Steady woman, won’t you come on down

I need you right here on the ground

I’ve walked the outskirts of this town

Been terrorized by what I found

I saw a standing virgin bride

Where holy Dionysus died

She tore the heart out from his side

And laid it there, and there she cried

She said “Hello, I’m a monster, too,

And what poisons me is what poisons you

Into these animals we grew

But when we were young our eyes were blue”

I take my medicine on my knee

twice a day but lately three

It keeps the Devil from my door

And it makes me rich, and it makes me poor

I’m a beggar in the morning

I’m a king at night

My belt is loose and my trigger is tight

May come without warning

At the speed of light

Make it shine so pretty, make it shine so bright

I have come a long long way

To stand before you here today

They’re yours alone the songs I play

To take with you or to throw away

Oh I want an angel to wipe my tears,

Know my dreams, my hopes, desires and fears

We may capsize but we won’t drown

Hold each other as the sun goes down

I’m a beggar in the morning

I’m a king at night

My belt is loose and my trigger is tight

May come without warning

At the speed of light

Make it shine so pretty, make it shine so bright

By the glaze in your eye

By your shape, by your size

By the pen in your heart

By the art in your room

By your bicycle

 

By the hole in your shoe

By New York, by the blue

By the song in your throat

By the sting in your nose

By your watermark

 

Ooh, Belle

Its not like I couldn’t tell

The shape of your sadness can’t hide

behind your little shell

You can pull on the chain

You can knock on the door

You can sing in the rain

You can roll on the floor

You can separate

 

You can run in the halls

You can paint on the walls

You can bow to the sun

You can spit in the eye

Of everyone

 

Ooh, Belle

Sometimes I’m overwhelmed

The nearer we came to salvation

The further we fell

 

Sunset only brings the colors out

But they were always there

 

Masters make their systems so

They fail in the hands of other men

 

By the sand in your eye

By the shine on your lip

By the crack in your voice

Its a feel, not a choice

That I come to you

 

Its the chain of events

Its the came and the wents

Its the least that I have

Its the most I can give

 

Ooh, Belle

I hope that you’re doing well

The trick of the Devil is

To make you think you’re living in Hell

 

Ooh, Belle

Sometimes I’m overwhelmed

The trick of the Devil is

To make you think you’re living in Hell

Its probably now that I need you the most

When I’m one half child and the other a ghost

And one of them wants to pull you close

And the other to let you go

But time is criminal, Love hard-won

And Love defies everyone

Inside my skin a skeleton

Is warming up his act

 

Well my body’s a dog and my friend doesn’t bite

Though he looks severe and erudite

At 100 degrees Fahrenheit

He’s as cool as an eremite

If one of these is the poison cup

Then my acceptance seems abrupt

But if you’re gonna line them up,

I have to knock ‘em down

 

There’s nothing so wrong that what’s right can’t fix

Despite how blood and water mix

When a pony runs out of tricks then

His work has just begun

No law or duty made me fight

Just a lonely impulse of delight

And balancing it brought to mind

All the years to come, the years behind

Will I grow weary of the sun

Remembering what I have done

With Old Mythologies

 

You gotta choose

You wanted the song to rescue us

Aimee, what did you leave for us

So we could get home

 

Solomon sang to Sheba’s grace

And he kissed her soft and sulken face

If one of has to leave this place

Would the other come along

We’ve been on the round and round

Shared our kissed by the pound

And chased our shadows on the ground

Spilled our cups in Chinatown

Put up the moon, took down the sun

Played our songs for everyone

Remembering what we have done

With Old Mythologies

 

You gotta choose

You wanted the song to rescue us

Aimee, what did you leave for us

So we could get home

Son

Take nothing to the East

Give the Devil back his heart

Mother, pray for us

We are not sleeping while the others are sleeping

 

Every bone I beg

Every puppet show

Every by-gone

That says “Baby, don’t be that way”

Every dog on the prowl

Every Julius

Every moth barreling towards a flame

 

Psalm 121

Is that my sun coming over the hillside

Father, pray for us

We are not sleeping while the others are sleeping

 

Every bone I beg

Every puppet show

Every by-gone

That says “Baby, don’t be that way”

Every dog on the prowl

Every Tiberius

Every moth barreling towards a flame

 

Son

Take nothing to the East

That’s the day I made my vow

Mother, pray for us

We will be sleeping when the Devil is sleeping

 

Give the Devil back his heart(6x)

I tuned the Devil’s harp, it was the last thing that I heard

Before I walked the stretch of road between my Goya and absurd

I meant to find my Lover there, but I found a little bird

She sang me how the world was made, I hung on every word

 

She told me why the rabbit cries and why some stars were red

Told me where the doe pa goes to lay his weary head

And that the World was incomplete and the king would soon be dead

She offered me her wing that night, I took the road instead

 

Maybe I’m mad

Maybe I’ve fallen from the poplar tree

Carry me back, Baby

 

With borrowed pride I could not hid I grew a sailor’s beard

And as I walked, my innocence, my leaves they disappeared

Rented a room upon the hill where a marble cat appeared

He showed me where the fire was and I had nothing to fear

 

For all God’s good and Brotherhood, we drank til I was crowned

Then a Lady from the Everglades pulled my ass up off the ground

She kissed me four times on the cheek and once upon the brow

For a moment I believed that I had come for what I’d found

 

Now I sit alone with all the cracks in my guitar

For all the miles I’ve put behind I haven’t come that far

But we are all compelled to look for the wind inside a jar

I’m a deacon’s son

Lazy as the day is long

Could be anyone,

But I’m a deacon’s son

 

Have a one eyed dog

Scaring up the hens and hogs

Scaring up the hens and hogs

Have a one-eyed dog

 

Found a little friend

Buried in the rocks and sands

Buried in the rocks and sand

Found a little friend

 

I’m a deacon’s son

Lazy as the day is long

Lazy as the day is long

I’m a deacons son

 

Gonna see if you wanna

Go look at the fauna

Walking in the moonlight

 

Something’s has really chilled ya

I just wanna thrill ya

And nothing more

 

Have a one eyed dog

Scaring up the hens and hogs

Scaring up the hens and hogs

Have a one-eyed dog

 

I’m a deacon’s son

Lazy as the day is long

As the day is long

I’m a deacon’s son

 

Gonna see if you wanna

Go look at the fauna

Walking in the moonlight

 

Something’s has really chilled ya

I just wanna thrill ya

And nothing more

 

Funny we really thought is

To be so hypnotic

With the lights on the water

Held my head

Like an orchid

Stayed in bed

 

The world outside

Is an envelope

Of cars and snow

 

The less I try

To be no one

The more I smoke

 

I highly doubt

Anyone knows that

I’m in here

 

And I peel the skin from off the glass

The blood stains wash away

I still can’t remember you, but I do know

That it’s raining and the blacktop is bleeding

Won’t someone please turn on the lights

 

And I’ll sing to these birds if I could wear

Another letter then you would all be dead

These clouds are gray I fell asleep

With anesthesia supplements

 

Send me off

With decoration

The soft emboss

 

You’re like a book

I can’t seem to get through

So I put it down

 

And I know this song

Will be abandoned

Before it’s through

 

And I peel the skin from off the glass

The blood stains wash away

I still can’t remember you, but I do know

That it’s raining and the blacktop is bleeding

Won’t someone please turn on the lights

 

And I’ll sing to these birds if I could wear

Another letter then you would all be dead

These clouds are gray I fell asleep

With anesthesia supplements

 

And this was just the first time

Mary

You would not be the woman that you are

if someone could mend your troubled heart

That would be easier

but that would be wrong

 

Water

Sometimes I think my cup might overfill

As if God and the Devil struck a deal

saying “You can have this one

after I’m done”

 

Oh, let me hear music

like you hear music

like you were just born

Oh, let there be horses

Let there be danger

Let there be one song

a song for the little man

a song for his wife and

his two charmed children

and his noble life

 

People

want love but have little for themselves

or pray for a stranger to lift their veil

That would be everyone

That would be us

 

Children

Light would never keep us from itself

It bends to our window,

we weep and yell

But you are a daughter

You are a son

 

Oh, let me have patience

like you have patience

like you were old

Oh, let there be horses

For there will be danger

Let there be one song

a song for the little man

a song for his wife and

his two charmed children

and his noble life