B Songs

Well the color of the clouds is just depressing me.And the barometric pressure’s been oppressing me.Now Noah’s eyes would seem to be undressing me.There won’t be no pain when the big rain washes over me. Big rain wash over me. Well the distant thunder rolls its tolls forebodingly.And the Fahrenheit’s been messing with the mercury.A […]

My life ain’t been easy baby,Life in general has been a big mystery.And now love don’t mean you love me,Anymore. You shake my hand and act like maybe,Freedom’s gonna make you free.But the truth be you just don’t love me,Anymore. I got no ties,That can bind you,And you don’t own me.And when I lay here […]

You could burn this town to the ground,Spread salt on the smokin’ ground,All around this town.And when the rains come a-tumblin’ down,They might move it around,But there ain’t no keepin’ down,What is wrong with this town. And you cannot burn or wash away.You can’t depend upon slow decay.You can’t picket fence or quarantine.It’s in the […]

“This is a song, ultimately, I probably wrote ’cause I was always a big fan of The Wizard of Oz. And I was always a little bit frightened of tornados and flyin’ blue monkeys. But who wouldn’t be?” -From Live and Acoustic at the Pres-House on 13 Dec 1997 When they built this home, It […]

She always was the most beautiful girl in the school.She rode my bus, broke my heart as a general rule.She married young, she married stupidAnd stupid was mean.They had a kid and when they did,She was only eighteen. Chorus:She’s holding on.Just holding on.She’s been too strongFor too long. Back in high school,She ran like the […]

“I was reading a lot of Melville when I wrote that. Just that whole enormousness of life and being swallowed by it and pursuing and being pursued and not always knowing the difference therein.” -From an interview, circa late 1996 You can call me Ishmael – I’m for salt air and reality. A siren’s wail […]