Catfish Road
Gonna use my final hour to see if I can reconcileSearching for a higher powerI might start looking for a holy sign or praying to godSaving my soul saying lord I been working overtime Got…
Take Your Life Seriously
The thing about the Great WallOnce you’ve seen a piece of it you’ve seen it all.Seriously! You can build a big stone boatCover it with the sex organs of plants and call it a floatOr…
The Painful End
Everybody has a painful endEverybody has a painful endIt doesn’t matter how you go,Quick by the guillotine or bleedingEverybody has a painful end In my life I’ve crunched cockroachesIn my life I’ve killed ants with…
We’ve Got A Beautiful Love
You could be a sinner, you keep getting thinnerWent swimming after dinner and sank like a beginnerDon’t care what the neighbor saw, didn’t have to call the lawWe were playing quick draw, pulled a chord…
Weeping Dry
You and I had a love for the agesI can’t believe we let it slip away in stagesAnother argumentA few more words to resent Dramatic scenes and all your phony shrieking passionPlacing liens on little…
Dissolve In The Rain
Sat on a bee when I sat on the swingGave me a big sting right on my little ding-a-lingOh man I screamed and I criedMama said “you’ll live” but the bee diedI’m sure that he would…
Crushed Velvet Man
The Motor City rocks like a head full of granite We were diggin’ heavy metal before the whole planet Got the Iggy Pop punk rock crash boom rattle Too much grunge, we had to ship…
I’m Not Country
I was born in New EnglandLived here all my lifeGot a three bedroom house in the suburbsWith my two kids and my first wifeWent to USC, got a degreeI must have learned a thing or…
Fight War
I’m not mad and I’m not meanBut look at all these human beingsSplattered on my TV screenI got to fight war I’ve got a girl who understandsWe made a lot of future plansLike a baby…
Personality Skips A Generation
I saw a square cloudIt was a perfect squareI never mentioned it out loudMaybe I wasn’t even really there Everybody is so annoyedWalking around in their peculiar daysEither schizophrenic or paranoidLiving beneath that purple haze…
I Never Cheated On You
I went out dancing with my wifeOne of the great joys of my lifeWe did the Jitterbug Swing to the saxophoneStopped for a snack on our way home Miniskirt waitress brought my pieMy eye crawled…
Teens In The Suburbs
I’m growing old before my eyesBut young enough to be surprisedThat you would take away my rightsFor getting in a couple of fist fights It’s hot downtown tonightCool in the North and WestTeens in the…
No Gasoline
Who needs this continental overkill?We got trains that are rusting on the tracksWho cares if you build a better oil drillIt’s too late the knife is hanging in our backs We got mud on our…
Teardrops Waiting
There are rainbows and antennas that whisper in the night With silence in my heart I recognize The morning is not far I see the fading of the stars Memory of the day precedes the…
Stripmine
Three a.m. we were sitting in my daddy’s carMe and Lucy McGee decided to go too farSo we went down to the stripmine We weren’t looking for loveJust a piece of happinessShe searched every one…
Helicopter Mutant Men
Green, the finest color I have ever seenWith my blue eyes I’ve seen the rainbows flash across the skyIt’s filled with ice and sparkles in the frozen nightSearching for the light I know that there…
Hot Personality
I know a girl with a hot personalityHer sister got the looksOne of them is hitting all the hot spotsWhile the other one’s home reading a bookIf I gotta choose between these twoWho’s gonna fix…
Sugar and Oil
I saw her standing on the cornerSuitcase in her handShe wasn’t living a lie anymoreShe was leaving a man Got a schedule from GreyhoundI heard her talking on the phoneDoes not appear to be hanging aroundI…