January 1979 Lyrics

Not one motion of her gesture could I forget The prettiest bag lady I ever met Pushing her cart in the rain Then gathering plastic and glass She watched the day pass Not hour by ho...Read Full Lyrics

Why burn poor and lonely? Under a bowl Or under a lamp shade Or on the shelf beside the bed Where at night you lay turning Like a door on its hinges First on your left side Then on...Read Full Lyrics

I was looking at the leaves climbing to the tops of the trees but you were nowhere to be found.Just beneath all the green you were buried like a little seed among the roots and und...Read Full Lyrics

If you fail to see a problem, (which I find hard to believe), or if you're hanging on from benches licking honey from the leaves you say, "The hopelessness of living, the childishn...Read Full Lyrics

Call me outside I'll come running down.When I satisfied each need invented by my eyeI was a nest by a fox hole or dirt underneath your boot soles.When I satisfied each need invente...Read Full Lyrics

He made the world a grassy road before our bare, wandering feet, and crush the stones into the softest sand between our toes, but we're wondering where to sleepClever words on page...Read Full Lyrics

God is love and love is real, but the dead are dancing with the deadand whatever is charming disappears while all things lovely only hurt my head as I gather stones from fields lik...Read Full Lyrics

I wrote a four word letter Though i'd lived i hadn't been alive You held my hem but i traveled blind Thought i'd sold my soul for something better The rain came down, it wet my eye...Read Full Lyrics

I'll ring your doorbell until you let me inI can no longer tell where "you" end and "I" begin.Grape on the vine, Grape on the vineWe've been alone a long time.Grape on the vineWhy ...Read Full Lyrics

On a bus ride into town I wondered, "Why am I going to town?" As I looked around At the billboards and the stores I thought, "Why do I look around?" I got up and bowed And I kis...Read Full Lyrics