Were They Happy? Lyrics

The overhead fan with the missing blade Cut thru the haze and the honky-tonk, Steel guitars and glittering shades, A broken window with bars at the back, That someone used to pass ...Read Full Lyrics

On a boat, in the night, you might see a light It might be red, or green, blinking or white. You can stand by the rail, looking out through the black, You can feel like a cat, tied...Read Full Lyrics

After I'd burned all my bridges again, And headed to some other government town, Trapped with rank strangers, where the fields had turned brown, That's when they told me that you w...Read Full Lyrics

Now I come down to this bar every evening I get here just about ten I been tryin' to get a little lovin' Can't remember how long it's been So if you'll just do me a favor Play that...Read Full Lyrics

(chorus) Eee Ex Posure, eeee ex posure, don't it sound so fine Eee Ex Posure, like a real fine wine Mmmmmmmm, don't it slide on down Right on down to the ground, Don't it sound eee...Read Full Lyrics

I was lookin' for a bar, just like Diogenes, Full of drunks, but not just any drunks, you understand: Philosopher drunks, and poet drunks--drunks trained by hand-- And beautiful wo...Read Full Lyrics

Por favor de no permitir a los niños Montar en o jugar los carritos No, no montar en o jugar con los carritos You brush your beautiful black hair out of your eyes, You pour the qu...Read Full Lyrics

Uncle old-time Charlie threw his fiddle up a tree My brother told me 'simmons was the thing that got his goat: He'd sat there on the back porch, drinking Elum tea, And went he fina...Read Full Lyrics

I was riding a train, or maybe a bar, In the winter of ought, in the new century, With Millennium Bud, and phones without wires, And my gal had gone off with a life all her own, St...Read Full Lyrics

Chorus: "When you're sitting up too late, and I have gone to bed, And the TV flickers bluely in your aching head, And you're staring out a window at a parking lot," you said. "Turn...Read Full Lyrics