2007

Lay Your Heartbreak

lay your broken body down
lay your heartbreak
everything is gonna change
everything is wrong

wrong people are being loved
wrong ones dying
wrong ones always take control
have you heard from her today?

you could make me feel so good
if you’d come here and cry
you’d make me feel so good
if you’d come here and cry
you’d make me feel so good

she may never take the cure
she’s been through that
she would rather not be pure
than to be alone

lay your broken body down
let your heart break
everything is in a code
language sleeping like a stone

you could make me feel so good
if you’d come here and cry
you’d make me feel so good
if you’d come here and cry
you’d make me feel so good

Hide Me

hide me
Tell everyone where I am but please hide me
Tell everyone where I am but please hide me
sell everyone the map’s to what’s inside me

You run so fast
You wave me past
only time will tell
I drive around
some bar bound
trapped in this long farewell
and i don’t know who to tell

hide me
Tell everyone where I am but please hide me
Tell everyone where I am but please hide me
sell everyone the map’s to what’s inside me

my memory’s bad
i can’t add
was this that sad motel?
In my mind
I’m trying to find
The place where we both fell
and i don’t know who to tell

hide me
Tell everyone where I am but please hide me
Tell everyone where I am but please hide me
sell everyone the map’s to what’s inside me
hide me
hide me
hide me

Handkerchiefs

i cross the line
and see a face that can’t be mine
through a long long night
to find a place where we all thrive
where every frail thing can survive
where we can live this dream of life

in a dim blue light
she saw his eyes give up the fight
a hand finds mine
traces answers on my spine
from malignant to benign
in the midnight smell of pine

walk, walk, further than you’ll ever know
walk, walk, into the snow

a great divide
i didn’t know her good friend died
drawn in black-light chalk
her ankles tied in flower stalks
we need a place where we can talk
just need a place where we can talk

into our handkerchiefs
into both our handkerchiefs
into our handkerchiefs
into both our handkerchiefs
walk, walk into the snow

Broken Arm

i think i finally understand
the way a broken arm can hate the hand
the way a farmer hates his crop
the way a lawyer hates the honest cop
the smell of chamomile
beneath my sickle blade
will not comfort the cancer-stricken
or provide some common shade

i finally woke up at the drop
and told the driver that he had to stop
and then he got down on his knees
you know these actors always die in threes
the sound of dialog
translated by a hack
it gives me chills when she pays the bills and
still has time to surprise attack

come out come out come out and say it
why can’t you come out and say it
come out come out come out and say it
why can’t you come out and say it

the look of camouflage
on the ones who beg
the decider says i’m a fighter
but i can’t feel my fucking legs

lalalalala

come out come out come out and say it
why can’t you come out and say it
come out come out come out and say it
why can’t you come out and say it
come out come out come out.

Shameful

pilloried in crushed mint
killing with a push pin
sand in eyes
vaulted in the deep rain
salted heart and mud stains
and baptized

semaphore sunrise
arthospore moons above this room
all of our pleadings
all of the noons and butcher’s brooms
shameful the hiding
painful the toxic fumes

sleeping under bloodsheets
dreaming of her nervesweets
and her skins
memories in floodlights
orchids in a fistfight
no one wins
now it begins

semaphore sunrise
arthrospore moons above this room
all of our pleadings
all of the noons and butcher’s brooms
shameful the hiding
painful the toxic fumes

semaphore sunrise
arthrospore moons above this room
all of our pleadings
all of the noons and butcher’s brooms
all of our sighing
all the immune and fauve monsoons
shameful the hiding
painful the toxic fumes

Eclipse

there will always be children
behind one comes another
on the stairs, the younger brother
in his grandmother’s shawl.

tonight we will break glasses
be barefoot in grasses
uninvited we walk in
take our pleasures and leave all.

how our dreams entrap us.
how our dreams entrap us.
the puzzle never solved
behind the scrim of our resolve.

there will always be stream-beds
filled with square stones and doll-heads
and the bodies of insects
and the bodies of lovers

tonight we will lose friendships
turn spies in and sink ships
uninvited we lie down
in the dark of the eclipse

how our dreams entrap us.
how our dreams entrap us.
how our dreams entrap us.
how our dreams entrap us.
how our dreams entrap us.
how our dreams entrap us.

the puzzle never solved
behind the scrim of our resolve.

July

from out of the pinstripes into the white lights
i was the one true friend
and you were my saviour perfect behavior
money i’d never spend
winter’s delivering summer’s forgiving
storms in our washed out hearts
guessed every second corrected and reckoned
on the words: ‘not to part’

C: when i got better i wrote you a letter but i didn’t send it anywhere
it floats on a dashboard looks on a churchyard’s children’s promises to share
the words aren’t free so don’t you believe them, something had to be declared
and i have to face july with two holes in my heart
and i have to face this life with two hearts

i could deceive you, or i could receive you
warmly in my estate
smile so politely, correspond nightly,
talk about what we ate
then in the winter, everything splinters,
we will forget our names,
sleep in our ashes, hide from the lightening
flashes and the cold rain

A Ransom

a world away from me.
a world away.
a word.
a ransom.
a world away from me.
a world away.
a word.
a ransom.

on the day that you were born
all the birds flew from the corn
and the sky grew grey.
on the night you left home
a crack appeared in the dome
and it rained all day

this is what you will wear to the end of the world.
this is what you will wear to the end of the world.

a world away from me.
a world away.
a word.
a ransom.
a world away from me.
a world away.
a word.
a ransom.

on the day that you were wed
your bride cried in the bed
while you danced downstairs
when the end finally came
you forgot the author’s name
but you said your prayers

this is what you will wear to the end of the world.
this is what you will wear to the end of the world.

I Bear Witness

i bear witness to
all the ways they all depend on you
i bear witness to
all the days they spend defending you
i bear witness to
how the light i shed divides on you
but will you bear witness
will you bear witness to me?

i bear witness to
how your dying choice betrayed your voice
i bear witness to
how the wind wore down the hills of you
i bear witness to
all the shapes that grow inside of you
but will you bear witness
will you bear witness to me?

all of this is just a dream you are trying to remember.
all your bliss and pain are listed in the dying of an ember

ahhhh
will your secrets remain bright and true
ahhhh
will your secrets remain bright and true
ahhh
will your secrets remain bright and true

and will you bear witness?
will you bear witness to me?

June Eyes

Blue eyes, june eyes, june eyes
Fly fly home, you are not alone
Night walk through sleeping fields
You are not alone, you are not alone

When you’re tired and sad,
When you’re high and glad
When you need a taste
This garden will not be erased.

Keep these, keep all these words
Sugar on your tongue sugar from the sun
Watermelon and mint
Sugar on your tongue you are not alone

When you’re tired and sad,
When you’re high and glad
When you need a taste
This garden will not be erased.

Pick up the phone
Pick up the phone
June eyes call home

Angels Fall

at the loser’s ball
you were pretty and tall
writing in the wall in your childish scrawl
pretty and tall, you were born to fall
they were on their knees, they were wailing:

burn your wings on the sun
trying to lose everyone
burn your wings on the sun
and you’re falling, falling

cold nights spent
dreaming other men’s words
sleeping in the wings
of your sedative birds
hoarding all your charms
in your phantom arms
hiding from the hail and the thunder

burn your wings on the sun
trying to love everyone
burn your wings on the sun
and you’re falling, falling

at the loser’s ball
you were pretty and tall
writing in the wall in your childish scrawl
pretty and tall, you were born to fall
they were on their knees, they were wailing:

burn your wings on the sun
trying to love everyone
burn your wings on the sun
and you’re falling
burn your wings on the sun
trying to lose everyone
burn your wings on the sun
and you’re falling

You Don’t Live Long Enough

your body’s early but your mind is late
you hope that someone else will fill your plate
and everybody says its only a state of mind

you don’t live long enough to see it done
fold into everything and hide the sun
the dream will never meet you one on one
and still you run

your monologue begins so late at night
your audience enjoys your bad stage fright
the one you’re talking to is always so full of spite

you don’t live long enough to see it done
fold into everything and hide the sun
the dream will never meet you one on one
and still you run

ahhhh

and still you run
still you run
still you run

A Folded Cloth

Purple pitchers
Perfect twins
One beside
Her 3 brown eggs

One striped vase
He holds a stick
The shadow cast
Is what connects

Twins which are
so near and not
Twins which are
so near and not

twins which are
so near and not
a piece of thread
a folded cloth

not much to cross
to just be nearer
but cloth’s the alps
and thread’s the river