Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville Belleville, Illinois , Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994. Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn formed the band after the lead singer of their previous band, The Primitives, left to attend college. The trio recorded three albums for Rockville Records, before signing with Sire Records and expanding to a five-piece. Shortly after the release of the band's major label... [read more] - Steal The Crumbs
Sidetracked down the middleNever saw it coming, what a surpriseIt's been a wonderElectricity tells a storyIt's a sound getting near as fear is watching youIt's watching you closeYou can fight it, both arms swingingOr...
- The Long Cut
I've been searching and you've been goneOut looking for the shortest path to the one that you're onAnd I've already seen all I wanna seeCome on, let's take the long cutI think that's what we needWhen we were younger,...
- Chickamauga
You'd never leave on your ownWhere you're from and where you're goingI know these things like I know you hate me nowCatch yourself in mid-air thinkingYour dreams can never be boughtI couldn't help you then and I guess...
- Slate
A worn out joke to keep the flies awayCarried it this farGot the west side winds to keep it steadyWe bury the hatchets we findCould carry that heavy loadIf I really thought it would matterFarcical hair appearsAs a...
- High Water
Try to face up to the blinding sunRacing for the final word to comeFacing up, it's hard to stay devoutI can see the sand and it's running outAnd it's running outWe quote each other only when we're wrongWe tear out the...
- Give Me Back The Key To My Heart
take my picture off the wallit don't matter to me at allsaid I was headed for a fallbut you wanted me to crawlgive back my TVit don't mean that much to mewhile you're giving back my thingsgive me back the key to my...
- Fifteen Keys
Watch it separate in twoWhatever the day wants it toFinding out that the worst is trueFinding out that it can escape youSlings and arrows completes the scoreAlways leaving, wanting moreAnd I try to throw it awaySilver...
- No Sense In Lovin'
I don't know what you've been throughYou might think that I don't careBut I doAnd I've tried to understandI've tried to understand your abuseBut you've got no excuseAnd there's no use in lovin'Anyone who hates...
- Acuff-Rose
Early in the morning, sometimes late at nightSometimes I get the feeling that everything's alrightEarly in the evening, sometimes in the daySometimes I get the feeling everything's okayBecause everything cuts against...
- We've Been Had
There's a guitar leaning on a Marshall stackUsed to sound like the sun on the horizonNow I think we've been hadThere's a young girl screaming all the way in the backPoor kid, she never saw it comingNow she knows she's...
- New Madrid
All my daydreams are disastersShe's the one I think I loveRivers burn and then run backwardsFor her, that's enoughThey all come from New York CityAnd they woke me up at dawnShe walked with me to the fountainAnd she...
- Anodyne
You threw out the pastWhen you threw out what was mineThroughout the yearsIt was hard to make it lastAnodyneNo sign of reconciliationIt's a quarter past the endFull moon from on highAcross the board we lose...
- Black Eye
he had a black eyehe was proud oflike some of his friendsit made him feel somewhere outsideof everything and everywhere he'd beenlike his brothershe emptied himselfand played it safelike their fatherhe wanted to...
- Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Satan, your kingdom must come downSatan, your kingdom must come downI heard the voice of Jesus saySatan, your kingdom must come downgonna pray until they tear your kingdom downgonna pray until they tear your kingdom...
- Criminals
we've got two kinds herethose that bleed the bloodand those that work to will itcan't believe the big screenthere's no justice in the hallwe're all criminals waiting to be calledwe've got s***les to keep the lawsmade...
- Atomic Power
do you fear this man's inventionthat they call atomic powerare we all in great confusiondo we know the time or hourwhen a terrible explosionmay rain down upon our landleaving horrible destructionblotting out the works...
- Coalminers
come, all you coalminerswherever you may beand listen to the storythat I relate to theemy name is nothing extrabut the truth to you I tellI am a coalminerand I'm sure I wish you wellI was born in old Kentuckyin a coal...
- Wipe The Clock
hunted downsomeone said, no story, no gainwipe the clock right nowI despise what you craveI remember youwhen you wore a different facenever heard a story of anyonewho drove the blacktop insaneleaning on a...
- Grindstone
if you find yourself standingat the end of your linelooking for a piece of somethingmaybe a piece of mindfed up, lost, and run downnowhere to hold ontired of, take your place at the end sonwe'll get to you one by...
- Fatal Wound
don't the lights look emptywhen the streets are barealmost as emptyas the look you give mewhen I'm the only oneand it's a long oneso it brings you downso say you have nowhere else to goand nothing to doso you hang...
- Moonshiner
I've been a moonshinerfor seventeen long yearsand I spent all my moneyon whiskey and beerand I go to some hollowand set up my stillif whiskey don't kill meLord, I don't know what willand I go to some barroomto drink...
- Lilli Schull
a great crowd has now gatheredall around the jail todayto see me executedand hear what I do saynow I must hang this morningfor the murder of Lilli Schullwhom I so cruelly murderedand her body shamefully burnedthe fire...
- Warfare
my Lord told his disciplesafter I'm risen and goneyou'll meet with troubles and trialsbear your rebukes and scornsmy warfare will soon be endedmy race is almost runmy warfare will soon be endedand I'm coming homeyou...
- Shaky Ground
in memory of a minerwho dragged himself to workand worked himself to deathworking for someone elsewe follow each other around on shaky groundhis life had become to himworthless in many waysan expired product off the...
- Wait Up
are you surprised it's mehope I didn't wake anybodyhoney, please wait up for meI miss you more than I need sleepguess I'll let you goeven though I don't want tohoney, please wait up for meI need you and I can't keep...
- I Wish My Baby Was Born
I wish, I wish my baby was bornsitting on his papa's kneeand you, poor girl, were dead and gonegreen grass growing over theeI'm not no saint, nor I never shall be'til the sweet apple growsfrom the sour apple treeI...
- Gun
falling out the windowtripping on a wrinkle in the rugfalling out of love, dearit hurt much worse when you gave upjust don't tell me which way I oughta runor what good I could do anyone'cause my heart it was a gunbut...
- Postcard
lost sight of groundnever been so downnothing here to stand onit's a war-weary roadanother faceless tombstonenothing here to stand onI turn to face the windmay never get outforever caught in a spinno better place to...
- Fall Down Easy
disengaged, we're forsaken nowcommunication does sufferthe moral stare of Big Brothernot a chance, no compromisebattling the barrier of beliefnot to try anymoredon't want to murder the only memory or hidetry to accept...
- Sauget Wind
It's a long way to heavenIt's a short way to hellPainkillers won't helpWhen the weight's not yourselfThey're poisoning the airFor personal wealthIt's a long way to heavenIt's a short way to hellI don't know what I'm...
- If That's Alright
every day is dreamlikeit seems like, in every wayand that's whywhen I look back on my lifeit's like a slideshow out of focusand as the carousel goes 'roundthe slides are upside-downthere's nothing to make out or even...
- D. Boon
do you remember, remember D. Boonpart of what he was is a part of me nowand if you think back, where would he bewhere would I be if time had allowedthis isn't written for any one manit's about methis isn't written for...
- Cold Shoulder
doesn't matter what you've saidor what you've donewhen you've lost your headyou're looking for a new oneyour heaven looks just like my hellbeautiful as far as I can tellyour heaven looks just like my helljust as I...
- Looking For A Way Out
when you find you can't somehowmake it like all the restyou won't need to scrounge aroundfor someone elsetorn between the unknownand the place that you call homeand the life you want but have never knownthere was a...
- True To Life
I can only sing it loudalways try to sing it clearwhat the hell are we all doing heremaking too much of nothingor creating one unholy messan unfair study in survival, I guessbut it always comes down towhat to do when...
- Watch Me Fall
some folks find that their role in lifeis to fail at everything they trywhile other folks see but not like methere's one thing that they're damn good atgather around you allcome around and seethose who stand tallwhy...
- Punch Drunk
way in overheadcaught off guard by the guttereverybody's spending his timejust building and makingsomeday someone will say, for whatnine to five in a blind alleyequals three sheets to the windcan't remember when it...
- Discarded
these lines don't work on methey won't on youdidn't knew the cards were on the tablejust can't stand to see things turn out wrongno way to make things rightnever promise anything anymoreso god damn hard to make it...
- Nothing
been traveling around somecrossing people's pathssome they stand right in your wayothers like to watch you passbeen trying to memorizeall the different liesthat people must tell themselves each nightto justify their...
- Still Be Around
I don't see you through the windshieldI don't see you in faces looking back at mealcohol doesn't have much that matters to saycan't imagine where you and time to kill will staywhen the bible is a bottleand the...
- That Year
The thousand times I lived before were just in my dreamsWell, I woke up to realize it didn't mean a thingI've seen several better places, several better timesSomehow those memories got left behindGive me back that...
- John Hardy
John Hardy, he was a desperate little manCarried two guns every dayShot a man down by the West Virginia lineThey saw John Hardy get awayThey saw John Hardy get awayThey cornered John Hardy on the Tombstone bridgeHe...
- Outdone
Everything's fine for now, no one's really laughingEverything's just all right, or is it now? up to the round, but keep moving onYou can cut the cord now, just dragging alongNow there's too many people trying too...
- Life Worth Livin'
This song is sung for anyone that's listeningThis song is for the broken-spirited manThis song is for anyone left standingAfter the strain of a slow, sad endIt seems everybody wants what someone else hasThere's sorrow...
- Screen Door
Down here, where's we're atThe weather changes, that's the way it goesSometimes it snows, when everything's wrongSometimes it snows, but when it does, it doesn't last longDown here, where we're atAll we do is sit out...
- Whiskey Bottle
Persuaded, paraded, enebriated, and downStill aware of everything life carries on without'Cause there's one too many faces with dollar sign smilesGot to find the shortest path to the bar for a whileA long way from...
- Graveyard Shift
Hometown, same town bluesSame old walls closing inOh what a life a mess can beI'm sitting here thinking of you once againWon't you talk to meWell, time won't wait, better open the gateGet up and start what needs to be...
- Train
A quarter after twoSittin' in my car, watchingWaiting on a trainNinety-seven flatcarsLoaded down with troop trucks and tanksRolling byI'm twenty-one, and I'm scared as hellI quit school, I'm healthy as a horseBecause...
- Before I Break
On liquor I spend my last dimeSunday morning, 8amCursing myself againDrinking like this one might be my lastMemories of making jokesToo much beer and talk-show hostsOne of them that's fading fastHere's to waking up at...
- So Called Friend
Never again, your so called friendWill leave you sick and dryThis friend has a nameKnows the gutter and shameThis so called friend of you and I?, the long-term goalsAre to leave this friend behindHe knows what I...
- Flatness
Beer makes you wearyBut you need something to get alongYou stare at the flatnessBeside the dark homeThey'll not hear you whisperThis isn't where it endsYour hand holds the bottleThat has become your last and only...
- Factory Belt
It's funny how it all works outMad men in suits walking aboutI'd like to change your point of view somedayBut I feel my patience slipping awayLooks like it's time to lay this burden downStop messing aroundDon't want...
- No Depression
Fear the hearts of men are failingThese our latter days we knowThe great depression now is spreadingGod's word declared it would be soI'm going where there's no depressionTo a better land that's free from careI'll...
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