Selected Poems Lyrics

I don’t think I’m goin’ out anymore You better find some other body to comfort When I was trembling baby you was a diamond, But you ain’t a diamond no more So what you wan...Read Full Lyrics

Show me your hands! I wanna know how you dance, pretty baby, by the light of the moon. If you carry your lovers around in a heart like a tomb, with a view, I wanna know how you los...Read Full Lyrics

We're havin' a party, Everybody's swingin'. Tonight won't you come down, Don't make me dance all night alone (Alright!). Call up your girlfriends, come out tonight, I'll call up m...Read Full Lyrics

Come on skinny love just last a year Pour a little soap we were never here My my my my my my my my, my my Standing in the sea of blood And crushed underneath And I tell my love to...Read Full Lyrics

You better never tell nobody all the things I’ve seen How you bought this haunted city under … With many, many , many down servants In the service of their queen And let their ...Read Full Lyrics

On President Street You'll find the sisters Praying over My city's heart While Union avenue Turns to it's disciple Who feels the pressure heat coming on hard Chorus; And if all wa...Read Full Lyrics

Well I feel just like a stranger I don't sleep at all anymore And the arms that used to hold me Well now they done me harm And I feel just like a murderer And I feel just like a gu...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse:] Oh, my darling, you are the restless sea With your black heart raging over me As the blue skies see the same troubles as we To be true, I love the restless sea There are t...Read Full Lyrics

And in the first year of my former life I was 17 and a wildfire burning If I stretched out my hands I was convinced I could conjure angels And yeah I was pretty sure she was bullet...Read Full Lyrics

Well, I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go. I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow. When we float out into the ether, into the Everlasting Arms, I...Read Full Lyrics