If You Intend 10000 Maniacs

If you intend to live again, then open your eyes and don't pretend you're feeling there's nothing worth believing.

Don't Talk 10000 Maniacs

Don't talk, you keep your distance for I'd rather hear some truth tonight than entertain your lies, so take you poison silently. Let me be. Let me close my eyes. Don't talk, I'll beleive it.

Candy Everybody Wants 10000 Maniacs

If lust and hate is the candy, if blood and love tastes so sweet, then we give 'em what they want. Hey, hey, give 'em what they want.

City Of Angels 10000 Maniacs

See them walking, if youi dare , if you call that walking. Stumble, stagger, fall and drag themselvesalong the streets of heaven.

Noah's Dove 10000 Maniacs

You were the chosen one, the pure eyes of Noah's dove. Choir boys and angles stole your lips and your halo. In your reckless mind, you act as if you've got more lives.

Scorpio Rising 10000 Maniacs

power dizzy with it stumble detail a chance for us to quarrel anger my head is shaken violent if i could calm or restrain you for the sake of pity save the pistol save the cynics tongue save the cool white

You Happy Puppet 10000 Maniacs

How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string? How did you learn everything that comes along with slavish funnery?

Rainy Day 10000 Maniacs

And you would save me, and I held you like you were my child. CHORUS If I were you, defiant you, alone upon a troubled way. I would send my heart to you to save it for a rainy day.

What's The Matter Here 10000 Maniacs

Threats like: ""If you don't mind I will beat on your behind,"" ""Slap you, slap you silly."" made me say, ""O, what's the matter here?""

Cherry Tree 10000 Maniacs

Over your shoulder, please don't mind me if my eyes have fallen onto your magazine for I've been watching and wondering why your face is changing with every line you read.

The Latin One 10000 Maniacs

Under a grey cloud dim dark through green light In all my dreaming before my helpless sight He plunges at me Choking guttering drowning Put in a wagon he had to keep pace As his eyes melt to his face If

Headstrong 10000 Maniacs

Didn't you notice I'm so headstrong even when I know I'm wrong? Take this to your heart and into your head now: before you waste your time, call a truce and call a draw.

Pit Viper 10000 Maniacs

In the cruel garrison of affection If worth of lore is true You know the face of a temptress Pit Viper A witch or enchantress Pit Viper With the malign venom of conceit She tries Civil men Conceal

Cotton Alley 10000 Maniacs

one time you made me cry be proud that I remember my chin is sore the bruise is gone but the spot is tender gave my hand a sister coy to Cotton Alley where you did enjoy your wicked games you curious boy

Please Forgive Us 10000 Maniacs

Could you ever forgive us? I don't know how you could. I know this is no consolation. Please forgive us, we didn't know. Could you ever believe that we didn't know?

Trouble Me 10000 Maniacs

Trouble me, disturb me with all your cares and you worries. Trouble me on the days when you feel spent. Why let your shoulders bend underneath this burden when my back is sturdy and strong?

Stockton Gala Days 10000 Maniacs

There was no girl as warm as you. How I've learned to please, to doubt myself in need, you'll never, you'll never know. The summer fields grow high.

Poison In The Well 10000 Maniacs

In the dark without a clue I'm just the same as you. O, they tell us there's poison in the well, that someone's been a bit untidy and there's been a small spill. Not a lot, no, just a drop.

Starman (David Bowie Cover) 10000 Maniacs

He told us not to blow it \'Cause he knows it\'s all worthwhile He told me: Let the children lose it Let the children use it Let all the children boogie I had to phone someone so I picked on you

Starman 10000 Maniacs

He told us not to blow it \'Cause he knows it\'s all worthwhile He told me: Let the children lose it Let the children use it Let all the children boogie I had to phone someone so I picked on you

Back O' the Moon 10000 Maniacs

Jenny you don't know the nights I hide below a second story room to whistle you down the man who's let to divvy up time is a miser he's got a silver coin only lets it shine for hours while you sleep it

Eden 10000 Maniacs

To pick a rose you ask your hands to bleed. What is the reason for having roses when your blood is shed carelessly? It must be for something more than vanity.

Maddox Table 10000 Maniacs

the legs of Maddox kitchen tables my whole life twisted on a lathe in a foreman's torrent my first English was "faster boy if you want your pay" barking commands loud and simple we could all obey then

Like The Weather 10000 Maniacs

A quiver in my lips as if I might cry. Well by the force of will my lungs are filled and so I breathe. Lately it seems this big bed is where I never leave.

These Are The Days 10000 Maniacs

And as you feel it, you'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky. It's true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you. These are the days you'll remember.

These Are Days 10000 Maniacs

And as you feel it, you'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky. It's true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you. These are days you'll remember.

Few And Far Between 10000 Maniacs

Of all the things I have done, you think I'm proud of everyone without exception? 'Till you make your peace with yesterday, you'll never build a future. I swear by what I say.

Gun Shy 10000 Maniacs

I always knew that you would take yourself far from home as soon as, as far as you could go.

The Big Parade 10000 Maniacs

How would life have ever been the same if this wall had carved in it one less name? But for Christ's sake, he's been dead over 20 years.

A Room For Everything 10000 Maniacs

You were looking away from me, western skies calling you. Colors spilling, running dazzling you.

If You Intend (LP Version) 10,000 Maniacs

If You Intend if you intend to live again open your eyes and don't pretend you're feeling there's nothing worth believing if you persist you'll die like this and wither in the midst of your first

The Lion's Share 10000 Maniacs

There must be some creature mighty as you are. The lambs go hungry (not fair), the biggest portion is the lion's share. There must be some creature mighty as you are. Can I be unhappy?

The Painted Desert 10000 Maniacs

You met a new friend in the Canyon, or so you wrote. On a blanket in the cooling sand you and your friend agreed that the stars were so many there they seemed to overlap.

More Than This 10000 Maniacs

There was no way of knowing Fallen leaves in the night Who can say where they're blowing As free as the wind And hopefully learning Why the sea on the tide Has no way of turning More than this You

Hey Jack Kerouac 10000 Maniacs

Hip flask slining madman, steaming cafe flirts, they all spoke through you. Hey Jack, now for the tricky part, when you were the brightest star who were the shadows?

Jezebel 10000 Maniacs

You lie there, an innocent baby. I feel like the thief who is raiding your home, entering and breaking and taking in every room.

How You've Grown 10000 Maniacs

Every time we say goodbye you're frozen in my mind as the child that you never will be, you never will be again. I'll never be more to you than a stranger could be.

Because The Night 10000 Maniacs

understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed Come on now, try and understand The way I feel under your command Take my hand, come under cover They can't hurt you

Because The Night 10000 Maniacs

understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed Come on now, try and understand The way I feel under your command Take my hand, come under cover They can't hurt you

National Education Week 10000 Maniacs

Honor salute and speak To the corner standing flag Do you remember how the days of school were Indivisible separate worlds Compare contrast These dreams absurd Placid classroom faces Breathe in the

Daktari 10000 Maniacs

Like a weasel in the clover You tilt toss pop turn over Sit down Tremble and weave like a moth By flame deceived Sit down Spill with your words caught up Dance in your room Slide like you're buttered

Groove Dub 10000 Maniacs

Ima tima ima tima intima Dation Respected Head-he-go-round-men Gesture display Customer Limits appeal Media dictates the latest Role Totalitarian Motions borrowed Selling vintage points Low rate For you

My Sister Rose 10000 Maniacs

For a list of vows and a veil of lace made a wife of you today. Now they cut the five tier cake, "That Colucci, he can bake." A frosted tower of sugar and flour for the couple of the hour.

Jubilee 10000 Maniacs

Black hands on white shoulders, white hands on black shoulders, dancing, and you know what's more. He's God's mad disciple, a righteous title, for the Word he heard he so misunderstood.

Verdi Cries 10000 Maniacs

Holidays must end as you know. All is memory taken home with me: the opera, the stolen tea, the sand drawing, the verging sea, all years ago.

Even With My Eyes Closed 10000 Maniacs

When you the years toll on the waters wide, shallow high and low. In the autumn sky, happy to know I'm going home.

Anthem for a Doomed Youth 10000 Maniacs

drawing of blinds Make the hunters all line up It's their idea of fun And let those be forgiven Who never owned a gun Was it him or me Or the wailing of the dead The laughing soldiers Cast their lots And you

Eat For Two 10000 Maniacs

You know where this will lead, to hush and rock in the nursery for the kicking one inside of me. I eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now.

Can't Ignore the Train 10000 Maniacs

Steep is the water tower painted off blue to match the sky can't ignore the train night walks in the valley silent you could swear the earth just moved can't ignore the train dust to be kicked up in the

A Campfire Song 10000 Maniacs

A lie to ssay, "O my river where mant fish do swim, half of the catch is mine when you haul your nets in." Never will he believe that his greed is a blinding ray.