Spring starts when a heartbeat’s pounding When the birds can be heard above the reckoning carts doing some final accounting Lava flowing in Superfarmer’s direction He’s been getting reprieve from the heat in the frozen-food section Don’t tell me what the poets are doing Don’t tell me that they’re talking tough Don’t tell me that […]
He’s a man-sized Eldorado, Hooved a dooand who could blame him. Where we going?What’s the ticket? Just the mention of Berlin makes me sexyand tired of thinking about drinkingfor thinking of drinking while thinkingabout drinking and thinking about drinkingIt’s a man-sized inside Look in here it’s all hardwood.What’s that smell? Smells like coffeeIf you regret […]
Cold wind blowing over your private partsI know a lack you’ve gotand it makes a strong case for art.Billboard breasts, they don’t have a face,I know that fact you’ve got,no girl could ever trace. Lionized,Smoking just a little too violentlyI know that fact I’ve gotand I know it single-mindedlyStupid, stoned cause and effectI know a […]
Lets go to the parklets go watch’em floodin’out there after dark,don’t have to think of nothin’and I love that for,for the way I’m feeling700 foot, 700 foot ceiling Lets take it to the topof the tobacco nationwe can aim the dishfor hardcore invitationsand I hate that for,for the things I’m thinkingwhen the clouds are low,700 […]
We can take a bit of a breather.We can skip to the practical part.We can skip to the Time of Neither,when we’re together and evenwhen we’re apart.I’ll tell you a story about the Lake Fever orwe can skip to the coital fury.You didn’t say yes or no, neither.You whispered, hurry. We can take it a […]
There’s a cannon shooting coconut cream40 gallons in a steady streamthere’s a cannon shootingcoconut cream40 gallons at a steady stream It’s wing music to a happy cathe likes his butterfliesslow and fatand wing music to a happy cathe likes his butterfliesslow and fat Us little christians in a circlejerktil our daddy gets home fromworkall us […]
We wake up different, rifle through our dreamsAnother placid day, ripples at the seams Do you think I bow out cause I think you’re right?Or cause I don’t wanna fight?So tangle-minded then so becalmedIt’s all so subway-grim and then it’s gone Do you think I bow out cause I think you’re right?Or cause I don’t […]
ourbon blues on the street, loose and completeunder skies all smoky blue-greenI can’t forsake a Dixie dead-shakeso we danced the sidewalk cleanmy memory is muddy. what’s this river that I’m in?New Orleans is sinking man, and I don’t wanna swim Colonel Tom, what’s wrong? what’s going on?you can’t tie yourself up for a dealhe said […]
Bill Barilko disappeared that summer,he was on a fishing trip.The last goal he ever scoredwon the Leafs the cupThey didn’t win another until 1962,the year he was discovered.I stole this from a hockey card,I keep tucked up undermy fifty mission cap, I worked it into look like that Bill Barilko disappeared that summer, (in 1950)he […]
It was our third time in New York It was your fourth time in New York We were fifth and sixth on the bill We talk a little about our bands talk a little of our future plans It’s not like we were best friends That number scheme comes back to me In times beyond […]