From The Observatory Swingin' Utters

I want to tell you how its been but I'm not too sure about it myself I've tried to call time and time again but I misdialed, then stopped myself now I feel like I'm on trial for the inconvenience I caught

Smokestack Dreams Swingin' Utters

The smokestack's blowing off my last few dreams and isn't that the way its always been?

Keep Running Swingin' Utters

Hello again, you say to the folks at the E.D.D. you've been dire and disgusted and come in most every day to keep yourself alive you heave insults and forever curse the almighty fuckin' talisman that lives

The Note Swingin' Utters

Finding fault is never easy least of all when it's always yours just a fragment of a broken will and a sentence from a note left on the floor.

Playboys, Punks, and Pretty Things Swingin' Utters

"A penny for your thoughts," he says as he swiftly slips from bed to bed and the thoughtful ones are charmed by him and the sexy ones turned on by him and he's knighted by casanova's kin and his ladies

No Time to Play Swingin' Utters

They've laid to rest mortality, blessed themselves with immorality, gazed into the eyes of innocents as the blade was pulled out merrily i'd beg and plead if it made sense to me, if i thought it'd make

Five Lessons Learned Swingin' Utters

Five lovely lessons learned today Coating my throat with the dust of a new day As the saints pray their lonely way And their deadweight lays the passion to waste Maybe if I sew my heart on my sleeve They'll

A Step to Go Swingin' Utters

the place is empty except for the stationary bottles of whisky and bar stools still standing concussion heads ache from a blissful evening of confusion, muttered speech from too much drinking the cars

This Bastard's Life Swingin' Utters

Why can't I beat the bankers Deal then find a home to rob Why can't I lie and cheat and steal Who wants an honest job And if I curse you night and day My integrities been tried While I waste a life away

Second Skin Swingin' Utters

Try to act this way and that become some beaming bitch's pet though you feel like a rat and it's plain that you're all that you accuse yourself of selling out to the souls searching familiar clout and

Movers and Morons Swingin' Utters

You could move faster you could move like you should (traffic on the bridges at bay) while the bitch and bastard has got you by the jewels (buried in the working day) and your motivation are the ones who

Watching The Wayfarers Swingin' Utters

We saw gold when there was only dust in the worst we saw in us what no one else could we traveled far and tramped the dirt down deep to where our souls could keep the time and never rest.

Fruitless Fortunes Swingin' Utters

The fascists and their many guises Anarchists and their fantasizing It seems sometimes they're sailing the same boat Politicians mesmerizing throngs of automated souls As some similar psycho's screwing

Teenage Genocide Swingin' Utters

well, you don't really know what you wanna do except to spend some time just being you but the game's unfair and the stakes are high what with the threat of being embalmed in formaldehyde i don't wanna

New Day Rising Swingin' Utters

I was only laughing out loud I say "When anybody else would've done the same" I could always shut my mouth again But it'd still come out that way again and again Well I'm going to the hills now baby Goin

A Promise To Distinction Swingin' Utters

One I was younger than The youngest of fragile minds I ate the day with bad manners Then spit out the rind And mother told me As I looked to the sky Yes my mother told me "My dear son, You're not the one

Two Jacks Shitty Swingin' Utters

This journey started slow and free And ended wrapped around a tree Just like my self pity tangled in the willow weeds As high as right up to my knees While scratching at the fleas She is handsome she is

Windspitting Punk Swingin' Utters

something so offending as you and your kind one day you sweetly sigh and say to yourself "music's my religion and i'm born again" next week your muse has got some corporate cash and all of a sudden the

No Place In The Sun Swingin' Utters

it fills up my pockets and it pays my rent i won't hold my breath for that time to come i exhale an exasperating sum she said "you're washed up", i'm not close to being done there's plenty of room in the

(Take Me To The) Riverbank Swingin' Utters

times have changed and the change of time's slow going my ramble tamble's still in tact, though and i've got plenty of guts still showing all along the levy where we just sat and sometimes drank one the

The Black Pint Swingin' Utters

I've been disheveled by this drink, by the pint's sight and stink, never enough times to stop and make me think. I've wrapped around some fingers, riddled rich in ringworm.

Nowhere Fast Swingin' Utters

I have crossed this road before for many years, i'm sure don't recognize the faces, though, that pass me by i've been off and on my way again, passed marsh road, atherton, black mountain way and bored

Jackie Jab Swingin' Utters

He's got oil in his hair from an arab and when he falls down, he falls smack dab. (Chorus) hey fellas, get him a cab, what's his name - jackie jab!

Well Wisher Swingin' Utters

Slow motion cigarettes hang from your sweaty lips five bottles of stale, pissy ale stumble to your pale wrists thin man with unkept hair clean shave, but a glassy stare you've lost it all boy, and so young

Just Like Them Swingin' Utters

well, i've fallen from the grace of a dog whatcha gonna do? I'll scribble it down in my log i don't believe you!

My Glass House Swingin' Utters

I'm lacking sense, but bound in a very specific direction It's phonomenal and unprecedented It's a chip of the old block and a step up the new ladder. Mr.

Little Creeps Swingin' Utters

To all of those with dead end jobs and dead end lives and loves to all dead weight with no cause at all all the predictable ones to the suit and to the peon to the drunk and the loved ones and to all the

Another Day Swingin' Utters

Now i'm back to every day to the songs i have to play to the roads along the way all the people in the fray no more family or home 'cause my home is not my own got to get up and away to another day and

The Stooge Swingin' Utters

I've kept it in my heart for over twenty fucking years And all that time washing away With the stench of my spilt tears I've lingered on the amorous Transformed into something hideous With the love of

The Dirty Sea Swingin' Utters

Nothing comes over me Nothing like inspiration Not even on the seaside No fantasies to ration The swell looks mighty slim And the water level's down The dirty sea adds to the junk I'm in Until the sun

The Next in Line Swingin' Utters

Born on the southside you live alone Four walls a roof and its always cold look out the window and there is nothing to see.

Fifteenth and T Swingin' Utters

drinkin beers in the pouring rain Dupont circle summer again jackin' wheels just for fun i was only 13 watch your step but it's always the same your always down and he's always goin' away learned a lot

Bigot's Barrel Swingin' Utters

He was 22 when helped off the ground. Beaten black and blue when his color was brown and shining shoes in a dirty town.

Unpopular Again Swingin' Utters

It's been a prosperous four years Many have come and staked their claim But now it's over and the halls are cleared And you're unpopular again It takes so little time at all To see who can really play

The Green Glass Swingin' Utters

As i walked alone in camden the city's sights and smells did permeate my senses i stepped inside the local off license and proceeded with amle gallon in my heands.

Derailer Swingin' Utters

I'm flying off the handle again, i tried to keep in touch but my grip had loosened. The saints need a second look. I'm at the boreal banquet keeping warm boozin'. Derailed - i need help.

Sign It Away Swingin' Utters

The day grows old and gray with rain skies and the troubles keeping you likewise go to bed after television as outside the moon is turning crimson All alone on a Sunday "tomorrow's no different" as you

Something Sticky Swingin' Utters

Are you guilty of this game that got me in this seat or grateful for the cross that kept Jesus off his feet filling up the tissue box instead of using the sheet wipe off remote control don't push button

One in All Swingin' Utters

Mr. product man strolling by with a kind of head-held-high hypocrisy the envy of so many walks of life but not a type like me periodically searching through the perfect library a man I am of an unusual

Brazen Head Swingin' Utters

Only passing thoughts of times long gone, tonight 9000 miles away I hear your songs, but I - I seek the comfort of the bottle and then I let my mind to wander to the face that I knew and to the places

L.O.V.E. I Hate You Swingin' Utters

You're selfishness is horrid And you're beauty is queen Puts the pain gut-wrenching And the grass a sickly green The troubles of youth Have got your hair in a mess And when you speak there's length in

Teen Idol Eyes Swingin' Utters

They always look in all directions Searching for prey, playing the field They're set like diamonds of pure pretension All polished, plastic overkill Teen idol eyes Teen idol eyes Teen idol eyes I've seen

Twenty-Three Swingin' Utters

stay but I wouldn't want it any other way Well I've been gone now far too long that's why I'm writing you this song it's been six months to date and it seems an eternity to wait but it's always hard on the

Picture's Perfect Swingin' Utters

I write alone now that you're gone And it's nothing I studied all you've said and done and it's nothing The pictures perfect There's no time It's nothing Resolutions made What's yours is mine and it's

Time Tells Time Swingin' Utters

look through these deserted eyes and past the desolation in them is realized the drama of frustration taken paths worn down with life, sanctified with tension oh, the glory of a working day is glory only

Last Chance Swingin' Utters

the last of the daydreams have walked out the open door avoiding any problems they might've had with the social law well, i remember Tuesday and every last day of my life and i'll never forget anything

London Drunk Swingin' Utters

i'm burning in this pit i dug myself in an hour ago and up around the corner lies that bastard pub's front door and in my many changing moods and on similar days i've cursed and spat mercilessly at the

As Sure As I'm Down Swingin' Utters

Well we're all gone good-bye see you so long And you're so young and glad to see us move on When the day's long and the moon just stares you down notice your shoes are dirty when your heart's on the ground

Taken Train Swingin' Utters

Somewhere between time to time I depend on my fuckin' alibis But now it's all a different story And it's gettin' pretty damn boring I have taken the train Fuck all others in Spain 'Cause I've taken the

Good People Swingin' Utters

Did you ask that man On the corner for the time of day Did he shrug and glance at his wrist and say "Dunno, here you go" And hand you a fool's gold watch I should tell you some sacred stories Secret and