In eighteen-fourteen we took a little trip. Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississipp'. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans.
By jim carroll and lenny kaye. . I don't believe in sin. But maybe I'll begin. A vagrant evil's climbing up my skin. The shadows from last week. Are dancing in the street.
Soda shop children to five o'clock bars a giant step in just a few years. Freckle faced girls to painted up women from chocolate cup Sundays to bottles of beer.
My baby's mad she's fightin' at cause I've been gone too long. She told me on the phone that she don't like my being gone. Though my feet are pointin' west I'll turn them around.
By jim carroll and steve linsley. . You're passing,. I hear your shadow through the door. It's outlined on my shade. Like a map of some foreign shore.
Sirens begin, the red light spins. Hungry go the thieves. . Betty's in the sandbox trying to detox. She always wears long sleeves. . Desdemona in a red kimona can't get off the bench.
She didn't warn me the way she said she would she didn't say goodbye. I'd like to cheer my aching heart if I could I'd like to know the reason why. What part of my life she couldn't buy but I'll have a drink and then I'll cry.
There's a wind up in the trees. Like a voice that's whispering "please". Someone's decided on dividing. Everything in two. . I'd rip the money in half.
When July and then August came a quiet girl and strain. She drifted in on the midnight wind and never told her name. But I had no need for questions when she gave her love to me.
Perfect water. The dark wind braids the waves. The crazed birds raid the trees. Is this our destiny?. To join our hands at sea. And slowly sink, and slowly think.
Ann summertime again leaves are pretty green at falls in the stream. Ann summertime again I went to see our friend you know it's just a tree. I met a wise old possum goin' somewhere through the meadow.
Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old. Fell from the roof on east two-nine. Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug. On 26 reds and a bottle of wine. Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old.
You get nothin' back for all you've saved. Just eternity in a spacious grave. She said, "nothing is true, everything is permitted". . Things just go from bad to worse.
It was in the early morning when I looked through sleepy eyes. To find I had an angel by my side. It was in the early morning that I first would realized.
Your uncle's scandals shook the house of lords. Your daddy's squeezed out as chairman of the board. No more doctors write you no more 'scripts. No more intercontinental trips.
Johnny's trapping stars in his car. With the radio on. In the parking lot. . Lily heard a sound. While they were going down. Someone on el camino had been shot.
How I'd love to be around you when the lonely night surrounds you. How I'd love to be alone with you. What I'd give to have the power to read your mind an hour.
Last night all alone in a barroom met a girl with a drink in her hand. She had ruby red lips and coal black hair and eyes that would tempt any man. Then she came and sat down at my table and as she placed her soft hands in mine.
Hollywood looks good at night. The tvs get fine reception. But last night jean told steve. About her imminent conception. . She wants a plum tree for the house, for their child.
I am free as the trees free to wander anywhere I please. What all this world and the seven seas. Couldn't call me away if I could stay in these arms holding me.