by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

4 p.m. death by mosquito And vitamins V Home and the contrasting squalor A mouth full of vodka This lukewarm catastrophe Is a recipe for rebirth Or so I overheard Flat on the Afghani carpet The tub'

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

I guess you heard, hell you're so weird Like a spider always here You never stay, hell you're so strange You let me drown in my own wave Well I'm stained, never change, never change Stained under my

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

A man made of butterfat Careening around on a Sno Cat And I can't drive any faster My hands are like ice and the moon shines On pepper trees and road grease The yellow lines look blue Snow buries Whi

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

We were awake together all night long Sharing paraphernalia 'til dawn You didn't disappoint me, not at all You never disappoint me You lubricate the morning Shining and yawning You were nice but twi

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

It was all passion misunderstood All passion mislaid I'm on a mission by mistake And I hate it, I lost every friend I ever made But I like it too much I like it too much, I like it And junkie hearts

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

My earliest memory Is of holding up a sparkler High up to the darkest sky Some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never ever be able to repeat At times I might could be accused O

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

You know how it feels When the real world encroaches Rubbing elbows with The unemployed and you You're so beautiful, you're so rude Peeling mangoes on a fold out couch I'm scooped out, you're inscrut

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

I feel the tug of war, I fight the fight But I don't have the patience Or the stamina to last one night With color mad candy mouth, you Your reputation lives in spite of me Your platitudes and berser

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

Come all you kind people, my story to hear What happened to me in June of this year It was poor Ellen Smith And how she was found with a ball in her heart Lying cold on the ground If I could go home,

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

There's always drooling zombies or at least one dick I'm having trouble focusing 'Cause all I see in front of me is You when we're finally alone He was the bone king, dead to all the world Maybe dead

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

I'm on my time with everyone I have very bad posture Sit and drink pennyroyal tea Distill the life that's inside of me Sit and drink pennyroyal tea I'm anemic, royalty Give me a Leonard Cohen afterw

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

Little birdy, little birdy What makes you fly so high? It's because I am a birdy And I'm not afraid to die Little birdy, little birdy Come sing me your song I've a short time to be here with you And

by Kristin Hersh on album Strange Angels

Hey again Up for a spin Pretty rain makes you smile Pretty rain makes you smile This is somethin' Why don't you come in? This is some swell trash This is some swell trash Jesus, He's easy The safest

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

Slipping down railings and balconies With a sleepy ease I never knew I never gave my way to you Indigent darkness, thick as a dream A liquid party underneath Though I'm still shaky and weak Knees pr

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me Before we get married some pleasure to see She got up behind him and away they did go She got up behind him and a

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

That filthy stare He's on a tear Cold water coming for the warm water junkies I found a friend Lost him again Poor sucker freaked and couldn't swim with the monkeys Away, away, gone away Away to you

by Kristin Hersh on album Strange Angels

Before I go to you, I never wash my neck 'Cause when the music starts it goes straight to your head And I break out in pale I break out in pale You better bring your fork and knife Till we see eye to

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

Let the ache out Spread it around You want to fly him in You want him Play a grown up 'Til you grow up If you could you would If you could you would I swallowed some bad voodoo Caught it in the gut

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

Sweet Roseanne, sweet Roseanne Bye bye, sweet Roseanna I thought I heard my baby say "I won't be home tomorrow" Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye Bye bye, sweet Roseanna Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, b

by Kristin Hersh on album Miscellaneous

Down in the willow garden Where me and my love did meet There we sat a courtin' My love dropped off to sleep I'd drunk a bottle of Burgundy wine My love she did not know And there I poisoned that dea