The Engine Driver Lyrics

The gymnast, high above the ground, Limbers up and falls timbers down. Ankles splayed and all tied. The gymnast long has arrived. Lazy, your long sister lays Waiting out this long...Read Full Lyrics

Lay out the bowline Tether and belay Haul away There is amber in the embers There are riches on the ring Will I be so brave? We, beloved of the springtime Our reliance to ...Read Full Lyrics

Here she comes in her palanquin On the back of an elephant On a bed made of linen and sequins and silk All astride on her father's line With the king and his concubines And her nur...Read Full Lyrics

[Come and See] There's an island hidden in the sound Lapping currents lay your boat to ground Affix your barb and bayonet The curlews carve their Arabesques And sorrow fills the s...Read Full Lyrics

In the Kingdom of Spain There are such colours They defy any name Like drab and dolor But oh the King and the Queen of Spain With their long unpronounceable names Grace the table a...Read Full Lyrics

I'm a legionnaire Camel in disrepair Hoping for a frigidaire to come passing by I am on reprieve Lacking my joie de vive Missing my gay paris In this desert dry And I wrote my gir...Read Full Lyrics

We are two mariners Our ship's sole survivors In this belly of a whale It's ribs, our ceiling beams It's guts, our carpeting I guess we have some time to kill You may not remember...Read Full Lyrics

Two, three, four! I got a gun, I got a girl I got a bullet-proof plan to pull The perfect crime I got the perfect crime I got a warehouse down at the docks I got fifteen precinct...Read Full Lyrics

Sing, muse, of passion of the pistol Sing, muse, of the warning by the whistle A night so dark in the waning A dawn obscured by slate-sky raining Five and twenty burglars by the r...Read Full Lyrics

I had entered into a marriage In the summer of my twenty-first year And the bells rang for our wedding Only now do I remember it clear Alright, alright, alright No more a rake and...Read Full Lyrics