Sweet sweet love and affection Aiming for my protection Sweet sweet hail and devotion Pointed by my emotion I called you by your name I called you by your name Like a baby crying for the milk of its mother Like a junkman scratching on a vial for ether I'm hearing Mary's voices in the […]

He has no signature He grants no wish to me or you He admits no evidence He burns every clue Some say they can name him Some even lay a claim to him No date of birth, no sense of place The sun's black rag wipes out his name We look for signals in the […]

I took a wrong turn off of an unmarked track I did seven miles I couldn't find my way back Hit a lonely stretch, must be losing my touch, I was out of my depth Land was so flat, could well have been ocean No distinguishing feature in any direction I took her down inch-by-inch […]

Weak signal, bad light Snake in the grass, I wake in fright and fall to my kees, I look to the sky I'm shaking like a leaf but you gave me the second sight Lifelike, so close to the truth I close my eyes, when I think of you Everything stops, nothing moves Now I […]

Sunlight was hot, and your mother was calling My chest burning, rising falling Dog licking drips from our garage tap Miles from nowhere just a little dot on the map I believe you will lead me to a life of crime Tore the clothes off our backs and looked into the sun Fouled our mouths […]

Hey there boy, hey there girl Hey there little thing Don’t you know? Can’t you guess? You never can win Fall in love with a lying tongue Get taken for a spin Battered and battered and hammered till your Pretty little head falls in Singing hey, hey, hey little boy (hey, hey, hey little boy) […]

Well his hands are cold and there's a shadow on his heart Sometimes you can't even see him but you know he's there beside you in the dark Pain behind the eyes Electricity across the skin Sometimes you can't even feel him but if you leave an open heart you know that he'll come in […]

These days a smile costs more than a frown Everybody's got an opinion or an axe to be ground Oh-oh Woh-oh-oh You give me, are giving me a reason to die They woke me at night from my hard-earned rest The gin on their breath like a badge on their chest They took me down […]

Kiss him and if you're gonna kiss him leave him gasping for air Twist him if he fits around your finger leave him dangling there Tease him never leave him knowing if you're going somewhere leave him when you come home he'll always be there well if you really want to know how to break […]

Kelly left her front light on I came around Her tree blew over I shook her branches down The wind and I, we howled around her door Now there's a buckle in the sky, lightning on the shore And a face reflected in a puddle on the floor Nobody knows the darkness of Kelly's blues […]