"We spend all day getting sober. Just hiding from daylight Watching TV We just look a lot better in the blue light Well, you know I gotta get out. But I'm stuck so tight Weighed by the chains that keep me... Hanginaround this town on the corner"

"She sat right down on the sofa; I said,"Where have you been? I've been waiting for you. Cause last night I had something so good These days get so long and I got nothing to do I been hanginaround this town on the corner"

""I gotta rush away," she said, "I been to Boston before. And anyways, This change I been feeling Doesn't make the rain fall." No big differences these days Just the same old walkaways. And someday I'm gonna stay, But not today."

"Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m. And talked a little while about the year I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself to hold on to these moments as they pass"

"The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls All at once you look across a crowded room To see the way that light attaches to a girl And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think you might come to California... I think you should"

"A long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin' Now the days go by so fast"

"So she takes her pills Careful and round One of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle down"

"Miller's angels are hovering in between the earth and the sun in the shadow of God's unwavering love I am a fortunate son"

"Where's the funhouse this year The fairground's deserted and all the skies don't seem as near, but Nicole's my oldest friend But the altar is empty and she'll never be a little girl again"

"Gotta get out on my own Gotta get up from this waiting, waiting at home Gotta get out of this sunlight It's melting my bones I gotta get up from this slumber Just get myself home"

"Children in bloom Cooking in the sun Waiting for a room of our own Leave my sister alone Cause she don't deserve this She is a flower And I am a flower And we are all alone"

"I will wait for you in Baton Rouge I'll miss you down in New Orleans I'll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable And I'll miss you when I'm slipping in between If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain And if you're the queen of california Baby I am the king of the rain And I said Goodnight Elisabeth"

"Daylight fading Come and waste another year All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn When we see the early signs that daylight's fading, we leave just before it's gone"

"Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside And I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive"

"All my sins... I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book"

"I walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine; I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me."

"I dreamt I saw you walking, on a hillside in the snow. Casting shadows on the winter sky; as you stood there counting crows."

"These train conversations are passing me by I don't have nothin' to say You get what you pay for, but I just had no Intention of living this way"

"Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street Where all the bodies hang on the air If she remembers, she hides it whenever we meet Either way now, I don't really care Cause I'm gone from there"

"I'm almost drowning in her sea She's nearly fallen to her knees"

"Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street Cross the water, home through the town Past the shadows that fall down wherever we meet Pretty soon now, I won't come around"

"Hey, I only want the same as anyone Henderson is waiting for the sun Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends After all the dreaming I come home again"

"I belong in the service of the Queen I belong anywhere but in between She's been crying, I've been thinking And I am the Rain King"

"When I think of heaven (Deliver me in a black-winged bird) I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers and all other instruments of faith and sex and God In the belly of a black-winged bird Don't try to feed me I've been here before and I deserve a little more"

"Every time she sneezes I believe it's love."

"It does not bother me to say this isn't love Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love And I guess I'm going to have to live with that But I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey, Something in between, And I can always change my name If that's what you mean"

"Mr. Jones and me staring at the video When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as can be Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars...."

"I want to be a lion Everybody wants to pass as cats We all want to be big big stars, yeah, but we got different reasons for that Believe in me because I don't believe in anything and I want to be someone to believe."

"We all want something beautiful. Man, I wish I was beautiful."

"Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales Stare at the beautiful women "She's looking at you." "Ah, no, no, she's looking at me." Smiling in the bright lights Coming through in stereo When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely."

"Omaha Somewhere in middle America Getting right to the heart of matters It's the heart that matters more I think you better turn your ticket in And get your money back at the door"

"Then she looks up at the building and says she's thinking of jumping. She says she's tired of life; she must be tired of something."

"Sleeping children better run like the wind Out of the lightning dream Mama's little baby better get herself in Out of the lightning"

"Round here we're carving out our names Round here we all look the same Round here we talk just like lions But we sacrifice like lambs Round here, she's slipping through my hands"

"She parks her car outside my house and takes her clothes off Says she's close to understanding Jesus She knows she's more that just a little misunderstood She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous"

"Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand says she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis"

"Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white. And in between the moon and you the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right."

"I've been the world over, north, south, east and west, But the middle of nowhere, where I likes it best. Where it's wave over wave, sea over bow, I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow."

"Just like the final movie scene, the prince will find his perfect queen. The hero always saves the world. The villains get what they deserve. The boy will always get the girl when I am king."

"And there's one more thing I've come to know for sure. There's no bitterness that smolders, no chip on any shoulder that a random act of kindness couldn't cure."

"But every mountain has it's faces that'd make you want to stop On this so unwelcome journey from the bottom to the top."

"Hey man, you don't know what you're missing. You count your curses and forget about the blessings. Don't you think you should learn a little lessson?"

"Got to leave it all behind you. Give the sun a chance to find you. Let it go."

"And if the devil will take her, I'd thank him for his pain. I swear to God I'll hang me self if I get married again."

"Well, I came into a scolding wife a few short years ago And ever since I lead a life of misery and woe My wife she is a tyrant around the room and in Ah, she'd sell me to the devil for a glass or two of gin."

"When you're in love, there's no time and no space. There's a permanent smile on your face"

"So I drank all of my money and I slept out in the rain Every day is different, but the nights they're all the same You never see the sun on the old black rum, But I know I'm gonna do it again."

"And the old black rum's got a hold on me Like a dog wrapped 'round my leg And the old black rum's got a hold on me Will I live for another day?"

"And every day you're in this place you're two days nearer death."

"There's overtime and bonus opportunities galore. The young men like their money and they all come back for more, but soon your knocking on and you look older than you should For every bob made on the job, you pay it with flesh and blood."