Lillian & Martha 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

The only light in the basement apartment, a blue tv glow through the blinds The flicker and din in the dark of a Saturday night A raven’s asleep in the rafters, a stray cat cir...Read Full Lyrics

Red-tail hawk on a split-rail fence The gathering dark of the night begins Cicada choir on the rising wind A lonesome beauty over everything And winding highway let me make i...Read Full Lyrics