I sing for people and places, all outer spaces I’ve traveled to castles with kings. I’ve sipped wine from the vine in courtyards with pools fed by springs. Now I’m standing in the ruins. With the music they played on a hundred guitars still twirling like dancers in stars. I sing, Bring me back everything…
Category: Nathan Moore
Rolling Home
I can’t believe all I’ve seen is over. I can’t believe how beautiful it’s been so far, so far. I road the roads New York to San Francisco. Took ten years to make it to the Shenandoah and quite a few cars. Quite a few cars. Now I’m driving to the radio and dancing with…
The Riches Man Alive
I been wiping my ass with paper towels. Living on mac and cheese. I been hanging out at the local bars with a look on my face that says please. I been rolling cigarettes from butts out of the ashtray. Not a single penny earned. Not a single penny saved. But last night I met…
Quanah
Quanah smells a flower. Goes looking for that flower. Wants to be where such a flower grows. He climbs down his tower and there’s a little shower CFC but he doesn’t mind, it feels good on his toes. He crosses over the river, crosses over the road, crosses over, walks along the garden rows. To…
Phoebe Poem
Sittin in the shades of green in chickadee trills and the air is wet. I pet my dog and he knows what I mean, this is as good as I get. The radio announces explosions one by one, the bees are buzzing in their hive, dad is laughing up in his room and I’m alive….
Percy Boyd
Percy squished infinity to two links of chain. Slept under cardboard in a cold rain. The signs were two arrows and two over ten. If you don’t know what that means we may never see you again. A hobo named Percy Boyd hopped on a train that went to hell. Hopped on another went up…
Next Train To Heaven
All aboard, I swore I heard, I swear I went to serve the lord — got lost wound up where I was before — I heard them say, All aboard — now I’m ready again, when’s the next train to heaven. Dream of peace wake up at war, wake up screaming at the ceiling and…
Never Let Your Lover Down
Never let your lover down and you’re wise beyond your years. Knowing that a love with wings flies beyond your tears. And noone buys a love with wings, not even the king of the underground. They just come in timw whe you never let your lover down. Never let your lover down, them’s wings. Never…
Mr. Clean
Mr. Clean, on his high horse, trots into town a little before noon. Two empty guns flapping on his hips. A hush falls over the saloon. The bear trapper puts his hands in his pockets. The poet throws darts at a whale. The bartenders on his knees in the storeroom. The sheriff’s locked himself in…
Lord Lord Lord
I can call her on the phone and she’s out there on her own but I can’t think of the right words to say. There’s no woman anywhere next to her could compare and I never will believe she slipped away. She slipped away, O lord lord lord I never will believe she slipped away….
Discography
Solo 1999: Single Wide 2002: Percy Boyd’s Lost Tracks 2002: Live at the Blackfriar’s Playhouse 2002: Sad Songs Make Me Happy 2003: Back in 15 Minutes 2003: Other Wise Blue Skies 2003: Cans ‘n’ Can’ts 2007: In His Own Worlds 2008: You Yeah Smokin’ Hot 2009: Folk Singer 2011: Dear Puppeteer 2013: Hippy Fiasco Rides…
If I Didn’t Love You
If I didn’t love you, where would you be? Would you be close? Would you be far from me? Would you cross the ocean to the stars? Would you stay right where you are? Would you become a completely different girl In some completely different world? If I didn’t love you? What would you say…
I Was Fine
I came looking for magic. I did not come looking for gold. Either story ends tragic. I’m not getting very old. CHORUS I was fine before you came along and I’ll be fine now that you’re gone. I went looking for heaven. That I’d die before I got there I was afraid. Sorrow, sorrow, yester-morrow….
I Think I Know
I think I know, I think I know, I think I know the way back home. I think I know, I think I know, I think I know the way back home. i didn’t mean to stray so far — i was following a shining star in the middle of the day it vanished and…