- 24-Hour Store
Late, late at night
Twenty-four hour store
Ghosts fly up the aisles, across the shining floor
Opening and closing automatic doors
Hands waving mirrors
Angels fly through lights
But the sleepless and lost push their squeaking carts
- A Dark Eye
In the parking lot where I waited alone
A white bird sat sleeping on a broken payphone
And there came a black beetle dragging off a green fly
Underneath a parked car and then out of sight
And I felt a dark eye turn its gaze upon me
As if the earth, the earth could see
A dark eye, a dark eye
- Cold Cold Cold
Cold, cold, cold as the cold wind blows
Out on highway five there's a field
Where sometimes at night people disappear
That's the only road that takes me home
Across the open prairie and the drifting snow
I was halfway there one frozen dawn
When she appeared at the side of the road
- Dry Bones
Old Enoch, he lived to be
Three-hundred and sixty-five
When the lord came and took him
Back to heaven alive
I saw, I saw the light come shining
Shining all around
I saw the light come shining
- Famous Blue Raincoat
It's four in the morning, the end of December
I write you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening
I hear that you're building
Your little house deep in the desert
You're living for nothing now
- Far from any road
From the dusty mesa,
Her looming shadow grows,
Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote.
She twines her spines up slowly,
Towards the boiling sun,
And when I touched her skin,
My fingers ran with blood.
- Flies
Your fan of golden hair oiled with rose and cinnamon
As your blood bloomed poppy red across your velvet coat
Your deep blue velvet coat
Yes, there in Montana prairie grass the Sioux shot Custer down
His red scarf tied, his black boots shined
How beautiful he looked to the flies, the happy kingdom of flies
Dear Custer there’s a Wal-Mart now where once the grizzlies roamed
- Last Days of Wonder - 2006
(Carrot Top Records, SAKI 040, USA, )
01. Your Great Journey
02. Tesla's Hotel Room
03. These Golden Jewels
04. After We Shot the Grizzly
05. Flapping Your Broken Wings
06. Beautiful William
- My Friend
I swear I heard a bird calling high in the chestnut trees
The sun was so bright that bird I couldn't see
No matter where I stood I couldn't see beak or wing
Just burning blinding leaves, still and silent trees
Were you with me then my friend?
Are you with me now?
Were you with me then my friend?
- No One Fell Asleep Alone
I saw a deer limp across
A supermarket parking lot
Last night as I drove home from work
Old men sleeping in the dirt
Abandoned buildings full of smoke
Children jumping from the roof
Cars in ditches leaking blood
- Octopus
Verse)
The octopus has 3 hearts
And lives in caves below the sea
Or in a beer can or a bath tub
Or a puddle in the street
(Verse)
Any fisherman can tell you
- She Awoke with a Jerk
She awoke with a jerk
What had they done?
She awoke with the shock
What had they begun?
She awoke to the sound
Of their blue-white laughter
Hot in her hands
And an idea for a chapter
- Smothered And Covered - 2002
(?, ?, ?, 49:03)
01. There's A City
02. Sunday Morning Coming Down
03. Prepared Piano #1
04. I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
05. Down In The Ground (Demo)
06. Cello #1
07. Trail Of Time
- So Much Wine
I had nothing to say on Christmas Day
When you threw all your clothes in the snow
When you burnt your hair, knocked over chairs
I just tried to stay out of your way
But when you fell asleep
With blood on your teeth
- The Dutchboy
My heart it goes out to that poor little
Dutch boy who stopped a great flood with the tip of his thumb.
Through parades and medals he felt no joy and took
to his bed with a bottle of rum.
The queen she arrived in her motorcade to give the good
- There is a Sound
There is a sound like breaking glass
When water falls on dying grass
There is a sound sung by the sea
And plastic bags caught in trees
There is a sound all buildings cry
Right before the morning light
The quiet sound that's left behind
- Through The Trees - 1998
(Carrot Top Records, SAKI-020, USA, 44:12)
01 Weightless Again
02 My Sister's Tiny Hands
03 Stalled
04 Where The Birch Trees Lean
05 Cathedrals
06 Down In The Ground
07 The Giant Of Illinois"
- Weightless Again
We stopped for coffee
In the redwood forest
Giant dripping leaves
Spoons of powdered cream
I wanted to kiss you
But I wasn't sure how
Like those Indians
- Wild Wood
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, wild wood
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
- Your Great Journey
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 footprints
You left your wallet on the bus
Your great journey has begun