Kristin Hersh

Beestung Start with your fingers They finger the change That carries me home in our evening You're bee stung there... Press your palm to your snow-coated thought cage That carries me over your thinking You're bee stung there... Between the tall build

Nothing like chrome when it shines No better weather to drive If you squint you can see it If you limp you can reach it All I want is Spring All I want is you, smiling All I want is green All I want is you, smiling Faithful to the finish, I'm gratefu

Slipping down railings And balconies With a sleepy ease I never knew I navigate my way to you Indigent darkness Thick as a dream A liquid party underneath Though I'm still shaky and weak Knees pressed against the leather couch I couldn't find my bra

And in the subsequent solitude Flat on your backs again We think shoot You don't wanna walk me down this avenue in hell Scared that I'll bicker with the devil herself My attitude's fundamentally off I left my heart on a frozen sidewalk Kicked around

Down in the willow garden Where me and my love did meet There we sat a courtin' My love dropped off to sleep I'd drunk a bottle of burgundy wine My love she did not know And there I poisoned that dear little girl Under the flank below I stabbed her w

Your Ghost If I walk down this hallway tonight it's too quiet So I pad through the dark and call you on the phone Push your old numbers and let your house ring Till I wake your ghost Let him walk down your hallway It's not this quiet Slide down your

You can come back When you want Just know that I'll be here I haven't left this step And when the lights go out I pick the angel up I only have two hands I she here? Is she here right now? Drive her off; don't bother to call I'm checking out today He

A Cleaner Light A high That's a swell take on this situation I was trying to rectify I was trying to skip out on this high Keep away from the freaks on the fringe They only talk to you 'Cause you give them a good excuse to cry But in a cleaner light,

The neighbors dog won't let you sleep Try not to stare at the neighbors hair Out of the chaos, my us and your daddy's fingernail Your mama's here and your daddy's hot So hush-a-bye, baby don't you cry Out of the chaos, my us and your little fontanell

White label on the backseat Glows an artificial green I crave a midnight something I crave and something hunts me down I'm scaring everybody I'm wearing everybody down White label on the backseat And something bends me over down I crave an empty life

Nerve endings mutiny Put a rock into my brain I feel almost everything They're idiotic optimistic Rubbing salt into my wrist Till I feel almost nothing Could you really live in this house Could you ever live in a body Just chicken I guess Just chicke

Trouble ( Cat Stevens ) Trouble Oh trouble set me free I have seen your face And it's too much too much for me Trouble Oh trouble can't you see You're eating my heart away And there's nothing much left of me I've drunk your wine You have made your wo

Amazing grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I was once lost But now am found Was blind but now I see 'tis grace that taught My heart to fear And grace my fears relieved Now precious dear That grace appear The hour I first believed T

Whole Heap of Little Horses Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleep little baby When you wake, right away On the pretty little horses Black and bay Sorrel and gray Whole heap of little horses Black and gray Sorrel and bay Whole heap of little horses Go