Mark Lanegan Album

The stars and a moon
Aren't where they're supposed to be
For the strange electric light
It falls so close to me
Love, I come to ride
High on that seasick rolling wave
And you know that I am
Just trying to get out
Oh the glorious sound
Oh the one way street
But you can't get
Can't get it down without crying
When I'm dressed in white
Send roses to me
I drink so much sour whiskey I can't hardly see
And everywhere I've been
There's a well that howls my name
From the one tiny sting
To that vacant fame
Oh the deafening roar
Remember that's called a one way street
And you can't get
Can't get it down without crying
Mystery's a sigh
You can't get out
In a psychotropic light, you can't get out
Love, I come to ride
High on that seasick rolling wave
That's the way that I fall, trying to get out
Oh the glorious sound
Of the one way street
And you can't get
Can't get it down without crying
Oh the deafening roar

When all is done and turned to dust
And insects nest inside my bones, I see
I stagger in a daze outside my tent
No time for being alone
To bleed
The hopeless singing of a round
That much we know to do
Before we go back underground
No easy action
Sparks fill the air some nights
Crows look for food behind my skin
Beneath
Try our best to dig it in
And keep the cold away, I see
That the sky is a vanishing place
And then there's nothing to miss
No time to get out of the ice
No easy action
Although all else may turn to dust
And insects nest inside my bones, I see
I stagger in a daze to find what you meant
Where it's good to be alone
Bleed
The hopeless singing of a round
Before that vanishing place
Before we're back underground

I promise you a miracle
And it will be done
Upon this one last disappearing
Bells toll, new lands and I look up
Sometimes
To see this old black Mary
Reach down for me
I need someone for my plaything
So lonesome in my playground
You baby, go straight to my head
And make it seem like a miracle
And make it something beautiful

Tail lights through silver rain
Somebody's excited
To be goin' away
Spring like December
On the corner now
Let the memory fade and I'll forget
Well I hope she's not alone
Smiling everywhere she goes
So sweet
Then I remember she's a little older now
I'd let that fade but I don't know how
And when the sun comes up dead
You get sick of it
Makes a howling in your head
All the time
Springtime or December
Can't find cover now
Children they get excited
When the sun comes around
I'm gonna walk in silver rain
Look for mine the same
Walk for miles til the memory fades
And when the sun comes up dead
Makes it hard when you know

Cool water divine
Now I'm thirsty with nowhere to go
And what else do we find
But sorrow and misery untold
I know you got somebody new
Much better than me
When that change starts to swing, keep in mind one thing
Don't forget me dear
And when you're lost I feel it too
Woman make life sweet
Because of what you do, all my world is you
Now I know it's not easy don't believe them when they say I'm not right
Don't put a hex on me baby
Because I don't know what's wrong or right
I know that there's somebody new
Much better than me
But because my love is true, all my best to you
Don't forget me dear
And when you're alone please take care
Don't go walking after dark
Shine a light behind the stair
Remember what might be in there
Cool water divine
Now I'm thristier with nowhere to go
It's sorrow that we find
I'm thirstier with no where to go
I know that there's somebody new
Much better than me
When that change starts to swing, keep in mind one thing
Don't forget me dear
Because my love is true, give my best to you

It's a matter of time
We always get lost
Without going very far
It's a matter of time
Like I told you before
Things are alright
If I fall to the floor
It's for closing my eyes
I came to this place
So tired at first
Kimiko's dream house
So many things
The girl's known before
Kimiko's dream house
So many things
That I've known before
To make matters worse
The trains are on time
But we're lost at the station
Still lost in our minds
Thrown to reverse
We kicked and cursed
Kimiko's dream house
So many things
The girl's known before
Kimiko's dream house
So many things
That I've known before
They're swallowing us
But dream we must
Kimiko's dream house
So many things
The girl's known before
Kimiko's dream house
There's so many things
That I've known before

Day end of day
Each hanging spiral
Where is the shore
From this clear blue silence
Up to the heavens that you daydream
Remembering the sun and the deep green ivy
I know that sleep walking too
In trying to be free
Of all this damage in my eyes
Making confusion in my mind
When I hear a resurrection song
Night lays me down when I'm fading
When I can't go home because they hate me
To sing that resurrection song
Day end of day
Each hanging spiral
What do you make
Of this clear blue silence
Now that the engine driver
Has grown to be a deep sea diver
And the street has got no end
Better keep your heart strong little friend
Thought I heard a resurrection song

Let's walk down to the water
There's hyacinth in bloom
I spend my days
Lovin' you
I left these fields
Because I never knew
To be a horse
To be a train
I wouldn't have the heart
And next to the tracks
You find an apple cart
Maybe we'll stay at home
And be together no more to move alone
Together no more to move alone
See the water It's mixed with light
For you I've been shaken
Regarding the fields

Love with my will
Love just what I can
Blood, it's all there is
In times of trial and loneliness
Too dark for finding my ground
And trees shiver and sway
If you ever seen something go down
To keep in mind all of your days
Lord you know where I been
And you know why I came
Look, I'm all done in
Pray don't send me back again
Tell her I wanted to say goodbye
Before the light was dead and gone
Tell her I didn't want to lie
Left here well enough alone
Lord you know where I been
And only you know why I came
Blood, it's all there is
Pray don't send me back again
If I stayed away too long
Many times I lost my way
If you ever been skeleton low
If you ever heard somebody say
Baby, baby

Got so sad the day
She done too much
And though I had the same
She done too much
And it's a bad, bad feeling that you get
When you get so lonely
Nothing to talk about
As another summer dies
And not a thing in this world to do

Fix
It's true
Keeps on rainin' baby
All crystalline
Your word in my head
Gonna watch from the balcony
Sing backwards and we
Fix
It's true
Keeps on raining baby
There's no explainin' baby
Gonna drive that terraplane
Across the frozen ocean
We've always been together and it's good
Love will be what's hidden
In every single fragment
I look and I fly
A flower born from you
And I am joined with you
And adorned with you
Fix
It's true
Gonna keep raining baby
Oh yeah yeah yes
And it's you that I'm missing
Won't come up missing
Well I'm torn from you
Want to be reborn with you
????
Fix It's true
Keeps on rainin' baby
Keeps on rainin' baby
Drive that terraplane
Down into the ocean
We've always been together
And it's good
Got no need for shelter
Everything's forgotten
All is forgiven and understood
A flower born from you
Reborn in you
And adorned baby
When I am joined with you
Fix
It's true
Keeps on rainin' baby