A Campfire Song 10000 Maniacs

A lie to say, "O my mountain has coal veins and beds to dig. 500 men with axes and they all dig for me."

A Campfire Song 10,000 Maniacs

A lie to say, "O my mountain has coal veins and beds to dig. 500 men with axes and they all dig for me."

A Room For Everything 10000 Maniacs

It could be I'm searching for a place so small with room for everything where worlds on worlds revolve. But how can we wait? I wouldn't hold you back.

Dust Bowl 10000 Maniacs

There's a new wind blowing they say, it's gonna be a cold, cold one. So brace yourselves my darlings, it won't bring anything much our way but more dust bowl days.

Groove Dub 10000 Maniacs

Imitate that soured old song There is no individuality Only guises Shades of Nonconformity There is no individuality Selling vantage points Low rate There is no individuality Questions ancient No

Tolerance 10000 Maniacs

A loud breaking sound in the night is made. Hear it grow, hear it fade.

Jubilee 10000 Maniacs

In Lot he sees a likeness there; he swears this Sodom will burn down. Near Sacred Blood there's a dance hall where Tyler Glen saw a black girl and a white boy kissing shamelessly.

Circle Dream 10000 Maniacs

I dreamed of a circle, I dreamed of a circle round. And in that circle I had made were all the worlds unformed and unborn yet.

Poison In The Well 10000 Maniacs

In the dark without a clue I'm just the same as you. O, they tell us there's poison in the well, that someone's been a bit untidy and there's been a small spill. Not a lot, no, just a drop.

Rainy Day 10000 Maniacs

Touched the bottom, the night a sleepless day instead; a day when love came, came easy like what's lost now found. Beneath a blinding light that would surround.

Green Children 10000 Maniacs

An August day in the hills of Spain, a pair of children emerged from a cave. The strangest sight there alone they stood, with skin of green and words no one had heard.

Girl On A Train 10000 Maniacs

Waking on a train dreaming, charmed alone they started speaking. Captured in his artist way before the memories fade away. To remember a face, and you're home or want to.

My Sister Rose 10000 Maniacs

We'll have a ball at the Sons of Roma Hall. Family, friends come one and all. First the bestman makes a toast to Rocky and my sister Rose, "A life of years free of tears.

Maddox Table 10000 Maniacs

the legs of Maddox kitchen tables my whole life twisted on a lathe in a foreman's torrent my first English was "faster boy if you want your pay" barking commands loud and simple we could all obey then

Like The Weather 10000 Maniacs

With a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather. A quiver in my lips as if I might cry. Well by the force of will my lungs are filled and so I breathe.

Cotton Alley 10000 Maniacs

one time you made me cry be proud that I remember my chin is sore the bruise is gone but the spot is tender gave my hand a sister coy to Cotton Alley where you did enjoy your wicked games you curious boy

Tension 10000 Maniacs

Frail hinges pivot On a case's door Commemorative Souvenirs from places Containers change with occasion Cellophane encased Displaying paper Certificate Credit years of service A tool of central enterprises

Tension Make a Tangle 10000 Maniacs

Frail hinges pivot On a case's door Commemorative Souvenirs from places Containers change with occasion Cellophane encased Displaying paper Certificate Credit years of service A tool of central enterprises

Lilydale 10000 Maniacs

come as we go far away from the noise of the street walk a path so narrow to a place where we feel at ease some think it is haunting to be drawn to the cemetery ground as we there's a stillness here thankful

The Big Parade 10000 Maniacs

Lone young man takes a seat. And by the rhythm of the rails, reading all his mother's mail from a city boy in a jungle town postmarked Saigon.

Hateful Hate 10000 Maniacs

In the dark night a giant slumbered untouched for centuries 'til awakened by a white man's cry: "This is the Eden I was to find."

You Happy Puppet 10000 Maniacs

How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string? How did you learn everything that comes along with slavish funnery?

The Colonial Wing 10000 Maniacs

Majesty well guarded by sentry but looks are free call this the rayless and benighted age witches by tallow candles shifted shifted their shapes here is the pestle and mortar that ground the poison seed a

Everyone a Puzzle Lover 10000 Maniacs

their genius is turned to works of tyranny then off to market to market go selling these with words so fiery and persuasive they steal cunningly riches no one can exceed and why are some men born with a

Back O' the Moon 10000 Maniacs

Jenny you don't know the nights I hide below a second story room to whistle you down the man who's let to divvy up time is a miser he's got a silver coin only lets it shine for hours while you sleep it

Just as the Tide Was a Flowing 10000 Maniacs

on one morning in the month of May when all the birds were singing I saw a lovely maiden stray across the fields at break of day she softly sung her roundelay the tide flows in the tide flows out twice

Few And Far Between 10000 Maniacs

'Till you make your peace with yesterday, you'll never build a future. I swear by what I say. Whatever penance you do, decide what it's worth to you and then respect it.

Eat For Two 10000 Maniacs

Dream child in my head is a nightmare born in a borrowed bed. Now I know lightning strikes again. It struck me once, then struck me dead. My folly grows inside of me.

Jezebel 10000 Maniacs

Before I say that the vows we made weigh like a stone in my heart. Family is family, don't let this tear us apart. You lie there, an innocent baby.

Pit Viper 10000 Maniacs

In the cruel garrison of affection If worth of lore is true You know the face of a temptress Pit Viper A witch or enchantress Pit Viper With the malign venom of conceit She tries Civil men Conceal

Gold Rush Brides 10000 Maniacs

Where a man could drift, in legendary myth, by roaming over spaces. The land was free and the price was right. Dakota on the wall is a white-robed woman, broad yet maidenly.

My Mother The War 10000 Maniacs

She borders the pavement Flanks avenues Parades pass white glove attended by My mother the war She'll raise a shaft Lift a banner Toss a rose My mother the war She's made every effort To salvage the

Orange 10000 Maniacs

Lineage closed Dissolved In its birth Tragedy Prelude a balance Is a synergy Of reason Malicious hope As techno atrocities Lapse their effects Associate these ends Their clarity Demands your revenge

The Painted Desert 10000 Maniacs

Is a cactus blooming there in every roadside stand where the big deal is cowboy gear swon in Japan ? The Painted Desert can wait till summer. We've played this game of just imagine long enough.

Poor De Chiciro 10000 Maniacs

friend Giorgio How has this time Breton Discouraged your liaison with the Eye styled metaphysical Incongruous scenarios Dauntly jaunt about through nostalgic despair Within childlike renderings Of a

Poor De Chirico 10000 Maniacs

dear friend Giorgio How has this time Breton Discouraged your liaison with the Eye styled metaphysical Incongruous scenarios Dauntly jaunt about through nostalgic despair Within childlike renderings Of a

Arbor Day 10000 Maniacs

wide open falsehood the clan destine truths rival till the end in a series of duels pardon the drapery language I choose Waltz in Vienna has taught me to use every tall room a fiction leather bound treasure

Among The Americans 10000 Maniacs

Music: Robert Buck, Dennis Drew Lyric: Natalie Merchant dance to the sun a kiss to the earth embrace a stone come the small black book come the brandy cask one strange disease the well worded

Starman (David Bowie Cover) 10000 Maniacs

Didn\'t know what time it was, the lights were low I leaned back on my radio Some cat was layin\' down some rock\'n\'roll lotta soul, he said Then the loud sound did seem to fade Came back like a slow

Starman 10000 Maniacs

Didn\'t know what time it was, the lights were low I leaned back on my radio Some cat was layin\' down some rock\'n\'roll lotta soul, he said Then the loud sound did seem to fade Came back like a slow

Gun Shy 10000 Maniacs

There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me you won't meet it with your gun. So now you are one of the brave few, it's awful sad we need boys like you.

Daktari 10000 Maniacs

Like a weasel in the clover You tilt toss pop turn over Sit down Tremble and weave like a moth By flame deceived Sit down Spill with your words caught up Dance in your room Slide like you're buttered

Grey Victory 10000 Maniacs

atomic fission Swelling wind Rising ash Tide of Black Rain Cement seared shadow traces Reminiscent of their last commands Instantly one thousand flames arising Ill scent the burning hides surrounding A

Headstrong 10000 Maniacs

Take this to your heart and into your head now: before you waste your time, call a truce and call a draw.

Cherry Tree 10000 Maniacs

All those lines and circles, to me, a mystery. Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me. If she would be wonderful, but my pride is in the way.

Trouble Me 10000 Maniacs

Speak to me, don't mislead me, the calm I feel means a storm is swelling; there's no telling where it starts or how it ends.

Can't Ignore the Train 10000 Maniacs

ignore the train one spoiled girl with the tidiest apology some how wedged inside her throat can't ignore the train patience their virtue but I never could abide by that dungeon life with electric light a

Death Of Manolete 10000 Maniacs

There were women holding rosaries On the day Manolette died Teenage girls in soft white dresses Standing silent peace respecting Groups of boys held in their hands The fragments of a shattered idol

The Lion's Share 10000 Maniacs

Look at what I see: a beast in furs and crowned in luxury. He's a wealthy man in the poorest land, a self-appointed king, and there's no complaining while he's reigning.

The Latin One 10000 Maniacs

drunken deaf still to the hoots Of breaking gas shells Dropping softly behind But limped on bloodshod All went lame all went blind Gas gas quick boys fumbling helmets in time Someone still screaming a