Wish I was a better person With more control Turn the other cheek When the punch comes, roll Wish I was a kinder person Could see the other's pain Not
That endless light Casts only one shadow The cold grey light By the penthouse on the ghetto Kill the other witness Knife plunged to the hilt The unforgiven
This place has a history The Spaniards settled here They burned the town and fields They moved away from here My grandma often told me She knew it peaceful
hammer back 'Til the living shadow's gone Maybe at a Seven-Eleven Maybe at a quick carjack You'll verify there ain't a heaven If you don't keep the hammer
It was a wet night And the other guy Was lubricated with a pint of Jack His truck hit Jimmy's chevy With a sound like a thunder crack I was working
You boys are surprised to see me Never thought I'd get out of jail Took eight long years to spring me And two hours to ride the rail Took only thirty
I'd like to see you in black It'd make me feel like your husband's dead I'd like to see you in black We could make him suffer instead I'd like to see
Maraschino Cherry lipstick Drop dead gorgeous To her fingertips Ohh ohh ohh ohh Hold me tighter In your arms Let's set off the Smoke alarm And I'm
Rains of fish and rains of frogs Arias sung by mongrel dogs Whispers from the desert stones Divinations in lizard bones Something beyond is reaching
Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes In the '50s Ray Milland pierced the skies Do not envy who sees and plucks out his eyes Do not envy the man with
Maybe I'll see you again baby And maybe I won't Maybe you've bought your ticket Gone back to Detroit Airplanes make strangers of us all Give us distance
