Mercy Is Patti Smith

Mercy is as mercy does Wandering the wild The stars arise watching you A breath upon a cloud Two white doves Two white wings To carry you away To a land in memory A land in memory The sky is high The earth

My Blakean Year Patti Smith

In my Blakean year I was so disposed Toward a mission yet unclear, advancing pole by pole Fortune breathin' into my ear mouthed a simple ode One road is paved in gold, one road is just a road In my Blakean

Spell Patti Smith

The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy!

Nine Patti Smith

Night a nine of diamonds A woman lay and cries At the sister of Mercy On a Sabbath day Night a nine of diamonds As revelers commence To shiver as she bore In a babe, a radiance Brave in constant motion

This Is The Girl Patti Smith

This is the girl For whom all tears fall This is the girl Who was having a ball Just a dark smear masking the eyes Spirited away, hurrying inside This is the girl That crossed the bind This is the song

Upright Come Patti Smith

Hail brother The distant thunder Is nothing but hearts Beating as one Dance of a million On God's pavilion Come come Beat on your drum Awake people arise Awake upright come Fortune is falling

Dancing Barefoot Patti Smith

she is benediction she is addicted to thee she is the root connection she is connecting with he here I go and I don't know why I fell so ceaselessly could it be he's taking over me I'm dancing barefoot

Going Under Patti Smith

Sun is rising on the water Light is dancing again Let's go under where the sun beams Let's go under my friend Are we sleeping, are we dreaming Are we dancing again Is it heaven, crack it open And we'll

Persuasion Patti Smith

What is the system that gets around Recruits hearts with its timeless rhythm The young glow but old men know It's all a part of some crazy schism Coming on like the dawn unrelenting light Streets thick

Banga Patti Smith

in the heart of a dog Don't set all your eggs on the back of a frog You can lick it twice but it won't lick you And salvating salvation gone so long so Loyalty lives and We don't know why And the paw is

China Bird Patti Smith

One fine day these words I pray Will breathe a truth Within yourself upon a shelf A life anew So many roads It's hard to know what to do All your dreams All it seems Is as you choose For destiny my china

Elegie Patti Smith

Elegie - Patti Smith I just don't know what to do tonight, My head is aching as I drink and breathe Memory falls like cream in my bones, moving on my own.

Because the Night Patti Smith

Take me now baby here as I am Pull me close, try and understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed Come on now try and understand The way I feel when I\'m

Dead City Patti Smith

be free Seven screamin' horses Melt down in the sun Buildin' scenes on empty dreams And smokin' them one by one Hee haa The dead city Longs to be, yea, yea This dead city, yea Longs to be livin', ohh Is

Cartwheels Patti Smith

Come my one, look at the world Bird beast butterfly Girls sing notes of heaven Birds lift them up to the sky Spring is departing Spring is departing Her thoughts are darting like a rabbit Like a rabbit

New Party Patti Smith

You say hey The state of the union Is fine fine fine I got the feeling that you're lying Lying lying lying I think we need Think we're gonna need A new party They say to me They say what's the word I say

Seneca Patti Smith

The canvas is high The scheme of a life Written in the wind The pen, the knife Run my little one Breathe a hymn Breathe my little one A hymn to him To him The master is calling, calling The canvas

Rock N Roll Nigger Patti Smith

A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure.

Up There Down There Patti Smith

are not for hire It serves man It serves everyone Down there where Jonah wails in the healing water in the ready depths Twisting like silver swans No line of death no boundaries Up there The eye is

Glitter In Their Eyes Patti Smith

They've been sold out like as not Just for chunks of Ankgor Vat They'll trade you up Trade you down Your body a commodity Our sacred stage Has been defaced Replaced to grace The marketplace Dow is

So You Want To Be Patti Smith

plastic wares and in a week or two if you make the charts the girls will tear you apart what you pay for these riches and fame well it's all a vicious game you're a little insane what you get is

Grateful Patti Smith

Ours is just another skin That simply slips away You can rise above it It will shed easily It all will come out fine I've learned it line by line One common wire One silver thread All that you desire Rolls

Gone Again Patti Smith

into the wind Grateful arms grateful limbs Grateful soul he's gone again I have a winter's tale How vagrant hearts relent prevail Sow their seed into the wind Seize the sky and they're gone again fame is

Kimberly Patti Smith

The wall is high, the black barn, The babe in my arms in her swaddling clothes And I know soon that the sky will split And the planets will shift, Balls of jade will drop and existence will stop.

Farewell Reel Patti Smith

The sky just opens And when it rains it pours I walk alone assaulted it seems By tears from heaven And darling I can't help Thinking those tears are yours Our wild love came from above And wilder still is

Gloria Patti Smith

feeling that I'm gonna ah ah make her mine and then I hear this knockin' on my door hear this knockin' on my door and I look up into the big tower clock and say oh my God here'smidnight and my baby is

Gloria: In Excelsis Deo Patti Smith

crazy feeling that I'm gonna ah ah make her mine and then I hear this knockin' on my door hear this knockin' on my door and I look up into the big tower clock and say oh my God here'smidnight and my baby is

Lo And Beholden Patti Smith

Oh I'm beholden to you In the palace there was wild reverie And the look in your eyes As I dropped veil after veil Was drunken desire The dove calls and God notes it all The naked truth Here is

Lo and Beholden (Radio Edit) Patti Smith

beholden Oh I'm beholden to you In the palace there was wild reverie And the look in your eyes As I dropped veil after veil Was drunken desire The dove calls and God notes it all The naked truth Here is

Redondo Beach Patti Smith

Everyone was singing, girl is washed up On Redondo Beach and everyone is so sad. I was looking for you, are you gone gone ? Pretty little girl, everyone cried. She was the victim of sweet suicide.

Rock n Roll N****r Patti Smith

Outside of society that's where I want to be Lenny Baby was a black sheep Baby was a whore You know she got big Well she's gonna get bigger Baby got a hand got a finger on the trigger Baby baby baby is

Gone Pie Patti Smith

Hey there Come and take a walk with me Stroll into infinity We'll stroll along Until the dawn is gone Midnight take it to the twilight Just a little slice of light Let's turn it off and on off and on Strolling

Capitol Letter (From 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Soundtrack) Patti Smith

Mocking as the jay She's the silent one In her soft boots Racing through the flames Racing through the flames She's the silent one In her soft boots Trawling her bow And her only truth Rebellion is

Constantine's Dream Patti Smith

He advanced toward the enemy And the symmetry, the perfection of his mathematics Caused the scattering of the enemy Agitated, broken, they fled And Piero della Francesca waking, cried out All is art -

Waiting Underground Patti Smith

If you believe All your hope is gone Down the drain Of your humankind The time has arrived You'll be waitin' here as I was In a snow white shroud Waitin' underground There by the ridge Be a gathering beneath

Trespasses Patti Smith

Life is designed With unfinished lines That another sings Each story unfolds Like it was gold Upon a ragged wing The bold and the fair Suffer their share He whispered to his kin All of my debts Left with

Boy Cried Wolf Patti Smith

cried wolf Wolf don't come Wolf within Boy cried wolf I am the body I am the stream I am the wake of everything They bring me flowers that are myself Garlands of blood that are myself Slain the lamb that is

The Jackson Song Patti Smith

Little blue dreamer go to sleep Let's close our eyes and call the deep Slumbering land that just begins When day is done and little dreamers spin First take my hand then let it go Little blue boy, you're

Gandhi Patti Smith

the sacred garden And the blossoms fell, well, they dropped like candy And nature cried, "Gandhi, Gandhi" Hey, little man, awake from your slumber Get 'em with the numbers Get 'em with the numbers He is

Death Singing Patti Smith

burning of Atlanta And these viral times And may ribbons streaming And the straw colored curls are turning A mother's vain delight And woe to the sun And woe to the dawn And woe to the young Another hearse is

Privilege (Set Me Free) Patti Smith Group

My body is aching. Don't want sympathy. Come on. Come and love me. Come on. Set me free. Set me free. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

Frederick Patti Smith

This is dedicated to my clarinet teacher Fred Sonic Smith

Stride Of The Mind Patti Smith

left, the left, the left Step to the right, the right, the right Pick up the sign, the sign, the sign For a stride of the mind, the mind, the mind Come on move, where dreams increase Where every man is

Amerigo Patti Smith

Where are you going Send me a letter, if you go at all It's such a delight To watch them dance Be it sacrifice or romance Free of all the things that we hold dear Is that clear, Your Excellency?

Whirl Away Patti Smith

Anything at all From the earth's four corners the people are calling Forming equations but the questions are hard All men are brothers, killing each other And Mother Earth is wringing in wonder Who stands

Don't Say Nothing Patti Smith

Lower the thing the skin of a cat Skin it to the left just laying there No other thing is luck like that And you set it said it said nothing Went to the party very discouraged I watched the litter pile

Memento Mori Patti Smith

hearts They come back to us And our hands are filled with their rotting tissues But we turn not our backs We press our lips Into their cancer into the dust into the remains of each one And that love is

Birdland Patti Smith

I am helium raven and this movie is mine, So he cried out as he stretched the sky, Pushing it all out like latex cartoon, am I all alone in this generation ?

Summer Cannibals Patti Smith

I was down in Georgia nothing was as real as the street beneath my feet descending into air The cauldron was a-bubbling the flesh was lean and the women moved forward like piranhas in a stream th...

Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana Cover) Patti Smith

Load up on guns and bring your friends It\'s fun to lose and to pretend She\'s over bored and self assured Oh no, I know a dirty word Hello, hello, hello, how low? Hello, hello, hello! With the l...