Animal Skin Joe Henry

I see in you an animal trace Thats quick in your blood and deep in your face, Mine has been tamed Im shamed to pretend When Im this close to your animal skin I remember when love was something I craved

Room At Arles Joe Henry

wave a flag to say This afternoon is done And giving in to evening who has Beat him like a brother, Giving in to evening who has Beat him like a brother Just outside the window Time has slipped its skin

Dirty Magazine Joe Henry

A cut-out picture of a sugar tart With olive skin, a purple heart, Concrete shoes, and its just the start Of bigger things unseen.

Love Is Enough Joe Henry

Air is what I need But I try to breathe you in, Thinking I can get at what I must Beneath your skin.

This Afternoon Joe Henry

On the afternoon That the revolution began, I was in a hotel pool with another kid And an Australian business man. And nothing there would make you say After all this talk, today would be the day?...

Tiny Voices Joe Henry

You wild beasts and you creeping things Get down in your place, Down with all the absolutes And Gods awful grace. Who wants to see this coming? Who wants to think you do? Better to be blind when Im...

Sold Joe Henry

Please dont speak another truth out loud Whatever else you do, I only want you keep me lost in your cloud And Ill do the same for you. Dont believe a single thing youve heard Really, Im as good as ...

Flag Joe Henry

Take that noise out in the street, This rubble out from under my feet. No rest for the weary in here, And make a fuss, youre a volunteer. These days, they lord above me Growing mean as they grow sh...

Loves You Madly Joe Henry

The ground wants you back, The ground wants you badly, The ground wants you still Like some lover, so madly. It pulls at your feet, Gets into your nose, Onto your bed And under your clothes, Loves ...

Lighthouse Joe Henry

Oh, my dear, Ive swallowed the moon, And left it dark like a ring Burned on a spoon. But now all the stars They fall around you, And land at your feet To light up the room The sign of the times, ...

Windows Of The Revolution Joe Henry

What can I write home about? The waters cold, the pilots out. I keep my children out of sight And my man never came home last night What will I learn to tell myself? Were supposed to want for nothi...

Leaning Joe Henry

I cant stay here in my room I cant hold my own against the heavy Lean of your perfume That tries to keep your pillow down and low Across my face As if what lingers here of you could Take my breath...

Flesh And Blood Joe Henry

Come sit beside me, Thatll do for now The night has come and left me Just the light that you allow. Come speak my name, Fill my head with all such foolish dreams My flesh and blood is no more rea...

Your Side Of My World Joe Henry

Thought that bell was in my dream, All in my head, Until the trucks were in the yard And the fire was in my bed. Oh, can you hear the ringing bell, Telling time like time was to tell? Can you see t...

Heaven's Escape Joe Henry

They're showing a movie on the side of the bank Oh, I'm in love with all creation And the warmth of the hood of the car in the dark Oh, I feel I'm an angel in waiting Where time is alive in the dar...

Tomorrow Is October Joe Henry

Now that fires have been contained These ashes are of our own making, Clouds hang up on radio towers And sirens sing one song for hours Here begins the fitting end To what we'd started over When to...

Piano Furnace Joe Henry

Let's pull this piano out from the wall Clear the young children from out of the hall Stuff it with tender put paid to it all Let it stoke the fires of the world Let's beat this guitar it was meant...

Odetta Joe Henry

Whose chickens are those in my yard?They pick at every shiny thing,Stitching down this earth so cold and hard,Low and tight across my wings,And when they're calling over me,Their unholy, fitful son...

After The War Joe Henry

A dog-eared mind sniffed my heartLike a pocket full of German marksLong after the war was throughStood me on a rusted railTurned my face and kicked my tailUp toward the yonder blue …Threw a fish up...

Grand Street Joe Henry

His foot held the door,To the alley in backWhere the hotel's kitchen let outAnd the night butcher stood'Neath a dim iron moonAnd spoke to himself right out loudSpoke to himself right out loudI gave...

Dark Tears Joe Henry

My camera doesn't lie to me,I see dark tears behind its eye,My camera doesn't lie to me,I see dark tears behind its eyeIt looks backwards on my future,Already in the sweet by-and-byThe rambler vine...

Strung Joe Henry

I keep wooden boxes like traps strung with wireIn the light of old tires, piled on the fireWearing their smoke like a flower in bloomCut like the thread in a pipe fitter's room;I dig in the dirt an...

Deathbed Versions Joe Henry

How do you like your blue-eyed boy?How do you like your blue-eyed boy?Now the rabble have been jailed,The moon is up, had hung and paledThe horses spooked, the fences failed …How do you like your b...

Eyes Out For You Joe Henry

A fence is stretched across my browA divided country: then and now,And you the border guardMy caravan waved off the trackWith dusty miners hid in back,Their faces glowing hard …Bruised and black an...

Unspeakable Joe Henry

You tug at my sleep,A tangle of thread,That knots at the lockAt the foot of my bedSwinging the door To a perilous viewWhere all my unspeakable dreamsFall to you,All my unspeakable dreamsFall to you...

The World And All I Know Joe Henry

The dark great river bends below me,A void of light now tells me soWhere tiny towns crowd its shoulders,Between the world and all I know …Thunder rolls beneath my feetAnd mountain clouds slide just...

Widows Of The Revolution Joe Henry

What can I write home about?The water's cold, the pilot's out.I keep my children out of sightAnd my man never came home last night.What will I learn to tell myself?We're supposed to want for nothin...

Civilians Joe Henry

The carriage horses stamp and fumeUntil all color's goneThey leave the street in black and whiteAnd bring the eventing coming onLovers tug their way out of glovesOut of shoes, and gray chiffonThe d...

Parker's Mood Joe Henry

Where's my sock? Where's my other shoe? I didn't know what time it was When I came to The only light in here Is my flickering TV Watching back at me Oh, my love is here to stay Saints alive And a...

Civil War Joe Henry

I don't know you to wear a hatBut I came home late and there it sat,You rose to show what hats are forWhen living through a civil war,When living through a civil warChristmas mornings and New Years...

Time Is A Lion Joe Henry

Here you goIf you fear the angels above while you sleepThen I'll be the blood, you paint on your doorYour dream is a worry that nothing will keepBut time is a story and there will be moreYour dream...

You Can't Fail Me Now Joe Henry

I know that fan is moving air, I can see it in your hair But I can't bear to breathe it in somehow I'll rise and fall with you 'cause you can't fail me now I'll rise and fall with you 'cause you ca...

Scare Me To Death Joe Henry

I've seen the bestAnd the worst you can beAnd all while you're gettingThe better of meYou're fragile but wickedAnd fleeting as breathAnd you move up behind meAnd scare me to deathYou're fragile but...

Our Song Joe Henry

I saw Willie MaysAt a Scotsdale Home DepotLooking at Garage Door SpringsAt the the far end of the 14th rowHis wife stood there beside himShe was quiet and they both were proudI gave them room but w...

Wave Joe Henry

"I waved to you as my boat was leaving Hats flew up and everybody cheered, But you turned as I guess someone spoke to you, And in a sea of arms you disappeared. I lived the life of a ragged soldie...

I Will Write My Book Joe Henry

If anybody asks what's newI say, "not much," and it's mostly true,But when my stars align with youThen I will write my book.I turn my face from all the ragePlaying on a grim, dark stage,But you've ...

Shut Me Up Joe Henry

The song wants to repeat just now,It sings itself to show you how,It throws away its finest lineJust to keep the feel and time.Just to keepThe feel and time,It throws away nowIts finest line.The wo...

God Only Knows Joe Henry

Darkness settles on the groundAnd leaves the day stumbling blind,Coming to a quiet closeAnd maybe just in time:We'd almost lost the heart to knowHow to keep our best in mind,We'd almost lost the he...

I'm Henry The Eighth I Am Joe Brown, The Bruvvers

I'm Henry the eighth I am Henry the eighth I am I am I got married to the widow next door She's been married seven times before And every one was an Henry Henry She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam no Sam

He Made A Woman Out Of Me Bobbie Gentry

I was born on a levy A little bit south of Montgomery Mama worked in the big house And daddy he worked for the County I never had no learnin' Until I turned 16 When Joe Henry come up the river, yonder

Animal Thirteen Senses

comes it escapes Now you You'll never get this far off the ground Throwing all designs where their found You'll never get that far from me now And darling just take one more look around Science made us skin

The Ballad Of Henry Darger Natalie Merchant

Henry Darger, Henry Darger Who'll save the poor little girl? Henry, Henry Oh Henry Oh Henry, Henry Who'll tell the story of her? Henry Darger, Henry Darger Who'll tell it to all the world?

Henry Keb' Mo'

blues and the breese The sweet magnolia trees A little church house upon the hill Chourus And I can hear the Delta calling From the light of a distant star I can see my future and i can feel my past When Henry

Ballad Of Henry Darger Natalie Merchant

Henry Darger Henry Darger Wholl save the poor little girl? O, Henry... Wholl tell the story of her? Henry Darger Henry Darger Wholl tell it all to the world? O, Henry...

Animal Black Light Burns

afraid that I Might want to keep it for myself I thought I was above you I hate that I love you And I thought I was above you I hate that I love you If you could tell a lie Sharp enough to get through my skin

Animal Badflower

Lyrics: You animal you ungrateful You cannibal, eat my soul Impossible way to love you Incredible love I show Unstoppable situation Decided by my control Illusion, you feed me fiction I'm still beggin'

Animal Ellie Goulding

Theres a fever in my heart And you are taking my defences You are pulling me apart Forever were young and we are dying And will be spilling all our blood So I will take away my feelings I will be an animal

Animal Backwards Minus The Bear

looking through my window She is a wolf looking through my window You know I'm safe my wolf I wanna roam Behind this pane behind this wall of stone Caught in the pull of your green eye glow I wanna feel my skin

Somebody Gotta Be On Top joe

want you To ride it on my knees I'll have you scream quick, quick, quick, Don't let it go Don't you wanna come along for the Ride of your life (somebody) somebody's Gotta be on top coco butter skin

Animal Girl Liz Phair

Animal Girl It's an animal girl, and it's lying on the beach Its ass can surf the sand while it's head's asleep Its fingers roll a reefer cigarette Its skin can decompose beneath the sweat I know