Graveyard Lyrics

In the year 2000 my age was 53Born in the first half of the last centuryI always was post-modern but that's ancient historyNow I'm the last man on EarthThat's what the matter is wi...Read Full Lyrics

Day is ending
 Birds are wendingBack to the shelter of
 Each little nest they love Nightshades falling
 Lovers calling
 What makes the World go round
 Nothing but love ...Read Full Lyrics

You never phone, you never writeHey, I've stopped hoping that you mightYou're trying to hurt my feelings, right?You never phone and you never writeYou never write, you never phoneI...Read Full Lyrics

When I run into friends of mine I haven't seen in yearsThey give me the once over then their eyes well up with tearsThen they pronounce me "looking great", I haven't changed a bitI...Read Full Lyrics

So I started out on High Street had to travel into townLike some Orpheus descending through a turnstile undergroundFrom Brooklyn Heights into Manhattan which was where I had to beN...Read Full Lyrics

On my way Thursday from the Y I heard it in the carBob Edwards broke the news tonight yes he of NPRDriving through Montgomery I hung my head and criedThen visited Hank Williams gra...Read Full Lyrics

I've seen the family photosAnd the man's a mysteryDied in 1942 at the age of 43My grandmother was his widowAnd my father was his sonOh, but I know next to nothingOf the first Loudo...Read Full Lyrics

My grandmother was like no otherToo bad you didn't meet herEvery day at three she'd have G and TAt bridge you could not beat herChristmastime she'd end up cryingListening to Cheval...Read Full Lyrics

Up there over Wilshire the whirly-birds zoomAbove the El Rey, circling the Conga RoomThey turn on the lights, pull out the stoppersGet off the streets now, here come the choppersHe...Read Full Lyrics

I wish I was in Carrickfergus, only for nights in BallygrandI would swim over the deepest ocean, the deepest ocean for my love to findBut the sea is wide and I cannot swim over and...Read Full Lyrics