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(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May
I'll never be your Maggie May the one you loved and left
behind the face you see in light of day and then you cast ....
(If You Were) In My Movie
If you were in my movie I'd have you as the doctor
Small black bag And a big black coat I'd have you make a ....
99.9F
99.9 Fahrenheit degrees Stable now, with rising possibilities It could be normal
but it isn't quite Could make you want to stay awake at night ....
As A Child
As a child You have a doll You see this doll Sitting
in her chair You watch her face Her knees apart Her eyes of ....
As Girls Go
You make a really good girl As girls go Still kind of
look like a guy I never thought to wonder why If I could ....
Bad Wisdom
Mother the doctor knows something is wrong Cause my body has strange
information He's looked in my eyes and knows I'm not a child But ....
Big Space
He said you stand in your own shoes I said I'd rather
stand in someone else's He said you look from your direction I said ....
Birth-day (Love Made Real)
One thing I know This pain will go Step through all that's
left to feel I wait to meet my love made real Don't move ....
Black Widow Station
I am at your halfway station darling and I've been waiting for
your train. I am at your halfway station darling and I've been waiting ....
Blood Makes Noise
I'd like to help you doctor Yes I really really would But
the din in my head It's too much and it's no good I'm ....
Blood Sings
When blood sees blood Of its own It sings to see itself
again It sings to hear the voice it's known It sings to recognize ....
Book A Cover
What's that they told you about a book a cover? Don't judge
so quickly, Is it too much too remember? 'Cause pictures lie, you know. ....
Book Of Dreams
In my book of dreams [X3] I took your urgent whisper Stole
the arc of a white wing Rode like foam on the river of ....
Brother Mine
Sonny boy, you need new sneakers Better go into town and get
then Friday night Come to think of it, kid, you need just about ....
Calypso
My name is Calypso And I have lived alone I live on
an island And I waken to the dawn A long time ago I ....
Caramel
It won't do to dream of caramel, to think of cinnamon and
long for you. It won't do to stir a deep desire, to fan ....
Casual Match
I only turned to see What hand had set this inner field
alight Against the flame I see The outline of a man against a ....
Cracking
It's a one time thing It just happens A lot Walk with
me And we will see What we have got Ah... My footsteps are ....
Daniella
Daniella, she sits by the tree in the playground sometimes we go
there and the children all play But no one can tell me just ....
Fat Man & Dancing Girl
I stand in a wide flat land No shadow or shade of
a doubt Whore the megaphone man Met the girl with her hand that's ....
Feather And Bone
you said, come with me and so I did I thought I
could take all your sorrow I thought I could hold it all I ....
Fifty-Fifty Chance
50-50 chance The doctor said In the cardiac room As she's lying
in bed There's a pan on the floor Filled with something black I ....
First Day Out
Here I am at last, I've just jumped off the train I'm
about to start my life as a wanderer in the rain I know ....
Freeze Tag
We go to the playground In the wintertime The sun is fading
fast Upon the slides into the past Upon the swings of indecision In ....
Freezing
If you had no name If you had no history If you
had no books If you had no family If it were only you ....
Gypsy
You come from far away With pictures in your eyes Of coffeeshops
and morning streets In the blue and silent sunrise But night is the ....
Harbor Song
i dreamed you were a rich man and that i had no
place to go i came to you to see if you would take ....
Headshots
The sign said "Headshots" And that was all, A picture of a
boy And a number you could call, Two eyes in the shade A ....
Honeymoon Suite
The ceiling had a painting on it In our room in France
So we were living underneath Some angels in a dance My husband was ....
If I Were A Weapon
If I were a weapon you said I'd be a gun lethal
at close range i guess with silencer and stun but I feel more ....
In Liverpool
In Liverpool On Sunday No traffic On the avenue The light is
pale and thin Like you No sound, down In this part of town ....
In The Eye
If you were to kill me now right here I would still
look you in the eye And I would burn myself into your memory ....
Institution Green
Institution green The walls are cracked and dim And we are standing
in a line Waiting for our faces to be seen Institution green Watch ....
Ironbound Poultry
In the ironbound section near Avenue L where the Portuguese women come
to see what you sell the clouds so low the morning so slow ....
It Makes Me Wonder
The virgin mary on a chain has hit me in the mouth
again as we explore the carnal score of sacred and profane Sulky boy ....
Just Friends
We're friends, that's all we are and that's all we will become
It's understood we're only friends And it's better that way for everyone concerned ....
Knight Moves
Watch while the queen In one false move Turns herself into a
pawn Sleepy and shaken And watching while the blury night Turns into a ....
Language
If language were liquid It would be rushing in Instead here we
are In a silence more eloquent Than any word could ever be These ....
Last Year's Troubles
Last year's troubles are so old fashioned the robber on the highway
the pirate on the seas maybe it's the clothing that's so entertaining the ....
Left Of Center
If you want me You can find me Left of center Off
of the strip In the outskirts In the fringes In the corner Out ....
Lightning
Lightning struck a while ago And it's blazing much too fast But
give it rain of waiting time And it will surely pass Blow over ....
Lolita
Music by Suzanne Vega and Mitchell Froom Lolita Almost grown Lolita Go
on home Hey girl Don't be a dog all your life Don't beg ....
Luka
My name is Luka I live on the second floor I live
upstairs from you Yes I think you've seen me before If you hear ....
Machine Ballerina
Am I an afternoon's pastime a thing on a string to be
thrown and retrieved like a phone call received on somebody's birthday to tease ....
Marlene On The Wall
Even if I am in love with you All this to say,
what's it to you? Observe the blood, the rose tattoo Of the fingerprints ....
Men In A War
Men in a war If they've lost a limb Still feel that
limb As they did before He lay on a cot He was drenched ....
Men Will Be Men
Men will be men and they'll call me the governor I'll walk
through the bar and I'll buy the next round Because this is my ....
My Favorite Plum
My favorite plum hangs so far from me See how it sleeps
and hear how it calls to me See how the flesh presses the ....
Neighborhood Girls
"We had our Neighborhood girl, she Used to hang out, in front
of McKinsey's Bar, and we were Interested in her, and her Clientele... We ....
Night Song
It's 2 o'clock this morning every sane person is asleep I wonder
where you are tonight and down whose hallways do you creep I know ....
Night Vision
By day give thanks By night beware Half the world in sweetness
The other in fear When the darkness takes you With her hand across ....
No Cheap Thrill
Ante up. And don't be shy. Who is that man who is
catching my eye What's underneath all of the deadpan face Sitting so pretty ....
Not Me
I said, I am a little girl He said, you never were
I said, I am not ready He said, then tell me when you ....
One World (For One World One Voice)
We're all in one white field We thought there was no end
Walking as the field went dry What did we do then? We're all ....
Penitent
Once I stood alone so proud held myself above the crowd now
i am low on the ground. From here i look around to see ....
Pilgrimage
This line is burning Turning to ash as it hits the air
Every step is a day in the week It's a Sunday or Monday ....
Predictions
Let's tell the future Let's see how it's been done. By numbers.
By mirrors. By water. By dots made at random on paper. By salt. ....
Priscilla
She'd come to my house and dance in the hall with the
music up loud against the light on the wall I danced beside her ....
Private Goes Public
Smile no smile On this face today Jerk like a thing on
a string And go join the parade Code will keep your privacy in ....
Rock In This Pocket
Excuse me If I may Turn your attention My way One moment
I won't plead It isn't much It's what I need And what's so ....
Room Off The Street
Somewhere in a room With a poster on a wall Of a
man with his hand In a fist Is a woman who's drinking And ....
Rosemary
Do you remember how you walked with me down the street into
the square? How the women selling rosemary pressed the branches to your chest, ....
Rusted Pipe
Now the time has come to speak I was not able And
water through a rusted pipe Could make the sense that I do Gurgle, ....
Salt Water
Tide came in And then went out And left behind In hollow
places Cradled once And cooling twice You feel the sting of Salt water ....
Small Blue Thing
Today I am A small blue thing Like a marble Or an
eye With my knees against my mouth I am perfectly round I am ....
Soap And Water
Soap and water take the day from my hand scrub the salt
from my stinging skin slip me loose of this wedding band Soap and ....
Solitaire
Black on the red and the red on the black. It's a
tic of a tired mind. Come and sit down, won't you try your ....
Solitude Standing
Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk
in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing ....
Some Journey
If I had met you on some journey Where would we be
now If we had met some eastbound train Through some black sleeping town ....
Song In Red And Grey
The reproach in your daughter's most beautiful face made me wonder just
how she could know of that something that happened between you and me ....
Song Of Sand
If sand waves were sound waves What song would be in the
air now What stinging tune Could split this endless noon And make the ....
St. Clare
call on that saint and the candle that burns keeping her safe
until her return plaster and paint holding the fire a poor woman's saint ....
Stockings
I don't care for tights, she says and does not tell me
why She hikes her skirt above her knee revealing one brown thigh I ....
Straight Lines
There's a sound Across the alley Of cold metal Touching skin And
you can see If you look in her window That she has gone ....
The Boulevardiers
I like you and you like him and he likes me and
we all love each other. We like to sit in the cafe and ....
The Marching Dream
I have dreamed that many men Have marched across this field I
have wished that I could take each man And hold him against the ....
The Queen & The Soldier
The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door He said, "I am
not fighting for you any more" The queen knew she'd seen his face ....
The Queen And The Soldier
The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door He said, "I am
not fighting for you any more" The queen knew she'd seen his face ....
The Rent Song
I am sitting by my window; I am thinking of my rent.
I am looking through my pockets, And I'm wondering where it went. I ....
The Silver Lady
When I was a little girl Younger than nine or ten I
once spoke to the Silver Lady But I never saw her again. To ....
Thin Man
He is not my friend, but he is with me Like a
shadow is with a foot that falls His hand is on my back ....
Those Whole Girls (Run In Grace)
Those whole girls Hurl down words Run in packs With bloom to
spare They know health Know it well Skim the cream And fill the ....
Tired Of Sleeping
Oh Mom, the dreams are not so bad It's just that there's
so much to do And I'm tired of sleeping Oh Mom, the old ....
Tombstone
I like a tombstone cause it weathers well And if it stands
or if it crumbles Only time will tell If you carve my name ....
Undertow
I believe right now if I could I would swallow you whole
I would leave only bones and teeth We could see what was underneath ....
When Heroes Go Down
When heroes go down They go down fast So don't expect any
time to Equivocate the past When heroes go down They land in flame ....
Widow's Walk
Consider me a widow, boys and I will tell you why. It's
not the man, but it's the marriage that was drowned. So I walk ....
Woman On The Tier (I'll See You Through)
Too hot. No air. Loud fan and a big tin can. Wait
here. Steer clear. They've gone to get your man. 10 AM. Through gate ....
World Before Columbus
If your love were taken from me Every color would be black
and white It would be as flat as the world before Columbus That's ....
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