Brother Fear

The Buildings rise high,
Up above the city where the sun
Is sailing through the red sky
And through my veins you run.

Brother Fear's on the street...
Flying high through the markets and the rain.
Brother Fear, 
you take my heart away.
Brother Fear's on the street.

And down the streamlined
Avenues that glitter far below,
A green bugatti ghost rides
across the bright windows.

Brother Fear's on the street...
Flying high with the markets and the rain.
Brother Fear, 
you take my heart away.
Brother Fear's on the street.

The canyon streets wind
Deep around the city's nervous soul;
Through passages of lost time,
I feel your ebb and flow.

Brother Fear's on the street...
Flying high with the markets and the rain.
Brother Fear, 
you take my heart away.
Brother Fear's on the street.

Fighting in a Lighthouse

Through the curtains that blew apart,
drifted a strange old tune.
And the sunlight with its dying rays
floods the room with another day.

The senile sea numbers each single 
Slim silvered stone.
The senile sea numbers each single 
Slim silvered stone.

On the surface, cool neon danced;
Swam with a day-old moon.
And when I touched your fine boned shoulder
on the strand, walking next to you.

The senile sea numbers each single 
Slim silvered stone.
The senile sea numbers each single 
Slim silvered stone.
Through the curtains that blew apart,
drifted a strange old tune.
And the lighthouse, with its slender beam
Crossed the room, where the woman leaned.

The senile sea numbers each single 
Slim silvered stone.
The senile sea numbers each single 
Slim silvered stone.
The senile sea...
The senile sea numbers each single 
Slim silvered stone.

The Next Flight to Rome

Paradiso

Night falls on Paradiso's dawn
And the halos glow around the town 
their soft delight.
Beneath the bridges sigh,
They take me in their arms and hold me tight.

Light pours from a swinging door,
And a trumpet comes sliding through the calm
and carefree night.
Beneath the bridges sigh,
Take me in your arms and hold me tight.
Cold Paradiso night,
Take me in your arms and hold me tight.
Take me in your arms and hold me tight.

The broken-up alleys dream,
And from a hotel, a woman screams.

6th Floor Elevator Blues

Don't book a room above the fifth floor
When you stay at the Hard-Luck Hotel.
The ladders won't reach any higher
And if you fell...

It's like the barman always told you.
That, "winners always take the stairs.
Because if there should be a fire,
the elevator will take you there."

A pink moon rises over Oldtown.
Along the street of no return,
the cars lie naked and abandoned
and safe from harm.

You hang suspended from a wire.
You crawl beneath the lizard's lair.
But please believe what Mama told you...
"The elevator will take you there."

Don't book a room above the fifth floor
When you stay at the Hard-Luck Hotel.
The ladders won't reach any higher
And if you fell...

Tremaine

Tremaine, you settle like a bird;
Watching you, my life begins.
Tremaine the steady currents curl,
Clear blue and silver skinned.

Uncertain scenes come back to me...
Staring out from the wooden porch
Dusk falls
The west horizon burns,
from the shallow corn.

Tremaine, your silent figure soars;
Crucifixed against the sun.
Tremaine, your twisting figure turns
watching you upon the wind.

Uncertain scenes come back to me...
Staring down past the whitened walls,
Dust roars.
The cafe lights that blur
And the market hall.

Tremaine, the silence seems to roar
From the pool as you descend.
Untamed and magic was the world,
watching you, my life begins.

Uncertain scenes come back to me...
Driving around, in your battered car;
Backyards
Where silhouettes would merge,
beneath the tragic stars.
Uncertain scenes come back to me.

Sea Change

Sea change...
No one can change my life.
But the days seem endless,
and the burning embers
of their fire remain.

And there were times,
When I dreamed of youth.
And there were times,
when I've seen nobody but you.
Sea change...
Sea change...

Sea change...
No morning came so bright,
As the gold September
When I saw your slender
Figure cross the rye.

And there are times
I deny the truth.
And there were times,
when I see nobody but you.
Sea change...
Sea change...

Roulette

Your hands black
As the night will fall.
Your serpent fingers wrap
through blind corridors.
Your hands black.

Your hands black
As the rain that falls.
On unseen lakes that lap,
loose-lined to the shore.
Your hands black.

From the deep 
sleep I rise, and walk with you.
And Spring takes you there...
High in the clear air.
And the Spring takes you there...
High in the scented air.
And the Spring takes you there.

The Butcher's Daughter

The Lights of Phoenix

Sometimes, when I feel lonely inside,
The lights of Phoenix roll on down...
The stars above us roll on down.

Sometimes like a dream burning you rise
Into the desert's rolling sky.
The lights of Phoenix roll on down...
Into the day.

You climb in the steep thunderous night,
Your wings above us, burning bright.

Sometimes, when I feel lonely inside,
The lights of Phoenix roll on down...
The stars above us roll on down,
Into the day.

Missing

Ahh...

He takes a long, cool, slow drink from
The wrinkled surface river bronze
Sliding through his torrid plain
His taurus rage.