: Hellhounds bark at the midnight fire Fog rolls in, and the creek run higher They saw him standin', by the railroad tracks Tonight's the nigh, old Floyd
Yeah boy, I sure do, I remember yonder back yonder n' the 20's They said that a Floyd Collins, he'd been caught in that cave That sand cave down there
I'm going to drag you down with me I'll take you walking by the sea And when I find a place to rest I'll hold your head upon my chest And I'm going to
15th heir to the ball and chain House full of hungry kids to his name Everything to lose and nothing to gain Long reign Alfred, the great Touched his
Meet me on the corner by the fire escape and I?ll be waiting Every inch of back roads that have put me here will disappear And I?ll hold you in my arms
Angel eyes, strike a match And set this city alight All of my life I have been pondering The good done doing right Won't you be my mountain bird? Forget
Blind me with distraction Build a frontier 'cross the void All tomorrow been destroyed, in a breath I moved out to the country And I saw the scenery
World without sound, can't you keep the noise down? 'Else you gonna make the baby cry Over split blood heavens anyone would Think you had an Axe to grind
By rights we should have been choking On every word the preacher had us repeat A stiff drink and napkins in your hand bag The first aid of a three-time
Remember me with a smile on my face Replace the tears in your memory with Two heroic arms that twisted lids from jars And dragged you home after drinking
My heart ain't broken 'cause that implies It was ever in one piece before tonight Paradise is poison in my veins Winter runs its fingers through the vapors
Where the fountains freeze and teetering heels fall to their knees in disrepair a dozen limping midnights leave me there Where the vandals loot and no
It'll get you on the last bus home Get you at the discount bend It'll get you on the old dance floor Get you as the party ends Oh 4am, is the time when
God knows what is hiding in that weak and drunken heart I guess you kissed the girls and made them cry those Hardfaced Queens of misadventure God knows
Stifling a roar, beauty the crashing bore Time worn verse and phrase Young hearts on the chase Haste to dull the wits, ransacking photo-fits Smiles
Remember me with a smile on my face replace the tears in your memory with two heroic arms that twisted lids from jars and dragged you home after drinking
It'll get you on the last bus home get you at the discount bend it'll get youon the old dance floor get you as the party ends Oh 4am, is the time when
Angel eyes, strike a match and set this city alight All of my life I have been pondering the good done doing right Won't you be my mountain bird
