Running Scared Lyrics

Stay by me, stay by meYou are the one, my only true loveThe butcherbird makes its noiseAnd it asks you to agreeWith its brutal nesting habitsAnd its pointless savageryNow, the nigh...Read Full Lyrics

Come over here, babeIt ain't that badI don't claim to understandThe troubles that you've hadBut the dogs you say they fed you toLay their muzzles in your lapAnd the lions that they...Read Full Lyrics

One more man goneOne more man goneOne more man One more man goneOne more man goneOne more man One more man goneOne more man goneOne more man is gone The good son walks into the fie...Read Full Lyrics

As I sat sadly by her sideAt the window, through the glassShe stroked a kitten in her lapAnd we watched the world as it fell pastSoftly she spoke these words to meAnd with brand ne...Read Full Lyrics

Take a little walk to the edge of townAnd go across the tracksWhere the viaduct loomsLike a bird of doomAs it shifts and cracksWhere secrets lie in the border firesIn the humming w...Read Full Lyrics

I hold this letter in my handA plea, a petition, a kind of prayerI hope it does as I have plannedLosing her again is more than I can bearI kiss the cold, white envelopeI press my l...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

Last night my kisses were banked in black hairAnd in my bed, my lover, her hair was midnight blackAnd all her mystery dwelled within her black hairAnd her black hair framed a happy...Read Full Lyrics

Stranger than kindnessBottled light from hotelsSpilling everythingWet hand from the volcanoSobers your skinStranger than Kindness You caress yourselfAnd grind my soft cold bones be...Read Full Lyrics

Come in, babeAcross these purple fieldsThe sun has sunk behind youAcross these purple fieldsThat idiot-boy in the cornerIs speaking deviated truthsCome on, admit it, babeIt's a won...Read Full Lyrics