by Better Than Ezra on album Miscellaneous

Out of the streets and into the room The taste of your mouth, the smell of perfume You're wrapped up in a big smile The hands stop on the dial So take me down, check me in To the palace hotel, we nev

by Better Than Ezra on album How Does Your Garden Grow?

Cut me out of this role I can't play it anymore It must be somethin' in the water here Yeah yee Give me up, I confess I feel as though I'm livin' less The strangest gravity affects my way Because I w

by Better Than Ezra on album Closer

Wake me up, slap my face Draw me closer in to your embrace 'Cause nobody wants to be the butt of every joke And nobody wants to be the one to pull the rope So you harden your shell, slowly losing you

by Better Than Ezra on album Miscellaneous

Kelly was a blackjack dealer Living on the Gulf of Mexico Kelly had a taste for guns and pills He was looking for a mark to roll Sarah was a Kappa from Tulane She was looking for a little change of p

by Better Than Ezra on album Miscellaneous

Maybe I should drop you at your door Or leave tonight and vanish up the shore Anywhere but here It's three o'clock, we're driving in your car You're screaming out the window at the stars "Please don'

by Better Than Ezra on album Deluxe

Listen to them fight Hear your mother cry, weekend at your Dad's They don't know what they do to you Teenager, teenager Wrap yourself in black Listen to the 'Cure', 'Love-line' won't call back They d

by Better Than Ezra on album Miscellaneous

Hey, you've got a lot of nerve To show your face 'round here And hey, you've got a lot of nerve To dredge up all my fears Well, I wish I could shake some sense into you Walk out the door But your sk

by Better Than Ezra on album Miscellaneous

You're a long walk in a rain storm You're a cut that refuses to heal You're a dull ache that I can't shake You're a cold that's clogging up my head Or a broke watch keeping time still Till you pull m

by Better Than Ezra on album Miscellaneous

Are you real? Are you real or just a dream? It's been so long, I don't know I can feel I can feel you with me now Even though you're far away An' some are special Come back racing through your mind

by Better Than Ezra on album Deluxe

Headin' out your heart beatin' in your head Ridin' on the Texas wind Raise your feet as you cross the state line Wakin' up the Mesa sun and the sky All the way to Tucumcari And Santa Fe seems a stone

by Better Than Ezra on album Miscellaneous

Northern wind Chimney smoke Love and pain Joy and hope These are the days of Christmas Colored lights and mistle toe Cinnamon and Nat King Cole There's a miracle now On 34th Street At the airport f

by Better Than Ezra on album How Does Your Garden Grow?

We're all a scene in Mona's dream A Paris street, a quiet stream Far away from Gabrini Green Forgotten love at seventeen Where her children got a chance Not a dead-end street 'Cause some got religio

by Better Than Ezra on album Closer

Worn out in Juarez asking the dust for change Worn out in Juarez a punch drunk assassin Getting caught in the rain Driving all the way from Albuquerque Living on Funyuns and beef jerky, yeah Wearing

by Better Than Ezra on album Miscellaneous

I am bending, made of steel And I am stumbling towards something real How can you forget this feeling Of standing straight while the world is reeling? Don't leave me here alone You're as close as it

by Better Than Ezra on album Paper Empire

When you walk in the noise dissapears Where you begin is perfectly clear All this time i felt so confused Then came you and i just knew Well i fell out when you picked up the phone When we'd go

by Better Than Ezra on album Miscellaneous

You were standing on the corner when it all came crashing down On your black shoes and your black hat You pulled your black dress round I suppose you should feel sorry but I see you dressed in silk Wi

by Better Than Ezra on album How Does Your Garden Grow?

Your pain makes you beautiful, you love to lose control And mediocrity's rewarded, set your standards low In an imploding star or a burned out car, I implore you In a carbon arc or a dim lit park, I i

by Better Than Ezra on album How Does Your Garden Grow?

You in your coat, writing a note 'Dear Sal, I hope you'll agree' Then catching a bus just after dusk A one way trip to the city A cold water flat, a hot plate, a hat The want ads are strewn on the fl

by Better Than Ezra on album Friction, Baby

I still remember you dressed in gray Working undercover for the CIA You were cursing Silber, living in Back Bay Sailing on the Charles when I heard you say Let's go down to Normal Town Let's go down

by Better Than Ezra on album Paper Empire

put your ear up to the speaker, let your jaw drop witness's power of suggestion, blow the roof off gods of war march into battle, make the ground shake crowd appears countdown has begun, drop the