Monkey's Paw Lyrics

Last spring, I spent a week in a convent in the Midwest. I'd been invited there to do a series of seminars on language. They'd gotten my name from a list in Washington, from a broc...Read Full Lyrics

My eyes snap open and I get up I say This must be my lucky day Jump up - get out - get on my way Every slobbery frog and every mangy dog That crosses my path reminds me You're m...Read Full Lyrics

Rain keeps pouring down houses are cracking. People drown. Cars are rusting here. A church floats by washed in the blood of the lamb. And all the superhighways have disappeared one...Read Full Lyrics

Sometimes I wish I hadn't gotten that tattoo sometimes I wish I'd married you one hundred fires one hundred days sometimes I feel like a stranger sometimes I tell lies (whoa ho) so...Read Full Lyrics

And oh it's so beautiful it's like the fourth of july it's like a christmas tree it's like fireflies on a summer night. And I wish I could describe this to you a little better. But...Read Full Lyrics

O superman. O judge. O mom and dad. Mom and dad. O superman. O judge. O mom and dad. Mom and dad. Hi. I'm not home right now. But if you want to leave a message Just s...Read Full Lyrics

One beautiful evening in the garden on Eden A snake came walking in the twilight He was leaning on his ivory cane And he said, let me tell you a little secret about life There's a ...Read Full Lyrics

How to find you, maybe by your singing A weird trail of notes in the water One white whale in all these oceans One white whale Slipping through the nets of silence Under polar Ice...Read Full Lyrics

They say that in 1842 on a plantation in Alabama The slaves unearthed a huge skeleton, The bones of a giant whale, A leviathan, From the time when all the world was covered with wa...Read Full Lyrics

It was one of those black cat nights the moon had gone out and the air was thin it was the kind of night that the cat would drag in. I'll never forget it, we had a fight. Then you ...Read Full Lyrics