LyricsSongs For Dogs

Don't you think that love is worth a try

Stay a little while, drink a little wine

Let's play a Hank Williams song

And we'll dance your hand in mine

Can you tell I want you baby

Is it worth a try

I've had a lot of trouble, you've had yours, I hear

People come along, people disappear

Grief is as close to love as either of us have come by

Can you tell I want you baby, is it worth a try

I ran out of time in New York

Before I left I had to change my luck

I wasn't having too much fun, you know

Tramps like me don't get to do the fun stuff

But I thought of you while it rained

I was closing out the registers

I thought of you on the L train

Shut my eyes and kissed your picture

So is it worth a try

Does it sound like trouble

Shall I see myself out

Should I come again tomorrow

Have I reached dry land

Will you dance your hand in mine

Can you tell I love you baby, is it worth a try

Can you tell I love you baby, is it worth a try

Children chasing stray chickens down on Marcy Road

I woke with Van on a sideways bed cause the frame wouldn't hold

And I smoked just for the hell of it cause it made some people mad

And it's a pretty stupid way to waste your money

I wish I understood the reason but I don't know why

Back then a little ring of fire was like our own sunrise

A little ring of fire was like our own sunrise

Van had screaming fits she'd rage and throw out all my clothes

I'd lay naked on the bed trying hard not to laugh

And then we'd talk about Ava whispering to her through a dream

The sky looked bruised and weary then, like a Belle Morris kid

And I wish I understood the reason but I don't know why

It seems like all is said and done and yet the sun still rises

Yeah but if all is said and done why does the sun still rise

Life's love slips right through my hands

Indeed I am just like that fool

Who called himself a Romeo

From a funny spinning dive bar stool

It ain't fair but I guess some windows

Must be built to face the trains

Woken from another dream

By that screaming opera man

Some sunny day I'll come around

Just as gentle a spring wind

Maybe we can laugh about it

Maybe we can try again

I wish I understood the reason why good love has got to die

But it feels like all is said and done and yet the sun still rises

I tried to give her all my love, til all my fields were scorched and dried

If all is said and done why does the sun still rise

But if all is said and done why does the sun still rise

If all is said and done why does the sun still rise

We lept cracks in the pavement, arm over arm

Laughed along an old empty church

Slept under a sky all lousy with stars

On a bench in Tompkins Park

I had a room out in Ridgewood along Flushing and Grand

Kept the lights on with some help from back home

But I never did call to thank the old man

Sophie, were you always alone

Remember the pictures you drew of my songs

The tangle of lines like a bird's nest

I was yours, you were mine

So why do you take your hand from my hand

You know me

I'm still that lonely man

Who met you on a train

Who met you on a train

They said, here is a prison that looks like a home

So go get to work and whittle your shivs

And we served the time while we held the keys

And we stood at guard so we'd stay shut in

You and I would shout until

That angry Albanian woman came

And told us what awaits in hell

If we kept carrying on that way

It's been so long since I've laughed a good deep laugh

With you it always came so easy

I was yours, babe, you were mine

So why do you take your hand from my hand

You know me, I'm still that lonely man

Who met you on a train

Who met you on a train

You know me, I'm still that lonely man who met you on a train

Who met you on a train

Who met you on a train

Who met you on a train

Take it all, take it all, take it all, take it all

I don't want it, you can have it, take it all

In our sacred twilight moments

Under patchwork ceilings

Horses in a picture frame cry out

Lord, even cowgirls get the blues

I pulled you close and kissed your eyes

In love, that mystic feeling

And we danced all night to Satan is real

In your little living room

You whispered the waltz with me, baby

To the end of the line

Let's have something together

That'll last a long time

Take it all, take it all, take it all, take it all

I don't want it, you can have it, take it all

If you want it just take it all

I never wandered very far

Mostly I just worked all day

Writing songs and plays that might

Redeem a little of your faith

I call it work, but damn it all

I never got paid a single cent

If you want them, they're yours as well

I can't even look at them

We danced in your living room

To your Louvin Brothers records

What did you want from me

I ain't got nothing else

Take it all, take it all, take it all, take it all

I don't want it, you can have it, take it all

If you want it, just take it all

You hung from me, baby, from you I'd have hanged

Laurel wreaths, beer drunk days

Take it all, Take it all, take it all, take it all

I don't want it, you can have it, take it all

Well, I'm a born bullshitter and a waste of your goddamned time

I'd have made it as a poet, but I couldn't keep between the lines

Why don't you take me to your little hideaway

Touch me with your sequined grace

I'll kiss you just like we did before with the covers pulled close to your face

They'll bury us in a pool hall among the drunks, the dicks and the sharks

You and I, we were only striking matches in the dark

Well, it figures the same, you're just dancing with a different man

Honey, watch the rain, cause he's bound to melt away in your hand

I wanna spin outside your little white house like the moon does every night

Dance with Sasha in the corner somewhere while I watch you throw away your life

Waltz straight up to your window sill, sing the broken little tune of a lark

Cause you and I, we were only striking matches in the dark

You and I, we were only striking matches in the dark

They wanted to put me on the firing line until I was just another one of your marks

You and I, we were only striking matches in the dark

You and I, we were only striking matches in the dark

A drunk winds howling on the fire escape

I stink like dead water and dried mermaids since yesterday

I ashed my spirit in a turtle shell in Kingston

Prayed to the strung up son of God in a Chinese Mormon churchfront window

Anyhow

How are you lately

Anyhow

How have you been

Anyhow

Do you still hate me

Anyhow

Anyhow

I saw your gypsy friend at Iceage station

He was wearing that jacket you got him when he was just passing through

Did you fall in love with his letters while I

Sat in the kitchen crying into a word processor

Anyhow

How are you lately

Anyhow

How have you been

Anyhow

Do you still hate me

Anyhow

Anyhow

Anyhow

How are you lately

Anyhow

How have you been

Anyhow

Do you still hate me

Anyhow

Anyhow

I walked on mirrors down Newlyweds Lane last night

I watched the traffic catch its tail as sun broke

Madness is looking at the inside of your eyes

When the woman you love is gone anyhow

Anyhow

Anyhow

How are you lately

Anyhow

How have you been

Anyhow

Do you still hate me

Anyhow

Anyhow

Anyhow

How are you lately

Anyhow

How have you been

Anyhow

Do you still hate me

Anyhow

Anyhow

Anyhow

Are you lately

Anyhow

How have you been

Anyhow

Do you still hate me

Anyhow

Anyhow

Anyhow

Are you lately

Anyhow

Anyhow

Do you still hate me

Do you still hate me

Anyhow

Try to spare me from the news of my recent crucifixion

You say you are my lover, but I'm tired of contradictions

More and more these days I'd rather be alone

Friends ain't really friends, home ain't really home

You wait on me like you were poised to take an order

You sit there, snowflake, Hitler's prettiest soldier

But if I was a glass monkey in your shadow case

You'd smash the ark and set fire to the whole place

And if I was the cowboy riding on your cruise missile

I'd never call your foul, point the finger, blow the whistle

Given time, we can make it all better

Given time, I could even read your letters

Without crying, without crying, without crying

Given time

What have I done to make you hate me so

When you were lonely, baby, tell me where you'd go

When you were sick, who brought you back to health

When you needed a little money, who spread the wealth

I know you wanna kill me and I'd gladly let ya

But I won't sign no treaties if it means I must forget ya

I've given all the love I've found to you

I'd drag my crosses across the ground to you

If I was a student learning in your classroom

I'd try to win your heart with spit darts and dirty cartoons

Given time, we can make it all better

Given, I could even read your letters

Without crying, without crying, without crying

Given time

We can make it all better

Given time, I could even read your letters

Without crying, without crying, without crying

Given time

I get a strange headache

My dog has gone blind

And think he’s back to drinkin’

He’s showing all the signs

I get sad feelings

Like wrap has come around

And the actor who’s grown tired of loving

Must change partners and switch towns

And thats too bad cause

Not a day has gone by

When I never thought of you

The love we had was

that a lie- as you know-

I have a hard time with the truth

I am not a magician

I left mohammed bleeding in the street

And theres no secret how I disappear

I’m like a fire in its dormancy

I’ll be back around babe

Given months or maybe even years

Even just watch your eyes strain

To hold bouquets of tears

Or you could stay mad

Bout whatever it was

What judge ever needed proof

Maybe the love we had

Wasn’t worth that much

But I have a hard time with the truth

I’m left to rake my miseries

And smoke them desert spirit blues

Half a teacup full of chicory

And a souvenir book of gustav’s nudes

Yeah he hid her in the flowers they say,

And she herself was lost when he died

Is all this going ever gonna be

Worth the goddamned ride?

I want you bad

Not a day has gone by

When I never thought of you

The love we had was

that a lie- as you know-

I have a hard time with the truth

Sorry that I made you cry

Sorry you hang off of me

Sorry that you want to die

Hope it isn't cause of me

True love's late to find you

Moonlight starts to make you sick

The dog will bark at children walking home

Gunshot sounds and the smell of Krispy Kreme

Sorry that I made you cry

Sorry you hang off of me

I believe that you are special

But I don't believe you're made for me

One will read you tarot cards

One will read you smut

One will ask have you read Jung

They all want to lock you up

Freedom's always out of reach

And yet it's always in the past

It was never there if you ask me

Why do you spit when I say that

Sorry that I've got to go

Something's happening in the Old City

Sorry that you want to die

Hope it isn't cause of me

Hope it isn't cause of me

I sure hope it isn't cause of me

I want to love you but I know that I must move on

So tell me what am I waiting on

I got a heavy heart and pockets that are empty

I'm only asking for your sympathy

How many roads can you drag a man down

Before there's nothing but dust behind

How many times will you toss me out

Before I stop turning around to bite your line

Well, I ain't gonna do it this time

I believe this is goodbye

Hey, lover, goodbye

Hey, lover, goodbye

Hey, lover, goodbye

Lover, goodbye

I wrote you so many songs they even started to rhyme

But my heart couldn't never match

And so I reckon that I must be living somebody else's life

I wasn't born, I was only hatched

How you gonna live with yourself

I open my mind to the epiphany

And I quit your love for my own health

Wipe the last tears off of me

And take my mind off your cold blue eyes

The moon that too was mine

Hey, lover, goodbye

Lover, goodbye

I heard the noise of a freight train rolling off into the woods

Like somebody else's pain

I left the silence wondering if my trouble did me any good

I guess I didn't learn anything

So let's see how many roads you can drag me down

Go ahead and toss me out

See if I turn around and bite your line

I ain't gonna do it this time

I believe this is goodbye

Hey, lover, goodbye

Lover, goodbye

Hey, lover, goodbye

Lover goodbye

Shake the rain from your umbrella

Shake your pain, my blue-eyed Cinderella

Ain't lovin' the hardest part of livin

Ain't livin' easier than forgivin

Ain't this where the cellos come in

And drown the echoes of the violin

So why's that fiddle player playin' our song again

Ain't this where the cellos come in

Turn around and just come to me

Close your eyes and see through me

Here goes nothing, there goes everything

Without you the sorrow is all tomorrow brings

Ain't this where the cellos come in

And drown the echoes of the violin

So why's that fiddle player playin' our song again

Ain't this where the cellos come in

Ain't this where the cellos come in

I may be empty-handed but i did not waste my time

Holding you past when I should have gone

We flew into the cradle of everything that went wrong

And we brought our troubles west across la seine

The fires back home didn’t put themselves out

But you could dance like no one else

Your love was a healing thing,

Yeah, thats what you said to me

Your love was a healing thing

Whatever happens here, it always will be

You taught me how to want

To pick like Elizabeth Cotten

And to dance the lady cardinal

To every Connie Converse record

No one would believe us

If we told them how much love we made

Between your jobs and my

Gainful unemployment

A scorpion will sting itself if theres nothing else around

Just to touch you it was worth the pain,

Your love was a healing thing

Yeah, you said that to me

Your love was a healing thing

And wherever I go, It goes with me

I may be empty-handed but I did not lose my mind

Holding you

Holding you too long