When you
you were in town
we walked all around
you knew every face

Can't
can't feel no remorse
your life is a force
that they could not tame

Her name
her name was my friend
she followed me home
she knew she would stay

There
there in my bed
on love we fed
we ate through the night

She don't always come home
but that don't make me alone
don't make me alone

Kept
kept here with you
a maze to walk through
I couldn't leave

Fell
fell for it hard
it was not too hard
I followed you through

A dream
in which we were caught
a vision was shown
the mask was removed

Torn
a tear from the eye
the moment arrived
the stage was a flame

She don't always come home
but that don't make me alone
don't make me alone

Break
break from this lust
its starting to rust
lets put it to bed

Come
come down and hold
to hold my head
put me to bed

She don't always come home
but that don't make me alone
don't make me alone

In the rain
pouring down
the thunder
reasons to hide

So our shelter
is a blanket
in a box
we got for free

We are drinking
all our wine
from the bottle
most happily

It's a chance I'm gonna take
if it'll make you all okay

Just a dollar
is enough
for the food
we'll need today

Can you remember
where I left it
seems everything
is lost today

We can't remember
can't stop laughing
it's always
been this way

It's a chance I'm gonna take

if it'll make you all okay

We all got doors
to close
to hide
so people don't see

All the breaking
and the damage
that is done
too easily

Now your yelling
and I'm yelling
at you
and you at me

It's a chance I'm gonna take
if it'll make you all okay

I can't help you
if I don't know
I can't get you there
if you don't want to go

It may be broke
but I'll see what I can do

Someday you'll find
what went wrong
to take apart

and leave what don't belong

The girls are singing
Sunday songs
the fish are sleeping
in the pond

It may be broke
but I'll see what I can do

A caste of armor
blankets you
the storm is raging
but nothings getting through

Sing again
that verse for me
off the notebook
balanced on your knee

It may be broke
but I'll see what I can do

Eight days
seven nights ago
you said
you said you had to go
you were
you were you said you were
had to
had to do something new

had to do something new

Oh shame
oh shame your brains a flame
too bright
too bright to hold its light
burn out
burn out the morning light
till dawn
till something new comes along
till something new comes along

Have time
have all the time you need
break me
we'll see whose heart is free
lets walk
lets let our feet just talk
far fetched
too far fetched to catch
too far fetched to catch

Some song
some song to sing along
all bent
we spent our quarters
lets fall deep
into a drowning pool
all wet
close your eyes and forget
close your eyes and forget

Let's watch
let's watch it all unfold

leaving
leaving the past we hold
can't wait
the train is here
we've got to celebrate
celebrate out fate
celebrate our fate

You seem to think I've got something you need
well I'll breathe for you my dear if you need

Pull down your hat, really low
if they see your eyes they'll pluck them out for gold

Wait here, don't you leave
I can barely hear and hardly see

I hear you sing notes of blood
on to pages white stacked a mile high

You cut your teeth on images you saw
black and white old photographs
and yellow stained U.S. maps

What were your thoughts
just before the drop
the noose looked comfortable
and seemed to work just fine

You seem to think
I got something you need
Well I'll breathe for you my dear
if you need

Your an old glass feast I used to touch
but all in all it cost too much

You shivered and it seeemed to cause
the perfect picture of two doves in love

The smell of that last autumn day
where memory don't have a say

You bled as if you practiced it
into my cup that captured it

If fought you'd always take my queen
the psychology was nice and clean

Dancing through your long black hair
true all that was not too hard to bare

Let me hold hands one more time
with what was never really mine

Did we brake the trust of our charade
just moved to see the next move made

Basking in what could have been
an evil thing if we had know of sin

Lets take this out to lunch my dear
have some drinks and kick this fear

Pretend as though we've got a shot
with this view from hell we've got

They pound their nails
through the boards
that makes the boards
stick to other boards

I'm so bored
I wish for nails
to go on through too
so I'll be with the other boards

We're holding ceilings
for these others
who are holding parties
to keep from getting bored

There so insured
they rest assured
no real allure

to pound my nails deep into

They're just soft planks
thrown overboard
they're rotted through
we'll watch them sink
like all boards do

Some take their boards
to set afloat
they build a boat
and float the boat so far away

To write a note
they grab a board
smash it down to paper puld
and send their note back on another boat

She reads his note
she hates his boat
she' so lonely
she takes a nail
she lets the blood from her throat

He gets her note
out on his boat
he bought her jewlery and things
to put all around her throat

Is buried now
so prettily
with jewlery
inside these boards
we're stuck together

with her nails to other boards

I crawled out of the tree
just to meet you there on the ground
you said my name was exactly the same
as some kid from your home town

A surprise to your eyes
when I asked with a sigh
can you please show me round
I am new and don't know my way

Slow with your words
didn't talk to be heard
rather more a reflection
a song from a bird

You held my hand
tight as one can
almost made me believe
that I was your man

For the life of me still
I don't know how I feel
when you said you were leaving
I packed you a meal

The postcards you sent
arrived all bent
are here in a bundle
not read a single one yet

I can't take these chains
and the tombstone it brings
in their eyes a dream
that I'd never seen
behind your back
these chaps talking crap
I can't take these chains no more

In his brain
a scheme
a get rich plan
the cheater is cheating
some girl from his man
to a tower with flowers
a slave and a plow
where they'll marry
have children story book style

I can't take these chains
and the tombstone it brings
in their eyes a dream
that I'd never seen
behind your back
these chaps talking crap
I can't take these chains no more

So its said
that he traveled
far out of his way
to a city of gold
where no one slaved

he got lucky
so he thought
first hour or two
till told to live here
you must murder a few

I can't take these chains
and the tombstone it brings
in their eyes a dream
that I'd never seen
behind your back
these chaps talking crap
I can't take these chains no more

Had a gown
that she wore
from her mothers side
whose life
was cut short
by the daughter inside
her daddy left her young
with a brother to keep
now that gown sells herself
to men on the streets

I can't take these chains
and the tombstone it brings
in their eyes a dream
that I'd never seen
behind your back
some chaps talking crap
I can't take these chains no more

I've been out walking
into the setting sun child
the roads getting dark now
for miles and miles

Somewhere along the way
I should have listened to my friends
about where the road goes
and again where it ends

No ones gonna catch me
pull me off these tracks
take my bottle
and leave me out here and busted

Lord knows I'll get on without you
cause I always do
so goodbye, Suzanne

I used to go out
every night to the bars
looking for the girl
with scars on her arms

I'd find me a girl
who likes her cocaine
we'd go walking
out in the rain

Guess I was trying to find someone
a little worse off than me
then maybe then
she wouldn't leave

Like my best friend said
when I get a girl in my bed
I fall in love
much too easy

So goodbye, Suzanne

Before I found you
well I was beat black and blue
the rain came
the whole day through

But you walked up from Mexico
in your beat up shoes
when I couldn't walk
you taught me too

So I quit my job
and we traveled around
we'd wake
and go where we wanted to

You showed me my wings
and other ungodly things
then I woke one day
and you were gone

So goodbye, Suzanne

You showed me my wings
and other ungodly things
then I woke one day

and you were gone

So goodbye, Suzanne