by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

My old addiction Changed the wiring in my brain So that when it turns the switches Then I am not the same So like the flowers toward the Sun I will follow Stretch myself out thin Like there's a part

by David Wilcox on album Open Hand

Captain Wanker hits the gas he's driving like his head's on fire Captain Wanker swerves to pass shouting over squealing tires Captain Wanker always gets annoyed That the drones on the freeway have to

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

A lot of cash, five hundred eighty grand Buried in the woods In sixteen ammo cans Changed his pants and shirt Washed his hands and face He tracked that graveyard dirt Up the concrete steps to his gir

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

Winter was gray in my small town sky When Sarah came back with a smile Some things just brought her around this whole world Back to our hometown main street mile She's come from the land of the deser

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

Good news, get here quick I slip on a step 'bout to break my neck I jump in the car and twist the key I ain't got no battery But turns out, saved my skin No tellin' where I might have been 'Cause tha

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

I try so hard to please you To be the love that fills you up Try to pour on sweet affection But I think you got a broken cup Because you can't believe I love you I try to tell you that there is no do

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

Show me the secret where you keep it Show me the secret I can see Show me the secret where you keep it Show me the key I love the nights when are timing is right It fades with the moon up above That'

by David Wilcox on album Open Hand

I get carried along after midnight In the sound of the train on the tracks Where the rails run alongside the river And the water can never come back And the headlight is scanning the valley As the va

by David Wilcox on album Turning Point

Riding out into the night You know why and where to go She can't wait to roll you right She called you up and told you so Feel the wind now as it cleans away your past This when you feel your f

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

There's no sense in talking about music, no Talking of sex can be done I mean, the abstraction of music's confusing, that's all The directness of sex is more fun And the road that will lead you to bo

by David Wilcox on album Nightshift Watchman

Clear blue sky Looking through my father's eyes Way up high A diamond made of nylon flies Out of the fishing reel The string is drawn Fishing for dreams Up there and songs And that's why I

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

I'm the nightshift watchman for the planet Five days a week, I watch the tube Five nights a week, I'm watching the radar Easy job with nothing much to do Waiting in my air conditioned office Down a t

by David Wilcox on album Open Hand

My movie house it holds me prisoner All boarded up on a dead end street In my darkest doubts I'm the only visitor Sunk down inside those dusty seats This world of mine in two dimensions It shocks my

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

I respect what you can do But I'd say the same about a gun Depends which side of you they see Some feel safe and some will run There's so much fight you keep in store Though in all of life, you've wo

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

Well, I'd be dead by thirty-three That was my best guess But hey, here I am this morning Singing happy birthday to me As I clean up all this mess Because I'm still left alive Without warning In the b

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

There's a young man dying As he stands beside the sea You can see him smiling Unbelievably free Wind in his hair, light in his eyes He looks a lot like you, you look so surprised But he could send yo

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

The warm water beads as it runs down the curves Of the beautiful surface so tan She's polishing the Jaguar again It hasn't run in a year or two Nice car but the wheels don't move, anymore Maybe she r

by David Wilcox on album Miscellaneous

This is where the trail just disappears This is where their story ends No one knows where they went from here But I remember when they drank a toast To the route that no one else had tried Working up

by David Wilcox on album Live Songs & Stories

There's no far away, there is no more far away So these dreams of the Wild West will lead us astray There is no more far away When the war had gone on too long And the crowd said the troops shou

by David Wilcox on album What You Whispered

She couldn't sleep She fired up the engine 'Cause she had no place to go She likes the window open And she's listening to the road Just a whisper Trust me now I am all you've got And you k