In My Way, Yes Vic Chesnutt

I say yes Taking my time Working on lines Fingers in clay Everyday Head in the clouds Moving my mouth Spreading the grout That's holding it down Do you think it makes a difference?

I'm Through Vic Chesnutt

Forget everything I ever told you I'm sure I lied way more than twice But understand I am not Emily post You know I'm nowhere near that precise And I struggle with these etiquette's Like you wouldn't believe

Fa-La-La Vic Chesnutt

found The embodiment of life force In a hospital gown Yeah, I could feel my body healing I would crank up the head Of my hospital bed All the way up When they would wake me at dawn Then I'd gaze out at

Got To Me Vic Chesnutt

I couldn't get away from it I was in over my head I guess it really got to me I guess it really got to me, yes I fought it hard and heavy But I could not shake it off I guess it really got to me I guess

Confusion Vic Chesnutt

m lost in confusion again Yes, I?

West Of Rome Vic Chesnutt

West of Rome, just east of the border In a static-y Ramada inn Polishing his boots and pummeling his liver Steeped in the dark isolation Just what business does he have around here Credentials are wearing

Sponge Vic Chesnutt

Pleasure is melting like chocolate My blue ribbon gumption is gone All my gravy must have soaked into something And the world The filthy steps, the cold concrete The phony earth below my feet The ancient

Bakersfield Vic Chesnutt

Well the souvenirs On my dusty shelf Well I get out the Tarn-X, And I polish them myself Yes, posters are falling, But who needs them at my age?

Lucinda Williams Vic Chesnutt

Imports and altercations My faculties on a shoe-string vacation I settled down on a hurt as big as Robert Mitchum And listen to Lucinda Williams Oh, convenient lies, rubber knives I'm a dastardly villain

Stupid Preoccupations Vic Chesnutt

I am sick of you Expecting me to do All those puny ingratiations You know I am a terrible patient I am barely alive Ever since my daddy died And I've been searching for my own little babies To misbehave

Soggy Tongues Vic Chesnutt

Well the big huge valley is a ribbon of light The aqueducts are snakes tonight The stars are homesteaders, staking claims My head is hopping with historical names Transfer trucks are buffalo's Chewing

Big Huge Valley Vic Chesnutt

Well the big huge valley is a ribbon of light The aqueducts are snakes tonight The stars are homesteaders, staking claims My head is hopping with historical names Transfer trucks are buffalo's Chewing

Independence Day Vic Chesnutt

Well future stepped into my field and turned it into an empire Forefathers where are you now? Your dust is settling on my furniture Oh independence day, I never knew it would be so symbolic.

Isadora Duncan Vic Chesnutt

Once I dreamed I was dancing with Isadora Duncan In a silver cafe, It was a cafe that was not at all near here She was planning to diversify And she sang I should do the same So I whistled to her how

Danny Carlisle Vic Chesnutt

He wanted a tree fort more than anything Yes, he wanted to build and defend one on his own But the neighbor boys BB siege was overwhelming So he won't be building his dream tree fort anymore He received

Withering Vic Chesnutt

What are you doing withering away Yes I've heard you've lost the will to play Whatever happened to those fluid movements You were so proud of in the intimate moments What about the girl you left at the

Florida Vic Chesnutt

Florida, Florida, the redneck riviera Florida, Florida, there's no more pathetic place in America Yes a man must make unpopular decisions, surely from time to time And a man can only stand what a man can

Dying Young Vic Chesnutt

Holes in his sweater, fluid in his lungs The experts say there's things He should've done better But instead he is just dying young And tired of disbelieving, sick of struggling The experts busy Their

Band Camp Vic Chesnutt

Well the first time I ever laid eyes on you Was my first year at marching band camp You never played the part as it was written You would always vamp You was always cracking me up Messing with the band

Soft Picasso Vic Chesnutt

new friends weren't that far away But the modern man he just wasn't so lucky He being shook from his usual role as the heartbreaker He was completely battered and bewildered When he actually started in

Drunk Vic Chesnutt

she said it, she should know She'd by told by, she knows She'd been through it, quantity What can I say, I do what I can Get that panic pack She's been to Rome yes When they so it so as they do Oh, Lordy

Stevie Smith Vic Chesnutt

man, but still he lay moaning: i was much further out than you thought and not waving but drowning poor chap he always loved larking and now he's dead it must have been too cold for him, his heart gave way

Strange Language Vic Chesnutt

Up on the bluff, where I wish I was Twisting up the pages of history My cold feet dangling, my bony arms gesturing To summon up a little chunk of that history In the corridor the shadows are long And it

Wrong Piano Vic Chesnutt

Oberheim, Yamaha, Steinway And the lot I must have played the wrong piano Cause it left me with, I don't know what So don't talk to me about mistakes yes We all simply have got to take precautions

Gluefoot Vic Chesnutt

Cross my heart and cross my eyes Stick a needle in my thigh Drop kick my unscrewed lid And fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle with what's inside A rusty mass of machinations Still I'm vying for the right

Kick My Ass Vic Chesnutt

I'm so sorry You had to kick my ass You said I ruined your life I didn't mean to do that I had to untangle Where we was entwined It was strangling me Were you breathing so fine?

Virginia Vic Chesnutt

of my jeans, by all means Lost it all, from lives to love Put my faith in my money, help me rise above See I turned to the Lord when them times got tough Bullied through streets, powder I pushed and shoved

Thumbtack Vic Chesnutt

Take a light bulb from the closet And replace the one above the faucet scrape The whisker from my face nick my lip in pointless haste Take a magic marker black darken a spot on the map of a county on

Where Were You Vic Chesnutt

Where were you two years ago when I was locked out there at the barn When some certain Athens sacred monster was doing me in the charm We could've been chatting heart to heart on that front porch with

Girl's Say Vic Chesnutt

Physiology is no mystery A jigsaw puzzle is only a trial and error game Yes and girls say "you look great today". And boys say "hey, show me all your boobs". Girls say, "I could use a back rub".

Rabbit Box Vic Chesnutt

while I was still in elementary school I discovered Daddy's tools and amassed a small pile, of scrap lumber and I built a rabbit box and i set it facing north but i caught a possum and a kitten both of

Styrofoam Vic Chesnutt

Emotion drains Like the contents of a cooler My thorax is Styrofoam I'm a cheap spent shell And a bio hazard Grind me up then mail me away Maybe transmogrified I'll be satisfied That finally at long last

Panic Pure Vic Chesnutt

My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler High up to the darkest sky Some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never ever be able to repeat At times I might could be accused of

Bernadette Vic Chesnutt

I was shivering, I'll admit it I had nothing better to do except to wheeze my lazy wheeze "Bernadette, where are you" "Bernadette, where are you" she gets much acclamation for such a self ordained Faustian

Dodge Vic Chesnutt

there on these streets I always hate to ponder who's under those sheets Every little thing is temporary If I stay here any longer I'll end up very very scary It's just a general freak that is boiling in

Ignorant People Vic Chesnutt

Born as I was to ignorant people Too traumatized to take me home Came in a car and left on an embankment Covered with pine straw But instinct saved me Something innate Made my wet lungs scream with hate

Rambunctious Cloud Vic Chesnutt

it won t help the drought At this point I just hope it cools things down The rain comes from rambunctious cloud The same water that the dinosaurs drank Is the same water that the Persian fleets sank in

Steve Willoughby Vic Chesnutt

George But today I simply I ain't worth a fig I ain't worth a fig Someday I'm gonna be good Someday I'm gonna be virtuous Someday I'll be a paragon Like Louis Farrakahan But today I simply I'm a mess I'm in

The Garden Vic Chesnutt

There's a dark fading light In the garden where you Lay your head tonight Through the darkened hours Were you thinking of me?

Onion Soup Vic Chesnutt

Mississippi is a mess sometimes and not only when it rain show come You went back to that malaria island cause our friendship is strained Those were the days when you were so cosmopolitan these are the days, My

2nd Floor Vic Chesnutt

your neck where you are You've got to climb to the second floor And I wouldn't've even mentioned it If you didn't seem so tuned into it You've got to climb the second floor Short chore great reward I'm in

Naughty Fatalist Vic Chesnutt

Rave and rant in yer old Foster Grants I can see my billowy reflection You're a giant You're a giant A little late night caching A tender moving soul shake With all light diffused You'll wake up butch

Speed Racer Vic Chesnutt

I think it's my attention span clipped by TV at an early age well who heard the radio when you are five years old?

Assist Vic Chesnutt

Mustache noveliers, I'm in need of such a little assist I'm in need of some of your little wisdom Where are you Mr.

Forthright Vic Chesnutt

Looking in the hourglass Ants in the sand Reflected in the oil lamp I can see the wrinkles in your hand You can be forthright with me You can be forthright with me Next to the pot-bellied stove Hand on

Thailand Vic Chesnutt

It's a battle of the culinary arts in that boiling land you Met your mate over across that river and some good old heroin In Thailand Into our lovely story, who do we insert but the mighty, Mighty Steve

Mr. Reilly Vic Chesnutt

Reilly who swears that in Baton Rouge Louisiana, they don't care about, his philosophy he swears that any time in Baton Rouge everything is the same well we stared into the cup, but we could not see the

Sad Peter Pan Vic Chesnutt

It's the plan of most to discover that magnificent ghost When did I get perverted and my innocent eyes diverted From a view so grand imbued with distractions I'm greedy like Senior Babbitt I'm just

Super Tuesday Vic Chesnutt

super tuesday, on the ball super tuesday i am out on a stroll super tuesday, i'm in control oh, super tuesday I'm out on a stroll oh I am out on a stroll super tuesday, i'm in the door super tuesday I

Sleeping Man Vic Chesnutt

You're a freak of nature You are a siamese You are in a pickle jar For all the world to see Watching the sleeping man Watching the sleeping man Watching the sleeping man Watching the sleeping man You are