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

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

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

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

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?"

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

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

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

Aunt Avis Vic Chesnutt

Help me mama, for I have grinned Save me daddy from where I'm goin' Call out to me from the ages beyond Help me remember how to be good How to continue when I feel I really shouldn't How to remember how

The Garden Vic Chesnutt

A state of sleep Is what you'd rather be There's a pale Purple moonlight In the garden where you Lay your head to die Frozen dreams and nightmares Have you forgetting a dream Of what you always thought

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Virginia Vic Chesnutt

PharrellYou ready to do this, nigga? 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?

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

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

Speed Racer Vic Chesnutt

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?

In My Way, Yes Vic Chesnutt

Do you think it makes a difference?

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

One Of Many Vic Chesnutt

you're only one of many of small account if any you think about yourself too much this touch the child with the quick touch and worked his mind to such a pitch, he threw his fellows in a ditch this little

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

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

Soft Picasso Vic Chesnutt

It was a modern love affair Completely cool 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

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

Steve Willoughby Vic Chesnutt

Someday I'm gonna be rich Someday I'm gonna be bona fide Someday I'm gonna be Just like Steve Willoughby But today I'm simply I'm simply terrified I'm terrified Someday I'm gonna be bright Someday I'm

Sultan, So Mighty Vic Chesnutt

I'm here because I'm a eunuch I am no threat I'm here to watch the ladies And to fan away their sweat And the sultan, so mighty Comes crawling to me When he has a little problem With the ladies I'm here

Florida Vic Chesnutt

Florida, Florida, the redneck riviera Florida, Florida, there's no more pathetic place in America Yes a man must make unpopular decisions, surely from time to time And a man can only stand what a man can

Bug Vic Chesnutt

roommates got married and I booted up And a friend of ours told me that I was disgusting My roommates got married and I booted up And a friend of ours told me that I was disgusting Valhalla is pinned to

Bakersfield Vic Chesnutt

Well I've learned to smile, When all I feel is rage So I think I will go to Bakersfield With Gabriel and Paul And I will hide behind the garbage cans While the holy platitudes fall And blow the gates,

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

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?

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

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

Stay Inside Vic Chesnutt

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

2nd Floor Vic Chesnutt

If you want to see two circling swans On the surface of the sewer pond Don't crane your neck where you are You've got to climb to the second floor And I wouldn't've even mentioned it If you didn't seem

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

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

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

Rabbit Box Vic Chesnutt

elementary school I discovered Daddy's tools and amassed a 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

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

Sponge Vic Chesnutt

below my feet The ancient odor of the street Yes the world, world, world it is a sponge Yes the world, world, world, world, world it is a sponge And when the crisis passes When the coast is clear I'll be

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

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

Danny Carlisle Vic Chesnutt

He wanted a tree fort more than anything Yes, he wanted to build and defend one on his own But the neighbor boys BB siege was overwhelming So he won't be building his dream tree fort anymore He received

Fa-La-La Vic Chesnutt

and tired She was as free as I'd ever found The embodiment of life force In a hospital gown Yeah, I could feel my body healing And a nurse would come and see me Everyday And my folks are on their way To

Confusion Vic Chesnutt

d been a raining for days Now it seemed like everything was a gonna be alright But still those November winds keep a blowing And I?m forgetting just where to begin And then I?