On Coming From A Broken Home Lyrics

Picture a man of nearly thirty Who seems twice as old with clothes torn and dirty Give him a job shining shoes Or cleaning out toilets with bus station crews Give him six child...Read Full Lyrics

I sail out on my paper ship The sea is made of fire I ride my horse of nuts and bolts We made to never tire The world is just a simple circle I've got to keep on turning, ye...Read Full Lyrics

I believe that the spirits are your parents And their parents and their parents and their parents And they are in your bloodstream And they run through your body constantly Bec...Read Full Lyrics

Jagged jigsaw pieces Tossed about the room I saw my Grandma sweeping With her old straw broom But she didn't what she was doing She could hardly understand That she was really swee...Read Full Lyrics

Glad to get high and see the slow motion world Just to reach, and touch, the half notes floating Worlds spinning orbit quicker than 9/8ths Dave Brubeck We come now, frantically ...Read Full Lyrics

Because I always feel like running Not away, because there is no such place Because, if there was I would have found it by now Because it's easier to run, Easier than staying and f...Read Full Lyrics

If you're driving through the country on a lazy afternoon Or you're watching your children playin' after school They seem to be so unaware of I know I know The things that they ...Read Full Lyrics

I was doin' it when I was a colored boy of eight or nine or ten I had never heard of Sigmund Freud but hell I was doin' it then I was doin' it in my teenaged years when I was run...Read Full Lyrics

His eyes half closed revealed his world of nod, A world of lonely men and no love, no god, His life of seeming nonchalance can't hide, The pain and fear that in his mind reside,...Read Full Lyrics

This is just like listening to a conversation being held by the many people who congregate on one of the most popular blocks in the largest area of black America Did you e...Read Full Lyrics