Kick My Ass Vic Chesnutt

I'm so sorry You had to kick my ass You said I ruined your life I didn't mean to do that I had to untangle Where we was entwined It was strangling me Were you breathing so fine?

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

Steve Willoughby Vic Chesnutt

worth a fig Someday I'm gonna be good Someday I'm gonna be virtuous Someday I'll be a paragon Like Louis Farrakahan But today I simply I'm a mess I'm in a mess Someday I'm gonna be cool Someday I'm gonna kick

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

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

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

Thumbtack Vic Chesnutt

Take a light bulb from the closet And replace the one above the faucet scrape The whisker from my face nick my lip in pointless haste Take a magic marker black darken a spot on the map of a county on

Isadora Duncan Vic Chesnutt

diversify And she sang I should do the same So I whistled to her how 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

In My Way, Yes Vic Chesnutt

I say yes Taking my time Working on lines Fingers in clay Everyday Head in the clouds Moving my mouth Spreading the grout That's holding it down Do you think it makes a difference?

Virginia Vic Chesnutt

Pusha TIn my "Home Sweet Home" I keep chrome next to my bones Alters my walk to limpin' Since I love the feel, I guess I'm passionately pimpin' It 'tis what it seems That thing imprintin' through the seams

I'm Through Vic Chesnutt

these etiquette's Like you wouldn't believe I'm puzzled by the policies 'cause after everything else you draw out of me You still expect cute curtsies But I'm through, through, through Carrying you on my

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

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?

Panic Pure Vic Chesnutt

My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler High up to the darkest sky Some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never ever be able to repeat At times I might could be accused of

Miss Mary Vic Chesnutt

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 with my

To Be With You Vic Chesnutt

Thoughts of your flutter are flooding my mind Not constant like a buzz but strobe thumping like a heart beat Drowning any other notion Now I am sure, now I am sure, now I am sure When I met you everything

Flirted With You All My Life Vic Chesnutt

I flirted with you all my life Even kissed you once or twice To this day I swear it was nice. But clearly, I was not ready. When you touched a friend of mine, I thought I would loose my mind.

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

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

Dodge Vic Chesnutt

shit everywhere that there is to eat Guess it's time for me to get the fuck out of Dodge I bent over backwards to misbehave It's a holy wonder I just didn't flip on over into an early grave I showed my

Stevie Smith Vic Chesnutt

always loved larking and now he's dead it must have been too cold for him, his heart gave way they said. oh, no, no, no, it was always too cold still the dead one lay moaning i was much too far out all my

Rambunctious Cloud Vic Chesnutt

The rain comes from rambunctious cloud The same water that the dinosaurs drank Is the same water that the Persian fleets sank in The very water that moistened the primordial ooze Is now hammering on my

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

Rabbit Box Vic Chesnutt

rabbit box and i set it facing north but i caught a possum and a kitten both of which were a bitch to set free cause I thought they were going to bite me but we all three escaped safely well once I took my

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

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

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

Mississippi is a mess sometimes and not only when it rain show come You went back to that malaria island cause our friendship is strained Those were the days when you were so cosmopolitan these are the days, My

Vesuvius Vic Chesnutt

wisdom, chewing the leather straps Trying to hold the sun still with a bobby pin Burned fingers. excellent conductor of heat Private fantasies are not public policy Christian charity is a doily over my

Confusion Vic Chesnutt

ve tied up all my little ravels I come across a new row of tatters It seems I?m getting sick of a taking care of Life and other matters Well, there?s a few hundred blackbirds That?

Where Were You Vic Chesnutt

chatting heart to heart on that front porch with a view Where were you girl when I needed you Where were you two weeks ago, a week again after your promise I was in your place of employment crying in my

Band Camp Vic Chesnutt

Well the first time I ever laid eyes on you Was my first year at marching band camp You never played the part as it was written You would always vamp You was always cracking me up Messing with the band

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

Stay Inside Vic Chesnutt

My bedclothes have gone all funky I've got to get out of this cave Stay inside!

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

2nd Floor Vic Chesnutt

even mentioned it If you didn't seem so tuned into it You've got to climb the second floor Short chore great reward I'm in the east but I'm looking west When I'm facing north The big huge valley's to my

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

Bernadette Vic Chesnutt

I was shivering, I'll admit it I had nothing better to do except to wheeze my lazy wheeze "Bernadette, where are you" "Bernadette, where are you" she gets much acclamation for such a self ordained Faustian

Soggy Tongues Vic Chesnutt

Well the big huge valley 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

Big Huge Valley Vic Chesnutt

Well the big huge valley 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

Speed Racer Vic Chesnutt

I think it's my attention span clipped by TV at an early age well who heard the radio when you are five years old?

Aunt Avis Vic Chesnutt

really shouldn't How to remember how to be good How to continue when I feel I really shouldn't Teach me Great Uncle to hear the talk Show me Aunt Avis with your ageless chalk Scratch it out for me on my

The Garden Vic Chesnutt

Don't you go now Don't you go now Hey don't draw the line Did you know it'll be all right So baby blue don't cry Don't you go now Don't you go now Hey don't draw the line Did you know it'll be all right My

What Do You Mean? Vic Chesnutt

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Forthright Vic Chesnutt

Looking in the hourglassAnts in the sandReflected in the oil lampI can see the wrinkles in your handYou can be forthright with meYou can be forthright with meNext to the pot-bellied stoveHand on th...

Girl's Say Vic Chesnutt

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Zippy Morocco Vic Chesnutt

Zippy morocco with a hat on his headSet sail for the seven seasWhen his mother took to deadBarely out of teenagedomWhen his mental map was unfurledThe next thing that he knew He found himself halfw...

Sultan, So Mighty Vic Chesnutt

trouble pleasing Certain ladies And what he don't know Won't hurt him What we know Would never hurt him But he would hurt us If he knew what we know ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By VIC

Wren's Nest Vic Chesnutt

illuminated by a moonbeam As he swoops silently before us Toward a fateful meeting in the forest Oh, so horribly intensely I prayed Let me evaporate ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By VIC

Danny Carlisle Vic Chesnutt

He wanted a tree fort more than anythingYes, he wanted to build and defend one on his ownBut the neighbor boys BB siege was overwhelmingSo he won't be building his dream tree fort anymoreHe receive...