As I know it Gone is the world I'm drinking with Behan Remembering a girl I drew a map Across her eye I looked twice I recognized the lie Her name was Pleasant Our tongues rhymed well Now daylight comes a-creeping I'm one step closer to hell
It is only love and death They fit each other like a glove Death and love
I live now In some drowsy valley I keep the peat a-burning I await the Grand Finale It is you that I love But you're like a waning moon As far away as New Orleans As distant as a rune My useless I Will hang around a while
Should your heart ever thaw You know I can't resist your smile
It is only love and death The tears of Eos fall from above Death and love
With the precision of a surgeon And the chill of an assassin You made a clean cut I can't remember time passing I'm waving at you Walking by the home of the blues I got three fags left It's a battle I'm gonna lose The mean skies drift Like rags above our heads Just like any wrecked heart They've been torn to shreds
It is only love and death They fit each other like a glove Death and love Death and love Death and love
down on my luck
I'm down on my luck, babe To voodoo I've been tethered I'm down on my luck, babe Skin and spirit all weathered I'm down on my luck, babe I'll piece myself together I'm as hard as leather
Once upon a time I was king of kings Now, what good did that do me? Did I ever feel true heartache Or was every emotion fiction? Then you came along You said you'd stick around I believed every word, now I'm
I'm down on my luck, babe My mind is draped by soot I'm down on my luck, babe For hiding from the truth
Got a one-track mind, I'm tied to a pole I see no passers-by But at least I feel some pain Rolling down the castle walls I know you're long-gone, baby I count the nights you stayed They amount to nothing, not even a smile and now I'm
I'm down on my luck, babe To voodoo I've been tethered I'm down on my luck, babe Skin and spirit all weathered I'm down on my luck, babe I'll piece myself together I'm down on my luck, babe I'm as hard as a leather
turnstile
We could be in New York Living down on Jones St Does it matter now Where I stumble on my feet We could go to Amsterdam Let's catch an early flight I'll sing you songs you never heard At the Paradiso tonight I live by the tracks I place a bet or two I'm an impulsive gambler I'll make your dreams come true
I see you There at the turnstile How you squirm and hesitate Just how long are you gonna make me wait?
I'm ploughing through streets of snow Through the penetrating breeze I can't say I'm sad to go As I rumble down the quays I've lived too long around here I can't dance the fandango Ain't no Boom-Boom Archibald Left my castanets in Mexico
I'm in Pakistan With my brother He lives in a booby-trap bra With his dead mother
I see you There at the turnstile How you squirm and hesitate Just how long are you gonna make me wait?
We could be in New York Living down on Jones St Does it really matter now Where I put my feet?
I see you There at the turnstile How you squirm and hesitate Just how long are you gonna make me wait? There at the turnstile How you squirm and hesitate Just how long are you gonna make me wait?
jilted love
Go away reckless love Reckless love go away Give me one good reason Why you should stay Step aside reckless love Reckless love step aside To our love in a shambles Let's not backslide Reckless love, reckless love Say goodbye
Melt away all you memories All you memories melt away Our love was jilted at the altar On an ink-sprayed day Why even try jilted love Jilted love why even try Might as well drift away To that old smutted sky Jilted love, jilted love Say goodbye
Slow down lovesick heart Lovesick heart slow down
You must quit this roaming All over town There are things I could say But I will hold my breath I'm gonna get up in the morning Leave behind this gloomy bed Lovesick heart lovesick heart lovesick heart Lovesick heart be careful where you tread
Go to sleep worried mind Worried mind go to sleep The only thing you'll hear Is the city that weeps Go to sleep unsettled thoughts Unsettled thoughts go to sleep I will no longer carry you The mountain's way too steep Jilted love jilted love go to sleep
Jilted love jilted love Jilted love jilted love
bad habit
You're a bad habit, baby That I can't seem to shake You always dwell so close to my heart I can't write you off as a mistake
You are like a lightbulb, babe You need electricity I wish that I could switch you off Burn away your eyes of duplicity
I'll do my best to bring down the rain You need some cooling off I'm at the table, honey, I can't eat You're a plateful and I've had enough
travels with Johanna
Out there in the battlefield Death is real There is a hand that heals
The night is black and still The moon is a slice On the top of the hill
I see you disappear again On the very last coach out of town In the drizzling rain
Everything seemed so easy Way back before the war Before I killed my friends And forgot what she wore...
Johanna, can passion rule? Stay away from the stream That flows with the tears of fools
Johanna, why care what people say? They tell you they love you As if life was just a play
Let us travel through the tulipans You wear a rose in your hair Why keep your love canned?
Did we meet a long time ago? I feel like an artifact I remember this old road Before I got ransacked
We'll spit on our spats When all lard's gone And left are only rats
When all is at stake Out of chocolate and cream Will you bake me a cake?
When all weasels are exposed I reckon they will boast About how they knew us both
Do you remember me From the letters that I wrote? Before they made me the Captain Of this old old riverboat
tell dita (I love her)
Tell Dita I love her Tell her father not to bother I may not sound nor behave Like a gentleman Tell Dita I love her Despite of what her mother What she says Or thinks of me Tell Dita I miss her More than fire, more than rain Tell Dita I feel as sad As an empty overnight train Tell Dita I'll marry her Before I go Tell Dita I love her so
We could be in Marrakech Or in the slaughterhouse Baby, the timing was just wrong
Can you see that stream of pennies How swiftly it flies It ran through my pockets As you were waving goodbye I did my best to rearrange The furniture and change My world But I aimed too high Tell Dita to dress up I'll take her out tonight We'll hover in the shadows Like to old tattered kites Tell Dita to wear that dress The one that gets me going Then I'll know I'll make it through the night
We could be in Katmandu Or maybe underground Baby, the timing was just wrong
charley battles' blues
The moon is on the moor We sit and stare with empty stouts Since Charley walked out the door No one knows his whereabouts
Hail drumming on the window-pane All sinners are cooped up in here We mustn't fear Hey, Charley we mustn't fear
We all look to Jesus But he can't save us now The inevitable end is drawing near And hey Charley we sure could use you here
All sorts of rumors going 'round Some say you live down by the railroad tracks Come back Charley Battles come back
I see the wing-clipped swallow Who only knows how to dream about the sky You can't fly Hey, Charley you can't fly
We all look to Jesus But he can't save us now The inevitable end is drawing near Hey Charley we sure could use you hear
The jokes don't come out right More or less they all fall flat Come back Charley Battles come back
Hey, Charley, come back
first kiss
First kiss Easy and slow First kiss Hard to let go First kiss Sets your heart aglow
First kiss You can't dismiss Watery and wet And full of bliss
First kiss ´Neath the lamp post First kiss The memory it evokes First kiss It haunts you like a ghost
First kiss You can't dismiss Watery and wet And full of bliss
First kiss
drunk tank boogie
I'm wrestling my demons In this place of beauty Breathe the air by Ticino It's foggy and it's dewy I turn around to steal A glance of Camille She's already gone What am I suppose to feel And does it matter to me now? I'll do the drunk tank boogie anyhow
I look into a face Of hope and true despair Who is this man that's screaming From somewhere deep in there? I hear vague footsteps The moon is shining pink Has it come to this I cannot think? And does it really matter to me? I'll do the drunk tank boogie for free
Can I piece myself together? What good would it do? Put me in a hole And forget that I passed through Leave me with my shakes And a blessed bowl of beans I'll survive on that I'll survive on anything I'll sit in my hole and play The drunk tank boogie all day
where did you go, little boy?
Where did you go little boy? Make a comeback, little boy They're gonna make you step into the ring Don't you worry about that, don't you worry, little boy Where did you go little boy? Into some dark hinterland? Let folks worry but tell me Little boy
Where did you go little boy? Did you fall into that dark well? Do you even dare to think of her Do you dare, little boy? Where did you go little boy? You been traveling for God knows how long The Romanian girl married twice Did you go with her, boy?
Where did you go little boy? I know you dream of things I feel it myself as I'm leaving And leaving is another kind of town Where did you go little boy? She said when the marriage was annulled Come back, come back, come back Little boy Come back, little boy