Grave Clothes Lyrics

Sweet mother come down and say your prayersFor the fields are rank with summer, as if God just left them thereAnd who is that caught in your death row stareAll your Midwest sons an...Read Full Lyrics

Heydays are passing.Your house has been rentedSeveral times overBy prettier girls.Weekends and summers,Bands that you lovedWere just haircuts and jackets.Back then that was enough....Read Full Lyrics

The lilacs hum against my Schwinn.There! Lions waitIn the sweet faded grass.Thunder tumbling andRising with the moonRevolving gates, I slip past.Down to Electric Park,Warmer winds ...Read Full Lyrics

I know you're drinking down at the Barley FoolOh, the wind blew in through my window and spoke of youIt spoke of heartache, whiskey and grenadineI drink the Great Lakes dry man, bu...Read Full Lyrics

Time would stop and in silence shake when I'd shape my arm around your waist. And though nighttime brought your heaviest freight, some did never sleep, some did never wake. The por...Read Full Lyrics

Blue ship sail me,Lost in the slipper of the night.Full steam daily,Puffing like a fisherman's pipe.Walking up the main streetsSmiling, seeing things.Far away a season is zipping u...Read Full Lyrics

Ooh, love,Weathervanes and charmsMay protect your home.But ooh, love,Don't get caughtAt night in the fields alone.Ooh, love,Are your nights with himWorth the seeds we'd sown?And oo...Read Full Lyrics

Lost dog over the train tracksMoonlight falls on a Midwest main streetWhere all of the dogs eat good meatAnd nobody shows their real faceOver the train tracks all the stoplights fa...Read Full Lyrics

I took a walk into the pinesI left a million trees behindThey closed the hill I used to climbHere's my rewardBack in the days of apple pieI'd lie along the mountainsideI'd watch th...Read Full Lyrics

I hear the freight trains go by a like a clipper ship sinkingI close my eyes; write my name on the windowpane thinkingOh, my heartI'm going down with what's left of the mastI fear ...Read Full Lyrics