- Burning Jacob's 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 stained
And what comes crawling back again
Tears are harbored
Down to the thorny altar
I'm afraid i might fade away
- 02. Hit the City
Bubblegum (2004)
The dog descends through the promised land
Down kingdom come and the acid bath
I'm Babylon, burned inside out
Nothing to kill it
I hit the city
In Maryanne I dug a hole
- 07. Wish You Well
From "Here Comes That Weird Chill" (2003)
He wrote a name
With the needle gun
In black and blue
Your eyes are stone she said
Beautiful and dead
And I wish you well
- 09. Harborview Hospital
Blues Funeral (2012)
I walked by harborview hospital
I heard the agnus dei
Oh sister of mercy
I've been gone too long to say
And all around this place I was a sad disgrace
- 1. Harvest Home
Phantom Radio (2014)
Happy in my harvest home
Walking floors with the ghost all alone
Happy that I'm made of stone
To grieve that I cause is my cause to a tone
Now black is the color
Black is my name
- 10. Leviathan
Blues Funeral (2012)
After the deadlock and dazzle
As good as, or better than gold
I lay down my guns on the table
First scarlet, then blue growing cold
Black light and smoke
- 10. Like Little Willie John
Bubblegum (2004)
There was nothing I could do
Where's Willie John?
Dead so long
Born to fall, nothing at all
Who's gonna grieve
When you're gone?
- 4. The Killing Season
Phantom Radio (2014)
The killing season it's beginning
I feel your hands around my throat
You either lose, or come up winning
I wear my old grey overcoat
Now paint it mary, paint it black
Tonight they hang Jerry
- 5. Seventh Day
Phantom Radio (2014)
How the smoke get in my eye?
Awake to find the orchid died
Coincidence the seventh day
I guess that I'll be on my way
Rolling down the streets of gold
- 8. Waltzing In Blue
Phantom Radio (2014)
Oh, what can I say?
I'm bleeding for you, only a scratch
Waltzing in blue
Oh, I can't see the day
Blinded by you, faded away
Waltzing in blue
- Bleeding Muddy Water
lord now the rain done come
muddy water
rising up
you know i feel you
in my iron lung
muddy water
celestial flood
- Bombed
Love, there are flowers hanging in the vine
So high you cannot see
Now my mind must go on holiday,
Torn from it's hook, a broken valentine
I see the smoke from a revolver,
Will I get hit, I hardly care
When I'm bombed I stretch like bubblegum
- Death Trip To Tulsa
High, high, high
Away up in the sun,
Waiting for you doctor
Are you gonna come?
My, my, my
Rolling in the sound
Thinking 'bout you baby
Are you gonna drown?
- Deep Black Vanishing Train
Don't you ever come down?
Tied newspaper pages
Are scattered across the ground
Lost on the violent sea
Gone for endless days
I've tried to free myself
But it's been hard to break away
- 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,
- 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
- Harborview Hospital
i walked by harborview hospital
i heard the agnus dei
oh sister of mercy
i’ve been gone too long to say
and all around this place i was a sad disgrace
they’re singing, they’re singing
away up on the hill
- 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...
- Mirrored
You see yourself in your true love's eyes
Something strange, something blind
Close the window and lay down to sleep
With graveyard scenes and violent dreams
And love doesn't see a thing
Love makes a marionnette
Dance on silver strings
There's a mirror in your true love's eyes
- Morning Glory Wine
Bubblegum (2004)
From the first time I loved
It was electrocution
Then I fell out on the down
Blind with injection
Strawberry, the way you come naked
Out here you're alone
- Nocturne
Red lights
X-ray vision
That lowly drug is in my veins
Blood stained
Indecision
And holiness is burned away
Midnight
Midnight calling
- 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
- One Way Street
The stars and a moon aren't where they're supposed to be,
For the strange electric light it falls so close to me.
Love, I come to ride high on that seasick rolling wave,
And you know that I am just trying to get out.
Oh the glorious sound, oh the one way street,
But you can't get, can't get it down without crying.
When I'm dressed in white send roses to me,
- Resurrection Song
Day, end of day,
Each hanging spiral.
Where is the shore
From this clear blue silence?
Up to the heavens that you daydream
Remembering the sun and the deep green ivy.
I know that sleep walking too,
- 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.
- St Louis Elegy
i look at the sky
i see an airplane as it flies
is this the way they said jesus came?
gone through st louis
gone straightaway
and i hear the winter will cut you quick
if tears were liquor i’d drank myself sick
- Strang Religion
Can you stay here next to me?
We'll just keep drivin'
Because of you I see a light
The Buick's a Century, a '73 like you
Some strange religion
I get my hands on some money momma, and a shot in the night
Stared down the past and just scarred my eyes
Now I know there's no easy ride
- The Gravedigger's Song
With piranha teeth
I've been dreaming of you.
And the taste of your love so sweet,
Honest, it's true.
Through my heart flows sleep
And the dark heavy rain.
Where the gravedigger's song is sung
- The Wild People
My sin, my sin is done and it won't be forgiven
I'm gone, I'm gone
I'm going where the wild people living
Gone where the wild, wild people living
So long alone, close to the bone
They kill the messenger, they kill the taxman waiting in line
They kill the passenger where the train and taxi collide
- Torn Red Heart
You don't love me, what's to love anyway?
You don't love me, would love be my saving grace?
You don't love me, aah ah ah
It's still too young, it's a child like dream and it fades away
It's illusion, would love put in my place
Illusion, aah ah ah
The delusional
The delusional