Flirted With You All My Life Vic Chesnutt

Everywhere I go, you're always right there with me. I flirted with you all my life Even kissed you once or twice To this day I swear it was nice. But clearly, I was not ready.

In My Way, Yes Vic Chesnutt

I say yes Taking my time Working on lines Fingers in clay Everyday Head in the clouds Moving my mouth Spreading the grout That's holding it down Do you think it makes a difference?

To Be With You Vic Chesnutt

Thoughts of your flutter are flooding my mind Not constant like a buzz but strobe thumping like a heart beat Drowning any other notion Now I am sure, now I am sure, now I am sure When I met you everything

I'm Through Vic Chesnutt

Forget everything I ever told you I'm sure I lied way more than twice But understand I am not Emily post You know I'm nowhere near that precise And I struggle with these etiquette's Like you wouldn't believe

Stevie Smith Vic Chesnutt

nobody heard him the dead man, but still he lay moaning: i was much further out than you thought and not waving but drowning poor chap he always loved larking and now he's dead it must have been too cold

Sad Peter Pan Vic Chesnutt

It's the plan of most to discover that magnificent ghost When did I get perverted and my innocent eyes diverted From a view so grand imbued with distractions I'm greedy like Senior Babbitt I'm just

Stupid Preoccupations Vic Chesnutt

I am sick of you Expecting me to do All those puny ingratiations You know I am a terrible patient I am barely alive Ever since my daddy died And I've been searching for my own little babies To misbehave

Isadora Duncan Vic Chesnutt

Once I dreamed I was dancing with Isadora Duncan In a silver cafe, It was a cafe that was not at all near here She was planning to diversify And she sang I should do the same So I whistled to her how

Fa-La-La Vic Chesnutt

Fa-la-la is running around All over the grounds of the hospital I was watching for her Like some people watch birds From the window of my hospital room I was trapped and tired She was as free as I'd ever

Where Were You Vic Chesnutt

Where were you two years ago when I was locked out there at the barn When some certain Athens sacred monster was doing me in the charm We could've been chatting heart to heart on that front porch with

Panic Pure Vic Chesnutt

My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler High up to the darkest sky Some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never ever be able to repeat At times I might could be accused of

Bakersfield Vic Chesnutt

Well the souvenirs On my dusty shelf Well I get out the Tarn-X, And I polish them myself Yes, posters are falling, But who needs them at my age?

Kick My Ass Vic Chesnutt

I'm so sorry You had to kick my ass You said I ruined your life I didn't mean to do that I had to untangle Where we was entwined It was strangling me Were you breathing so fine?

The Garden Vic Chesnutt

There's a dark fading light In the garden where you Lay your head tonight Through the darkened hours Were you thinking of me?

Virginia Vic Chesnutt

You ready to come down here? It's Virginia, nigga... We do this in broad daylight... It's a whole different degree of homicide, nigga... You ready?

Miss Mary Vic Chesnutt

Miss Mary took a shower and she showed herself to me She said that God and all his glory was revealed to her carnally She said she'd been with no man, but she must have been with me And when I felt her

Naughty Fatalist Vic Chesnutt

Rave and rant in yer old Foster Grants I can see my billowy reflection You're a giant You're a giant A little late night caching A tender moving soul shake With all light diffused You'll wake up butch

Soggy Tongues Vic Chesnutt

Well the big huge valley is a ribbon of light The aqueducts are snakes tonight The stars are homesteaders, staking claims My head is hopping with historical names Transfer trucks are buffalo's Chewing

Big Huge Valley Vic Chesnutt

Well the big huge valley is a ribbon of light The aqueducts are snakes tonight The stars are homesteaders, staking claims My head is hopping with historical names Transfer trucks are buffalo's Chewing

Vesuvius Vic Chesnutt

Trying to clip the creek to the bank with a clothes pin Waterlogged system, rusty spring, faulty planning Logic squeezed out like mustard at a corndog Hypertension is not wisdom, chewing the leather straps

Speed Racer Vic Chesnutt

have I learned anything from all of these lectures? I think it's my attention span clipped by TV at an early age well who heard the radio when you are five years old?

Ignorant People Vic Chesnutt

Born as I was to ignorant people Too traumatized to take me home Came in a car and left on an embankment Covered with pine straw But instinct saved me Something innate Made my wet lungs scream with hate

Bernadette Vic Chesnutt

I was shivering, I'll admit it I had nothing better to do except to wheeze my lazy wheeze "Bernadette, where are you" "Bernadette, where are you" she gets much acclamation for such a self ordained Faustian

Florida Vic Chesnutt

surely from time to time And a man can only stand what a man can stand It's a wobbly volatile line Florida, Florida, the water table is fucked Florida, Florida, there's no more perfect place to give it all

Confusion Vic Chesnutt

ve tied up all my little ravels I come across a new row of tatters It seems I?m getting sick of a taking care of Life and other matters Well, there?s a few hundred blackbirds That?

Girl's Say Vic Chesnutt

Girls say "why do you want to do that?" And boys say, "well I gotta leave". And girls say "watch out for your head" And boys say, "why you wanna be a bitch?" Girls say "can I get you anything?"

Rabbit Box Vic Chesnutt

small pile, of scrap lumber and I built a rabbit box and i set it facing north but i caught a possum and a kitten both of which were a bitch to set free cause I thought they were going to bite me but we all

Strange Language Vic Chesnutt

Up on the bluff, where I wish I was Twisting up the pages of history My cold feet dangling, my bony arms gesturing To summon up a little chunk of that history In the corridor the shadows are long And it

Forthright Vic Chesnutt

Looking in the hourglass Ants in the sand Reflected in the oil lamp I can see the wrinkles in your hand You can be forthright with me You can be forthright with me Next to the pot-bellied stove Hand on

Onion Soup Vic Chesnutt

Thin and unshaved, drunk and mysterious ooh, I must say lifestyle is curious with A little touch of the sniffles and filthy socks gnawed, Crumbled fingernails never doing tomahawk chops A flaky head

Gluefoot Vic Chesnutt

Cross my heart and cross my eyes Stick a needle in my thigh Drop kick my unscrewed lid And fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle fiddle with what's inside A rusty mass of machinations Still I'm vying for the right

Band Camp Vic Chesnutt

Well the first time I ever laid eyes on you Was my first year at marching band camp You never played the part as it was written You would always vamp You was always cracking me up Messing with the band

Nathan Vic Chesnutt

The great grandfather, with his pious beard Bathed in the river, all his years Many books, that lined his walls Jews and gentiles, held him in awe Nathan stepped through the broken window And looked to

Lucinda Williams Vic Chesnutt

Imports and altercations My faculties on a shoe-string vacation I settled down on a hurt as big as Robert Mitchum And listen to Lucinda Williams Oh, convenient lies, rubber knives I'm a dastardly villain

Withering Vic Chesnutt

What are you doing withering away Yes I've heard you've lost the will to play Whatever happened to those fluid movements You were so proud of in the intimate moments What about the girl you left at the

West Of Rome Vic Chesnutt

Rome, just east of the border In a static-y Ramada inn Polishing his boots and pummeling his liver Steeped in the dark isolation Just what business does he have around here Credentials are wearing out with

Styrofoam Vic Chesnutt

Emotion drains Like the contents of a cooler My thorax is Styrofoam I'm a cheap spent shell And a bio hazard Grind me up then mail me away Maybe transmogrified I'll be satisfied That finally at long last

Arthur Murray Vic Chesnutt

She's so musical Look at her dance in a flurry Who gets to lead Do know it's not Arthur Murray Emasculate me with your biology Bend me, break me, I'm worthless One wicked brand from your torturous hand

Doubting Woman Vic Chesnutt

I was supposed to tell you about the point of departure With the aim of a drunken archer I will probably stray But you can see in her bold eyebrow You can see in that fancy cup That even her freakish nipples

Gnats Vic Chesnutt

Gnats and bats and things with wings i know why the cagey fella won't sing sticks and stones and broken bones i know why my words are wrong humps and stumps and green tattoos i know why your crutches bruise

Soft Picasso Vic Chesnutt

and casual They hardly knew each other was there I mean Both of them had their own getting off to do And they had to dream about their own self When they were through But the modern girl was elated With

Bug Vic Chesnutt

"Michelle loves Willie" "Our little Sarah" "Daughters of the American Revolution" "Stryper loves Jesus" and I love a girl Against my better judgment 'Cause I feel like a squirrel My roommates got married

Stay Inside Vic Chesnutt

My bedclothes have gone all funky I've got to get out of this cave Stay inside!

Sleeping Man Vic Chesnutt

You're a freak of nature You are a siamese You are in a pickle jar For all the world to see Watching the sleeping man Watching the sleeping man Watching the sleeping man Watching the sleeping man You are

Zippy Morocco Vic Chesnutt

Zippy morocco with a hat on his head Set sail for the seven seas When his mother took to dead Barely out of teenagedom When his mental map was unfurled The next thing that he knew He found himself halfway

Wrong Piano Vic Chesnutt

Oberheim, Yamaha, Steinway And the lot I must have played the wrong piano Cause it left me with, I don't know what So don't talk to me about mistakes yes We all simply have got to take precautions

Independence Day Vic Chesnutt

Well future stepped into my field and turned it into an empire Forefathers where are you now? Your dust is settling on my furniture Oh independence day, I never knew it would be so symbolic.

Aunt Avis Vic Chesnutt

remember how to be good How to continue when I feel I really shouldn't How to remember how to be good How to continue when I feel I really shouldn't Help me granddaddy to see the swans Strike me granny with

Sponge Vic Chesnutt

Pleasure is melting like chocolate My blue ribbon gumption is gone All my gravy must have soaked into something And the world The filthy steps, the cold concrete The phony earth below my feet The ancient

Thumbtack Vic Chesnutt

Take a light bulb from the closet And replace the one above the faucet scrape The whisker from my face nick my lip in pointless haste Take a magic marker black darken a spot on the map of a county on