A Picture of Our Torn Up PraiseI don't want to take and baby
I don't want to break and baby
I don't want to try and make you anyway
I just want to lie down
Tell my crazy brains to lie down
And then fall away
I won't be alone
At Death, A ProclamationO in life
Through many dark rooms
We must go
And all right
Though many’s the hour
Will come to you sour and slow
And all night
Though flames in the forest ring halos
Dead HeartAround your head, drowned and wet
Is a ring of lights, buzzing lights
Cousin, light is not foreign
No, such is light in me tonight
I at all white and I not white
I at all white and I at not white
But wait I wasn't born
Joe Tex, These Taming BluesLyrics to Joe Tex, These Taming Blues :
is it ever gonna not be so hard to see you around?
am i really really really really gonna have to really gonna have to really have to leave town?
i mean i called upon a bunch of angels calling angels ain't you supposed to come and take away these blues?
i mean we came upon a bunch of rabies and there is nothing all us little animals can do.
Los AngelesThe road is alive
And everybody's all here
I'm closing my eyes
Till the colours appear
Oh me oh my
Ain't it funny up here
To stand in the light
Said I ain't came to Los Angeles just to die
My Heroes Have Always Been CowboysI grew up dreaming of being a cowboy
And loving the cowboy ways
Pursuing the life of my high riding heroes
I burned up my childhood days
I learned all the rules of a modern day drifter
Don't you hold on to nothing too long
Just take what you need and don't look back
New Birth in New EnglandI was sitting at a bar in New England
I was thinking about another beer
It had a lady playing on the piano
It was like it never got to my ears
I said, "Hey, I like it how you play the piano"
She just said, "Honey, what are you doing here?"
I said, "Well, I'm sitting in a bar in New England
I was thinking about another beer"
Not Right, You KnowThe papers say
What the papers always say
But fail to say what for
We looks like bad men
We looks like marching men
We looks like men of war
I'm sitting here resting my bones
reasons to quitReasons to quit
The coke and booze don't do me like before
Hardly ever sober and my old friends don't come around much anymore
Reasons to quit
Below it's always lower than the high
Reasons to quit
Don't out number all the reasons why
Song for ZulaSome say love is a burning thing
That it makes a fiery ring
Oh but I know love as a fading thing
Just as fickle as a feather in a stream
See, honey, I saw love,
You see it came to me
It puts its face up to my face so I could see
Yeah then I saw love disfigure me
the mermaid paradeIn New York this morning, it was 8am LA time
And I could be there by this evening
Said the girl on the airline line
So I bought that ticket, and I got in that cab
But I didn't make it babe
To the airport like that
No I wound up walkin
Toes out to SeaDrink in the darkness
Then in the morning wake to sing
I'm only breathing
To soak in the sweetness that you bring
Your pursed lips blow
Perfect o
As you break your body
Like waves onto me
Too Sick To PrayI've been too sick to pray, Lord
That's why we ain't talked in a while
It's been some of them days, Lord
I thought I was on my last mile
But I'm feelin' okay, Lord
And I'm glad that I called You today
Never needed You more
When We FallThe sky tonight at sundown looked like god himself
Feeding diamonds to his horses made of gold
And the secret here you know is that I love you so
But I don't want your heart to know
These darkened city sidewalks get so cold I know
When you're walking and you've got no one at all
But I saw holes beside my feet and they've got lights beneath the street
WolvesMama there’s wolves in the house
Mama they won’t let me out
Mama they’re mating at night
Mama they won’t make nice
They’re pacing and glowing bright
Their faces all snowy and white
Bury their paws in the stone