Damn My Love 

Give me something baby make me not wanna die
Here I'll lick the dust right off your thigh
Well goddamn my love, goddamn my love 

Pink trees raining such a beautiful mess 
Walking in on nature like she's still getting dressed 
Well goddamn my love, goddamn my love 
I bled out my demons to make a little room for you 

I was overdressed and under tattooed 
Cowboy hats and neck tats all around the room 
Well goddamn my love, goddamn my love 

Every little burn is just a cry for help 
No one tears me open like I tear myself 
Sing until the sadness flies out your mouth 

Used up like an angel honey bought and sold 
If you're only young once, how many times are you old? 
Well goddamn my love, goddamn my love 

She rolls them rose petal joints with her calloused hands 
She meets me in the middle down in Ashland
Well goddamn my love, goddamn my love 

Every little burn is just a cry for help 
No one tears me open like I tear myself 
Sing until the sadness flies out your mouth 

California Sober

Im gonna hang from the rafters and stretch out my crooked spine 
I see a black haired woman everytime I close my eyes 

You're born sunny side up spine to spine with your mom 
Ah Mary never told Jesus to get a job 

Way down in Petaluma said her drinking days are over 
Still smoking weed on the weekend call it California sober

I lay a busted harmonica out on Pigpen’s grave
Cure my Oakland sadness on the shores of Monterey 

Im gonna hang from the rafters and stretch out my crooked spine 
I see a black haired woman everytime I close my eyes 

Walking Guilty 

Say you don't gamble but you know it’s a lie 
Every kiss is just a roll of the die 
You told your mama we done, lying to momma ain't fun 
You're walking guilty all the way back home 

Now don't tell me I cant be shy 
I got a job where I can close my eyes 
It's another night off ain’t got my usual drugs
I'm walking guilty all the way back home

The butterflies in my stomach got humans in their stomach 
Its struggle all the way down, don't give up on me now 

I give you money but I don't know why
Girl you’re so much richer than I 
Still I fell to your feet, I didn't eat for a week 
You're walking guilty all the way back home 

Is it a sin all this love that we make
It just depends on which book you believe  
But I heard your jesus say, “every dog has his day”
We’re walking guilty all the way back home 

Where It’s From

I see all my love burn up like alcohol 
Help me keep this on my tongue before I lose it all 
Like a dark peach in the fall going down 

Empty my house just to fill it up again 
Tell me darling was my passion more than a passing sin
I feel that judgment creeping in on me 

Save my mother none should suffer the loss of a lover no matter how old 
Avenge my father wade in the water
Be careful with this feeling you don't know you’re wrong
Be careful with this feeling you don't know where it’s from 

Teachers, preachers eager as they drag me down 
They all feel like lighthouses watching me drown 
Bright light and a bellowing sound across the sea
Save my mother none should suffer the loss of a lover no matter how old 
Avenge my father wade in the water
Be careful with this feeling you don't know you’re wrong
Be careful with this feeling you don't know where it’s from

Viking Sex 

Pick anyone from my generation chances are they are lost 
If God didn't tell people what to do a lot more people would believe
in God 
And my vocal cords feels like guitar strings that ain’t never been
changed
Honey make me scream so goddamn loud you could blow all the
rust out of me  

Cause I'm long overdue 
To be digging for something new 
We make love like the ships going down 
We make love like there's still snow on the ground 
We make better love when we are lost than when we’re found 

Well a wise man pulled me aside to say he ain’t telling the truth no more 
Poor people are honest, he said, Johnny that's why their still poor 

I'm just looking for a mermaid who needs
Another sailor to drag into the sea 
I'm ready for the sacrifice 
I'm ready for the watery nights 
And you loved me at first sight, why wouldn't you now? 

Hell yes I'm restless this living at home is getting pretty old 
It ain't cold in Santa Barbara, maybe you just don't know the cold 

Cause we’re long overdue 
To be digging for something new 
We make love like the ships going down 
We make love like there's still blood on the ground 
We make better love when we are lost why you wanna be found 

Good to You

In your days out on the prairie trying to disprove the Virgin Mary 
Wondering to god if you had ever been born 
I was tied fast to the west coast just as lonely as the next ghost 
Singing my songs to an empty shore 

Oh love like lightning 
You don't have to whisper if it’s the truth 
Oh we won’t live again 
But you'll remember me I was good to you 
Oh babe I was good to you 

Tell your friends how you were burned by me 
Teach your new man all you learned from me 
Like a stray dog brought in cause he’s warm

Oh you look at a painting 
You don't think about what the last stroke was 
Oh but the painter grows and the painter knows
What the last stroke was 
Oh babe I was good to you 

 Judas 

I got a song with your wife's name in it 
It ain't about her, it's a coincidence
Yes I knew her before you knew her 
We never made love we never got to 
We ain't gonna so don't worry 
Unless you screw up then sorry 
Unless you screw up then maybe
Just cuz you bought a crown don't make you my king 

Ain't nothing bad no more 
Your grandma take an edible on the way to the store
Ain't nothing bad no more 
My acupuncturist has got a tramp stamp 
Put a needle in me, put a needle in me 
Tell me how you went to Cabo did a whole bunch of molly 
She said it's good for me for my anxiety 
Do a pinky punch on the way to therapy 
Ain't nothing bad no more 

Ain't nothing bad no more 
Your mom and dad went poly 
Got a third down in Cali 
Bring her up to Thanksgiving 
Make you call her Aunt Sally 
It saved the marriage no kidding 
If the world gonna end they gonna go down swinging 
Nobody booed yet 

You can't jump If i dont jump 
You can't give up till I give up 
If you can see it, I can see it 
Bleed from my hands take all that you need 
Climb on my back, what else you gonna do? 
You saved my goddamn life I’m gonna save yours too 

I got a song with your wife's name in it 
It ain't about her, it's a coincidence
Yes I knew her before you knew her 
We never made love we never got to 
We ain't gonna so don't worry 
Unless you screw up then sorry 
Unless you screw up then maybe
I don’t owe you, you don't owe me

While I'm Down 

The big melt begins today all them icicles are dripping away 
One by one one by one I watch them die 
The earth shows no mercy everything needs to drink 
I ain't never been this thirsty in my life 

And I can't remember who I wrote “wish you were here” to 
But in the end it’s true all around
And my window is open wide I got no one on my mind 
Come on and love me up while I'm down 

I aint the best one it's true I’m just trying to say something new 
Try not to sound like every other man 
I ain’t done your drugs in a while but i'm down to match your smile 
I'll just ride it out honey you know how I am 

Oh and apathy well it ain't my usual thing 
But you know sometimes she comes around 
And my window is open wide I got no one on my mind 
Come on and love me up while I'm down 

I've been going through the motions it's like a vast dead ocean 
Billions of drops but i got no urge to swim 
I've been braving all the winters I've been trying to save the sinners 
But i keep on forgetting exactly what's considered a sin 

Out here it's a Costco of men why you chose me i'll never understand
Whatever it takes to kick the darkness out 
And my window is open wide I got no one on my mind 
Come on and love me up while I'm down 

Sandra 

Ain't no need to say goodbye, we’re all immortal until we die
Oh Sandra let me weep come find me where I sleep, climb on my back

I sing to you from above, like a child hides from love 
Oh Sandra where am I when you close your eyes, am I gone? 

Won't you love me wild and hungry 
Like the wolves that howl where you rest 
I'm too old to ignore your ghost 
But too young not to be haunted

When they set me free from this give me one last basement kiss 
Oh Sandra remember me with my head at your feet all alone 

Won't you love me wild and hungry 
Like the wolves that howl where you lay 
I'm too old to ignore your ghost 
But too young not to be haunted

Grand Junction 

I remember you so vividly, feeding me an apple like you were my Eve 
In our own Garden of Eden we both knew by morning we would be kicked out 
Bruise on your chin from the night before you drank too much and you fell to the floor 
Tonight wasn't too much different girl I was just there to break your fall 

Bang on I race you to the dawn 
Letting go is just as noble as holding on 

I rubbed salt on your sweating skin, asked me to dance there was no music 
You said “don't let it go to your head when Colorado gets this cold I’d lie with Satan himself”

You said it's weird I didn't know how many I’d been with 
I said it seems like it would've been weirder if I’d been counting

Bang on I race you to the dawn 
Letting go is just as noble as holding on 

This winter too it shall fade the green always rises up again 
I hope the snow angels that you make melt down naked into the grass 
I hope you don't forget about me how I sang your little ass to sleep 
I was nothing but a tumbleweed that rolled through your Saturday 

Bang on I race you to the dawn 
Letting go is just as noble as holding on

Pagan Church 

I sing a pagan song out in a pagan church 
And they left me here for dead I can't wait much longer 
If I could only will myself from my bed out to the dirt 
I sing a pagan song out in a pagan church 

And my brother left his pistol in the glove box of his car 
And he parked it out in front and he left the doors unlocked 
No one would ever blame him I mean what are the odds 
I sing a pagan song out in a pagan church 

And I doubt they’d even notice me walking down the halls 
Oh ever since I got here I’ve felt invisible 
I’ll point it to the sky boys, under my chin so no one else gets hurt
I sing a pagan song out in a pagan church

I admit it will feel good to kill what's killing me 
Oh I never understood this cancer’s strategy 
We go down either way boys But this time it’s on my terms 
And I sing a pagan song out in a pagan church