The skulls met the pythons Down at the first street station Alliance has been made in alleyways All across the nation These boys live off the milk of a silver jet And the love of sweet young women The pythons are down from old englishtown And they ‘re looking to do some living Well the […]
She was just another war nurse She could strike a noble pose Caring for our young boys when a bullet laid them low She would hover over them and cry And pull the cover over them when they’d die She was just another lonesome lady, lover, sister of the gun And though france would call […]
Well the first frame finds her running But the night pushes her deep within the tunnel She camouflages herself in dayglo paint And she sings her love songs through a funnel And she clings to the walls like a cat who calls The shots for life and for death Wearing nothing but the make-up she […]
Tokyo - Before The Fame
The hook hung like a shadow on a rung over shanghai The firemen were returning home screaming “bonzai!” And the reindeers played games, And got hurt in the rain As I listened to the broadcast. Oh, blow me down Tokyo ‘cuz i’m sinking fast. And then the band played. (out of nowhere) (everybody) (everybody) Well […]
Born on the hudson, twenty-two years gone Bred and raised in the city From my daddy’s knee i learned the union songs But grandma sang lullabies of dixie And though the northern winter fills my heart with joy Oh it’s a southern sun that shines down On this yankee boy Mama dreamed of paris nights […]
I remember yesterday and i’d sit and watch the hound dogs play Howlin’ at the china moon ??now yesterday is the busted blues Life was young, things were easy, Days were short, nights were warm Time were good. hate was shallow ??the horse crazy behind the ???? I swear that i’ve seen your face somewhere […]
In a place where outlaws abound from the range ???on a day mountains has fallen to falls??? In a land where boys are forbiden to grow And mell is the only master Were the higway ends and the desert breakes And buildings are bendt from great earthquackes And statesmen crawl on their bellys like snakes […]
Marie - Before The Fame
Marie, she comes to me in the twilight When the wind blows down across the river So cold, the fishermen cry She rapes me in a rage of rainbow violence Till my bare nerves, they sing Like the strings of a violin And the room seeps into a savage silence Soaked in colours, red as […]
The lady keeps the doctor in a place inside her pocket The circle made her circle like a wheel The doctor gives a strange love, but the lady she don’t knock it She’s glad to get a piece of anything Because the lady needs the medicine ???????????? Doctor needs the lady to see The doctor […]
Jesse - Before The Fame
Oh jesse, you better start thinkin’ about saving your neck Oh jesse, you put on that leather jacket like you put on respect You got cleats on your boots and a woman who shoots everytime you shuffle out the stage door And darling jesse, do you know what its all for? Ah jesse, your manager […]
