Stan Ridgway

Commissioned for the french film terminus. You are my only confidant And my only friend Together

The door swung wide, I walked right in I was a long way off from where I'd been From behind a desk,

Workin' in the sun, a-scrapin' down the tar If we made a run fer it, we wouldn't get far Shovel

A telepathic line to a shadow On the wall, just a passenger and that is all Taking off on a midnight

Now, I've been travelin' long and hard And all over this big land And I got something here in my bag

Like a monster back from hell I sit and watch the river flow And if I lose you on a turn Or stopping at

There's a guard in the tower We got just one hour When we meet in the shower You'll feel my

One dog buries a bone and then the Other dog digs it up and finds A prize in store One dog dies and the

Bobby had a background He'd done some prison time He borrowed a police car Drove it over the state

Yeah! Bring me water, bring me coal We just missed hittin' that telephone pole Yeah, we're

It could have been a million years ago or maybe yesterday I crawled out of this wilderness, a debt I had to

Oh, down by the river where the wildflower grow All the people comin' to a carnival show Got my little

A crowd came in and sat down And then a man began to yell About savin' souls to heaven And for the

My beloved movie star There's more than cold cream in your jar When eyebrows arch and lips are dry

Youth is truth they say And old is rolled away Grey is shown the door While youth just paints the