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13 Engines "Dirty Little Rat"

Dirty little rat, never could get it straight
The man upstairs says he doesn't care
If you live 'til daylight
Dirty little rat
Get your coat, get your hat
We're gonna tak

13 Engines "Going Under"

I hear the door slam shut, so I know that you're home
You've been out all night, I've been here alone
And I've been wondering if you're the same person I knew
The bright lights that

13 Engines "Lift You Up"

Your mind is all cluttered now
But you drag yourself along somehow
Through dark dreams of that visit you in the night
Obscure fragments with broad daylight
Watch me now
W

13 Engines "Moment Of Clarity"

I remember, one November we had our picnic
At the graveyard down your street
On the bodies under our feet
And the cold grey ancient autumn ships
Looked down without a frown

13 Engines "More"

I can feel something inside
And it wants to get out
Growing every day in a different way
I can't put it in words
It could be now or maybe later
It can read my mind

13 Engines "Perpetual Motion Machine"

Perpetual motion machine, it came to me in a dream
Let's catch some air, that's if you dare
I'm only sixteen but you're my queen
It's a bright, bright morning, the road stretches far

13 Engines "Saviour"

You've got two eyes and pocket
Strange eyes of the visionary
No one knows where your name is
You only live in memory
When you walk down the street
They throw rose petals

13 Engines "Smoke And Ashes"

Tick-tock went the watch on your wrist
Telling you softly of the minutes you've missed
Kneeling down with your head in the bowl
Telling yourself, there should never be days like this

13 Engines "The Estrangement"

Time is so hard to find when your occupied
Lost in my own world, I didn't notice what's happening
Last time that I saw you I said things
That I didn't mean and now I wish I could tak

13 Engines "The Golden Age"

So the Golden Age passed away to silver
But that was long ago
There were swimming holes and the Vaudeville
They gave way to this
Bronze turned itself slowly into iron
And

13 Engines "Unbound"

Too many cooks tried to fix your dinner
Not enough of this, too much that
So many voices tried to speak as one
Whatcha doing right, whatcha doing wrong

CHORUS

13 Engines "Unconscience"

Sometimes I'm dirty, sometimes I'm clean
Sometime I talk in circles so I don't know what I mean
Although I am uncertain, one thing seems clear
I don't know very much, but I'm still g

13 Engines "What If We Don't Get What We Want"

We were sitting at the head of a car
And her lips were dry and parched
And we turned to each other
We were listening to "Suspicious Minds"

CHORUS

And we're cr

16 Horsepower "American Wheeze"

I've grown tired, of the words of the single man
hangin' lifeless on his every word -- o man
you don't understand dear man
the little angel held out her hand
sayin' father, fat

16 Horsepower "Black Bush"

I can sense it all around me
there's somethin' in this room
it ain't magic nor no witchcraft
no bitch on no broom

look see his bones are gone
he done left the grave

16 Horsepower "Black Lung"

Walkin' up with winkin' eyes
seen that tight-lipped grin
i could tell from a mile away
boy you weren't my kin
you best put a bridle on bridle on that tongue
save your bre

16 Horsepower "Black Soul Choir"

Ain't none ever seen the face of his foe no
he ain't made of flesh & bone
he's the one who sits up close beside you
an when he's there you are alone

every man is evil yes

16 Horsepower "Brimstone Rock"

Listen closely to me now my darlin' girl
There's one who's out to have you
an jus his breath will
Burn your curls
don't you fret You needn't bother don't you fret
here co

16 Horsepower "Burning Bush"

All the widows watch
through all window sills
hair raisin' in every room
up the street come a walkin' chill
an' you ask for nothin'
'cept to be by my side

see

16 Horsepower "Cinder Alley"

Lovely lovely carol sue
i see the heel of the father
crush the head of the serpent for you
an' that beast who found
his way up to your room
you know the one the one

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16 Horsepower "Clogger"

Hey mister with your iron feet yeah
never waver from your path
you think you got a way with somethin' boy
well see his hand an' feel his staff
hey you got a way with words alri

16 Horsepower "Coal Black Horses"

Just as sure as that suns gonna shine
when he comes at his table i will dine
just as sure as that dog's gonna whine
in my heart no longer will i pine
just as sure as by evil yo

16 Horsepower "Dead Run"

The devil's brand is on my bones
an' from inside the holy ghost groans
sure as shootin' the undertaker knows
he lays the headstones in endless rows
ye one an' all we croak like

16 Horsepower "Ditch Digger"

I dug on down - for to see my true love
she is the only - girl i will speak of
yes i went on down for to get my girl
an' free her from the devil's world
i hear the sound of her

16 Horsepower "Flutter"

Word by word
she spoke to me
neath a mess of bygone linnen
she listens as to dry a thousand tongues
my love is thin and thinning
some cherised flower
flutters throu

16 Horsepower "For Heaven's Sake"

I surely knew it was a trap ye
but my hands they would not listen
I shoulda known your words was flap
Comin' out all sweet and drippin'
O so where could I go ~ yes but to the l

16 Horsepower "Golden Rope"

Fire is the color of my true love's hair
near to the father sits his golden chair
by prayer and petition to the king on his left
light is the burden that i bear
o so enchanting

16 Horsepower "Hang My Teeth On Your Door"

Your sympathy is my simple joy
your bossom my mobile home
free from the thunder that tore me asunder
i have you as my own
and i hold you over rolling on the floor
naked y

16 Horsepower "Harm's Way"

Here ain't nothin' that ain't in my way
an like the fool i am for my own gain i pray
you say you found, a way back inside my closet
ol' bones upon bones an joints upon sockets

16 Horsepower "Heel On The Shovel"

I'm diggin' you a shallow grave
an to the sun your face i'll raise
i'm diggin' you a shallow grave
one hundred buzzards buzzin'

i seen death hangin' from the tallest tree

16 Horsepower "Horse Head"

Come to my house an we'll pick bones
there hands outside ready with stones
come to my yard
i got whiskey an chirs
we'll sit on the porch
as the good men stare
you a

16 Horsepower "I Seen What I Saw"

I seen ya in your red room laughin'
with your shinin' coffee can
so many wrongs all kinds a goins on
held my head an ran

but i hid and did a bit more lookin'
saw ya

16 Horsepower "Just Like Birds"

Little johanna girl of my prairie
help me fill this house with living words
further up an' further in
let 'em fly from our lips
just like birds
just like birds

16 Horsepower "Low Estate"

To hell with boys creepin' up slowly
swingin' them shovels 'round
diggin' up words of pleasure
from evil hollow ground
o - an' here's one now girl
the devil is in his eye

16 Horsepower "My Narrow Mind"

Wicked, wicked
from the mouth i spout - o lord
don' let these thoughts come out
my knees they knock and my feet they fail
the thoughts i think i see your face turn pale
t

16 Horsepower "Neck On The New Blade"

High fiddle high fiddle low fiddle low
there's a ghost bound in my soul
high fiddle high fiddle low fiddle low
there's a cold blade on my crow
a crooked in my walk a stumble in

16 Horsepower "Nobody Cept You"

Nothin' round here to me that's sacred
'cept you, yeah you
nothin' round here to me that matters
'cept you, yeah you

you're the one that reaches me
You're the one t

16 Horsepower "Phyllis Ruth"

The chill of coffeeville
she's in those hills still
kindness of her face so white
the chill of coffeeville
lord pray it be your will
that she dwell in your house tonight

16 Horsepower "Poor Mouth"

Is anything as lovely to me
as the truth in love
i'll take it over freedom any day
it brings me ever an' this time to my knees
an' on my knees i run away

yes i know

16 Horsepower "Praying Arm Lane"

Well hey i been down that a way
with a dream on my arm
yet me an' my love we could not stay
we heard voices of children
an' by little hands were led astray

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