The Lyre of Orpheus Lyrics

[Chorus:]They call me The Wild Rose But my name was Elisa Day Why they call me it I do not know For my name was Elisa Day From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one As she...Read Full Lyrics

Stranger than kindnessBottled light from hotelsSpilling everythingWet hand from the volcanoSobers your skinStranger than Kindness You caress yourselfAnd grind my soft cold bones be...Read Full Lyrics

I went out walking the other dayThe heat hung wet around my neckMy head it rung with screams and groansFrom the night I spent amongst her bonesAnd I passed beside the mission house...Read Full Lyrics

Go son, go down to the waterAnd see the women weeping thereThen go up into the mountainsThe men, they are all weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping?They are all weeping...Read Full Lyrics

It was back in '32 when times were hardHe had a Colt forty-five and a deck of cardsStagger Lee He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old stetson hatHad a '28 Ford, had payments on thatSta...Read Full Lyrics

Through the windswept coastal treesWhere the dead come rising from the seaWith a teddy-bear clamped between her kneesShe says, where can my loverman be?Well, I'm down here, babe, w...Read Full Lyrics

When I came up from out of the meat-lockerThe city was goneThe sky's full of lightsThe snow provides a silent coverIn Moonland, under the starsUnder the snow and I followed this ca...Read Full Lyrics

I live in a town called MillhavenAnd it's small and it's mean and it's coldBut if you come around just as the sun goes downYou can watch the whole thing turn to goldIt's around abo...Read Full Lyrics

I got a womanShe rules my house with an iron fistI got a womanShe rules my house with an iron fistShe screams out Jack the RipperEvery time I try to give that girl a kissI got a wo...Read Full Lyrics

Tell me how long's the train been gone?Tell me how long's the train been gone?And was she there?And was she there?Tell me how long's the train been gone?Tell me how many coaches lo...Read Full Lyrics