From the singing of Dee Hicks
Nero, Tiro, Tiptoe, and Sounder
Of all the dogs that I possess,
Old Rock and Rule they are the best,
But Charlie is my good old dog forever more, I know.
Come Uncle Joe, and let’s go home.
We’ll leave that old red fox alone.
For our pop he’s going to hunt him in the morning.
He’ll put his hounds up on that track.
They’ll run it off. They’ll bring it back.
They’ll run him from old England to old Kentucky, I know.
Read MoreIt’s trouble, trouble. There’s trouble everywhere.
Trouble, trouble. There’s trouble everywhere.
Trouble, trouble, there’s trouble all around.
But Lord, Lord, trouble can’t last always.
I am so glad that trouble can’t last always.
I am so glad that trouble won’t last always.
Aren’t you so glad that trouble can’t last always?
Lord, Lord, this trouble can’t last always.
Read Moreplunked down my last dollar at the bar last night, I spent it on tequila and Tecate
Now I’m fishing coins out of every jar in sight to pay for a cup of my weekend coffee
It’s the first that I want but it’s the last thing that I need
Im gonna stretch that comfort out of every bean
When nothing’s going right for me there’s nothing wrong with sitting home
And nursing on my weekend coffee
Read MorePut your hands on the wheel
Let the golden age begin
Let the window down
Feel the moonlight on your skin
Let the desert wind
Cool your aching head
Let the weight of the world
Drift away instead
These days I barely get by
I don't even try
Read MoreWell, Allison laid a hex on me
And every time I turn around
It's swimming through the air above my bed
I told Miss Higgs and she said fine
As long as you're back in your room on time
I keep you clean and the girls will keep you fed
Lay down your head with mine
You are not needed now
And we got things to do
All my dead friends, three deep to the bar.
It'd be so easy to be where they are.
But I'm pulling pints; lining up picklebacks.
I scratch through the tax stamps on each Evan that's cashed.
All my friends are sweet. They're dying to see me.
Read MoreSqueeze me darling
Kiss me in the rain
I'm in love again
It's driving me insane
Makes me wish I was dead
Just so I could live again
And find the key to you
Maybe this time you'd feel it too
Read MoreClaude was an Armadillo
Traveled the great big south
Had a bag made a shark skin leather
And a matchstick in his mouth
He was old and strong
From living long
Had a coat made of armoured plate
His secret to livin’s that he always digested
Everything he ate
Read MoreDon’t give me a pet. I’ll kill it.
Don’t give me a pet. I’ll kill it.
I’ll kill it by accident. An accident of...
An accident of inattention.
I’ll soak up the faces of a thousand strangers.
For all the hours days have I’ll soak up their faces.
And their shoes. I like watching shoes.
Read MoreIf my heart pumps blood through my veins…
If my eyes turn light into sight…
If it still hurts, touching the oven at work…
Why do I feel dead?
Everything twitches that should.
All of my reflexes flex.
Like I still crane my neck when I light cigarettes.
I’m worried that you’re nearby and you’ll see.
Read MoreEach day I’ve named by the color of its hue
Yesterday was a lavender or a blue
What it means I don’t know
What it means I don’t know but for me it’s true
What it means I don’t know but it could mean the same thing to you
Read MoreStaring at the keys to the battle
Tryna lead the beast to the well
Staring at the keys to the battle
Momma know you do that well
Now you’ve got to cease with the bottle
Tell em bring peace to themselves
Now you’ve got to cease with the bottle
Momma know you that well
Read MoreI want to get lost
No satellite to tell me where I am
Just wandering around with no middleman
I want to get lost
Because roads are just circles with no end, unless you get lost and reach a different bend
It opens up so sweetly when I look with just my mind
Read MoreThere’s goals ahead and goals behind, but we’re stuck in the middle
Indefinitely, yeah
Indefinitely
Read MoreSo our heroes appear, washed up on the shore of a desert island far from home
In the churning of generational tides, I see an opening, a crack
A way to make the world that they’ve seen closer to the world that they want it to be
Read MoreSitting in the endless plight
That started when you faded from my eyes
You brought me up to let me down
And then to spread my entrails all around
Well there’s not another tear that will fall from my eyes to vindicate the traitorous sight of you dear
The smile that you wore just functioned as a disguise and then you turned to run and hide it’s true dear
Read MoreTime never grows back
Not even when you need it to, you’re on your own cause time never grows back
And you want to, yeah
And you want to, yeah
Fly high like a bird in the sky
(so very high)
Getting poisoned slowly
By medicine
But what gets medicined
Sometimes never grows back
Read MoreI’m sorry spider
I’ve been programmed to be scared of you, what do I do?
I’m sorry spider
I’ve been programmed to be scared of you, so I’ll step on you
Read MoreThe day that things changed between us
Don’t want it to stop, you know
The trade of motion demeans us
Our momentum stopped, controlled
I wish that I could spit and scream and flail for what I want mine
But it’s just more in my character to fade to black as a thought, kind
Read MoreAt the top of the world, at the top of the world
Their feelings won’t change no matter what we do
At the top of the world, at the top of the world
Their feelings won’t change no matter what we do
The suitcase inside of our hearts won’t ever do
The suitcase inside of our hearts won’t ever do
At the top of the world, at the top of the world
Their feelings won’t change no matter what we do
At the top of the world, at the top of the world
Their feelings won’t change no matter what we do
They’re bought and sold so many times, it won’t ever do
They’re bought and sold too many times it won’t ever do
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