| 1. Jim Carroll - Catholic Boy |
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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...
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| 2. Jim Carroll - Differing Touch |
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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...
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| 3. Jim Carroll - People Who Died |
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Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old Fell from the roof on East Two-nine Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug On 26 reds and a bottle of wine ...
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| 4. Jim Carroll - Day And Night |
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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...
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| 5. Jim Carroll - Dance The Night Away |
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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...
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| 6. Jim Carroll - Black Romance |
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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...
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| 7. Jim Carroll - I Write Your Name |
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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...
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| 8. Jim Carroll - City Drops Into The Night |
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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...
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| 9. Jim Carroll - What's Number One |
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Those were high times back in Delhi I was left for dead Everybody beat it to L.A. So the papers read But I said, "No, this is not where I...
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| 10. Jim Carroll - Hairshirt Fracture |
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It's a garbage truck hour, I'm sleeping in the shower I'm feeling like I'm waiting on a train By the sounds from my bed I think somebody's bled ...
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| 11. Jim Carroll - Crimes Of Passion |
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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......
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| 12. Jim Carroll - Desert Town |
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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...
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| 13. Jim Carroll - Falling Down Laughing |
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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...
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| 14. Jim Carroll - Wicked Gravity |
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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...
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| 15. Jim Carroll - Love Crimes |
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Hollywood looks good at night The TVs get fine reception But last night Jean told Steve About her imminent conception She wants a plum tree for...
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| 16. Jim Carroll - Rooms |
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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...
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| 17. Jim Carroll - Crow |
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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...
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| 18. Jim Carroll - Dry Dreams |
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Each night, they surround me With the lights and the microphones . . . With their bodies and the mile of cable Like a magic ring of bone Every...
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| 19. Jim Carroll - Evangeline |
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By Jim Carroll and Wayne Woods Evangeline My first lady, She wears satin gloves Since her hands got dirty She travels here She travels...
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| 20. Jim Carroll - Lorraine ( |
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I was underneath the staircase I was talking with my angel He said that beauty is only terror You know, when terror is just beginning I thought...
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