My Favorite Musical Artists

Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes Inviting and inciting me to rise And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no one sings me lullabies And no one makes me close my eyes So I throw the windows wide And call to you across the sky.

Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection Send my credentials to the House of Detention I got some friends inside

The face in the mirror won't stop The girl in the window won't drop A feast of friends "Alive!" she cried Waitin' for me Outside!

I'm driving a stolen car On a pitch black night And I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright But I ride by night And I travel in fear In this darkness I will disappear

I always play Russian Roulette in my head It's seventeen black and twenty-nine red How far from the gutter How far fron the pew I'll always remember to forget about you

Yes, I received your letter yesterday About the time the door knob broke When you asked me how I was doing Was that some kind of joke ? All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they're quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can't read too good Dont send me no more letters no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row.

A little carpet on the floor And the winding-cloth holds many moths Around your Ku Klux furniture I cum a deaths-head in your frock We discuss the murder pact We discuss murder and the murder act Murder takes the wheel of the Cadillac And death climbs in the back

Children, wake up. Hold your mistake up before they turn the summer into dust.

If the children don’t grow up, our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up. We’re just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turnin’ every good thing to rust.

In their styes with all their backing They don't care what goes on around In their eyes there's something lacking What they need's a damn good whacking. Everywhere there's lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.

In the Bible, we are told God gave Moses in the days of old Ten great Commandments For his people to hold true But the greatest commandment of all Is in the book of Luke, as I recall Do unto others as you would have them do to you Do unto others as you would have them do to you Now if, baby, you don't believe In the story of Adam and Eve Who called upon science To prove it's all untrue But in the cold light of the day Peaceable words still point the way Do unto others as you would have them do to you Do unto others as you would have them do to you

I've traveled in different countries, I've traveled in foreign lands I've found nobody could tell me, just what about the soul of a man Well, I want somebody tell me, answer if you can! I Want somebody tell me, just what is the soul of a man?

You may search the ocean, you might go 'cross the deep blue sea But mama, you'll never find another hot shot like me I followed my baby from the station to the train And the blues came down like night and showered me I left her at the station wringing her hands and crying I told her, she had a home just as long as I had mine

There's a tough word on your crossword There's a bed bug nipping a finger There's a swallow, there's a calm Here's a hand to lay on your open palm today As on we go drowning Down we go away And darling, we go a-drowning Down we go away Away

On a quiet street where old ghosts meet I see her walking now Away from me so hurriedly my reason must allow That I had loved not as I should a creature made of clay When the angel woos the clay he'd lose his wings at the dawn of day.

I am gross and perverted I'm obsessed 'n deranged I have existed for years But very little has changed I'm the tool of the Government And industry too For I am destined to rule And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious But you can't look away I make you think I'm delicious With the stuff that I say I'm the best you can get Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out From your TV set

I believe I'll buy me a graveyard of my own I'm gonna kill everybody that has done me wrong

If I had'a followed, my first mind I'da been gone, since my second time I shoulda went on, when my friend come from Mexico at me But now I was foolin' with ya baby, I let ya put me on the killin' floor

People are so sad and I know why With no chance to live before you die You get pretty sick if you have to Keep it inside I wanna build a house where an ad don't scream I wanna live in peace-quietly I wanna have a place of love and safety People ought to live how and where they want People ought to have respect in front People ought to get along pretty O.K. So get off my dick I'm building it brick by brick

Jane says, "I'm done with Sergio" He treats me like a ragdoll" She hides the television Says, "I don't owe him nothing, but if he comes back again Tell him to wait right here for me or, Try again tomorrow I'm gonna kick tomorrow I'm gonna kick tomorrow"

Well, she's walking through the clouds With a circus mind that's running wild Butterflies and Zebras And Moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind

When I'm sad, she comes to me With a thousand smiles she gives to me free It's alright, she says it's alright Take anything you want from me Anything Fly on little wing

I'm gonna write a tear stained letter: I'm gonna put it to a tune. So I'll be sendin' with it, A sweet melody for you. And not some red-hot, upbeat zinger, That'll set your body on fire. But a hunk of love included, Meant to take you a little higher. And to settle on your sweet, sweet mind, At night when you retire.

Put on your slippers and sit by the fire You've reached your top and you just can't get any higher You're in your place and you know where you are In your Shangri-la Sit back in your old rocking chair You need not worry, you need not care You can't go anywhere

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river, And weren't those tears that filled your eyes, And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying, Had they got you hypnotized? Yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers, But all that lives is born to die And so I say to you that nothing really matters, And all you do is stand and cry

Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free

And I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here But my heart is overflowin' anyway I'm just a tired man, no words to say But since she lost her daughter It's her eyes that fill with water And I am much happier this way

My world is unaffected, there is an exit here I say it is and then it's true, There is a dream inside a dream, I'm wide awake the more I sleep You'll understand when I'm dead

Sleep inside Ocean has miles It shimmers and it glows For some people I know it shines I know it shines

Stay inside Don't the colors make you blind They hold me inside Count my stars Let them shine I know they shine

I do not work for pleasure, earthly peace I'll see no more The only reason I work at all, is drive the world from my door When my earthly trials are over, carry my body out in the sea Save all the undertaker bills, let the mermaids flirt with me

Shelter me from the powder and the finger Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger Think of me as one you'd never figured Would fade away so young With so much left undone Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her.

When everyone goes to your house, they shoot up in your room Most of them are beautiful, but so obsessed with gloom I ain't gonna be here, when they all get home They're always lookin' at me, they won't leave me alone

Whatcha gonna do when the walls come fallin' down? You never move you never make a sound Where you gonna swim with the riches that you found? You're lost at sea, well I hope that you drown Take me away 'Cause I just don't wanna stay And the lies you make me say Are getting deeper every day These are crazy days but they make me shine Time keeps rolling by All around the world You've gotta spread the word Tell 'em what you heard You're gonna make a better day And all around the world You've gotta spread the word Tell 'em what you heard You know it's gonna be okay

In the tube station the old ones who were on the way out Would dribble and vomit and grovel and shout And the coppers would come along and push them about And I wished I could escape from the old main drag And now I'm lying here I've had too much booze I've been shat on and spat on and raped and abused I know that I am dying and I wish I could beg For some money to take me from the old main drag

Maybe you did, maybe you walk Maybe you rock around the clock Tick-tock, tick-tock Maybe I ride, maybe you walk Maybe I drive to get off, baby

Then I took out my razor blade Then I did what God forbade Now the cops are after me But I proved that I'm no sissy

Well when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon And another girl to take my pain away

I met a little damsel She promised me That she would love me And always be sweet She found out I was a po' man And I thought I was a good man She couldn't understand, no Now, when she left me She got in the do' She waved me, good-bye I haven't seen her no mo' She found out I was a good man She knew I was a po' man She couldn't understand

Dreams float up From fishes in the flood At a new dimension Leaving only parts to play Needs are forming again A good life would just never be enough

I was dressed embarrassment I was dressed in wine If you had a part of me, will you take your time? Even if I come back, even if I die Is there some idea to replace my life? Like a father to impress Like a mother's mourning dress If you ever make a mess, I'll do anything for you

There's a city in my mind Come along and take that ride And it's all right, baby, it's all right

And it's very far away But it's growing day by day And it's all right, baby, it's all right

They can tell you what to do But they'll make a fool of you And it's all right, baby, it's all right

Here is a church and here is a steeple Open the doors there are the people And all their little hearts at ease For another week's disease And eagle, eagle, towel, and scream I never once left in between I was on the fence and I never wanted your two cents Down my throat, in the pit, with my head upon the spit Oh Reverend, please, can I chew your ear? I've become what I most fear And I know there's no such thing as ghosts But I have seen the demon host

I rode my old guitar to heaven But heaven didn't feel too much like home So I'm headed out on to them lonesome oceans In my ruby studded houseboat to roam

The filthy steps, the cold concrete The phony earth below my feet The ancient odor of the street Yes the world, world, world it is a sponge

They say Jesus will find you wherever you go But when He'll come looking for you, they don't know In the mean time, keep your profile low Gorilla, you're a desperado

Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see This world is such a great and a funny place to be