Here comes the month's rent. Now you ain't got nothing left. This place won't let you choose. I got the big smoke blues. . Some like to hang around. They love it when you're kicked down.
You do the dancing for me. I'll strum this parlor guitar. No more waiting to see. What we've been wanting. From the same old stars. There's nowhere we're needing to go.
TAKE THE ASHES AND RUN (Leger). . Up that hill where the school house stood. Bunch of rubble and rotted wood. And the warm glow from a morning sun. Take the ashes and run.
Come to me, brother. Say it to my face. Leaving here tomorrow. Telling me today. They got you running. Say this ain't your kind of place. The truth is all around you.
Coffee's ready, waiting in the kitchen. Marie takes in the morning air. Feels the biting wind, comes back in to her chair. Father does something. Says, "Marie, I'm so proud of you.
In the winter of my day. She lays in the snow barely awake. And good boys don't touch. What they can't understand. And the shadows 'round here. Never witness anything.
I dug, dug, dug. And I stood in the dirt. Until the sun, sun, sun came low. And I was lost in the middle. Of a bathroom posted riddle. That would not leave me alone.
Gotta funny way of saying she's leaving. Like everywhere is just an open door. Gotta funny way of saying she hates me. Has me hollering for more. . Sick and tired every night.
The nights. Sad and lonely. Oh, she's gone without a warning. It takes a bad hearted woman. To let me go, to let me go. To let me go this way. I've been a lie.
Standing alone in the fairground at night. The world racing past on the streets. Only the stars and the highlights of cars. Light the fantasy world while it sleeps.
Listening to you idle talk. Smoke rising to the ceiling. The words just seem to float on by. Maybe you've had the feeling. Then looking into my empty glass.
I am just another who's waiting. I'm just a crack in the pavement. Lights disguise a heartache like make up. They drive the dream that will make us. Or break us.
Hey sister, I missed ya. Where have you been lately?. Did you get lost inside my eyes?. My minds a dark place I cannot imagine that. You'll ever make it out alive.
Leave our present to create a future, evolve to exist. I'm still fighting those monsters, the ones we've fed and kept in closets.. The nightmare has found us again..
The optimist in me. Was slowly eroding,. Consumed without knowing. Now regaining. Consciousness from its long sleep. . Hanging on, both eyes closed. It kills me everytime.
I will never forget the walk to the station,. Me with your suitcase being brotherly strong.. And trying to make light of the whole situation,. In mild conversation we moved through the throng,.
I said look at the river.. You said it's only a stream.. But I said I've seen people with nets out there. You said they just throw out a line and dream..
Oh, the traveller moving on the land, behold I give you, I give you the travelling man.. And he's very heavy laden with the questions in his burden.. Lo, and I give you the travelling man..
I went down to the hiring fair for to sell my labour,. And I noticed a maid in the very next row and I hoped she'd be my neighbour.. Imagine then my delight when the farmer picked us both..
Takes a glass of Tequila to raise up my spirits. When I get down I'm drinking them two at a time. 'Til I swear that I feel like a poor drowning sailor.