Is It True What They Say? Lyrics

There was a king who wouldn't smile Sat on the toilet reading ""The Trial."" His dogs chased their tails 'round and 'round Midget cars arrived stuffed with clowns Who served him q...Read Full Lyrics

Above the dark highway, on a black tar roof Stood the sad milkman in love with the moon She filled up his window with soft milky light So he climbed up the chimney and into the nig...Read Full Lyrics

Don't you remember that snowy December When we went to see Singing In The Rain? I shouldn't have smuggled in that bottle of gin 'Cause after the film I could barely walk But darli...Read Full Lyrics

Tuesday at dawn, Michael's glasses washed ashore With a styrofoam box and two broken oars He'd been digging for clams in the muddy swamp weeds When he heard the salt water whisper ...Read Full Lyrics

There are birds in the darkness That douse electrical fires Flaring up in nursing homes And the bedrooms of blind men Birds you cannot see There are birds in the darkness That nes...Read Full Lyrics

Old Enoch, he lived to be Three-hundred and sixty-five When the lord came and took him Back to heaven alive I saw, I saw the light come shining Shining all around I saw the light ...Read Full Lyrics

When you walked with me away from the strip mall bar Across the highway to that little graveyard Where plastic flowers bloomed in yellow grass We sat on a broken bench, listening t...Read Full Lyrics

Dented cars make me think of you Sitting on a red leather stool Drinking with your sunglasses on In the bowling alley bar And the sound of crashing pins Behind us when we kissed T...Read Full Lyrics

Like the thorn bush twines Against the chain link fence Like the spider spins its rings between the trees And the lonely sycamore bends to the breeze I am the puddles in the stree...Read Full Lyrics

I swear I heard a bird Calling high in the chestnut trees The sun was so bright That bird I couldn't see No matter where I stood I couldn't see beak or wing Just burning, blinding...Read Full Lyrics