- Ambition
Forget about suzanne
she’s with another man
don’t worry about your boy,
he’s got a computer
forget about the role,
it went to some other bloke,
so what you’ll never meet
- Amitriptyline
So long, goodbye, by order of the Pasadena Court
So long, goodbye, 500 milligrams
Held down by a pharmaceutical hand
Are needed everyday, so we can regulate
My uncontrollable urge
Remember me as I was
Too much life and oh, too much love
- Big Band Stars
We set out in tennis shoes,
ski jackets, and driving gloves
we crossed lonely fields of snow,
in early evening the sky heather glowed
in a frozen, dilunar marsh,
we stumbled on wbbr
A substation radio tower
- Bill Gates Must Die
teeny tiny little teens
keep pouring out of my machine
i just typed a word
and i just pressed return
someone made this easy
someone made this inevitible
so for bringing me here
- Central Booking
I got your letter with the stamp of Godard
I'll never open it I know how dead we are
The splotches of ink are not tears, they're not blood
And hope our K1's not physical love
The whole mess could sink me again
You stay in Corvisart
I'll stay in bed
- Coming And Going On Easy Terms
Window seats on bullet trains
Smear land into sky
Fear and sorrow coalesce
now I'm trying to find that quiet place
Where living is breathing
Not knowing is understanding
Coming is going
- Confusion Boats
My bed was floating in the ocean
A swarming jellyfish pulled us over the surface
The sun, the sun was crying diamonds
For every broken masthead
And scotch taped sail that passed us by
We hung on, hung on
Two orphan monkeys
- Exodus Damage
I'll see you next fall
At another gun show
I'll call the day before, like usual
But I wanted so much more
I got exodus damage bleed
Could not commit
Some things I'll never be
- From Out Here
From out here
I can see the boardwalk's fluttering lights
And hear the pinball singing bright
Crashing against the summer night
From out here
I can see the cyclone's terrible flight
I died a little on that second bend
- Hard Times
Oh that summer with you
I clearly remember
We swimming off the Serbian coast
And you reread and you reread hard times
After the way it ended
I was bloody and bruised
I needed to find out why you cut me off
- Harlequin Press
At the harlequin press I met a girl in a blue wool dress
Her manuscript in hand
Confused and unprepared, I offered to help I know an editor here,
I know Him well
she gave me her proof and I took it home
It was a promising, total mess
- How the West Was Won
The hand that cut this barley, I’d like to know
The pale blue lips that blew the life into this stereo oh I’d like to know
Oh I’d like to know
Don’t it feel good
To be understood tonight
You asked me when’s the last time I stared into
Your sharp black jeweled eyes,
Even then you knew we were through
I didn’t know I didn’t know
Then you got up to go
- June July
June July I went home to live with my mom
At night I sat out to watch cicadas on the lawn
June July, confusion tennessee
Here sherman's army leveled troops in 1863
now those battlefields are marked and paragraphed
And maintained by national park service trust
- Me And My 424
You know it's the time
So goodbye for now
I crudely descend
The stairway to defend
Me and my 424
I piss you off in slanted rhyme
Walk away in 3/4 time
- New Zealand Pines
Golden gate park
We walked our Mondays there
Safe inside our replica
They have a garden there
Where climates of the world
Are laid out on a walking tour
- Nikki Oh Nikki
You know that guy
Who stole your girlfriend
Away from you
In the summer of '95
He's going to die
You know her name
Sits in your brain
- North Coast Rep
In the last known photograph
Of you and me sprawled on the grass
You looked off frame
You were through with this stupid play
You looked off frame
I didn't recognize the boy I once knew
Lost Sonoma Hills matched perspective with my silver stills
We followed the old mule trail
To mining camps and dried blood red shale
You should stay
You're just going to leave this place anyway
You should know by now
You're going to ruin the show
You're the last friend I have
Among the crew and cast and staff
They'll replace you with an unknown hack
You're the last the friend I have
- Oblivion
Oblivion
I took a blow to the head
mechanical pencil filled with lead
I took a shot it's all she got
I took a knock it's everything she got
forgive me I'm ready to live
- Raw Wood
One day the paint will be stripped right off
Your pretty veneer and you can bet for sure
Raw wood never looked so good
One day the pain will pass on from me to you it will then be clear
if it's really true:
I've moved on
I set up camp in the woods where the trail falls off for good
I set up in wildcat camp
Just me and the owls and the bats
In the deep dark woods alone with my fears under the jackpine
The sky was galvanized
- Sunken Union Boat
Out past the Levy county line
Coffee black Suwannee river blends into the coast
Gushing water crimson copper boil
I grew up there the bottom of the swimming hole
Fresh blood comes rushing back to me
I never thought I'd remember all of this
Oh dear me
- The Parade
Be calm, be quiet
As your mom walks by
Be calm, be quiet
When your mom walks by
And look at me
And follow my lead...
I'm combing my hair
- Time to Go
We pushed the horses as long as we could
Over Cooley Pass into Sierra Woods
Burned the wagon wheels for heat, for food
We cut down Timothy Gant who died so twelve
Could make it through
Time to go
We’ll never make come back
- Tremble And Tear
Over here
I was buried nearly in the snow, snow, snow
There’s an overseer
To a true believer
I’m letting go, go, go
Here comes the one
Yeah she‘s the one
- Underneath The Leaves
All hail the swelling sun
As acid seeps and autumn bleeds
And the glowing has just begun
Every winter time is kindly now
The ground is sprouting out
I got my shirt off and my face up against
The ground
- Up Above the Sea
The sun came up
Up above the sea
The streaming clouds
Tore into my tranquility
Out my window
I could see
A bird drop down
- When It Hits My Blood
I stole from my mother
To hock her TV
She locked herself in the bathroom
She locked herself away from me
I'm not her son
When it hits my blood