Maybe the Poet Lyrics

In a horse-powered sleigh at the top of the town Sun coming up paints the snow all around with rose light In front of the house where I'm supposed to be born I don't think I'm rea...Read Full Lyrics

Wind chimes flicker Brittle corners slide away Smile back at the day Shadows flying Like the mist before the sun See the sadness run Silk-spun web of pearls Glistens in the grass i...Read Full Lyrics

Musical friends are keeping me happy They know what I need Now I can sleep on anyone's floor without feeling cold Inside or outside me The closer we get the easier life be Comes f...Read Full Lyrics

Past the derelict mattress And the overgrown pavement Over the tracks And through the hole in the fence Past graffiti-bright buildings And the junkyard alarm bell And the screaming...Read Full Lyrics

Nanzen JiCooling windMind swept clean like arctic sandWhite stone lakeCrystal clearI walk on the voices of nightingalesPine-framed spaceTiger leapsEmerald tea reflects the Lord...Read Full Lyrics

Wind across the quay-side Grit in my eyes and fish in my nose White as whalebone, wheeling seagulls cry Outside the bar in the high street Blind fingers spin an accordion reel Sho...Read Full Lyrics

Breakfast wood smoke on the breeze On the cliff the U.S. Embassy Frowns out over Managua like Dracula's tower The kid who guards Fonseca's tomb Cradles a beat-up sub-machine gun At...Read Full Lyrics

Not a knife throw from here, you can hear the night train passing That's the sound somebody makes when they're getting away Leaving next week's hanging jury far behind them A priso...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, I have been a beggar And shall be one again And few the ones with help to lend Within the world of men One day, I walk in flowers One day, I walk on stones Today, I walk in ho...Read Full Lyrics

I've got planets in my palm, there's a red smear on the sky A star has just exploded somewhere behind my eyes In the dead of night the city seems to break down into tribes You star...Read Full Lyrics