Up here in the crows nest I am swimming through the breeze One last memory from the sun as it is sinking by degrees And high above the albatrosses, on
I met you at a party or on a crowded street A silent singularity when glances chanced to meet You looked into my glasses, said you'd seen a ghost I tried
Sunday night, its supper time, the hotel's full and all is fine. You can see that No Vacancy sign from the window of room 39 Monday morning at half past
Pictures on my wall, Fifteen different colours, Starting with vermillion- The first flower of the summer, And don't think I'll be finished Till I've
You have chosen dawn to leave Don't bother me while I am sleeping Life continues and though you go out I'll sleep another hour or so Though you think
I close my eyes and it all returns like the spinning of a potter's wheel Trying to stay ahead a morning as time came running with us And she beat us
Anne walks alone Past the Domino sugar factory She's as easy to know As a broken mystery Conversations are slow With herself in dead parking lots Hands
Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes Now she?s gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind And if the
Fold yourself against Me like a paper bird Tonight we'll fly awhile Just give me the word And hold onto me Like I hold onto you A steeple holds a bell
Now my work is done I feel I'm owed some joy Oh Imogene and Abelard I'm your homeward boy But there's another one Who brings me to your door And the
If I could trace the lines that ran Between your smile and your sleight of hand I would guess that you put something up my sleeve Now every time I see
Peter said to Paul you know all those words we wrote Are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go But now talking to God is Laurel
Picture they took of you in your cowboy hat Makes you look like you are one of the boys Out on a Saturday night, meanwhile on the outskirts of the dance
These chords are old but we shake hands Cause I believe that they?re the good guys We can use all the help we can So many minor chords outside I fell
So save all of your light For those who can't sleep at night And who can't even sing to their shadows Oh they ride into town And they throw the shots
Under wide blue skies There?s a place to lie For me and Evelyn to hide tonight I?ll try my best to make a go But I?m not sure what I don?t know Oh chariots
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All the other girls here are stars?you are the Northern Lights They try to shine in through your curtains?you're too close and too bright They try and
