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Scene from a highway in the desert, 1989, first draft. I let the car drift some, Eye your uncomfortable pose and profile, The postures of long drives. Shifting numb and sore ...Read Full Lyrics

So now tell me how your story goes. Have you ever suffered? 
 If so, Did you get better or have you never quite recovered from it? 
 Did You find your lover laying in y...Read Full Lyrics

You still cross my mind from time to time. And I mostly smile. Still so set on finding out where we went wrong and why So I retrace our every step with an unsure pen, Trying to fig...Read Full Lyrics

You pray for distance I never change Buried it behind the brightness You plead for distance I never change Buried in behind the brightness Spill like poison in you My palm a...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, we could blame it on our hands They lifted the drink to our mouths so we drank it Or we could blame it on our bodies They say, we like the way we feel when we get touched You'v...Read Full Lyrics

1978. San Diego. I’d just come out the other side of a relationship that blew up…I was angry, and disillusioned, and ultimately self-destructive. I’d lost everything I believ...Read Full Lyrics

It was out on the highway It was warmer than blood It was spaces and basements Faces brimming with love It was nightfall to daybreak Finding a new way It was falling asleep a...Read Full Lyrics

An outcry, to lost dreams and sense of wonder To the streets that raised him. Say,"Goodbye" to the hope for the home he'd been holding. Say, "Goodbye" and "Be gone" and "Be great."...Read Full Lyrics

She forced a smile, said, "Boy, come kiss my mouth You know that hope you're holding to? It looks an awful lot like fear. Now, you're so quick to fall on failure, and so quick to r...Read Full Lyrics

I heard the old man's voice break, stutter once then stop it. I Heard
A sentence started confidently halted by the sudden absence of A word. Stumbled and he sputtered trying ...Read Full Lyrics