- I thought you knew the drill, it's kill or be killed. (Clairaudients (Kill of Be Killed))
- So I went back by rented Cadillac and company jet, like a newly orphaned refugee retracing my steps, all the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead. They said, you'd better look alive. (Four Winds)
- When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird, raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse, all your friends and sedatives mean well but make it worse, every reassurance just magnifies the doubt... better find yourself a place to level out. (If the Brakeman Turns My Way)
- All this death must need a counterweight, always someone born again. First a mother bathes her child, then the other way around. The Scales always find a way to level out. (If the Brakeman Turns My Way)
- I'm a repeat first time offender who has rewritten history. (If the Brakeman Turns My Way)
- He'll be smiling as he seals my fate, when the Brakeman turns my way. (If the Brakeman Turns My Way)
- When I wrong I am with God, she thought. When I feel lost I am not at all. (Hot Knives)
- Oh, I've made love, I've been fucked, so what? (Hot Knives)
- So let us rejoice in all this Pink Noise. (Hot Knives)
- Do what you feel, whatever is cool. (Make a Plan to Love Me)
- I had a lengthy discussion about The Power of Myth with a post-modern author who didn't exist. (Soul Singer in a Session Band)
- She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts. She said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars. (Classic Cars)
- Gave me anything I wanted, Oh the generosity. I took all that I could, it was free. (Classic Cars)
- You can go right out of your mind trying to escape from the panicked paradox of day to day. If you can't understand something then it's best to be afraid. (Classic Cars)
- I learned to listen, felt like I was back at school. She'd talk forever about the phases of the moon. Saying, everything is a cycle, you've got to let it come to you. And when it does you will know what to do. (Classic Cars)
- I made a new cast of the death mask that is gonna cover my face. I had to change the combination to the safe. Hide it all behind a wall, let people wait. And never trust a heart that is so bent it can't break. (Classic Cars)
- You'll never reap of any seed deprived of sunlight. (Middleman)
- The dead can hide beneath the ground and the birds can always fly. But the rest of us do what we must in a constant compromise. (Middleman)
- Don't forget what you've learned, all you give is returned. And if life seems absurd, what you need is some laughter and a season to sleep and a place to get clean. Maybe Los Angeles, somewhere no one is expecting. (Cleanse Song)
- Did you know that the wind when it blows it is older than Rome and our joy and our sorrow? (Cleanse Song)
- Little soldier, little insect, you know war it has no heart. It will kill you in the sunshine or happily in the dark. (No One Would Riot For Less)
- I slept with that dealer all summer, the ecstasy is still in my spine. (Coat Check Dream Song)
- In the South the sun is shining. Back in the East the lights went out. (Coat Check Dream Song)
- Out in the West the cars are crashing. Up in the North the ice gave out. (Coat Check Dream Song)
- Everything it must belong somewhere, just like the gold around her finger or the silver in his hair. (I Must Belong Somewhere)
- The world requires no audience, no witnesses. No witnesses. (I Must Belong Somewhere)
- Leave the novelist in his daydream tomb, leave the scientist in her Rubik's cube. Let the true genius in the padded room remain. (I Must Belong Somewhere)
- Wake, Baby, wake but leave that blanket around you, there is nowhere as safe. (No One Would Riot For Less)
- They locked the Devil in the basement, threw God up into the air. (I Must Belong Somewhere)
- Under the eaves of that old Lime Tree I stood examining the fruit. Some were ripe and some were rotten, I felt nauseous with the truth. There will never be a time more opportune. (Lime Tree)
- I took off my shoes and walked into the woods. I fel lost and found with every step I took. (Lime Tree)
nov 10 2010 ∞
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