'Neath the leaden lid
I saw your face
Ashen and pale as you walked away
And I stayed behind
Oh Where'd you go
Dearest friend of mine

Can you recall the lurid scene of savagery
The sea beast belly-up and beached
Twice as long as a seven mast ship

They took

My first lover was real sweet, he made a woman out of me,
but he left as quick as he came, my Baby James.
Mama said I was naive,
'said one day he'd pick up and leave me.
But 'till then I swore I'd stay for my Baby James.

My baby's gone and I can't seem to find him.

Put on my lipstick, I know it's gonna get me tips
Step into the costume so I can give my patrons kicks
Step outside for a cigarette and it's starting to snow
Every time it gets cold I begin to think of you

Hold on a minute they're calling me
Sugar, sugar, sugar come here

Autumn's coming in through the yard,
Marching like a grandfather clock
The badges he wears are tattered and old
Like shredded ribbons of bright read and gold
His arms are stiff and they're sure they're in time
'Cause you can't slow a man with a pendulum down
No, you can't

Calliope
I can hear your voice
As clear as a bell
As a bell ringing through the night
Through the night

O Calliope
Your tablets of wax
And your golden crown
So wise, so wise

O Calliope
I need your impartial eye
To guide me
My love is gone to an

They're knocking down that Art Deco house
The clawfoot tub is cracked and crushed
The mattress springs and the telephone wires
Gnash now through the air like crocodiles

Everything is coming up in 2 x 4's
Concrete walls and concrete floors
High rise homes, high rising re

Years ago the phone rang off the hook for Dr. Monroe
But he's erased the names in his little black book, he's living alone
Oh, you might have seen him chain-smoking on national TV
Drinking scotch on the rocks and flipping through playboy magazines
He will not hello, invite you to

Upstairs the neighbors are moving in
Hammering nails into their beds
You can hear them falling in love again
Three times this evening

While we were asleep in bed
Jealous of how they were so content
Jealous of the money they spent
Three times this evening

She w

Since I was a girl, I've been good at embroidery
I finished up my finishing school in Switzerland
Then I escaped to Evian, wound my car down the alps, lived only on apricots
Picked by the side of the road

In vevey I lived with two spinsters who spoke only french
But mostl

Since I was a child I could read the tides by the colours of the clouds
When I grew I left in the spring and took only my piano and some gin

But when I'm awake and I feel my head is swinning
Then when I sleep I begin to think of
Everything
Everything
Everything
Oh

You've moved off to Seattle
You go down yo the bar every day
This morning you woke up in the park
Wearing only a tiny straw hat
You've got a mad dog with a bad leg
And a comb full of rotten teeth
But the days get longer you don't get no younger
And nobody's calling f

Frankie and Annette ran off at sixteen and it all started at a red sox ball game
In a cracker jack box, Frankie found a ring and said "how's about making me a man?"
Frankie was just laid off at the store, they said
"Kid, you've got some shit to learn about selling cheese to customer

Down by the old stone church
Where the joe-pye weed and the mallows grow
Those petals bigger then my fist
Watch them bob and bow when the wind does blow

There grows a cypress tree
And in its trunk I carved you name
And right beside it I carved mine

They'll give yo

Come along in my mackinaw
I'll point you where you need to go
Though our path may bend and yaw
You won't get lost

With my pointed prow and square stern
We'll use our arms for oars
To spoor little schools of fish
Make festoon-shaped grooves in the fickle waves
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J'ai vingt-six ans
Mais seulement quatre d'utiles
Je ne comprends rien à rien
J'ai peur des papillons
Mon père est mort à la guerre

Quand j'étais petite
J'avais un gilet en angora rose
Qui s'arrêtait avant les côtes flottantes
Les vieux messieurs m'aimaient beau

Coming through the mitrailleuse
A Howitzer cannon and a Thompson gun
Oh you're a slovenly bunch
Lousy with sin

You're no better than those altruists
And the eagle scouts you belong
With the haemophiliacs
Out on the front line
Out on the front line...

We've

He holds us all in his hands
He is the one who's in command
He leads us down to the knoll
The skies begin to fill with smoke

But do not falter, nor stand afraid
He is the one who holds us all
No, do not falter nor stand afraid
He is the one who holds us all

As

Écoute les orgues
Elles jouent pour toi
Il est terrible cet air-là
J'espère que tu aimes
C'est assez beau non
C'est le requiem pour un con

Je l'ai composé spécialement pour toi
À ta mémoire de scélérat
C'est un joli thème
Tu ne trouves pas
Semblable à to

The coffee beanery was about to explode
Or was it a field
Nobody knows
Nobody saw it coming
But for days
The forecast predicted frost
The TV's radiated ice

The Toyota became a baked Alaska
And if we took out our spoons
The windshield wipers scraping beneath

Knowing you makes all the difference
Don't it darling
Knowing all your if's and why's
Your when's and how's

December comes in as a short procession
A little punctured, a little heartbroken
But not forever and not for long

In New York, the vagabonds have fled
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