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 marked in bold can be read on this web site.
I. When the Reds Fade from Purple (You're Left with the Blues)
CONTENTS
Blue
Cliffhanger Blues
Deep Blue Blues
Poem for a Lost Cause
You’d Better Start Doing the Things That You Don’t
Death
My Only Friend
The Saddest Lover
Two-timer Blues
The Spiral of Hell
II. Riddles & Madness
CONTENTS
The Challenge
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
To You I Am Just a Game
Inside the Serpent’s Theatre 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
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
IV. Life in the Rear-view Mirror
CONTENTS
The Push-and-pulling Act
I Travelled East, I Journeyed West
Body Talk
The Princeling
Again
The Wind & the Rain
Don’t Bother with Goodbye, Stranger
Who Said Life Is Fair
Seasons of Love
The Day She Made It Rain Forever
Rusted Passion
I Don’t Believe