The Perpetual Self, Or What Lyrics

All I had hoped for I kept inside your car The rabbit in the barn Most of all I wait I wait beside the door I wait beside the door And all I was wrong trembling in the cag...Read Full Lyrics

All things passed in the pick-up Found my brother's badge Abraham is alive and well In the pick-up And his wife casts no more spells In the pick-up Found myself in the pick-up Sea...Read Full Lyrics

In the tower above the earth, There is a view that reaches far Where we see the universe, I see the fire, I see the end. Seven miles above the earth, There is Emmanuel of mothers....Read Full Lyrics

Thinking outrageously I write in cursive I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor Wearing three layers of coats and leg warmers I see my own breath on the face of the door Oh...Read Full Lyrics

I L L I N O I S Ring the bell and call or write us I L L I N O I S Can you call the Captain Clitus? (Who will save it?) Logan, Grant, and Ronald Reagan (Dedicate it?) In the g...Read Full Lyrics

I live in America With a pair of Payless shoes The upper penisula And the television news And I've seen my wife At the K-Mart In strange ideas We live apart I live in a trailer ho...Read Full Lyrics

If you happen to be educated Time it marches on, Oh time it marches on. In the end there is a sacred show Delivers every song, Delivers every song. Mourning steps and Mourning gal...Read Full Lyrics

I'd swim across lake Michigan I'd sell my shoes I'd give my body to be back again In the rest of the room To be alone with you To be alone with you To be alone with you To be alon...Read Full Lyrics

Tonya Harding, my star Well this world is a cold one But it takes one to know one And God only knows what you are Just some Portland white trash You confronted your sorrow ...Read Full Lyrics

As if you know the story of Wallowa Lake Leviathan first hid in the deep where her children sleep She kept them hidden from the plague But have you heard the story of my motherâ...Read Full Lyrics