"Because your candle burns too bright well, I almost forgot it was twilight. Even if I think that you are right, well, I'm tired of being down, I got no fight. You're wonderful, and it's beautiful, but I'm already somebody's baby. And if i went with you, I'd disappoint you, too."

"Haven't laughed this hard in a long time I better stop now before I start crying Go off to sleep in the sunshine I don't want to see the day when its dying."

"Gimme one good reason not to do it (because we love you), so do it."

"Your arsenal of excuses you never told her when you walked out on the savannah shoulder with your veins all full of beer thinking 'well at least now everything is clear'"

"The scraping subjects, ruled by fear, they told me whiskey works better than beer."

"This is the place where time reverses. Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses. Instruments shine on a silver tray Don't let me get carried away."

"You don't deserve to be lonely, but those drugs you got won't make you feel better. Pretty soon you'll find it's the only little part of your life you're keeping together."

"Veins full of disappearing ink Vomitting in the kitchen sink."

"I'm comfortable apart, it's all written on my chart And I take what's given me, most cooperatively I do what people say and lie in bed all day Absolutely horrified, I hope you're satisfied"

"So I wait for confirmation That you're never gonna use your starting gun."

"This is the place you end up when you lose the chase, Where you're dragged against your will from a basement on a hill, And all anybody knows, is you're not like them, So they kick you in the head...and send you back to bed."

"I met a girl, snowball in hell she was hard and as cracked as the liberty bell."

"I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy the cold comfort of the in between a little less than a human being a little less than a happy high a little less than a suicide the only things that you really tried."

"What I used to be will pass away, and then you'll see That all I want now is happiness for you and me."

"Everything here is free Everything but you and me This painting never dries Stupidity tries"

"The first true love that folded at the slightest touch, brought down like an old hotel, people digging through the rubble for things they can resell."

"Bored in a role, but he can't stop Standing up to sit back down, and lose the one thing found. Spinning the world like a toy top 'till there's a ghost in every town."

"Here come your pride and joy The comic little drunk you call your boy, Making everybody smile"

"She appears composed So she is, I suppose Who can really tell? She shows no emotion at all Stares into space like a dead china doll"

"London Bridge is safe and sound No matter what you keep repeating Nothing's gonna drag me down To a death that's not worth cheating"

"They took your life apart And called your failures art They were wrong, though They won't know 'Til tomorrow"

"I'm in love with the world, Through the eyes of a girl, Who's still around the morning after."

"It's a picture perfect evening And I'm staring down the sun Fully loaded, deaf, and dumb And done waiting for sedation to disconnect my head Or any situation where I'm better off than dead"

"Crooked spin can't come to rest, I'm damaged bad at best."

"The first time I saw you I knew it would never last I'm not half what I wish I was I'm so angry I don't think it'll ever pass And I was bad news for you just because I never meant to hurt you"

"Drink up, baby, look at the stars I'll kiss you again Between the bars Where I'm seeing you there With your hands in the air Waiting to finally be caught Drink up one more time and I'll make you mine..."

"I could make you satisfied in everything you do, All your secret wishes could right now be coming true And be forever with my poisoned arms Around you. No one's gonna fool around with us."

"I'm looking at a hand full of broken plans And I'm tired of playing it down You just want her to do anything to you There ain't nothing you won't allow You wake up in the middle of the night From a dream you won't remember flashing on like a cop's light You say she's waiting and I know what for The white lady loves you more"

"I waited for a bus To separate the both of us And take me off far away from you 'Cause my feelings never change a bit I always feel like shit I don't know why; I guess that I "just do""

"You turned white, like a saint But I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold... ...Flecked paint."

"I'm a junkyard full of false starts And I don't need your permission To bury my love under this bare light bulb. The moon is a sickle cell It'll kill you in time."

"Your hand on his arm, the hay stack charm around your neck, strung out and thin, calling some friend trying to cash some check, he's acting dumb, that's what you've come to expect. * I can't beat myself I can't beat myself And I don't want to talk. I'm taking the cure so I can be quiet Whenever I want. So leave me alone You ought to be proud that I'm getting good marks."

"I'm going out now like a baby A naïve unsatisfiable baby Grabbing onto whatever's around For the soaring high or the crushing down With hidden cracks that don't show, but that constantly just grow."

"I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready."

"[when asked about cigarettes] I don't recommend them... but I smoke them."

"I don't intend to write depressing songs and I'd probably rather write happy ones"

"Here's a song I made up while I was watching Xena the Warrior Princess with the sound off. It's a fact. I had a secret crush on Xena. It was a secret to me too. I wouldn't admit it. She's pretty fuckin' tough. She has a good yell... she kills the stupid gladiators with the log-trap. Release the log-trap! She releases the log-trap and they all get... crushed. They'd all wanna be with her if they could, but unfortunately they're not on her side. It's a lot better with the sound off. Really, it is. And the song didn't have anything to do with Xena... but... I was about half a bottle through Jameson's... if that makes any sense."

"There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?"

"I'm a roman candle My head is full of flames I want to hurt him I want to give him pain And make him feel this pretty burn."

"Church bells and now I'm awake And I guess it must be some kind of holiday I can't seem to join in the celebration But I'll go to the service And I'll go to pray And I'll sing the praises of my maker's name Like I was as good as she made me..."

"who will draw the calvary in risk his very own precious skin to make our Angelinia a free and peaceful land again? Henry who'll love a poor orphan child? Henry Darger"

"who'll save the poor little girl? oh, Henry... who'll tell the story of her? Henry Darger"

"once I was open, could hope, I had no doubt but that was the worst thing that I could do"

"once I came close to that most elusive fire burning with hopeless love and desire but it was just about the worst thing that I could do it was just about the worst thing I could do"

"once I could love, I could trust, I could not doubt but that was just about the worst thing that I could do it was just about the worst thing that I could do"