Dead and Lovely Lyrics

Muriel since you left townThe clubs closed downAnd there's one more burned out lamppostOn Main StreetDown where we used to strollAnd MurielI still hit all the same old hauntsAnd yo...Read Full Lyrics

Smelling like a brewery, looking like a tramp,I ain't got a quarter, got a postage stampBeen five o'clock shadow boxing all around the town,Talking with the old man, sleeping on th...Read Full Lyrics

She's my only true loveShe's all that I think of, look hereIn my walletThat's herShe grew up on a farm thereThere's a place on my arm where I've writtenHer name next to mineYou see...Read Full Lyrics

Well, I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see it in my dreams,Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and meHoist up a few tall cool ones, play some pool and listenTo that...Read Full Lyrics

I like my town with a little drop of poisonNobody knows, they're lining up to go insaneI'm all alone, I smoke my friends down to the filterBut I feel much cleaner after it rainsAnd...Read Full Lyrics

I don't mind working, 'cause I used to be jerking off most of my time in bars,I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerkAnd a manic mechanic on cars.It's ni...Read Full Lyrics

Rusted brandy in a diamond glassEverything is made from dreamsTime is made from honey slow and sweetOnly the fools know what it meansTemptationTemptationTemptationI can't resistI j...Read Full Lyrics

Little black girl in a red dress,On a hot night with a broken shoe.Little black girl you shouldn't never left home,There's probably someone that's still waiting up for you.It's col...Read Full Lyrics

Got no time for the corner boys,Down in the street makin' all that noise,Don't want no whores on eighth avenue,Cause tonight I'm gonna be with you.'Cause tonight I'm gonna take tha...Read Full Lyrics

Outside another yellow moonHas punched a hole in the nighttime, yesI climb through the window and down the streetI'm shining like a new dimeThe downtown trains are fullWith all tho...Read Full Lyrics