by Jim Carroll Band on album Dry Dreams

Jim Carroll Band Dry Dreams Lorraine I was underneath the staircase I was talking with my angel He said that beauty is only terror You know, when terror is just beginning I thought I heard some

by Jim Carroll Band on album Dry Dreams

Jim Carroll Band Dry Dreams Lorraine (Opening Poem) Seven blonde women They gather in the square They raise their hands up to the sun Their skin is so thin and white You know their fathers must su

by Jim Carroll Band on album Catholic Boy

Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy People Who Died Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old Fell from the roof on East Two-nine Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug On 26 reds and a bottle of wine Bobb

by Jim Carroll Band on album Catholic Boy

Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy It's Too Late It's too late To fall in love with Sharon Tate But it's too soon To ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb I think it's time that you all star

by Jim Carroll Band on album Catholic Boy

Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy Day And Night Day and night . . . the shadows move too slowly >From dark to light she promised she could know me Remember when . . . I watched her on the stairway She

by Jim Carroll Band on album Catholic Boy

Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy Wicked Gravity The gravity here is just sick for revenge It's like my lungs are filled with chains . . . The sky seems so low, It hasn't moved this slow Since the vir

by Jim Carroll Band on album I Write Your Name

Jim Carroll Band I Write Your Name Voices Bob drives taxis when the meter runs Bobby hears the music when it's done He hears the voices He hears the voices Wheels on rain, lightning from the sto

by Jim Carroll Band on album Catholic Boy

Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy Catholic Boy I was born in a pool, they made my mother stand And I spat on that surgeon and his trembling hand When I felt the light I was worse than bored I stole the

by Jim Carroll Band on album I Write Your Name

Jim Carroll Band I Write Your Name I Write Your Name I write your name Everywhere I go Like a worn out code Just to let you know I write your name On my loneliness On the closet hook where yo

by Jim Carroll Band on album Catholic Boy

Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy Nothing Is True You get nothin' back for all you've saved Just eternity and a spacious grave She said, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" Things just go

by Jim Carroll Band on album Catholic Boy

Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy Three Sisters Though I don't really understand her I love my sister, her name's Miranda The boys from uptown they can't stand her The more she denies them the more the

by Jim Carroll Band on album Catholic Boy

Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy I Want The Angel I want the angel Whose dreams are fatal They cause the snake's milk to run and curdle I want the angel Whose darkness doubles It absorbs the bril

by Jim Carroll Band on album Catholic Boy

Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy City Drops Into The Night It's when Billy's whores are workin' They're workin' with the skeleton crew It's when the sky over Jersey That sky starts to drain from view

by Jim Carroll Band on album I Write Your Name

Jim Carroll Band I Write Your Name Freddy's Store I'm walking Uptown I hear a most peculiar sound Like a seashell in my ear Like the ocean was near I go inside this store To get my head clear

by Jim Carroll Band on album Dry Dreams

Jim Carroll Band Dry Dreams Jody Jody, what you been doing? It's been a long, long time Since we went dancing in the schoolyard, With your breasts like bleeding limes Jody, are you still hangin

by Jim Carroll Band on album I Write Your Name

Jim Carroll Band I Write Your Name (No More) Luxuries Your uncle's scandals shook the house of lords Your daddy's squeezed out as Chairman of the Board No more doctors write you no more 'scripts No

by Jim Carroll Band on album Dry Dreams

Jim Carroll Band Dry Dreams Work, Not Play The bell rings . . . It's a decade past my decadence My beast wears rings and he's waiting In the shadows of my hesitations, my silent Hesitations . . .

by Jim Carroll Band on album Dry Dreams

Jim Carroll Band Dry Dreams Still Life I don't believe in sin But maybe I'll begin A vagrant evil's climbing up my skin The shadows from last week Are dancing in the street In homage to the da

by Jim Carroll Band on album I Write Your Name

Jim Carroll Band I Write Your Name Black Romance Everything you ever wanted Is passing with the driving rain I died like a salamander On my heart heavy like a chain I been waiting here at the Upto

by Jim Carroll Band on album I Write Your Name

Jim Carroll Band I Write Your Name Low Rider Johnny's trapping stars in his car With the radio on In the parking lot Lily heard a sound While they were going down Someone on El Camino had been