Confusion Vic Chesnutt

m forgetting just where to begin And then I?m lost in confusion again Yes, I?

I'm Through Vic Chesnutt

Forget everything I ever told you I'm sure I lied way more than twice But understand I am not Emily post You know I'm nowhere near that precise And I struggle with these etiquette's Like you wouldn't believe

Drunk Vic Chesnutt

she said it, she should know She'd by told by, she knows She'd been through it, quantity What can I say, I do what I can Get that panic pack She's been to Rome yes When they so it so as they do Oh, Lordy

Stay Inside Vic Chesnutt

Well, I guess I'm through stewing How 'bout lets roll the rock away? My bedclothes have gone all funky I've got to get out of this cave Stay inside!

Bakersfield Vic Chesnutt

Well the souvenirs On my dusty shelf Well I get out the Tarn-X, And I polish them myself Yes, posters are falling, But who needs them at my age?

Nathan Vic Chesnutt

The great grandfather, with his pious beard Bathed in the river, all his years Many books, that lined his walls Jews and gentiles, held him in awe Nathan stepped through the broken window And looked to

Independence Day Vic Chesnutt

Your dust is settling on my furniture Oh independence day, I never knew it would be so symbolic. Oh independence day.

Rambunctious Cloud Vic Chesnutt

Here comes the rain, the bottom fell out Thunder hit, shook the house Sunday, church is letting out The rain comes from rambunctious cloud Here comes the rain, the bottom fell out I knew it was coming

Where Were You Vic Chesnutt

a view Where were you girl when I needed you Where were you two weeks ago, a week again after your promise I was in your place of employment crying in my humus Somebody in there said "boy you're looking

Sultan, So Mighty Vic Chesnutt

I'm here because I'm a eunuch I am no threat I'm here to watch the ladies And to fan away their sweat And the sultan, so mighty Comes crawling to me When he has a little problem With the ladies I'm here

Soggy Tongues Vic Chesnutt

ribbon of light The aqueducts are snakes tonight The stars are homesteaders, staking claims My head is hopping with historical names Transfer trucks are buffalo's Chewing up this desert road Yes and I

Betty Lonely Vic Chesnutt

duplex of stuccoon the north bank of a brackish river Her ears omit the noise from a nearby air stripher mind floats beyond the snapper boats Betty Lonely, her green eyes are roughly staring at a point Through

Big Huge Valley Vic Chesnutt

ribbon of light The aqueducts are snakes tonight The stars are homesteaders, staking claims My head is hopping with historical names Transfer trucks are buffalo's Chewing up this desert road Yes and I

The Garden Vic Chesnutt

There's a dark fading light In the garden where you Lay your head tonight Through the darkened hours Were you thinking of me?

Virginia Vic Chesnutt

Pusha TIn my "Home Sweet Home" I keep chrome next to my bones Alters my walk to limpin' Since I love the feel, I guess I'm passionately pimpin' It 'tis what it seems That thing imprintin' through the seams

Soft Picasso Vic Chesnutt

It was a modern love affair Completely cool and casual They hardly knew each other was there I mean Both of them had their own getting off to do And they had to dream about their own self When they were

Speed Racer Vic Chesnutt

have I learned anything from all of these lectures? I think it's my attention span clipped by TV at an early age well who heard the radio when you are five years old?

Got To Me Vic Chesnutt

I couldn't get away from it I was in over my head I guess it really got to me I guess it really got to me, yes I fought it hard and heavy But I could not shake it off I guess it really got to me I guess

Aunt Avis Vic Chesnutt

Help me mama, for I have grinned Save me daddy from where I'm goin' Call out to me from the ages beyond Help me remember how to be good How to continue when I feel I really shouldn't How to remember how

Isadora Duncan Vic Chesnutt

Once I dreamed I was dancing with Isadora Duncan In a silver cafe, It was a cafe that was not at all near here She was planning to diversify And she sang I should do the same So I whistled to her how

When I Ran Off And Left Her Vic Chesnutt

When I ran off and left her She wasn't holding a baby She was holding a bottle And a big grudge against me I tried to learn from the psychiatrist How to stay calm and minimize risk But I should've kept

Steve Willoughby Vic Chesnutt

Willoughby But today I'm simply I'm simply terrified I'm terrified Someday I'm gonna be bright Someday I'm gonna be smarter smarter than smart Someday I'll know something Just like Larry King But today I

Wrong Piano Vic Chesnutt

Oberheim, Yamaha, Steinway And the lot I must have played the wrong piano Cause it left me with, I don't know what So don't talk to me about mistakes yes We all simply have got to take precautions

Band Camp Vic Chesnutt

Well the first time I ever laid eyes on you Was my first year at marching band camp You never played the part as it was written You would always vamp You was always cracking me up Messing with the band

Kick My Ass Vic Chesnutt

I'm so sorry You had to kick my ass You said I ruined your life I didn't mean to do that I had to untangle Where we was entwined It was strangling me Were you breathing so fine?

Flirted With You All My Life Vic Chesnutt

I am a man. I am self aware. Everywhere I go, you're always right there with me. I flirted with you all my life Even kissed you once or twice To this day I swear it was nice.

To Be With You Vic Chesnutt

Thoughts of your flutter are flooding my mind Not constant like a buzz but strobe thumping like a heart beat Drowning any other notion Now I am sure, now I am sure, now I am sure When I met you everything

Gluefoot Vic Chesnutt

and cross my eyes Stick a needle in my thigh Drop kick my unscrewed lid And fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle with what's inside A rusty mass of machinations Still I'm vying for the right vaccination I

Rabbit Box Vic Chesnutt

while I was still in elementary school I discovered Daddy's tools and amassed a small pile, of scrap lumber and I built a rabbit box and i set it facing north but i caught a possum and a kitten both of

Fa-La-La Vic Chesnutt

Fa-la-la is running around All over the grounds of the hospital I was watching for her Like some people watch birds From the window of my hospital room I was trapped and tired She was as free as I'd ever

Bernadette Vic Chesnutt

I was shivering, I'll admit it I had nothing better to do except to wheeze my lazy wheeze "Bernadette, where are you" "Bernadette, where are you" she gets much acclamation for such a self ordained Faustian

Dodge Vic Chesnutt

There's so many ghosts out there on these streets I always hate to ponder who's under those sheets Every little thing is temporary If I stay here any longer I'll end up very very scary It's just a general

Gnats Vic Chesnutt

Gnats and bats and things with wings i know why the cagey fella won't sing sticks and stones and broken bones i know why my words are wrong humps and stumps and green tattoos i know why your crutches bruise

In My Way, Yes Vic Chesnutt

I say yes Taking my time Working on lines Fingers in clay Everyday Head in the clouds Moving my mouth Spreading the grout That's holding it down Do you think it makes a difference?

Ignorant People Vic Chesnutt

Born as I was to ignorant people Too traumatized to take me home Came in a car and left on an embankment Covered with pine straw But instinct saved me Something innate Made my wet lungs scream with hate

Stupid Preoccupations Vic Chesnutt

I am sick of you Expecting me to do All those puny ingratiations You know I am a terrible patient I am barely alive Ever since my daddy died And I've been searching for my own little babies To misbehave

Super Tuesday Vic Chesnutt

super tuesday, on the ball super tuesday i am out on a stroll super tuesday, i'm in control oh, super tuesday I'm out on a stroll oh I am out on a stroll super tuesday, i'm in the door super tuesday I

Lucinda Williams Vic Chesnutt

Imports and altercations My faculties on a shoe-string vacation I settled down on a hurt as big as Robert Mitchum And listen to Lucinda Williams Oh, convenient lies, rubber knives I'm a dastardly villain

Bug Vic Chesnutt

"Michelle loves Willie" "Our little Sarah" "Daughters of the American Revolution" "Stryper loves Jesus" and I love a girl Against my better judgment 'Cause I feel like a squirrel My roommates got married

Sad Peter Pan Vic Chesnutt

It's the plan of most to discover that magnificent ghost When did I get perverted and my innocent eyes diverted From a view so grand imbued with distractions I'm greedy like Senior Babbitt I'm just

What Do You Mean? Vic Chesnutt

Felicity It is a vibration It moves in a wave You are a surfer on that clarion tone I hope so We know so I hope so We know so I hope so We know so I hope so Like a salmon headed up a stream What do you

Girl's Say Vic Chesnutt

And boys say, "well I gotta leave". And girls say "watch out for your head" And boys say, "why you wanna be a bitch?" Girls say "can I get you anything?" And boys say "who you trying to kid?"

Onion Soup Vic Chesnutt

Thin and unshaved, drunk and mysterious ooh, I must say lifestyle is curious with A little touch of the sniffles and filthy socks gnawed, Crumbled fingernails never doing tomahawk chops A flaky head

2nd Floor Vic Chesnutt

If you want to see two circling swans On the surface of the sewer pond Don't crane your neck where you are You've got to climb to the second floor And I wouldn't've even mentioned it If you didn't seem

Stevie Smith Vic Chesnutt

nobody heard him the dead man, but still he lay moaning: i was much further out than you thought and not waving but drowning poor chap he always loved larking and now he's dead it must have been too cold

Miss Mary Vic Chesnutt

Miss Mary took a shower and she showed herself to me She said that God and all his glory was revealed to her carnally She said she'd been with no man, but she must have been with me And when I felt her

Arthur Murray Vic Chesnutt

Look at her dance in a flurry Who gets to lead Do know it's not Arthur Murray Emasculate me with your biology Bend me, break me, I'm worthless One wicked brand from your torturous hand You laugh when I

Doubting Woman Vic Chesnutt

I was supposed to tell you about the point of departure With the aim of a drunken archer I will probably stray But you can see in her bold eyebrow You can see in that fancy cup That even her freakish nipples

Thumbtack Vic Chesnutt

from the closet And replace the one above the faucet scrape The whisker from my face nick my lip in pointless haste Take a magic marker black darken a spot on the map of a county on the coast Where I

Panic Pure Vic Chesnutt

My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler High up to the darkest sky Some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never ever be able to repeat At times I might could be accused of