Driving the nails

If you're planning your escape If you're scheming your release If you're arranging your departure From the mark of the beast I've been searching through my notebooks I've been checking through my...

Now the brakeman calls down To us folks in the car below He say "The next stop is yours I'll bring your speed down slow" So I gather up my bundle My weariness and a sense of pride That's...

I've got holes in my pocket I've got sand in my shoes I've been walkin' to the river I've been looking for you In between the seams and requiems That just drag on and on Already gone I'm a garden of...

Tender young flower grown up in my garden And I pray ever day that your heart will not harden A cynic's song surrounding you on each and every street At the altar in the bar in the faces you will...

Got this gnawing empty feeling I've been trying to shake My life it's just a reel of bad out takes And my mind gets so numb from the dumb I've been dying for a savior I've been chaffing at the bit In...

Public service non-stop Thirty days for running down a traffic cop Now I'm fresh out of the slammer Got a new job running a jackhammer Darling see the shackle marks on my skin It's a sad commentary on...

Brenda pass the brandy to me one more time It must have dropped another ten degrees Wind's been screaming like a battered woman it's a storm like i've never seen before and life makes you walk a thin...

Driving late at night signals fading fast Out here on the perimeter of my past Map says there's no exits no run off ramps to stop And the future's up there down the road in the dark Darling whisper...

The engine is hot, and the wind is wild Come on, darling Don't tarry Aren't you weary of dreams and hard-luck schemes? This'll be our sanctuary The car is warm from the chill outside that can creep...

Now if I were a politician I'd want you on my ticket If I were a hunter I'd want you in my thicket And if I were a brain surgeon You'd be inside my knife If I were a gambling man You'd be inside my...