Your Boys Home

Roll Baby Roll

The Cutter

Got rats in my closet
I got bones for days
But i ain't never gonna give
no nothin away

I got a cool hand
it won't falter or quit
and this is the only thing i wanna do with it

cuz this is your only way outta here
cuz this is your only way outta here

Gonna have you for breakfast
Gonna have you for lunch
I wanna hear your little bits snap
and your big bits crunch

Gonna have you for supper
then have your wife for dessert
You know i want it to hurt
cuz i'm a pervert

Got rats in my closet
Got bones to blow
And now I got your old girl in my Camino
But she don't shut up do she? Gettin on with that poo poo
oh yeah you know what you gotta do

Rats

Seeing you standing there
crying a river
It's pouring you over
It's drowning you dear

We been a wrecked and
we been caught in this war
Come over here darlin,
come out of the dark with me

Adelaide, Adelaide
Tears in the snow
and you're cursing the crows
while they fall away

Seeing you standing there 
in the dead of the winter
You wanna just run
it's the cost of the torture
and you're cashing out

In the night it's
one foot in front of the other one
So step right, hold on
do you hear the river run?
Can we dive into the cold water?
Let's get out Adelaide

Come to the river
Come out of the dark with me
Adelaide, Adelaide
There's tears on the river
And there's crows on the banks
and in the air
and they're all saying that it's over

Oh don't say it's over

Adelaide

Oh pixie you got roses on your eyes 
You're on the big wheel with the butterflies
Oh pixie your wings are open wide
and any devil can just climb inside
Oh pixie you got roses on your eyes

Oh pixie here comes the storm
I’m just raining down on anyone
Oh pixie your wings are torn
Your little heart’s shattered and your
tears are pouring down
Oh pixie am I losing you now?

Hold on trembling light
Hold on, hold on tight
Hold on it's just been so cold here

Oh pixie if I fell down on my knees
and wrapped you up in a blanket of tears
Oh pixie if I could lift you up
and dry those wings on the rising sun
would that bring back those roses?

Oh Pixie

Tiny Red Ribbons
on a broken bowling floor
Who is that dancer?
And what is she dancing for?
Right. Is this living?
I call it war
Where’s the damn melody?
And how does it go?
Hold tight to your ribbons
Step light on the floor
I know you’re not dancing for love
but are you dancing for more
than these little ribbons?
All washed out and worn? 
What are you dancing for?

Falling through circles
There's holes in the daylight
Tearin the fabric of a...
I just wanna get on with my life
and put these little ribbons
on my little red bike
and ride em with Siskel and Ebert
Out in the night...
You're nothing, no no, you’re no good
You’re no good you no more
So what you’re dancing for?

Caught up in colours
The greens and the reds and the white
Two guys pounding on the doors and I
just hope they're all right
And I, calling the night
Till i find you gone
And I turn out the light
You're nothing, no no, you’re no good
You’re no good you no more
So what you’re dancing for?

Tiny Red Ribbons

Oh if I find you there
If I find you there
Home, looking for a place to call
but I, I will never find you there at all

Oh come on home
If your heart's looking for a place to fall
but I, I will never find you there at all

Home, lover where’s home?
I’m betting on a dark horse baby
Run, now baby
Home, then my lover is gone?
I’m watching a dark horse baby run

Oh if I find you there
Oh if I find you there
Home looking for a place to call
but I, I will never find you there at all

Dark Horse Come Home

Oh oh these low lifes
they can't wash their feet
they don't stand for nothing
their colors ain't real

As if i don't know that
Can’t see what
Look what they done 

Hopin your heart don't break
Tear it apart, they're dragging the lake
Don't even start
Look what they done
They blocked out the sun

I been on the low roads
Been searching for Lorelei
You said you got nothin
Got nothing to go by

But still I been searchin
I been lookin
I'm going out of my mind

Hopin your heart don't break
Tear it apart they're dragging the lake
Don't even start
Look what they done
They blocked out the sun

Lorelei

Do you feel the love?
Do you feel the love?
You said that you’re scared
And talking ain’t enough
So can I come over?
Are you all right?
Oh lover lover damn it all, his appetites...
Is this still going on?

You’re in hot water
My lover's in irons
He’s singin on the stage
and he’s lighting fires
In all these daughters
With their starry eyes
Oh lover lover damn it all
You're paralyzed
Is this still going on?

Are you burning up?
Are you breakind down?
To turn it up for the last song?
And haul out?
Oh you gotta try
Oh lover lover damn it all
These arms are here and open wide
Oh Lover bring it in
How long has it been
since you could feel the love?

You can't wait for the right time 
to pour it over you
These clowns in the long line
Oh they don't know you
So you put it in letters
Throw it out in the rain
If it could make it all better
But it's not gonna change
Till you feel the love

What's Goin' On

Ooh bad luck
Aaah, s'comin again
Ooh bad luck
Ah you gotsta give in

You got caught wit da gold
Killin the microphone
kick down the cameras
See the whites of their eyes
Bop bop ba da ba dop
Oh no, here comes the hammer
Bop bop ba da ba da da
but that’s what’s right for the song
Bad luck
Oh bad luck

Ooh you're dying
Ah to pack it all in
But ooh they're crying
Ah to hear it again
Crawlin over the floor
Runnin for the door
Here comes the encore
Spittin nickles and rhymes
Bop bop ba da ba dop
Oh no, the kids they can't wait for it
Bop bop ba da ba da da
But that's what's right for the song
Bad luck
Oh bad luck

Ooh ooh ooh, I watched you roll over
Watched you takin a dive
And rolling in clover
Ooh ooh ooh, but do you see those lights?
The lights, tell me it's over
Oh oh oh but that's what's right for the
Song, oh, oh, oh

Bad luck

Bad Luck

Tell me you don't run for cover
Tell me you don't run for cover
Tell me you don't hide
Your heart ain't grievin
Tell me you're all right
When you're barely, barely breathing 
Oh how to lie

Tell me you don't want a lover
Tell me you don't want a friend
Tell me you're all right
When you're locked and loaded
Tell me to hold tight
Cuz your hearts explodin
Oh how to lie

Tell me you don't run for cover
Tell me you don't feel the shame
With all the young boys searchin
And callin your name and the
Young girls searchin
And tryin to change you
Oh how to lie

Tell Me

Ooh my baby don’t cry for me

She don't cry she don’t dirty her own hands
Put it all on your man, damn it
I'm diggin and divin through dat dump for dose dollars
She's rubbin on that rabbits foot you really gotta hand it to her…
What a do? Grab it off the rack and you’re runnin
And oh your face is red
And your hair's wet, and your shirts hangin out
Runnin for the top, runnin for the top of the wall
Her man for the fall, my baby don't cry for me

Oh it’s amazing, what ya won't pull
That's my baby, the butcher of bulls
Screamin "El Toreo!"
Towing the line for the last of matadors
I took a dive, rolled up in a rug
But my baby's screamin "I'm comin for ya!"
Is there a light at the end of the rainbow?
Where the war ends with a hug for the hero?
Don’t hold me back
I'm tied to a burnin jack
But my baby don’t cry for me

Ooh stuck at the end of the rainbow
Damn it you don’t know
My baby don’t cry for me

El Toreo

Winter winter are you calling
My love away?
Where is she going?
Winter show the way

Lover lover will she fall
Lover don't hear me call
Will I reach her if I crawl?
Winter show the way

Oh but if she falls in the snow
Will you carry her?
Carry her home?
And oh and if there's no way home
Will you cover her
Till she can't feel no more?

Winter winter will you lay them down
These words on my loves brow
Will my lover come ‘round?
Winter show the way

Oh but if she falls in the snow
Will you carry her?
Carry her home?
And oh if there's no way home
Will you cover her
until she can't feel no more?

Oh and if I'm callin and callin will you
carry these words on your winds
While I'm callin out
Lover to find her and put a
kiss on her cheek
and all that pain behind her

Winter winter is she lost
Don't leave my love cold and lonely now
Lay down your frost
Send my lover home

Mark Bragg