Airmail Lyrics

Runnin' downtown with the drag queens Turning tricks Down by the pier A twenty'll buy a balloon and some beer It's our weakness that makes us beautiful To God, That's what she sai...Read Full Lyrics

5 a.m., here comes the sun I hope I'm not the only one Alone in an automobile Passed out in an asteroid field Summer's gone, my fall's done come Those sparkling days when I was yo...Read Full Lyrics

Weather systems Baltic Sea Distant foghorns and some milky tea Amber scattered On the shores Washed up from ancient forest floors The earth pulls softly at my skin Beckoning me ho...Read Full Lyrics

Blue candles At noon Burn with a light That makes me think of you You went away too soon The evening We met The peculiar way You held your cigarette I knew we would be friends Lo...Read Full Lyrics

Late afternoon A girl in a black-lit room Music plays She dances her heart away Worn out days Head full of cheap cocaine Old memories fade Of Europe in younger days With long hair...Read Full Lyrics

She was married to the Bosphorus She threw her ring in then she blew a kiss To the Ottomans and Byzantines Lying beneath the sea She wore a pink and yellow summer dress She kept h...Read Full Lyrics

Agua de coco Caldo de cana Dentes de oro Confusao urbana The storm clouds roll in Set me free Fortuna It's late and I can't find my friends Caldo de cana Macumba da cidade chegou...Read Full Lyrics

She smelled like a thunderstorm When I met her Down in the Tenderloin Sipping tea Vicodin pills, some scotch And a sweater Soon I was feeling Back on my feet She lived in a littl...Read Full Lyrics

It started with a girl And some tickets 'round the world Searching for a life less dull Bangkok and Taipei Sao Paolo and Bombay A cheap guitar and sweet pancakes Lonely rain Lovel...Read Full Lyrics

Deng Xiaoping A true Asada king Lay dying in Shanghai A comet tracing through the sky Chairman Mao Heard thunder in the dawn The old guard's come and gone And underneath our world'...Read Full Lyrics