Walkabouts

Check the main road one more time. Check the main road but I'm sure that you will find. It is late and closin' down. There are lights out there but they do not seem close. Take these long knives for t... [leggi tutto]

Liars left their roost last night I heard it from some talkshow host Fangs and venom working hard In simulcast from coast to coast Hey ho, 'round we go This rotten tree will never grow Hey ho, 'round ... [leggi tutto]

Down here everyone says that the River People don't really belong here. I know what it's like to be a stranger and divide a town beside a frontier. People want your business and little more I've watch... [leggi tutto]

Lay my body down By the shallows of the creek You can lay my body down Lay me in your reach And when my body's down We'll steal the thunder from the rain And when my body's down We'll shake th... [leggi tutto]

Mr. ten dollar man Let me tell you where you're bound When you drink your green liquor Lord, you'll roll to the ground But you come around here With your money in your hand Tasted my woman You... [leggi tutto]

I got a message from the king A column of smoke center on the screen Out came face that I recognized And no disguise would have changed a thing And the sun never shines No the sun will never shi... [leggi tutto]

If you want good times I know where to look And if you want good times I will They're thrown on your bed With your junkyard religion At the best of the western motels Thrown with the pawns An... [leggi tutto]

even the mightiest rivers will bend before they vanish, in the sand even the tallest of timbers will fall easy to fall, ain't easy to land well that's a curse of mine seems everything I find keeps fa... [leggi tutto]

Trying hard to remember your voice it seems so faraway all choked up by the heat and the dust it seems so faraway I'm gonna give you a call, from this air conditioned bar gonna give it one more crac... [leggi tutto]

The city's shiverin' Shivers in the heat That we call summertime And I'm deliverin' The one piece of the puzzle That you could not find Follow me an angel Follow every fool I can tonight Foll... [leggi tutto]

All dressed up for the day of the dead I have been waiting It's coming soon enough The doors are open and the prowlers have all fled So tired of waiting So tired of hanging tough Stir the ashe... [leggi tutto]

The sunset reaches to you With its long talons The new stars showin' pity For the fallen It drags you back up to your feet Leaves you ready to deceive Leaves you standing at the silent crossing ... [leggi tutto]

Hangman take these heads from me And swing 'em from your money tree Hear me laughing in my steps These heads are yours, they're yours to keep Please don't skip the last details Rewards are yours... [leggi tutto]

If you're ready and the creek don't rise If you're ready with the furnace full Trees were shakin' and the break was good Finally lost him in the neck of the woods If you're ready and the creek don't ... [leggi tutto]

Deaf as a fence post Alone on a winter's night I'm drunk as a racehorse But I'll never fade outta sight There's a wild below me A wild up there in the stars There's a history behind me A child... [leggi tutto]

I'm the nightwatchman and nothing gets behind my back Work out at the goldmine in a tin can shack Don't come up behind cause I won't be mincing my words Don't play twenty questions with all of the ... [leggi tutto]

Bang out the night song on an old kettle drum don't ask for no ransom ain't payin you none ground to a halt with suspicion for all you say "watch me fly" I suppose that you're gone but I don't care ... [leggi tutto]

Let's burn down the cornfield Let's burn down the cornfield We can listen to it burn We'll hide behind the oak tree Hide behind the oak tree Stay out of danger 'til I return Oh, it's so good ... [leggi tutto]

Gathered by the riverside the current pulls 100 years each way savin' souls and singin' songs They beg and smile, but murder just the same watch me slip into the trees breakin' brush past darkness ... [leggi tutto]

This is where it starts This is... where it stops And when it finally stops I hope, starts right up Walk the glitter mile Past hotels of sand People say'n lots of things Ain't my job... to list... [leggi tutto]

Highwater is everywhere, highwater is telling me to go There's poison in the course it runs, there's ashes from the factory on the hill Watch it all fall down From the mountain to the ground Watc... [leggi tutto]

Been a lot of rain out there Rainin' blind Summer's comin' slow ... this year It's rainin' blind If ya come back tonight ... I'll let it ... fall away If ya come back tonight Ya better have ...... [leggi tutto]

It was the dirty end of winter Along the loom of the land When I walked with sweet Henry Hand upon hand And the wind it bit bitter For a girl of no means With no shoes on her feet And a knife ... [leggi tutto]

Down here everyone says that the River People don't really belong here. I know what it's like to be a stranger and divide a town beside a frontier. People want your business and little more I've wa... [leggi tutto]

How can you tell me how much you miss me When the last time I saw you, you wouldn't even kiss me The rich guy you're seein' must have put you down So welcome back, baby, to the poor side of town ... [leggi tutto]

I go to sleep, before the devil wakes and I wake up, before the angels take all my worldly desires all my yardsticks of fear all my secrets untold all my motives unclear hangin' down in the... [leggi tutto]

Way up north, my love lies sleepin' Her lonely grave, beneath the pines How sadly I recall her memory She was my own true love devine One night I found her with another They did not know I was a... [leggi tutto]

Every night before I go to sleep I find a ticket and I win a lottery I scoup them pearls up from the sea I cash them in and buy you all the things you need Every night before I rest my head See ... [leggi tutto]

Maybe you should disappear, And now I've warned you so. Bury your clothes out in the woods, And hide your letters 'neath the stove. There's a big house down in Wilkeson, where you can dance on tablet... [leggi tutto]

When death shall close these eyelids And this heart shall cease to beat And they lay me down to rest In some flowery-bound retreat Will you miss, miss me, when I'm gone Will you miss, miss me, m... [leggi tutto]

Streaks of light On the graveyard walk Your bright star was crashin' Crashin' the dark Dreamed of a cold night To freeze it in place Dreamed of ship bells and thunder Ringin' us under Dreamed ... [leggi tutto]

Promise me my soul to keep. And promise me you'll never sleep. And promise me that when it's over, We will drink the whole world sober. Promise me that lines get drawn. Point no point to wish me... [leggi tutto]

The nightbirds stumble in Like broken pendulums The nightbirds stumble in Flown from thick to thin 'Neath a cloud of suspicion You're a lucky man Say it again The nightrain's pourin' down As t... [leggi tutto]

don't wait any longer not a second more don't wait for the century to click ya' never can be sure put my hand just where you want it been movin' much too slow move your hand just where I want it a... [leggi tutto]

Lead you over to the water, Said "Hold it down until it does not breathe." Tried drowning it on dry land for too long, But it was not supposed to be. This recklessness might kill you, But I know y... [leggi tutto]

Check the main road one more time. Check the main road but I'm sure that you will find. It is late and closin' down. There are lights out there but they do not seem close. Take these long knives f... [leggi tutto]

These are your last tears for the century don't cry them for me these are your last tears, before the party starts don't throw them away use em' wisely, use em' large use em' soft, and use em' ha... [leggi tutto]

(Well) I dreamed I saw the devil's club Growin' by the burnin' bush And I dreamed that all your razor teeth Grabbed tomorrow by the root And I dreamed the long arm of the law Was a one-armed acro... [leggi tutto]

How many times have you heard someone say "If I had his money, I could do things my way?" Little they know that it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind. Once I was waitin' ... [leggi tutto]

behind the bric and brac Behind the bric and brac there will be no lookin' back There will be no lookin' back and between hell and hello And between hell and hello there will be no lettin' go There ... [leggi tutto]

Last time that I saw you, you were on the killing floor Last time that i saw you, you were on the killing floor Last time that I saw you, all the tears had turned to clay Last time that i saw you, all... [leggi tutto]

I'm up to my neck I'm up to my neck In the mud of Inauguration day In the mud of inauguration day They say it's one in fifty years They say it's one in fifty years That storm, that blew my dog away ... [leggi tutto]

Jack Candy was as old as my father But still I took a likin' to him Jack candy was as old as my father He said: 'You will be somebody's treasure, But still i took a likin' to him But no one has disco... [leggi tutto]

Will you crash the engine of our ruin? Who'll spill the flat cars of our shame? I'm beat up tired from always doin', What I shoulda done in the first place. You can call in sick, no need to fear the... [leggi tutto]

Lord, I feel like going home I've tried and I fell and I'm tired and weary Everything I've done is wrong And I feel like going home Lord, I tried to see you through But it was too much for me N... [leggi tutto]

I can still remember the coat I wore that day yellow as a plastic moon with a weave as thick as chains walkin' past the sideshow tents drunker than we knew could never fill my brother's shoes got the... [leggi tutto]

somethin' of a shambles another wicked tangle still I believe that love is drawn from the emptiest of wells a shadow of a mystery the way you can't forget me still I believe that love is drawn ... [leggi tutto]

Quick, burn it down to the wick Burn it down to the heart So the ending can start Here, behind the riverhaus door With an unloaded gun And an unsettled score Well I'll never drag this river I... [leggi tutto]

blacklight fades headlights switched off the engine burns as we're rollin' to a stop let's get out here lie down in the middle of road ain't no cars comin' only stars and stars alone the city at o... [leggi tutto]

I could hear you callin' Through the whisperin' woods I could hear you call my name from the back porch door Said Prosper come here quick It's worse than we expected it Found him this mornin' ... [leggi tutto]

Why would you run ? I beg stars above A thing of such beauty Must be called love Why would you go And give me to cry? A thing of such beauty Might never die You bust loose from heaven And no... [leggi tutto]

Wake up dead man, there's a noise You must attend It will not quit Wake up dead man, there's a noise Your sleep is done Your secret's out Dead man rise You're been away from here too long De... [leggi tutto]

thunder laughs and thunderclaps the afternoons round here, well they're just like that I know ya' don't spook easy I know ya' won't up and quit let's keep it like that now don't forget when you ... [leggi tutto]

A stranger came To this forsaken place To shake me from my whiskey guilt To cure my tremblin' ways Now there is not a door That I will not kick down No lock I will not break No guilty verdict ... [leggi tutto]

painted so many towns painted them up and down down to the broken ground pointed the last one, for now soon I will stow away into the cool nightshade watching fireworks fly in the reservation sky f... [leggi tutto]

It's breathin' time In Christmas Valley herons fly by night and crash into the pines and when we're gone from Christmas Valley no one will remember you leave nothin' to remind to remind climbed up o... [leggi tutto]

Strange face, with your eyes So pale and sincere Underneath you know well You have nothing to fear For the dreams that come to you when so young Told of a life Where spring is sprung You would... [leggi tutto]

When Abilene was young and gay And thunder storms filled up the days The cattle roam outside the town Sleeping in the midday sun X4 Then tracks were laid across the plain By broken old men in to... [leggi tutto]

It soon appears Long rented shores Too big to name And second to none Save horses' hair In pockets deep Remember skies Second to none Black rain Black rain will come Black rain Black rain... [leggi tutto]

I can sleep it off, Sleep it back to sleep, I can be most anything I want. A long way from the shade, The north side of the moon. Down here only rich men lose their shirts. And John Law wakes to swee... [leggi tutto]

Out past the trees there is nothing to burn Just an empty gas station, left to me in a will Just a plate of bad habits and plenty of salt for the wounds Just a plate of bone china and plenty of sal... [leggi tutto]

Driving in my big black car ( written by alex chilton ) Nothing can go wrong I'm going and I don't know how far Driving in my big black car So, so long Nothing can go wrong I'm going and i don't kno... [leggi tutto]

Got an earthquake shack near Elbe. Got a garden of dyin' cars. Covered up deep in the mud of the powerline road. And at night I can hear the lockjaw, And the swagger of the devil's tongue. Comin... [leggi tutto]

I come from nowhere I was nowhere bound never once believed this was my restin' ground but somewhere between here and that rest I heard ya callin' my name All for this, I have traveled All for thi... [leggi tutto]

Gotta trust my name No fork in my tongue Gotta trust my name Never saw it blow Never saw it blow The clouds rained money Never saw it blow The clouds rained money Never saw it blow Shoulda locked my... [leggi tutto]

Wisecracks and hijacks And contracts to sell Old wine in new bottles Times are the same Diggin' the ditch quick And quick to escape The patent is pending On flood tides and bones Goodbye To all th... [leggi tutto]

Wisecracks and hijacks And contracts to sell Old wine in new bottles Times are the same Diggin' the ditch quick And quick to escape The patent is pending On flood tides and bones Goodbye To all th... [leggi tutto]

Every morn at sven o'clock There's twenty terriers drilling on the rock And the boss comes round and he says to the (?) ";Come down hard on the cast-iron (?)"; And drille terriers, drille."; Drille ... [leggi tutto]

Rolled in the mud But I could never come clean Counting blessings on my middle finger There in the back shed Pricing heads to the pound Told to shut up, I was only breathin' Hell's soup kitchen ... [leggi tutto]

tongue tied, said my prayers 20 years or more seems like yesterday hung your secrets from the judas tree watched 'em blow down to the valley floor blowin' home, watched 'em blow away and what I fear... [leggi tutto]

Man came down from the field A lonely horseman Headin' back to the stable Said he was sorry But his cain was not able To save us all from ourselves Man sees the blood on every door And hears t... [leggi tutto]

This ain't the time to be reasonable Can't put much stock in that now Yhe storm front it hangs, a silence gone strange Can't put much stock in that now Storm gone crazy Storm gone night This is ... [leggi tutto]

Caught when our center was broken Caught when our troubles were true On a three state run, from the merciless sun We ripped up the letters from home Caught on the barbed wire fences Caught in th... [leggi tutto]

I keep thinkin' that she's goin' down My second sight a fixed on her demise A slow and silent stretch, broods like the riverbed Swirlin' round the big and muddy rise Sulfur colored lights, and fr... [leggi tutto]

Take me, And take me to your darkest room Close all the windows And bolt all the doors From the first moment, I heard your voice I'll be in darkness no more Take me, To your most barren desert... [leggi tutto]

A life full of holes, a life full of wind The devil's dust it blows through me again Don't look for me, I ain't easy to find The Barbary trail is where I've gone to hide That's where I go to hide ... [leggi tutto]

Don't matter if I told you this before But I'll never fall again Never gonna fall again Don't plan to give up, everything to change But I'll never fall again Never gonna fall again Whipped my ... [leggi tutto]

Don't ask for favors And don't risk the truth My fingers are scissors They're cutting you through Cutting you through Cutting you through Velvet fog The bird in my open hand Is a captive for... [leggi tutto]

Fourteen and one half years You know I was good fortune's slave Road map on my face Up to my neck in lucky breaks Cover your eyes Don't look now And durin' all that time You know I wore this ... [leggi tutto]

This is the last ditch ever I dug Once there were motives but they have been lost Dig through the sand still you end at the rock This is the ditch that I dug These are the blankets that we should hav... [leggi tutto]

I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown With my hands of ivory And my nerves of steel I'll break the jackpot open Just to... [leggi tutto]

well the fog's rollin' thick in the trees and the fire burns deep in the hole my conscience a wound with no salve it betrays me wherever I go said the best way a man can go down is to die with his f... [leggi tutto]

Gettin' stupid ... crooked feet A pinball on ... Scott Walker Street Gettin' stupid ... in a bar Not goin' home ... til the band plays "Superstar" Everything's on the edge of everything else You'... [leggi tutto]

Lose your coat and roll your sleeves This is demolition time Inventions full of spit and blood With blinders for the faint of heart Fortune's ashes crowd this map But if I lose, well I don't care As l... [leggi tutto]

Steal it from the yard Medicine hat she wore Mother's protection Protection from the open sun What is gone was never here And what is here is second-hand Trust in only shadows 'Cause they never know ... [leggi tutto]

You're an open gate On a barbed wire fence Swingin' back and forth You know it scares me half to death Funny how it moved From a blessin' to a curse Ain't it funny how we moved From the cursed,... [leggi tutto]

When you burn your kingdom Through the ashes I will come I know it makes no difference But I can't leave ya to your fun Usin' up your torch song gifts Why do you rush the end along? Actin' like ... [leggi tutto]

Findlay was on his last legs But he made the rules Said suffer fools gladly But never end up as the sufferin' fool He shook me down Though it was my first week on the job Said travellers will t... [leggi tutto]

hightimes, undermine tell me somethin' I don't know hightimes, can chase em 'til your blind tell me somethin' I don't know now you're lyin' next to me the one place that you shoulda' stayed lyin' ... [leggi tutto]

Into the heart of this old sunken ship A white knuckle journey you won't soon forget Out where the deepwater goes Into the veins of this old lizard skin To Tierra Del Fuego and then back again ... [leggi tutto]

Said this was our town The joke it was on us We were just passin thru' On the way to givin' up Joked this was our town That someday we'd be thrilled By anything we loved And everything we kille... [leggi tutto]

see my silly watch every second lost, hmm lost in a strange arcade got drunk on girls night out If they're the good years, I don't know what you call the hard years If they're the good times, I don'... [leggi tutto]

We need a better idea, here quick Before the sun's beatin' down on our necks We need a better idea Watch us speed, to the end of the world Promise all, that we've already heard And still we're no... [leggi tutto]

If you want money in your pocket And a top hat on your head A hot meal on your table And a blanket on your bed Well today is grey skies Tomorrow is tears You'll have to wait til yesterday is he... [leggi tutto]

If the wild-bird could speak He'd tell of places you have been He's been in my dreams And he knows all the ways of the winds Polly, come home again Spread your wings to the wind I fell much of ... [leggi tutto]

Saw you stretched out in Room Ten O Nine with a smile on your face and a tear right in your eye. Couldn't see to get a line on you, my sweet honey love. Berber jew'lry jangling down the street, make ... [leggi tutto]

The world is turning, I hope it don't turn away The world is turning, I hope it don't turn away All my pictures are falling From the wall where I placed them yesterday The world is turning, I hope... [leggi tutto]

Now all of us knew Old Crow as the patron drinker's curse. He paced along the barstools, beggin' quarters for his thirst. Nobody knew where he came from, And nobody cared to ask. Then along came ... [leggi tutto]

our healin' mark was reached above this floodlit street beneath a sliver moon undone leaning with intent to fall your gaze a perfect blade my hand, a shadow drawn These secrets come and go but eve... [leggi tutto]

(Well) I'm going away to leave you And I'm going away for a while Well, I'm coming back to you someday When I've gone ten thousand miles Where the storms are on the ocean And the heavens will ce... [leggi tutto]

Come back in the winter, Won't steal away too long. And when I'm back I'll set it all ablaze. Got Jesus in my pocket And matches in my coat. I won't have to work alone this time. From the trees upon ... [leggi tutto]

I don't care how long it might last don't care anymore don't care about that I don't care how long it might take I'm still wide awake out walkin' late Till I reach you wait until I Till I re... [leggi tutto]

Howling like a banshee in the middle of the night Don't you know it's me at your back door I'm wounded and scared with no place to go Won't you give me home for the night Shelter for an evening, ... [leggi tutto]

Harbour lights will change your plans More than judge or jury can What a sight Flickerin' like prayers of grace How could you ever lose this place? What a sight But I'm sure I don't stand A gho... [leggi tutto]

Once I thought I saw you in a crowded, hazy bar, dancing on the light from star to star Far across the moon beams, I know that's who you are. I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire. You are l... [leggi tutto]

The graveyard sits by the Prescott mill. Where my old man lost his arm, And for that I was ready to kill. But he just looked tired, And said: "Don't bury me near that place." When he finally die... [leggi tutto]

Carved your name on the numbering hill, Now it looks on the town with the promise to kill everything. We lit this valley with atomic power, But the lights went down in the closing hour yesterday. ... [leggi tutto]

Spent another season in the valley of the bones Spent another season in the valley of the bones But higher grounds was callin, callin me back home But higher grounds was callin, callin me back home... [leggi tutto]