I found myself a queen In a bright sundress She was prettier than May But she liked me best I don't know why, but she couldn't stand still The radio
It must have been our crooked start that chipped me out of place and that put me on a train to who knows where But looking out the window with the weight
Here come the black Suburbans One, two, and three Here come the black Suburbans Looking after me And I see myself reflected in the tinted windows And
Well, you're up all night Praying for a little salvation But I'm restless and my feet they want to walk Here's something you can do If you want to try
She was wandering wild-eyed out in the street So I brought her upstairs and sat at her feet I made her some coffee and something to eat Cassandra, now
calm that wicked wind, to pick you up and carry you off eastward, though i did release you for to seek a warmer sky should you be blown back know that
Sunday night in central booking Hope no one I know is looking in on where I am, on where I've been To add to my list of disgraces, they took my belt and
Oh, I've been down to Memphis It's where my family goes to die And as they all end up there So shall I Used my lucky dollar Struck up my last match But
Let us raise this glass of wine For your blood burns just like mine And we neither felt too much going home You know I never really had the mind For an
by the school on the street you were dropped off with a sign, "this piano is free" you didn't look free to me cast aside obsolete since they cancelled
Are you a swallow Who sat and mended your broken wings Who would not follow But who had the heart left to lead? Did you hide in the chimney at night?
Everybody's saying That I'm not so cool So I'm going back to charm school Charm school... Here in my new neckti Feeling so refined Working on my handshake
Somewhere in the front of the footlights I'm looking for a good place to sit All my lines get so complicated That I take a fall into the orchestra pit
Am I dimmer every day? Am I just a little glimmer like a tiny bobbing head of an ocean swimmer? Olly olly oxen free Can you see me? Do I slowly get
Spending time together is easy When you spend so much time apart I gave up my freedom But I gained a second heart Second heart is all I need this fall
Take the shells that you've collected Sow them with your favorite silver thread Now you jingle, now you rattle with every step Skeletons upon the stairway
Follow me To the shipwreck shores Of a dark and strange country I was born A stranger thinking out loud In a foreign tongue I was out of place I was
I would've died Just to hear voices Just to see faces I was so alone I went deep Into my graveyards Found my ghosts there They're with me still I can