By jim carroll and lenny kaye I don’t believe in sin But maybe i’ll begin A vagrant evil’s climbing up my skin The shadows from last week Are dancing in the street In homage to the darkness closing in It’s hard to say what’s different each new morning I need some clue to tell me […]
Rooms - Dry Dreams
By jim carroll and steve linsley You’re passing, I hear your shadow through the door It’s outlined on my shade Like a map of some foreign shore If i could keep that shadow, I could live forever in these Rooms, the rooms inside my dreams . . . And dreams have kept me in these […]
By jim carroll and wayne woods Evangeline My first lady, She wears satin gloves Since her hands got dirty She travels here She travels there . . . She’s on the "a" list Everywhere I can’t take it anymore If she calls back, Tell her i went uptown to the downtown store Evangeline With her […]
By jim carroll We should have left at once We should have never stayed Now they have drawn the line Now there is a barricade Now there’s a barricade A barricade Who makes promises? Who makes promises through a thick lead door? Through an intercom on the 23rd floor? Who makes promises and then promises […]
Jody - Dry Dreams
Jody, what you been doing? It’s been a long, long time Since we went dancing in the schoolyard, With your breasts like bleeding limes Jody, are you still hanging with that latin? With rabbit fur inside his wheels? With his gilbert roland piece, And his glove department deals Uptown, we watched the debutantes skating Across […]
I was underneath the staircase I was talking with my angel He said that beauty is only terror You know, when terror is just beginning I thought i heard some footsteps Lorraine, she was coming But she’s been feelin’ real sick lately She been kickin’ down her habit So i went around to see her […]
Seven blonde women They gather in the square They raise their hands up to the sun Their skin is so thin and white You know their fathers must surely be wealthy I watch the others stand around and form a crucifix A serpent of vapor Some stray birds rise The one on the end, the […]
She moves through the black door She turns toward the desperate light With her breath like iodine With her filigree design She summons the fire from her hips Flamingo blood melts down her lips But the light would not share her, From behind the bending mirror, pulling her within, Like a jealous twin. there was […]
Them - Dry Dreams
They hit you with their papers when you’re living On loan. they’re the ones who say nothing when you Answer the phone. you see them in the alleys when You’re passing late at night, but you tell your friend To check it and there’s no one in sight. I never wanted it I never asked […]
Each night, they surround me With the lights and the microphones . . . With their bodies and the mile of cable Like a magic ring of bone Every night i have the same dream: A man behind the door With a tattooed erection And no reflection And his eyes like a chinese whore . […]
