She Awoke With A Jerk Lyrics

In the shadows, in the bushes, in the space between the leaves A spider in a thicket crawled up on my knee I put my gloves on, put my hat on, and I ran from the trees But that l...Read Full Lyrics

I had nothing to say on Christmas day When you threw all your clothes in the snow When you burnt your hair, knocked over chairs I just tried to stay out of your way But when y...Read Full Lyrics

My heart it goes out to that poor little Dutch boy who stopped a great flood with the tip of his thumb. Through parades and medals he felt no joy and took to his bed with a bot...Read Full Lyrics

In the last days of wonder When spirits still flew Where we sat holding hands In half-darkened rooms Nicola Tesla In the hotel New Yorker Nursing sick pigeons By the open window ...Read Full Lyrics

My name I don't remember, though, I hail from Ohio I had a wife and children, good tires on my car What took me from my home and put me in the earth Was the mouth of a deep, dar...Read Full Lyrics

My heart is a beating compass pointing to the pole The great expanse of stillness, the true magnetic north I know the sky blue longing of a cloud of spiraling birds All turning in ...Read Full Lyrics

The giant of Illinois Died from a blister on his toe After walking all day throughthe first winter's snow Throwing bits of stale breadto the last speckled doves He never even felt...Read Full Lyrics

I am eating hash browns in the snow white diner Outside cars are honking, flashing lights on the bridge They're pulling a car out from the bottom of the frozen lake A woman drove ...Read Full Lyrics

Chicago is where the woman downstairs Starved herself to death last summer Her boyfriend Ted ate hot dogs and wept With the gray rats out on the fire escape In a thrift store chai...Read Full Lyrics

There is a sound like breaking glass When water falls on dying grass There is a sound sung by the sea And plastic bags caught in trees There is a sound all buildings cry Rig...Read Full Lyrics