California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade Lyrics

Grace cathedral hill All wrapped in bones of setting sun All dust and stone and moribund I paid twenty-five cents to light a little white candle For a new year's day I sat and watc...Read Full Lyrics

And here I dreamt I was a soldier And I marched the streets of Birkenau And I recall in spring The perfume that the air would bring To the indolent town Where the barkers call the ...Read Full Lyrics

There is a road that meets the road That goes to my house And how it green grows there And we've got special boots To beat the path to my house And it's careful and it's careful w...Read Full Lyrics

They've come to find you odalisque As the light dies horribly On a fire escape you walk All rare and resolved to drop And when they find you odalisque They will rend you terribly ...Read Full Lyrics

I'm a legionnaire Camel in disrepair Hoping for a frigid heir to come passing by I am on reprieve Lacking my joie de virve Missing my gay Paris In this desert dry And I wro...Read Full Lyrics

There's a place your mother goes When everybody else is soundly sleeping Through the lights of beacon street And if you listen you can hear her weeping She's weeping 'Cause the ge...Read Full Lyrics

This cocoon, caught in Vesuvius' shadow Only the ashes remain And I waited there for you Why couldn't you? Here we lie waiting for something to startle To shake us from gravity's p...Read Full Lyrics

You slept in your overallsAfter the wrecking ballBereft you of house and homeAnd left you with sweet fuck-allSo we got in your carWith our kickabout heartsAnd we hollered out, "Swe...Read Full Lyrics

My name is Leslie Anne Levine My mother birthed me down a dry revine My mother birthed me far too soon Born at nine and dead at noon Fifteen years gone now I still wander this par...Read Full Lyrics