I'm Not The Man 10000 Maniacs

Stares at the walls until the cinder blocks can breathe. His eyes have gone away, escaping over time. He rules a crowded nation inside his mind. He knows that night like his hand.

Jezebel 10000 Maniacs

To know I was carefully building the mask I was wearing for two years, swearing I'd tear it off.

Verdi Cries 10000 Maniacs

The man in 119 takes his tea alone. Mornings we all rise to wireless Verdi cries. I'm hearing opera through the door. The souls of men and women, impassioned all.

The Lion's Share 10000 Maniacs

Can I be unhappy? 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.

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

Maddox Table 10000 Maniacs

I was forever pulling silvers rubbed the sawdust always deeper in my eye varnish vapor that could linger on my skin it held tight the whine of spinning blades still echoes to bother my sleep at night see

The Latin One 10000 Maniacs

Bent double like old beggars in sacks Knockkneed and cursing or coughing like hags Men marched on sleeping some without boots Fatigue drunken deaf still to the hoots Of breaking gas shells Dropping

Headstrong 10000 Maniacs

To your common sense firm arguments I won't listen to your voice of reason trying to change my mind. I mind my feelings and not your words.

You Happy Puppet 10000 Maniacs

Tell me something, if the world is so insane, is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your nodding head?

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

If You Intend 10000 Maniacs

God, if you persist you'll die like this, and wither in the midst of your first season, cut down with no reason. How can you be so near and not see everything?

Eat For Two 10000 Maniacs

Now I know lightning strikes again. It struck me once, then struck me dead. My folly grows inside of me. I eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now.

Jubilee 10000 Maniacs

He fills the flower vases, trims the candle bases, takes small change from the poor box. Tyler has the key.

A Room For Everything 10000 Maniacs

I was looking the other way, voices call from the east, I saw my roots of the trees there planted at my feet.

Gold Rush Brides 10000 Maniacs

Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads. Pass the lone church spire. Pass the talking wire from where to who knows?

Everyone a Puzzle Lover 10000 Maniacs

wracked while their obedience is had with gradual defeat by the pace by the pace and the urgency through a muddled thought they phrase it God knows we're deceived barter for what they need and where they

Planned Obsolescence 10000 Maniacs

Science Is truth for life Watch religion fall obsolete Science Will be truth for life Technology as nature Science Truth for life In fortran tongue the Answer With wealth and prominence Man so near

Planned Obsolenscence 10000 Maniacs

Science Is truth for life Watch religion fall obsolete Science Will be truth for life Technology as nature Science Truth for life In fortran tongue the Answer With wealth and prominence Man so near perfection

Scorpio Rising 10000 Maniacs

power dizzy with it stumble detail a chance for us to quarrel anger my head is shaken violent if i could calm or restrain you for the sake of pity save the pistol save the cynics tongue save the cool white

A Campfire Song 10000 Maniacs

A lie to ssay, "O my river where mant fish do swim, half of the catch is mine when you haul your nets in." Never will he believe that his greed is a blinding ray.

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

Love Among The Ruins 10000 Maniacs

The sky was falling, heaven was calling. When danger crashes, rose from the ashes. Like two statues hidden inside ancient rock, we were praying for the secrets to unlock.

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

Eden 10000 Maniacs

We are the roses in the garden, beauty with thorns among our leaves. To pick a rose you ask your hands to bleed. What is the reason for having roses when your blood is shed carelessly?

Poison In The Well 10000 Maniacs

I tilt my head there, under the faucet, but when I turn it on -- dry as paper. Call the neighbors. Who's to blame for what's going on? In the dark without a clue I'm just the same as you.

Anthem for a Doomed Youth 10000 Maniacs

For whom do the bells toll When sentenced to die The stuttering rifles Will stifle the cry The monstrous anger The fear's rapid rattle A desert inferno Kids dying like cattle Don't tell me We're not prepared

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."

Gun Shy 10000 Maniacs

By the 1/4 inch cut of your hair and the Army issue green, for the past eight weeks I can tell where you've been.

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

National Education Week 10000 Maniacs

Honor salute and speak To the corner standing flag Do you remember how the days of school were Indivisible separate worlds Compare contrast These dreams absurd Placid classroom faces Breathe in the

Can't Ignore the Train 10000 Maniacs

Steep is the water tower painted off blue to match the sky can't ignore the train night walks in the valley silent you could swear the earth just moved can't ignore the train dust to be kicked up in the

Few And Far Between 10000 Maniacs

Times are far between, and few I bet, when we can look upon our lives without regret. Of all the things I have done, you think I'm proud of everyone without exception?

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.

Orange 10000 Maniacs

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 Please compensate Not

Katrina's Fair 10000 Maniacs

Greta's cedar hope chest Is full of pamphlets Glass shelves of romantic vignettes A journal laced with sedimentary prose Norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays Hair combs valentines Lillian allows the

Like The Weather 10000 Maniacs

The color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey. Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again. With a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.

Because The Night 10000 Maniacs

Take me now, baby, here as I am Hold me close, try and understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed Come on now, try and understand The way I feel under your

Because The Night 10000 Maniacs

Take me now, baby, here as I am Hold me close, try and understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed Come on now, try and understand The way I feel under your

What's The Matter Here 10000 Maniacs

In this city the kid's my favorite. I've seen him. I see him every day.

Even With My Eyes Closed 10000 Maniacs

Even with my eyes closed, Funny how I know it's harder, it's harder now. Young girl in my young girl days, thinking I could live for always.

Dust Bowl 10000 Maniacs

I should know to leave them home. They follow me through the store with these toys I can't afford. "Kids, take them back, you know better than that."

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.

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

The Painted Desert 10000 Maniacs

When I'm sure the rains have ended, the blooms have gone, everyone killed by the morning frost.

Don't Talk 10000 Maniacs

Don't talk, listen to me instead, I know that if you think of it, both long enough and hard the drink you drown your troubles in is the trouble you're in now.

How You've Grown 10000 Maniacs

I remember that phrase from my childhood days too. "Just wait and see." I remember those words and how they chided me, when patient was the hardest thing to be.

Please Forgive Us 10000 Maniacs

"Mercy, mercy," why did we read it buried on the last page of our morning papers? The plan was drafted, drafted in secret.

Cherry Tree 10000 Maniacs

Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me. If she would be wonderful, but my pride is in the way. I cannot read to save my life, I'm so ashamed to say.

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.