This page covers four volumes of lyrics in the Words on the Wing series:
I. When the Reds Fade from Purple (You're Left with the Blues)
II. Riddles & Madness
III. Dovetail Deals by the Devil's Door
IV. Life in the Rearview Mirror
NOTE: Excerpts from the works listed below marked in CAPITAL LETTERS followed by an asterisk (*) can be read on this web site by clicking on the title.
CONTENTS
WATER, MY LOVER*
Blue
Cliffhanger Blues
NO RETURN*
Deep Blue Blues
Poem for a Lost Cause
STRAY CAT BLUES*
You’d Better Start Doing the Things That You Don’t
THE SECRET SILVER BOX*
Death
My Only Friend
The Saddest Lover
Two-timer Blues
The Spiral of Hell
II. Riddles & Madness
CONTENTS
The Challenge
WOMAN IS A MYSTERY*
EVOKING IMAGES OF PAGAN RITES*
I Am Running This Show
When You Have a System to Beat
Manhattan
The Shooting Target
A TOAST, TO YOU GENTLEMEN OF GREED*
The Winning Horse
Fear
A TEA LEAF’S JACKANORY*
To You I Am Just a Game
Inside the Serpent’s Theater of Lost Illusions
Your Heart is a Safe
The Thief
III. Dovetail Deals by the Devil's Door
CONTENTS
LOVERS AT THE MIDNIGHT BURNING*
The Devil’s Waiting List
THE CASTLE & THE CONQUEROR*
Imagine, Francesca
Snapshot
The Deal
On the Run
The Stallion of Death
Speedy Gonzales’ reply (50 years later)
Dark Trade
The Devil’s Weather
Just Another Drink
THE WORLD WAS TOLD TODAY ON THE NEWS*
PRINCE OF DARKNESS*
IV. Life in the Rear-view Mirror
CONTENTS
The Push-and-pulling Act
I TRAVELED EAST, I JOURNEYED WEST*
Body Talk
THE GIRL WITH CINNAMON SKIN*
The Princeling
Again
The Wind & the Rain
Don’t Bother with Goodbye, Stranger
SUNNY AFTERNOON REVISITED*
Who Said Life Is Fair
Seasons of Love
The Day She Made It Rain Forever
Rusted Passion
I Don’t Believe
ALL ACCORDING TO THE MASTER PLAN*
