1.Ride
I can see you outside the Cafe Blue
I've been sneaking, crawling, trying to get to you
It gets so hot, when you go walking past
Strip you down, you must do something fast
I'm going to Ride her again
I'm going to Ride her again
I'm going to Ride
Down, down, down, again
Don't try to hide behind that dress tonight
Don't try to run, I've got you in my sight
Blew your mind, you knew not what to do
Get on that floor, I'll take a slice of you
I'm going to Ride her again
I'm going to Ride her again
I'm going to Ride
Down, down, down, again
Go wipe the sweat from the last half an hour
Put your glasses on, we know just who you are
Flesh so hot, she made the leather melt
'No' she said, but that's not how she felt
I'm going to Ride her again
I'm going to Ride her again
I'm going to Ride
Down, down, down, again
2.My Dreams
What I say
You cannot hear it
So, you intrude upon my dreams
And hate my appearance,
Who gave you the right
To give out the rights?
And to intrude upon My Dreams
And sell out my eyes,
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take and steal from this body...
I never get a chance
In the airport
Sick in bathroom with Your Dreams
And a flight to nowhere,
In Victoria, Gare du' Nord (du)
And Tompkin's Square
You're standing on My Dreams
And you don't care,
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take and steal from this body...
A heartbeat
Tears my insides apart
And tears apart My Dreams
In the whirling dark,
I never got to go
I cannot make it
I never get to have Dreams
And I will not take it,
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take and steal from this body...
They were supposed to be MY DREAMS...
3.Lucky Jim
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
The rain has arrived at last
For which we had waited
The hawkers have packed up their stands
Nothing to be traded
The Soviets beside the Quay
Run back to the freighter
The terrace of the Rex Hotel
Is closed by the waiters
We need you, oh Lucky Jim
Where have you gone, oh Lucky Jim?
Your mistress has left her home
Gone back to the dances
The smoking dens are starting up
For life's own enhancing
Nobody goes to the war
Since there's none to go to
We just sit around the cafe bars
We sit waiting for you
We need you, oh Lucky Jim
Where have you gone, oh Lucky Jim?
Why did you ever go up north?
It is not for you
They'll strip your little weak heart clean
Then what will you do
The Australians in the Bunny Bar
Are waiting your return
Everyone wants a piece of you
A piece of you to burn
We need you, oh Lucky Jim
Where have you gone, oh Lucky Jim?
We miss you here, oh Lucky Jim
4.Flowing
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
Underneath where nobody finds me
All the brothers are gone
I can see the passing refugees
Flowing, they are flowing
Nobody saw it get to my head
No, they can't find me
Calling loud deep in the dark ravine
Flowing, oh, I'm flowing
Flowing back along the village river bed
As the water flows underneath my head
All the brothers have gone back overseas
Girlies pass me by
I had the meanest heart you've ever seen
Flowing, oh, I'm flowing
If I could crawl out of this yawning earth
Go find Suzy-Boo
We'd smoke gold in the dreamland too
Flowing, we are flowing
Flowing by my river to the sea
By my mean old spirit in the trees
I turned my face to the sound above
No, they can't see me
Old bones are just food for the trees
Flowing, oh, I'm flowing
There was lies and fires in the hills
Down the living streets
Their smoke blows back my memories
Flowing, they are flowing
Flowing down the river to the sea
Flowing mean old bones in the stream
If these bones could ever sail a while
For an extra mile
They'd flow just like the river Nile
Flowing, they are flowing
5.She's Like Heroin To Me
Lyricist:Jeffrey Lee Pierce
I cannot get a look at it
So I'm burning them on the deal anyway
I see her come down from the top of the stairs
I guess that I'd be cool but there's a tickle in my veins
I've been a real good tombstone but now I'm blowing away
She is like an eye-blue swimming pool
But she will never know that she is there
We sit together, drunk like our fathers used to be
I'm looking up and God is saying, 'What are you gonna do?'
I'm looking up and I'm crying, 'I thought it was up to you'
She's like heroin to me
She's like heroin to me
She's like heroin to me
She cannot miss a vein
Don't let her take her love to town
They will never fill her heart
She needs a passion like her fathers used to be
I know because I'm like the train shooting down the mainline
I know because I'm the Indian wind along the telegraph lines
She's like heroin to me
She's like heroin to me
She's like heroin to me
She cannot miss a vein
So mainline it
I cannot get a look at it
So I'm blowing back trouble to the east
While we sit together, sad like our fathers used to be
I know a perfect run by the sleep it puts in my heart
I know my special rider, I can feel her in the dark
And she feels like heroin to me
Feels like heroin to me
She feels like heroin to me
She cannot miss a vein
She's like heroin to me
She's like heroin to me
She's like heroin to me
She cannot miss a vein
6.Brother and Sister
Lyricist:J Pierce
Why do you keep me way underground?
My sight is dying as was the sound
Why do you paint me and cover me with jewels?
Where are we going? What are we going to do?
You used to say that you'd take me home
But I keep falling to the sister
Whose brother falls unto the sister
Keep getting pushed further and further away, yeah
Sins of me, buzz and hiss in the trees
Their little skeletons will harm no one
Why do you bring them, always back to me
Their kingdom come and their will be done
On Heaven and earth and me
You used to say that you'd take me home
But, I keep falling to the sister
Whose brother falls unto the sister
Keep getting pushed further and further away, yeah
And who is that there always beside you?
When I count us together, together we are only two
I had a dream and there was foxfire in your hair
I am your brother, your lover, I give you my blood
I'll follow you anywhere
You used to say that, you'd take me home but
But, I keep falling to the sister
Whose brother falls unto the sister
Keep getting pushed further and further away
You used to say that, you never know
But, I keep falling to the sister
Whose brother falls unto the sister
Keep getting pushed further and further away, yeah
7.Like Calling Up Thunder
Lyricist:J Pierce
You sent a Jack O'lantern over to my house
To charm me from my kill
I've crosses far too much to bear
But you said you will
Now, you look away, look away
Look away and leave me alone
I'm calling up thunder
Hands in the open sky
I'm calling up thunder
To the wind and open sky
To help myself
To see myself
I'm calling up thunder
I'm calling up thunder
With the tears warm against your red dress
Embedded in my brain
I see that we were alike
But we were not the same
Now, you look away, look away
And leave me all alone
I'm calling up thunder
Hands in the open sky
I'm calling up thunder
To the wind and the open sky
To see myself
To help myself
I'm calling up thunder
And I'm calling up thunder, ooh
I'm calling up thunder
Hands in the open sky
I'm calling up thunder
To the wind and the open sky
To see myself
To help myself
And I'm calling up thunder
And I'm calling up thunder
Ghosts, they crawl on the floor
Wondering at it all
I promised I would join them
But, the gesture was too small
Now, I look away, look away
Look away back to myself
I'm calling up thunder
Hands to the open sky
I'm calling up thunder
To the wind and the open sky
To help myself
To kill myself
I'm calling up thunder
And I'm calling up thunder
8.Carry Home
Lyricist:Jeffrey Pierce
Come down to the willow garden with me
Come go with me, come go and see
Although I've howled across fields
And my eyes turned gray
Are yours still the same?
Are you still the same?
Carry home, I have returned
Through so many highways and so many tears
Your letter never survived the heat of my hand
My burning hand, my sweating hand
Your love never survived the heat of my heart
My violent heart in the dark
Carry home, I have returned
Through so many highways and so many tears
Carry home to where I am from
Carry to the place that I have come
Carry to the dust and flies behind me
Carry to the cracks and caves on the face of me
Oh, but I didn't change, I just had to work
Oh, but I didn't change, I just had to work
And now I'm home and now I'm home
Do you still want me? Now that I'm home
Come down to the willow garden with me
Come go with me, come go and see
Although I've howled across fields
And my eyes turned gray
Are yours still the same?
Are you still the same?
So carry home, I have returned
Through so many highways
And so many tears, yeah
Oh, but I didn't change, I just had to work
No, but I didn't change, I just had to work
And now I'm home and I carry home
Do you still want me? Now that I'm home
9.Sleeping In Blood City
Lyricist:Jeffrey Lee Pierce
I'll take you sleeping up the street
But I'll take you very softly
I'll take you under the parking light
And hold you very softly
Just like a soul, your face will shine
Even though your mind has blown
Was the type of love, a much better kind
When you were on your own?
You are taken, going down
Way down to Blood City
You are taken, going down
Through the bloody red eyes of Blood City
Look above you, for the sky is black
And the asphalt is blue
Throw yourself right down on your back
Look at me for what to do
I don't take what is given to me
Just take it from the land
Was the type of love a much better kind
When you were with another man?
You are taken, going down
Right down to Blood City
You are taken, going down
Through the bloody red eyes of Blood City
I'll take you sleeping up the street
I'll take you very softly
Right under the parking lights
And I'll hold you so softly
Just like a soul, your face will shine
Even though your mind's been blown
Was the type of love, a much better kind
When you were on your own
You are taken, going down
Way down to Blood City
You are taken, going down
Through the bloody red eyes of Blood City
Right to Blood City
Right to Blood City
Oh, right to Blood City
Oh, right to Blood City
10.John Hardy
Lyricist:Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Well, John Hardy was a vicious little man
He carried two guns every day
He shot down a man on the West Virginia line
I see John Hardy gettin' away, poor boy
See John Hardy gettin' away
Well, John Hardy went up to that free stone bridge
Where there, he thought he was free
A dare the man, who called nobody his own
Said, 'Johnny come and go with me', poor boy
Johnny come and go with me
John Hardy had a pretty little wife back home
The dress that she wore was blue
She come to the jail house with a loud shout
Said, 'Johnny, I've been true to you', poor boy
'Johnny, I've been true to you', she said
John Hardy sent out to the East Coast
Sent for his folks to come and go his bail
But there was no bail allowed for the murderin' man
They sent John Hardy back to jail, poor boy
Sent John Hardy back to jail, back now
Who's going to shoe your pretty little feet
Who's gonna glove your hand
Who's gonna kiss your rosy red cheeks
It's gonna be that steel drivin' man, poor boy
'Be that steel drivin' man', she said
Now sittin' alone there in his cell
Now tears are rolling down his eyes
He's been the death of many, a poor man
And now, he is ready to die, poor boy
Now he is ready to die
Singin' 'I've been to the east, I've been to the west'
I've seen this whole wide world around
I've been to the river and I've been baptized
Take me to my hanging in the ground, poor boy
'Take me to my hanging in the ground', she said
11.Texas Serenade
Lyricist:Jeffrey Lee Pierce
He's dead on the lawn
Of the house that he owned
What will they say about him?
He had medals
He was in the war
What will they say about him?
He had folks in Houston
But he moved out west
What will they say about him?
The Mexican neighbors
And women stand crying
Wonder what he was involved in
Always ask me, but I don't know anymore
Always ask me, but I don't care anymore
He was the violent kind
He saved me once or twice
What should I say about it?
I tried so hard
But, I just said no
And what should I say about him? About him?
Always ask me, but I don't know anymore
Always ask me, but I don't care anymore
Always ask me, but I don't know anymore
Always ask me, but I don't care anymore
That he's dead on the lawn
That he's dead on the lawn
What will they say about him?
What will they say about him?
What will they say about him?
Please, oh please, oh please don't ask me
Please, oh please, oh please don't ask me
Please, oh please, oh please don't ask me
Please, oh please, oh please don't ask me
Please, oh please, oh please don't ask me
12.Bad Indian
Lyricist:J Pierce
You blew me out
South and Texas too
I made love to California
To get away from you
New York city made you a
Hungry girl
You should have catch me
In the end of the world
I don't believe you
What are you doing down here?
You need something in a shoe
Or are you just a Bad Indian?
Bad Indians
They love the land they hate
Eat your flesh and then forget the taste
Some describe, that primal drive
To consume what's theirs
And seek what's mine
I don't believe them
And I don't believe you
I suspect everything you do
'Cause you are like a Bad Indian
Bad Indian
Do your war dance
Now you're stripped
By the things you do
Your ass is glass
And I can see through you
Go find somebody
Who ain't been so hard
Give me an overdose of the drug
That you are
You are like a ghost
With crazy hands and mouth
A necklace made of eyeballs
You are just a Bad Indian
Bad Indian, Bad Indian, Bad Indian
13.Mother of Earth
Lyricist:J Pierce
I've gone down the river of sadness
I've gone down the river of pain
In the dark, under the wires
I hear them call my name
I gave you the key to the highway
And the key to my motel door
And I'm tired of leaving and leaving
I can't come back no more
Oh, my dark eyed friend
I'm recalling you again
Soft voices that speak nothing
Speak nothing to the end
Oh, Mother of Earth
Blind they call
But yet, stay behind the wall
Their sadness grows like weeds
Upon my thighs and knees
Oh, Mother of Earth
The wind is hot
I tried my best but I could not
And my eyes fade from me
In this open country
14.Breaking Hands
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
The sun and sea are smiling
While you're going to bed
Wish Allah would will me
A piece of iron in my head
On my knees and wishing
On my knees and breaking hands
The fish are jumping in Tunis
Changing colors in my hands
You don't watch the movies, like the clouds
On a plane to Japan
On my knees and wishing
On my knees and breaking hands
They bring the fish in at Tunis
They're changing blue, green and red
While Allah has willed me
And He's got it to my head
On my knees and wishing
On my knees and breaking hands
The fish are jumping in Tunis
Changing colors in my hands
You don't watch the movies, like the clouds
And He's got it to my head
On my knees and wishing
On my knees and breaking hands
On my knees and wishing
On my knees and breaking hands
15.Bad America
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
When I heard you
In my room last night
Lonely lemur calls
In my walls last night
When I was all alone
In the palm drunken night
When I was all alone
Bejeweled in the night
Pulsing we are hearts
But bleeding unlike diamonds
Tying up ourselves
But bleeding unlike diamonds
And it's bad
But, it is bad America
Under the western sky
I looked up another thousand times
You colored my world violence
You made me warm when you hit me
With a nail in my arm
I was all alone
I could have die there
I was all alone
And I did not care
But, for a burning second
Of red love in the dark
But, for my burning hands
Grasping in the dark
And it's bad
But, it is bad America
Under the western sky
I had this girl breath
Up and down my spine
But, that was a river ago
I knew you'd come in time
I was all alone
Though it was a sea ago
I was all alone
And where did you go
And there's vein-like children
On the waterfront
Smack-rotting faces
On the waterfront
And it's bad
But, it is bad America
Under the western sky
And there's vein-like children
On the waterfront
Smack-rotting faces
On the waterfront
And it's bad
But, it is bad America
Under the western sky
But it is bad America
Well, alright
16.Keys To The Kingdom
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
When Pilate was after Jesus
They could not get to him
They made a pact with Judas
So that they could turn him in
I got the keys to your kingdom
And the world can't do me no harm so glad
I got the keys to the church house
And the world can't do me no wrong, oh yeah
They took him to that hill
They brought his sister in
They conspired against him
Make original sin
I got the keys to the kingdom
And the world can't do me no wrong, oh yeah
I got the keys to the church house
And the world can't do me no harm so glad
I was on his left, Devil on his right
He passed those keys to Pharisees
Way out of sight
I got the keys to the kingdom
And the world can't do me no harm so glad
I got the keys to the church house
And the world can't do me no wrong, oh yeah
And with those keys
I can open lots of doors
Devil on my left hand side
He ain't there no more
I got the keys those the kingdom
And the world can't do me no wrong so glad
I got the keys to the church house
And the world can't do me no harm oh yeah
I got the keys to the kingdom
And I'm so glad
I got the keys to the kingdom
I'm so glad
17.Lupita Screams
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
And I see you looking lost
And he sits on his seat
But, don't you walk on my street baby, yeah
You can hear Lupita scream
The river's got your forehead darlin'
It spies your city scene
That city shines when you're away
It can't hear Lupita scream
Yeah, but I would be such a fool
To rely on his dreams
While New York houses pain and boredom
In between the seas
Their taxis, man, have been following you
They chase you down the street
Your borders cross from the center of town
It looks like a Christmas tree
Well, the docks they went on strike again
It's you, they don't want to see
They said they'd rather get high
Than hear Lupita scream
You need some warmth and relaxation
With the salesman of your dreams
So don't you walk on my street baby
You can hear Lupita scream
18.House Is Not A Home
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
We used to be forever partners
We swore we'd never separate
Oh, I didn't see it changing
Now a house is not a home
I'm out in the street tonight
A house is not a home
I'm without a dream tonight
We used to be sister and brother
Then came lovers and then came pain
Oh, I tried to change it
Now a house is not a home
I'm out in the street tonight
A house is not a home
I'm without a dream tonight
Love and tears bound us together
I fought the men to protect her
Oh, I couldn't understand it
Now a house is not a home
I'm out in the street tonight
A house is not a home
I'm without her heat tonight
Now I unravel onto the floor
Hearts are spilled onto the floor
Oh I, I couldn't change it
Now a house is not a home
I'm the one degraded
A house is not a home
All of life has faded
19.Goodbye Johnny
Lyricist:Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Look what's been done, John
It's coming out of the east like rain, Johnny
Look what's been done, John
It's coming like a God with no name, Johnny
And I'm out near Santa Fe
Hitching out for the warmer days
I'm all broke up, Johnny
It all just beat me down, beat me down
Look down the line, Johnny
There's flashlights on the back-roads, Johnny
Look down the line, Johnny
Of the American unknown, Johnny
And I'm out here in the desert
All your dreams lie dead in the desert
I'm all torn up, Johnny
It all just beat me down, beat me down
Look at that girl, Johnny
Yellow hair a shine, Indian eyes to see, Johnny
Look at her, Johnny
Her love is like anything to me, Johnny
What slipped so deep into me?
I can never get it out of me
I'm all broke up, Johnny
It all just tore me down
20.Fire Spirit
Lyricist:Jeffrey Lee Pierce
I can see clearly from my diamond eyes
Going to the mountain with the fire spirit
No one will accept all of me
So the fire will stop
Up through the streets and the gunfire of cars
Going to the mountain with the fire spirit
But no one will take all of me
So the fire will stop
I will be cheating the whole ritual
I'm going to the mountain with the fire spirit
No one will expect all of me
So the fire will stop, oh
Someone will say out of the circle
Someone will turn and burn the world
Someone knows a better cell
Where the old North wind blows
Through Southeast hell, yeah
Invention was betrayed by the machine
Promised like it was a promise to me
I'm going up to the mountain to see
How the last thing will set me free, yeah
I had to do something
I was very down
I was going down
Why can no one ever touch a fire spirit?
And why can no one ever hold a fire spirit?
Why can no one ever feel a fire spirit?
I am going to the mountain
I am going to the mountain
I am going to the mountain
I am going to the mountain
And I can see clearly from my diamond eyes
I'm going to the mountain with the fire spirit
No one will accept all of me
And so the fire will stop
With too much patience and too much pain
I'm going to the mountain with the fire spirit
To make amends for all of me
And the fire will stop
21.Give Up the Sun
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
My hotel is blue, beautiful ocean blue
Paint melting off the walls
And I can hardly breathe
And young men nod against the palms
Turn blue and fail to breathe
But I came here to see
So, give up the sun, give up the sun
One hundred thousand times
I live just once to hear you say
Give up the sun, give up the sun
Down along the beach line
Gulls pick at bones and glass
Old Jew remembers Broadway
Along the tires and glass
I try to remember Broadway
I had a friend up there at last
But she can't help me now
So, give up the sun, give up the sun
One hundred thousand times
I live just once to hear you say
Give up the sun, give up the sun
Give up the sun, give up the sun
But out there, the sea makes love
Waves pinwheel to the bay
Oh, don't you leave me here
There's ghosts and rooms of pain
There's a storm out on the sea tonight
Bodies filled with pain
Palm wind across the sea tonight
Black with whirling pain
Alone against the docks tonight
Nobody knows my name
I can't go back again
So, give up the sun, give up the sun
One hundred thousand times
I live just once to hear you say
Give up the sun, give up the sun
Give up the sun, give up the sun
Give up the sun, give up the sun
One hundred thousand times
I live just once to hear you say
Give up the sun, give up the sun
Give up the sun, give up the sun
Give it up, one hundred thousand times
I live just once to hear you say
Give up the sun, give up the sun
Give up the sun, give up the sun
Give up, one hundred thousand times
Live just once to hear you say
Give up the sun, give up the sun
Give up the sun, give up the sun
Give it up, one hundred thousand times
22.Araby
Lyricist:Jeffrey Lee Pierce
I can feel the filth is coming
I can see it moving in
From a window with dirty hands
And coming back again
Yes, the waitress wants to kill me
But, I'd kill her just the same
She better not look at me
Or I'll do it again
But, it's me
Someone was there, it was me
Someone named Araby
Now, the bassist hates the drummer
And the drummer hates his wife
See her again?
Run away, it will always be alright
Shall we go back to the motel?
No wait! Let's run away
Spend all night in Paradise Bar
Until it goes away
But, it's me
Someone was there, it was me
Someone named Araby
But, it's me
Somebody else is me
Someone named Araby
Rain just slaps our faces
Colors me to here
Where do we go? Where's the train?
With eyes still shaking with fear
I can see the lights are coming
But, I'm sure they're not for me
It's written on the road map
That I can never see
But, it's me
Someone was there, it was me
By named Araby
But, it's me
Somebody else is me
Someone named Araby
23.Kamata Hollywood City
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
Kamata City shining
Smokestack city lightning
You're frightened
Now, we must embrace
Like I kissed your beating heart
And kiss beneath your hat
And take you on your mat
Oh, silver night
Kamata Hollywood City shining
My wife's best friend, you changed your mind
It's just like Disneyland in the night
You shook me, our lives will never be the same
Didn't do well with mother
After seven whiskeys, got frisky
Tried to get her to dance
Almost missed my mark
The dogs began to bark
So, I dragged you in the park once again
Kamata Hollywood City shining
My wife's best friend, you changed your mind
It's just like Disneyland in the night
You shook me, our lives will never be the same
Happy shoppers stare at me
Drunk along the street
Boots upon my feet
'Oh, where's he from?'
Now, I'm lost in the city
This could be the end
Better phone up my wife's best friend
And here you come
Kamata Hollywood City shining
My wife's best friend, you changed your mind
It's just like Disneyland in the night
You shook me, our lives will never be the same
24.Day Turn To Night
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
I take you, I rape you
Get in the car
You're going with me
I'm gonna leave on the radio loud
So everyone can hear
We're having fun
Why did you do that?
Get in the back
I'll even the stakes
The day turns to light in an instant
The night turns to day
In an instant of change
Locked in it's cage and it dies
He's driving
The lights switch
They become flames
Life just flickers out
Like matchsticks in the rain
That's just how easy
I will change your name
I was for you
I wanted you for me
Now, I'm gonna get that dream
The day turns to light in an instant
The night turns to day
In an instant of change
Locked in it's cage and it dies
We're soldiers of emotion
We're running back to the ocean
The rescue ship has not arrived
The Americans are coming and we will surely die
And I must take you
Or you will kill me
That's the way it must be
The day turns to light in an instant
The night turns to day
In a flash in the sky
Way on up high and final
25.Idiot Waltz
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
That line don't make it here no more
Nothing reanimates the old times
Black clouds to the west
Darkness coming from the East Side
Get your friends out of the car
We got a date in the trees tonight
Take off your clothes, you ain't going far
You're going to give me fun tonight
Turn on the headlights for the idiot waltz
Turn on the lights, watch us fall
Your body don't get me off no more
It takes a lot of smack to do that
We never made love in the trees
Or took you down on your mat
Now, winds of change are blowing out the fire
I feel your breath on my neck
I hear the darkness and wires
Turn on the headlights for the idiot waltz
Turn on the lights, watch us fall
It was foolish to be alive
It was foolish in a foolish time
Turn on the headlights for the idiot waltz
Turn on the lights, watch us fall
26.My Cousin Kim
Lyricist:Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Kim was in the air force
He dropped fire from the air
He grabbed his heater
Sitting in his hand, he gave it to them
And put 'em in the foreign sand
He was one hell of a man
Kim dropped fire on the people
Fire on their face and hands
He had their families
Their mothers and their kids
He said he'd Head 'em
And that's just what he did
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim, they say
Kim was in St. Louis
At the Missouri Inn Hotel
He gave it to them
That heater in his hand
He put it to them
In the Texas sand
He was one hell of a man, yeah
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim, they say
And everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim, they say
Kim was at the airport
And the faces stared at him
He grabbed that heater
Was burning in his hand
He gave it to them, buried in concrete
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim, they say
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim, they say
And everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim, they say
And everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim
Everybody loved my cousin Kim, they say
27.Yellow Eyes
Lyricist:Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Eyes are gone, you're complaining
And then screaming at the ceiling
Say you saw spiders up there
Well, I must admit, I put them there
Oh, yellow eyes, it's all okay
Yellow eyes, it's all okay
Oh, yellow eyes, don't be afraid
Oh, yellow eyes, don't you
The problem is your bad taste runs
To dirty old low-class films
Films like 'Sheila goes to high school'
Films like 'Funny Face goes to heaven'
Oh, but yellow eyes, it's all okay
Oh, yellow eyes, it's all okay
Oh, yellow eyes, don't you be afraid
Oh, yellow eyes, don't you be
Stranger came back from Woodlawn
Seems your daddy, boy, he's gone under, under
Now he works in Phoenix High School
It seems his other side just took over
Oh, yellow eyes, he's still the same
Yellow eyes, who you gonna blame?
Oh, yellow eyes, he's not the same
Oh, yellow eyes, don't you be afraid
Oh, but yellow eyes, he's not the same
Oh, yellow eyes, don't you be afraid
Oh, yellow eyes, don't you be afraid
28.Desire
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
She was frozen
Her light would not see the day
I walked away, you wanted it that way
Now, I watch the cars pass by at night
Things had to be that way
Sirens rage through the silent night
Things had to be that way
Oh I, who am I to seek?
Who am I to seek?
Desire
Cold London morn'
We fit tight in the storm
You seized the day
It had to be that way
Never mind what's only a piece of my heart
Nothing could change that way
You should have nailed me up to the sky
There was a better way
Oh I, who am I to seek?
Who am I to seek?
Desire
Now, heaven's gone
Or heaven at least to me
My time is up, it has to be that way
These nights I walk the streets alone
It has to be that way
Now I watch the windows at night
There is no other way
Oh I, who am I to seek?
Who am I to seek?
Desire
Who was I to seek?
Who was I to seek?
Desire
29.Ghost On The Highway
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
It's cloudy in the west
It looks like rain
My eyes are black holes
And I'm burning away
You slaughtered your loving man
Killed him in his sleep
And the blood and crying of your murder
Simply stains your sheets
You're a ghost on the highway
Your gesture is meaningless
You're lost to the living men
Trailing souls to the end
You thought winning as a woman
Meant failing as a friend
It is not an art statement
To drown a few passionate men
You made yourself a diamond
To blind young men's eyes
You claim because they want your shine
They deserve to walk the line
You're a ghost on the highway
Your gesture is meaningless
You're lost forever to the living men
Trailing souls to the end, oh
Oh but yes, I would give you my love
So my soul would not starve
But it never moved the honest rock
Of what you really are
You're a ghost on the highway
You're like straw and meaningless
I hate you but I love you
I'll carry that to the end
If I ever lie with you again
I pray I do not sleep
If I ever closed my eyes again
I'd realize what you are to me
You are simply a liar
An animal who bluffs and steals
Until you become
A bigger creature's meal
You're a ghost on the highway
You're trash and meaningless
I hate you but I love you
And I'll carry that to the end
You're a ghost on the highway
You're a ghost on the highway
Oh, you lost on the highway
You're lost on the highway
30.Thunderhead
Lyricist:Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Well, she was wild
She would do anything
Crawl her head over backwards
Like it was 1963
She sleeps in garbage
Oh shit, should I be alone?
She's got a simple case
Of what they call some kinda mental health
She went wild over across the sea
What everybody's dreaming of is
Thunderhead's falling in love
Yeah, she was wild
She would go anywhere
I took her to Egypt and India
Man, I took her everywhere
But now she sleeps in garbage
But shit, I be alone
She's got a simple case
Of what they wanna call some strange kinda mental health
She went wild over across the sea
What everybody's dreaming of is
Thunderhead's falling in love?
But she was wild
She would go anywhere
She dived down over backwards
Like I never even knew that she was there
But now it was garbage
Should I be alone?
She's got a simple case
Of what they call some kinda mental illness
She went wild over across the seas
What everybody's dreaming of is
Thunderhead's falling in love
She, yeah, she was wild
She'd do anything
Kisses fruit so nicely
Like I never ever seen
But now she sleeps in garbage
But should I be alone
She's got a simple case
Of what they call some kind of mental hell
She went wild over across the seas
What everybody's dreamin' of is
Thunderhead's falling in love
She went wild over across the seas
What everybody's dreamin' of is
Thunderhead's falling in love
Yes, Thunderhead's falling in love
Yes, Thunderhead's falling in love
Yes, Thunderhead's falling in love
31.Hearts
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
If you didn't look, you won't know
Outside it's not 4 a.m.
Those trucks won't be there
Around, around again
But it is alright
It was just a night
And another way to turn your back
Your back to me
Hearts with love like water
Hearts with love that goes
If you're gonna turn
Turn back to me
Eyes that sigh in my sleep
Naked and black on the floor
You should cooperate
When I need love some more
But it is alright
Ever since the night
And another way to turn your back
Your back on me
Hearts with lonely sounds like
Hearts with love that beats me so
If you're gonna go
Don't look at me
Hearts like lovely burning fields
Love that goes
If you're gonna go
Don't look at me
But it is alright
Ever since the night
And another way to turn your back
Your back to me
Hearts with lonely sounds like
Hearts with love that goes
If you're gonna go
Don't look at me
Hearts like lovely burning
Hearts with love that goes
If you're gonna go
Go back on me
Hearts like lovely burning
Hearts with love that beats me so
If you're gonna turn
Turn back, back, back, back on me
Hearts
If you're gonna turn
Turn back, back, back, back on me
Hearts
32.I Hear Your Heart Singing
Lyricist:Pierce Jeffrey Lee
A truck flashed at me alone
One eye and still
I've mountains of pain to bear
Up, upon that hill
So I, I put them down
In the shadows of the leaves
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart sing
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart sing
The streets I prowl
So secretly I see
Sirens and trains at night
They don't frighten me
So, I dismiss the sound
To the end of the night
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart sing
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart sing
The note you found
That you blew across town
Over my face
And into this place
Oh, soul of so and so
Come and go with me
I'll take you in the water pools
I'll take you through the reeds
And it's beyond the shore
With an ear to the stream
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart sing
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart sing
Taboos you choose
They leave me amused
Leaves not a trace
Of your burning face
As the truck flashes me
I know the sins you reap
Moon-fish cast an eye on you
While you oversleep
Across the sea
To the distant shore
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart sing
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart sing
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart singing
I hear your heart sing
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