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Gotta trust my name No fork in my tongue Gotta trust my name Never saw it blow Never saw it blow The clouds rained money Never saw it blow The clouds rained money Never saw it blow Shoul

I come from nowhere I was nowhere bound never once believed this was my restin' ground but somewhere between here and that rest I heard ya callin' my name All for this, I have

Got an earthquake shack near Elbe. Got a garden of dyin' cars. Covered up deep in the mud of the powerline road. And at night I can hear the lockjaw, And the swagger of the devil'

Out past the trees there is nothing to burn Just an empty gas station, left to me in a will Just a plate of bad habits and plenty of salt for the wounds Just a plate of bone china and plenty of

tongue tied, said my prayers 20 years or more seems like yesterday hung your secrets from the judas tree watched 'em blow down to the valley floor blowin' home, watched 'em b

I can sleep it off, Sleep it back to sleep, I can be most anything I want. A long way from the shade, The north side of the moon. Down here only rich men lose their shirts. And John Law wakes

It soon appears Long rented shores Too big to name And second to none Save horses' hair In pockets deep Remember skies Second to none Black rain Black rain will come Blac

The season has come When nothing gets done Save copycat killin' Away from windows asleep on the floor The wheel of misfortune spins in the yard And by the way And by the way

When Abilene was young and gay And thunder storms filled up the days The cattle roam outside the town Sleeping in the midday sun X4 Then tracks were laid across the plain By broken old m

It's breathin' time In Christmas Valley herons fly by night and crash into the pines and when we're gone from Christmas Valley no one will remember you leave nothin' to rem

painted so many towns painted them up and down down to the broken ground pointed the last one, for now soon I will stow away into the cool nightshade watching fireworks fly in the reservati

thunder laughs and thunderclaps the afternoons round here, well they're just like that I know ya' don't spook easy I know ya' won't up and quit let's keep it li

Wake up dead man, there's a noise You must attend It will not quit Wake up dead man, there's a noise Your sleep is done Your secret's out Dead man rise You're be

Why would you run ? I beg stars above A thing of such beauty Must be called love Why would you go And give me to cry? A thing of such beauty Might never die You bust loose from heav

blacklight fades headlights switched off the engine burns as we're rollin' to a stop let's get out here lie down in the middle of road ain't no cars comin' only

Quick, burn it down to the wick Burn it down to the heart So the ending can start Here, behind the riverhaus door With an unloaded gun And an unsettled score Well I'll never drag

somethin' of a shambles another wicked tangle still I believe that love is drawn from the emptiest of wells a shadow of a mystery the way you can't forget me still I believe th

I can still remember the coat I wore that day yellow as a plastic moon with a weave as thick as chains walkin' past the sideshow tents drunker than we knew could never fill my brother�

In a trailer park with hungry dogs Eat stolen bread With stolen credit cards With half a brain I'd torch this mess Have all these things So I don't ask for more Never su

Lord, I feel like going home I've tried and I fell and I'm tired and weary Everything I've done is wrong And I feel like going home Lord, I tried to see you through But it

Will you crash the engine of our ruin? Who'll spill the flat cars of our shame? I'm beat up tired from always doin', What I shoulda done in the first place. You can call in sic

Findlay was on his last legs But he made the rules Said suffer fools gladly But never end up as the sufferin' fool He shook me down Though it was my first week on the job Said trav

Come back in the winter, Won't steal away too long. And when I'm back I'll set it all ablaze. Got Jesus in my pocket And matches in my coat. I won't have to work alone this t

The city's shiverin' Shivers in the heat That we call summertime And I'm deliverin' The one piece of the puzzle That you could not find Follow me an angel Follow e

Bang out the night song on an old kettle drum don't ask for no ransom ain't payin you none ground to a halt with suspicion for all you say "watch me fly" I suppose that

Every night before I go to sleep I find a ticket and I win a lottery I scoup them pearls up from the sea I cash them in and buy you all the things you need Every night before I rest my head

These are the ghosts that I half believed Guns & liquor & the carnival freak But then one day the whole world shook And I got arrested for stealin' a look And the glad nation&#

A crooked road on a country mile The widow walks from a letter found (And) ties her hands in knots and chokes her disbelief (That) what's done is done and it's dine for good After

see my silly watch every second lost, hmm lost in a strange arcade got drunk on girls night out If they're the good years, I don't know what you call the hard years If they're

Maybe you should disappear, And now I've warned you so. Bury your clothes out in the woods, And hide your letters 'neath the stove. There's a big house down in Wilkeson, where yo

In this town The blood will make you rich Yeah, in this town The blood will make you rich In this town I will do you one better I'll change the truth When I change the weather

Hangman take these heads from me And swing 'em from your money tree Hear me laughing in my steps These heads are yours, they're yours to keep Please don't skip the last detai

This is where it starts This is... where it stops And when it finally stops I hope, starts right up Walk the glitter mile Past hotels of sand People say'n lots of things Ain't

hightimes, undermine tell me somethin' I don't know hightimes, can chase em 'til your blind tell me somethin' I don't know now you're lyin' next to me th

Carved your name on the numbering hill, Now it looks on the town with the promise to kill everything. We lit this valley with atomic power, But the lights went down in the closing hour yesterday

Said this was our town The joke it was on us We were just passin thru' On the way to givin' up Joked this was our town That someday we'd be thrilled By anything we loved

Jack Candy was as old as my father But still I took a likin' to him He said: "You will be somebody's treasure, But no one has discovered you yet." Jack Candy lived on Sk

Fair young maiden All in the garden Strange young man Passed her by Said: "Fair maid Will you marry me?" This, then, sir, Was her reply "Oh no, kind sir I canot mar

Dressed in jealous clothes She drove to the black hole Out past to where the roads turn into sand No crmies worth a dime 'Less you look it in the eye And she drove And she drove

This is the last ditch ever I dug Once there were motives but they have been lost Dig through the sand still you end at the rock This is the ditch that I dug These are the blankets that we shou

These are your last tears for the century don't cry them for me these are your last tears, before the party starts don't throw them away use em' wisely, use em' large

Why we can't fake it you won't ever say Both arms hangin' from the ball and chain Tongue tied and twisted from braidin' the rope Both arms hangin' from this faded hope

Let's burn down the cornfield Let's burn down the cornfield We can listen to it burn We'll hide behind the oak tree Hide behind the oak tree Stay out of danger 'til I

Been a lot of rain out there Rainin' blind Summer's comin' slow ... this year It's rainin' blind If ya come back tonight ... I'll let it ... fall away If ya

If you want good times I know where to look And if you want good times I will They're thrown on your bed With your junkyard religion At the best of the western motels Thrown with

It was the dirty end of winter Along the loom of the land When I walked with sweet Henry Hand upon hand And the wind it bit bitter For a girl of no means With no shoes on her feet And

Way up north, my love lies sleepin' Her lonely grave, beneath the pines How sadly I recall her memory She was my own true love devine One night I found her with another They did not

Steal it from the yard Medicine hat she wore Mother's protection Protection from the open sun What is gone was never here And what is here is second-hand Trust in only shadows 'Cau

If you're ready and the creek don't rise If you're ready with the furnace full Trees were shakin' and the break was good Finally lost him in the neck of the woods If you'

Man came down from the field A lonely horseman Headin' back to the stable Said he was sorry But his cain was not able To save us all from ourselves Man sees the blood on every door

Check the main road one more time. Check the main road but I'm sure that you will find. It is late and closin' down. There are lights out there but they do not seem close. Take th

our healin' mark was reached above this floodlit street beneath a sliver moon undone leaning with intent to fall your gaze a perfect blade my hand, a shadow drawn These secrets com

Spent another season in the valley of the bones But higher grounds was callin, callin me back home 109 answers to 110 proofs Back up to my bed o' nails and my leakin roof Hold me sober

Now all of us knew Old Crow as the patron drinker's curse. He paced along the barstools, beggin' quarters for his thirst. Nobody knew where he came from, And nobody cared to ask.

behind the bric and brac there will be no lookin' back and between hell and hello there will be no lettin' go no there won't and you can't be serious no you can't

Lead you over to the water, Said "Hold it down until it does not breathe." Tried drowning it on dry land for too long, But it was not supposed to be. This recklessness might kill yo

If the wild-bird could speak He'd tell of places you have been He's been in my dreams And he knows all the ways of the winds Polly, come home again Spread your wings to the wind

How can you tell me how much you miss me When the last time I saw you, you wouldn't even kiss me The rich guy you're seein' must have put you down So welcome back, baby, to the p

When you burn your kingdom Through the ashes I will come I know it makes no difference But I can't leave ya to your fun Usin' up your torch song gifts Why do you rush the end alon

Promise me my soul to keep. And promise me you'll never sleep. And promise me that when it's over, We will drink the whole world sober. Promise me that lines get drawn. Point no

Gathered by the riverside the current pulls 100 years each way savin' souls and singin' songs They beg and smile, but murder just the same watch me slip into the trees breakin&#

Highwater is everywhere, highwater is telling me to go There's poison in the course it runs, there's ashes from the factory on the hill Watch it all fall down From the mountain to t

The sky is always heavy here, And the mules they roam in packs. And the skulls we dragged from waterholes, By the woodshed in a stack. And fear don't ever come out alone. And the bad

How many times have you heard someone say "If I had his money, I could do things my way?" Little they know that it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

Howling like a banshee in the middle of the night Don't you know it's me at your back door I'm wounded and scared with no place to go Won't you give me home for the night

We need a better idea, here quick Before the sun's beatin' down on our necks We need a better idea Watch us speed, to the end of the world Promise all, that we've already heard

Mr. ten dollar man Let me tell you where you're bound When you drink your green liquor Lord, you'll roll to the ground But you come around here With your money in your hand Ta

All dressed up for the day of the dead I have been waiting It's coming soon enough The doors are open and the prowlers have all fled So tired of waiting So tired of hanging tough

don't wait any longer not a second more don't wait for the century to click ya' never can be sure put my hand just where you want it been movin' much too slow move your

Deaf as a fence post Alone on a winter's night I'm drunk as a racehorse But I'll never fade outta sight There's a wild below me A wild up there in the stars There�

Fourteen and one half years You know I was good fortune's slave Road map on my face Up to my neck in lucky breaks Cover your eyes Don't look now And durin' all that tim

Lose your coat and roll your sleeves This is demolition time Inventions full of spit and blood With blinders for the faint of heart Fortune's ashes crowd this map But if I lose, well I don&

Trying hard to remember your voice it seems so faraway all choked up by the heat and the dust it seems so faraway I'm gonna give you a call, from this air conditioned bar gonna give i

I go to sleep, before the devil wakes and I wake up, before the angels take all my worldly desires all my yardsticks of fear all my secrets untold all my motives unclear hangin&

I'm the nightwatchman and nothing gets behind my back Work out at the goldmine in a tin can shack Don't come up behind cause I won't be mincing my words Don't play twenty qu

Down here everyone says that the River People don't really belong here. I know what it's like to be a stranger and divide a town beside a frontier. People want your business and little

well the fog's rollin' thick in the trees and the fire burns deep in the hole my conscience a wound with no salve it betrays me wherever I go said the best way a man can go down is

(Well) I'm going away to leave you And I'm going away for a while Well, I'm coming back to you someday When I've gone ten thousand miles Where the storms are on the ocea

Knock yourself And knock again Roll it all into your hand And let it spin There's a wind blowin' hell From the bottom of the well Let it fall Below the belt Calm, cool a

Liars left their roost last night I heard it from some talkshow host Fangs and venom working hard In simulcast from coast to coast Hey ho, 'round we go This rotten tree will never gr

I don't care how long it might last don't care anymore don't care about that I don't care how long it might take I'm still wide awake out walkin' late Ti

Last time that I saw you, you were on the killing floor Last time that I saw you, all the tears had turned to clay Still I haven't panicked, come and pull the stitches tight No room for

Gettin' stupid ... crooked feet A pinball on ... Scott Walker Street Gettin' stupid ... in a bar Not goin' home ... til the band plays "Superstar" Everything's o

(Well) I dreamed I saw the devil's club Growin' by the burnin' bush And I dreamed that all your razor teeth Grabbed tomorrow by the root And I dreamed the long arm of the law

You're an open gate On a barbed wire fence Swingin' back and forth You know it scares me half to death Funny how it moved From a blessin' to a curse Ain't it funny how

The graveyard sits by the Prescott mill. Where my old man lost his arm, And for that I was ready to kill. But he just looked tired, And said: "Don't bury me near that place."

even the mightiest rivers will bend before they vanish, in the sand even the tallest of timbers will fall easy to fall, ain't easy to land well that's a curse of mine seems everythin

Into the heart of this old sunken ship A white knuckle journey you won't soon forget Out where the deepwater goes Into the veins of this old lizard skin To Tierra Del Fuego and then

I waited all day And it seemed like one day too many To find out who knows what And why all the gallons are hanging Deadmen are sneaking Over thr hills Something forgotten Is going

When death shall close these eyelids And this heart shall cease to beat And they lay me down to rest In some flowery-bound retreat Will you miss, miss me, when I'm gone Will you miss

I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown With my hands of ivory And my nerves of steel I'll break the

T'was a cold wintry night Not a star was in sight And he north wind was howling down the line Went a brave engineer With a sweetheart so dear With an order to pull Old # 9. His heart

Lay my body down By the shallows of the creek You can lay my body down Lay me in your reach And when my body's down We'll steal the thunder from the rain And when my body'