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"In my eyes, indisposed, In disguises no one knows Hides the face, lies the snake, In the sun in my disgrace. Boiling heat, summer stench, 'Neath the black, the sky looks dead Call my name through the cream And I'll hear you scream again.Black hole sun, won't you come And wash away the rain? Black hole sun, won't you come? Won't you come? Won't you come?"

"Whatsoever I feared has come to life And whatsoever I've fought off became my life Just when every day seemed to greet me with a smile Sunspots have faded, now I'm doin' time, now I'm doin' time.'Cause I fell on black days I fell on black days."

"I woke the same as any other day, Except a voice was in my head. It said, "Seize the day, pull the trigger. Drop the blade and watch the rolling heads."The day I tried to live I stole a thousand beggars' change And gave it to the rich, yeah. The day I tried to win, I dangled from the power lines And let the martyrs stretch, yeah."

"Feel the rhythm with your hands (Steal the rhythm while you can) Spoonman Speak the rhythm on your own (Speak the rhythm all alone) SpoonmanSpoonman, come together with your hands, Save me, I'm together with your plan. Save me, yeah."

"Take if you want a slice If you want a piece, If it feels right. Break if you like the sound, If it gets you up, If it takes you down. Share if it makes you sleep, If it sets you free, If it helps you breathe."

"Though I can't put my hands on you, I can feel you now In the bones and the blood flowing, needles on the ground. In the ether I sail to you, floating on the fumes, Run aground on the shore for you, simple wreckage.Taree, walk out and raise the road To my tilted shadow. I only know I've made it home When I drown in your ghost light."

"You can't go home, no, I swear you never can. You can walk a million miles and get nowhere. I got nowhere to go ever since I came back Just filling in the lines from the holes to the cracks Yeah!No one knows me No one saves me No one loves or hates me.I've been away for too long."

"Follow me into the desert, as thirsty as you are, Crack a smile and cut your mouth and drown in alcohol. 'Cause down below the truth is lying beneath the riverbed So quench yourself and drink the water that flows below her head.Oh no, there she goes Out in the sunshine Sun is mine, sun is mine.I shot my love today, would you cry for me? I lost my head again, would you lie for me?"

"Torture from you to me, yeah, Abducted from the street, and, uhI'd rather be, I'd rather be with, I'd rather be with an animal, oohh."

"Once upon a time I could control myself, Ooh, once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah."

"Alone, listless, Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room. Young girl, violence, Center of her own attention, the Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it, Tries to make her proud. The shades go down, it's in her head, Painted room, can't deny there's something wrong.Don't call me daughter, not fit to, The picture kept will remind me. Don't call me daughter, not fit to, The picture kept will remind me. Don't call meShe holds the hand that holds her down. She will rise above!"

""Is something wrong?" she said, well of course there is. "You're still alive," she said, oh, and do I deserve to be? Is that the question? And if so, if so who answers? Who answers?I, oh, I'm still alive. Hey, I, hey, I'm still alive."

"All of seventeen, eyes a purple green; Treated like a queen, she was on borrowed self-esteem."

"I swear I recognize your breath Memories, like fingerprints, are slowly raisin' Me, you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf.I changed by not changin' at all. Small town predicts my fate Perhaps that's what no one wants to seeI just wanna scream, "Hello! My God, it's been so long! Never dreamed you'd return But now here you are, and here I am." Hearts and thoughts, they fade away."

"When she couldn't hold, oh, she folded. A dissident is here. Escape is never the safest path, oh, A dissident's-, a dissident is here."

"But love's gonna bring you home, Even God didn't see it comin'. But no matter where you're at, We'll always find the way back."

"Don't come back, lover, I'm proud you're under the skyline. We always knew you were the better half of our good times. Those backyard lights don't shine as bright without your face, Out at Sarah's place."

"So don't get hateful, Lord, hot damn There's a fire burnin' in the back forty. I'm still findin' out who the hell I am. And I'm so tired of wastin' it away, Gonna find the time to realize I’m in deep on better days."

"Did you ever make it back to El Dorado? I'd call and ask, but hell if I know If I still got your number or if you care. You moved away when you was younger. Was it escape or was it hunger?"

"So take me down a road that's a little bit windy To a place they still put sugar in their iced tea, Where the women are fine and the love is fair. Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere. Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere."

"I ain't spotless, neither is you. For once in my life, I'm gonna see it through. If you want spotless, I'll always losе, I don't want love, lover, I want the truth."

"Take a trip uptown to clear you out of my mind You're like sandpaper; the more I try, you bind. Winter was a drag and spring was a friend. I'll love you 'til the summer comes back again. And they've been tryin' to smooth me out For twenty-seven seasons now.For twenty-seven seasons."

"And I think fear and Fridays got an awful lot in common, they're overdone and glorified and always leave you wantin'."

"So don't call in the mornin' 'cause I'll already be gone. Oklahoma in the summertime's where my country ass belongs. Love is patient, love is kind, should not make you lose your mind. Thеre's got to be more to this than bеin' pissed off all the time, All the time."

"Well, I've had cold and humid mornings on city streets and back porches, But I ain’t never breathed a breath as fresh as you. And I've seen children playin' on the coastlines under the white lines, atop the blue tides, But I ain’t ever been baptized in water as cool as you."

"There is concrete below me and a sky above so blue. I'm finally leaving Austin and I wish it was with you. I am just a sickness and you seem to be the cure. How much can a southern girl honestly endure? Remember northwest mountains, they were snow-capped in June, You were napping on my arms on a Sunday afternoon. But, babe, I've gotta heal myself from the things I've never felt, Repression is my heaven but I'd rather go through hell."

"He said the sun's gonna rise tomorrow Somewhere on the east side of sorrow. You better pack your bags west, Stick out your chest And then hit the road. The sun's gonna rise tomorrow Somewhere on the east side of sorrow. Don't give it a reason to follow. Let it be, then let it go. Let it be, then let it go."

"So open the gates I'm here to prove I'm better than my father was and where he came from, too. Open the gates I'm here to ride To Hell I Go with daddy by my side."

"There ain't no love a boy can find, You'll feel her in a room if you was blind. There ain't a thing a man can do, She'll only love you for you."

"The kids are in town for a funeral. So pack the car and dry your eyes. I know they got plenty of young blood left in 'em And plenty nights under pink skies you taught 'em to enjoy."

"The way the grass smells at night and you got flames all in your eyes, As they reflect the sparkler and you say we'll never die. Grab me by the hands, just as callused as I am and say you're proud."

"Today, I'll hold my head up high Knowing someday, comes one day at a time. Today, there's a sun setting soon as suppers warm. Today, I've got someday on my mind."

"It's a motorcycle drive by, baby, dry your kind eyes, I think it's about time we headed home. Walkin' on such tight rope with my damn high hopes That country boys don't die alone."

"She's an Oklahoma smokeshow, He's an asshole from back home. She'll never make it out alive Of that small-town bar scene Where small vices kill your big dreams. He'd take you home, but he's too drunk to drive.I've been here, I've been up all night Thinkin' 'bout a life with you and I, One you'll never know 'Cause you're a small-town smokeshow."

"I've learned that every waking moment is enough and еxcess never lеads to better things, it only piles and piles atop the things that are already abundantly in front of you like breathing and chasing and slow dancing and love making, fighting and laughing."

"I do not and will not fear tomorrow because I feel as though today has been enough."

"And I recall what she said, That she wanted me dead. There ain't no grave deep enough. Remember all the nights we had. You said it ain't so bad. Just keep those heavy eyes lookin' up."

"Rotgut whiskey's gonna ease my mind, Beach towel rests on the dryin' line. Do I remind you of your daddy in his '88 Ford? Labrador hangin' out the passenger door."

"I got a fear, dear, that it's gonna end Won't you get angry at me, say you love me again? I got a fear dear, that it's a Friday spark You only love me like you mean it when it's after dark."

"I'm cuttin' ties with things that bind my heart to this world. I love you and I'm willin' but I cannot keep you, girl. Philly by the morning and Ohio by the night, The thing about a long rope is you can't hold on too tight.Wooden floors and coffee cups, Stepped on and all used up. But I reckon that's what mornings are for. And everyone thinks they know me now In these close-minded leave-me towns, But I'm too young to even know myself."

"To you, I'm just a man; to me, you're all I am. Where the hell am I supposed to go? I poisoned myself again, somethin' in the orange Tells mе you're never comin' homе. If you leave today, I'll just stare at the way. The orange touches all things around. The grass, trees, and dew, how I just hate you, Please turn those headlights around."

"I bandage up your body and your bones and your bad days too, Take care of the blood that your love runs through. I know all the damage that some days in this dark world does, You were laughin' last evenin' at somethin’ I dreamed of."

"A cold shoulder at closing time, You were bеggin' me to stay 'til the sun rose. Strangе words come on out Of a grown man's mouth when his mind's broke. Pictures and passin' time, You only smile like that when you're drinkin'. I wish I didn't, but I do Remember every moment on the nights with you."

"You took a train to the south side of Boston. You showed me where your old man stayed. Took twenty-eight years of blood I was lost in To feel loved on my own birthday. And I always felt like I's in between somethin' Like home and somewhere far away. But tonight on the west side in a bar out in Brooklyn I saw tears outline your face.How lucky are we? It's been a hell of a week, but you're all grown now. There's smoke seepin' out of your bloody teeth But you're home somehow."

"You are mine again, Every mistake that you made. All the people that you saved took a little piece of you with them. And you are mine again, And I'm so damn glad you're here, Talkin' strong, sober, and clear like you couldn't back then."

"We're having an all-night revival, Someone call the women and someone steal the Bible. For the sake of my survival, Baptize me in a bottle of Beam, put Johnny on the vinyl."

"Until the leaving leaves this house, no, we ain't going out 'Til I make some promises that I can't keep. And I wish I could explain how the toxins in my brain Get me so damn down sometimes I can't speak And you'll try to understand why I can't be a better man, But it's hard when I'm yelling at you in the street. So if leaving comes to staying and you walk yourself away, Leave knowing that no one could love you more than me."

"And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't, 'Cause if I say I miss you, I know that you won't. But I miss you in the mornings when I see the sun, Somethin' in the orange tells me we're not done."

"Them damn cold vampires been keeping me awake, Tryna build an empire of the things that they can take. Don't let 'em steal your hope, child, and turn it something green. Damn you and damn all your ties to this machine, Ties to this machine."

"You don't have to drink tonight. Why don’t we just get some sleep? 'Cause I'm tired of cryin’ in driveways As you slur the words you speak. I know growin' up Has been an evil thing to you. Makes you awfully hard to love From a lover's point of view."