First Few Desperate Hours Lyrics

I've got you You've got whatever's left of me to get Our conversations are like minefields No one's found a safe way through one yet I spend a lot of money I buy you white gold We ...Read Full Lyrics

Look beyond the broken bottlesPast the rotting wooden stairsRoot out the wine-dark honeyed centerNot everyone can live like millionairesLook through the air-thin wallsTear up the f...Read Full Lyrics

This place with its old plantations These roads leading out to the sea This day full of promise and potential More clay pigeons for you and me All of them all of them All of them a...Read Full Lyrics

I was driving up from Tampa When the radiator burst I was three sheets to the wind A civilian saw me first And then there was the cop And then the children standing on the corner Y...Read Full Lyrics

I hear them squeal I see them preen Fans all spread out Neat and clean Grab hold of the morning Head out to the porch Feel the wind stopping Feel the sun scorch I fear for my safe...Read Full Lyrics

"My love is like a powder keg My love is like a powder keg in the corner of an empty warehouse Somewhere just outside of town About to burn down My love is like a Cuban plane My l...Read Full Lyrics

Tile floor of the bathroomScrubbed clean and brightCheckerboard white and greyTowels from the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Kingston JamaicaI can still see the rust colored stains todayThe...Read Full Lyrics

From the housetops to the guttersFrom the ocean to the shoreThe warning signs have all been bright and garishFar too great in number to ignoreFrom the cities to the swamplandsFrom ...Read Full Lyrics

Ah the lengthening hours in the refineryBelching fire into the skyWe do our best vampire routinesAs we suck the dying hours dryThe night is lovely as a roseIf I see sunlight hit yo...Read Full Lyrics

Turn the volume up real high All of that money look at it fly And you smoking like a chimney Shadows crawled across the living room's length I held onto you with a desperate streng...Read Full Lyrics