You had to run out You had problems with all Daddy told you You had to find out How to separate truth from lies and how You could weigh up When to gamble and when to take chances With such brilliance He would make definitive commentary While the blood ran Down your chin And you know you could see He never once Never once had second thoughts He's...Learn More

The favourite game is still the same A world of pain with a different name Deal me out So slide to the right and slip to the left A tall bluebeard accused of theft Big drop-out It's a good soundtrack But have no fear It's just some loser pushin' fear Deal me out I thought i'd sussed the problem too When all good things come back to you Big drop...Learn More

It seems so close to certainty I left so much so I could see How far my patience would help me It even wrecked my family I felt my work was my reward Practised so hard prayed to the lord Gave to good causes one and all It did not seem to help at all Perhaps it's early yet they say You'll live to fight another day I took some things out of my...Learn More

There's a murmur in the dark A rifle's bark We moved like swimmers As the shadows fell Your stinking luck Leads to a room in hell So sing your spartan spirituals You try to bend my fractured will Tomorrow morning I will have left this hated town The signs of target practice Everywhere There's damp and smell of powder in the air And your stinking...Learn More

If I were a carpenter, and you were a lady Would you marry me anyway? Would you have my baby? If a tinkerer was my trade, would I still find you Carrying the pots I made, and following behind me? Save your love through loneliness, save your love through sorrow I gave you my onliness, now give me your tomorrow If I were a miller's son, at a mill...Learn More

I'll buy you a Cadillac, I'll buy you a Cadillac All shiny and black, I'm gonna buy you a Cadillac I'll buy you a house on a hill, buy you a house on a hill I'll buy you a mansion on a hill if you just give me some of your love Oh, please give me some of your love A white house is the middle of [?] against the sky A tumble down black shack over...Learn More

In a place where they have tlme to kill Hang around the gossip mill The excuses run around so wild And all descriptions fit the bill It's a place that we left for the rain Seen through a fogged-up window pane I'm with you In that lonely time when thoughts could kill I learned my lesson well The days were getting hot again And the humidity was...Learn More

Here in this town It's pouring rain With windows cellophaned With very sexy pictures So turn the T.V. way down low And stop the endless flow Of lies and propaganda ’cause there's this party In my soul right now I call it passion in the home When there's this party In the home Call it passion in the soul A mood of something after dark To mend...Learn More

Well I fell like a horse under water You give me that goodbye look While I sank like a concrete flamingo These were desperate hours Well I sure miss the striptease fiesta I knew that I should've stayed home While I sank like a concrete flamingo These were desperate hours And it's new wine for someone Yes, it's fine times for some And it's new...Learn More

My horses ain't hungry They won't eat your hay My horses ain't hungry They won't eat your hay So fare thee well darlin' I'm goin' away Your parents don't like me They say I'm too poor Your parents don't like me They say I'm too poor They don't even think that I'm worthy to enter your door So fare thee well darlin' I'm goin' away So Mary, pretty...Learn More

Thinking of all the times you missed Digging it in you can't resist Plenty of daggers in your room I passed it on the way Counting your bridges one by one Wondering how to burn them down Wasn't it grand you used to say I passed you by the way Something of a liability To the creative process see Drawn to the clickity clack oh no Your mother breaks...Learn More

Send an ill wind make it real Not unlike the broken seal And you might bury me poor Pauper's graves have their appeal Well it's such unsound advice Which you gave like Vincent Price It's the pit's sweet pendulum Those were days remember them Send an ill wind make it real Such a lovely clear eyed feel Send an ill wind make it real Such a lovely...Learn More