Please Wake Me Up Lyrics

Well the dawn cracked hard just like a bull whipCause it wasn't takin' no lip from the night beforeAs it shook out the street, the stew bums showed upJust like bounced checks, rubb...Read Full Lyrics

It's too early for the circus,It's too late for the bars,No one's sleepin' but the paperboys,And no one in this town is makin' any noise,But the dogs and the milkmen and me.The gir...Read Full Lyrics

Sticks and stones will break my bonesBut I always will be trueAnd when your mama is dead and goneI'll sing this lullaby just for youSo what becomes of all the little boysWho never ...Read Full Lyrics

Long way going toGet my medicineSky's the autumn grey of a lonely wrenPiano from a window playedGone tomorrow, gone yesterdayI found it in the streetAt first I did not seeLying at ...Read Full Lyrics

I left New York in 1949To go across the country without a bad blame dimeMontana in the cold cold fallFound my father in the gambling hallFather, Father where you been?I've been out...Read Full Lyrics

I was all night long on the broken glassLiving in a medicine chestMediteromanian hotel backSprawled across a roll top deskThat old monkey rode a blade on an overhead fanThey paint ...Read Full Lyrics

Peoria Johnson told Dirty Ol' JoeI can break out of any old jail, you knowThe bars are iron, the walls are stoneAll I need me is an old fishboneFish in the jailhouse tonight, all r...Read Full Lyrics

Nobody, nobody, will ever love youThe way that I love youCause nobody's that strongLove's bittersweet, life's treasures deepNo one can keep a love that's gone wrongNobody, nobody, ...Read Full Lyrics

Well she's up against the register with an apron and a spatula,Yesterday's deliveries, tickets for the bachelorsShe's a moving violation from her conk down to her shoesWell, it's j...Read Full Lyrics

Now you're gone, it's hotels and whiskey and sad-luck damesAnd I don't care if they miss me, I never remember their namesThey say if you get far enough away, you'll be on your way ...Read Full Lyrics