10000 MANIACS – Verdi Cries

The man in 119 takes his tea alone.Mornings we all rise to wireless Verdi cries.I’m hearing opera through the door.The souls of men and women, impassioned ...

10000 MANIACS – What’s The Matter Here

That young boy without a name anywhere I’d know his face.In this city the kid’s my favorite.I’ve seen him. I see him every day.Seen him run outside looking ...

10000 MANIACS – The Painted Desert

The Painted Desert can wait till summer.We’ve played this game of just imagine long enough.Wait till summer?When I’m sure the rains have ended, the blooms ...

10000 MANIACS – These Are Days

These are the days.These are days you’ll remember.Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be warm as this.And as you feel it, you’ll ...

10000 MANIACS – Trouble Me

Trouble me, disturb me with all your cares and your worries.Trouble me on the days when you feel spent.Why let your shoulders bend underneath this burden ...

10000 MANIACS – Noah’s Dove

You won a prize for that,for telling lies like thatSo well that I believed it.And I never felt cheated.You were the chosen one,the pure eyes of Noah’s ...

10000 MANIACS – Please Forgive Us

“Mercy, mercy,” why didn’t we hear it?“Mercy, mercy,” why did we read it buried on the last page of our morningpapers?The plan was drafted, drafted in ...

10000 MANIACS – Like The Weather

Color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey.Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again.Shiver in my bones, just thinking about the weather.Quiver ...

10000 MANIACS – My Sister Rose

Big plans are being made for my sister’s wedding day.We’ll have a ball at the Sons of Roma Hall.Family, friends come one and all.First the best man makes ...

10000 MANIACS – Eden

We are the roses in the garden, beauty with thorns among our leaves.To pick a rose you ask your hands to bleed.What is the reason for having roses when ...

10000 MANIACS – Headstrong

To your common sense firm argumentsI won’t listen to your voice of reason trying to change my mind.I mind my feelings and not your words.Didn’t you notice ...

10000 MANIACS – How You’ve Grown

“My, how you’ve grown.”I remember that phrase from my childhood days too“Just wait and see.”I remember those words and how they chided me, when patient ...

10000 MANIACS – Candy Everybody Wants

If lust and hate is the candy,If blood and love taste so sweet,Then we give ‘em what they want.Hey, hey, give ‘em what they want.So their eyes are growing ...

10000 MANIACS – Don’t Talk

Don’t talk, I will listen.Don’t talk, you keep your distancefor I’d rather hear some truth tonight than entertain your lies,so take you poison silently.Let ...

10000 MANIACS – Eat For Two

O, Baby blankets and baby shoes, baby slippers, baby spoons, walls of baby blue.Dream child in my head is a nightmare born in a borrowed bed.Now I know ...

10000 MANIACS – Can’t Ignore The Train

Steep is the water towerPainted off-blue to match the skyCan’t ignore the trainNight walks in the valley silentYou could swear the earth just movedCan’t ...

10000 MANIACS – A Campfire Song

A lie to say, “O my mountain has coal veins and beds to dig.500 men with axes and they all dig for me.”A lie to say, “O my river where many fish do swim,half ...

10000 MANIACS – Back O’ The Moon

JennyJenny you don’t know the nights I hideBelow a second story roomTo whistle you downThe man who’s let to divvy upTime is a miserHe’s got a silver coinOnly ...