Barricades Lyrics

It's when billy's whores are re to seeorkin' They're workin' with the skeleton crew It's when the sky over jersey That sky starts to drain from view It's when my woman pawns her vo...Read Full Lyrics

I was born in a pool, they made my mother stand And I spat on that surgeon and his trembling hand When I felt the light I was worse than bored I stole the doctor's scalpel and I sl...Read Full Lyrics

It must be strange to just fall from the stage And snap a bone that is so close to the brain And be attended to by so many down below I saw a doctor tie you up from so far above An...Read Full Lyrics

I smoke a cigarette As I wait in the bath And I wait for you For an hour and a half And I go to the window Where the sky falls down in rains And I look across the river Where they ...Read Full Lyrics

Day and night. .. The shadows move too slowly From dark to light she promised she could know me Remember when. .. I watched her on the stairway She was drinkin' wine. .. And she to...Read Full Lyrics

Each night, they surround me With the lights and the microphones . . . With their bodies and the mile of cable Like a magic ring of bone Every night I have the same dream: A man b...Read Full Lyrics

I hitched a ride to a desert town (I never planned this trip) I saw my past in the sun like a tongue (that slowly dripped) People faced me with lazarus eyes They were red and dazed...Read Full Lyrics

He was feeling invulnerable That was foolish but wonderful But of course the first one was always free He's got one wrist in heaven, one ankle in hell Somebody pushed or he just fe...Read Full Lyrics

I'm walking uptown I hear a most peculiar sound Like a seashell in my ear Like the ocean was near I go inside this store To get my head clear Once I'm inside the air is fresh as [...Read Full Lyrics

"Every crowd of younger has had it's little games to prove if you're punk or not. My cousin in New York plays 'Chickie', Which is two cars heading towards each other at about 80 mi...Read Full Lyrics