Wreck of the Hesperus Lyrics

Your multilingual business friendHas packed her bags and fledLeaving only ash-filled ashtraysAnd the lipsticked unmade bedThe mirror on reflectionHas climbed back upon the wallFor ...Read Full Lyrics

Chicken in the farmyard, there's an oven in your bin You're growing old with sorrow, you're growing fat with sin I was living in the graveyard, I was hanging from the wall I was li...Read Full Lyrics

(brooker / reid)*Lime street in the afternoonEverybody crazy as a coonI'm running round in my underpantsTrying to find some kinda romanceQuarter past three [sic] on lime streetI go...Read Full Lyrics

Conquistador your stallion stands in need of companyAnd like some angel's haloed browYou reek of purityI see your armor plated breastHas long since lost its sheenAnd in your death ...Read Full Lyrics

I opened my eyes this morning and I wasn't at home in bedThere was four angels standing round me, I thought "I must be dead"Well, I opened my eyes this morning, thought "I must be ...Read Full Lyrics

Outside the gates of Cerdes sits the two-pronged unicorn Who plays at relaxation time a rhinestone flugelhorn Whilst mermaids lace carnations into wreaths for ailing whales And Nep...Read Full Lyrics

Tonight we sleep on silken sheets We drink fine wine and eat rare meats On Carousel and gambling stakeOur fortunes speed, and dissipateIt's candlelight and chandelier It's silver p...Read Full Lyrics

Bringing home the baconTender juicy steaks Breast-fed baby dumpling Gobbling up the cakes Milk-fed baby dumplingSlobbering, goo-faced, mean Wet-nursed sour purse spot faceBlubberin...Read Full Lyrics

Typewriter torment, dreadful diseaseCaught it the first day I touched the keysYou wear down your fingers and churn out your papIt eats up your life like a dose of the clapTypewrite...Read Full Lyrics

I was standing on the mountain top staring at the sunI was trying to act the hero's part not fooling anyoneI was living for the moment but the moment never cameTaking notes and ste...Read Full Lyrics