We're taking back October's roads We've found a place where no one goes And it's just around the back door And just a stone's throw East of Jesus Long nights and Autumn breezes And it breaks my heart just being there, it's true... It was founded when the world was young It was passed on down from moon to sun And it's miles away from Motown But...Learn More

Vintage Schwinn on a summer day I often ride all day When I call in on a day like today They've got to know I'm fooling Must know I'm fooling I've got a vintage Schwinn Single speed, that's all you really need Mild slopes and suburb streets When I ride out on a day like today They've got to know I'm moving Must know I'm moving On my vintage...Learn More

Dad, dad, dad... (x8) No, I never caught a ball at Tiger Stadium No, I never bought a Stroh's at Tiger stadium Now I'm 22 years old And couldn't name a player if I tried It's sad, my interest died When Whitaker and Trammel both retired Dad, dad, dad... (x7) No, I never caught a ball And I never bought a Stroh's And dad I never could keep score...Learn More

There's a cloud coming through my window There's a corn husk tied round my banjo In the hallway bright and plain clothed She's come home to steal her rainbows She was born in a lighthouse stairwell Ghosts of the Great Lakes declared their angel Would lead the freight trains to where the land parts And bring them home to see their sweethearts And...Learn More

Tall was the bottle in the glove box Long were the days for the foreman of the mill He was twice as mean when he drank the kerosene And when the break whistle blew He'd take it out on me Long were the days for the foreman of the mill Cold was the floor in the break room Red was the face of the foreman of the mill And whеn he'd had his way I'd go...Learn More

I'll meet you at the mossy gates When the moon is high and smooth like a candy cane Race you to an open grave And if I lie down you're stuck with the eulogy Down in the dirt where the suits grow weeds Flowers won't grow and your bones don't need no skin Whistle past the tiny flags Where the soldiers sang and drum through the coffin lids Scatter...Learn More

Gat black motor, upstate dreaming Oh you've got to get a booking But only two cars Two cars and a bushel of Michigan...begin Watchful October begat brown November Where’s that boat I made? That half-toned product Day job murder, download streaming There are legendes yet uncovered But only four hours, four hours and a moment That's two full tapes...Learn More

One bird said to the other way up in the sky "Do you see that child off younger" The other said "Yeah, why?" "I think the two of us are big enough To take that child away, you know I've always wanted one." So they flew on down to the boy that they had talked about And they knew that it would be rough, but they had always wanted to raise a child in...Learn More

At Night Casinos fading Stars return and sequel greatest days 'Neath the undertow Where no tourists go All those shells are haunted now They're taking back the night The leaves Like copper smelting Swirl across a seawall that some careless neighbor made Their beach is fading And the lighthouse proud Knows you'll go for good this year and turns its...Learn More

Ode to joy, fall to sea Live beneath, ninety feet Baby, I can't write and I can't make it right I want you to go to sleep so I can Go to sleep And I can study something Ode to joy, in my bed In my heart, a dead man's float Baby, I can't write and I can't make it right I want you to go to sleep so I can Go to sleep And I can study something...Learn More

Coffee moon, I'm awake and I'm still sculpting you Coffee moon, you never blink your eye, it must be very dry Moon, moon Coffee moon, there is a brick in my head tonight Coffee moon, thought morning's not my time, it's when I'm most alive Oh I'd like, oh I'd like To be a writer in the night time And I'd like, oh I'd like To love you not just 'cause...Learn More

Jeb Minor, you're older now Born high in a thunder cloud The world sang, when you sang Sailed off on a merchant ship Came home with a pirate's lisp The leaves changed, when you came I whistled "The Girls of Norfolk" You whistled "The Girl I left Behind Me" Cat the anchor, Jeb Minor's coming home Jeb married a mandolin Played for the softwater...Learn More