Last Night I Went Out Walking 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 whisp...Read Full Lyrics

You are crouched before the fire In a state park by the highway And through the heavy pine trees Ten-ton trucks go groaning by Like the screams of your Aunt Barbara Who went...Read Full Lyrics

Like the thorn bush twines against the chain link fence Like the spider spins it's rings between the trees And the lonely sycamore bends to the breeze I am the puddles in the stre...Read Full Lyrics

I am afraid of bridges Sometimes I have to turn around When I'm driving towards one and my heart begins to pound Last night at the bridge to Johnsburg I swerved down a dead ...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, you little sparrows on a swaying branch Singing to the cars up on the overpass When you fly away from here take me with you when you go A herd of antelope, a sea of redwood tr...Read Full Lyrics

Love is like a white moth sipping tears from sleeping birds An asteroid in flames tumbling to Earth Raindrops sliding down the stems of orange leaves The flicker of a strange light...Read Full Lyrics

I swear I heard a bird 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 leaves,...Read Full Lyrics

Granny Green was stooped as a windblown branch She lived high in the bramble forest Once a fortnight, if the moon shone right, she came down to our little village She brought bl...Read Full Lyrics

My ghost drives around with a bag of dead fish Falling neutrinos drift through the trees He staggers and reels, runs up credit card bills And clogs up the toilet with bottles of pi...Read Full Lyrics

I saw a deer limp across A supermarket parking lot Last night as I drove home from work Old men sleeping in the dirt Abandoned buildings full of smoke Children jumping from ...Read Full Lyrics