True To Life Uncle Tupelo

I've been searching and you've been gone Out looking for the shortest path to the one that you're on And I've already seen all I wanna see Come on, let's take the long cut I think that's what we need When

Graveyard Shift Uncle Tupelo

Hometown, same town blues Same old walls closing in Oh what a life a mess can be I'm sitting here thinking of you once again Won't you talk to me Well, time won't wait, better open the gate Get up and

Acuff-Rose Uncle Tupelo

Your eyes opened wide as I looked your way couldnt hide what they mend to say feeling lost in a crowded room it's to soon for a new love WHEN YOU SMILE YOUR EYES SHOW YOUR HEART LOST INSIDE A SOUL TORN

Life Worth Livin' Uncle Tupelo

smile in between All around's a world grown mean We've all had our ups and downs It's been mostly down around here Now this whole damn mess is becoming quite clear Looks like we're all looking for a life

Give Back The Key To My Heart Uncle Tupelo

Watch it separate in two Whatever the day wants it to Finding out that the worst is true Finding out that it can escape you Slings and arrows completes the score Always leaving, wanting more And I try

Sandusky Uncle Tupelo

get to you one by one No light ever shines Dead end tears that dry Maybe a waste of words and time Never a waste of life Every hour will be spent Filling a quota, just getting alonghandcuffs hurt worse

Gun Uncle Tupelo

get to you one by one no light ever shines dead end tears that dry maybe a waste of words and time never a waste of life every hour will be spent filling a quota, just getting alonghandcuffs hurt worse

Moonshiner (Live 1/24/1993) Uncle Tupelo

when you find you can't somehow make it like all the rest you won't need to scrounge aroundfor someone else torn between the unknown and the place that you call home and the life you want but have never

Moonshiner Uncle Tupelo

when you find you can't somehow make it like all the rest you won't need to scrounge aroundfor someone else torn between the unknown and the place that you call home and the life you want but have never

Whiskey Bottle Uncle Tupelo

Persuaded, paraded, enebriated, and down Still aware of everything life carries on without 'Cause there's one too many faces with dollar sign smiles Got to find the shortest path to the bar for a while

Flatness Uncle Tupelo

Beer makes you weary But you need something to get along You stare at the flatness Beside the dark home They'll not hear you whisper This isn't where it ends Your hand holds a bottle That has become your

Slate Uncle Tupelo

in memory of a miner who dragged himself to work and worked himself to deathworking for someone else we follow each other around on shaky ground his life had become to him worthless in many ways an expired

Grindstone (1991 Longview Farm Acoustic Demo) Uncle Tupelo

take my picture off the wall it don't matter to me at all said I was headed for a fall but you wanted me to crawl give back my TV it don't mean that much to me while you're giving back my things give me

Grindstone Uncle Tupelo

take my picture off the wall it don't matter to me at all said I was headed for a fall but you wanted me to crawl give back my TV it don't mean that much to me while you're giving back my things give me

New Madrid Uncle Tupelo

I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long years and I spent all my money on whiskey and beer and I go to some hollow and set up my still if whiskey don't kill me Lord, I don't know what will

Looking For A Way Out (Acoustic Version) Uncle Tupelo

a great crowd has now gathered all around the jail today to see me executed and hear what I do say now I must hang this morning for the murder of Lilli Schull whom I so cruelly murdered and her body shamefully

Looking For A Way Out Uncle Tupelo

a great crowd has now gathered all around the jail today to see me executed and hear what I do say now I must hang this morning for the murder of Lilli Schull whom I so cruelly murdered and her body shamefully

Looking For A Way Out (Demo - Fast Ver.) Uncle Tupelo

a great crowd has now gathered all around the jail today to see me executed and hear what I do say now I must hang this morning for the murder of Lilli Schull whom I so cruelly murdered and her body shamefully

Fall Down Easy Uncle Tupelo

these lines don't work on me they won't on you didn't knew the cards were on the table just can't stand to see things turn out wrongno way to make things right never promise anything anymore so god damn

Still Be Around Uncle Tupelo

Never saw it coming, what a surprise It's been a wonder Electricity tells a story It's a sound getting near as fear is watching you It's watching you close You can fight it, both arms swinging Or try to

Before I Break Uncle Tupelo

I spend my last dime Sunday morning, 8am Cursing myself again Drinking like this one might be my last Memories of making jokes Too much beer and talk-show hosts One of them that's fading fast Here's to

Punch Drunk Uncle Tupelo

lost sight of ground never been so down nothing here to stand on it's a war-weary road another faceless tombstone nothing here to stand on I turn to face the wind may never get out forever caught in a

Factory Belt Uncle Tupelo

It's funny how it all works out Mad men in suits walking about I'd like to change your point of view someday But I feel my patience slipping away Looks like it's time to lay this burden down Stop messing

John Hardy Uncle Tupelo

arm Said "Johnny, come along with me" "Johnny, come along with me" John Hardy, he stood inside his cell Tears running down his eyes Said "I've seen the death of many a poor boy Now I'm ready to

Shaky Ground Uncle Tupelo

It's a long way to heaven It's a short way to hell Painkillers won't help When the weight's not yourself They're poisoning the air For personal wealth It's a long way to heaven It's a short way to hell

Postcard Uncle Tupelo

been traveling around some crossing people's paths some they stand right in your way others like to watch you pass been trying to memorize all the different lies that people must tell themselves each nightto

Fatal Wound Uncle Tupelo

disengaged, we're forsaken nowcommunication does suffer the moral stare of Big Brother not a chance, no compromise battling the barrier of belief not to try anymore don't want to murder the only memory

Outdone Uncle Tupelo

up to the round, but keep moving on You can cut the cord now, just dragging along Now there's too many people trying too hard Not to be outdone They follow close behind their proud smoking gun It's up

Train Uncle Tupelo

a train Ninety-seven flatcars Loaded down with troop trucks and tanks Rolling by I'm twenty-one, and I'm scared as hell I quit school, I'm healthy as a horse Because of all that I'll be the first one to

Wait Up Uncle Tupelo

I can only sing it loud always try to sing it clear what the hell are we all doing here making too much of nothing or creating one unholy mess an unfair study in survival, I guess but it always comes down

The Long Cut Uncle Tupelo

I don't see you through the windshield I don't see you in faces looking back at mealcohol doesn't have much that matters to saycan't imagine where you and time to kill will stay when the bible is a bottle

We've Been Had Uncle Tupelo

some folks find that their role in lifeis to fail at everything they trywhile other folks see but not like me there's one thing that they're damn good at gather around you all come around and see those

Atomic Power Uncle Tupelo

You threw out the past When you threw out what was mine Throughout the years It was hard to make it last Anodyne No sign of reconciliation It's a quarter past the end Full moon from on high Across the

Atomic Power (1991 Longview Farm Acoustic Demo) Uncle Tupelo

You threw out the past When you threw out what was mine Throughout the years It was hard to make it last Anodyne No sign of reconciliation It's a quarter past the end Full moon from on high Across the

We've Been Had (Live) Uncle Tupelo

some folks find that their role in lifeis to fail at everything they trywhile other folks see but not like me there's one thing that they're damn good at gather around you all come around and see those

Cold Shoulder Uncle Tupelo

come, all you coalminers wherever you may be and listen to the story that I relate to thee my name is nothing extra but the truth to you I tell I am a coalminer and I'm sure I wish you well I was born

So Called Friend Uncle Tupelo

, the long-term goals Are to leave this friend behind He knows what I lack Is a place under the sack For every other tie that binds This last night on the town Might be your last fun time out And you think

No Sense In Lovin' Uncle Tupelo

Fear the hearts of men are failing These our latter days we know The great depression now is spreading God's word declared it would be so I'm going where there's no depression To a better land that's free

Watch Me Fall Uncle Tupelo

gone you'll meet with troubles and trialsbear your rebukes and scorns my warfare will soon be ended my race is almost run my warfare will soon be ended and I'm coming home you can rebuke me all you want to

Watch Me Fall (Demo) Uncle Tupelo

gone you'll meet with troubles and trialsbear your rebukes and scorns my warfare will soon be ended my race is almost run my warfare will soon be ended and I'm coming home you can rebuke me all you want to

Steal The Crumbs Uncle Tupelo

A worn out joke to keep the flies away Carried it this far Got the west side winds to keep it steady We bury the hatchets we find Could carry that heavy load If I really thought it would matter Farcical

That Year Uncle Tupelo

The thousand times I lived before were just in my dreams Well, I woke up to realize it didn't mean a thing I've seen several better places, several better times Somehow those memories got left behind Give

Nothing Uncle Tupelo

I don't know what you've been through You might think that I don't care But I do And I've tried to understand I've tried to understand your abuse But you've got no excuse And there's no use in lovin' Anyone

Chickamauga Uncle Tupelo

he was proud of like some of his friends it made him feel somewhere outside of everything and everywhere he'd been like his brothers he emptied himself and played it safe like their father he wanted to

Fifteen Keys Uncle Tupelo

don't the lights look empty when the streets are bare almost as empty as the look you give me when I'm the only one and it's a long one so it brings you down so say you have nowhere else to go and nothing

Black Eye Uncle Tupelo

ready for that great atomic power will you rise and meet your savior in the air will you shout or will you cry when the fire rains from on high are you ready for that great atomic power there is one way to

Criminals Uncle Tupelo

I hold myself down 'cause I like the way it feels your heaven looks just like my hellbeautiful as far as I can tell your heaven looks just like my hell how could I have ever needed such a cold heart to

No Depression Uncle Tupelo

All my daydreams are disasters She's the one I think I love Rivers burn and then run backwards For her, that's enough They all come from New York City And they woke me up at dawn She walked with me to

Warfare Uncle Tupelo

are you surprised it's me hope I didn't wake anybody honey, please wait up for me I miss you more than I need sleep guess I'll let you go even though I don't want to honey, please wait up for me I need

Wipe The Clock Uncle Tupelo

There's a guitar leaning on a Marshall stack Used to sound like the sun on the horizon Now I think we've been had There's a young girl screaming all the way in the back Poor kid, she never saw it coming