Stone turns to fire and the battle is won
Lips, cracked and parted, betray a saccharine tongue
Speaking in tunnels meant to follow you through
Here at the opening, the sky is enough to blind you

Do right man, but not right now
Say that you love me but you don’t know how

Come all you neighbours down to the shore
Come mothers and children, to hear the ocean roar

Come quickly now, my friends
Before the setting Sun
Come gather round on black rock beach
To see that justice done

Hot cider, hot cider, a penny with meat pie
You can satis

As the fire rages on and on
The lonesome count the sick
And wicked faces until dawn
You'll find me in the bedroom
With the blinds all drawn
You come, telling lies
'Till I'm back to sleep

While my body cannot feel at home
In my head I'll never be alone
With t

I've crossed a hundred rivers today
And did not feel a thing
So soft and weak, and foolishly I'd think
That I have wisdom worth another's time

I stand wide open, filled with disdain
As though I'm owed, but long ago, for someone else's sin
But equally disgusting is the w

Can't you see, now can't you see
Honey, what you've done to poor me
You see my tears, you see my tears
I've been lonesome for years
A little smile, a little smile
Will last for a long, long while, my baby

The doctor says I can't live long
And when I'm dead, I'll be

I lie awake with the night above my head
Choking your name while you're sleeping like the dead
With the eyes of a child
You've been searching for a home
How dare you tell me that we're born to die alone

My life floats on like a buoy in a storm
What can that mean when I'

Shoot out of bed, with your sheets soaking wet
Old familiar rage twisting high above your head
Watch in wonder, see it unravel
From a coiled up old snake to a tendril of fire
You found your joy, you’re God’s little boy

Lean into the mirror, now it's so much clearer
Thro

All those nights you wouldn’t dance with me
You spent the whole time smoking
And avoiding all my friends
I should have known then

Down at the bottom, sitting in the car
You left me on the hilltop
To mourn alone the passing of my friend
I should have known then
I

Just pick one, it’ll hurt some if it needs tô
I know weakness is a sickness and a virtue
And cold bitter winds are never-ending
So just pick one, it’s a season, it’ll run through

Fear is only worth what it costs you
I know wisdom when it holds true and misleads you
On y

The last kind words I heared my daddy say
Lord, the last kind words I heared my daddy say

If I die, if I die in the German war
I want you to send my body, send it to my mother, lord

If I get killed, if I get killed, please don't bury my soul
I p'fer just leave me out, let

The world ain’t big enough for lovers who run
Blood ain’t thick enough for mothers and sons
She can’t drink quick enough to have a little fun
If that ain’t sad enough, just wait until I'm done

The water’s rising, what doesn’t burn will drown
Or freeze in little boxes under

In the month of October at age twenty-seven
A woman had come to the end of her rope
Though the bottom was vast and the darkness was hungry
The top was engulfed in flames and black smoke

The fall was not quite as she had expected
She braced and she waited for the resounding

Oh night, pale blue night
Lay those memories down
Down into the ground, waiting on the Sun
To come and shine on me
Just a little light, enough to find where I ought to be

Oh Sun, coming on the rise
Cast your blanket wide
Wide and far I go, no deeper does it show

We make our money, through sorrow we sing
The ones that I love don’t own a thing
And when it’s all over by far and away
We make our money and throw it away

From the fields when I'm hungry, from the well when I'm dry
Light the fire when I'm lonely, give me truth when I die

Turn away from a guilty mind
Like the feckless kings that ruled us blind
Sow your blight

Tear them down, make them cry
I want their eyes to open wide
And burn red

Poison hides in the sweetest lines
Let the breath not find the lungs
Hold your tongue

I wan

True false, true lover
I'm the morning, she's the night
When the good times are over
Won't you come and stay awhile

I know that you're no good
You don't treat her like you should
As if I'm an island on which you've never stood
You don't treat me that way

I sta

When everything is dead in the fields
In the swamps, in the mountains
When all things have past and gone
And my friends have all moved on

Where will I go, where can I be
Where will you meet me
Let all that what can may come
I will need no one to keep me

When e

Little girl in a northern town
Let my hair grow long, let my heart be found
Late to bed, early to rise
In the waking hours she set her eyes
To the window that faced the water

Burning hearts to empty hands
Tearing through town with older men
While the city boys found

When I get to thinking 'bout where I'm from
I start drinking hard, and talking fast and coming undone
And the worst is, I know you feel this
You might be the only one

First one down through second last
Got the whole crowd laughing, reel and cast
By the last one, I'm far