Jim Caroll songs lyrics

By jim carroll and steve linsley You're passing, I hear your shadow through the door It's outlined on my shade Like a map of some foreign shore If I...

Every time she calls I'd like to just ignore her I think she's working both sides It's not my paranoia But I can't cut her loose That girl does the...

It must be strange to just fall from the stage And snap a bone that is so close to the brain And be attended to by so many down below I saw a doctor...

He was feeling invulnerable That was foolish but wonderful But of course the first one was always free He's got one wrist in heaven, one ankle in...

Jody, what you been doing? It's been a long, long time Since we went dancing in the schoolyard, With your breasts like bleeding limes Jody, are you...

Seven blonde women They gather in the square They raise their hands up to the sun Their skin is so thin and white You know their fathers must surely...

I hitched a ride to a desert town (I never planned this trip) I saw my past in the sun like a tongue (that slowly dripped) People faced me with...

I was born in a pool, they made my mother stand And I spat on that surgeon and his trembling hand When I felt the light I was worse than bored I...

By jim carroll We should have left at once We should have never stayed Now they have drawn the line Now there is a barricade Now there's a barricade...

I smoke a cigarette As I wait in the bath And I wait for you For an hour and a half And I go to the window Where the sky falls down in rains And I...

It's when billy's whores are re to seeorkin' They're workin' with the skeleton crew It's when the sky over jersey That sky starts to drain from view...

She's an all-night all-night rental She's a rental oriental Suki-lee... Oh, her eyes, yes her eyes... You better pass her by Suki-lee... each night...

Everything you ever wanted Is passing with the driving rain I died like a salamander On my heart heavy like a chain I been waiting here at the uptown...

I write your name Everywhere I go Like a worn out code Just to let you know I write your name On my loneliness On the closet hook where you hung...

Sirens begin, the red light spins Hungry go the thieves Betty's in the sandbox trying to detox She always wears long sleeves Desdemona in a red...

Day and night . . . the shadows move too slowly From dark to light she promised she could know me Remember when . . . I watched her on the stairway...

[messed? ] and peculiar Dancing with julia I see no spare sky This is the last try The static from dreaming Is only now seeming To bring on disaster...

She moves through the black door She turns toward the desperate light With her breath like iodine With her filigree design She summons the fire from...

By jim carroll and wayne woods Evangeline My first lady, She wears satin gloves Since her hands got dirty She travels here She travels there . . ....

The gravity here is just sick for revenge It's like my lungs are filled with chains . . . The sky seems so low, It hasn't moved this slow Since the...