David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 4hThere is a house in New Orleans Not the one you've heard about, I'm talking about another house They spoke of gold in the cellar that a Spanish gentleman had left I broke in one hundred years ago with a dagger tucked in my vest 083
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 10hNights that won’t happen Never reaching the end Nights that won't happen We can't even begin 070
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 16hI just got back from a dream attack That took me by surprise And in there, I met a lady Her name was Shady Sides 090
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 22hWe could be looking for the same thing If you're looking for someone We could belong to each other If you're not seeing anyone 021
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Levels rising on the island Shows no sign of soon subsiding 011
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And I remember you And I remember me The sunshine walking inside you And the man you could see in me 030
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Let's turn our backs on all the movie stars Let's raise our voices up and sing: "We are not one with everything" 040
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Aloysius was a bluegrass drummer, he was just a normal kid Bloomin', trippin', flowin' under, just as I once did At a 24-hour restaurant, open 'til the end of time He was washing dishes there when he met Brick Butterfly 031
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We're just drinking margaritas at the mall That's what this stuff adds up to after all 0114
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026These terms engulf the waking mind Like cherry, grape and lemon-lime Like candy corn and licorice Like bubble-gum and Swedish fish It happens to me all the time 023
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You might as well say fuck me cause I'm gonna keep on Keep on loving you 0111
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Are you honest when no one's looking? Can you summon honey from a telephone? They sat there with their hooks in the water And their mustaches caked with airplane glue 0153
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wait for the last man Last man never had a chance So he went out behind the shed And bought himself a little cigarettes On the ground digging for a treasure map Find your answer When you ask, please ask me Ask me to stay 041
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Radio's on, feeling all right Cruising the strip on a Saturday night 090
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well, there's trouble in the hall And trouble up the stairs And trouble in the trouble That's troubling the air Please don't say that my soul has died away 031
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well, a setback can be a setup For a comeback if you don't let up 0102
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Where does an animal sleep When the ground is wet? Cows in the ballroom Chickens in the farmer's corvette Sometimes a pony Sometimes a pony Sometimes a pony gets depressed 040
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's a dark and snowy secret And it has to do with heaven 020
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yeah, I loved being my mother's son I loved her so because She was so kind and genuine 090
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They don't walk They don't talk in Malibu 060
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026All houses dream in blueprints Our houses dream so hard Outside, you can see my shoeprints I've been dreaming in your yard 040
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I can't stand to see you When you're crying at home 061
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nobody cares about a dead hooker Looking like one, standing for many Life finds a limit at the edge of our bodies A stranger begins wherever I see 'em 020
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster Her sister never left and look what it cost her We're gonna live in Nashville and I'll make a career Out of writing sad songs and gettin' paid by the tear 050
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When the dying's finally done and the suffering subsides All the suffering gets done by the ones we leave behind 0183
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Brandy wine rained on an android cross Even the swans were bankrupt and blue I'd been a liar my whole life She said, "I wanna be your wife" And she said, "I'm gonna love the hell out of you" 150
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No one should have two lives Now you know my middle names are Wrong and Right Honey, we've got two lives to give tonight 080
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Legends of gold I've tried to hold In the grey half-light of the hallway at night One, two, three, four, five We're trapped inside the song 040
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake 060
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I flagged down a stranger In a worn wooden wheelchair And when I asked if he knew of a hotel He said "if I get your meaning Then I'm definitely leaning Towards recommending the Farmer's Hotel." 030
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Punks in the beerlight, burnouts in love 0132
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's been evening all day long And how can something so old Be so wrong? 092
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So get in some licks and hold your head up And soon you'll be drinking from that crystal cup 060
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hey man would you mind if I ruined your life tonight Would you mind if I ruined your life tonight I know you're not supposed to say bad things about the mother of your children But that bitch, that hag makes me feel like killing 040
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We've been raised on replicas Of fake and winding roads And day after day, up on this beautiful stage We've been playing tambourine for minimum wage But we are real, real I know we are real 030
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Only one for me Only one for me Only one for me I'll put my dreams high on a shelf I'll have to learn to like myself Yeah, maybe I'm the only one for me 051
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026How long can a world go on under such a subtle god? How long can a world go on with no new word from God? See the plod of the flawed individual looking for a nod from God Trodding the sod of the visible with no new word from God 0536
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Up the hill past 694, at the stone wall make a left And I will see you soon, my friend If these old directions still direct 070
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Poor as a mouse every morning Rich as a cat every night 051
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026People send people up to the moon When they return, well, there isn't much 030
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The light of my life is going out tonight As the sun sinks in the west The light of my life is going out tonight With someone she just met She kept it burning longer than I had right to expect The light of my life is going out tonight Without a flicker of regret 072
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We could be looking for the same thing If you're looking for someone 060
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When on and off collide We'll set our souls aside and walk away 050
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026O Dallas, you shine with an evil light O Dallas, you shine with an evil light How'd you turn a billion steers Into buildings made of mirrors? And why am I drawn to you tonight? 083
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I mean, things have not been going well This time I think I finally fucked myself 063
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Darkness and cold, darkness and cold Patiently encroaching on the animal The weather of forever retaking control Darkness and cold, darkness and cold 092
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I've been living in a k-hole Ever since you went away I've been down here day after day I'd rather live in a trash can Than see you happy with another man Closed sign swinging in the window of the liquor store Better get inside the kingdom and close the door 050
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I nearly lost my genitalia To an anthill in Des Moines 091
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Now, there's a lot of things that I'm gonna miss Like thunder down country and the way water drips 051
David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We're just drinking margaritas at the mall This happy hour's got us by the balls 0194