People You Meet Lyrics

Whenever light shines down on misery It can only make things worse On the day we met she burned so bright I was lucky as a gypsy curse Well she was blushing like a wedding day Wit...Read Full Lyrics

She was the queen of the rummage sale The curator of a great collage She would rescue every beautiful thing The brick-a-brack, the hodgepodge And stack the boxes in her parents...Read Full Lyrics

Bed clothes, why am I in bed clothes? Watching out the window Watching what I don't know On the fire escape now Hands they start to shake now Ready for the rail to break now And I'...Read Full Lyrics

La la la la la la la la la Shanghaied La la la la la la la la la Shanghaied It was a cutty conversation Suddenly I'm rollin' in the dirt I tried to stumble down the passageway I h...Read Full Lyrics

South China moon What you trying to prove Shining like a light, in the night Put a thought in my head, Make me worry instead Burn a hole in my bed Out of spite, I just don't ge...Read Full Lyrics

That summer they came to chainsaw the trees That the beetles had scarred with their dreaded disease And so many tears poured right out of your head Stained the big pillow on your ...Read Full Lyrics

I got a book of photographs from old Sing Sing They used to say upstate, and that's what they'd mean It's such a prettier name for such an awful place And every page you're look...Read Full Lyrics

Once a great iron works Stood at the end of my street And they hauled in The Monitor Fit her with armor For to save the union fleet The River James was on fire As The Merri...Read Full Lyrics

You were saving the date But you woke up too late Pulled the covers down over your head You haven't left your front door For a week maybe more Tell me, hey, what's the news from yo...Read Full Lyrics

In rivulets the paper set The water rushed and tumbled All around our feet It was an inch deep in the street It started in a factory A block of flame A knot of smoke all gn...Read Full Lyrics