Death Of Manolete 10000 Maniacs

There were women holding rosaries On the day Manolette died Teenage girls in soft white dresses Standing silent peace respecting Groups of boys held in their hands The fragments of a shattered idol

National Education Week 10000 Maniacs

Honor salute and speak To the corner standing flag Do you remember how the days of school were Indivisible separate worlds Compare contrast These dreams absurd Placid classroom faces Breathe in the

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

Anthem for a Doomed Youth 10000 Maniacs

dying like cattle Don't tell me We're not prepared I've seen today's marine He's eighteen and he's eager He can be quite mean No mock'ries for them No prayers or bells The demented choirs The wailing of

Hateful Hate 10000 Maniacs

Curiosity filled the heads of these, there was an upper room they had to see. Curiosity killed the best of these for a hero's hometown welcoming. Still they moved on and on.

City Of Angels 10000 Maniacs

Stumble, stagger, fall and drag themselvesalong the streets of heaven. Where is the blessed table to feed all who hunger on earth, welcomed and seated each one joyfully served?

My Sister Rose 10000 Maniacs

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 life of years free of tears.

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.

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.

Grey Victory 10000 Maniacs

There was light and atomic fission Swelling wind Rising ash Tide of Black Rain Cement seared shadow traces Reminiscent of their last commands Instantly one thousand flames arising Ill scent the burning

Noah's Dove 10000 Maniacs

You were the chosen one, the pure eyes of Noah's dove. Choir boys and angles stole your lips and your halo. In your reckless mind, you act as if you've got more lives.

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.

The Colonial Wing 10000 Maniacs

here is the store house of Her Majesty well guarded by sentry but looks are free call this the rayless and benighted age witches by tallow candles shifted shifted their shapes here is the pestle and mortar

Maddox Table 10000 Maniacs

the legs of Maddox kitchen tables my whole life twisted on a lathe in a foreman's torrent my first English was "faster boy if you want your pay" barking commands loud and simple we could all obey then

Gun Shy 10000 Maniacs

By the 1/4 inch cut of your hair and the Army issue green, for the past eight weeks I can tell where you've been.

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.

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 enterprises

Tension Make a Tangle 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 enterprises

Back O' the Moon 10000 Maniacs

below a second story room to whistle you down the man who's let to divvy up time is a miser he's got a silver coin only lets it shine for hours while you sleep it away there's one rare and odd style of

Cherry Tree 10000 Maniacs

I live in silence, afraid to speak of my life of darkness because I cannot read. For all those lines and circles, to me, a mystery. Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.

Arbor Day 10000 Maniacs

wide open falsehood the clan destine truths rival till the end in a series of duels pardon the drapery language I choose Waltz in Vienna has taught me to use every tall room a fiction leather bound treasure

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

Among The Americans 10000 Maniacs

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 paper signed by the drunken hands of

What's The Matter Here 10000 Maniacs

I'm tired of the excuses everybody uses, he's their kid I stay out of it, but who gave you the right to do this?

I'm Not The Man 10000 Maniacs

Late shift, the bell that rang, a time card won't fade. 10:05 his truck pulled home. 10:05 he climbed his stair, about the time he was accused of being there. But I'm not the man.

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.

Jubilee 10000 Maniacs

He takes nail and hammer to tack up the banner of felt scraps glued together reading, "Jesus Lives In Me."

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

The Lion's Share 10000 Maniacs

The lambs are bare of fleece and cold; the lion has stolen that, I'm told. There must be some creature mighty as you are. The lambs go hungry (not fair), the biggest portion is the lion's share.

Girl On A Train 10000 Maniacs

Certain they would meet soon, pain a portrait of a family. Single light on, single way, single light away. The night fell.

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

Poor De Chiciro 10000 Maniacs

dear friend Giorgio How has this time Breton Discouraged your liaison with the Eye styled metaphysical Incongruous scenarios Dauntly jaunt about through nostalgic despair Within childlike renderings Of

Poor De Chirico 10000 Maniacs

dear friend Giorgio How has this time Breton Discouraged your liaison with the Eye styled metaphysical Incongruous scenarios Dauntly jaunt about through nostalgic despair Within childlike renderings Of

A Campfire Song 10000 Maniacs

A lie to ssay, "O my river where mant fish do swim, half of the catch is mine when you haul your nets in." Never will he believe that his greed is a blinding ray.

The Big Parade 10000 Maniacs

And by the rhythm of the rails, reading all his mother's mail from a city boy in a jungle town postmarked Saigon. He'll go live his mother's dream, join the slowest parade he'll ever see.

The Painted Desert 10000 Maniacs

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 morning frost.

Dust Bowl 10000 Maniacs

I'm adding doctor's fees to remedies with the cost of three day's work lost. I try and try but I can't save. Pennies, nickels, dollars slip away. I've tried and tried but I can't save.

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.

A Room For Everything 10000 Maniacs

I was looking the other way, voices call from the east, I saw my roots of the trees there planted at my feet.

Just as the Tide Was a Flowing 10000 Maniacs

on one morning in the month of May when all the birds were singing I saw a lovely maiden stray across the fields at break of day she softly sung her roundelay the tide flows in the tide flows out twice

Everyone a Puzzle Lover 10000 Maniacs

why are some men born with minds that earn degrees the loving cups gilded plaques grace their study walls hide the cracks while their genius is turned to works of tyranny then off to market to market go

If You Intend 10000 Maniacs

God, if you persist you'll die like this, and wither in the midst of your first season, cut down with no reason. How can you be so near and not see everything?

Katrina's Fair 10000 Maniacs

KATRINA'S FAIR (Buck/Merchant) Greta's cedar hope chest Is full of pamphlets Glass shelves of romantic vignettes A journal laced with sedimentary prose Norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays Hair

Verdi Cries 10000 Maniacs

The souls of men and women, impassioned all. Their voices climb and fall; battle trumpets call. I fill the bath and climb inside, singing.

Jezebel 10000 Maniacs

To think of my task is chilling. To know I was carefully building the mask I was wearing for two years, swearing I'd tear it off.

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 Dropping

Lilydale 10000 Maniacs

come as we go far away from the noise of the street walk a path so narrow to a place where we feel at ease some think it is haunting to be drawn to the cemetery ground as we there's a stillness here thankful

Gold Rush Brides 10000 Maniacs

There's no way to divide the beauty of the sky from the wild western plains. Where a man could drift, in legendary myth, by roaming over spaces. The land was free and the price was right.

These Are The Days 10000 Maniacs

When May is rushing over you with desire to be part of the miracles you see in every hour. You'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky.

My Mother The War 10000 Maniacs

the war Mother the war Caressing the globe Touch on his isle She wrings hands in pensive waiting My mother the war Haunts her doorway Begs her postman Is there word for My mother the war Momentos of