Stranded Pearl

there's a power in that division
in the hour of revision
when the taste of love has all but gone sour
when i look into your eyes i surrender
such surrender is rendered justified
you stand with a boot upon my fender
reflecting on my glass eye
out amongst the willows and the briars
on the streets between the man made spires
in the tangulation of too many wires
love's translation still transpires
every girl is like a pearl
hearts strung along and then left stranded
this world is worn, all frayed and torn
men in uniform is not what love had demanded
i lost me my eye in a battle
was sent to rattle their cage
lost sight of the big picture
now this permanent fixture is my rage
when i look into your eyes i surrender
such surrender is rendered justified
you stand with a boot upon my fender
gingham hiked high, looking so fine
reflecting on my glass eye

(Giant Sand feat. Isobel Campbell)

Spiral

there's a lot of people out there having a hard time tonight
amongst the whispers of revolution and shouts of hang on tight
a lot of crippled hearts out there, some will never mend
losing our patience and losing too many good men
some say it's the end times and some say it's all just begun
some are hiding in the churches and some are hiding in the gun
some are thinking it's extinction, some are swearing by salvation
noting nostradamus or relating revelations
you come on down, you spiral down
come down well within this regency
you can put it down and you could jot it down
reinvent some new form of decency
it sure is getting hotter and the water is on the rise
don't want to live forever but another generation would be nice

(Giant Sand)