One autumn day, snow on my back I saw a man under the tracks He was hoping for heaven’s door He doesn’t want to cry no more A skinny heap upon the field Tied to an ivory wheel Set ablaze for the children’s chore They don’t want to cry no more A plastic girl, her paper walls My love, as far as I recall She skates on a broken floor She doesn’t want...Learn More

The book of awful judgment opens up without a gasp Mothers laugh, knowing they are well within its clasp Contortionist collectors try to steal the pearls of hate Knowing that they've bought sorrow The hangman has died but he hasn't noticed yet His childhood eyes, black holes they bled His skin did not shine, it burned against the gate The lawyer...Learn More

This song’s called Talkin talkin talkin amphetamine blues! One day I was feeling stuck I felt my well had all dried up So I went to the local shrink And paid her fifty bucks to think A full day’s wage She said, “Son, I’m just a pharmacist But I’ll take the cash if you insist And I’ll stick something in your wrist” I galloped home, feeling odd So...Learn More

Goodbye Suppose it was good to have met you Even if it was a rather short time I've gone and done what I had to do But stick around, there’s another sound That will arise when we next meet So get back on your feet We will repeat Goodbye One day I will be clear I'll put to rest my mind If my spirits are good, and you're sincere But everything is...Learn More

Joan, won’t you please come through my door? I am ill and I can’t see you no more As I crawl out in the morning I see my perfect lover resting on the shore And I can’t be with her anymore Oh please, get me up off the floor You beat me well, and I’m asking for more As you lash out in the morning I’ll do my best to rest and wake again Oh Joan, may...Learn More

In the walls of mad country The stature of men Cut short and forcefully tamed As they shrug off their troubles into the wind Hoping for a merciful kind of shame In the walls of mad country The bridges smell of drink And the mayor- she flails her mace As she begs a child to fill her sink With coals to soften her frightened face Mad country birthed...Learn More

Louise, you’ve really got a hold on me You're taking me up by the feet A fist in hand, your saccharine crow Little did I know That you have my life on an exacto knife I’m accountable for your ills Make me take your pill Upon my window sill Louise, you’ve really got a hold on me You’re taking me up by the feet A fist in hand, your saccharine...Learn More

As the sun does erase my eyes day to day The birds up above- they are frowning The city is thin from the fire and the wind And the clouds believe they are drowning Well, I could so easily master the sea With a tear and a captain’s song O, I know I will die with sleep in my eyes But the hour is far and time is long The dancer was bound for glory...Learn More