Mermaids Lyrics

As I walk these narrow streetsWhere a million passing feet have tromped before meWith my guitar in my handSuddenly, I realize nobody knows meWhere yesterday the multitudeScreamed a...Read Full Lyrics

I don't believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if I did, I would kneel down and ask HimNot to intervene when it came to youOh, not to touch a hair on ...Read Full Lyrics

Say goodbye, my one true loverAnd we'll steal a lover's songHow it breaks my heart to leave youNow the carnival has goneOh my love, the dawn is breakingAnd my tears are falling rai...Read Full Lyrics

And what costume shall the poor girl wearTo all tomorrow's partiesA hand-me-down dress from who knows whereTo all tomorrow's partiesAnd where will she go and what shall she doWhen ...Read Full Lyrics

It began when they come took me from my homeAnd put me in Dead RowOf which I am nearly wholly innocent, you knowAnd I'll say it againI am not afraid to dieI began to warm and chill...Read Full Lyrics

Onward! And Onward! And Onward I goWhere no man before could be bothered to goTill the soles of my shoes are shot full of holesAnd it's all downhill with a bulletThis ramblin' and ...Read Full Lyrics

Up those stone steps I climbHail this joyful day's returnInto its great shadowed vault I goHail the Pentecostal mornThe reading is from Luke 24Where Christ returns to his loved one...Read Full Lyrics

What we once thought we had, we didn'tAnd what we have now will never be that way againSo we call upon the author to explainOur myxomatoid kids spraddle the streetsWe've shunned th...Read Full Lyrics

I lay down by the riverThe shadows moved across me, inch by inchAnd all that I heardWas the war between the water and the bridgeTurn to me (turn to me)Turn to me (turn to me)Turn t...Read Full Lyrics

I remember a girl so very wellThe carnival drums all mad in the airGrim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bellOh where do we go now but nowhereIn a colonial hotel we fucked up...Read Full Lyrics