by Joe Pug on album Windfall

Aspirations Flat Refusals Childhood bedrooms / disapproval Would-be authors / erstwhile singers Costume jewlery / ballpark figures Naked power / base excitement True love’s call gone

by Joe Pug on album The Great Despiser

Hey little brother did you hear I made it back to town? I’m gettin’ sober there’s some things I gotta figure out I saw the station and the light we used to run around I could’ve sworn it th

by Joe Pug on album The Great Despiser

As the only child for a hundred miles Living in the land of plenty, You could raise your cup any time you want And never find it empty. But your plate was flush and you had so much While others h

by Joe Pug on album The Great Despiser

They called you a dreamer when you were seventeen. The years went by so fast. Now they call you other things. All of the answers that you're dreaming of - They say that it's natural, but a grown ma

by Joe Pug on album The Great Despiser

Welcome home, my son. It's been so very long. I know that you're here to surrender. The disappointing days I suffered at your age Were more than I'd care to remember. Before you throw the towe

by Joe Pug on album The Great Despiser

If it must be done, listen, son, Should no one stand to shake your hand, Here's what I learned from the file and rank: It's a road of bones and you get no thanks. Well, I was young with pockets

by Joe Pug on album The Great Despiser

Ours are homes we never chose, Far from anyone we know. Taps with every faucet on. Lamps that light an empty lawn. So we took what we inherited and we dug a hole to bury it - All our property

by Joe Pug on album The Great Despiser

There's a bird, fair and gold, whom my owners do hold. She refuses to make them a sound. How it pains them to think that for me she does sing While I carry their riches around. I might work in t

by Joe Pug on album The Great Despiser

I got a hold on you Stronger than the whole damn world. I don't care what they say is true. Stronger than the whole damn world. I know you're tired. I know you're honest. I know you're sick of

by Joe Pug on album The Great Despiser

Blue needs no charter to marble the veins. Green needs no ocean garner its name. Night needs no favour and weather no shame. Storms need no shoulders to carry their rain. So neither do I need a

by Joe Pug on album Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A.

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is r

by Joe Pug on album Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A.

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is r

by Joe Pug on album Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A.

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is r

by Joe Pug on album Dead Man's Town: Born in the U.S.A. Revisited

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is r

by Joe Pug on album Dead Man’s Town: Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. Revisited

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is r

by Joe Pug on album Dead Man's Town: A Tribute To Born In the U.S.A.

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is r

by Joe Pug on album Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A.

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is r

by Joe Pug on album Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is r

by Joe Pug on album Dead Man’s Town: A Tribute to Born in the USA

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is r

by Robert Sheehan on album Killing Bono (Original Soundtrack)

1, 2 1, 2, 3, (yell) 4 Come on….WOO! Oh! Why? Don't it make you cry Something so clear as love could become so vain And it don't matter what we do And it don't matter what we say Without surrend