I been out in the desert
I have wandered on through the sands
I been burned, I been thirsty
I’ve walked with the devil through dangerous lands
I have seen with my eyes
Images I wish I could erase
I have danced with lady temptation
I've felt her fire, I have seen her f

Just like an elephant memory, he comes and never fades
She turned his stomach upside down as she played the queen of spades
They pistol-whipped an outcome, tossed a coin and called a draw
Threw a blanket on a flight of stairs and fasted up his jaw

We bang to break the drum

Let's go out tonight
The moon is bright
The rain is right
You're out of sight
I wanna be near you

Lets go on a date
Don't hesistate
This could be great
It's not too late
I wanna be near you

Or dance in the rain
It's not insane
Let me explain

Bring me birds with broken wings, men with all the answers
People who have killed, give me incurable cancers
Bring me creatures baked in oil, give me disregard for doubt
Street lights shine on broken roads where no one is about
I want that hopeless dream depression, punishments w

Well, the devil’s blowing coal
Through the smokestacks of your mind
Dylan’s hanging on the cross
The piano’s doing fan

Jacob’s on the ladder
Smoking candy cigarettes
The chinaman’s got heartburn
And a thousand tv sets

With arms as big as airplanes
He rippe

I don't believe in heaven in the winter
I don't believe in winter in the fall
I beat my temples just to see them splintered
I tear the wings off flies just to see them crawling
Down, down through the gravel and the mud
Where a rope can't knot and a soap can't sud
St. Pete

I went down to the river
Flowing out unto the sea
On my way to the ocean
Let the spirit swallow me

I got low down in the water
I let the current guide my bones
I've got nine kinds of trouble
I'm just trying to find my way home

Over twenty-some years of living<

When I wrote you that letter, you'd already made up your mind
All my words were writen in vain
When I called you up that day, I was only calling up to say hello
But goodbye, was the word
that you've been thinking ?bout for days

I didn't know that you were going to leave me<

I've got me a woman, she's so good to me. (so good to me)
I've got me a woman, she's the girl of my dreams. (girl of my dreams)
I've got me a woman, she's so kind. (she's so kind)
I've got me a woman, she's on my mind. (she's on my mind)

I've got me a woman, she's so fine. (she

All my books I put away on the shelves we built together
My clothes are neatly folded in the drawers
The german plant you bought for me has been watered
All my records have been put back in order
The dishes have been done
I swept the floors

I put your paintings on my wa

The world is an overflowing gutter
It bubbles with the brine of shit and blood
And those who keep their eyes upon the heavens
Are the ones who'll wind up faces down in the muck

It’s easy to speak of grand ambitions
It’s easy to pretend you're innocent
But lest you get d

Baby's eyes, they are never red
Stars are bending down, they're dead
Sleeping flowers, blue and gold
In my basket, never cold

Fetch me water from my well
When you hear the wedding bells

In the darkness of the cave
Lay my basket on my grave
Take the poison from

Sometimes it's a matter of fact
Everybody in your bed with their diplomats
Sometimes it's a matter of taste
Everybody wants to hear about the big mistakes
Everybody wants a piece of your heart
Telling you they've been there for you right from the start
It's never easy bab

When it rains it pour
There will be water 8 days in store
Growing in pools right there on the floor
Flowin downstairs and out the door

When you’re in drought don’t be in doubt
Brother for now you can do without
But when the beautiful clouds come out
Try not to drown

Waking up in a sea of enmity
Could this be my last recourse
Will these men conspire to end me
Must I mount this feeble horse ride

Into the southern distance leave behind this live I’ve led
Shall I risk my my own existence
O'er these words that must be said

Southbo

When I was a child, my mother
Would tuck me in to bed
And each night as she kissed me
These are the words that she said

She said: Don’t go to bed with strangers
Don’t play with the dead
Always keep your wits sharp
Like an axe inside the shed

When I was just a

Everybody knows that the bible is full of wisdom
The good book is great
But, a few thousand years of disputes and debates
Have shown that the text was written
In such a way that it inherently requires intensive
Rigorous, and constant interpretation!

Did you know that wh

There's a churning, there's a churning, there's a churning around
I can't fall asleep and the drugs won't stay down
There's a burning, there's a burning, there's a burning I found
It's deep in the pit where the blood pumps around

All the children are laughing outside
The wo

A tangle of traumas
A rash of regrets
A bundle of burdens and yesterdays
A blessing of sorrows

A crush of tomorrows
A nightmare disturbed by the dawn
A quorum of tragedy
Rot in menagerie

Why do you stay with me now
A tide of naivety dragging defeat of me