You don’t know what you came here for You don’t know what you came here for The road ahead is serpentine The sky above is spitting rain You don’t know what you came here for You’re three thousand miles from your home You’re three thousand miles from your home You left a good love So can’t you even say for what You’re three thousand miles from your...Learn More

I’ve got a memory of blood I don’t remember whose it was Black and shining on the leaves Moon rising through the trees Somebody lying in the mud That was a hammer coming down Her father found another town Before I knew her mother drank Before I knew her last name Before I knew what I know now I know a key and gasoline Will light a spark in the...Learn More

I was a white looking kid from a small white town With a Puerto Rican mom and I thought a lot about How faded everyone around me was I was a socialist and a shy little dude I was playing Tupac in a Subaru And I married the first girl I ever loved And I’m not smooth and I’m not tough But I thought I was I was working summers at the ice cream...Learn More

She said I’ll take you to the coast Lake Erie buffalo We can watch the fireworks keep each other laughing through it all All the whistle in the reeds All the thundercrack heat Her and I in the dark everybody else the enemy And they were coming on Singing their old songs It’s a born again town It’s a barn burning down Sheep on the stall side...Learn More

If we make it back to New York We’ll tell them all about New Mexico Thanksgiving in the Walmart parking lot Transmission busted on our motorhome We’ll tell them how we almost made a living Ten thousand miles like a couple dogs Howling every night at someone different Running home just the two of us Driving through Wyoming in the wind We counted...Learn More

My dog died in 2005 She was holding my heart I was holding her hide in the rain My neighbor Joe shot my dog He said I killed her cause you called the cops on me I said when I die my only ghost is for you Joe Otherwise I’m staying gone when I go After that my grandpa passed At night sometimes I’d wonder when we’d meet My dad said when you’re...Learn More

I saw her crying in her car In a symphony of violins and classical guitars I could hardly hear the sirens for the static and the sound on the stereo Fire on I295 She looks out her window she tells me she’ll be fine The smoke: a head, a cavern, a canyon rising in the sky I think I could love somebody now I think I could love somebody now While a...Learn More

You remind me of seventeen The lot where the snow drifted high You remind me of deer season stillness Your father out late every night You remind me of tiny fires Cold hands in loose tobacco Leaning in close to block the wind You remind me of first match glow I’ll believe in anything for a while I’ll believe in anything for a while I’ll believe...Learn More

Princess Princess Princess you're not answering the letters I've been leaving on your doorsteps Princess Princess I said the sun will shine on me She said it hasn't yet Wasn't this Wasn't this Wasn't this supposed to be temporary just to pay the bills a bit? Wasn't it Wasn't it I said the sun will shine on me She said it hasn't yet But the sun...Learn More

I saw you down in Houston On the street after the show You asked me to walk with you I said I gotta be back soon though We walked down White Oak And turned onto Heights You said me and Johnny Cash Are the only ones you like You said you miss the friends That we had growing up And last year at Jay's wedding It was so good seeing everyone You said...Learn More

Every time I close my eyes I see the same deer lying by the roadside And I don’t know what’s worse Being a vulture or leaving meat on the bone I’ve been hearing crows at night So I keep brown liquor and a bible by my side And i know the priest gets blood at the grocery store I’ve seen you in this room before I’ve seen you here before I've seen...Learn More

Tiny horses neighing nights That you got drunk and tried to ride On the corner farmer Cy Came out screaming shooting high One horse bit your tawny cat The lightning strike across her back You chased him through the morning grass How mad you were how hard we laughed You were wild then I know You were wild then I know You were wild then I know you...Learn More