Dance me to your beauty with a burning violinDance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely inLift me like an olive branch and be my homeward doveDance me to the end of loveDance me to the end of love. Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are goneLet me feel you moving […]
I came so far for beautyI left so much behindMy patience and my familyMy masterpiece unsignedI thought I’d be rewardedFor such a lonely choiceAnd surely she would answerTo such a very hopeless voiceI practiced all my sainthoodI gave to one and allBut the rumours of my virtueThey moved her not at allI changed my style […]
I touched you once too oftenNow I don’t know who I amMy fingerprints were missingWhen I wiped away the jam. Yes I called my fingerprints all nightBut they don’t seem to careThe last time that I saw themThey were leafing through your hair. Fingerprints, fingerprintsWhere are you now my fingerprints?. Yeah I thought I’d leave […]
A bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes Were smoking out along the open road; The night was very dark and thick between them, Each man beneath his ordinary load. ‘I’d like to tell my story,’ Said one of them so young and bold, ‘I’d like to tell my story, Before I turn into gold.’ […]
I was born in a beauty salonMy father was a dresser of hairMy mother was a girl you could call onWhen you called she was always there. When you called she was always thereWhen you called she was always thereWhen you called she was always thereWhen you called she was always there. Ah but don’t […]
It’s four in the morning, the end of DecemberI’m writing you now just to see if you’re betterNew York is cold, but I like where I’m livingThere’s music on Clinton Street all through the evening. I hear that you’re building your little house deep in the desertYou’re living for nothing now, I hope you’re keeping […]
Now I’ve heard there was a secret chordThat David played, and it pleased the LordBut you don’t really care for music, do you?It goes like thisThe fourth, the fifthThe minor fall, the major liftThe baffled king composing Hallelujah. HallelujahHallelujahHallelujahHallelujah. Your faith was strong but you needed proofYou saw her bathing on the roofHer beauty and […]
I greet you from the other sideOf sorrow and despairWith a love so vast and shatteredIt will reach you everywhere. And I sing this for the captainWhose ship has not been builtFor the mother in confusionHer cradle still unfilled. For the heart with no companionFor the soul without a kingFor the prima ballerinaWho cannot dance […]
I came by myself to a very crowded place; I was looking for someone who had lines in her face. I found her there but she was past all concern; I asked her to hold me, I said, ‘Lady, unfold me,’ But she scorned me and she told me I was dead and I could […]
Field Commander Cohen, he was our most important spy.Wounded in the line of duty,Parachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties,Urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles.Leave it all and like a man,Come back to nothing special,Such as waiting rooms and ticket lines,Silver bullet suicides,And messianic ocean tides,And racial roller-coaster ridesAnd other forms of boredom advertised […]