Samm Bennett: lyrics

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Please select a song title from this list for complete lyrics, and please note: many of the pages also contain links to recorded versions of the songs (audio and/or video). Some pages also contain links within the lyrics, as well, just for fun and/or educational interest.

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A Joke I Didn't Understand
A Little Scared
A Thousand Rhymes
Ain't I Lucky
Ain't No Train
All I Want is Your Love
American Dream
Annie Took the Money
Any Crummy Little Gig I Can Get
As I Slowly Disappear
Better Take Care of Me
Bless Your Pretty Bones
Blues Wrapped Round My Head
Boom Chicky Boom
Break of Day
Bridge In The Sky
Bring Me the Head of Elmo
Bring Your Money Down To Honduras
Bringabye
Buckets and Big Ideas
Burn My Souvenirs
Butterfly Trapped In a Phone Booth
Car Alarms and Crackheads 
Chain and Shadow
Ching Dong Boss
Close to the Bone
Coin in the Cup of a Beggar (coming soon)
Come On Round Here Baby
Coney Island of the Mind
Couldn't Tell You Why
Cupcake, When You Have a Chance
Diamond Jaws
Dixie Wigs
Does Anybody Know
Doo Dah Day
Door To Door Dirt Salesman
Down the Road
Fat Back Burner
Fighting the Civil War
Flat Fix
Fork in the Road (coming soon)
Golden Cadillac
Gone Getaway
Gone Gone Gone
Gone (Home)
Gone To Alabama
Gonna Cross Your Line
Got To Be A River
Gotta Let You Go
Grateful Wanderer
Guessing Game
Heaven
Heaven Only Halfway Knows
Hobo Nickels
Hope You Catch the Drift
I Burned This Song
I Had To Crawl To Arizona
I Remember You
If I Could Just Pull It Off
If You Believe
I'm Going Home If I Can Find It
I'm Worried About You
In the Year 2001
It Gets Better
It Would Appear
It Would Be Love
Jacaranda
Just Around the Corner from the Liquor Store
Just Blew Into Town
Last Train
Let Me Drift Away
Lexington Avenue Line
Life
Little Bug on the Floor
Little Money Creek
Lonely Boy
Lonely Teardrop
Lucy Lucy
Man of Very Few Words
Mask On My Monkey
Me and Henry and Edgar and Neil
Moving to the Edge of Town
My My My
Nervous Laughter
Never Took a Dollar from a Dead Man
New Orleans 2005
New Ways To Tell Old Lies
No Can Do
No Last Request
No Such Place As Home
No Telling What You're Gonna Do
Not Anywhere Anymore
Nothing's Gonna Save Me
Oh Death
Only Passing Through
Over Amsterdam
Party People Get On the Dancefloor
Pigs Ate My Roses
Pulling the Strings
Queen of Spades
Ready To Rock
Riding Your Train
Round and Round
Sever the Snake
Show Me the Way to the River
Since I Last Saw My Baby
Some Kind of Superhero
Something You'd Pay For
Songs My Daddy Should Have Sung Me
Soon As the Rain Lets Up
South Dakota Shuffle
Take the Funk Back Home
Ten Thousand Rhinoceri
That's the Way It Wiggles
The Distant Truth
The Silence Could Be Heard
The Stone
Think of a Number
This Is the Story of My Life
This Old Man
Tingle Tangle Mingle Mangle
To Tennessee
Trying To Boogie
Twist and Doubt
Two Eyes Seen
Underwater Still Life in Motion with Ritual Dagger and Cloud
Until You Kiss Me
Used To Ride That Train
Venezia
Watched You Drive Away
What's For Dinner Baby
Which One Of These Trains
Whistle in the Dark
Whole Bag of Wrong
Wisp of Smoke in a Gust of Wind
World Beneath the Tracks
Wouldn't That Be Fine
You Came Out of Nowhere
Your Little One Way Street
Zero

Note: all photographs on this page are from Samm Bennett's "Closer" series, which are collected as a Flickr set here.