Silver Jews

Squirrels imported from Connecticut Just in time for fall How much fun is a lot more fun? Not much fun at all What's with all the handsome grandsons In these rock band magazines? And what have they done with the fat ones? The bald and the goatee'd? S

I'm gonna love you for a hundred years. Through suffering and celebration dear Cause only you can make my lies come true You can make lies real, You can make me feel, Like drinking wine in the shade all afternoon You keep finding and reminding me, Th

I heard they were taming the shrew. I heard the shrew was you. You might as well say, "Fuck me," cause I'm gonna keep on; keep on loving you. I'd crawl over 50 yards of broken glass just to make it with you. Sleeping is the only love. Sleeping i

Are you honest when no one's looking? Can you summon honey from a telephone? They sat there with their hooks in the water And their mustaches caked with airplane glue Oh, come let us adore them, California overboard When the sun sets on the ghetto al

Send in the clouds Bring down the rain Shut all the blinds and turn out the lights I feel insane when you get in my bed I am the trick My mother played on the world Seventeen doctors couldn't decide Whether I should be allowed in the game Why can't m

Silver Jews Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea What Is Not But Could Be If What is not but could be if what could appear in the morning mist with all associated risk what is not but could be if What was not but could have been was my obsession way back whe

Where does an animal sleep when the ground is wet? Cows in the ballroom, chickens in the farmer's corvette. Sometimes a pony Sometimes a pony Sometimes a pony gets depressed! How does an animal see once the sun has set? Bandits in the capital, limite

The sun and the shutters and the sun shattered hair. The butler hesitates at the top of the stairs. A kitten from Great Britain sleeps behind the drapes. An old silver bowl filled with apples and grapes. It's so very cold in the mansion after sunset

Silver Jews Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea We Could Be Looking For The Same Thing Way way out past where the sidewalks disappear And up through bright blue blocks of sky Where the days turn to weeks in the months the year And we're together, you and I.

Moments can be monuments to you If your life is interesting and true It's just the same for a man or a girl The meaning of the world lies outside the world People love people and they understand If you want to renovate your background mind A federal

planes on the downtown skyline is a sight to see for some it ought to make a few reputations in the cult of number one while these seconds turn these minutes into hours of the day all these doubles drive the dollars and the light of day away sufferin

In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection. Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction. Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake. I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when