The Bottomless Hole 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

Up Falling Rock Hill where the leaves swoop like bats I shot my brother William five times in the back "Have mercy, have mercy, dear brother," he cried But the wind has no mercy...Read Full Lyrics

Above the dark highway, on a black tar roof Stood the sad milkman in love with the moon She filled up his window with soft milky light So he climbed up the chimney and into the ...Read Full Lyrics

Now that there are green sproutspushing through dead leaves And fat yellow jackets float on the breeze The waves kiss the shore and the air is warm But birch trees are falling now ...Read Full Lyrics

When you walked with me Away from the strip mall bar Across the highway To that little graveyard Where plastic flowers Bloomed in yellow grass We sat on a broken bench Listening t...Read Full Lyrics

When Stephen Foster died in a flop-house on the Bowery His worn-out wallet held just a quarter and a dime But the crocodiles, they have to eat, the crocodiles have to eat He s...Read Full Lyrics