Decree Lyrics

Fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone Three o'clock in the afternoon and I am going home F train is full of high school students So much shouting So much laughter...Read Full Lyrics

The big day has come The bell is sounding I run my hands through my hair one last time Outside the prison walls The town is gathering People are trading crime for crime Everyone n...Read Full Lyrics

The wind is ruthless The trees shake angry fingers at the sky The people hunch their shoulders Hold their collars over their earsand run by It's a cold rain It's a hard rain Like t...Read Full Lyrics

Life used to be life-like Now it's more like showbiz I wake up in the night And I don't know where the bathroom is And I don't know what town I'm in Or what sky I am under And I wa...Read Full Lyrics

Cold and drizzly night in chicago's deep dish Fluorescent light of the bathroom Shows my hands as they are See an eyelash on my cheek Pick it off and make a wish And walk back out ...Read Full Lyrics

Perpetrating counter-culture she is walking through the park First light ugly and more muscular than the dark Pushing poems at the urban silence Drawing portraits of the passers-by...Read Full Lyrics

Looks like my crazy family Is down one crazy daughter cuz I'm shipwrecked in a desert that Once was underwater just Looking for a swift turn of phrase Some colors to fly As I float...Read Full Lyrics

From the depth of the pacific To the height of everest And still the world is smoother Than a shiny ball-bearing So i take a few steps back And put on a wider lens And it changes y...Read Full Lyrics

Emancipated minor Well directed, brilliantly casted Riding a Greyhound down to the city With her fake I. D. And a hell of a little hand basket Little game of seesaw, then he came ...Read Full Lyrics

I saw on the poster My name was printed Just a little bit smaller I can tell you need to stand Just a little bit taller No one ever talks about it But no one can disguise The cloud...Read Full Lyrics