Rudy's on the midway And Jacob's in the hole The monkey's on the
ladder The devil shovels coal With crows as big as airplanes The lion
has three heads And someone will eat the skin that he sheds And the earth
died screaming The earth died screaming While I lay dreaming of
you Well hell doesn't want you And heaven is full Bring me some
water Put it in this skull I walk between the raindrops Wait in Bug
House Square And the army ants They leave nothin' but the bones And the
earth died screaming While I lay dreaming of you
There was
thunder There was lightning Then the stars went out And the moon fell
from the sky It rained mackerel It rained trout And the great day of
wrath has come And here's mud in your big red eye The poker's in the
fire And the locusts take the sky And the earth died screaming While I
lay dreaming of you
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What does it matter, a dream of love Or a dream of lies We're all gonna
be in the same place When we die Your spirit don't leave knowing Your
face or your name And the wind through your bones Is all that
remains And we're all gonna be We're all gonna be Just dirt in the
ground
The quill from a buzzard The blood writes the word I want to
know am I the sky Or a bird 'Cause hell is boiling over And heaven is
full We're chained to the world And we all gotta pull And we're all
gonna be Just dirt in the ground
Now the killer was smiling With
nerves made of stone He climbed the stairs And the gallows groaned And
the people's hearts were pounding They were throbbing, they were red As he
swung out ofver the crowd I heard the hangman said We're all gonna
be Just dirt in the ground
Now Cain slew Abel He killed him with a
stone The sky cracked open And the thunder groaned Along a river of
flesh Can these dry bones live? Ask a king or a beggar And the answer
they'll give Is we're all gonna be Yea yeah We're all gonna be
just Dirt in the ground
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Well pale face said To the eyeball Kid She just goes clank and boom and
steam A halo, wings, horns and a tail Shoveling coal inside my
dreams There are no laws She's made of cream She's such a
scream
Qui bon tres bien, nails in cement A Donnie gal from mortal
clay The plow is red The well is full inside The dollhouse of her
skull A cheetah coat fills up with steam She's such a scream
All
crooked lines Her fireplace A milktrain so clean Machine gun
haste You'll ride the only wall of shame And drag that chain across the
state Her lips are red She is the queen She's such a scream
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Well the time will come When the wind will shout All stripped
down All stripped down And all the sinners know What I'm talking
about All stripped down All stripped down When all the creatures of the
world Are gonna line up at the gate
And you better be on time And
you better not be late All stripped All stripped down
Well you know
in your heart What you gotta bring All stripped down All stripped
down No big mink coat No diamond ring All stripped down All stripped
down
Well take off your paint Take off your rouge All stripped
down All stripped down Let your backbone flip ANd let your spirit shine
through I want you all stripped All stripped All stripped
down
All the men we got Well they're goin' down the drain All
stripped down All stripped down And when I see your sadness On a river
of shame All stripped down All stripped down
You got to raise
up Bot the quick and the dead All stripped down All stripped
down With no shoes on your feet No hat on your head I want you all
stripped down All stripped All stripped down
Ain't nothin' in my
heart But fire for you All stripped down All stripped down With my
rainy hammer And a heart that's true I want you all stripped All
stripped All stripped down
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They're lining up To mad dog your tilta whirl 3 shots for a
dollar Win a real live doll All the lies that you tell I believed them
so well. Take them back Take them back to your red house For that fearful
leap into the dark I did my time In the jail of your arms Now Ophelia
wants to know Where she should turn Tell me...what did you do What did
you do the last time? Why don't you do that Go on ahead and take this the
wrong way Time's not your friend Do you cry. Do you pray Do you wish
them away Do you still leave nothing But bones in the way Did you bury
the carnival Lions and all Excuse me while I sharpen my nails And just
who are you this time? You look rather tired (Who drinks from your
shoe) Are you pretending to love Well I hear that it pays well How do
your pistol and your Bible and your Sleeping pills go? Are you still
jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?
Well I fell in love With
your sailor's mouth and your wounded eyes You better get down on the
floor Don't you know this is war Tell me who are you this time? Tell me
who are you this time?
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The ocean doesn't want me today But I'll be back tomorrow to play And
the strangles will take me Down deep in their brine The mischievous
braingels Down into the endless blue wine I'll open my head and let
out All of my time I'd love to go drowning And to stay and to
stay But the ocean doesn't want me today I'll go in up to here It can't
possibly hurt All they will find is my beer And my shirt A rip tide is
raging And the life guard is away But the ocean doesn't want me
today The ocean doesn't want me today
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Well, Jesus will be here Be here soon he's gonna cover us up with
leaves With a blanket from the moon With a promise and a vow And a
lullaby for my brow Jesus gonna be here Be here soon
Well I'm just
gonna wait here I don't have to shout I have no reason and I have no
doubt I'm gonna get myself Unfurled from this mortal coiled up
world Because Jesus gonna be here Be here soon
I got to keep my
eyes open So I can see my Lord I'm gonna watch the horizon For a brand
new Ford
I can hear him rolling on down the lane I said Hollywood be
thy name Jesus gonna be Gonna be here soon
Well I've been
faithful And I've been so good Except for drinking But he new that I
would I'm gonna leave this place better Than the way I found it was And
Jesus gonna be here Be here soon
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The Ice Man's mule is parked Outside the bar Where a man with missing
fingers Plays a strange guitar And the German dwarf Dances with the
butcher's son And a little rain never hurt no one And a little rain never
hurt no one
They're dancing on the roof And the ceiling's coming
down I sleep with my shovel and my leather gloves A little trouble makes
it worth the going And a little rain never hurt no one
The world is
round And so I'll go around You must risk something that matters My
hands are strong I'll take any man here If it's worth the going It's
worth the ride
She was 15 years old And never seen the ocean She
climbed into a van With a vagabond And the last thing she said Was, "I
love you mom."
And a little rain Never hurt no one And a little
rain Never hurt no one
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The women all control their men With razors and with wrists And the
princess squeezes grape juice On a torrid bloody kiss What will you be
wearing there The lion or the raven hair? The flesh will all be
tearing But the tail will be my own In the colosseum tonight
This
one's for the balcony And this one's for the floor As the senators
decapitate The presidential whore The bald headed senators Are
splashing in the blood The dogs are having someone WHo is screaming in the
mud In the colosseum tonight
Now it's raining and it's pouring On
the pillaging and goring The constable is swinging From the chains For
the dead there is no story No memory no blame Their families shout blue
murder But tomorrow it's the same In the colosseum
A slowly acting
poison Will be given to the favorite one THe dark horse will bring
glory To the jailer and his men It's always much more sporting When
there's families in the pit And the madness of the crowd Is an epileptic
fit In the colosseum
No justice here, no liberty No reason, no
blame There's no cause to taint the sweetest taste of blood And greetings
from the nation As we shake the hands of time They're taking their
ovations The vultures stay behind In the colosseum, in the colosseum In
the colosseum tonight
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Well I'm goin' out west Where the wind blows tall 'Cause Tony
Franciosa Used to date my ma They got some money out there They're
giving it away I'm gonna do what I want Do what I want And I'm gonna
get paid
Little brown sausages Lying in the sand I ain't no extra
baby I'm a leading man Well my parole officer WIll be proud of
me With my Olds 88 And the devil on a leash My Olds 88 And the devil
on a leash
Well I know karate, Voodoo too I'm gonna make myself
available to you I don't need no make up I got real scars I got hair on
my chest I look good without a shirt
Well I don't lose my
composure In a high speed chase Well my friends think I'm ugly I got a
masculine face I got some dragstrip courage I can really drive a
bed I'm gonna change my name To Hannibal or maybe Just Rex Change my
name to Hannibal Or maybe just Rex
I'm gonna drive all night Take
some speed I'm gonna wait for the sun To shine down on me I cut a hole
in my roof In the shape of a heart
And I'm goin' out west Where
they'll appreciate me Goin' out west Goin' out west
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There was a murder in the red barn Murder in the red barn
The trees
are bending over The cows are lying down The autumn's taking over You
can hear the buckshot hounds The watchman said to Reba the loon Was it
pale at Manzanita Or Blind Bob the raccoon? Pin it on a drifter They
sleep beneath the bridge One plays the violin And sleeps inside a
fridge There was a murder in the red barn A murder in the red
barn
Someone's crying in the woods Someone's burying all his
clothes Now Slam the Crank from Wheezer Slept outside last night and
froze Road kill has its seasons Just like anything It's possums in the
autumn And it's farm cats in the spring There was a murder in the red
barn A murder in the red barn
Now thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
house Or covet thy neighbor's wife But for some Murder is the only door
thru which they enter life
Now they surrounded the house They smoke
him out They took him off in chains The sky turned black and
bruised And we had months of heavy rains Now the raven's nest in the
rotted roof Of Chenoweth's old place And no one's asking Cal About that
scar upon his face 'Cause there's nothin' strange About an axe with
bloodstains in the barn
There's always some killin' You got to do
around the farm A murder in the red barn Murder in the red barn
Now
the woods will never tell What sleeps beneath the trees Or what's buried
'neath a rock Or hiding in the leaves 'Cause road kill has it's
seasons Just like anything It's possums in the autumn And it's farm
cats in the spring A murder in the red barn A murder in the red
barn
Now a lady can't do nothin' Without folks' tongues waggin' Is
this blood on the tree Or is it autumn's red blaze When the ground's soft
for diggin' ANd the rain will bring all this gloom There's nothing wrong
with a lady Drinking alone in her room But there was a murder in the red
barn A murder in the red barn
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Take an eye for an eye Take a tooth for a tooth Just like they say in
the Bible Never leave a trace or forget a face Of any man at the
table When the moon is a cold chiseled dagger Sharp enough to draw blood
from a stone He rides through your dreams on a coach And horses and the
fence posts In the midnight look like bones
Well they've stopped
trying to hold him With mortar, stone and chain He broke out of every
prison Boots mount the staircase The door is flung back open He's not
there for he has risen He's not there for he has risen
Well he once
killed a man with a guitar string He's been seen at the table with
kings Well he once saved a baby from drowning There are those who say
beneath his coat there are wings Some say they fear him Others admire
him Because he steals his promise One look in his eye Everyone
denies Ever having met him Ever having met him
He can turn himself
into a stranger Well they broke a lot of canes on his hide he was born
away in a cornfield A fever beats in his head like a drum inside Some say
they fear him Others admire him Because he steals his promise One look
in his eye Everyone denies Ever having met him Ever having met
him
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I've grown up here now All of my life But I dreamed Someday I'd
go Where blue eyed girls And red guitars and Naked rivers
flow
I'm not all I thought I'd be I always stayed around I've been
as far as Mercy and Grand Frozen to the ground I can't stay here and I'm
scared to leave (Just kiss me once and then) I'll go to hell I might as
well Be whistlin' down the wind
The bus at the corner The clock's
on the wall Broken windmill There's no wind at all I've yelled and I
cursed If i stay here I'll rust I'm stuck like a shipwreck Out here in
the dust
Sky is red And there world's on fire And the corn is
taller than me The dog is tied To a wagon of rain And the road is as
wet as the sea And sometimes the music from a dance Will carry across the
plains And the places that I'm dreaming of Do they dream only of
me? There are places where they never sleep And the circus never
ends So I will take the Marley Bone Coach And whistle down the
wind
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When I'm lyin' in my bed at night I don't wanna grow up Nothin' ever
seems to turn out right I don't wanna grow up How do you move in a world
of fog That's always changing things Makes me wish that I could be a
dog When I see the price that you pay I don't wanna grow up I don't
ever wanna be that way I don't wanna grow up
Seems like folks turn
into things That they'd never want The only thing to live for Is
today... I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set I don't wanna grow up Open
up the medicine chest And I don't wanna grow up I don't wanna have to
shout it out I don't want my hair to fall out I don't wanna be filled with
doubt I don't wanna be a good boy scout I don't wanna have to learn to
count I don't wanna have the biggest amount I don't wanna grow
up
Well when I see my parents fight I don't wanna grow up They all
go out and drinking all night And I don't wanna grow up I'd rather stay
here in my room Nothin' out there but sad and gloom I don't wanna live in
a big old Tomb On Grand Street
When I see the 5 o'clock news I
don't wanna grow up Comb their hair and shine their shoes I don't wanna
grow up Stay around in my old hometown I don't wanna put no money
down I don't wanna get me a big old loan Work them fingers to the
bone I don't wanna float a broom Fall in love and get married then
boom How the hell did I get here so soon I don't wanna grow up
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C'mon let me get up on it
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Well there's one thing you can't lose It's that feel Your pants, your
shirt, your shoes But not that feel You can throw it out in the
rain You can whip it like a dog You can chop it down like an old dead
tree You can always see it When you're coming into town Once you hang
it on the wall You can never take it down
But there's one thing you
can't lose And it's that feel You can pawn your watch and chain But not
that feel It always comes and finds you It will always hear you cry I
cross my wooden leg And I swear on my glass eye It will never leave you
high and dry Never leave you loose It's harder to get rid of than
tattoos
But there's one thing you can't do Is lose that feel You
can throw it off a bridge You can lose it in the fire You can leave it at
the altar But it will make you out a liar You can fall down in the
street You can leave it in the lurch Well you say that it's gospel But
I know that it's only church
And there's one thing you can't lose And
it's that feel It's that feel
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