Rain washing your memory away Fires burning somewhere around here Clouds forming, clouds gathering One minute in a long, long year You've got one good reason For doing what you're going to do I've got one thing holding me back From doing the same thing to you In the San Gabriels, the fire ate away Rabbit-brush and the jimson weed When the rain...Learn More

I know when you look at the photographs They don't do much for you I know you see the fires raging Baby, I see them too And even though you got your options all lined up in a row There is something I want you to know I meant every word I said in New Delhi Every word, every word, every word I don't know where you're going And I don't wanna know...Learn More

[Verse 1] Let the bright colors come blushing gently back to the Cherry blossom trees, around Pontiac And guys in powder blue starter jackets Down on the street Let them come up from the corners So light on their feet [Verse 2] Let the ticker tape come cascading down Above the greyhound station Out at the edge of town And at the schoolyard...Learn More

Selling new flowers outrageously cheap Freshly cut daisies, twenty five cents each You loved me when you could keep your losses down But winter's coming around now, now, now, now The girl at the flower shop is kind and young She made accurate change for me, I let the change come And you loved me when it was cheap to do so Can you feel the cold...Learn More

Stick bright reflective tape to the collar of your shirt Mind your business and you won't get hurt Be true to the things you said you'd be true to Always keep your objective in view Keep two working contacts among your effects See the tall poppies with their tender fragile necks Solomon in all his glory not arrayed like these Bending in the wind...Learn More

Lay down just a little while, honey lemon-chamomile Very soon the plane's coming in One hour worth of quicksand, the glass warm against your hand Very soon the airplane will take me away I will nuzzle up against you and then I will never see you again Fires burning, the world's turning around Words that lose their meanings and then swell up like...Learn More

You come around here When the lights are down low And you hang around for six or seven hours And then you get ready to go Well I remember When you used to kiss me Without me asking you to Yeah I remember when you used to When I lean toward to you, you turn away It's a quarter past one A.M. on a warm Saturday That's alright, that's alright, I hear...Learn More

(Spoken intro) Alright: Shirtless in Hamburg [Verse 1] Sleep two to a bed; Four to a room Profits from the countryside Glad tidings of doom Too broke to play around Like the soldiers do All up and down The glittering avenue Anything's better than the future I can see that from here [Verse 2] Stack the amplifiers high Turn up the bass Spring...Learn More

[Verse 1] King Saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong And Joseph's brothers sold him down the river for a song And Sonny Liston rubbed some Tiger Balm into his glove Some things you do for money and some you do for love love love [Verse 2] Raskolnikov felt sick but he couldn't say why When he saw his face reflected in his victim's twinkling...Learn More

I sunk all of my money into Swiss gold And I watched the markets slide And I stood on the edge of the Pacific And watched the hypodermic needles coming in with the tide There are two guys just outside of Chicago Looking for me tonight But Randy Johnson throws a baseball 97 miles an hour And I'm gonna be all right I had a fully loaded junk bond...Learn More

The cactus cuttings took root The tea you brought me smacked of passion fruit In a room where the heat bled in through the wall I lay breathing in the design of it all What is there to regret? Your mouth was wet And your shoulders rolled under mine I saw the glaze come over your eyes I felt my blood pumping and the heat rise I've seen pretty eyes...Learn More

[Verse 1] Jonah went down to the docks To flee from the wrath of the Lord But the mark on his forehead Was visible to everybody on board [Chorus 1] They threw him down into the water But he did not drown I'm on a balcony in Mobile, Alabama Waiting for the wind to throw me down [Verse 2] Now the Lord told the great fish Be free of your burden And...Learn More