Grace

Grace

Mojo Pin (J. Buckley/G. Lucas)

i'm lying in my bed, the blanket is warm
this body will never be safe from harm
still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
touch my skin to keep me whole

if only you'd come back to me
if you laid at my side
wouldn't need no mojo pin
to keep me satisfied

don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know
i'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
the memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
black beauty i love you so

precious, precious silver and gold
and pearls in oyster's flesh
drop down we two to serve and pray to love
born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
ageless, ageless and i'm there in your arms

don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know
i'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
the memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
black beauty i love you so

the welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
well it's you i've waited my life to see
it's you i've searched so hard for

don't wanna weep for you, i don't wanna know
i'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
the memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
black beauty i love you so

Grace (J. Buckley/G. Lucas) Tablature

there's the moon asking to stay
long enough for the clouds to fly me away
well it's my time coming, i'm not afraid to die
my fading voice sings of love,
but she cries to the clicking of time
oh, time

wait in the fire...

and she weeps on my arm
walking to the bright lights in sorrow
oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow
oh my love

and the rain is falling and i believe
my time has come
it reminds me of the pain
i might leave
leave behind

wait in the fire...

and i feel them drown my name
so easy to know and forget with this kiss
i'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow

Last Goodbye (J. Buckley) Tablature

this is our last goodbye
i hate to feel the love between us die
but it's over
just hear this and then i'll go
you gave me more to live for
more than you'll ever know

this is our last embrace
must i dream and always see your face
why can't we overcome this wall
well, maybe it's just because i didn't know you at all

kiss me, please kiss me
but kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
you know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
i'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye

did you say "no, this can't happen to me,"
and did you rush to the phone to call
was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
saying maybe you didn't know him at all
you didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know

well, the bells out in the church tower chime
burning clues into this heart of mine
thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
offer signs that it's over... it's over

Lilac Wine (J. Shelton) Tablature

i lost myself on a cool damp night
gave myself in that misty light
was hypnotized by a strange delight
under a lilac tree

i made wine from the lilac tree
put my heart in its recipe
it makes me see what i want to see
and be what i want to be

when i think more than i want to think
do things i never should do
i drink much more that i ought to drink
because i brings me back you

lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
lilac wine, i feel unsteady, like my love

listen to me... i cannot see clearly
isn't that she coming to me nearly here

lilac wine is sweet and heady where's my love
lilac wine, i feel unsteady, where's my love

listen to me, why is everything so hazy
isn't that she, or am i just going crazy, dear

lilac wine, i feel unready for my love

So Real (J. Buckley/M. Tighe) Tablature

love, let me sleep tonight on you couch
and remember the smell of the fabric
of your simple city dress

oh... that was so real

we walked around til the moon got full like a plate
the wind blew an invocation and i fell asleep at the gate
and i never stepped on the cracks 'cause i thought i'd hurt my mother
and i couldn't awake from the nightmare that sucked me in and pulled me under
pulled me under

oh... that was so real

i love you, but i'm afraid to love you
i love you, but i'm afraid to love you
i'm afraid. . .

oh... that was so real

Hallelujah (L. Cohen) Tablature

i heard there was a secret chord
that david played and it pleased the lord
but you don't really care for music, do you
well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the baffled king composing hallelujah

hallelujah...

well your faith was strong but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah

hallelujah...

baby i've been here before
i've seen this room and i've walked this floor
i used to live alone before i knew you
i've seen your flag on the marble arch
but love is not a victory march
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...

well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me do you
but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah

well, maybe there's a god above
but all i've ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...

Lover, You Should've Come Over (J. Buckley) Tablature

looking out the door i see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water
and maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong
but tonight you're on my mind so you never know

broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it
where are you tonight, child you know how much i need it
too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun
and much too blind to see the damage he's done
sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one

so i'll wait for you... and i'll burn
will i ever see your sweet return
oh will i ever learn

oh lover, you should've come over
'cause it's not too late

lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in
burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him
my body turns and yearns for a sleep that won't ever come

it's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
it's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her
it's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
it's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

well maybe i'm just too young
to keep good love from going wrong

oh... lover, you should've come over
'cause it's not too late

well i feel too young to hold on
and i'm much too old to break free and run
too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage i've done
sweet lover, you should've come over
oh, love well i'm waiting for you

lover, you should've come over
cause it's not too late

Corpus Christi Carol (B. Britten)

he bear her off, he bear her down
he bear her into an orchard ground

lu li lu lay lu li lu lay
the falcon hath bourne my mate away

and in this orchard there was a hold
that was hanged with purple and gold
and in that hold there was a bed
and it was hanged with gold so red

lu li lu lay lu li lu lay

on this bed there lyeth a knight
his wound is bleeding both day and night
by his bedside kneeleth a maid
and she weepeth both night and day

lu li lu lay lu li lu lay

by his bedside standeth a stone
corpus christi written thereon

Eternal Life (J. Buckley) Tablature

eternal life is now on my trail
got my red glitter coffin man, just need one last nail
while all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games
there's a flaming red horizon that screams our names

and as your fantasies are broken in two
did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you
you better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal
angel

racist everyman, what have you done
man, you've made a killer of your unborn son
crown my fear your king at the point of a gun
all i want to do is love everyone

and as your fantasies are broken in two
did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you
you better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal
angel

there's no time for hatred, only questions
what is love? where is happiness? what is life? where is peace?
when will i find the strength to bring me release?

tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said
man, it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead
and i've get a message for you and your twisted hell
you better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye to life eternal
angel

Dream Brother (J. Buckley/M. Grondahl/M. Johnson) Tablature

there is a child sleeping near his twin
the pictures go wild in a rush of wind
that dark angel he is shuffling in
watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled

the love you lost with her skin so fair
is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair
her green eyes bloom goodbyes
with her head in her hands and your kiss on the lips of another
dream brother
with your tears scattered round the world.

don't be like the one who made me so old
don't belie the one who left behind his name
'cause they're waiting for you like i waited for mine
and nobody ever came

i feel afraid and i call your name
i love your voice and your dance insane
i hear your words and i know your pain
your head in your hands and her kiss on the lips of another
your eyes to the ground
and the world spinning round forever

asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over

Sketches (For My Sweetheart, The Drunk)

The Sky Is a Landfill (J. Buckley/M. Tighe) Tablature

we circle around the park, joining hands in silence
and watch the evil black the sky
the storm has ripped the shelter of illusion from our brow,
this power is no mystery to us now.
leave your spirit genocide, the cancer you won't remove.
we cast our funeral rose inside and bury the need to prove.
our mutilation is to gain from the system.

turn your head away from the screen, oh people.
it will tell you nothing more.
don't suck the milk of flaccid bill k. public's empty promise
to the people that the public can ignore.
this way of life is so devised,
to snuff out the mind that moves.
moving with grace the men despise, and women have learned to lose.
throw off your shame or be a slave to the system.

i see you take another drag,
one more lost soul to raise your flag.
the sky is a landfill.
i see you take another drag.
let's see you take another drag.

you like to dance to the rolling head of the adulteress,
you sing in praise of suicide.
we know you're useless,
like cops at the scene of the crime,
with your steroids and your feedbag and your stable and your trainer,
i got a mail bomb for you mr. strong arm.

throw out the stones from all the cemetery homes,
for the violence of a nation gone by,
or the politics of weakness and the garbage dump of souls that will now black the sky.
their yellow haze and crowds of eyes will plug up the mind that moves,
moving with grace the men despise, and women have learned to lose.
we'll share our bodies in disdain for the system.

i see you take another drag,
one nation bends to kiss the hag.
the sky is a landfill.
i see you take another drag.
i see you take another drag.
i have no fear of this machine!

Everybody Here Wants You (J. Buckley)

twenty-nine pearls in your kiss, a singing smile,
coffee smell and lilac skin, your flame in me.
twenty-nine pearls in your kiss, a singing smile,
coffee smell and lilac skin, your flame in me.

i'm only here for this moment.
i know everybody here wants you.
i know every body here thinks he needs you
i'll be waiting right here just to show you
how our love will blow it all away.

such a thing of wonder in this crowd,
i'm a stranger in this town, you're free with me.
and our eyes locked in downcast love,
i sit here proud, even now
you're undressed in your dreams with me.

i'm only here for this moment.
i know everybody here wants you.
i know everybody here thinks he needs you.
i'll be waiting right here just to show you.
how our love will blow it all away.

i know the tears we cried have dried on yesterday
the sea of fools has parted for us there's nothing in our way, my love
don't you see, don't you see?
you're just the torch to put the flame to all our guilt and shame,
and i'll rise like an ember in your name.

you know i, you know i,
i know everybody here wants you.
i know everybody here thinks he needs you.
i'll be waiting right here just to show you.
let me show you that love can rise, rise just like embers.

love can taste like the wine of the ages, babe.
and i know they all looks so good from a distance,
but i tell you i'm the one.

i know everybody here thinks he needs you,
think he needs you
and i'll be waiting right here just to show you.

Opened Once (J. Buckley)

i once was open and one with a travelling heart.
i loved this sweet guy.
just like a fiction rushing in your riverbed.
arise like applause in my head.
and in the half-light where we both stand.
this is the half-light, see me as i am.
just like the ocean, always in love with the moon,
it's overflowing now, inside you.
we fly right over the minds of so many in pain.
we are the smile of light that brings them rain.
in the half light where we both stand
in the half light you saw me as i am i am a railroad track
abandoned with the sunset forgetting i ever happened,
that i ever happened.

Nightmares By The Sea (J. Buckley)

beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men.
secret compartments hide all of the skeletons.
little girl wants to make her home with him,
in the middle of the shore, she wonders,
"don't know what you asked for."
"don't know what you asked for."

all your lovers know why
nightmares blind their mind's eye.
your rube is young and handsome,
so new to your bedroom floor,
you know damn well where you'll go.

i've loved so many times and I've drowned them all.
from their coral graves, they rise up when darkness falls.
with their bones they'll scratch the window, I hear them call,
"don't know what you asked for"
"don't know what you asked for"

all your lovers know why
nightmares blind their mind's eye.
your rube is young and handsome,
so new to your bedroom floor,
you know damn well where you'll go.

stay with me under these waves, tonight.
be free for once in your life tonight.

your rube is young and handsome,
so new to your bedroom floor,
you know damn well where you'll go.

all your lovers know why
nightmares blind their mind's eye.
your rube is young and handsome,
so new to your bedroom floor,
you know damn well where you'll go.

stay with me under these waves, tonight.
be free for once in your life tonight.

your rube is young and handsome,
so new to your bedroom floor,
you know damn well where you'll go.

all your lovers know why
nightmares blind their mind's eye.
your rube is young and handsome,
so new to your bedroom floor,
you know damn well where will go.

all your lovers know why
nightmares blind their mind's eye.
your rube is young and handsome,
so new to your bedroom floor,
you know damn well where we'll go.
ah. ah. ah.

Yard Of Blonde Girls (A. Clark)

through the yard, through the yard of blonde girls.
through the river and the sea.
gold sharks glittering.
a tree of white breaks the earth.
the streets where lola played.
very sexy, very sexy.

okay, okay.
fear, we may come. (X 4)

so run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

it's in your heart, it's in your art, your beauty.
even in this world of lies, there's purity,
you've got innocence in your eyes.
even in this world of lies, you're still hopeful.
very sexy, very sexy,
okay, okay.
fear, we may come. (X 4)

so run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

through the yard, through the yard of blonde girls.
through the river and the sea.
gold sharks glittering.
a tree of white breaks the earth.
the streets where lola played.
very sexy, very sexy.

okay, okay.
fear, we may come. (X 4)

so run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

Witches' Rave (J. Buckley)

it sounds just like a scream. i don't know what you mean.
your witchcraft's all around me in your ragged pagan scene.
you tell me all the ways around my garden that you like.
i float just like a bubble heading for a spike.

all is well between the breasts of passenger and slave.
we'll never make it out alive to join the witches' rave.

you'd like to see him suffer for you fantasy and thrill.
he fell sick while we made love, he's out there, somewhere, still.
oh, i feel the spell that you have cast,
hot, pink, nasty bubble gum, coming down just like a big red coal.
ooooooo. oooooooo.

i can't help from looking outside for a guarantee
i can't help from looking outside for a guarantee.

hey! I try to keep all hidden when you come around.
oh, no! the sight of broomsticks sliding on the ground.
you're levitating something,? cause i feel so collectible.
we're all lying natural,
he's watching from a window up above i see he loves you,
i'll bring you closer.
something in my fate says it's not right for me
tell me, am i cursed or am i blessed?
i can't tell, oh yes! ?

cause all is well between the breasts of passenger and slave.
i'll never make it out alive to join the witches' rave.
oooooooooo. ooooooooooooo.
i can't help from looking outside for a guarantee (7x)
for a guarantee.

New Year's Prayer (J. Buckley)

oooooo.
fall in light, fall in light.
fall in light, fall in light.
feel no shame for what you are (X 5)

as you now are in your heart
fall in light
feel no shame for what you are
feel no shame for what you are
feel it as a waterfall
fall in light, ooh.
fall in light, fall in light,
fall in light, ooh.
fall in light, fall in light fall in light,
grow in light.

stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing.
stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing.
past the sound within the sound.
past the voice within the voice.
ah. ah. ah.

leave your office, run past your funeral,
leave your home, car , leave your pulpit.
join us in the streets where we
join us in the streets where we don't belong..
don't belong.
you and the stars throwing light.

oooooo (repeat) fall, fall.
oooooo fall in, fall in light.
fall in light, ooo.
fall in light, fall in light
fall in light. grow in light.

Morning Theft (J. Buckley)

time takes care of the wound
or so i can believe
you had so much to give
you thought i couldn't see

gifts for bootheels to crush
promises, deceit
i had to send it away
to bring us back again

your eyes and body are bright in
silent waters deep
your precious daughter in the
other room asleep

a kiss goodnight from every
stranger that i meet
i had to send it away
to bring us back again

morning theft
unpretender left,
ungrateful...

true self is what
brought you here to me
a place where we can
accept this love

friendship battered down by
useless history
an exam in failure

what am i still to you?
some thief who stole from you?
or some fool drama queen
whose chances were few?

love brings us to who we need
a place where we can save
a heart that beats
as both siphon and reservoir

you're a woman, i'm a calf
you're a window, i'm a knife
we come together
making chance into starlight

meet me tomorrow night
or any day you want
i have no more right to wonder
just how or when

and though the meaning fits
there's no relief in this
i miss my beautiful friend

i had to send it away
to bring her back again

Vancouver (J. Buckley/M. Tighe/M. Grondahl)

lady, all the troubles are my fright, i disgust you.
feel the power to cut the truth into you.
why? did you think i did not on this rely?
i could kiss you, with lines of escape in my mouth.

please let me bring back these gifts of mine to the woman.
stars shined on my back as I slept and knew you.

you didn't leave it all.
you made an even call.
my belly released the stars and tears between the scars.
ooooh.

below this we'll end here until the end of time
beyond the moment that ends our bondage
i am your failed husband contender,
i'm your loan shark of bliss.

this dream you've ridden on turns your world to explosions
i need to be alone to heal this bleeding stone.
now, smell the rain of london, it still insists
that we bed for our purity
as if we are pure in the rain of our contentment
as if i can think of this no more.

You & I (J. Buckley)

you and i.
ah, the calm below that poisoned river wild, you and i.
tears that dry on a rude awakened child.
where you look down. i've walked before,
burning holes with eyes of liquid brown.

if we had only known, in a way we wouldn't reach this ground.
you were my only home, silver eyes. i want to see you shine.
and we will feel the weight. fall away from us in time. searching our past for the true.

you and i,
you and i,
you and i.
all for you.

where you think you'll fall, i adore you.
where you shut your soul, i will open for you.
if we had only known in a way we'd never reach this ground.
i know, silver eyes, I can see us shine.
i said, we will feel the weight fall away from us in time.
searching our past for a true you and i,
you and i,
you and i.
all for you.

Haven't You Heard? (J. Buckley)

your wish is my command!
have you heard this talk about eye contact?
gonna be the downfall of this town.
first the photographs take you to the right hand.
leads you to the authority mold.

paranoia will write this world prayer
make sure that you fit in the right holes
but when you take his offer, you're done for,
done for, done for, oh-oo-oh-oh!

phantoms in pockets, we're in panic,
making order in total disgust
oh, they read a list of all who cannot stay
take you down, on the ground.

paranoia will write this world prayer
make sure that you fit in the right holes
but when you take his offer, you're done for,
done for, done for, Oh-oo-oh-oh!

make sure you learn to beware your neighbor,
bolt the doors and hire your guards.
suck your life with their virus called language,
someone told you this all would go down.
and the last thing you see is the luster,
hold the razor, goodbye to your friends.
would your underground please call the mayor,
call the neighbor, call your friends.

paranoia will write this world prayer
make sure that you fit in the right holes
but when you take his offer, you're done for,
done for, done for, Oh-oo-oh-oh!

when he first saw you, you didn't need no protection
eyes trained on your mouth, you'll learn to take him.
mmmm. it's a brand new power.

my friend had her questions right
beware your neighbor
haven't you heard, haven't you heard
that we're done for. done for. Oh.
learn to beware your neighbor
and the right mode.
haven't you heard?
haven't you heard,
that we're done for, done for?

when i count down from ten
you'll feel the lead in your lids
you've no need to resist,
and wake up refreshed Hah!

I Know We Could Be So Happy, Baby (If We Wanted To Be)
(J. Buckley)

there's no easy answer, none to blame or forgive.
two cripples dancing to the bitter end we live.
i'm not with you, not of you
not with you, not of you

you are soft and young to me
i am the ghost who comes and goes
and i hope i'll catch you in the throes
of one last look at the wonder.
one last look at the wonder.

o, god, i love you.
and all the past we once knew
some other love becomes you
whatever else we come to i know we could be so happy, baby if we wanted to be.

you are soft and young to me
i am the ghost who comes and goes
and i hope i'll catch you in the throes
of one last look at joy that we've become.
but there's no easy answer, none to blame or forgive.
we were two cripples dancing, to the bitter end we live.
i'm not with you, but of you.
i'm not with you but of you.

o, god, i loved you
and all the past we once knew
some other love becomes you
whatever else it comes to i know we could be so happy, baby if we wanted to be

we had a birthplace in common
we had separate beds and lives.
i'll just sit here and glow,
break out the oldest pictures,
hand your ruined letters out to dry.

we had a birthplace in common,
and separate beds and lives.
i know that we could be so happy, baby if we wanted to be.
know that we could be so happy, baby if we wanted to be
yeah, oh.

Murder Suicide Meteor Slave (J. Buckley)

would you like to meet the villain somewhere
underneath the skull of a moon.
fire burned his eyes out
cause his chains are too long for you.
someone has to pay for the damage done. no-one's gonna love you now.
your whole family's splintered, you're a slave to it all now.

ooooo ahhhhh
oh, you're a slave to it all now
you're a slave

welcome down to paradise rock. there is no single entrance,
with the stars to revolve around,
there is no real underground
no stars to revolved around
here, they're fashioning the noose
sickened by the knell of the graveyard bell
you know it's not long for you.
sick of all the vomit childhood,
not a trampoline of the freaks,
not even a slave to your father.
oh, you're a slave to it all, now,
oh, you're a slave to it all, now.

welcome down to paradise rock.
there is no single entrance,
with the stars to revolve around,
there is no real underground
there is not a single entrance
there's no stars to revolve around
there is no real underground.
you're a slave to it all, now.

happy, happy, happy.
happy, happy, happy, happy.

Back In N.Y.C. (P. Gabriel)

i see faces and traces of home back in new york city
so you think i'm a tough kid is that what you heard?
well, i like to see some action, and it eats into my blood
well, they let me out of pontiac when i was just seventeen
i had to get it out of me if you know what i mean, what i mean.

they say i must be crazy ?cause i don't' care who i hit, who i hit.
cause i know its me that's hitting out and i'm not full of shit.
down by my bottle, filled up high with gasoline
you can tell by the night fires where a real has been, has been

as I cuddled the porcupine he said i had none to blame but me
gave my heart, deep in hell, time to shave, shave it off, it off
no time for romantic escape and your fluffy heart is ready for rape
no, no time for romantic escape and your fluffy heart is ready for rape

off we go.
off we go
off we go
you're sitting in your comfort who don't believe' i'm real
you cannot buy protection for the way that i feel
your progressive hypocrites handing out their trash
it was mine in the first place so i'll burn it to ash.

when i've eaten all the strongest meats
and laid them down in coloured sheets
laid them down in colored sheets
well, who needs illusions,
of love and affection when you're out walking in the streets,
your mainline connection connection

as i cuddled the porcupine he said i had none to blame but me
held my heart deep in hell time to shave, shave it off, it off.
no time for romantic escape and your fluffy heart is ready for rape.
no. no time for romantic escape

and your fluffy heart is ready for rape.
no. no time for romantic escape
and your fluffy heart is ready for rape.
no time. back in new york city.

Gunshot Glitter (J. Buckley)

don't you wanna let go of your heart or you resist the beds of bliss
fortune makes fools of us all my dear materialista,
silence was insane,
the parting was mutual
don't' you want the rocket to rock out?
there's a room for both of us to fly.
tell the man i'm never coming back again.
tell the man i'm never coming back again.
why should you notice at all?

gone again beside you will fall
down to the sea out of the skies
of gold cards and casual tears
i have only come to see you shine
feminine smiles
the right side is wise, and organized
i wanna be your lover.

lipstick my name across your mirror
blood red with flaked gunshot glitter
and be one with all your disown in your young life

you paranoia politician diva you paranoia politician diva
will you let go your heart, left behind a hypnotising swirl
the semi's left behind. don't you want to rocket it to rock?
there's room for both of us to fly
same show everyday, don't have to blow up in the sky.
so i just came from hicks town left my coins behind
maybe some poor clothes pony'll buy himself a life
why should you care if i crash your affair?
why should you notice me?
i really wanna see you shine i wanna be your lover

lipstick my name across your mirror
now, be one with all you disown.

Demon John (J. Buckley)

say farewell, g'night, sonny-jim in your defenceless, winning smile.
what do you hope to win? and bliss face down, defended.
well, now stoned demon john there's no town the boy cannot belong
why did you come here? is it to excavate all your sins? boil within?
slaughter like the daughter of the devil you send me i have to deal, you called me here.

you couldn't say that you were juiced the night that you were introduced to demon john
gonna take him with you when you go?
dance down slow. Oh, way down.
you cannot escape the bar-side angel dissector.
you undo your life with too much cocoon, who's your protector?

dark is the city where the white girls walk by.
down below your eyes, just like fireflies.
you call me here, come on here, follow me dear
, past cascades of rage and fear.
you called me here.

you couldn't' say that you had been juiced
the time that you were introduced to demon john.
well, you knew you had to want to go, dance down slow.
by the light of the sun, murder comes today or tonight
better get yourself together and transcend it,
a burst of light blaze stars into me,
while the love breaks through here and now.

so, murder by the light of the sun.
please, don't get too close to me.
you said you are for real, it's not pretend.
all memories stolen, know this for yourself.
how would you like to be the happiest man in the world?
behind the weathered field hands,
whose blistered paws harvest cut,
for wedding clothes they'll never wear
marching down a road that was never there
it takes place on a sunlit lace and the backbone broken.
please bring us light, demon john,
you demon john take him with you when you go.

Your Flesh Is So Nice (J. Buckley)

i want to tell you a story about a little cutey
she's ass-slappin' pretty and fingers wanna let her lick me
stick the thick of my pussy From across the street
she looked good enough to eat... me! kitty!
your flesh is nice
your flesh is nice
let me take a bite
your flesh is so nice
oh, i take off my belt
oh, i whip the staircase (whip the staircase)
kill all the men everything's dead to them
you're the only one i follow come on and let me give you that "o"

your flesh is nice
i wanna take you twice
your flesh is nice
ooo your flesh is nice
your flesh is nice
wanna take a bite
your flesh is so nice
your flesh is so
your flesh is so
your flesh is so
your flesh is so nice (repeat)

Jewel Box (J. Buckley)

i know you're a woman by the way you burn below
i'll tell you secrets so good, you'll never tell a soul
come closer, that bonfire holds his life like stones
my years, my life unknown

diamonds from the pavement broken glass had been.
just like these troubles that i'm leaving to the wind.
like sapphires in boxcars speeding towards the end.
like thieves, my bad luck grows.

jewel box of sadness, bring to catch your tear
crystallise illusion shine, forgot i'm here
jewel box of sadness, bring to catch your tear
oh, you left some stars in my belly

star crossed child's love on the bands of wedding gold
silver studs of promise hide in red crushed velvet folds.
inaction, intention, like emeralds i stole.
my speech of custom gold. i think i ought to know.

jewel box of sadness, bring to catch your tears
crystallise illusion shine, forgot i'm here
jewel box of sadness, bring to catch your tear
oh, you left some stars in my belly.

you left some stars in my belly.

you left some stars in my belly.

Thousand Fold (J. Buckley)

i have no desire to make contact with all the thought of "no, no".
i shiver now, to think of how this answer asked her, no.
long time gone.
i run to my hide out.

there ain't a star born that brightens
more than you, you always should have known, joan.
i'll illuminate your question,
long time ago I'd died and gone.

what has brought the question?
time has brought the question.
come and call the question, oh, oh, oh.
here are the stars, same thing again

over, over, over, over, over, over

over, over, over, over, over, over.

Satisfied Mind (David Houston)

how many times have you heard someone say
if I had his money, I would do things my way
but little they know, that it's so hard to find
one rich man in ten with a satisfied mind

money can't buy back your youth when you're old
friend when you're lonely, oh peace to your soul
the wealthiest person is a pauper at times
compared to the man with a satisfied mind

my life is over and my time has run out
my friends and my loved ones, i'll leave these no doubt
one things for certain, when it comes my time
i'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
i'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
my life is over and my time has run out

my friends and my loved ones, i'll leave these no doubt
but one things for certain, when it comes my time
i'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
one things for certain, when it comes my time
i'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind

Unreleased Songs

Forget Her

while the city's busy sleeping
all your troubles lie awake
i walk the streets to stop my weeping
but she'll never change her ways

don't fool yourself
she was heartache from the moment that you met her
my heart feels so still
as i try to find the will to forget her somehow
oh i think i've forgotten her now

her love is a rose dead and dying
dropping her petals and man i know
all full of wine the world before her
but sober with no place to go

don't fool yourself
she was heartache from the moment that you met her
my heart is frozen still
as i try to find the will to forget her somehow
she's somewhere out there now

oh my tears fall down as i tried to forget
the love was a joke from the day that we met
all of the words all of her men
all of my pain when i think back to when
remember her hair as it shone in the sun
it was there on the bed when i knew what she'd done
tell yourself over and over you wont ever need her again

don't fool yourself
she was heartache from the moment that you met her
oh my heart is frozen still
as i try to find the will to forget her somehow
she's out there somewhere now

oh
she was heartache from the day that i first met her
my heart is frozen still
as i try to find the will to forget you somehow
cause i know you're somewhere out there right now

What Will You Say? Tablature

it's been such a long time
and i was just a child then
what will you say
when you've seen my face

time feels like it's flown away
the days just pass and fade away
what will you say
when you've seen my face

it's funny now
but I just don't feel like a man
what will you say
when you've seen my face

mother dear, the world's gone cold
no one cares about love anymore
what will you say
when you seen my face

father do you hear me
do you know me
do you even care
what will you say
when you've seen my face?

my heart can't take this anymore
what will you say when
you've seen my face

mother dear, the world's gone cold
no one cares about love anymore
what will you say
when you've seen my face

father do you hear me
do you know me
do you even care
what will you say
when you've seen my face

Woke Up in a Strange Place

ghost calls to visit
with my keys in his pocket
kisses in my mouth with his
eyes hanging out of his sockets
my memories crumble
under still resistance
i was torn out like pages
from the book of existence

i woke up in a strange place
my mind a blur and some blood on my chin
i made a call for a blackened cab
some destination was moving on in
i remember the words that you told me
how they come down so hard, so plain
fate is going to find your love in a
glass of champagne

i lied to my host i told him
i knew how far i could go
then i emptied my guts out
on his brand new stereo
well he paid me to go upstairs
and spend a night with his friend
i never want to see my face
in the mirror again

i woke up in a strange place
music so loud that i spit up my beer
i met a ride in that blackened cab
some destination was all that he had
easy now, this car is speeding up
for my last chance, crashing to freedom
fate is going to find your love in a
glass of champagne

sweat pours down
you're in the back seat sleeping
and she waits by the window
on an empty bed, weeping
the ghost guns the motor
to the land that he promised me
i guess this is the time when your
best intentions become accidents

this is my song for the dislocated
who want to love but who turn to be hated
because the lies of the spirit possessed you
because the eyes of your lover resist you
listen now, you keep your aim steady
as your temple turns to kiss the pistol
fate is going to find your love
in a glass of champagne

fate is going to find your love
in a glass of champagne

Mood Swing Whiskey

mood swing whiskey
drank it all in the morning
waiting for the dark to move in
sitting in my step-sister's kitchen
horseflies on the window sill
eyes trained on the lemon king
and wishing it were a gun

i'm thinking of our wedding rings
trapped inside the heater
spring water on the floor of this
sex starved room

the nightmare's fires burn
the waves of bliss
i tried to stop it with my hand
i was lost in the kiss
with you

mood swing whiskey
your bliss, the actress,
bliss, the assassin
bliss, the abyss

did a crazy shot of whiskey
in about zero to sixty
all i could see was the beer

i face the future with a drink in my right
eyes to the sparkling gloom
body naked, afraid, and amazed

say boost me up to your junkyard paradise
boost me up to your junkyard paradise
with a sweet-ass photo of you

she cheated, and she lied, and you stole her
stung my tongue just like
sweat from her shoulder

ooh, mood swing whiskey
your love, the destroyer
love, the destroyer
love, love...

yes mood swing whiskey has my brain
only you can break this chain
are you here in my bed again
can you hear my love again (x4)

run down the subway station babe
i'm packing my rod
all and present histories erased
i am a punishing god
mood swing whiskey
yeah the leaves are made of
messy things again

and i said this is all the headless acrobats
faces crushed in the circus dust
all for the law of gravity
and the price of admission

beautiful loser warm hearts have let you down
beautiful loser warm hearts have left you
'cause you're beautiful...

i think of mankind in quotation marks
ever since i took a drink from you

All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun

my eyes are
a baptism
oh i infuse
and sing her
into my thoughts
oh phantom elusive thing oh,

all flowers in time bend towards the sun
i know you say that there's no-one for you
but here is one,
all flowers in time bend towards the sun
i know you say that there's no-one for you
but here is one, here is one... here is one

aah, ooh...
one that can never be known
either all drunk with the world at her feet
or sober with no place to go

all flowers in time bend towards the sun
i know you say that there's no-one for you
but here is one,
all flowers in time bend towards the sun
i know you say that there's no-one for you
but here is one, here is one... here is one

aah, ooh...
we could go (......)
we can travel round
fading farther from me
with your face in my window glow

when will you weep for me
sweet willow

it's ok to be angry
but not to hurt me
your happiness, yes, yes, yes
darling, darling,
oooh...

all flowers in time bend towards the sun
i know you say that there's no-one for you
but here is one,
all flowers in time bend towards the sun
i know you say that there's no-one for you
but here is one, here is one... here is one

Edna Frau

to cross the ocean and to look down
this pipe (?) love is rushing to a city(?) bed
then wires (?) stream into an open (....)
take hold of Jude, she's coming down

i made like i didn't tell you
don't tell it

when will you wash the bodies
two seven numbers (?) with the happy (....)
take a leave and join me on the water's (?) edge
i let you (......) i could assist your death

i made like i didn't tell you
when they call me
i made like i didn't tell you
when they call me

but cry, oh, your life
don't go blind (?)
cry... go blind (?)
to get out

now my sister, you didn't know how
everyone needs (..............)
all my children are acting out
crawling to bed with Edna Frau

Let's Bomb the Moonlight (J. Buckley)

so well
the world is diagnosed with terminal cancer
flesh is not human this culture is not freedom
and the world has terminal cancer
i want to live with you

let's bomb the moonlight and dance

this far awake is a joke our love is real
and the world is diagnosed with terminal cancer
i love your lips ...(?)...

armageddon's just another job, it's all on the inside
don't let them tell you love is a lie
love is so real
the best bet's to stay alive

let's go bomb the moonlight
let's take it back
what was ours by right
frame of a picture, the subject's not right

oh people of the world
you have a new boy in town
to share the light with a guillotine
that's realer than all of you
that's love human.

we'll bomb the moonlight and dance
dance

sweet black mother of death
why did you have to take her away from me?
it's stupid all the words fit together
where now is nothing
why did you have to bring us together,
under such dirty circumstance?
i have a molotov
let's bomb the moonlight and dance
dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance

B-sides/Compilations/Guests

Kangaroo (A. Chilton) Tablature

i first saw you
you had on blue jeans
your eyes couldn't hide
anything
i saw you leaving, oh

i saw you staring out in space

i next saw you
you were at the party
thought you was a dream
oh so flirty

i came against

didn't say excuse
knew what i was doing
we looked very fine
as we were leaving

just like saint joan
doing a cool jerk
oh, i want you
like a kangaroo

Je N'En Connais Pas La Fin (N. Simone)

i used to know a little square
so long ago, when i was small
all summer long it had a fair
wonderful fair with swings and all
i used to love my little fair
and at the close of every day
i could be found, dancing around
a merry-go that used to play

ah, mon amour
a toi toujours
dans tes grands yeux
rien que nous deux

all summer long my little fair
made everyday like a holiday
night after night it used to play
and people came there from so far away
and everyone sang that little tune
all around town you heard it played
even pepi from napoli
he sang to marie
this serenade

ah, mon amour
a toi toujours
dans tes grands yeux
rien que nous deux

Hymne A L'Amour (M. Monnot/E. Piaf/G. Parsons)

if the sun should tumble from the sky
if the sea should suddenly run dry
if you love me, really love me
let it happen darling, i don't care

shall i catch a shooting star
shall i bring it where you are
if you want me to, i will
you can set me any task
i'll do anything you ask
if you'll only love me still

when at last, our life on earth is through
i will spend eternity with you
if you love me, really love me
let it happen darling, i won't care

The Way Young Lovers Do (V. Morrison)

we strolled through fields all wet with rain
and back along the lane again
there in the sun shine
in the sweet summertime
oh the way that young lovers do

i kissed you on the lips once more
we said goodbye at your front door
there in the nighttime
oh that's the right time
to feel the way that young lovers do

then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were
and the way that we wanted to be
then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that i was for you
and that you were for me

and then we danced the night away
and turned in to each other saying 'i love you, baby i love you'
oh the way that young lovers do

do, do, do, do...

then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were
and the way that we wanted to be
then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that i was for you
and that you were for me

and then we danced the night away
turned in to each other saying 'i love you, baby i love you'
the way that young lovers do, lovers do, lovers do

do, do, do, do

i held her with her looking down
and i kissed her with the snow falling down
there in the streetlight
oh there was a sweet light
and the way...

Lost Highway (H. Williams)

i'm a rollin' stone all alone and lost
for a life of sin I have paid the cost
when I walk by all the people say
just another guy on the lost highway

just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
and a woman's lies makes a life like mine
all the day we met, I went astray
i started rolling down this lost highway

i was just a lad, nearly twenty two
neither good nor bad, just a kid like you
and now i'm lost, too late to pray
lord i paid a cost, on the lost highway

now boy's don't start to ramblin' round
on this road of sin are you sorrow bound
take my advice or you'll curse the day
you started rollin' down that lost highway

Despite the Tears (C. Dowd / J. Buckley)

he found a letter from his lover
she said she's never coming home
his things were lying on her doorstep
and his tears, they fell like rain

and in his mind, he knew
he'd love her always
despite the tears

and in this town where few knew love
he'd spend his nights all alone, crying
and all the love he'd once shared with her
was gone, long, long, long gone
and he knew a part of him was dying

and in his mind
he knew he'd love her always
despite the tears

don't cry, don't cry, don't cry
lover we tried, we tried, we tried
and in his mind he knew he'd love her always
despite the tears

Angel Mine (J. Kerouac)

angel mine be you fine
angel divine

angel milk what's your ilk
angel bilk

angel cash angel smash
angel hash

Jolly Street (C. Fowlkes/R. Dobbins/R. Nathanson)

slow birds
no breeze
iron hearts
rust in streams

long march
small crimes
soft words
whisper
it's time to come home - your eyes

to bring back - your charms
to sit real still
in my arms

clocks tick
trees pound
lions roar
on empty streets

long lists
in black and white
(s h h) red words
that read like the fourth of July
you're home
uhuh, you're home, in my arms

Faith Salons (B. Kahn/J. Buckley)
From the 1994 Brenda Kahn promotional EP King of Cairo and the 1996 Brenda Kahn album Destination Anywhere.

in the faith salons they do your nails for fifteen dimes a bottle, where
someone in the darkness waits for your arrival.
in the faith salons the deals are struck, making heroes out of dust and clay.
the man gives you sixty seconds on the dollar, and walks away.
in the middle of your book of ages you write your dreams down to the letter.
tired of second chances and singles dances.
her robes were purple velvet feeling like the king of cairo.
prisoners to fools and slaves to paper gods.
in the faith salons....

the books of massacres and natural disasters,
beguiled by belligerence learned from the dancing masters.
the child on the train was a mimic mime of babble.
the mother knitted sweaters that the child would unravel.
in the faith salons....

they have medicines for madness, madness caused by drugs,
something for your headache and a spray to kill the bugs.
you walk the catwalk of polyphony, and your charades of destiny.
to whose myth of creation will you finally fall upon your knees and cry for forgiveness denied.
in the faith salons....

she'd appear like a belligerent ghost in my dreams,
in my living room, all torn apart and blue,
where the ribbons flew and the sky tore like a sheet of rain, of dust.
peace is a distant mirage where the only truth is the path and chance the only landmark in the desert.
sleeping in doorways. underneath the falling frescoes, she'd say, it's your pain. in the faith salons....

I Want Someone Badly (N. Larson)
As Performed on the Soundtrack from First Love, Last Rites

now i want someone badly
got a girl here tonight
wants someone new
someone new
a little cry wants someone badly
i wanna know if this is a bad lease on me

i want to know
i want to know
am i sure that i heard you right
i want to know
if you're leaving just do it tonight

now i want someone badly
to burn in here with me
but listen baby
'cause i cry all over madly
don't do anything do it for/with me

ooh i wanna know
am i sure that i have your love
i wanna know
if you're leaving just make sure it's right

now i want someone badly
could it be true
that someone is you