Jenny was gone and the moon blooms all shining As we dragged our panic up and down the riverbed Sweating wild and weird in our Sunday clothes Jenny was gone though I thought that I knew her A...

The kettle burned 'cause I left it too long And we were kissing with the radio on The cat was choking on a rattlesnake bone The town had gathered 'round the soldier boy carried home, carried hom...

There's a woman hater with a broken record player And a dusty compass off to map the country's new behavior Strange words and we all roll back into the river Brave boys in the empty coats of men...

Black dog bit through the keeper’s chain Small and angry when the Devil came Sold my soul like a pocket knife There was no moon, there’ll be no milk as sweet Tomcat curled on a rabbit cage B...

Midnight, and her eyes Hide like kittens, new and wet Mine are sinning hands On her lying on my bed The river still may rise Wild and water take us both Mine are sinning hands Take our bod...

Oh, I've just come from the land of the sun From a war that must be won in the name of truth With our soldiers so brave your freedom we will save With our rifles and grenades and some help from ...

Homeward, the new road meanders Washed out, the old road asks, 'What did I bring?' Flowers, a verse about springtime Perchance, in the tree line, she's waiting for me Homeward, these shoes wo...

God made the automobile to pass all the pretty girls The smoke by the side of the road, the blues lovin' boys in tow To drive to the end of the day and bow to a borrowed flag To ride all the bra...

Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleeping in with me again There's a kid outside the church kicking a can When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind The weather can close the world...

Talk of yesterday And she will show her brothers Photographed in callous clothes Say tommorow And she'll say, "Come find me on a beach And there will be no moon." But say today And she will ...

I am thinking it's a sign That the freckles in our eyes Are mirror images And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned And I have to speculate That God Himself did make Us into corresponding sh...

Call your boys now that the table's set and shining No one's seen any of them in many days Call your boys they shut a buzzard on a Chrysler And you still taste all that you swallowed before grac...

“Take me again," she said, thinking of him “To the pond with the swans and the swimming" Far from his room the familiar perfume How it left her aware she was naked The lesson she learned when...

I asked you a question I didn't need you to reply Is it getting heavy? And then realize It's getting heavy Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be Is it overwhelming To use a cran...

He kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsill She'll never love him but knows that her father will Her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle But her breast never dries when he's hungry ...

Dreamless sleep will fall like a deep, poisoned well On the steeple birds and this red-light hotel So lay your pistol down, Granny The company men never came to you But don’t unknit your brow...

“There’s no way to temper your thirst With lasting impressions or pictures of home There’s no way to grow that don’t hurt” She growled from the station then hung up the phone There’s no sacre...

Curiosity far greater than the fear It felt so simple, so prodigious, at the same time Incredible things are happening in the world Magical things are happening in the world Across the rive...

Darling behave, though your boy is gone, or so we’ve heard I feel you would rise if it was a song who’d say these words Summer comes with its color all to take your breath away Winter turns all ...

Hard light, take the wings of the winter Song bird, they were strong hands that held her Miles above ground, we can’t see you now Morning took the reins from the rider Strong hands on the lap...