Each day one rung lower Another dollar deeper in debt How can I explain to you? I lost my footing on the final step Now I rip the rubber stopper
American sailors are in town My sisters wear their thin summer frocks And dance with anyone Bathing their shoulders in the night air Kisses on the lawn
I had an itch I had to scratch a match to make and a fish to catch I got stung by a blue-bottle brush I had a red-nettle rash Cat o' nine tails upon
Well his hands are cold and there's a shadow on his heart Sometimes you can't even see him but you know he's there beside you in the dark Pain behind
Kelly left her front light on I came around Her tree blew over I shook her branches down The wind and I, we howled around her door Now there's a buckle
I took a wrong turn off of an unmarked track I did seven miles I couldn't find my way back Hit a lonely stretch, must be losing my touch, I was out of
Sweet sweet love and affection Aiming for my protection Sweet sweet hail and devotion Pointed by my emotion I called you by your name I called you
I live under glass in the British museum I am wrinkled and black, I am ten thousand years I once lost in business, I once lost in love I took a hard
Weak signal, bad light Snake in the grass, I wake in fright and fall to my kees, I look to the sky I'm shaking like a leaf but you gave me the second
Sunlight was hot, and your mother was calling My chest burning, rising falling Dog licking drips from our garage tap Miles from nowhere just a little
I have this monkey on my back l dare not even mention its name But it clambered aboard sometime back On the road to my El Alamain My sweetheart she swore
My baby thinks she's a train She hears voices, little voices/only she can hear She hears voices, such little voices/sliding in her ear My baby thinks
Leave your home say goodbye to your friends and your family You know what's best for you Give up your vows and your memory I'm your clean slate, new
I could think all day about all of the things I could say to you But I won't even try to sway you I might drink a few, what's the point, I've got too
We could talk about how bad it is but it's quite bad enough Shed a tear for just how sad it is but it's not quite that rough And when you talk, must
Old ghostrider, old ghostrider Even people in love get hit by bullets, old ghostrider (don't shoot) Footsteps/on a spiral stairwell When I'm trying to
Since she found somebody new, I thought I never could Or did you for I thought then I never would but time is taking all the pain away Until now I
She sank without a trace in a little one mechanic town All the old folks shrugged their shoulders when I asked around She was the spooky type who never