People Ain't No Good Lyrics

We've laid the cables and the wiresWe've split the wood and stoked the firesWe've lit our town so there is noPlace for crime to hideOur little church is painted whiteAnd in the saf...Read Full Lyrics

As the snow fliesOn a cold and grey Chicago mornA poor little baby child is born in the ghettoAnd his mama criesCause there's one thing that she don't needIs another little hungry ...Read Full Lyrics

The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my carDrifting down into the abattoirDo you see what I see, dear?The air grows heavyI listen to your breathEntwined together in this cultur...Read Full Lyrics

I set out on MondayThe night was cold and vastMy brother sleptI left quite quietlyMy father raged and ragedMy mother weptMy life was like a riverAll sucked into the groundAnd then ...Read Full Lyrics

We've laid the cables and the wiresWe've split the wood and stoked the firesWe've lit our town so there is noPlace for crime to hideOur little church is painted whiteAnd in the saf...Read Full Lyrics

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

This garden that I built for youThat you sit in now and yearnI will never leave it, dearI could not bear to returnAnd find it all untendedWith the trees all bended lowThis garden i...Read Full Lyrics

I went out walking the other dayThe heat hung wet around my neckMy head it rung with screams and groansFrom the night I spent amongst her bonesAnd I passed beside the mission house...Read Full Lyrics

I walk into the corner of my roomSee my friends in high placesI don't know which is which or who is whomThey've stolen each other's facesJanet is there with her high head and hairF...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