Knuckledown

That's just my cowgirl alter-ego Riding on her bar room bull Dripping with the sweat of irony As the cowboys whoop and drool Shooting glances at the mirror To see if her scar is showing She is truly...

Come home and my guitar Has nothin to say to me I recoil from all my friends And then I'm in misery Been so long since I've been held Really since I was his Probably just need to be held That's...

You're my seeing eye dog and I am blind You take me there every time With that winning combination of loyal and kind Your eyes like wells to the water of your mind I want to take a long, cool drink...

I'm holding here a book Notable, but not the greatest Stolen for me by the latest In a long line of thieves And I'm just about to drop it Down that manhole of memories When I realize it doesn't bother...

There's really no hope for me And that three second rule Somethin gets dropped And still I'm the slowest damn fool Slow to realize what's really going on Slow to know in a moment Who or what has gone...

Sunday morning Slow beats seething Through the screens in The open windows Eggs frying Legs shaking After we stayed lying So long in bed Sunday morning Both of us reading And looking up occasionally...

In order to Say thank you to you I must do it intentionally But tonight with every breath I can feel my death Sure as I can feel my knees You were my modulation So that's what you will always be We...

You wandered in To the forest Following that shiny red ball And by the time you looked up You were lost But that's not all You confused your journey With my journey You tried to nail me Like minerva...

I am out here studying stones Trying to learn to be less alive Using all of my will To keep very still Still even on the inside I've cut all of the pertinent wires So my eyes can't make that...

Thirty-three years go by And not once do you come home To find a man sitting in your bedroom That is A man you don't know Who came a long way to deliver one very specific message: Lock your back door,...