The Angel - Greetings From Asbury Park Nj
The angel rides with hunch-backed children, poison oozing from his engine Wieldin’ love as a lethal weapon, on his way to hubcap heaven Baseball cards poked in his spokes, his boots in oil he’s patiently soaked The roadside attendant nervously jokes as the angel’s tires strokes his precious pavement The interstate’s choked with nomadic hordes […]
Crazy janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin’ hands long came wild billy with his friend g-man all duded up for saturday night Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said anybody wanna go on up to greasy lake It’s about a mile down on the dark side of route 88 […]
Mary queen of arkansas, it’s not too early for dreamin’ The sky is grown with cloud seed sown and a bastard’s love can be redeeming Mary, my queen, your soft hulk is reviving No, you’re not too late to desecrate, the servants are just rising Well i’m just a lonely acrobat, the live wire is […]
The ragamuffin gunner is returnin’ home like a hungry runaway He walks through town all alone He must be from the fort he hears the high school girls say His countryside’s burnin’ with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide The hit and run, plead sanctuary, `neath a holy stone they hide They’re breakin’ beams […]
I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra I was born blue and weathered but i burst just like a supernova I could walk like brando right into the sun Then dance just like a casanova With my blackjack and jacket and hair slicked sweet Silver star studs on my duds […]
Growin’ Up - Greetings From Asbury Park Nj
I stood stonelike at midnight suspended in my masquerade I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and i walked on a crooked crutch I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my soul untouched […]
For You - Greetings From Asbury Park Nj
Princess cards she sends me with her regards Barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard Wounded deep in battle, i stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted To her cheshire smile. i’ll stand on file, she’s all i ever wanted But you let your blue walls get in the way of these […]
Hey bus driver keep the change, Bless your children, give them names, Don’t trust men who walk with canes, Drink this and you’ll grow wings on your feet Broadway mary, joan fontaine, advertiser on a downtown train Christmas crier bustin’ cane, he’s in love again. Where dock worker’s dreams mix with panther’s schemes to someday […]
Madman drummers bummers and indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat With a boulder on my shoulder feelin’ kinda older i tripped the merry-go-round With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground Some all-hot […]
