a burning hope Turning all my blues to black I’m looking for a sacred hand To carve into my stone A ghost of comfort Angels breath To keep this life inside my chest This world falls on me Hopes of immortality […]
Some will strut and some will fret See this an hour on the stage Others will not but they’ll sweat In their hopelessness and their rage We’re all the same the men of anger And women of the page They published your diary And that’s how i got to know you The key to the […]
It’s a fish white belly A lump in the throat Razor on the wire Skin and bone Piss and blood In a railroad car 100 people Gypsies queers And david’s star This train is bound for glory This train is bound for glory This train is bound for glory This train Measure the bones Count […]
I thought the time was passed when i could Find beauty in a birds I set the stage and the scenery Rehearsing every word Yeah but when i tried to make it more Well it was always less And it’s a thin line between pleasing yourself And pleasing somebody else Oh yeah Oh yeah All […]
Early one morning the sun was shining I was laying in bed Wondering if she’d changed at all If her hair was still red Her folks they said our lives together Sure was gonna be rough They never did like mama’s homemade dress Papa’s bank book wasn’t big enough Me i’m standing on the side […]
I come to you with strange fire I make an offering of love The incense of my soul is burned By the fire in my blood I come with a softer answer To the questions that lie in your path I want to harbor you from the anger Find a refuge from the wrath This […]
River - 1200 Curfews
It’s coming on christmas They’re cutting down trees Putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish i had a river I could skate away on But it don’t snow here It stays pretty green Gonna make a lot of money Then i’m gonna quit this crazy scene And i wish i […]
Well i woke up this morning Grey dawn With a prayer on my breath See i lost something precious And god’ll save me From losing myself I said i think i know what’s wrong I think i know what’s wrong Now i met the queen and i understand why Why she closed the door I’m […]
Now the parking lot is empty Everyone’s gone someplace I pick you up and in the trunk i’ve packed A cooler and a 2-day suitcase Cause there’s a place we like to drive Way out in the country Five miles out of the city limit we’re singing And your hand’s upon my knee So we’re […]
Mystery - 1200 Curfews
(handed down and made by hand) Each time you’d pull down the driveway I wasn’t sure when i would see you again Yours was a twisted blind sided highway No matter which road you took then Oh you set up your place in my thoughts Moved in and made my thinking crowded Now we’re out […]
