Down here on the north side I'm rattling with a tin Down here on the river boat I got sand in my shoes It's hotter than asphalt It's harder than pistols I'm as bent as a crowbar We all want some...
Come on smoke Won't you rise and curl To the top of the sill Where the cool breeze spills Now that it's dusk Someone drive them off the streets Let the pavements cool Come on now So come on love Lay...
'Cause he's always living back in Dixon Circa nineteen forty-nine And we're all sitting at the fountain At the five and dime 'Cause he's living in some B-movie The lines they are so clearly drawn In...
Flowers growing By the drunken river flowers growing By the burning branches flowers growing Out of my bones On the toppled towers flowers growing On an island above flowers growing Behind a mirror,...
What did it mean to fly? A tremor in your soul To resist the dull insistence of gravity Upward bound, trees fly To meadows and the fields And the border is a simple line of hills Did you come uncoiled...
When I look up to the sky I see your eyes A funny kind of yellow Rush home to bed I soak my head I see your face underneath my pillow I woke next morning Tired, still yawning See your face looking...
I drive alone, home from work And I always think of her Late at night I call her But I never say a word And I can see her squeeze the phone between her chin and shoulder And I can almost smell her...
I'm alternating between heavy and light Between meaning and nonsense And having a drink I have counted all the lines on the road Between here and Los Angeles That pass straight below And I am dreaming...
I will sing I will be passed on over now Take the wheel Take me down Let me sleep till we have disappeared 'Cause we're moving from east to west Across the grey, it's meaningless On the borderline...
Well I lost an eye in Mexico Lost two teeth where I don't know People see me comin' and they move to the other side of the road I robbed a liquor store or two Made myself at home a few times Borrowed...