A Room For Everything 10000 Maniacs

It could be I'm searching for a place so small with room for everything where worlds on worlds revolve. But how can we wait? I wouldn't hold you back.

Gun Shy 10000 Maniacs

By the 1/4 inch cut of your hair and the Army issue green, for the past eight weeks I can tell where you've been.

Rainy Day 10000 Maniacs

Touched the bottom, the night a sleepless day instead; a day when love came, came easy like what's lost now found. Beneath a blinding light that would surround.

Back O' the Moon 10000 Maniacs

Jenny you don't know the nights I hide below a second story room to whistle you down the man who's let to divvy up time is a miser he's got a silver coin only lets it shine for hours while you sleep it

Few And Far Between 10000 Maniacs

'Till you make your peace with yesterday, you'll never build a future. I swear by what I say. Whatever penance you do, decide what it's worth to you and then respect it.

Hateful Hate 10000 Maniacs

In the dark night a giant slumbered untouched for centuries 'til awakened by a white man's cry: "This is the Eden I was to find."

Jezebel 10000 Maniacs

I feel like the thief who is raiding your home, entering and breaking and taking in every room. I know your feelings are tender and that inside you the embers still glow.

Daktari 10000 Maniacs

Like a weasel in the clover You tilt toss pop turn over Sit down Tremble and weave like a moth By flame deceived Sit down Spill with your words caught up Dance in your room Slide like you're buttered

Circle Dream 10000 Maniacs

I dreamed of a circle, I dreamed of a circle round. And in that circle I had made were all the worlds unformed and unborn yet.

You Happy Puppet 10000 Maniacs

How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string? How did you learn everything that comes along with slavish funnery?

Arbor Day 10000 Maniacs

wide open falsehood the clan destine truths rival till the end in a series of duels pardon the drapery language I choose Waltz in Vienna has taught me to use every tall room a fiction leather bound treasure

Can't Ignore the Train 10000 Maniacs

ignore the train one spoiled girl with the tidiest apology some how wedged inside her throat can't ignore the train patience their virtue but I never could abide by that dungeon life with electric light a

Eat For Two 10000 Maniacs

Dream child in my head is a nightmare born in a borrowed bed. Now I know lightning strikes again. It struck me once, then struck me dead. My folly grows inside of me.

Tension 10000 Maniacs

Frail hinges pivot On a case's door Commemorative Souvenirs from places Containers change with occasion Cellophane encased Displaying paper Certificate Credit years of service A tool of central enterprises

Tension Make a Tangle 10000 Maniacs

Frail hinges pivot On a case's door Commemorative Souvenirs from places Containers change with occasion Cellophane encased Displaying paper Certificate Credit years of service A tool of central enterprises

My Sister Rose 10000 Maniacs

Big plans are being made for my sisters wedding day. We'll have a ball at the Sons of Roma Hall. Family, friends come one and all.

If You Intend 10000 Maniacs

How can you be so near and not see everything? If you intend to live again, then take the outstreched hand of the one that needs you. It's been so long, we've missed you.

Maddox Table 10000 Maniacs

the legs of Maddox kitchen tables my whole life twisted on a lathe in a foreman's torrent my first English was "faster boy if you want your pay" barking commands loud and simple we could all obey then

Scorpio Rising 10000 Maniacs

power dizzy with it stumble detail a chance for us to quarrel anger my head is shaken violent if i could calm or restrain you for the sake of pity save the pistol save the cynics tongue save the cool white

Everyone a Puzzle Lover 10000 Maniacs

fate of poverty one firm bed for a swollen back year by year the bodies wracked while their obedience is had with gradual defeat by the pace by the pace and the urgency through a muddled thought they phrase

Poison In The Well 10000 Maniacs

Who's to blame for what's going on? In the dark without a clue I'm just the same as you.

How You've Grown 10000 Maniacs

Because we can't make up for the time that we've lost, I must let these memories provide. No little girl can stop her world to wait for me. I should have known.

Noah's Dove 10000 Maniacs

In that August breeze of those forgotten trees, your time was set for leaving, come a colder season. In your reckless eyes, it's never too late for a chance to seize some final breath of freedom.

Cherry Tree 10000 Maniacs

Over your shoulder, please don't mind me if my eyes have fallen onto your magazine for I've been watching and wondering why your face is changing with every line you read.

Jubilee 10000 Maniacs

For Bible study in the church basement, hear children Gospel citing, Matthew 17:15. Alone in the night he mocks the arms of the preacher raised to the ceiling, "Tell God your pain."

Anthem for a Doomed Youth 10000 Maniacs

For whom do the bells toll When sentenced to die The stuttering rifles Will stifle the cry The monstrous anger The fear's rapid rattle A desert inferno Kids dying like cattle Don't tell me We're not prepared

Grey Victory 10000 Maniacs

atomic fission Swelling wind Rising ash Tide of Black Rain Cement seared shadow traces Reminiscent of their last commands Instantly one thousand flames arising Ill scent the burning hides surrounding A

My Mother The War 10000 Maniacs

She borders the pavement Flanks avenues Parades pass white glove attended by My mother the war She'll raise a shaft Lift a banner Toss a rose My mother the war She's made every effort To salvage the

Among The Americans 10000 Maniacs

Music: Robert Buck, Dennis Drew Lyric: Natalie Merchant dance to the sun a kiss to the earth embrace a stone come the small black book come the brandy cask one strange disease the well worded

Eden 10000 Maniacs

To pick a rose you ask your hands to bleed. What is the reason for having roses when your blood is shed carelessly? It must be for something more than vanity.

Death Of Manolete 10000 Maniacs

There were women holding rosaries On the day Manolette died Teenage girls in soft white dresses Standing silent peace respecting Groups of boys held in their hands The fragments of a shattered idol

The Big Parade 10000 Maniacs

Lone young man takes a seat. And by the rhythm of the rails, reading all his mother's mail from a city boy in a jungle town postmarked Saigon.

Love Among The Ruins 10000 Maniacs

Like two statues hidden inside ancient rock, we were praying for the secrets to unlock.

The Colonial Wing 10000 Maniacs

Majesty well guarded by sentry but looks are free call this the rayless and benighted age witches by tallow candles shifted shifted their shapes here is the pestle and mortar that ground the poison seed a

Dust Bowl 10000 Maniacs

There's a new wind blowing they say, it's gonna be a cold, cold one. So brace yourselves my darlings, it won't bring anything much our way but more dust bowl days.

Gold Rush Brides 10000 Maniacs

Where a man could drift, in legendary myth, by roaming over spaces. The land was free and the price was right. Dakota on the wall is a white-robed woman, broad yet maidenly.

A Campfire Song 10000 Maniacs

A lie to say, "O my mountain has coal veins and beds to dig. 500 men with axes and they all dig for me."

Hey Jack Kerouac 10000 Maniacs

Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your mother and the tears she cried, she cried for none other than her little boy lost in our little world that hated and that dared to drag him down.

Katrina's Fair 10000 Maniacs

KATRINA'S FAIR (Buck/Merchant) Greta's cedar hope chest Is full of pamphlets Glass shelves of romantic vignettes A journal laced with sedimentary prose Norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays Hair

Don't Talk 10000 Maniacs

Don't talk, you keep your distance for I'd rather hear some truth tonight than entertain your lies, so take you poison silently. Let me be. Let me close my eyes. Don't talk, I'll beleive it.

Like The Weather 10000 Maniacs

With a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather. A quiver in my lips as if I might cry. Well by the force of will my lungs are filled and so I breathe.

The Lion's Share 10000 Maniacs

Look at what I see: a beast in furs and crowned in luxury. He's a wealthy man in the poorest land, a self-appointed king, and there's no complaining while he's reigning.

More Than This 10000 Maniacs

hopefully learning Why the sea on the tide Has no way of turning More than this You know there is nothing More than this Tell me one thing More than this You know there is nothing It was fun for

Headstrong 10000 Maniacs

Take this to your heart and into your head now: before you waste your time, call a truce and call a draw.

I'm Not The Man 10000 Maniacs

He rules a crowded nation inside his mind. He knows that night like his hand. He knows every move he made.

Even With My Eyes Closed 10000 Maniacs

Young girl in my young girl days, thinking I could live for always. But like an ocean tide, I'm drawn back inside and I know.

Tolerance 10000 Maniacs

A loud breaking sound in the night is made. Hear it grow, hear it fade.

Planned Obsolescence 10000 Maniacs

Science Is truth for life Watch religion fall obsolete Science Will be truth for life Technology as nature Science Truth for life In fortran tongue the Answer With wealth and prominence Man so near

Planned Obsolenscence 10000 Maniacs

Science Is truth for life Watch religion fall obsolete Science Will be truth for life Technology as nature Science Truth for life In fortran tongue the Answer With wealth and prominence Man so near perfection

What's The Matter Here 10000 Maniacs

"That young boy without a name I'd know his face. In this city the kid's my favorite. I've seen him. I see him every day.