- 01. Mockingbirds
album "The Winding Sheet" (1990)
Your voice is a mockingbird
Calling me when the day is gone
You please yourself with every word
Telling me where I'm going wrong
Telling me where I've gone wrong
- 01. One Way Street
From "Field Songs" (2001)
The stars and the moon
Aren't where they're supposed to be
For the strange electric light
It falls so close to me
Love I come to the ride
I'm not sea sick, rolling wave
- 01. The River Rise
album "Whiskey For The Holy Ghost" (1994)
Oh the river rise
And it's a mile high
Is this worth tryin'
Is this worth tryin'
Cause I could fall
Like a tear
- 05. Badi-Da
From "I'll Take Care Of You" (1999)
(Fred Neil)
I get so tired
Hanging round this town
Oh this old city life
Sure brings a fella down
- 06. Consider Me
From "I'll Take Care Of You" (1999)
(Eddie Floyd/Booker T. Jones)
I know you're tryin to be a big girl
And keep the tears from your eyes
And it's going to be a little hard
To lift your head up high
- 09. Shooting Gallery
album "Whiskey For The Holy Ghost" (1994)
I'll tell you how I woke up on the line
My sister I almost saw the light
Look my hands are tied
I'll see you in another hallway
Some other time
- 1.16. Wild Flowers
I have to watch you come back to the river
Now it's all I can do
Will you still be convinced wild flowers
Are waiting for you
In my mind I've done good things
And never cared why
And my mind is an open door, with nothing inside
- 10. Lonely Street
From "Imitations" (2013)
Writers: Carl Belew, Kenny Sowder, W.S. Stevenson
Artist: Andy Williams
Where's this place called Lonely Street?
I'm looking for that Lonely Street
- 10. Nothing Much to Mention
Houston: Publishing Demos (2015)
Pack up that crystal chandelier
But leave some pink champagne on ice
There's nothing much to mention here
Should I dance around the room just like a child
To make it easy on your mind
No long goodbyes
- 10. Ten Feet Tall
album "The Winding Sheet" (1990)
I see they're comin'
Just tell me it ain't true
How lonely sorrow, and I fall back to you
One time or another
Like I want
- 7. The Primitives
Houston: Publishing Demos (2015)
Forget your family son
The face on the clock, your foreign body
The ship is just a frame
Pinpoint eyes, seething decks and pain
You wonder how it should be
- Beggar's Blues
"Beggar's Blues"
Night train, silver moon
You ask me why, I'm flyin'
To float on ashen wings
To choke on dust and feather
I learned you are a liar
It's right we should pretend
- Bloodline
Watchin' the smoke from a lightning fire rise
Soon it'll rain, brother
Only to find
They flooded my grave, mother
Tears from your eyes
Is this heaven?
Once there was peace Now it's faded away
Under the sea, father
- Burning Jacob's Ladder
dreams stripped down beyond firelight
i would go over but my only coat’s soft white
and seeing things unreal
god knows what that stain
and what comes crawling back again
tears a harbor
down to the thorny altar
- Burning Jacobs Ladder
Dreams stripped down beyond firelight
I would go over but my only coat's off white
And seeing things unreal
God knows what that stain
And what comes crawling back again
Tears are harbored
Down to the thorny altar
- Carnival
Where in the world have you been
It's as strange as I've ever lived
So you're comin' along to the sideshow
I'll be fallin' all over like dominos
For girls are sad in their eyes
They're all standin' around bein' hypnotised
And walkin' me back to the firin' line
Ya smile to get in the door
- Carry 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 grey
Are yours still the same
Are you still the same
- Clear Spot
I have to run so far to find a clear spot
Sun’s all hottin’ and a rottin’ hot
Swamp’s all rotten ‘n stinkin’ uhh
Vegetation’s hot
Sleepin’ in a bayou on a old rotten cot
Can’t find my kind of folks havin’ fun
I have to run run run run
Run to find a clear spot
- Come To Me
Come to me
Light on my shoulder
come to me
burn your starry crown
my dark angel
I've tried, I can't get over
'Cause when I think I'm climbing
I'm really so far down
- Constant Waiting
Under constant waiting
and all the wealth that you've known
she's standing there,
in her apron.
You're standing in the road.
And she went off to the showgirl
that piece of paper in her hand
- Creeping Coastline Of Lights
The leaving trains
Leaving hollywood
Sunset to the sea
Where the waves
Ride in on horses
I'm looking for her light
Creeping coastline of lights
- Don't Forget Me
Cool water divine
Now I'm thirsty with nowhere to go
And what else do we find
But sorrow and misery untold
I know you got somebody new
Much better than me
When that change starts to swing, keep in mind one thing
Don't forget me dear
- Driving Death Valley Blues
Well I'm so tired of driving but here comes the highway
Don't wanna go cold turkey
Ride with me Jesus so high on the mainline
It's the last time I'll drive Death Valley
Remember her kiss is like kerosene
The rest of her only a memory
Don't feel so bad 'cause you made me
A picture so clear
- Eyes Of A Child
See through the eyes of a child
And it won’t be real
Eyes neither hateful or cruel
No lies conceal
Eyes that wander, eyes that strayed
While the shame in your heart
Remains
- Gray Goes Black
don't you turn off my radio
please don't turn off my radio
not with the rope still swinging
while eternity's mouth is singing
so insect i'm in amber
days go by please don't forget
uneven, so enamored
- Head
So sad the girl I had
Lost her head and it went bad
Blue her two eyes they were dead
Mirror mine and see she said
One of these mornings
I don't know her
One of these mornings I think I owe her
Head
- Hit The City
The dark descends through the promised land
Down kingdom come and the acid ban
I'm bad alone, burned inside out
Nothing to kill it
I hit the city
In Marianne I dug the hole
And watched her trip on my heart of stone
And in the end all that crawled, was my skin
- I Love You Little Girl
Love you little girl
Better than I love my
Better than I love myself
Want you and me
Forever, ever and ever
Just so far from home
Just so far from home
- Josephine
Death rains softly from her eyes
Diamonds through her veins
Chrysalis to butterfly
Stitched together wings
Lalala sing suicide
Perfume in the air
She shines black too beautyful
The pig and butcherman don't care
- Kingdoms Of Rain
Are those halos in your hair
Or diamonds shining there
Without a hope, without a prayer
This rain beats down like death
You turn your eyes to better men
Before I go I'm hangin' a cross on the nail
I hung one for you in there.
- Last One In The World
Goodbye my friend I hate to see you go
You brought me down the stars
The last one in the world
I hear you cry
But let's not waste this night
The last one in the world
Within your lonely room
- Man In The Long Black Coat
Crickets are chirpin' the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry
Windows wide open African trees
Are bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze
Not a word of goodbye, not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat
- Miracle
promise you a miracle
And it will be done
Upon this one last disappearing
Bells toll, new lands and I look up
Sometimes
To see this old black Mary
Reach down for me
I need someone for my plaything
- Museum
You hear them call your name
From your room
Far removed
Don't let 'em use you in, every way
Stay unchained
Around and round you go
They'll never know, what you've seen
Why have you turned away
- Ode to Sad Disco
The sun's tolling bell
Subterranean eyes
A thousand to one
The factory line
Stars outside the window flicker and shine
The hollow headed morning isn't blind
A mountain of nails burn in your hands
Here I give all I am
- On Jesus' Program
On Jesus' program
I'll wade out in the deep
Oh yes, I will
On Jesus' program
Oh, I cannot sleep
On Jesus' program
The Holy Spirit will creep
- One Hundred Days
When the willow bends towards the end of day
And twilight falls again
To the funny sound that a blackbird makes
Twilight falls again
As no good reason remains, I'll do the same
Thinking of you
One day a ship comes in, one day a ship comes in
- Out Of Nowhere
As it begins so too it ends
Crawls to a stop and starts again
Those highlights you've forced to shine
Show me my way through wilderness
And someday far from here I'll send a kiss
Out of nowhere
At times you see a ghost down on the street
Walks the hallway knocking door to door
- Pendulum
Jesus christ been here and gone
What a painful price to pay
Hes left his life in a thunderstorm
Tears cold dark eyes upon
- Phantasmagoria Blues
I have given to you jane
A torn and tattered love
But do you hear the tolling bells
That ring down from above?
Thought I'd rule like charlemagne
But I've become corrupt
Now I crawl the promenade
To fill my empty cup
- Praying Ground
Not feelin' any pain
But I know that it's real
Never see the color of the day
In the darkness I kneel
Prayin' for sleep
Prayin' that it will come easy
But there's something else
I see it miles away
- Quiver Syndrome
"Quiver Syndrome"
I turned back towards the factory
With a rail running through my head
And the stain of a rust red romance
Though my iron age rose is dead
Will the Lord hold me down 'cause I'm wicked?
Will the Lord hold me down, to my shame?
- Riot In My House
There’s a riot in my house
Chaos is blossoming
Run and hide little mouse
Go on and get yourself together
When burn outs by the score
Strung out in metal cages
See technicolor pour
From every laceration
- Shiloh Town
It is so cold in Shiloh town
Birds can hardly sing
Pretty girls gonna leave the town
They won't be back 'till spring
War is done they've come back home
But they're the ones that lost
See a man and a woman alone
- Sideways in Reverse
C'mon
On a dead high wire we'll make a connection
Never knowing my shepherd never knowing my witness
C'mon now honey you're so sick and pretty
C'mon now sugar 'cause you know it ain't easy
Bang bang bang let me shoot it all over
Go down people give me your love
You're another mistake, you're a sign of disaster
- Stay
The heart will pound until the breath is gone
You know what I love so, put me on
Something has badly gone wrong with me
Livin's not hard, it's just not easy
Always keepin' the dogs off
Down like the rain, down like the rain
Comin' down like the rain, comin' down
- Ten Feet Tall
I see they're comin'
Just tell me it ain't true
How lonely sorrow, and I fall back to you
One time or another
Like I want
She is alone, and I don't walk that tall
Memories amounting, to nothin' I can't keep
- The Winding Sheet
Saw God staring from the wall
I was alone and lost
Here to take me from this world
Still alone and lost
Night when the dogs from hell come out
Roam my house in chains of gold
The darkness dares my eyes to close
- Tiny Grain Of Truth
"Tiny Grain Of Truth"
Put the pictures upon the shelf
The ones I tore from magazines and paperbacks
I'm a keep my hurt inside now love
When it's you I am following
What's done is done is done now
- Ugly Sunday
I feel your blood run cold
And it's a rainy Sunday morning
I count the million miles I'm driftin'
From here, to hell
Today
Behind their windows people stare
Can't recognize the kindness there
- Waiting on a Train
"Waiting on a Train"
It's time that I was leavin'
Shoulda left here long ago
You'd rather see me sorry
Than knowin' what I know
I wish it was asleep instead
- Woe
We got some poison in us
Cyanide and nicotine
More than you've ever seen
More than I can believe
Woe, woe, woe, woe
Guns guns they all got guns
Now they wanna shoot someone