1. _ James
Ugly children with poor complexions and greasy hair
Receive no concessions and it`s a heartless world
And it`s a thoughtless heartless world
Oh james oh you're a terrible child
Hide yourself away from furnished accommodation
With a view and window seat
You swear she really is the best thing that you have ever seen
But your heart is in the wrong place
Cover your face and despair yourself away
Oh you're impossible james hide yourself away
And it`s a sin to be a saint
And you're impossible james
And it`s impossible to accept that she's impossible
And as a consequence you lock yourself away
And it`s a crime to be alive and be alone
And be content to be
Oh james oh you`re a terrible child
Hide yourself away
And in the morning when you wake
Nothing will have changed
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2. _ Grace
Once you were an angel
Jesse honey is it hard to take
Does it feel so bad to be 28 you were 23
And you could do anything now you open your mouth
And spit the gutter out
I was walking down by the river thames
I decided that i should throw me in
Because you broke my heart and you made me weep
In the name of your sensitivity
Still once you were an angel
Did nobody tell you jesse honey oh you look so pale
And old and so very ill at ease these days
So you tell yourself that you'll never win
And you drown your sins in amphetamine
Do you weary so of that bitter taste
So you spit in my face just to keep you entertained
Still i can only love you i have no option but to
Is hard to take is it is it hard to swallow
Is it is it hard to take from grace
Once you were an angel
Did nobody tell you jesse honey is it hard to take
Does it feel so bad to be 28 you were 23
And you could do anything
Now you open your mouth and you spit the gutter out
Out in the summer rain
You will begin again
Out in the summer rain
We will begin again
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3. _ Minor Character
Saint christopher sunday otherwise unaware
That is what she called it
She arrived was observed with her clothes in his suitcase
Looking suitably world weary
As he drove away she came to
She sat and she waited he did not telephone
Her heart was unbroken
She could not let this be known
She said she'd throw herself off a bridge
He stood and laughed and shewalked out again
Which was when she wrote me in
To her scheme of things
She said she'd throw herself off a bridge
She said she never did and i asked her why
She just shrugged and she sighed
And turned her head away
She did not say
Saint christopher sunday otherwise uneventful
Everything never happened
To her scheme of things
She said she'd throw herself off a bridge
He stood and laughed and she never did
She telephoned to say that she'd cut her wrists instead
She beat the walls with her fists
Running red running back again
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4. _ Rich
She left you 1958
When the thought of another fifteen years
Was more than she could face
But did you miss her much well hey
You never gave her too much thought
In your newspaper grey
So waste away to morro bay
You never got around to yesterday
But money is for taking yes
And rich is what to be forsaken grey
And giving it away
And even jesus has a price
You're making credit card donations to television faith healers
Born again missionaries come to morro bay
They saved your body but your mind hey
And everything you earned
You're going to throw it all away
And waste away tomorrow
C.a. is where everybody falls down off the wagon under the wheels
Remember 1970
When the thought of a day without a drink
Was more than you could face
But did you miss her much well hey
You never gave her too much thought
In your newspaper grey
So waste away to morro bay
Saved your body but your mind paid
But money is for taking yes
And rich is what to be forsaken
Grey and giving it away
You're going to hurt somebody if you can
You're going to make somebody understand
Baby you're a rich man
Baby you're a rich man
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5. _ Nevers End
If i ever was, then now i`m less than sure
What i was waiting for
If i could find the strenght to walk
Me i`m drinking the sea
She will send me to sleep
Surely there must be an easy way
And i`ll say it again will the nevers end
Do i have to forgive to forget
I wrote a letter only yesterday
I can not recall what i wanted to say
I saw a chance, i let it pass me by
This is the shallow age, my friend
I say never again will the nevers end
This is not what i had meant to say
So i`m drinking the sea, trying to pick up the pieces
And say it never again
If i ever was then now i`m less than sure
And this is the shallow age, my friend
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6. _ Cut Me Down
I've been bought and sold
I've been hung upside down
So you can hear me breathing
Do you think it`s easy
I've been aching all through summer
I've been aching just to fall
Cut me down
I've been billy name and filled my pockets with sand
I've seen everything i hang upon your pretty frown
I have wasted all my summer
I've been aching just to fall
Cut me down
All she had too much class to mention
Were the things he never knew
All the things she left unspoken
Were the things he needed
So i`m not hurting anymore
I've been bought and sold and i've been hung upside down
Can you hear me breathing do you think it`s easy
I may find it hard to follow
I've been aching just to fall
Cut me down
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7. _ Perfect Blue
Should you awake dear from your beauty sleep
To find your room swimming in blue and green
Should you awake to feel like you'd never slept
And feel so very old well don't you feel alone
I`m kind of blue blue for you again
I guess i`m a fool at least i`m not innocent
But what to do whatever i touch turns blue
And should you find yourself lost but in no need of sympathy
Calm down to the beach and watch the waves come in
I dream the ocean was in my house
I feel the surf against my skin
But i just can't keep the waves from dragging me down
But when you say
Ooh baby you're my best friend
Then i lose i lose my common sense
I`m kind of blue it`s the truth
Should you awake dear from your beauty sleep
To find your room swimming in blue and green
Should you awake to feel like you'd never slept
And feel so very old
Well don't you feel alone
I`m kind of blue blue for you again
I guess i`m a fool at least i`m not innocent
But what to do whatever i touch turns blue
Blue for you again
I guess i`m a fool at least i`m not innocent
I may be blue but don't you let me make you blue
Too
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8. _ Her Last Fling
There you go again
Alma tell me when
Will you never learn
And now you`re underweight
And overpaid
You will not be saved
And you`re pushing 38
Heaven knows your train is late
Although my chance is slim
You percieve the state you`re in
Is good for one last fling
In a drastic dress you walk in drastic steps
Revealing no interest
You know it seems you wont be spared
And you`re so much wiser unaware, unaware
Independent means being alone and being
Good for one last fling
So there you go again
Alma tell me when
Will you ever learn
Instead you walk in these drastic steps
When you know too well
You`re train has left, you`re train has left
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9. _ Brand New Friend
Walking in the rain walking with jesus and jane
Jane was in her turtle neck i was much happier then
If i were to ask you what you would do with yourself
If i were to tell you would you just talk to yourself
Am i asking oh for so much
I`m not asking to be understood
Am i asking oh for so much
I`m just looking for a brand new friend
Walking in the rain walking with jesus and jane
Jane was in her turtle neck i was much happier then
Am i asking oh for so much
You could do anything you wanted to
Am i asking oh for so much
No just something that i can hold down
Because it`s all downhill now
So let me count the times that we swore and lied
That we`d tie ourselves to the railway line
Let me count the times when of course we lied
Well we know no better it was no crime
Let me count the times
I well i don't know when i when i`ll be content
But i do know i need a brand new friend
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10. _ Pretty Gone
Somebody somewhere must pay
Not you you just walk away to the foot of her stairs
She at the top with her head in the clouds
And was she easily lead
Well can you tell me that you were not
You unwashed and undressed
She with her head full of your cigarettes
She is oh such a pretty one wrapped up in needlecord and coincidence
And you don`t know what to want
Until it's gone gone gone pretty gone
Somebody somewhere must pay
Somebody else will confess all your sins
You'll be saved
Then you'll step on that face
She will laugh she will kiss yes and tell
She is gone she is pretty gone she's under your thumb
Oh you little man but you don`t know what you want
Until she's gone gone gone
Pretty dress full of nothingness to confess
She is nothing less
She was half way to holiness when you said
Wont you put on your dress and come down to magazine avenue
Wont you put on your dress and come down?
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11. _ Lost Weekend
It took a lost weekend in a hotel in amsterdam
And double pneumonia in a single room
And the sickest joke was the price of the medicine
Are you laughing at me now may i please laugh along with you
This morning i woke up from a deep unquiet sleep
With ashtray clothes and miss lonelyheart`s pen
With which i wrote for you a lovesong in tatoo
Upon my palm `twas stolen from me when jesus took my hand
You see i i wouldn't say it if i didn't mean it
Drop me and i`ll fall to pieces too easily
I was a king bee with a head full of attitude
Wore my heart on my sleeve like a stained
My aim was to taboo you
Could we meet in the marketplace
Did i ever hey please did you wound my knees
You see i i wouldn't say it if i didn't mean it
Drop me and i`ll fall to pieces
Yes it`s too easy and there's nobody else to blame
Will i hang my head in a crying shame
There is nobody else to blame nobody else except my sweet self
Again it took a lost weekend in a hotel in amsterdam
Twenty four gone years to conclude in tears
That the sickest joke was the price of the medicine
Are you laughing at me now
May i please laugh along
I was a king bee with a head full of attitude
And ashtray heart on my sleeve wounded knees
And my one love song was a tatoo upon my palm
You wrote upon me when you took my hand
You see i i wouldn't say it if i didn't mean it
Drop me and i`ll fall to pieces too easily
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12. _ Why I Love Country Music
Jane is fine always fine
We're unhappy most of the time
We don't talk we don't fight
I'm just tired she's way past caring
But she says she is fine
She tells lies most of the time
What she needs i don't have
That's not in the hand that i'm holding
So we drink spanish wine
She plays country records until the morning
This is mine all of mine
She is not she is not mine
And i feel fine only when i'm sleeping
Only with the t.v. on
She and i and empty wine and whisky bottles
And she write beneath crumpled sheets
She is everything i need
But she would rather be any place but here
Jane is fine always fine
We're unhappy most of the time
We don't talk we don't fight i'm just tired
She's way past caring
So we drink spanish wine we tell lies
We're killing and we feel fine
Well what's the crime?
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