Libbie's Song Patti Smith

If it wasn't for your golden hairI would not be belonelyIf it wasn't for your golden hairI would not be aloneIf it wasn't for your piercing stareI would not be belonelyIf it wasn't for your piercin...

The Jackson Song Patti Smith

Little blue dreamer go to sleepLet's close our eyes and call the deepSlumbering land that just beginsWhen day is done and little dreamers spinFirst take my hand then let it goLittle blue boy, you'r...

Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana Cover) Patti Smith

Load up on guns and bring your friends It\'s fun to lose and to pretend She\'s over bored and self assured Oh no, I know a dirty word Hello, hello, hello, how low? Hello, hello, hello!

Capitol Letter (From 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Soundtrack) Patti Smith

Rebellion has a heart Breaking as the dawn Bursting into song Bursting into song Bird in the hand Another role to play Mocking as the jay Mocking as the jay She's the silent one In her soft boots

Trespasses Patti Smith

post In heart remembering Trespasses stretch like broken fences Winding as they may Trespasses stretch like broken fences Hope to mend them one day And her time was to come Called to her son This your song

This Is The Girl Patti Smith

This is the girl For whom all tears fall This is the girl Who was having a ball Just a dark smear masking the eyes Spirited away, hurrying inside This is the girl That crossed the bind This is the song

Because the Night Patti Smith

With love we sleep With doubt the vicious circle Turn and burns Without you I cannot live Forgive, the yearning burning I believe it\'s time, too real to feel So touch me now, touch me now, touch

Summer Cannibals Patti Smith

around me natives in a ring and I saw their souls a-withering likes snakes in chains and they wrapped themselves around me ummm what a treat and they rattled their tales hissin` come on let`s

1959 Patti Smith

were lookin' Fine ' cause we built that thing and it grew wings In Nineteen Fifty Nine 'Cause we built that thing and it grew wings In Nineteen Fifty Nine It was the best of times it 's

Gung Ho Patti Smith

On a field of red one gold star Raised above his head Raised above his head He was not like any other He was just like any other And the song they bled Was a hymn to him Awake my little one The seed of

Birdland Patti Smith

His father died and left him a little farm in New England. All the long black funeral cars left the scene And the boy was just standing there alone Looking at the shiny red tractor Him and his dadd...

Glitter In Their Eyes Patti Smith

It's been a while since I've seen your face It's been a while since I've walked this place I see the monkeys riding on their bikes Racing through the impossible night You say you're feeling like a...

Rock N Roll Nigger Patti Smith

{{ Babelogue }} I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the future. Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like...

Upright Come Patti Smith

Hail brother The distant thunder Is nothing but hearts Beating as one Dance of a million On God's pavilion Come come Beat on your drum Awake people arise Awake upright come Fortune is falling like...

Gloria Patti Smith

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine meltin' in a pot of thieves wild card up my sleeve thick heart of stone my sins my own they belong to me me people say beware but I don't care the words ...

Free Money Patti Smith

Every night before I go to sleep Find a ticket win a lottery Scoop the pearls up from the sea Cash them in and buy you all the things you need Every night before I rest my head See those dollar bil...

Kimberly Patti Smith

The wall is high, the black barn, The babe in my arms in her swaddling clothes And I know soon that the sky will split And the planets will shift, Balls of jade will drop and existence will stop. L...

Elegie Patti Smith

Elegie - Patti Smith I just don't know what to do tonight, My head is aching as I drink and breathe Memory falls like cream in my bones, moving on my own.

One Voice Patti Smith

In the garden of consciousnessIn fertile mind there lies the dormantseedWhen blooming as charityConscience breathes a sigh of reliefThe confessions of sleepThe awakening seedMoved by love to serveW...

Boy Cried Wolf Patti Smith

Oh the story's told been told retoldFrom the sacred scriptures to thetabloidsAll the fuss and fight none above awhisperThe soul of gold the belly of a boyWell they drew him from the forestLike they...

Persuasion Patti Smith

What is the system that gets aroundRecruits hearts with its timelessrhythmThe young glow but old men knowIt's all a part of some crazy schismComing on like the dawn unrelentinglightStreets thick wi...

Gone Pie Patti Smith

Hey thereCome and take a walk with meStroll into infinityWe'll stroll alongUntil the dawn is goneMidnight take it to the twilightJust a little slice of lightLet's turn it off and on off and onStrol...

China Bird Patti Smith

One fine day these words I prayWill breathe a truthWithin yourself upon a shelfA life anewSo many roadsIt's hard to know what to doAll your dreamsAll it seemsIs as you chooseFor destiny my china bi...

Strange Messengers Patti Smith

I looked upon the book of lifeTracing the lines of face after faceLooking down at their naked feetBound in chains bound in chainsChains of leather chains of goldWe knew it was wrong but we lookedaw...

Grateful Patti Smith

Ours is just another skinThat simply slips awayYou can rise above itIt will shed easilyIt all will come out fineI've learned it line by lineOne common wireOne silver threadAll that you desireRolls ...

New Party Patti Smith

You say heyThe state of the unionIs fine fine fineI got the feeling that you're lyingLying lying lyingI think we needThink we're gonna needA new partyThey say to meThey say what's the wordI say it'...

Redondo Beach Patti Smith

Late afternoon, dreaming hotelWe just had the quarrel that sent you away.I was looking for you, are you gone goneCalled you on the phone, another dimension.Well, you never returned, oh you know wha...

Break It Up Patti Smith

Car stopped in a clearing,Ribbon of life, it was nearing.I saw the boy break out of his skin.My heart turned over and I crawled in.He cried, break it up, oh I don't understand,Break it up, I can't ...

April Fool Patti Smith

Come be my April Fool Come you're the only one Come on your rusted bike Come we'll break all the rules We'll ride like writers ride Neither rich nor broke We'll race through alleyways In our tatter...

Amerigo Patti Smith

We were going to see the world In this land We placed Baptismal fonts And an infinite number were baptized And they called us Carabi Which means Men of Great Wisdom Where are you going, And are yo...

Fuji-san Patti Smith

Oh mountain of our eyes What do you see The girl with the omen dice bowing to thee Mortal soldiers clear the path Shake the omen tree Oh mountain of our eyes Oh hear our plea Oh hear our plea See t...

Maria Patti Smith

At the edge of the world Where you were no one Yet you were the girl The only one At the edge of the world In the desert heat One shivering star Sweet indiscreet I knew you When we were young I kne...

Seneca Patti Smith

Oh chariot of insect Oh crowd of wind Two royal leopards run with him On a golden lead of tapered vine Oh the blood sky, oh the blood sky Vine of a god running wild Oh golden seed who made the wing...

Pissing In A River Patti Smith

Pissing in a river watching it rise Tattoo fingers shy away from me Voices voices mesmerize Voices voices beckoning sea Come come come come back come back Come back come back come back Spoke of a w...

Dancing Barefoot Patti Smith

she is benediction she is addicted to thee she is the root connection she is connecting with he here I go and I don't know why I fell so ceaselessly could it be he's taking over me I'm dancing bare...

So You Want To Be Patti Smith

so you want to be a rock and roll star well listen now to what I say get yourself an electric guitar and take some time and learn how to play and when hair's combed right and your pants are tight i...

People Have The Power Patti Smith

I was dreaming in my dreaming of an aspect bright and fair and my sleeping it was broken but my dream it lingered near in the form of shining valleys where the pure air recognized and my senses new...

Up There Down There Patti Smith

Up there There's a ball of fire Some call it the spirit Some call it the sun Its energies are not for hire It serves man It serves everyone Down there where Jonah wails in the healing water in the ...

Beneath The Southern Cross Patti Smith

Oh to be not anyone gone this maze of being skin oh to cry not any cry so mournful that the dove just laughs the steadfast gasps oh to owe not anyone nothing to be not here but here forsaking equat...

Lo And Beholden Patti Smith

I was alone and content in my world Dancing on air You sent to me a message that said I like your style Will you come to the temple tonight And dance for me there I pledge to you all that you wish ...

Smells Like Teen Spirit Patti Smith

Load up on guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend She's overboard myself assured I know, I know a dirty word Hello, hello, hello, hello, Hello, hello, hello! With the lights out it...

Trampin' Patti Smith

I'm trampin' trampin' Try'na make heaven my home trampin trampin Try'na make a heaven my home I'm trampin' trampin' Try'na make heaven my home trampin trampin Try'na make a heaven my home I've neve...

Gone Again Patti Smith

Hey now man's own kinWe commend into the windGrateful arms grateful limbsGrateful soul he's gone againI have a winter's taleHow vagrant hearts relent prevailSow their seed into the windSeize the sk...

About A Boy Patti Smith

Toward another He has gone To breathe an air Beyond his own Toward a wisdom Beyond the shelf Toward a dream That dreams itself About a boy Beyond it all About a boy Beyond it all From the forest Fr...

My Madrigal Patti Smith

We waltzed beneath motionless skiesAll heaven's glory turned in your eyesWe expressed such sweet vowsOh, till death do us partOh, till death do us partOh ohWe waltzed beneath God's point of viewKno...

Dead To The World Patti Smith

Dead to the world my body was sleepin'On my mind was nothin' at allCome a mist, an air so appealingI'm here a whisperin', you summoned, I calledI formed me a presence whose aspect was changin'Oh, h...

Wing Patti Smith

One two three fourI was a wing in Heaven blueSoared over the ocean, soared over SpainAnd I was free needed nobodyIt was beautiful, it was beautifulI was a pawn didn't have a moveDidn't have nowhere...

Ravens Patti Smith

Common fortune seeks us allAnd slips our binding ringsWe'll turn our heads and make us reelWe'll bare our arms as wingsBefore our feet a feather driftsBeyond us it will fall'Cause time will bid and...

Fireflies Patti Smith

I been walkingWherefore am I walkingI been walkingIf you see me walkingA-walking a-walkingIf you see me walkingDon't avert your eyesDon't turn awayDon't turn awayI'm coming to youOh-oh oh ohOh-oh o...

Farewell Reel Patti Smith

It's been a hard timeAnd when it rains it rains on meThe sky just opensAnd when it rains it poursI walk alone assaulted it seemsBy tears from heavenAnd darling I can't helpThinking those tears are ...