Death Singing Patti Smith

In the straw colored light In light rapidly changing On a life rapidly fading Have you seen death singin'? Have you seen death singin'?

My Madrigal Patti Smith

We waltzed beneath motionless skies All heaven's glory turned in your eyes We expressed such sweet vows Oh, till death do us part Oh, till death do us part Oh oh We waltzed beneath God's point of view

Grateful Patti Smith

unto the earth And simply slips away You can hide in the open Or just disappear Ours is just a craving And a twist of the wrist Will undo the stopper With abrupt tenderness Die little sparrow And awake Singing

After The Gold Rush Patti Smith

Well I dreamed I saw the knights In armor coming Saying something about a queen There were peasants singing and Drummers drumming And the archer split the tree There was a fanfare blowing To the sun That

Redondo Beach Patti Smith

Everyone was singing, girl is washed up On Redondo Beach and everyone is so sad. I was looking for you, are you gone gone ? Pretty little girl, everyone cried. She was the victim of sweet suicide.

Dancing Barefoot Patti Smith

for you the plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face the mystery of childbirth of childhood itself grave visitations what is it that calls to us why must we pray screaming why must not death

Frederick Patti Smith

some day now but tonight on the wings of a dove up above to the land of love now I lay me down to sleep pray the Lord my soul to keep kiss to kiss breath to breath my soul surrenders astonished to death

Fire Of Unknown Origin Patti Smith Group

Death comes sweeping thru the hallway like a ladies' dress. Death comes riding down the hallway in it's sunday best. Death comes driving; death comes creeping; death comes I can't do nothing.

Up There Down There Patti Smith

Some call it the sun Its energies are not for hire It serves man It serves everyone Down there where Jonah wails in the healing water in the ready depths Twisting like silver swans No line of death

Gloria: In Excelsis Deo Patti Smith

make her mine make her mine make her mine make her mine make her mine G L O R I A Gloria G L O R I A Gloria G L O R I A Gloria G L O R I A Gloria and the tower bells chime ding dong they chime they're singing

Gloria Patti Smith

mine make her mine make her mine make her mine make her mine G L O R I A Gloria G L O R I A Gloria G L O R I A Gloria G L O R I A Gloria and the tower bells chime ding dong they chime they're singing

Constantine's Dream Patti Smith

kneeled and prayed And the sleep that I could not find in the night I found through him I saw before me the world of his world The bright fields, the birds in abundance All of nature of which he sang Singing

Birdland Patti Smith

His father died and left him a little farm in New England. All the long black funeral cars left the scene And the boy was just standing there alone Looking at the shiny red tractor Him and his dadd...

Glitter In Their Eyes Patti Smith

It's been a while since I've seen your face It's been a while since I've walked this place I see the monkeys riding on their bikes Racing through the impossible night You say you're feeling like a...

Rock N Roll Nigger Patti Smith

{{ Babelogue }} I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the future. Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like...

Because the Night Patti Smith

Take me now baby here as I am Pull me close, try and understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed Come on now try and understand The way I feel when I\'m in...

Upright Come Patti Smith

Hail brother The distant thunder Is nothing but hearts Beating as one Dance of a million On God's pavilion Come come Beat on your drum Awake people arise Awake upright come Fortune is falling like...

Summer Cannibals Patti Smith

I was down in Georgia nothing was as real as the street beneath my feet descending into air The cauldron was a-bubbling the flesh was lean and the women moved forward like piranhas in a stream th...

Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana Cover) Patti Smith

Load up on guns and bring your friends It\'s fun to lose and to pretend She\'s over bored and self assured Oh no, I know a dirty word Hello, hello, hello, how low? Hello, hello, hello! With the l...

Waiting Underground Patti Smith

If you believeAll your hope is goneDown the drainOf your humankindThe time has arrivedYou'll be waitin' here as I wasIn a snow white shroudWaitin' undergroundThere by the ridgeBe a gathering beneat...

Whirl Away Patti Smith

Hello friend, I've come a callin'Passively stationed, active patrolSlidin' in at high noon like some reluctant sheriffNot wanna get involved in it allWho stands guard for each other?Why must we gua...

Spell Patti Smith

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand an...

Don't Say Nothing Patti Smith

Lower the thing the skin of a catSkin it to the left just laying thereNo other thing is luck like thatAnd you set it said it said nothingWent to the party very discouragedI watched the litter pile ...

Dead City Patti Smith

This dead cityLongs to beThis dead cityLongs to be freeSeven screamin' horsesMelt down in the sunBuildin' scenes on empty dreamsAnd smokin' them one by oneHee haaThe dead cityLongs to be, yea, yeaT...

Blue Poles Patti Smith

Mother, as I write, the sun dissolvesBlood life streaming, 'cross my handAnd these words, these wordsHope dashed immortal hopeHope streaking the canvas skyBlue poles infinitely windingAs I write, a...

Memento Mori Patti Smith

The fans were whirlin'Like the blades of a 'copterLiftin' into the skies above some foreign landSoaked with the bodies of so many friends.Johnny wavedHe was on his way homeHe waved goodbye to his c...

Last Call Patti Smith

In a mansion high the young man stoodReady to join his companions goodOutside the scent of Magnolia blossomsDown streets of gold the children were racin'Just another wandering soulAdrift among the ...

Rock n Roll N****r Patti Smith

Baby was a black sheepBaby was a whoreBaby got big andbaby get biggerBaby get somethingBaby get moreBaby baby baby was arock and roll niggerOh look around youall around youriding on a copper waveD...

Lo and Beholden (Radio Edit) Patti Smith

I was alone and contentin my worldDancing on airYou sent to me a messagethat said I like your styleWill you come to thetemple tonightAnd dance for me thereI pledge to you all that you wishThe moon ...

Mercy Is Patti Smith

Mercy is as mercy doesWandering the wildThe stars arise watching youA breath upon a cloudTwo white dovesTwo white wingsTo carry you awayTo a land in memoryA land in memoryThe sky is highThe earth i...

Gone Again Patti Smith

Hey now man's own kinWe commend into the windGrateful arms grateful limbsGrateful soul he's gone againI have a winter's taleHow vagrant hearts relent prevailSow their seed into the windSeize the sk...

About A Boy Patti Smith

Toward another He has gone To breathe an air Beyond his own Toward a wisdom Beyond the shelf Toward a dream That dreams itself About a boy Beyond it all About a boy Beyond it all From the forest Fr...

Dead To The World Patti Smith

Dead to the world my body was sleepin'On my mind was nothin' at allCome a mist, an air so appealingI'm here a whisperin', you summoned, I calledI formed me a presence whose aspect was changin'Oh, h...

Wing Patti Smith

One two three fourI was a wing in Heaven blueSoared over the ocean, soared over SpainAnd I was free needed nobodyIt was beautiful, it was beautifulI was a pawn didn't have a moveDidn't have nowhere...

Ravens Patti Smith

Common fortune seeks us allAnd slips our binding ringsWe'll turn our heads and make us reelWe'll bare our arms as wingsBefore our feet a feather driftsBeyond us it will fall'Cause time will bid and...

Fireflies Patti Smith

I been walkingWherefore am I walkingI been walkingIf you see me walkingA-walking a-walkingIf you see me walkingDon't avert your eyesDon't turn awayDon't turn awayI'm coming to youOh-oh oh ohOh-oh o...

Farewell Reel Patti Smith

It's been a hard timeAnd when it rains it rains on meThe sky just opensAnd when it rains it poursI walk alone assaulted it seemsBy tears from heavenAnd darling I can't helpThinking those tears are ...

Paths That Cross Patti Smith

Speak to me, speak to me heartI feel a needing to bridge the clouds, softly goA way I wish to know, to knowA way I wish to know, to knowOh, you'll ride, surely danceIn a ring backwards and forwards...

Dream of Life Patti Smith

Na, na, na, na, naNa, na, na, na, naI'm with you always, you're ever on my mindIn a light to last, a whole life throughEach way I turn, the sense of youSurrounds in every step I take in all I doYou...

Where Duty Calls Patti Smith

In a room in LebanonThey silently sleptThey were dreamin' crazy dreamsIn foreign alphabetLucky young boysCross on the mainThe driver was approachin'The American zoneThe wavin' of handsThe tiniest t...

Going Under Patti Smith

Sun is rising on the waterLight is dancing againLet's go under where the sun beamsLet's go under my friendAre we sleeping, are we dreamingAre we dancing againIs it heaven, crack it openAnd we'll sl...

The Jackson Song Patti Smith

Little blue dreamer go to sleepLet's close our eyes and call the deepSlumbering land that just beginsWhen day is done and little dreamers spinFirst take my hand then let it goLittle blue boy, you'r...

Jubilee Patti Smith

Oh glad day to celebrate 'Neath the cloudless skyAir so sweet Water pureFields ripe with rye Come one, come allGather round Discard your Sunday shoesCome on now Oh my landBe a jubilee Come on girlC...

Mother Rose Patti Smith

Mother rose Every little morn'To tend to me There she stoodWaiting by the door SelflesslyTook my hand Took it with a smile tenderlyMother rose Every little morn'To tend to me Now's the timeTo turn ...

Stride Of The Mind Patti Smith

I took a walk out to the sunBut I just, just couldn't take itI followed a dream, it was circularBut I just, just could not fake itStep to the left, the left, the leftStep to the right, the right, t...

Cartwheels Patti Smith

Come my one, look at the world Bird beast butterflyGirls sing notes of heaven Birds lift them up to the skySpring is departing Spring is departingHer thoughts are darting like a rabbit Like a rabbi...

Gandhi Patti Smith

I had a dream, Mr. King, if you'll beg my pardonI was trespassing a sacred gardenAnd the blossoms fell and they dropped like candyAnd the nature cried, "Gandhi, Gandhi"And the nature cried, "Gandhi...

Trespasses Patti Smith

Life is designed With unfinished linesThat another sings Each story unfoldsLike it was gold Upon a ragged wingThe bold and the fair Suffer their shareHe whispered to his kin All of my debtsLeft wit...

My Blakean Year Patti Smith

In my Blakean year I was so disposedToward a mission yet unclear, advancing pole by poleFortune breathin' into my ear mouthed a simple odeOne road is paved in gold, one road is just a roadIn my Bla...

Cash Patti Smith

Here we go around againCurve of life spiralingEverything we've ever knownAs the seed of life gets blownAnd the miracle of timeWhen will that time just end?Remember, you decide to take that vowGrab ...