Day and night, the shadows move too slowly From dark to light she promised she could know me Remember when, I watched her on the stairway She was drinkin
I smoke a cigarette As I wait in the bath And I wait for you For an hour and a half And I go to the window Where the sky falls down in rains And I look
Each night, they surround me With the lights and the microphones . . . With their bodies and the mile of cable Like a magic ring of bone Every night
By jim carroll and steve linsley You're passing, I hear your shadow through the door It's outlined on my shade Like a map of some foreign shore If I
I hitched a ride to a desert town (I never planned this trip) I saw my past in the sun like a tongue (that slowly dripped) People faced me with lazarus
They hit you with their papers when you're living On loan. they're the ones who say nothing when you Answer the phone. you see them in the alleys when
By jim carroll and lenny kaye I don't believe in sin But maybe I'll begin A vagrant evil's climbing up my skin The shadows from last week Are dancing
"Bobby died of leukemia. He got it two years ago, but had such a strong body. He was always the best at sports that he kept biding it off. They gave
The bell rings . . . It's a decade past my decadence My beast wears rings and he's waiting In the shadows of my hesitations, my silent Hesitations . . .
If give me your ear I'll whisper you wind that could soothe your burnt blood The door is right here Breathing the air filled with powders and porn Now
She's an all-night all-night rental She's a rental oriental Suki-lee... Oh, her eyes, yes her eyes... You better pass her by Suki-lee... each night she
It must be strange to just fall from the stage And snap a bone that is so close to the brain And be attended to by so many down below I saw a doctor tie
Everything you ever wanted Is passing with the driving rain I died like a salamander On my heart heavy like a chain I been waiting here at the uptown
By jim carroll We should have left at once We should have never stayed Now they have drawn the line Now there is a barricade Now there's a barricade
I'm walking uptown I hear a most peculiar sound Like a seashell in my ear Like the ocean was near I go inside this store To get my head clear Once I'
"Every crowd of younger has had its little games to prove if you're punk or not. My cousin in New York plays 'Chickie', which is two cars heading towards
By jim carroll and wayne woods Evangeline My first lady, She wears satin gloves Since her hands got dirty She travels here She travels there . . . She
It's when billy's whores are re to seeorkin' They're workin' with the skeleton crew It's when the sky over jersey That sky starts to drain from view It
