Sharks

Sharks don’t attack the Irish,it’s mostly Australians.There’s nothing accomplishedby these splashing citizens.from the Moon down to the surfaceof the Mariana’s Trench.I won’t send you in a cab whenI can take you there myself and steal a lookover your shoulder atthe distant lights of your firmament. When the sharks finished the Irishand those people from Berlin.We […]


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Put It Off

I wrote unfriendly things,truly cruel,on the day that you were bornto prove that wordscannot touch beautybut I was tornI put it off, I put it off,I put it off again I made degenerate artfor the religious righton the day that you were bornI had passion to experimentbut I was tornI put it off, I put […]


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Fire In The Hole

You triumphed over willYou had immunity to killYou had your dreams fulfilledAnd I love you stillBut there’s a power beyond controlThere’s a fire in the holeAh the nights are getting coldAll your secrets will be toldTurn your lanterns low As long as you can dig up proofAs cold as water through the roofBrutal as depicted […]


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Emergency

I’ve often dreamt of a conversationthat just keeps coming up again and again.We’re sitting in the Baby Bar bereftat a shadowy table out past the sentences end.From until it’s no longer fun’til that’s no longer relevant.From until we’re no longer one’til the bona-fide embodiment of an endlessemergency without end.We’re an endless emergency without end We […]


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Inevitability Of Death

Puffy lips glistening skinAnd everything comes rushing inWe don’t go to hellmemories of us do I get a sense of connectednessExclusive tight but nothing dangerousWe don’t go to hell memories of us doAnd if you go to hellI’ll still remember you But I thought you beat the death of inevitabilityto death just a little bitI […]


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Little Bones

It gets so sticky down hereBetter butter your cue-finger upIt’s the start of another new yearBetter call the newspaper up2.50 for a hi-ball,And buck and a half for a beerHappy hour, happy hourHappy hour is here The long days of Shockley are goneSo is football Kennedy styleFamous last words taken all wrongWind up on the […]


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Scared

I could make you scaredif you want me toI’m not prepared, but if I have toHe said, I can make you scared,it’s kinda what I doif you’re prepared,here’s what I propose to doYou’re in Russiaand more than a million works of artare whisked out to the woodsSo when Nazisfind the whole place darkThey’d think god’sleft […]


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Last American Exit

You know the reasons I can’t concealYou know I’m leaving you obviously you know how I feelit’s not as easy as calling out your name when I’m down it’s not a matter for wrong or rightit ain’t much better that drinking and looking to fightyou know I’m tired of crawling hind my name among the […]


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Evelyn

Evelyn-EvelynWhere were you last night?Evelyn-EvelynWhere were you last night? waited on your front porch till the break of daybut when the dawn broke I could no longer wait for… must have phoned a million times no answer camewhat kind of fool am I to play this game with… this has gone on beforeI can’t take […]


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Losing Grip

Are you aware of what you make me feel, babyRight now I feel invisible to you, like I’m not realDidn’t you feel me lock my arms around youWhy’d you turn away?Here’s what I have to say I was left to cry there,waiting outside there grinning with a lost stareThat’s when I decided [chorus]Why should I […]


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