Paris Is Burning Lyrics

Baptized in the shallow end Of a Holiday Inn Limbs dangled over my Pa Like an inverse Pietà Mother Nature cried "You are Leviathan, my child You are Leviathan inside" A...Read Full Lyrics

Pills to wake, pills to sleep Pills, pills, pills every day of the week Pills to walk, pills to think Pills, pills, pills for the family I spent a year suspended in air My m...Read Full Lyrics

Prince Johnny, you're kind but you're not simple By now I think I know the difference You wanna be a son of someone Remember the time we went and snorted that piece of the Berlin ...Read Full Lyrics

Running down the highway like a psychopath All the flames and fury honey at my back Wanna make a bet whether I make it back cause I'm on the edge of a heart attack You said "Honey...Read Full Lyrics

Follow the power lines back from the road No one around so I take off my clothes Am I the only one in the only world? I see the snake holes dotted in the sand As if the Seurat pai...Read Full Lyrics

Morning pry the windows open Let in what's so terrifying Summer is as faded as a lone cicada call Memories so bright I gotta squint just to recall Regret the words I've bitten more...Read Full Lyrics

The keys are in my pocket And they rattle you awake Seventh floor apartment And a fiery escape But I'm a wife in watercolors I can wash away What seventeen cold showers Couldn't w...Read Full Lyrics

You dress me up in a nurse's outfit It rides and sticks to my thighs and my hips You put me in a teacher’s little denim skirt Ruler and desk so I can make it hurt But I kee...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1] No eyes are on the sparrow, eyes are on the sparrow He is singing anyway The lark keeps whistling his number, silly little number Although he's being chased And no eyes a...Read Full Lyrics

When your calling ain't calling back to you I'll be side-stage mouthing lines for you Humiliated by age, terrified of youth I got hope but my hope isn't helping you Spitting at gu...Read Full Lyrics