Lake swimming, shucking free Our deadened selves like snakes and corn do Our bodies tore off swimming suits And all the old notions, the cold ocean far
Slain by your zirconium smile I was slain by your olivine eyes Slain, I was lying in piles Hoping shovels would cast me in Furnaces burn everlasting
The yellow wind sends brambles through the dust The tractor wheels won't turn for all the rust the corn has died And dried upon the stalk her lips are
Oh midnight singer Outside my window Oh how your songs Come in strange and low And in my bed I lay silent Hoping you'd stay Hoping you'd go Oh midnight
Light of the morning day Sadly it will not stay, this perfect pink for too long Couple of hours from now All the sunflowers will frown and turn For the
Roll Ohio clouds oh roll on in Wash the cigarettes the smell from grandma's skin Clear the dank and dusty kitchenettes The bourbon bottles resting empty
At the top of Phantom Mountain I saw the turquoise, brilliant burning sea The sweat on my shoulders, the silvery haze Swords of lightning, hawks and Gulf
I don't know where I come from But I know it's a place here on earth Somewhere in a desert near A mountain was the place of my birth If you could tell
With photographs And magnetic tape We capture Pretty animals in cages Pretty flowers in vases Enraptured And doesn?t the tree Write great poetry? Doin
You're paintings scratch lines of blue and gold You open me up Was folding into myself a deck of cards Face down empty on the shelf Your song with emphasis
I'm falling off the barstool mama in this old ghost town saloon Where sunlight moves like sadness across the room Oh my sweet mama if you could only see
Sorry, I was cruel, I was protecting myself Drifting along with my swords out flying Tattering my own cells and I tattered yours too Took you and wrapped
Riptide pulls me out into the open sea My toes dangle for a place to stand and be Oh starry night, come and chart a course Or send me a boat with an
Dead eye from the wood of life Hold the ropes and the rigging lines Red-eye A.M. here I lie Shipwreck passing underneath What of the sailor and her spinning
I'm climbing up the stairs I'm circling the waves The broken ceiling paint The broken windowpane Oh, a smile would melt Me to an asphalt strip Where
There's a shadow beneath the sea There's a shadow between you and me I've learned that love is scared of light Thousand seeds from a flower, blowing through
I saw the violet turn to night I saw the water turn to ice A thousand snowflakes hovered 'round me The world aglow I heard a distant songbird singing
A handful of dream dust for my pirate He can hear the pPacific singing The sea meets the light in his salt water eyes Icy pictures of the water are captured