The Sad Milkman 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

There's a fish in my stomach a thousand years old Can't swim a full circle, The water's too cold Burnt out cars in my fingers, Conveyor belts flow, right angles and steam whi...Read Full Lyrics

Lovely Mary Sweeney, the famous window smasher Was just a quiet school marm from Lacrosse, Wisconsin She took a pinch of cocaine but only for her nerves Laudanum for trembling h...Read Full Lyrics

Heaven was a place we built out of stone Just like a fever, dream, causing mold I know it pains me to treat you unkind The cloud is greater, oh, love is blind All we want, baby, i...Read Full Lyrics

Like four million tons of hydrogen Exploding on the sun Like the whisper of the termites Building castles in the dust You're no longer leaving foot prints You left your wallet on t...Read Full Lyrics

Give me a swamp, a deep dark bog Where I can lose my way in pools of slippery mud Give me cold, cold rain; a cloud of stinging bugs Deadly nightshade, poison oak; give me the wild,...Read Full Lyrics

Oh how you're so pretty Painting my baby's face so we're all black eyed Trash from the city Drifts through the parking lot and floats up to the sky Uh huh uh huh uh huh Uh huh uh ...Read Full Lyrics

Her dress was dark and clean, And how did you get here, You twist all over me, Like you were caught in the wind And we were cold callin'. Oh Evangeline. Oh Evangeline. Imagine...Read Full Lyrics