Illinois Lyrics

And if you go walking, in a world made of stars The neon reflection, of your face in the dark And the heat of the city, in the curve of your palm Look away, my darling, look awa...Read Full Lyrics

The paper sits upon the step, the messenger already gone And lillian sits next to it, and looks across the coming dawn The type is bold enough to read, for eyes so tired and set ...Read Full Lyrics

Turn out the light, let’s be still for awhile Let the wind blow in with the rain A change in the season, a tangle of sheets And the heat pipe half broken again I watch you ...Read Full Lyrics

Rainbows and ridges, and rhymers and rhymes Lovers and music all have their time Someone gets started and someone resigns Interstate highways and buses and planes But we’ll...Read Full Lyrics

Come up to the house and ring the bell Beware the second step is rotted through And all across the lawn the fallen leaves Behind the door the shuffling of feet A face appears...Read Full Lyrics

When the buildings turn to tall grass, and the yellow lights to stars And the flag lies down at half mast, like a thousand times before Mother don’t forget the letters, sister ...Read Full Lyrics

Monday morning sidewalk man, sits back to watch the show The rebar and the wet cement, transistor radio He takes a pull from a paper bag, across the street on an old park bench ...Read Full Lyrics

The streetlights are diamonds, the sidewalk a bed Of boot heels and garbage and cigarettes And only the hopeless and lonesome are left To pin up the night and go home And i d...Read Full Lyrics

Everything is magical in slow motion The way you tilt your head under the sun And maybe it’s just yearning for a deep moment The heated kiss of heroes waking up But no one ...Read Full Lyrics

I came to see the flower stands, the vegetables, the cigarettes The subway station bucket man, the headphones and the heat I thought that I might try again, the living and the br...Read Full Lyrics