Once In My Life
Oh, for once in my Oh, for once in my life Could just something go Could just something go right? Oh, for once in my Oh, for once in my life Could just something go Could just something go right? I’ve been waiting all my life I’ve been waiting all my life All my life My life Oh, for once in my Oh, for once in my life Could just something go Could just something go right? I’ve been waiting all my life I’ve been waiting all my life All my life My life All my life All my life I’ve been waiting all my life I’ve been waiting all my life All my life (oh, for once in my, oh, for once in my life) My life All my life (oh, for once in my, oh, for once in my life) All my life (Oh, for once in my, oh, for once in my life) all my life, all my life, all my life (Oh, for once in my, oh, for once in my life) I could wait for hours I could wait and never fall down Never fall down Never fall down Lay us down Beside the river Face down Beside the river
Cutting Stone
Dreamed I had a cutting stone Dreamed I held it all my own It cut through wire, wood, and bone I’ll cut you down, my cutting stone Cutting stone oh fear me none Whether wild or whether won Though I travel far from home I’ll always have my cutting stone Wandering, I chanced upon A wayward child lost anon And when he laid across my chest My cutting stone it did the rest Cutting stone oh fear me none Whether wild or whether won Though I travel far from home I’ll always have my cutting stone In a valley green and wide A suitor wept for a dying bride And when he turned his eyes on me A cutting stone did set him free Cutting stone oh fear me none Whether wild or whether won Though I travel far from home I’ll always have my cutting stone Cutting stone oh fear me none Whether wild or whether won Though I travel far from home I’ll always have my cutting stone There upon a mountaintop I looked down on to what I’d wrought And when I saw my labors through I cut my cutting stone in two Cutting stone oh fear me none Whether wild or whether won Though I travel far from home I’ll always have my cutting stone I’ll always have my cutting stone I’ll cut you down, my cutting stone
Severed
I lie like a whisper I lie with the lights out And it won’t take me long just to find you And it won’t take me long just to find you I’m allied to the winter So don’t you get clever Don’t you get clever I’m allied to the landslide Gonna leave you all severed Gonna leave you all severed I alone am the answer I alone will make wrongs right But in order to root out the cancer It’s got to be kept from the sunlight I’m allied to the winter So don’t you get clever Don’t you get clever I’m allied to the landslide Gonna leave you all severed Gonna leave you all severed I was born to a jackal I was born in a whiteout Gonna smother you all till I choke you Gonna smother you all till you kick out I’m allied to the winter So don’t you get clever Don’t you get clever I’m allied to the landslide Gonna leave you all severed Gonna leave you all severed
Starwatcher
Starwatcher, starwatcher in the night Starwatcher, starwatcher bend the light There’s a rider on the road There’s calamity awaiting to unfold There is poison in the well There’s the arbor of a distant ringing bell It’s says: hold, hold, hold your ground Skywatcher, skywatcher rules the day Skywatcher, skywatcher cruel and fey There are figures on the shore At the laundromat, they’re whispering of war There a lady on the stairs All a-shambling with thistles in her hair Singing: hold, hold, hold your ground Hold, hold, hold your ground Starwatcher, starwatcher in the night
Tripping Along
We were tripping tripping tripping tripping tripping along While you’re orbiting, might I? While you’re orbiting, might I? Lick you sticky sticky sticky sticky sticky and sweep They’re all turning a blind eye They’re all turning a blind eye But oh what I’d do just to lie with you die in your arms What wouldn’t I give just to live with that sense of alarm? But your relatives gathered all clamber about for your mind And they’re tearing and swearing to leave you all naked and blind So we keep a-ripping ripping ripping ripping rips in the sheets 'Till it’s all coming undone 'Till it’s all coming undone And we’re drippy drippy drippy drippy, what messes are we? And I’m due for a line out And I’m due for a light out But just as I’m cusping on slumber and dumbing my eyes What spin-twisting vision comes listing and jelly alike? And bothering toddles all over this beautiful light This fickle young sister’s away in the dimming of night La de da de da de da da da Da de da de da de da da da Da de da de da de da da da Da de da de da de da da da Da de da de da de da da da Da de da de da de da da da Da de da de da de da da da da
Your Ghost
Along the old sea wall Inside the banquet hall Below the cellar’s stair, maybe you’ll find me there Your ghost, oh your ghost Your ghost And when you take your rest My weight upon your breast And should you close your eyes I’ll still materialize Your ghost, oh your ghost Your ghost Na na na na na Na na na na na And at your final end When you are free again No longer long to be You will be belong to me Your ghost, oh your ghost Oh your ghost, oh your ghost Na na na na na Na na na na na Na na na na na Na na na na na Na na na na na na Na na na na na na Na na na na na na Na na na na na na Your ghost, oh your ghost Ghost Na na na na na Na na na na na
Everything Is Awful
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful Everything is awful, everything is… What’s that crashing sound That follows us around? That’s the sound of all things good breaking We’ll put your fears to rest You know it’s for the best As a choir of angels sing: Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful Everything is awful, everything is… I know you’ve worked so hard To hoist your own petard Must be so nice; the point stuck in your side Hang your heavy head It’s safer here in bed As a choir of angels sing: Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, thing Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful Everything is awful, everything is bad (La la la la La la la la) Everything is… (La la la la La la la la) Everything is… (La la la la La la la la) Everything is… (La la la la La la la la) Everything is… Wake me from my sleep Could you kindly keep it down? Could you kindly keep it down, down? You’ll wake me from my sleep Could you kindly keep it down? Could you kindly keep it down, down?
Sucker’s Prayer
I was not ready for the roar I was discontent to wear that heavy load And so I got down on my knees Beneath the sucker’s prayer I would go there before And when nobody did respond I out my glasses on and went to find a pond Sending rocks into the pockets of my pants I wanna love somebody but I don’t know how And I’ve been so long lonely and it’s getting me down I wanna throw my body in the river and drown I wanna love somebody but I don’t know how So if you’re lost along the way And if you think that it’ll always be this way Won’t you listen to my plea You’ll pick a sucker’s prayer Just go an be there anyway I wanna love somebody but I don’t know how And I’ve been so long lonely and it’s getting me down I wanna throw my body in the river and drown I wanna love somebody but I don’t know how I wanna love somebody but I don’t know how
We All Die Young
It was late one night, I was counting out my stitches Waiting by the side of the road I was a long time gone, slipping off my britches Feeling like it’s time to go home Yeah, feeling like it’s time to go home And in this dream, Bill Tecumseh Sherman Glowered at the foot of my bed He was long and lean, he spoke in perfect German And I recorded all that he said Yeah, I recorded all that he said He said: "We all die young We all die young We all die young We all die young" When I woke next day, layered in the lashings Feeling for the hole in my head I was thinking 'bout my dad, thinking 'bout the nashings Of all the bitter things that he said Yeah, all the worrying things that he had said And he said: "We all die young We all die young We all die young We all die young" Son, he said: "We all die young We all die young! We all die young We all die young! We all die young We all die young! We all die young" We all die young! And it came to pass when everything had ended The world was just a grubby balloon And I spoke up, said "sorry if I’ve offended" This voice came from the back of the room Oh, screaming from the back of the room It said: "We all die young We all die young! We all die young We all die young! We all die young We all die, we all die young! We all die young" One more time! "We all die young Bill Tecumseh Sherman We all die young! We all die young Sorry if I’ve offended We all die young! We all die young We all die, we all die young! We all die young" We all die young! We all die young! We all die, we all die young! We all die young! We all die young! We all die, we all die young!
Rusalka, Rusalka / The Wild Rushes
Rusalka, Rusalka your arms out of water Your hair like an alien bloom Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers Pale in a liminal moon And all that you are is a star on the water When first I went swimming, I heeded no warning And dared breach your rippling pool As a lulled and lingered, the ring slipped my finger And drifted down the [?] And all that I want is to fall in your shallows And now we are wed, the water our bed And bank to bank property lake And you are my wild-eyed rusalka, my river bride Drag me down, take me away And here we will lie, you and I, 'neath the cold, dark sky Beware the wild rushes, my mother told me That grow on the bank side along the salt sea But I being young, I heeded her none So to the wild rushes the wind carried me The summer was here and the sun it was high And to the wild rushes I came by and by And there took my seat and dipped in my feet And through the wild rushes, a voice sweetly cried: Come down, my little darling, come closer to me The water is warm; it is salty and free I long for your touch but I won’t ask too much And I, being foolish, walked in to my knees Come down, little darling, and lay at my breast Oh come a little closer and I’ll do the rest I waited so long for a lover to come And I, being foolish, walked in to my chest Come down, my little darling, oh farther come in For deeper the water, the sweeter the sin My lily lies here, if you’d only draw near And I, being foolish, went in to my chin Oh come, my little darling, do you feel my cool breath Do you feel my arms around you so warm and so wet? Swept from my feet, she pulled me beneath And in the wild rushes, I went to my death
I’ll Be Your Girl
When the summer days live to bore you And the river lies long before you And the one that you love ignores you I’ll be your girl Like a senator works a full room Like a lover undone by full moon Like a lily alive in full bloom I’ll be your girl And when the tempests rage And all the oceans roar At your door I could be your man But I’d be that much more And more So when everything soft upbraids you When fortune has long betrayed you And you’re longing for an arm to stay you I’ll be your girl And when the tempests rage And all the oceans roar At your door I could be your man But I’d be that much more And more So if you’re ever feeling less your time due Like someone bereft and lied to And you never need a guy to guide you I’ll be your girl I’ll be your girl I’ll be your girl