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10000 Maniacs "Cotton Alley"

One time
you made me cry
be proud that I
remember
my chin is sore
the bruise is gone
but the spot is tender

gave my hand a sister coy
to Cotton Al

10000 Maniacs "Daktari"

Like a weasel in the clover
You tilt toss pop turn over
Sit down
Tremble and weave like a moth
By flame deceived
Sit down
Spill with your words caught u p
Danc

10000 Maniacs "Death Of Manolete"

There were women holding rosaries
On the day Manolette died
Teenage girls in soft white dresses
Standing silent peace respecting
Groups of boys held in their hands
The fr

10000 Maniacs "Don't Talk"

Don't talk, I will listen. Don't talk, you keep your
distance for I'd rather hear some truth tonight than entertain
your lies, so take you poison silently. Let me be. Let me close
my

10000 Maniacs "Dust Bowl"

I should know to leave them home. They follow me through the store
with
these toys I can't afford. "Kids, take them back, you know better than
that."
Dolls that talk, astronaut

10000 Maniacs "Eat For Two"

O, Baby blankets and baby shoes, baby slippers, baby spoons, walls of
baby
blue. Dream child in my head is a nightmare born in a borrowed bed.
Now I
know lightning strikes agai

10000 Maniacs "Eden"

We are the roses in the garden,
beauty with thorns among our leaves.
To pick a rose you ask your hands to bleed.
What is the reason for having roses
when your blood is shed car

10000 Maniacs "Ellen"

Eager to please was just the way that he was
though his attempts there falling short,
expectation
see he would tell of all his conquests,
was he bragging?
but in the even

10000 Maniacs "Even With My Eyes Closed"

Funny how I know it's harder, it's harder now.
Young girl in my young girl days, thinking I could live for always.
But like an ocean tide, I'm drawn back inside and I know.
Seasons p

10000 Maniacs "Everyone A Puzzle Lover"

Why are some men born
with minds that earn degrees
the loving cups
gilded plaques
grace their study walls
hide the cracks
while their genius is turned
to work

10000 Maniacs "Girl On A Train"

Waking on a train dreaming, charmed alone they started speaking.
Captured in his artist way before the memories fade away.
To remember a face, and you're home or want to.
Certain the

10000 Maniacs "Glow"

In the coolness of the morning
sparing moments here in magical tide
I would meet you without question
to share a starry gaze a look through the sky
from the start
there w

10000 Maniacs "Green Children"

An August day in the hills of Spain, a pair of children emerged from a cave.
The strangest sight there alone they stood,
with skin of green and words no one had heard.
The girl was s

10000 Maniacs "Grey Victory"

There was light and atomic
fission Swelling wind Rising ash Tide of Black Rain Cement seared
shadow traces Reminiscent of their last commands Instantly one
thousand flames arising Il

10000 Maniacs "Gun Shy"

I always knew that you would take yourself far from home as
soon as, as far as you could go. By the 1/4 inch cut of your hair and
the Army issue green, for the past eight weeks I can tell

10000 Maniacs "Headstrong"

To your common sense firm arguments I won't listen to your voice of
reason
trying to change my mind. I mind my feelings and not your words.
Didn't you
notice I'm so headstrong

10000 Maniacs "Hey Jack Kerouac"

Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your mother
and the tears she cried, she cried for none other
than her little boy lost in our little world that hated
and that dared to drag him down. He

10000 Maniacs "Hidden In My Heart"

I see the leaves of autumn
changing, falling , turning what was green
I see a door standing open,
open to curiosity
we could be together
tear it all apart
would you

10000 Maniacs "Jezebel"

To think of my task is chilling.
To know I was carefully building the mask
I was wearing for two years,
swearing I'd tear it off.
I've sat in the dark explaining to myself

10000 Maniacs "Just As The Tide Was A Flowing"

on one morning
in the month of May
when all the birds
were singing

I saw a lovely maiden stray
across the fields at break of day
she softly sung her roundelay

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10000 Maniacs "Like The Weather"

The color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey.
Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again.
With a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
A quiver in my lip

10000 Maniacs "Lilydale"

Come as we go far away
from then oise of the street
walk a path so narrow
to a place where we feel at ease
some think it is haunting
to be drawn to the cemetery ground

10000 Maniacs "Love Among The Ruins"

The sky was falling, heaven was calling.
When danger crashes, rose from the ashes.
Like two statues hidden inside ancient rock,
we were praying for the secrets to unlock.
And w

10000 Maniacs "Maddox Table"

the legs of Maddox kitchen tables
my whole life twisted on a lathe
in a foreman's torrent
my first English was
"faster boy if you want your pay"
barking commands
lo

10000 Maniacs "More Than This"

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the s

10000 Maniacs "My Mother The War"

she borders the pavement
flanks avenues
the parades pass
white glove attended by

my mother the war

she'll raise a shaft
lift a banner
toss a rose

10000 Maniacs "My Sister Rose"

Big plans are being made for my sisters wedding day.
We'll have a ball at the Sons of Roma Hall.
Family, friends come one and all.
First the best man makes a toast to Rocky and my si

10000 Maniacs "Orange"

Lineage close dDissolved In its birth
Tragedy Prelude a balance Is a synergy Of reason Malicious hope As
techno atrocities Lapse their effects Associate these ends Their
clarity Dema

10000 Maniacs "Peace Train"

Now I've been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one

10000 Maniacs "Scorpio Rising"

power
dizzy with it stumble
detail
a chance for us to quarrel
anger
my head is shaken violent

if i could calm or restrain you
for the sake of pity

10000 Maniacs "Tension"

Frail hinges pivot On a case's door
Commemorative Souvenirs from places Containers change with occasion
Cellophane encased Displaying paper Certificate Credit years of
service A tool

10000 Maniacs "The Colonial Wing"

here is the store house of Her Majesty
well guarded by sentry
but looks are free

call this the rayless and benighted age
witches by tallow candles shifted
shifted t

10000 Maniacs "The Painted Desert"

The Painted Desert can wait till summer.
We've played this game of just imagine long enough.
Wait till summer?
When I'm sure the rains have ended, the blooms have gone,
everyon

10000 Maniacs "Tolerance"

The still and silence
is torn with violence.
A loud breaking sound
in the night is made.
Hear it grow, hear it fade.
The sound you're hearing,
the sound you're fear

10000 Maniacs "Verdi Cries"

The man in 119 takes his tea all alone.
Mornings we all rise to wireless Verdi cries.
I'm hearing opera through the door.
The souls of men and women, impassioned all.
Their voi

10000 Maniacs "What's The Matter Here

That young boy without a name I'd know his face.
In this city the kid's my favorite.
I've seen him. I see him every day.
Seen him run outside looking for a place to hide from his fat

10cc "24 Hours"

Here on the street
Feeling the cool of the dawn
Shuffling feet
Faces are ragged and worn
They've been working all night
Waiting for the curtain to rise
While you're under

10cc "Action Man In A Motown Suit"

Let's stay a while and watch him
He's moving into action man
He's looking good but maybe
He's in the wrong direction man

But he wanna get a little, get a little
Every ni

10cc "Age Of Consent"

I want to meet you at that restaurant
The one you love it's got a pretty front
What a front
The girls are holding hands
It's a treat to indulge
Or we can sit awhile and look a

10cc "American Panorama"

Martin Luther B.B. King
You had a dream and you make us swing
Doctor Winston J.F.K.
You had a dream but they blew you away

American panorama
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