Clap Hands Lyrics

Put a dead cat on the railroad tracksWhen the wolf bains blooming by the tressleAnd get the eyeball of a roosterAnd the stones from a ditchAnd wash em down with bilge waterAnd say ...Read Full Lyrics

Davenports and kettle drumsAnd swallowtail coatsTablecloths and patent-leather shoesBathing suits and bowling ballsAnd clarinets and ringsAnd all this radio really needs is a fuseA...Read Full Lyrics

When I'm goneWhen I'm goneRoll my vertebrae out like diceLet my skull be a home for the miceLet me bleach like the bones on the beachI'll be hard like a pit from a peachNow the gro...Read Full Lyrics

There's a place for usSomewhere a place for usPeace and quiet and open airWait for usSomewhereThere's a time for usSomeday there'll be a time for usTime together with time to spare...Read Full Lyrics

Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blueScrawled across the shoulders of a dying townTook the one eyed Jacks across the railroad tracksAnd the scar on its belly pulled a stranger pa...Read Full Lyrics

Well, I broke down in East St. LouisThe Kansas City lineDrunk up all my money that I borrowed every timeAnd I fell down at the derbyThe night's as black as a crowIt was a train tha...Read Full Lyrics

Lay your head where my heart used to beHold the earth above meLay down on the green grassRemember when you loved meCome closer don't be shyStand beneath a rainy skyThe moon is over...Read Full Lyrics

Romeo is bleeding but not so as you'd noticeHe's over on 18th street as usualLooking so hatd against the hood of his carAns putting out a cigarette in his handAnd for all the pachu...Read Full Lyrics

Small change got rained on with his own thirty-eightAnd nobody flinched down by the arcadeAnd the marquees weren't weeping, they went stark-raving madAnd the cabbies were the only ...Read Full Lyrics

I love the wayThe tattered cloudsGo wind across the skyAs summer goesAnd leave meWith a tear in my eyeI'm taking out my winter clothesMy garden knows what's wrongThe petals of my f...Read Full Lyrics