Birth In Reverse St. Vincent

Oh, what an ordinary day Take out the garbage, masturbate I'm still holding for the laugh The dogs will bark so let them bark The birds will cry I'll let them cry Here's my report from the edge Like a birth

Year Of The Tiger St. Vincent

When I was young Coach called me the tiger I always had A knack with the danger Living in fear in the year of the tiger Living in fear in the year of the tiger Italian shoes Like these rubes know

Chloe In The Afternoon St. Vincent

You’re all legs I'm all nerves black lacquered horse hair whip By your heels heal my hurt horse hair whip be your floor Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in

Flea St. Vincent

I'm just like a hungry little flea Jumping on somebody's warm body When you start to itch and scratch and scream Once I'm in, you can't get rid of me Once I'm in, you can't get rid of me Drip you in diamonds

Huey Newton St. Vincent

winter Fuckless porn sharks Toothless but got a big bark Live children blind psychics Turned online assassins So Hale Bopp Hail Mary hail Hagia Sophia Oh it was a lonely lonely winter Entombed in

Severed Crossed Fingers St. Vincent

mouthing lines for you Humiliated by age, terrified of youth I got hope but my hope isn't helping you Spitting our guts from their gears Draining our spleen over years Found my severed crossed fingers in

Psychopath St. Vincent

I'm on the edge of a heart attack You said Honey quit your worrying Distance is exactly like a blowing wind Putting out the embers and the tiny flames and Keeping the big ones burning So I am standing in

Violent Times St. Vincent

(Huh) Violent times Almost lost you in these violent times I forgot people could be so kind In these violent times Dollar signs Almost lost it chasing dollar signs Know the cost, but I forgot the price

Digital Witness St. Vincent

Get back to your seat Get back lash in tear Uuuuu-uh I want all in your mind People tell you TV only looks just like a window Yeah People tell you TV only looks just like a window Yeah DIGITAL WITNESSES

Reckless St. Vincent

I watched you all night 'til the dawn had come And the angels came down and picked you up Breathless The smell of your hair on curtains, babe The wind blew the windows out in the rain Reckless, reckless

I Prefer Your Love St. Vincent

I, I prefer your love To Jesus Little baby on your knees Cause the world has got you down Name tagged tourists, sick at the sight of them Tight walking the sidewalk in spite of them As my headache moves

Rattlesnake St. Vincent

Follow the power lines back from the road No one around so I take off my clothes Am I the only one in the only world Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh Woah oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh I

Paris Is Burning St. Vincent

They gave me a medal for my valor Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power They say, \"I\'m on your side \"When nobody is, \'cause nobody is \"Come sit right here and sleep \"While I slip poison in

The Sequel (Explicit Ver.) St. Vincent

Oh honey I was there in the dark where you lay And I saw you With a scent on your hands Going out to get you something Oh honey I was there in the dark where you lay And I saw you With a scent on your

Landmines St. Vincent

I\'m crawling through landmines Just to know where you are There\'s smoke in my eyes Cause you\'re burning the ground I\'m crawling through landmines Just to feel where you are Under cover of night

Teenage Talk St. Vincent

figure out where we were off to That was before we had made Any terrible mistakes Well that's just teenage talk Pink swear that you won't go changing Drank so much that night Carved the state of Texas in

Actor Out of Work St. Vincent

You're a bandage, pull it off I can quit you, cut it out You're a patient, iron lung You're a cast signed broken arm You're an actor out of work You're a liar and that's the truth You're an extra lost in

Your Lips Are Red St. Vincent

lips My hands are black My hands are black inside this downtown taxi cab This city\'s red This city\'s red from riding us into the ground This city\'s black This city\'s black from all the ashes in

Save Me from What I Want St. Vincent

Keys are in my pocket and they rattle you away Seventh floor apartment and a fiery escape But I'm a wife in watercolors, I can wash away What seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away Save me, save me

Dilettante St. Vincent

Oh Elijah don't make me wait Nobody's winning The sharks are swimming in the red Oh Elijah don't make me wait While you are sleeping My mind goes creaking down the wall Slow down dilettante So I

What Me Worry St. Vincent

amusing you Sans le fear of impending doom Life is like banquet food Pleasure to peruse Do I amuse you, dear Would you think me queer If while standing beside you I opted instead to Disappear, disappear In

All My Stars Aligned St. Vincent

question and you\'ve got the answer I\'ll do a dance to make the rain come Smile to keep the sky from falling down, down, down, down Collect the love that I\'ve been given Build a nest for us to sleep in

Just the Same But Brand New St. Vincent

The people in the street had overtaken you By the time you rounded Second Avenue So I walked away All perfumed Felt just the same But brand new And anything you wrote I checked for codes and clues The

What Me Worry? St. Vincent

Disappear In no hurry I\'ll sing my tune All my skies the hue of a ruddy bruise In my finest threads couture I\'ll call up my favorite muse for a drink - half full - or two Have I abused you,

Hell Is Near St. Vincent

marigolds Half-burned candle, a picture pinned on the wall Letters, records, and ash on linoleum Signs of life, the beginning, the beginning Our beginning, begin again I was bare And your word was still warm in

The Party St. Vincent

All my pockets hang out Like two surrender flags Oh, but I'd pay anything To keep my conscience clean I'm keeping my eye on the exits I'm steady now Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh How did we get here With creaks in

Jesus Saves, I Spend St. Vincent

While Jesus is saving I\'m spending all my days In backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day I\'m inside a still life with the other

These Days St. Vincent

changes came about my way And I wonder if I'll see another highway I had a lover I don't think I'll risk another these days These days These days I seem to be afraid To live the life that I have made in

Bicycle St. Vincent

You stole my bicycle So I had to walk Twenty six blocks in the rain What a shame You took my tennis shoes So I took the train To avoid the rain What a shame You saw me on the street You offered me a seat

So Many Planets St. Vincent

keep calm I'm at the back of my head (Oh-ooh) Watching my life happening Watching the sink filling red (Oh-ooh) And I'm not stopping it I have to visit so many planets Before I find my own I fall asleep in

We Put a Pearl in the Ground St. Vincent

Instrumental

Every Tear Disappears St. Vincent

Oh, a smile is more than showing teeth Oh, it's not the potion, it's the magic that I seek Every tear disappears Every tear disappears Oh, the more that I struggle the deeper in the pit If I can show a

Del Rio St. Vincent

were down on 10th You told me I looked spent Gave that look you give And rushed me to the river Del Del Rio Del Del Rio We filled our cups Drank to drink enough Then when we were done We threw ourselves in

Bad Believer St. Vincent

What do you know I\'m just a bad believer What do you know What do you know From the nave and down into the altar I left my momma sitting in the pew Knelt before the trembling pastor Fainted as

Rosyln St. Vincent

Shale, screen your worry from what you won't ever find Don't let it fool you Don't let it fool you...down Down's sitting round, folds in the gown Sea and the rock below Cocked to the undertow Bones

Surgeon St. Vincent

I spent the summer on my back Another attack Stealing just to get along, get along, get along Turn off the TV, wait in bed of Blue and red a little Somethin' to get along, get along, get along...

Cruel St. Vincent

If you could want that, too, then you'll be happy You were the one waving flares in the air so they could see you And they were a zephyr, blowing past ya, blowing fastly so they can see ya Cruel, cruel

Northern Lights St. Vincent

If you say it is then I guess it is What you say it is but I don't feel anything Cause your pendulum doesn't swing again Yeah your pendulum hasn't swung back in It's a champagne year full of sober

Strange Mercy St. Vincent

you've been tired for a long long time And oh little one I ain't been around a little while But when you see me wait Oh little one your Hemingway jawline looks just like his Our father in

Neutered Fruit St. Vincent

Did you ever really stare at me Did you ever really stare at me Like I stared at you I ate flowers in the backyard Bought finely neutered fruit Shot a hundred arrows at a knoll a hundred sparrows

Pieta St. Vincent

Baptized in the shallow end Of a Holiday Inn Limbs dangled over my Pa Like an inverse Pieta Mother Nature cried You are Leviathan, my child You are Leviathan inside And my lungs runneth over With chlorinated

Regret St. Vincent

Morning pry the windows open Let in what's so terrifying Summer is as faded as a lone cicada call Memories so bright I gotta squint just to recall Regret the words I've bitten More than the ones I ever

Human Racing St. Vincent

Greener pastures in the sky?

Cheerleader St. Vincent

times with some bad guys I’ve told whole lies with a half smile Held your bare bones with my clothes on I’ve thrown rocks then hid both my arms I don’t know what good it serves Pouring my purse in

The Strangers St. Vincent

Lover, I don't play to win but for the thrill until I'm spent Paint the black hole blacker, paint the black hole blacker I threw flowers in your face on my sister's wedding day Paint the black hole blacker

The Neighbors St. Vincent

Sister say a prayer for us one we learned from nuns and such I won't believe not a word you speak just make it sweet to hear Let's pour wine in coffee cups and drive around the neighborhood And shine the

All Born Screaming (Feat. Cate Le Bon) St. Vincent

I have climbed power lines and mountains Just to feel above the ground I have crawled out your hallowed houses Just to feel my headache pound I feel like graffiti on a urinal in the abattoir Well, it goes

Prince Johnny St. Vincent

To make you a real boy Saw you pray to all To make you a real boy Prince Johnny, you're kind but do be careful By now I know just when to stand clear When all your friends and acolytes Holding court in

Laughing with a Mouth of Blood St. Vincent

so friendly All of my old haunts are now all haunting me Holed up at the Motel Ritz With a televangelist Oh what did he say At the bottom of a swimming pool With all the water out of it How'd you get in

Marry Me St. Vincent

good to you You won\'t realize I\'m gone You won\'t realize I\'ve gone As for me, I would have to agree I\'m as fickle as a paper doll Being kicked by the wind When I touch down again I\'ll be in