by David Wilcox on album Non-Album Releases

You must know someone like him He's strong and tall and lean His body like a greyhound And his mind so sharp and keen But his heart just like a laurel Grew twisted on itself 'Til almost everythi

by David Wilcox on album My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble

Shake it baby All night long Shake it baby All night long Shake it baby All night long Ahhh shake it for me You can get it if you shake it just so Shake baby one time before you go Hey shak

by David Wilcox on album Bad Reputation

When David was a shepherd boy He killed Goliath and it filled him full of joy So won't you play on your harp little David Play on your harp Play on your harp Hallelujah Play on your harp I

by David Wilcox on album Out Of The Woods

Gimme a cheap beer joint On the wrong side of town And all you good time people gather round Give me a toke out back With a bouncer named Jack And then roll me on in and sit right down Blood on

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

Sultan Suleiman re-stacked the walls again Malik-al-Muattam had destroyed Before him was Saladin who captured Jerusalem From the crusaders who won it in war But before the crusaders, the stones had

by David Wilcox on album Open Hand

I'll keep my vow of silence now forever It's the only way If you can't hear my heart when we're together There's nothing I could say The trees explain the wind out in the distance The message is so c

by David Wilcox on album Open Hand

In the future that we used to imagine The one they pictured in those old magazines Their tomorrow-land is so old fashioned A delusion of the modern dream But they had a skyway to the city towers And

by David Wilcox on album Open Hand

We had time to dream Our huckleberry glide downstream That's the way it seemed Time was cheap as gasoline Old Route 66 Through the sticks Was our magic carpet How we used to fly and not look down Fa

by David Wilcox on album Open Hand

Jesus called me hypocrite When I said that I believe He said, how can you follow love Without a willingness to leave Leave the gates and the passwords known by just your kind Walk beyond the division

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

I watched it sinking down The treasure I'd almost found Is gone I had been holding on So long I had to let it go I wagered my heart and soul All of that weight in gold And dreams The man that I tho

by David Wilcox on album How Did You Find Me Here

Night before she's leaving, there's suddenly a change She slowly sits beside me and she softly calls my name And gives me an address and she says, "Come visit soon" And yesterday she wouldn't notic

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

Do you believe in signs That whisper inside your mind Till you have to follow through? Leading you home again To someplace you've never been Well, I feel that way for you How can it be true? The fir

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

I went to see an old friend Who was soon to pass away He said, "My life has been so good to me Now I've still got one more day" Now he said that as he watched the morning sun And then he smiled my wa

by David Wilcox on album Open Hand

I can run, I can fly Jump at the sky, I'm getting good exercise I can fail, I can fall Learn from it all, use it to make me wise If there's a lesson inside even losing my pride Finding out that I was

by David Wilcox on album East Asheville Hardware

"Can I have another quarter?" he said. "What?" "Can I have another quarter?" "Why?" she said. "Uh, I dropped it," he said. "Sure," she

by David Wilcox on album Underneath

I've got nothing to say, you've been leaving all day Now it's time that you go and let me cry You've got somewhere to be, you're still waiting on me But there's no reason to say goodbye Leaves f

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

Near river bend where the stream runs clear One winter morning of a day last year I heard a secret that I now can say Concerning Jamie, who's past away If you had known her then you'd agree Her smili

by David Wilcox on album Open Hand

There's a river down from Ghost Ranch New Mexico Left by torrents that tore through here long ago It carved out sculpture and left this show When the canyon floor is dry And there's a river close to

by David Wilcox on album Turning Point

Just one turn to steer your fate Or wait for fate to spin you Your trusting's fine but much too blind Your compass is within you These days pass you yearning Like empty pages turning You're ho

by David Wilcox on album My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble

My eyes keep me in trouble I want every woman I see My eyes keep me in trouble I want every woman I see Ah, you pretty women kill me You're gonna get poor me Now I want women on my left, women