Straight to You Lyrics

All the towers of ivory are crumblingAnd the swallows have sharpened their beaksThis is the time of our great undoingThis is the time that I'll come runningStraight to youFor I am ...Read Full Lyrics

It's up in the morning and on the downsLittle white clouds like gambolling lambsAnd I am breathless over youAnd the red-breasted robin beats his wingsHis throat it trembles when he...Read Full Lyrics

AchtungYeahBorn of the riverBorn of its ever-changing, never-changing murky waterYeah, uhOh, river boat just rolling along Through the great, great greasy cityHuck standing like a ...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

Despair and deceptionLove's ugly little twinsCame a-knocking on my doorI let 'em inDarling, you're the punishment For all my former sinsI let love inI let love inThe door it opened...Read Full Lyrics

Mary, grab the baby, the river's risingMuddy water taking back the landThe old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beatingAin't no use to stay and make a standWell the morning l...Read Full Lyrics

The wintergreen, the juniperThe cornflower and the chicoryWell all of the words you said to meAre still vibrating in the airThe elm, the ash and the linden treeThe dark and deep, e...Read Full Lyrics

Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girlYou know, she lives in room 29WhyWhyThat's the one right up top a mineAh start to cry, Ah start to cryO Ah hear her walkin'Walkin' barefoot cross the f...Read Full Lyrics

O my o my, what a wretched lifeI was born on the day that my poor mama diedI was cut from her belly with a Stanley knifeMy daddy did a jig with the drunk midwifeWho's that yonder a...Read Full Lyrics

I don't believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if I did, I would kneel down and ask HimNot to intervene when it came to youOh, not to touch a hair on ...Read Full Lyrics