by Elvis Costello & The Roots on album Wise Up Ghost

I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild 
I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another man's child 
The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we a

by Patti Smith on album Banga

I was asleep when he died. I had called the hospital to say one more good night, but he had gone under, beneath layers of morphine. I held the receiver and listened to his labored breathing through th

by Kidz in the Hall on album The In Crowd

[** feat. Donnis & Chip tha Ripper:] [Intro: ~Naledge~ {Talking}] It's so beautiful, it's so lovely, it's so gutterant, it's so ugly. Love me or hate me, ya'll can'

by MF Doom on album Mm.. Food

Shayton never came so ill, he got skill Met a brother from the drill that gave my spine chills All thirty three nerves controllin' my curves Common sense just swerved every time I got served Str

by 10,000 Maniacs on album Blind Man's Zoo

Detroit to D.C. night train, Capitol, parts East. Lone young man takes a seat. And by the rhythm of the rails, reading all his mother's mail from a city boy in a jungle town postmarked Saigon. H

by Waits Tom on album Swordfishtrombones

Waits Tom Swordfishtrombones Shore Leave Tom Waits: Chair, vocal Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges: Drums Randy Aldcroft: Trombone Victor Feldman: Marimba, bass marimba & shaker, bass drum with ri

by David Allan Coe on album Miscellaneous

Grandpa, I've been thinking about you lately Wondering if you'd found your peace of mind I guess you'd be proud to know your grandsons Never crossed that Mason-Dixon line And I still sing the old son

by Big Boi on album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty

Been patient We both played our part in heart breakin' Most of you hurt more than I've wasted Took plause to the heart that's family Mamma girl been twenty years a hustler He always talk, never talk

by The Cramps on album Miscellaneous

Way down in Mexico There's a crazy little chick that I know In the honky tonk on the outskirts of town Where the music is hot and the lights turn down Blue moon baby, yeah Blue moon baby Well, she's

by Tracy Lawrence on album The Rock

He was begging by the mini mart Who'da guessed he had a purple heart Scars underneath his bearded chin? I bet you don't remember him 'Cause you were running 20 minutes late And he was only getting in

by Ike Reilly on album Hard Luck Stories

Girls in the backroom I hear your father hes a rich man And that his father was a rich one too And that your real mother waited tables With cool eyes and beautiful hands And no one would ever dou

by Z-Ro on album Look What You Did To Me

[Z-Ro] One of my partnas have been shot And all that's going through my mind Is he dead or alive, when I'm pacing the flo' And looking around 4-5 Thinking of the worst, but nobody would tell me t

by Reckless Kelly on album Bulletproof

Johnny can't drink 'cause Johnny ain't twenty one Yeah, but he's eighteen and he's pretty handy with a gun They sent him off to a foreign land Gave him a new pair of boots and thirteen grand And he ca

by Prine John on album Miscellaneous

Prine John Miscellaneous Sam Stone Sam Stone by John Prine Sam Stone came home, To the wife and family After serving in the conflict overseas. And the time that he served, Had shattered all

by Manowar on album Battle Hymns

I don't know Well, there's no charge for the haircut And the bullets come free My uncle Sam send a letter said He's got a mission for me Now I'm a ranger not a stranger And I live in Saigon

by Bonnie Tyler on album Miscellaneous

Bonnie Tyler Miscellaneous I'm Not Foolin' (bonnie tyler/ paul hopkins/ peter oxendale) Producer for bonnie: peter oxendale Recorded in 1988 as a b-side for the single 'hide your heart'. lyrics take

by Aesop Rock on album Bazooka Tooth

It goes welcome the pop off, some pop soft. We bang b-bang b-bang bang out loud. Ready on the left with a face full of death. We slanged out fang mouth bang out now. This is a never dug disco, Zoo Yo

by Cory Branan on album The Hell You Say

In a town where you can sum up every girl with just one sentence Give or take the subject or the verb She shows up like the devil said penance Won't nothin' ever be clear no more She got hired o

by Elvis Costello on album Miscellaneous

I've got this phosphorescent portrait Of gentle Jesus meek and mild I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with Carrying another man's child The solitary star announcing vacancy Burnt out as we arrived

by Thursday on album Common Existence

There's a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight It's pinned to the chest of the latest liar And if you try to speak your mind They tell you keep it to yourself You got friends in the armed fo