Please Forgive Us 10000 Maniacs

But the bullets were bought by us, it was dollars that paid them. Please forgive us, we don't know what was done in our name. There'll be more trials like this in mercenary heydays.

Because The Night 10000 Maniacs

command Take my hand, come under cover They can't hurt you now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us

Because The Night 10000 Maniacs

command Take my hand, come under cover They can't hurt you now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us

Stockton Gala Days 10000 Maniacs

How I've learned to please, to doubt myself in need, you'll never, you'll never know. The summer fields grow high. We made garland crowns in hiding, pulled stems of flowers from my hair.

Eden 10000 Maniacs

And in that time kind words alone will teach us, no bitterness will reach us. Reason will be guided another way.

Poison In The Well 10000 Maniacs

O, they tell us there's poison in the well, that someone's been a bit untidy and there's been a small spill. Not a lot, no, just a drop. But there you are mistaken, you know you are.

Starman (David Bowie Cover) 10000 Maniacs

loud sound did seem to fade Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase That weren\'t no D.J. that was hazy cosmic jive CHORUS There\'s a starman waiting in the sky He\'d like to come and meet us

Starman 10000 Maniacs

loud sound did seem to fade Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase That weren\'t no D.J. that was hazy cosmic jive CHORUS There\'s a starman waiting in the sky He\'d like to come and meet us

Love Among The Ruins 10000 Maniacs

And when the sun had turned its back on us, in the dark our love kept track of us, pushed together by the lack of love. The sky was falling, heaven was calling.

National Education Week 10000 Maniacs

Has clutched our global tranquility Reaped the lives of children Maladies collaborate With cyclic despair Infanticide clamors to 20 times more In 4th and 5th Worlds The poor have always been Beside us

Orange 10000 Maniacs

Lineage closed Dissolved In its birth Tragedy Prelude a balance Is a synergy Of reason Malicious hope As techno atrocities Lapse their effects Associate these ends Their clarity Demands your revenge Please

Grey Victory 10000 Maniacs

seared shadow traces Reminiscent of their last commands Instantly one thousand flames arising Ill scent the burning hides surrounding A settlement debased entirely Enola Gay had made a casual delivery Please

Headstrong 10000 Maniacs

If I told you we were out to sea in a bottomless boat, you'd try anything to save us, you'd try anything to keep us afloat.

Cherry Tree 10000 Maniacs

Over your shoulder, please don't mind me if my eyes have fallen onto your magazine for I've been watching and wondering why your face is changing with every line you read.

Trouble Me 10000 Maniacs

Please don't hide them just because of tears. Let me send you off to sleep with a "There,there, now stop your turning and tossing." Let me know where the hurt is and how to heal. Spare me?

Rainy Day 10000 Maniacs

In a blind scene, no ties would moor us to this room. A day when love came, came easy like what's lost now found. And you would save me, and I held you like you were my child.

Scorpio Rising 10000 Maniacs

power dizzy with it stumble detail a chance for us to quarrel anger my head is shaken violent if i could calm or restrain you for the sake of pity save the pistol save the cynics tongue save the cool white

Few And Far Between 10000 Maniacs

'Till you drop that heavy baggage you're dragging behind, there won't be room for us to both go this ride.

Jezebel 10000 Maniacs

Family is family, don't let this tear us apart. You lie there, an innocent baby. I feel like the thief who is raiding your home, entering and breaking and taking in every room.

More Than This 10000 Maniacs

I could feel at the time There was no way of knowing Fallen leaves in the night Who can say where they're blowing As free as the wind And hopefully learning Why the sea on the tide Has no way of t...

The Latin One 10000 Maniacs

Bent double like old beggars in sacks Knockkneed and cursing or coughing like hags Men marched on sleeping some without boots Fatigue drunken deaf still to the hoots Of breaking gas shells Droppin...

Eat For Two 10000 Maniacs

O, Baby blankets and baby shoes, baby slippers, baby spoons, walls of baby blue. Dream child in my head is a nightmare born in a borrowed bed. Now I know lightning strikes again. It struck me once...

Among The Americans 10000 Maniacs

Music: Robert Buck, Dennis Drew Lyric: Natalie Merchant dance to the sun a kiss to the earth embrace a stone come the small black book come the brandy cask one strange disease the well worded pa...

Tension 10000 Maniacs

Frail hinges pivot On a case's door Commemorative Souvenirs from places Containers change with occasion Cellophane encased Displaying paper Certificate Credit years of service A tool of central en...

Pit Viper 10000 Maniacs

In the cruel garrison of affection If worth of lore is true You know the face of a temptress Pit Viper A witch or enchantress Pit Viper With the malign venom of conceit She tries Civil men Conceal...

Gold Rush Brides 10000 Maniacs

Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads. Pass the lone church spire. Pass the talking wire from where to who knows? There's no way to divide the beauty of the sky from...

The Painted Desert 10000 Maniacs

The Painted Desert can wait till summer. We've played this game of just imagine long enough. Wait till summer ? When I'm sure the rains have ended, the blooms have gone, everyone killed by the mor...

Jubilee 10000 Maniacs

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Planned Obsolescence 10000 Maniacs

Science Is truth for life Watch religion fall obsolete Science Will be truth for life Technology as nature Science Truth for life In fortran tongue the Answer With wealth and prominence Man so nea...

Dust Bowl 10000 Maniacs

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These Are The Days 10000 Maniacs

These are the days you'll remember. Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be warm as this. And as you feel it, you'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky. It's tr...

Like The Weather 10000 Maniacs

The color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey. Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again. With a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather. A quiver in my lips as if I migh...

City Of Angels 10000 Maniacs

Heaven, is this heaven wher we are? See them walking, if youi dare , if you call that walking. Stumble, stagger, fall and drag themselvesalong the streets of heaven. Where is the blessed table to ...

More Than This 10000 Maniacs

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Even With My Eyes Closed 10000 Maniacs

Even with my eyes closed, Funny how I know it's harder, it's harder now. Young girl in my young girl days, thinking I could live for always. But like an ocean tide, I'm drawn back inside and I kno...

A Campfire Song 10000 Maniacs

A lie to say, "O my mountain has coal veins and beds to dig. 500 men with axes and they all dig for me." A lie to ssay, "O my river where mant fish do swim, half of the catch is mine when you haul...

Hey Jack Kerouac 10000 Maniacs

Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your mother and the tears she cried, she cried for none other than her little boy lost in our little world that hated and that dared to drag him down. Her little boy c...

Candy Everybody Wants 10000 Maniacs

If lust and hate is the candy, if blood and love tastes so sweet, then we give 'em what they want. Hey, hey, give 'em what they want. So their eyes are growing hazy 'cos they wanna turn it on, so ...

Hateful Hate 10000 Maniacs

In the dark night a giant slumbered untouched for centuries 'til awakened by a white man's cry: "This is the Eden I was to find." There were lands to be charted and to be claimed for a crown, when...

The Big Parade 10000 Maniacs

Detroit to D.C. night train, Capitol, parts East. Lone young man takes a seat. And by the rhythm of the rails, reading all his mother's mail from a city boy in a jungle town postmarked Saigon. He'...

Tolerance 10000 Maniacs

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Groove Dub 10000 Maniacs

Imitate that soured old song There is no individuality Only guises Shades of Nonconformity There is no individuality Selling vantage points Low rate There is no individuality Questions ancient No ...

If You Intend 10000 Maniacs

If you intend to live again, then open your eyes and don't pretend you're feeling there's nothing worth believing. God, if you persist you'll die like this, and wither in the midst of your first s...

A Room For Everything 10000 Maniacs

You were looking away from me, western skies calling you. Colors spilling, running dazzling you. I was looking the other way, voices call from the east, I saw my roots of the trees there planted a...

My Mother The War 10000 Maniacs

She borders the pavement Flanks avenues Parades pass white glove attended by My mother the war She'll raise a shaft Lift a banner Toss a rose My mother the war She's made every effort To salvage t...

My Sister Rose 10000 Maniacs

Big plans are being made for my sisters wedding day. We'll have a ball at the Sons of Roma Hall. Family, friends come one and all. First the bestman makes a toast to Rocky and my sister Rose, "A l...

Circle Dream 10000 Maniacs

I dreamed of a circle, I dreamed of a circle round. And in that circle I had made were all the worlds unformed and unborn yet. A volume, a sphere that was the earth, that was the moon, that did re...

Verdi Cries 10000 Maniacs

The man in 119 takes his tea alone. Mornings we all rise to wireless Verdi cries. I'm hearing opera through the door. The souls of men and women, impassioned all. Their voices climb and fall; batt...

Green Children 10000 Maniacs

An August day in the hills of Spain, a pair of children emerged from a cave. The strangest sight there alone they stood, with skin of green and words no one had heard. The girl was stronger, the b...

Girl On A Train 10000 Maniacs

Waking on a train dreaming, charmed alone they started speaking. Captured in his artist way before the memories fade away. To remember a face, and you're home or want to. Certain they would meet s...