S Songs

“This is a song I wrote based on the philosophy that we’re all bastards but God loves us anyway, which is a good thing.” -Introduction from a live performance on 6 Mar 1998 You may hate yourself, You may hate your life, You maybe just ran out of reasons. You maybe drink the dregs from […]

To give my voice a house to haunt. To be transparent as I want. Make cry the diamond debutant. That’s a song to me. To leave these little clues behind, I’ve mined from deep within my mind. To pull myself out of the grind. That’s a song to me. Chorus: When I find myself seeing […]

“Here’s a little song about a river I grew up on. It’s not really there anymore, the part of the river I grew up on, for a lot of reasons.” -Introduction from a live performance on 25 Jun 1987 Chorus: By the sweet Sugar River, I have measured my life. Through the drought, And the […]

“It wasn’t she left me. It was more – she left somebody that I knew. And I used to know her. And it’s the strangeness of estrangement and how people that we used to think we knew somewhat intimately aren’t people that we really know. They’re like ghosts.” – From an interview, circa late 1996 […]

Chorus: This girl will never tell all her secrets. This girl will never tell all her secrets. Been a lonely girl, been the only girl, Been lower than tongue can tell. This girl. Some girls will tell what they say is everything. And I’m here to tell you I will never tell you everything. repeat […]

When they finally picked him Up off of the street, There was nothin’ left but the tips of his fingers, And the soles of his feet. So they hosed down the sidewalk,Called the local press,They canceled his insuranceAnd the boarded up the windowsOf his former home address. And the neighbor lady said, “He was so […]