Lucinda Williams

Imports and altercations

My faculties on a shoe-string vacation

I settled down on a hurt as big as Robert Mitchum

And listen to Lucinda Williams



Oh, convenient lies, rubber knives

I'm a dastardly villain, doing belly dives

I before E except after me

I'm dowsing my vitals at break-neck speed



You and your little entourage

Playing amazing little parlor games in the garage

Like a jury of my peers triangulating

My pretty point of exasperation

Yes we gather for some of that Catholic juice

And hide behind the shower curtain, I watch the virgin spruce

I'm soaking wet and feeling funny

The mirror's a mirage, no wonder I always look so crummy



My heroes are all off in the great beyond

England is old but Atlantis is gone

Feathers are floating down, and I can't dodge them

The tar is oozing from my little noggin

It's ugly ancient residue

There ain't no mistaking what's been abused



Feathers are floating down and I can't dodge them

The tar is oozing from my little noggin

It's ugly ancient residue

There ain't no mistaking who's been accused