by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

I have to watch you come back to the river Now it's all I can do Will you still be convinced wild flowers? Are waiting for you In my mind, I've done good things And never cared why And my mind is an

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

Dyin' mama, barely breathin' in a bed of nails To wander through the ruin smokin' and pale Came upon an angel and a nightingale Back where the darkness comes Between the earth and skies above Dead we

by Mark Lanegan on album Imitations

Oh the shark yeah, pretty teeth dear And he shows them pearly white Just a jack knife has MacHeath, dear And he keeps it out of sight When that shark bites with his teeth, dear Scarlet billows

by Mark Lanegan on album Bubblegum

When the willow bends Towards the end of day And twilight falls again To the funny sound That a blackbird makes Twilight falls again As no good reason remains I'll do the same, thinkin' of yo

by Mark Lanegan on album Imitations

Up those stone steps I climb Hail this joyful day's return Into its great shadowed vault I go Hail the Pentecostal morn The reading is from Luke 24 Where Christ returns to his loved ones I loo

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

A shanty man's life is a wearisome one Though some say it's free from care It's the swinging of an axe from morning 'til night In the forest wild and drear Transported as we are from a lady so fair T

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

Light ahead proves that the wheels broke down Here I am, still hangin' on, well alright Shadows only disappear Just look around there's no one here A little spirit turned my light on out and now Can

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

You were a ragged Turquoise and twilight coat I got my head hung down for you Some day you're gonna need it But it's worn or the, cloth gets torn And there's only one way to go It's gone dead, dead,

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

Your voice is a mockingbird Calling me when the day is gone You please yourself with every word Telling me where I'm going wrong Telling me where I've gone wrong Get me out, it's starting to burn I c

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

The sun is gone, and that's all I really know No angels in the air With hearts as good as gold The closer you stand to the gates The more the gates are closed These darkened days Make somebody's hung

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

Oh, the river rise and it's a mile high Is this worth tryin'? Is this worth tryin'? 'Cause I could fall like a tear Well, there's nothing else I can do When I'm not alone nothing's beside me What one

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

Day, end of day Each hanging spiral Where is the shore From this clear blue silence Up to the heavens that you daydream Remembering the sun and the deep green ivy I know that sleep walking too In try

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

We got some poison in us Cyanide and nicotine More than you've ever seen More than I can believe Woe, woe, woe, woe Guns, guns they all got guns Now they wanna shoot someone I'd rather be drunk than

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

Saw God staring from the wall I was alone and lost Here to take me from this world Still alone and lost Night when the dogs from hell come out Roam my house in chains of gold The darkness dares my ey

by Mark Lanegan on album Bubblegum

The dark descends through the Promised Land Down kingdom come and the acid ban I'm bad alone, burned inside out Nothin' to kill it, I hit the city In Marianne I dug a hole And watched her tri

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

You take me back to the place Where I cease to exist To find in a kiss Something I've missed You burn away my disguise And galaxies fall Because of this Because of this It hurt, God knows that it d

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

Sunrise Forgot to cover up my eyes Sunrise Should've covered up my eyes Beauty wasted on me Winds are shakin' my tree With a woman too good to believe Take the first ride out that I see Sunrise Skie

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

Night train, silver moon You ask me why, I'm flyin' To float on ashen wings To choke on dust and feather I learned you are a liar It's right we should pretend And lie with one another It's right we s

by Mark Lanegan on album Bubblegum

Would you put on that long white gown And burn like there's no more tomorrows? Will you walk with me underground And forgive all my sicknesses and my sorrows? Will you be shamed if I shake like

by Mark Lanegan on album Miscellaneous

Love you little girl Better than I love my Better than I love myself Want you and me Forever, ever and ever Just so far from home Just so far from home Love you little girl Better than I love my Bet