Тексты песен «Jim Carroll»


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Jim Carroll - I Want The Angel

I want the angel Whose dreams are fatal They cause the snake's milk to run and curdle I want the angel Whose darkness doubles It absorbs the brilliance of all my troubles I want the angel That will not shatter Every...

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Jim Carroll - I Write Your Name

I write your name Everywhere I go Like a worn out code Just to let you know I write your name On my loneliness On the closet hook where you hung that dress Don't you see You turn this trust To wind and dust and...

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Jim Carroll - It's Been Hard

"It's been hard. The writing, lately, just all comes in beautiful fragments like nods now. So high. Guess I'd rather sleep Forever, to sleep and forget. But the neds they keep buzzing in my ear and the heat and the...

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Jim Carroll - It's Too Late

It's too late To fall in love with sharon tate But it's too soon To ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb I think it's time that you all start To think about gettin' by But I have that need to go out and find...

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Jim Carroll - Jealous Twin

She moves through the black door She turns toward the desperate light With her breath like iodine With her filigree design She summons the fire from her hips Flamingo blood melts down her lips But the light would not...

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Jim Carroll - Jody

Jody, what you been doing? It's been a long, long time Since we went dancing in the schoolyard, With your breasts like bleeding limes Jody, are you still hanging with that latin? With rabbit fur inside his wheels? With...

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Jim Carroll - Junky Man

By rancid: The common man doesn't suffer pain like this Only the soul that has never been kissed Let us adore our beautiful son He's ridin' on the rivers of babylon Bootin' up, shootin' up Bring on the brightness See...

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Jim Carroll - Lorraine

Seven blonde women They gather in the square They raise their hands up to the sun Their skin is so thin and white You know their fathers must surely be wealthy I watch the others stand around and form a crucifix A...

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Jim Carroll - Lorraine (Lyrics)

I was underneath the staircase I was talking with my angel He said that beauty is only terror You know, when terror is just beginning I thought I heard some footsteps Lorraine, she was coming But she's been feelin' real...

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Jim Carroll - Lorraine (Opening Poem)

Seven blonde women They gather in the square They raise their hands up to the sun Their skin is so thin and white You know their fathers must surely be wealthy I watch the others stand around and form a crucifix A...

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Jim Carroll - Love Crimes

Hollywood looks good at night The tvs get fine reception But last night jean told steve About her imminent conception She wants a plum tree for the house, for their child Stevie raised his head and said, "that's...

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Jim Carroll - Low Rider

Johnny's trapping stars in his car With the radio on In the parking lot Lily heard a sound While they were going down Someone on el camino had been shot Carmelita stared She really cared for that boy He meant a lot

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Jim Carroll - Luxuries

Your uncle's scandals shook the house of lords Your daddy's squeezed out as chairman of the board No more doctors write you no more 'scripts No more intercontinental trips No more luxuries No more luxuries No more...

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Jim Carroll - Nothing Is True

You get nothin' back for all you've saved Just eternity in a spacious grave She said, "nothing is true, everything is permitted" Things just go from bad to worse Starts like a kiss and ends like a curse But...

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Jim Carroll - People Who Died

Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old Fell from the roof on East Two-nine Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug On 26 reds and a bottle of wine Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old He looked like 65 when he died He was a...

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Jim Carroll - Perfect Water

Perfect water The dark wind braids the waves The crazed birds raid the trees Is this our destiny? To join our hands at sea And slowly sink, and slowly think This is perfect water, passing over me . . . Do you know...

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Jim Carroll - Plain Division

There's a wind up in the trees Like a voice that's whispering "please" Someone's decided on dividing Everything in two I'd rip the money in half I'd even break the staff But split apart my heart And there's...

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Jim Carroll - Pools Of Mercury

Sirens begin, the red light spins Hungry go the thieves Betty's in the sandbox trying to detox She always wears long sleeves Desdemona in a red kimona can't get off the bench Her bolts are fused, her limbs can't move...

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Jim Carroll - Rooms

By jim carroll and steve linsley You're passing, I hear your shadow through the door It's outlined on my shade Like a map of some foreign shore If I could keep that shadow, I could live forever in these Rooms, the...

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Jim Carroll - Still Life

By jim carroll and lenny kaye I don't believe in sin But maybe I'll begin A vagrant evil's climbing up my skin The shadows from last week Are dancing in the street In homage to the darkness closing in It's hard to say...