Fires (Which Burn Brightly) Lyrics

Tonight we sleep on silken sheets We drink fine wine and eat rare meats On Carousel and gambling stakeOur fortunes speed, and dissipateIt's candlelight and chandelier It's silver p...Read Full Lyrics

Still scowling black Good Captain Clack Must eat his humble pie His bed is made The colors fade His eyes once wet are dry The naked muse Who sits and chews Tobacco off a tree Remov...Read Full Lyrics

It seems as clear as yesterdayWe saw it in a dreamBut dream became insanityAn awful gaping screamSo sad to see such emptinessSo sad to see such tearsAnd heaped up leaves of bittern...Read Full Lyrics

Ain't gonna ride that whisky train Ain't gonna burn up no more flame Throw away my bottle down the drain Ain't gonna ride that whisky train To think that I could be so wrong To be ...Read Full Lyrics

For you (whose eyes were opened wide whilst mine refused to see) I'm sore in need of saving grace. Be kind and humor me I'm lost amidst a sea of wheat Where people speak but seldom...Read Full Lyrics

Tonight we sleep on silken sheets We drink fine wine and eat rare meats On Carousel and gambling stakeOur fortunes speed, and dissipateIt's candlelight and chandelier It's silver p...Read Full Lyrics

They tell us that we're savages Who haven't got a hope We're burning in the furnaces, We're choking at the smoke They say we haven't got a choice, Refuse to recognize our voice Yet...Read Full Lyrics

Climbing out of open windows Crashing down from broken stairs Keeping watch on smoking cinders Falling over burning chairs Tossed and crossed and screwed in transit Broken , splint...Read Full Lyrics

I sat me down to write a simple story Which maybe in the end became a song In trying to find the words which might begin it I found these were the thoughts I brought along At first...Read Full Lyrics

My Prussian-blue electric clock's Alarm bell rings, it will not stop And I can see no end in sight And search in vain by candlelight For some long road that goes nowhere For some s...Read Full Lyrics