1.Someone On Your Bond
You're gonna need someone on your bond
I might be a man of lean means
But let me paint this scene'.
Your wife's a real heel
And that pulse inside your veins
Sounds like footsteps walking away
You ain't getting any younger man
I've known her a lot longer than you
Can't you see
What she is hanging around for？
The medicine breached you
Sank like a stone
You're gonna need someone on your bond
You've got a few loose ends
The abscess meets your physician in Rome
Not that long after
Death comes creeping in your room
Your gonna need someone on your bond
She is a gratis artist
Faciliate solicitation now!!
Chill the will!
And get some one on your bond
2.Bird In A Church
I did lose my cradle to the flood
And I did lose my tenure to the rain
I have met with hard times as have you
It's good to know you feel the same way too
I have walked the boards of empty halls
Never having reached their open doors
I have seen more than I've cared to view
It's good to know you feel the same way too
Man it aint no joke how things can get so out of whack
Life has a sense of humor
It is black
I have been thrown out on colder nights
I have been arrested at midday
I have had my bells rung as have you
It's good to know you feel the same way too
Why does bad news have to be so frank？
Volcanoes! Cancer! Asteroids! Septic tanks!!
Sometimes I feel like a bird in a church
I get the snakes like a ship on the sea
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
I aint got no mother that's probably why
I can't remember ever feeling worse
It's good to know you feel the same way too
3.Well Well Well
I took my baby out to dinner
So we could get a bite to eat
And though we both had looked so much thinner
She looked so beautiful I could eat her
I took my baby to a big film
So we could watch the English die
We both were nervous feeling dizzy
And neither one of us knew just why
We sat and talked about revolution
Just like two rivers in the sun
We sat and talked about revolution
And how the hell we could get things done
4.She Had An Abortion That She Made Me Pay For
Her life was a heart breaking mess
She dug her smack and cigarettes
I dug the whiskey and rohypnol
That I stole from her when ever she went cold
We weren't yet beat so we beat on ourselves
And we rarely laughed and she often cried
She had an abortion that she made me pay for
That's all I gave her before she died
Eighty dollars I had to peel off my thigh
It's a long time now and I lay wondering why
Layed under my guilt like it's epiphany
Drowning in the heat of sleep
Dreaming a ghost with her mother's eyes
I getnights walking down the wet streets
That run smoother than a bad habit
Down past the park where the income came from
When mine ran out
And I walk in shadow with my theories grand
How everything was out of my hands
It wasn't my doing I got nothing to hide
A ghost with her mother's eyes
She heard change in my pocket as I was walking home
And she said 'darling your looking awful lonely'
I said 'what would a whore like you know？
Seems though your never alone'
Then she came out of the shadows to the side of the road
And I said 'man you look like someone that I once knew
Oh lord she had eyes like yours!!!'
And I stood there frozen but she was stiller yet
My wits they hit the ground running
Then the streets went next
Time fixed us like mortar time fixed us right there
And the whore and me were all that was left
She said 'what do you mean I aint never alone？
I've never met a single soul!
I'll walk forever in blackness
The blind can't see until they get old
That ain't so bad as looking at you
Now that you looking at me
I look in your eyes and I know who you see
She hurt you good
But she hurt me more
5.The Miller's Daughter
You see the miller's daughter
She's dancing with the boys
The poor thing's lost her garter
Somewhere in the noise
She got eyes choking in her head
Like the stub end of cigarettes
Tall as a gallows'gallowesque
Dress the same colour as your last sunset
Near enough to make you scared
Distant as the electric chair
The freedom in the loot's as near
As the prosecutor's proof is clear
See the miller's daughter
She's dancing with the boys
She got legs as long as gun barrels
And hips built like a stock
See the miller's daughter boys
The pine box blonde bitch Beelzebub
Life is teething'.teething's cruel
Dying's easy
It's a slaver standing on the
Fresh aired side of leaving
You see the miller's daughter
And she's dancing with the boys
I said Dr-Destouches
I got disease in this place
An immaculate contraction
But still a typical case
I said Dr-Destouches
I hardly got her knickers low
And they tangled her legs like spider webs
I woke in fever when the rooster crowed
See the miller's daughter？？
She's dancing with the boys
6.I Believe
Oh Lord
I want to thank you
For choosing and taking from me
Oh Lord
I believe
I'm down on my knees
Yeah I know things are bad
Maybe it just has to be that way
If there's one thing that I know
I believe
I want to thank you for taking care of my friends
They're alright and that's alright
But if there's one thing that I know
I believe
In a love supreme
I'm down on my knees
Everybody wants to go up to heaven
But it's seldom that they want to die
And everybody wants a little peace
But how seldom is that a piece of life
Oh Lord
I believe
God in the cure and God in the disease
7.Mean Streak
A meat wagon in the shadow of a tenement block
You got the Pigs up in the stairwell
Asking questions and taking down names
I say 'that boy had a mean streak
Seems he's better off dead anyhow
I aint trying to be mean
He's just easy to hate
He had a spike in his vein for a number of years
It's all cold memory now
He tells me that he has gone clean
A black white TV set up the back of his head
That shatters and stutters
But won't never go dead
That boy had it down
Holier than thou
Though he was dumber than a bag of hammers
I didn't know
He'd figure pull the trigger
With his left big toe
Well he shaved off his hair
Leaving only the eyes in his head
And a hole for a mouth that looked
More line an asshole I swear
He never had no family he's sit up on the ledge
Staring up at a moon that died in the nights arms
To keep watch like a ghost in his heart
In its throws and its calms
Well it aint how you fall it's how you land
I'd remind him''life has its lessons' he'd say
'I'll come goof once I figure to learn them
I kicked junk with the bottle
Now it's merely a teething concern' he would tell me
But I had my doubts
A 13th floor bed-sit a kitchen a couch
The only way's down cause the bottom you'll find
Is much clearer to the eye than the top is the other way around
8.Slammin' On The Brakes
Someone tell me what I did so wrong
To make me feel so lousy for so long
I keep my muscles caged inside my arm
As I ride out of the calm into the storm
I get to thinking about it
I guess its fate
But the day is long and the road is winding round
I missed the sign to find another town
An empty tank of gas is all I found
And the time seems right for putting my foot down
I get to thinking about it
I guess its fate
But my friends have gone
My moneys blown
I made a big mistake
The night is coming out again
I'm stepping on the brakes
Please show me the way back home
I'm ready for that now
I've used up all my good luck anyhow
Someone tell me what I did so wrong
And why I can not find my way back home
Now the dust has cleared I'm standing all alone
I cannot find a place to call my own
I've been thinking about it
I caused it myself
9.Henry Ford
I don't mean to leave you feeling defeated
Nobody needs to be found out
All I wanted for you was to see the evening
With it's paper streets
I pulled my G.M.H. or Henry Ford
Up to the gutter
It was midnight and you weren't so troubled then
I said that nobody needs to be found out
Immunity for me has always meant the road
I've made good time
I never meant to harm
So turn out your lights and I won't know
You got a real nice place
And for a while I thought that I might stay
You breathed me in
And let a perfect stranger thin your sheets
I've got a few loose ends outside of town
If all goes well I'll see you round
But if I don't you got my photograph
You can sell it to the papers
You don't need to know what I gotta do
Or what the people say
Cause it ain't true
I got a friend he'll send you
Something in the mail
And if a plainclothes meets you at your door
Asking about a name that you ain't heard before
Try to understand you meant the world to me
Just tell him you ain't seen my face before
Even if he got a little proof
You'll need your freedom now to remember me
The way I want you to
And lord I hear a motor running
And lord I see those headlamps shining
And lord I feel my heart is sinking
Lord my ride
Is waiting outside for me
10.Stop Dreaming
It aint like you saw it coming
It aint like you were all there
In that space between chance and trying
There aint much time to get things straight
I've seen you beat yourself to stupor
And I've seen you sleeping late
You got a right to say times have worn you down
But don't be heavier than they
You should get your shit together
You should really have a try
Cause that sun it also rises
And you'll look like shit man
When you meet that light
You and most no one else
Don't get along too well
And you'd like to think that you can't
But there's a stranger I know wants to meet you
He's got the same name as yours and he's wearing your pants
You should get your shit together
You should really have a try
You'll be waking up old
By a stranger so cold
And that's no way nobody
Be needing to go
Stop dreaming and get on
Stop dreaming and live on
There is still something left
Beneath the ribs in your chest
Your just in need of some reminding
It aint all about loss and a loneliness
There's a time and a place
For a grown man to cry
11.The City
I came form the desert
Where for miles you could see
Where the weight of the space
Blurred your waking and dreaming
And if a stranger appeared at a distance it seemed
I was helpless as someone was walking
Right through me
Why'd I get on that train？
Where came my money？
It came in a letter that was perfumed and sweet
The smell of which rekindled
All my long lost feelings
Next time I'm locking out a feeling
I'll be ditching that mother fucking key
For keeps
Well I went where the people
They walk like statues
I got climbing up a stairwell in the gloom
Number 14 stank of flowers and cruelty
And the air was so hued
It was like through an ocean
I was steering
And sure enough she steered me
Where she wanted me to
And if you'd seen her my friend
I recon you'd agree too
She does for lovin' what a war does for truth
Here come the lies
By land and by sea
Raining down metal
Chambers awaking from sleep
We went deep into winter
Sleep rolled me like waves
While she kept a vigil
On her house like a maze
I should have beat her or killed her
Or just ran away
But she held me together
Just long enough
To keep me deranged
Well I've been living in a shelter
That is far from pretty
You gotta wonder why I stayed here in the city
Where the clouds full of concrete
And you're dead on your feet
It all comes down to a simple convenience
You come as you go
Stay as you leave
I came from the desert where for miles you can see
To this 8 by 10 room
A tab of morphine
Getting lost in yourself is that much easier
Where the scrapers point skywards
Like guns pointed out to sea
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