Rowland S. Howard

When I told her I didn't love her anymore She cried When I told her Her kisses were not like before She cried She cried She cried When I kissed her With a kiss that only meant goodbye She cried When I stood there I couldn't look her in the eyes I kno

I fell in love with a ghost He's just a shadow of his former self I fell in love with a ghost She's just a shadow of the past The very first day of ever before we ever began The light through the pipes in the back of a trunk Strings to my back it sna

Are you Stalin's secret daughter Did you murder history Your twin pals Genocide and Slaughter Were born on Calvary When all the good Got good and Gone And all the bad broke free A sock puppet government Left to its own device The hand that used to ho

I am blinding Autoluminescent I am white heat I am heaven sent I was a nightmare But I'm not gonna go there Again Into the black hole The house of no contest Make mine a meteor Rise me above the rest I'm soaring through outer space There is no better

Fear and self loathing Forged a chain of silver ore By the time I stop singing You won't love me anymore I ran to the river Crying, "river cure me" But the river just laughed Washing sand over me Girl child your daddy's Silver chain's nine miles

This is a warning A gun-to-the-head thing This is a sign A don't-get-out-of-bed thing The sky was deep And the wind was hot And I tried to speak But I could not The telephone rang like church bells Jesus Christ I've gone to hell A powder burn to the

First I shut down the stars Because you said they ruled us. Then I took out Mars, He was the cruelest. His lover followed suit, By way of suicide. The others stood there silent, As I dealt out peace of mind. Shut me up, Shut me down, Try me if you ca

I know a girl called Jonny She's a bullet, she's a villainess In my silver dress, I'm a disasteress Combing out her long straight hair Jonny bangs the drum Jonny bangs the drum Jonny bangs the drum (Jonny bangs the drum) She's my narcotic lollipop (I

Life's what you make it Can't escape it Yesterday's favourite Don't you hate it? Life's what you make it Life's what you make it Life's what you make it Don't backdate it Don't try to shake it Beauty is naked Life's what you make it Life's what you m

Blood is just memory without language The sins of the flesh are just a sacrifice to Venus Passion plays itself out in the killing zone of false memory All these secrets they just stain my recollections Little by little the sun invades the sky's absen

Well, so long, baby I've had enough I can't ignore it I miss you so much I miss you so much I miss you so much I'm standing in a suit As ragged as my nerves And I agree what I've become Is surely worth the hatred That you spat on me The stars above m

You're bad for me Like Cigarettes. But I haven't sucked Enough of you yet. Nothing is sacred, And nothing is true, I'm no-one that's nowhere, When I'm here with you. I've lost the power I had to distinguish Between what to ignite and what to extingui

Some velvet morning when I'm straight I'm gonna open up your gate And maybe tell you 'bout Phaedra and how she gave me life and how she made it in Some velvet morning when I'm straight Flowers growing on the hill Dragonflies and daffodils Learn from