P Songs

A major study at a leading University indicates The difference between a poet and a psychotic is minimal at best. I just fell off of that fence and I don’t know which side I’ve landed on. I find myself believing that everything and everyone that isn’t you or me or God Is owned by one […]

“Inspired by the absurd notion that we can actually possess time and are somehow entitled to X amount of it.” – From the liner notes of Angels, Bones & Clocks Twenty years where the minutes crawl And the days fly by. Twenty years isn’t nothin’ at all In the all-knowing eye. The absurdity is just […]

I love my mother in her bedIn the river.In the spring when I smell her,In the breeze in my shiver.And we are as close as the soilBeneath my fingers;Together,My mother and I. There’s a patch of reality on the President’s nose.And with the President’s nose,It just grows and it grows.But he just puts on a […]

“I wrote this song ’cause I had this nightmare that I was stuck in a bar with George Will and we had to talk politics and drink Huber on tap. And I don’t mind the Huber.” -Introduction from a live performance on 23 June 1988 I was drinkin’ in a bar, In a dream, with […]

When I was young and brilliant, I was so unhappy. I was so unhappy, Because I was so young and brilliant. Too young with too much liberty, And way too many choices, (And) way too many voices, To drain my precious liberty. Chorus: But now I’m old and broken. I’ve been broken so wide open […]

“Here’s a song with some nudity in it so any of the underage crowd will be asked to avert their eyes and ears.” -Introduction from a live performance on 12 Aug 2005 I’ve been living on the planet earthI’ve been willing to work for food.I have labored long beneath the sunAnd the premise that God […]