Today's Lesson Lyrics

I was just a boy when I sat downTo watch the news on TVI saw some ordinary slaughterI saw some routine atrocityMy father said, don't look awayYou got to be strong, you got to be bo...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

With a crooked smile and a heart-shaped faceComes from the West country where the birds sing bassShe's got a house-big heart where we all liveAnd plead and council and forgiveHer w...Read Full Lyrics

I was riding, I was riding homeThe sun, the sun, the sun was rising from the fieldI got a feeling I just can't shakeI got a feeling that just won't go awayYou've got to just keep o...Read Full Lyrics

I hold this letter in my handA plea, a petition, a kind of prayerI hope it does as I have plannedLosing her again is more than I can bearI kiss the cold, white envelopeI press my l...Read Full Lyrics

Alice wakesIt is morningShe is yawningAs she walks about the roomHer hair rolls down her breastShe is naked and it is JuneStanding at the windowI wonder if she knows that I can see...Read Full Lyrics

I got a blue birdA blue bird on my shoulderI got a blue birdA blue bird on my shoulderI saw her standingStanding by the waterShe was nakedHer hair in great disorderAnd I know why I...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

Through the woods, and frosted moorsPast the snow-caked hedgerows IBed down upon the drifting snowSleep beneath the melting skyI whisper all your namesI know not where you areBut s...Read Full Lyrics

I stepped out of the St. James hotelAnd I left you behind curled up like a childA change is gonna comeAnd as the door whispered shutI walked on down the high-windowed hallYou lay s...Read Full Lyrics