Bourgeois And Biblical Vic Chesnutt

bourgeois and biblical hanging on nails mad metallic icons the old cyclone still compels your hoity haiku lip curls the onion papers drain Constantinople misty recollections cold outdoor acoustics piney

Wrong Piano Vic Chesnutt

Oberheim, Yamaha, Steinway And the lot I must have played the wrong piano Cause it left me with, I don't know what So don't talk to me about mistakes yes We all simply have got to take precautions

Gnats Vic Chesnutt

Gnats and bats and things with wings i know why the cagey fella won't sing sticks and stones and broken bones i know why my words are wrong humps and stumps and green tattoos i know why your crutches bruise

Girl's Say Vic Chesnutt

And boys say, "well I gotta leave". And girls say "watch out for your head" And boys say, "why you wanna be a bitch?" Girls say "can I get you anything?" And boys say "who you trying to kid?"

Rabbit Box Vic Chesnutt

while I was still in elementary school I discovered Daddy's tools and amassed a small pile, of scrap lumber and I built a rabbit box and i set it facing north but i caught a possum and a kitten both of

Styrofoam Vic Chesnutt

Emotion drains Like the contents of a cooler My thorax is Styrofoam I'm a cheap spent shell And a bio hazard Grind me up then mail me away Maybe transmogrified I'll be satisfied That finally at long last

Nathan Vic Chesnutt

The great grandfather, with his pious beard Bathed in the river, all his years Many books, that lined his walls Jews and gentiles, held him in awe Nathan stepped through the broken window And looked to

Soft Picasso Vic Chesnutt

It was a modern love affair Completely cool and casual They hardly knew each other was there I mean Both of them had their own getting off to do And they had to dream about their own self When they were

Danny Carlisle Vic Chesnutt

He wanted a tree fort more than anything Yes, he wanted to build and defend one on his own But the neighbor boys BB siege was overwhelming So he won't be building his dream tree fort anymore He received

Bakersfield Vic Chesnutt

Well the souvenirs On my dusty shelf Well I get out the Tarn-X, And I polish them myself Yes, posters are falling, But who needs them at my age?

Isadora Duncan Vic Chesnutt

I loved her the best But she sang "I can't believe you own this attitude", But with some ballet moves, I removed her shoes And I painted my lips to hers And still she sang "I can't believe you own this

Strange Language Vic Chesnutt

Up on the bluff, where I wish I was Twisting up the pages of history My cold feet dangling, my bony arms gesturing To summon up a little chunk of that history In the corridor the shadows are long And it

Naughty Fatalist Vic Chesnutt

Rave and rant in yer old Foster Grants I can see my billowy reflection You're a giant You're a giant A little late night caching A tender moving soul shake With all light diffused You'll wake up butch

Sad Peter Pan Vic Chesnutt

It's the plan of most to discover that magnificent ghost When did I get perverted and my innocent eyes diverted From a view so grand imbued with distractions I'm greedy like Senior Babbitt I'm just

When I Ran Off And Left Her Vic Chesnutt

When I ran off and left her She wasn't holding a baby She was holding a bottle And a big grudge against me I tried to learn from the psychiatrist How to stay calm and minimize risk But I should've kept

Miss Mary Vic Chesnutt

Miss Mary took a shower and she showed herself to me She said that God and all his glory was revealed to her carnally She said she'd been with no man, but she must have been with me And when I felt her

Lucinda Williams Vic Chesnutt

Imports and altercations My faculties on a shoe-string vacation I settled down on a hurt as big as Robert Mitchum And listen to Lucinda Williams Oh, convenient lies, rubber knives I'm a dastardly villain

Soggy Tongues Vic Chesnutt

is a ribbon of light The aqueducts are snakes tonight The stars are homesteaders, staking claims My head is hopping with historical names Transfer trucks are buffalo's Chewing up this desert road Yes and

I'm Through Vic Chesnutt

Forget everything I ever told you I'm sure I lied way more than twice But understand I am not Emily post You know I'm nowhere near that precise And I struggle with these etiquette's Like you wouldn't believe

Zippy Morocco Vic Chesnutt

down a mutiny at the edge of the earth He knew the value of the swirling sun He never overestimated his own worth It was the grief that whetted his appetite It was the grief that whetted his appetite And

Confusion Vic Chesnutt

d been a raining for days Now it seemed like everything was a gonna be alright But still those November winds keep a blowing And I?m forgetting just where to begin And then I?

Sultan, So Mighty Vic Chesnutt

I'm here because I'm a eunuch I am no threat I'm here to watch the ladies And to fan away their sweat And the sultan, so mighty Comes crawling to me When he has a little problem With the ladies I'm here

Big Huge Valley Vic Chesnutt

is a ribbon of light The aqueducts are snakes tonight The stars are homesteaders, staking claims My head is hopping with historical names Transfer trucks are buffalo's Chewing up this desert road Yes and

Bug Vic Chesnutt

"Michelle loves Willie" "Our little Sarah" "Daughters of the American Revolution" "Stryper loves Jesus" and I love a girl Against my better judgment 'Cause I feel like a squirrel My roommates got married

Gravity Of The Situation Vic Chesnutt

Well we blew past the army motorcade-and It's abnormal load haulage the gravity of the situation Came on us like a bit of new knowledge the bubbliest bubble bath Broke down on the bank the gravity of

Stupid Preoccupations Vic Chesnutt

I am sick of you Expecting me to do All those puny ingratiations You know I am a terrible patient I am barely alive Ever since my daddy died And I've been searching for my own little babies To misbehave

Stevie Smith Vic Chesnutt

nobody heard him the dead man, but still he lay moaning: i was much further out than you thought and not waving but drowning poor chap he always loved larking and now he's dead it must have been too cold

Withering Vic Chesnutt

fluid movements You were so proud of in the intimate moments What about the girl you left at the altar Now now now she is planning your funeral Didn't you learn anything at the protest rally When you and

Independence Day Vic Chesnutt

Well future stepped into my field and turned it into an empire Forefathers where are you now? Your dust is settling on my furniture Oh independence day, I never knew it would be so symbolic.

Onion Soup Vic Chesnutt

Thin and unshaved, drunk and mysterious ooh, I must say lifestyle is curious with A little touch of the sniffles and filthy socks gnawed, Crumbled fingernails never doing tomahawk chops A flaky head

Fa-La-La Vic Chesnutt

Fa-la-la is running around All over the grounds of the hospital I was watching for her Like some people watch birds From the window of my hospital room I was trapped and tired She was as free as I'd ever

West Of Rome Vic Chesnutt

West of Rome, just east of the border In a static-y Ramada inn Polishing his boots and pummeling his liver Steeped in the dark isolation Just what business does he have around here Credentials are wearing

Got To Me Vic Chesnutt

I couldn't get away from it I was in over my head I guess it really got to me I guess it really got to me, yes I fought it hard and heavy But I could not shake it off I guess it really got to me I guess

Gluefoot Vic Chesnutt

Cross my heart and cross my eyes Stick a needle in my thigh Drop kick my unscrewed lid And fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle with what's inside A rusty mass of machinations Still I'm vying for the right

Ignorant People Vic Chesnutt

Born as I was to ignorant people Too traumatized to take me home Came in a car and left on an embankment Covered with pine straw But instinct saved me Something innate Made my wet lungs scream with hate

Thailand Vic Chesnutt

It's a battle of the culinary arts in that boiling land you Met your mate over across that river and some good old heroin In Thailand Into our lovely story, who do we insert but the mighty, Mighty Steve

Mr. Reilly Vic Chesnutt

they found her swinging from a tree and i know just a week ago, she was beautiful but now now now shes rather vile they found her by the frozen lake, but it wasn't frozen enough to skate and by the look

Stay Inside Vic Chesnutt

Well the times they are a changin' Look at all the idlers Soon there will be no one to shear the sheep And I am cold natured Stay inside!

Sponge Vic Chesnutt

Pleasure is melting like chocolate My blue ribbon gumption is gone All my gravy must have soaked into something And the world The filthy steps, the cold concrete The phony earth below my feet The ancient

Florida Vic Chesnutt

Florida, Florida, the redneck riviera Florida, Florida, there's no more pathetic place in America Yes a man must make unpopular decisions, surely from time to time And a man can only stand what a man can

Bernadette Vic Chesnutt

where are you" "Bernadette, where are you" she gets much acclamation for such a self ordained Faustian Bernadette doesn't like doubters she wants to fight in the Coliseum what can you tell me of Therese and

Wren's Nest Vic Chesnutt

Like at the wren's nest Like at rock eagle Ironies swirl and hearts are twisted taut Around their pivot points The stag scrapes his felt on a scrubby dogwood tree Like at the warm springs Like at key club

Virginia Vic Chesnutt

seams of my jeans, by all means Lost it all, from lives to love Put my faith in my money, help me rise above See I turned to the Lord when them times got tough Bullied through streets, powder I pushed and

Dying Young Vic Chesnutt

Holes in his sweater, fluid in his lungs The experts say there's things He should've done better But instead he is just dying young And tired of disbelieving, sick of struggling The experts busy Their

Doubting Woman Vic Chesnutt

To hide her painterly nipples from our eye No doubt they are, doubting women No doubt they are, doubting women I was supposed to tell you about the case of a cult It's called the cult of inspiration and

In My Way, Yes Vic Chesnutt

I say yes in my life yes Cuddling up Declarations of love Squeeze and a hug A kiss and a rub Faces opposed Eyelids closed Nuzzling nose Like eskimos Don't'cha' feel silly?

Supernatural Vic Chesnutt

Built a king on compliments Charisma and advertisements Still they see him shimmer ephemeral It ain't supernatural Or maybe Out of body experience I flew around the little room once On intravenous Demerol

Speed Racer Vic Chesnutt

victim Oh, I, I, I, I am intelligent, I am intelligent I'm not a victim, I'm not a victim Oh, I, I, I, I am an atheist, I am an atheist the idea of divine order is essentially crazy the laws of action and

Vesuvius Vic Chesnutt

moon with a cane pole Trying to prop up the heavens with a fresh flat pencil Some folks are allergic to rubber I am trying to stitch this one to all the rest of them But the seams will split, collide and

The Garden Vic Chesnutt

A state of sleep Is what you'd rather be There's a pale Purple moonlight In the garden where you Lay your head to die Frozen dreams and nightmares Have you forgetting a dream Of what you always thought