Raising Steam Lyrics

Well, I saw a bird today --- flying from a bush and the Wind blew it away. And the black-eyed mother sun scorched the butterfly At play --- velvet veined. I saw it burn. With a win...Read Full Lyrics

Rare and precious chain -- Do I have to tell you, tell you once again? Under red lights, on soft nights, it all comes back to you. Rare and precious chain -- Binds me to your soul ...Read Full Lyrics

There's a black cat down on the quayside. Ship's lights, green eyes glowing in the dark. Two young cops handing out a beating: Know how to hurt and leave no mark. Down in the half-...Read Full Lyrics

Now is the solstice of the year. Winter is the glad song that you hear. Seven maids move in seven time. Have the lads up ready in a line. Ring out these bells. Ring out, ring sols...Read Full Lyrics

Savage night on a misty island. Lights wink out in the Canyon walls. Two old boys in a stolen racer. Black rubber contrails in The unwashed halls. And all roads out of here, seem t...Read Full Lyrics

Roll yer own. Don't mean you got no money. Only that you got no opportunity to shake it with that friend of mine. Roll yer own if you can't buy readymade; You won't be satisfied wh...Read Full Lyrics

Words get written. Words get twisted. Old meanings move in the drift of time. Lift the flickering torches. See gentle shadows change The features of the faces cut in unmoving sto...Read Full Lyrics

I chase your every footstep And I follow every whim. When you call the tune I'm ready To strike up the battle hymn. My lady of the meadows --- My comber of the beach --- You've thr...Read Full Lyrics

She dances through the flower-filled room - Sea-green eyes a-sparking. Or are they blue? The message clear: Seduce the master, winking. Dainty feet circles inscribe Upon the froze...Read Full Lyrics

She moves with machinery for the fancy sports car trade. Part of the industrial process: she sees that they stay made. She works from early A. M.. They work her to the bone. When I...Read Full Lyrics