MARK LANEGAN – Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

My girl, my girl, don’t lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don’t ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go
I’m going where the cold wind blows

Her husband, was a hard working man
Just about a mile from here
His head was found in a driving wheel
But his body never was found

MARK LANEGAN – Waiting On A Train

It’s time that I was leavin’
Shoulda left here long ago
You’d rather see me sorry
Than knowin’ what I know

I wish it was asleep instead
Of hangin’ here up above my head
I’m cryin’
In the winter time goin’

Pull all my shit together
Try for another breath
Lonely livin’ sorrow
Holdin’ on like death

From the play of lights below
Is that church bells ringin’ or my whistle blowin’
I don’t care
I’m gone
Shootin’ up and down the tracks

Mornin’ comes, cold chills and shakes
Just remindin’ me of my mistake
Well alright
Now get your smell off of me mama

It’s time that I was leavin’
I left here long ago
You’d rather see me sorry
Than knowin’ what you know
Wish it was asleep instead
Of hangin’ here up above my head
Lady
Lady midnight crawlin’

Just waitiing on a train

MARK LANEGAN – Together Again

Together again
My tears have stopped falling
The long lonely nights
Are now at an end
The keys to my heart
You hold in your hand
And nothing else matters
We’re together again

Together again
The grey skies are gone
You ‘re back in my arms
Now where you belong
The love that I knew
Is living again
And nothing else matters
We’re together again
And nothing else matters
We’re together again

MARK LANEGAN – Tiny Grain Of Truth

Put the pictures upon the shelf
The ones I tore from magazines and paperbacks
I’m a keep my hurt inside now love
When it’s you I am following

What’s done is done is done now
What’s done is done is done now
What’s done is done is done now
What’s done is done

Send down the firewalker
Send down the neon priest
Send down the junky doctor
Send down the shadow king
Down through the heart of the city at night
In black and white

Roll out to a blues funeral
Riding out in a long cortege
Gone with the mariachi
Gone with the butchermen
Gone straight through the eye of a needle at night
In black and white

Straight through the eye of a needle at night

I blurred the pictures and fooled myself
The ones that showed the terminal in negative
I’m a keep my hurt inside now love
And may you not uncover it

And blood is blood is blood now
And blood is blood is blood now
Yes blood is blood is blood now
And blood is blood
Straight through the eye of a needle at night
In black and white

Send down the firewalker
Send down the neon priest
Send down the junky doctor
Send down the shadow king
Out through the heart of the city at night
In black and white

MARK LANEGAN – The Winding Sheet

Saw God staring from the wall
I was alone and lost
Here to take me from this world
Still alone and lost

Night when the dogs from hell come out
Roam my house in chains of gold
The darkness dares my eyes to close

Saw a ghost in the shadows smile
I was sick in my soul
All tied up in a winding sheet
Still sick in my soul

Night when the dogs from hell come out
Roam my house in chains of gold
The darkness dares my eyes to close

With the setting sun [3x]

Tired I lay me back on thorns
Full of fear in my head
Lay me back so I could not rise
Full of fear in my head

Night when the dogs from hell come out
Roam my house in chains of gold
The darkness dares my eyes to close
With the setting sun
Rose with the setting sun

With the setting sun
The night is born, my time has come
With the setting sun
With the setting sun
Jesus touch my hand
Please touch my hand
Please touch my hand
With the setting sun

Mark Lanegan – The Gravedigger’s Song

with piranha teeth
I been dreaming of you
and the taste of your love so sweet
honest its true

through my heart flows sleep
and the dark heavy rain
where the gravedigger’s song is sung
you’ve been torturing me

tout est noir, mon amour
tout est blanc
je t’aime, mon amour
comme j’aime la nuit

love, is the medicine good?
is the crow flying eight miles high?
over wire and wood

shovel down six feet
with a head heavy pain
the magnolia blooms so sweet
and it fades just the same

to the stars my love
to the sea
to the wheels my love
till they roll all over me

oh love, i been thnking of you
with razor white teeth so sharp
honest its true

in my blood flows sleep
and the dark heavy rain
the magnolia blooms so sweet
only torturing me

to the stars my love
to the sea
to the wheels my love
till they roll all over me

MARK LANEGAN – St. Louis Elegy

I look at the sky
I see an airplane as it flies
Is this the way they said Jesus came?
Gone through St. Louis
Gone straightaway
And i hear the winter will cut you quick
If tears were liquor I’d have drunk myself sick

Woman are you home?
A house of cards, a frame of bones
Here I am earthly bound
Said hallelujah I’m going down
And the River Jordan is deep and wide
I think I see forever across on the other side

I look at the sky
I see a nightbird as it flies
Over the old bent cherry trees
Shivering in a row
Down here the winter will cut you quick
These tears are liquor and I’ve drunk myself sick

And the dead of winter will cut you quick
These tears are liquor and I’ve drunk myself sick

MARK LANEGAN – Saturday’s Gone

If you’re kind for dusty highways and such
Be alright to look her up
The faded priestess of the highways and crutch
Calling when you’re down on luck
By the disused railroad road station you go
To the house of dirty pearl
Her existential situation you know
She is not like other girls

She may ask you, “Do you believe?”
You can’t stay, though you’ll never leave

See the sapphire in the skylines so blue
See the diamond in the dirt
When you think the subject won’t turn to you
She got demons up her skirt
It isn’t sure of her reflection at all
Is seduced by all things past
A pleasure-seeker of dejection
Gazing into her looking glass

She may ask you what you believe
But the mirror doesn’t see me

Saturday’s gone, saturday’s gone
Saturday’s gone, saturday’s gone

She may ask you, “Do you believe?”
You can’t stay, though you’ll never leave

Saturday’s gone, saturday’s gone
Saturday’s gone, saturday’s gone

Now a sundown comes, a new day for her
Tired of dress and leave the ground
You’d be a fool to ask her to lift you up
Why go up when you go down?
If you should tire of ties that bind you
Filmed on fever leaves so fast
You got trouble far behind you
Well knows nothing’s made to last

Hear how God sees a lion roar
Watch the serpent crossing the floor

Saturday’s gone, saturday’s gone…

MARK LANEGAN – Riot In My House

There’s a riot in my house
Chaos is blossoming
Run and hide little mouse
Go on and get yourself together
When burn outs by the score
Strung out in metal cages
See technicolor pour
From every laceration
I realize that I’m slowly coming down with you

Angels fill my room
With what I’ve scant belief in
When death’s metal broom
Comes sweeping through the evening
Get up off the floor
There’s hot smoking radiation
From window to the door
In ultra violent hesitation
I realize that I’m slowly coming down with you

Battle lines appear
Within the broken mirrors
Yet the dogs have no fear
Fighting in the dark grey shadows
Hear the coughing sound
Mama bring my medication
No harmony is found
While performing levitation
I realize that I’m slowly coming down with you

There’s a riot in my house
Chaos is blossoming
Run and hide little mouse
Go on and get yourself together
From window to the door
There’s cold choking strangulation
See technicolor pour
From every amputation
And realize that I’m slowly coming down with you

MARK LANEGAN – Quiver Syndrome

I turned back towards the factory
With a rail running through my head
And the stain of a rust red romance
Though my iron age rose is dead
Will the Lord hold me down ’cause I’m wicked?
Will the Lord hold me down, to my shame?
Will your love it get into me Jesus?
Now I heard you calling out my name

The moon don’t smile on saturday’s child
Lying still in Elysian Fields
I don’t know what the doctor he did
Now I’m all day long with my body in bed

Plant the seeds of an ivory white lily
Play the ghost of autumn’s lullabye
You know the way i came down to the city
Snuffed the love light out of my eyes
I’m knocked back in the alley
With the sweat pouring off my hands
I can tear out a stitch ’cause it’s aching
When I’m a shake, shake, shaking I can

The moon don’t smile on saturday’s child
Lying still in Elysian Fields
I don’t hear what my mother she said
Now I’m all day long with my body in bed

I turn back toward the factory
With a rail running through my head
And the stain of a rust red romance
Though my iron age rose is dead
Will the Lord hold me down ’cause I’m wicked?
Will the Lord hold me down, to my shame?
Will your love it get into me Jesus?
Now I heard you calling out my name

The moon don’t smile on saturday’s child
Lying still in Elysian Fields
I don’t know what the doctor he did
Now I’m all day long with my body in bed

MARK LANEGAN – Praying Ground

Not feelin’ any pain
But I know that it’s real
Never see the color of the day
In the darkness I kneel
Prayin’ for sleep
Prayin’ that it will come easy
But there’s something else
I see it miles away

Don’t know what time of year it is
I can remember the fall
Yet all my strange and simple games
Play out on top of a wall
Prayin for sleep
Prayin’ for something so easy
If only the moon
Would have left me alone

MARK LANEGAN – Phantasmagoria Blues

I have given to you jane
A torn and tattered love
But do you hear the tolling bells
That ring down from above?
Thought I’d rule like charlemagne
But I’ve become corrupt
Now I crawl the promenade
To fill my empty cup

And you’re free
You’re free again
One more time

Now if you found a razorblade
And took it to your wrist
Then I’d be here in my electric chair
Because of this
All last night and night before
I stood on the pier and cried
But I don’t want to turn away
For fear of going blind

And you’re free
You’re free again
One more time

I have given to you Jane
A bruised and beaten love
But do you see the cold white light
That shines down from above?
Thought I’d rule like charlemagne
But I’ve become corrupt
Now I’ll crawl the promenade
To fill my empty cup

And you’re free
You’re free again
One more time

MARK LANEGAN – Ode To Sad Disco

The sun’s tolling bell
Subterranean eyes
A thousand to one
The factory line
Stars outside the window flicker and shine
The hollow headed morning isn’t blind
A mountain of nails burn in your hands
Here I give all I am

Gloria
I get down on my knees
Further from my own

A tower of stones
Sympathy’s shade
Ride a white horse
The drowned on parade
A diamond headed serpent climbs a vine
See all the lonely children lose their minds
A mountain of dust burns in your mouth
Here there’s no north, just south

Gloria
I get down on my knees
Further from my own

Thirst swollen tongue
An arcadian twist
The sleepwalk is done
Yet the notion persists
Cars outside the window careening by
The hollow headed morning is unkind
Gloria
I get down on my knees
Further from my own
Under a cliff
Darkness denied
Here I have seen the light

Here I have seen the light

MARK LANEGAN feat. Willy Mason – No Place To Fall

If I had no place to fall and I needed to
Could I count on you to lay me down?

I’ll never tell you, no lies
I don’t believe it’s wise
You got pretty eyes, won’t you spin me ’round?

I’m not much of a lover, it’s true
I’m here and I’m gone and I’m forever blue
But I’m sure wanting you

The sky falls silver and gold
It tries to hide the sun but it can’t be done
‘Least not for long

But if we help each other grow
While the light of day smiles down our way
Oh, we can’t go wrong

But time, she is a fast old train
She’s here and she’s gone and she won’t come again
So won’t you take my hand?

If I had no place to fall and I needed to
Could I count on you to lay me down?

MARK LANEGAN – Museum

You hear them call your name
From your room
Far removed
Don’t let ‘em use you in, every way
Stay unchained
Around and round you go
They’ll never know, what you’ve seen
Why have you turned away
You can believe, believe in me
Couldn’t you try one time
See if they’ll run, for a while
It’s a solitary star
Shining precious light
Light on me
When I see your eyes
Tell me what you find
But I oughta know, by now
Did you hear them call your name
From your room
Far removed
I’d only use you in, every way
Stay unchained
It’s a solitary star
Shining precious light
Light on me

MARK LANEGAN – Wedding Dress

Would you put on that long white gown and burn like there’s no more tomorrows?
Will you walk with me underground and forgive all my sicknesses and my sorrows?

Will you be shamed if I shake like I’m dyin’
When I fall to my knees and I’m crying?

Will you visit me where my body rests
Will you put on that long white dress?

Ba dadada, da, badadadada dadada
Ba dadada, da, badadada
The end could be soon, we’d better rent a room so you can love me

Will you put on that long white dress while I burn when there’s no more tomorrows?
Will you remember me through the years I’ll miss and forget all the sadnesses and the sorrows?

Ba dadada, da, badadadada dadada
Ba dadada, da, badadada

We got married in a fever, now you love me
Get a room, so you can love me

MARK LANEGAN – Juarez

Night train is groovy
An orange jubilee
Feels good comin’ and goin’
I’m warm all over me

Fire up the crack boys
And tie off my arm
Cinch up my diaper
Turn the TV on
Give me another blow job
Before I’m on the nod
Say you’ll always love me and
Never do me harm
Never do me harm
Never do me harm

Well you’re a preacher’s daughter
And I’m a bastard’s son…

MARK LANEGAN – I Love You Little Girl

Love you little girl
Better than I love my
Better than I love myself
Want you and me
Forever, ever and ever
Just so far from home
Just so far from home

Love you little girl
Better than I love my
Better than I love myself
Want you and me
Forever, ever and ever
Just so far from home
Just so far from home
Love you little girl [4x]

MARK LANEGAN – Harborview Hospital

I walked by harborview hospital
I heard the agnus dei
Oh sister of mercy
I’ve been gone too long to say
And all around this place I was a sad disgrace

They’re singing, they’re singing
Away up on the hill
They’re building, they’re building
A mystical union, beautiful and still
But down here in the dirt they’ll say it doesn’t hurt

The devil’s ascended
Upon some crystal wings
In the citadel lightning
Splits a cloud of butterflies and fiends
And with a vacant stare I’ll leave a flower there

They’re riding, they’re riding
A hellhound down the hill
They’re sinking, they’re sinking
Into the ocean, beautiful and still
And yet it’s hard to leave in wealth or poverty

I walked by harborview hospital
And stopped at ninth and James
Oh sister of mercy
I’ve been down too far to say
Are they supposed to be as sick as you and me?

MARK LANEGAN – Gray Goes Black

Don’t you turn off my radio
Please don’t turn off my radio
Not with the rope still swinging
While eternity’s mouth is singing

So insect I’m in amber
Days go by please don’t forget
Uneven, so enamored
Days go by remember that

Gray goes black

Can’t you hear my radio?
Don’t you hear my radio?
Not with the beast still sleeping
While eternity’s eyes are weeping

So insect I’m in amber
Days go by please don’t forget
Uneven, so enamored
Days go by remember that

Gray goes black

Into the blood we sink and burn
Gray goes black