I Keep Losing Heart Lyrics

Common coldCommon coldChristmastime with the common coldOh I won't go backAnd I'm never getting over this common coldThey're much the sameHeading home on a planeLyin' on the border...Read Full Lyrics

It is winter again and you are fighting with your woman. From outside the apartment on the hill leading up Broadway, pressed against cold window glass, the warm glow you'd see woul...Read Full Lyrics

Work days become work months but your friends are still jobless, talented but so broke, freaking out on coke, snorting a raw nostril snarkt! of fire and oh and red chapped skin sit...Read Full Lyrics

Fuck your deadlines. Fuck your editors. Fuck friends. Fuck responsibility. Fuck living long. Fuck getting up in the morning. Fuck writing the big things. The wine bottle is rising ...Read Full Lyrics

when I heard you two endedmy plan was to stick up my hand real quicklet you know I was next in linebut that ain't a nice way to say ityour hair got cut weirdmy face growing oldyour...Read Full Lyrics

Open your shirt and feel the muggy haul of bayou summer Louisiana, of Tennessee terrapins poking black turtle skulls rippling above slime water, where a Confederate boy, 18 and fro...Read Full Lyrics

The evidence was there for you to point the finger A momentary lapse casts me into oblivion Am I wasting all this time Just trying to find the warmth in your eyes I've been holding...Read Full Lyrics

You stop and get gas again outside Baton Rouge. Alligator swamps out behind the station, you imagine rotting faces, murdered lovers of Southern lost teenagers, gray and belly down ...Read Full Lyrics

At night, flowered red crosses she points out while you drive and Robs asleep, markers beside the road reading in painted hand script: "Dave Jeffries 1967-2004" but meaning, "There...Read Full Lyrics

Then you're driving again. The sun is out and the summer shade from trees tiger-stripes the road. You are together again and you are heading home.You relate to the world through sm...Read Full Lyrics