Respect Is Due Lyrics

I pull my collar down low To show my sucking chest wound The taste of apple and tin On a hot spring afternoon A child screams in midair A diving board springs to place My eyelids b...Read Full Lyrics

Secret Curse Anonymous hex on flavorless food and terrible sex A day of no rhythm a night of no rest And I do not know what sin I have not confessed Secret Curse Terrible blight I...Read Full Lyrics

There is no heaven and there is no hell No limbo in-between -- I think it's all a lie Just a white light out to velvet black And back to neutral gray -- that's all when we die The...Read Full Lyrics

People ask how I've been doin since I lost you I say "i'm fine." I just say that I still feel like, oh, you're with me They smile, I speak They don't know what I got waitin' when I...Read Full Lyrics

The only thing worse than bad memories Is no memories at all From the age of 20 to 22 I had five friends None of whose names I can recall And as I would walk down K Street to some ...Read Full Lyrics

I have seen the world's most beautiful women undress in ordinary solitude I have fallen asleep in the shift of distant satin I have watched the rich risk it all for 15 minutes in a...Read Full Lyrics

Fourteen feet tall, and glassy and pale, and covered in soot I don't know who he was or what he was, the question was moot I laid in bed, too scared to speak, and watched him wat...Read Full Lyrics

In early '95, well, we got the dough so we could diversify Had a lot of money up in bioweapons which has low liquidity Sold a lot of Krugerrands and rubles to a bunch of really wei...Read Full Lyrics

Now I notice the streetlamp's hum The ghosts of graffiti they couldn't quite erase The blank-faced stares on the subway As the people go home The parks lay empty like my unmade bed...Read Full Lyrics

Pop open a bottle of bubbly...yeah. Here's to another goddamn new year. And outside, 2 million drunk Bostonians Are getting ready to sing "Auld Lang Sine"...out of tune. I sit ther...Read Full Lyrics