Murder By Death - A Caucus Race

Take the last bus home with the quarters in your pockets left over from pinball machines at the bar many streets from your house. casino lights still flicker in your eyes your teeth taste faintly of flesh and gold tonight. you've been waiting for a long time between the dancing and the refill line she touches your wrist you start to sweat but it's just drinks and time playin' tricks. go back go back just get away from me your teeth taste faintly of flesh and gold.

Murder By Death - A Masters In Reverse Psychology

Put the bullet in the barrell take the safety off keep shootin' at the devil
in the moonlight put it all on black till your luck comes back we're all
waitin' for the end what kind of finish will he send these hands made of

Murder By Death - Canyon Inn Room 16

Your hourglass shape in the light half covered in cloth the rest untouched Thinking I don't feel like being a sentimentalist today and whispering wake up wake up the rain is slowing Touching a hand to a head the static of the radio humming someone humming something pretty off where the antenna just can't reach.

Murder By Death - End Of The Line

All the kids have run inside grabbed a spot under the stairs they've barricaded all the windows and rigged the doorknobs shut with chairs what are they waiting for they don't know they just keep their fingers crossed and maybe pray to mary or jesus christ I can hear them knocking down the door the wait it is over this bottle is done so we clench our fists and fight our demons there's a girl with a flower pot full of dirt and bullet shells she puts it by her window gives it sunlight restores its health after a month or two the shells start to grow into branches of barbed wire they spread across the walls the windows and the floors and their grip never tires lay low lay low keep your head down lay low lay low listen for the sound of the dusty train that's comin' to sweep us all away I can hear the rails a rattlin' against the hectic fray so set the bone with a cardboard split and strike the nail against the flint and set the fields on fire let the devil come let him come I'll be waitin' for him this time I am stronger now and I can fight it I'll be waitin' at the end of the line at the end of the line.

Murder By Death - Flamencos Fuckin Easy

Life in the city everyone's busy packin' portfolios to kill competition hey boss hey boss i'm capable of making your life easier but i'm drunk on promotions. can i get you some coffee? can i make you some copies? have you seen my resume? i'm a regular go-getter. i'll take the slow life like a cowboy strayin' 'cross the open plains wandering without fear of a monday.

Murder By Death - For Matt Davis

oh let me lay down beside my dear friend who has gone away cover me over with dirt and sod let me hasten my departure day for i long for that day when we'll be dancin on the stormclouds to shake the rain from the sky onto our graves we'll all be waiting for that day well will whitmore mixed up some shine filled up the jug and met us walkin down the line the line the line he met us walkin down the line to join our friend in heaven down the line and every chain gang in heaven lifted up their arms made an aisle for him to walk between the rows and each plant bowed down toward him as he passed as he passed they kept their necks in reverence for the preacher's son

Murder By Death - Holy Lord Shawshank Redemption Is Such A Good Movie!

You're all the way over there but we can dance to your music from here.

Murder By Death - Im Afraid Of Whos Afraid Of Virginia Woolf

I didn't mean to make you feel out of place by the comments on your clothing or the makeup on your face i didn't mean to preempt the chase you're the drama queen of every scene perfectly out of place only cynicism can get through to you expand the image up the insults negativism through and through all of this pretending makes me feel a bit confused you've spent your life losing yourself and now you're marked as used so you cry yourself to sleep on your blanket of snow with your tiara of barbie doll heads and your arms crossed for a pillow if you can't make up your mind just how different you should be reorganize your priorities to expect more sympathy.

Murder By Death - Intergalactic Menopause

We were drunk and carsick when we rolled into town pulling up to the drive-in there was no one around when the lights unfolded from the sky we were the only ones to be found they were soaring through the sky we were left on the ground. sitting in the living room the dog is catching caramel corn i never wanted a change brushing teeth and combining i guess they do this everywhere i guess it's time for a change i never wanted a change i think it's time for a change.

Murder By Death - Joe Bou

We were sitting in the back of the car watching the lights go by on the ceiling in a sleeping bag we were hungry drunk and half naked and didn't notice the time change from the last place we'd been. it still gets cold in the south at night when the winds are blowing slapping up against the windshield these blankets won't do anything at all.

Murder By Death - Killbot 2000

a smell like cigarettes creeps softly through the vents the room is filling
up with smoke and little bodies tell all the boys and girls from school to
keep breaking all the rules to let their parents know they're individuals

Murder By Death - Knife Goes In Guts Come Out

Maria's mixing up the poison in the bathroom combines blue and green and brown and black and red She puts it on the doorstep of her neighbor whose feet transmit the poison to her heart in the shape of a cross the bone grinds into her skin the blood starts circling in her heart the poison's sinking in The blood in her body is changing the capillaries are spreading the disease her blood starts to flow her heartbeat's getting low she starts to feel nothing