St. Teresa

Sit down on the corner, just a little climb
When I make my money got to get my dime
Sit down with her baby, wind is full of trash
She bald as the street light - dark and sweet as hash

Chorus
Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon...
Oh, St. Teresa, higher than the moon.

Reach down for the sweet stuff, when she looks at me
I know any man sees you like I see
Follow down the side street movin' single file
She say - that's where I'll hold you, sleeping like a child

Chorus

Just what I've been needin', feel it rise in me
She say - every stone a story, like a rosary
Corner St. Teresa, just a little crime
When I make my money, got to get my dime

Chorus

You called up in the sky
You called up in the clouds
Is there something you forgot
To tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me...

Show me my Teresa, feel it rise in me
Every stone a story, like a rosary...

Man In The Long Black Coat

Crickets are chirpin' the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress? on the line hangin' dry
Windows wide open African trees
Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze
Not a word, a goodbye, not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat

Somebody singing hangin' around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts of  town
He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask
If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask
Somebody said, from the Bible he quote
There was dust on the man in the long black coat

Preacher was talkin' there's a sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on him to be your guide
And it's you who must keep it satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat
To give her heart to the man in the long black coat

There are no mistakes in life some people say
And it's true sometimes you can see it that way
People don't live or die, people just float
She went with the man in the long black coat

There's smoke on the water its been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted neath the high passing moon
Feel the pulse and vibrations and the rumblin' force
Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse
She never said nothin', there was nothin' she wrote
She went with the man in the long black coat

Right Hand Man

Lemme use your toothbrush
Have you got a clean shirt?
My panties in a wad
At the bottom of my purse
I walk into the street
The air's so cool
I'm wired and I'm tired
Grinnin' like a fool

I've been on a floor, lookin' for a chair
I've been on a chair, lookin' for a couch
I've been on a couch, lookin' for a bed
Lookin' for a bed, lookin' for

Chorus:
My right hand, my right hand man (x7)
Can't fix it, I don't know who can

The sinsemilla salesman
And the cops on the block
They know what I been doin'
They see the way I walk
I wonder what they see now
I wonder what they do
To feel somebody want them
The way I'm wanting you

Chorus

Use me up if you think you can

Chorus

My right hand, my right hand man
(repeat, let it rip!)
If he can't fix it, gonna find a boy who can

Pensacola

Hey hey ye hey ye hey ye hey ye hey (x2)

Well I found him in Pensacola
In a trailer in the sand
The man from the picture
Creased and yellowed in my hand
Creased and yellowed in my hand
He was squinting and stubbled
And standing in the door
He said, if you've come to take the car away
I don't have it anymore
I don't have it anymore

Hey hey ye hey ye hey ye hey ye hey (x2)

He got the gospel on the radio and the gospel on TV
He got all of the transcripts
Back to 1963
Back to 1963
He said I sold my blood for money
There wasn't any pain
But I just can't stand the feeling
It's in someone else's veins
It's in someone else's veins

Hey hey ye hey ye hey ye hey ye hey (x2)

Momma took me aside and she tried to change my mind
She said, don't waste your time in looking
There's nothing nothing left to find
Nothing nothing left to find
So I left him down in pensacola
In a trailer in the sand
The man from the picture
Creased and yellowed in my hand
Creased and yellowed in my hand........

Hey hey ye hey ye hey ye hey ye hey (x6)

Dracula Moon

Where are the bones on that one
What if the cure is worse than the disease
Serve me up some pretty pretty people
Serve me up somebody I can believe

Don't feel sorry for me

Chorus
I hate that look on your face
You say, "Just let go"
You say, "Come back home"
I say I'm just fallin' from grace

I'm naked in a hotel room
My station comin' in loud and clear
I'm makin' out with my one true love
I'm makin' this hotel room disappear

Stop feelin' sorry for me

Chorus

I like fallin' from grace

You never know it to look at me
A Dr..dracula moon
See love come down any way you want to
Doesn't ask for your permission
Open up your arms and we will break you in two

Stop feelin' sorry for me

Chorus

I say I'm just fallin' from grace (x2)
Just fallin'
Just fallin'
I'm smooth and heavy all over the world
Ummm, smooth and heavy all over the world

One Of Us

If God had a Name,
What would it be and would You call it to His face
If You were faced with Him in all His Glory,
What would You ask if You had just One Question...

Yeah, yeah - God is Great
Yeah, yeah - God is Good
Yeah, yeah - yeah yeah yeah

Chorus
What if God was one of Us?
Just a slob like one of Us?
Just a Stranger on a bus,
Trying to make His way Home...

If God had a Face,
What would it look like and would You want to See
If seeing meant that You would have to Believe
In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the Saints
And all the Prophets and...

Chorus
Tryin' to make his way Home
Back up to Heaven all alone...
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome...

Chorus
Just tryin' to make his way Home
Like a holy rolling stone...
Back up to Heaven all alone
Just tryin' to make his way Home
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome...

Ladder

Today and every day (x4)

I'm standin' here in your closet
Unbuttonin' all your clothes
I sleep in your bed tonight
But I never find you home
You're givin' me crooked answers
I'm crackin' your little code
I'm learnin' another language
So full it's about to explode

You give me a ladder now
I surely believe I'll climb
It don't even matter now
I'm willing to take my time

Chorus:
I'm gonna love you anyway- hey!
Today and every day (x2)
I'm gonna love you anyway- hey!
Today and every day (x2)

I wanted it to be easy
I know that I'll make you tired
Some tell me you're slow and lazy
Some tell me you're so inspired
You wanted a long flirtation
Your plane doesn't ever land
Some things I don't want to look at
I don't want to understand but

Chorus

(Hey Hey Hey Hey-ey)
Today and everyday

Spider Web

I dreamed about Ray Charles last night.....
And he could see just fine
Dreamed about Ray Charles last night
And he could see just fine, you know
I asked him for a lullaby
He said, "Honey, I don't sing no more"
No more, no more... no more- Ray don't sing no more

He said, "Since I got my eyesight back,
my voice has just deserted me.
No 'Georgia On My Mind' no more,
I stay in bed with MTV"
Then Ray took his glasses off
and I could look inside his head
Flashing like a thunderstorm
I saw a shining spider web

Chorus
Spider web (x3)
In Ray Charles' head

I dreamed about Ray Charles last night
He took me flying in the air
Showed my own spider webs
Said, "Honey, you had best take care.
The world is made of spider webs
The threads are stuck to me and you
Be careful what you're wishing for
Cause when you gain you just might lose"

"You just might lose your...
Spider web" (x3)
What Ray Charles said

When your feelin' lonely
When you're hidin' in your bed
Don't forget your string of pearls
Don't forget your spider web

When I go to sleep tonight
Don't let me dream of brother Ray
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he sees
Just like him best the other way

Spider web (x3)
What Ray Charles said

In Ray Charles head
All I gots my spider web
Keepin' me alive

C'mon Ray

Let's Just Get Naked

I know what you're hidin' from me
You know what I'm hidin' from you
I know that you hurt me real bad
You know that I hurt you bad too

Chorus
Let's just get naked
Just for a laugh
Let's just get naked
It's a trip and a half

Here comes that story again
All about that television show
Here comes my typical response
Won't you tell me something I don't know
And I'm pissed off about bein' the cops
And you're pissed off about bein' the maid
And how long til they shut off the phone
Til the next time we get laid

Chorus

We've been together so long
I hope it wasn't just the drugs
What happened to the energy we had?
The morning glories and the rodeo hugs
And I know you like the back of my hand
With a stamp that says I paid to get in
And yes I am your television show
And you're the nicest place I've ever been

Let's just get naked
Just for a laugh
Let's just get naked
It wouldn't be so bad

Chorus

Trip and a half
Let's just get naked
Just for a laugh....

Help Me

You gotta help me baby, I can't do it all by myself (x2)
If you don't help me daddy
Gotta find somebody else

Put on your nightshirt baby, hand me my morning gown (x2)
Don't feel sleepy
I just feel like lyin' down

Gotta help me baby, help me baby
Can't do it all by myself
If you don't help me daddy
Gotta find somebody else
Oooh, real quiet, real quiet...

You gotta help me baby, gotta help me baby
Help me baby (x2)
Oooooh, ooooh

Just want a little lovin' before you pass away (x2)
Don't help me daddy, I'm gonna help me find somebody else

Crazy Baby

And your hands are really shakin' something awful
As you light your twenty-seventh cigarette
Oh, how long have you been sittin' in the darkness
You forget...

Oh, you know you're gettin' really hard to be with
And you're cryin' every time you turn around
And you wonder why you cannot pick your head up
Off the ground...

Chorus
Oh, my crazy baby
Try to hold on tight
Oh, my crazy baby
Don't put out the light
The light, the light, the light

And they look at you like you don't speak their language
And you're livin' at the bottom of a well
And you've swallowed all the awful bloody secrets
But you can't tell...

Oh, you know you ought to get yourself together
But you cannot bear to walk outside your door
No, you cannot bear to look into the mirror
Anymore...

Chorus

And your hands are really shakin' something awful
As your worries climb around inside your clothes
Oh, how long will you be sittin' in the darkness
Heaven knows...

Chorus

The light (x6)

Lumina

Chorus
Lumina
Come and wrap around me
Lumina
Take me through the snow

Eve take a train, Eve took a train
Went to see her man
Melting inside, melting away
Like butter in the pan

Chorus

Eve took a fruit, Eve bit the fruit
Just ran down her chin
Babies will put things in their mouths
Never heard of sin

Lumina
Open like the sea
Lumina
sing me in the dark

Eve had to ask, Eve had to ask
What is wrong with this?
Here is the place, now is the time
Let's invent the kiss

Chorus
Come and wrap around me...

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