by Glen Phillips on album Winter Pays for Summer

Someone's in the back yard, banging on the door Daddy's gone away, he's coming back no more His baby's curled up on a stranger's floor Mama's thinking family dinners weren't too much to ask for Every

by Glen Phillips on album Aware 8: The Compilation

I want to see you sometime Come find me I'll be home I'm just between the Costco And the Barnes and Noble Behind the mom and pop grocery That shut down in the nineties Like all the other locals They s

by Glen Phillips on album Live at Largo

If I lose my faith Just remind me, just remind me When my shadow's longer Stay beside me till it's brighter How easily I forget How beautiful to see it once again In my darkest hour I will be freed

by Glen Phillips on album Live at Largo

I was the driver for the drive-by of the neighbor's dog Dad had always hated him and he said "Come on son, "Get into the Vega now and I'll go get my shotgun" It was a military holiday and kids were ev

by Glen Phillips on album Live at Largo

She looked just like a train wreck That could've been avoided In a third world country By a long stretch of farmland Where the waters had run high And washed the topsoil down the river So that next ye

by Glen Phillips on album Live at Largo

I want to see you sometime Come find me I'll be home I'm just between the Costco And the Barnes and Noble Behind the mom and pop grocery That shut down in the nineties Like all the other locals They s

by Glen Phillips on album Live at Largo

I've done it again Made spectacular claims And I lied in the name of a good love I think I recall Someone brought me here But the memory's not clear Just what it was A good love A good love You defin

by Glen Phillips on album Abulum

Well it took five neigbors To get him in the hall And down the three flights of stairs Out the building's door I know that it's easy to say That it couldn't be worse But now she's in her apartment Alo

by Glen Phillips on album Abulum

The water's getting deeper and I can't feel my feet I keep on bailing buckets, but it flows right back to me And everything is put away, the children are asleep But the water's getting deeper, and I c

by Glen Phillips on album Abulum

I've been angry And I have strayed I said words I never thought that I could say And you were sad and sweet Like a Wilco song But I'll be back up on my feet before too long You could say you wanted m

by Glen Phillips on album Abulum

She came from Austin, Texas She liked his custom van And his pitbull Francis Even when he took a chunk out of her hand They liked to dance in the desert and screw in the sand He said they'd always be

by Glen Phillips on album Live at the Belly Up

A change of plans One chapter opens as another ends So we begin One lucky hand Switch out the sequence till it makes a man No blind watchmaker winding up the strand Baptistina Come crashing, come cra

by Glen Phillips on album Live at the Belly Up

So how, how did I lose the thread? When you reeled it in again I could be caught on that line Spending my time swimming with you Your love is often unkind, bitter and blind Sometimes casually cruel b

by Glen Phillips on album Swallowed by the New

I've been dreaming of the day of judgment Wondering what I'll say For the seasons I lost to sorrow The sin of my wasted days For the beauty I should have noticed The kindness I did not give The bounty

by Glen Phillips on album Swallowed by the New

A change of plans One chapter opens as another ends So we begin One lucky hand Switch out the sequence till it makes a man No blind watchmaker winding up the strand Baptistina Come crashing, come cra

by Glen Phillips on album Swallowed by the New

Lover your head is down your eyes are on the floor No matter what we give it leaves us wanting more But you, you know which way to go For all the restless hours and empty afternoons For all the faded

by Glen Phillips on album Unlucky 7

Behind the house The ground has opened up And it's so deep, a hole It's bottom can't be found It sucks the air inside and makes quiet sea sounds We sometimes stand And linger at the edge We like to d

by Glen Phillips on album Live At Largo

There's almost nothing left You eat my kind for breakfast What did I expect To come here and find anyone? Find open arms to feed me I sicken myself so much And you eat my kind for breakfast You eat my

by Glen Phillips on album Live At Largo

He's got a thing about losing control Carries it a mile just to see how far he'll go And he brushes up his chops as he tries to fake a smile A friend indeed but what I need's someone who'll stay a whi

by Glen Phillips on album Live At Largo

Is it this place that makes me fall from you Forget the words that once rang so true Did we expect that life was ever fair, my god... I sowed a field of rose and reaped a whipping rod And everything