One Straw (Please) Lyrics

I met you through a common friend In the attic of my parent's house And though I didn't know it then, I soon was finding out You are the roots that sleep beneath my feet And hold t...Read Full Lyrics

One for the righteous One for the ruling class One for the tyrant One for the slaughtered lamb One for the struggle One for the lasting peace One for you and One for me One for th...Read Full Lyrics

There's a car parked where the block begins And there's a bird perched on a frayed wet wire And these people singing praises Say it's all because of him And his voice sings out for...Read Full Lyrics

Grey like new day leaks through the window And some old song comes on the alarm clock radio You walk the forty blocks to the middle Of the place we heard where everything would be ...Read Full Lyrics

A natural noise, Is free in the air. Trying so hard, to give the whole block a scare. And that voice so true in my ear, I go next door, just to be near to it. Practice is done, Go ...Read Full Lyrics

Lately I've been wishing I had one desire Something that would make me never want another Something that would make it so that nothing matters All would be clear then But I guess ...Read Full Lyrics

The heat comes in distant shifts To fill up my room It spills out of these ancient vents To meet the new cold And I lay in my twisted sheets And stare out at the snow Thinking of t...Read Full Lyrics

I had a brother once He drowned in a bathtub Before he'd ever learned how to talk And I don't know what his name was But my mother does I heard her say it once Padraic my prince,...Read Full Lyrics

Poison Oak, some boyhood bravery. When the telephone was a tin can on a string. And I fell asleep with you still talkin' to me. You said you weren't afraid to die. In polaroids yo...Read Full Lyrics

My friend you were the model A priceless work of art Boys would fashion their emotions to the pattern of your heart And I heard you wrote that record for a girl you loved that died...Read Full Lyrics