Fallin' love with men Is an act of forgiveness Velvet kneelers and A dozen souls rubbed clean. Confessional alley Walk like everyone you see W/ one foot ahead and one Behind. Misery walks from dawn to Dawnhead, Fixed w/ dreamlessness and Touched by steel. In the pink light behind shattered glass Everyone looks and Everyone sees Handprints disappearing into Dust. And there will be Dust. Now I am a spider Holding up two pieces of Web, broken enough to Fly. Breathing engine warmth You are the brightest car in A dark parking lot. Once new this image of Survival in love and all his Victims carrying Visions stretched grey with de- Light some face down closer Than the others to the Source. Then I lose my name and I am Down again. Though I know my spirit will be Freed. Lovin' like an engine wears the Tire thin. Lovin' like someone who can't Believe. Feel like a foreign anything Feel like a foreign anything Feel like a fraud. Mm-mm I want to linger Mm-mm a little longer Mm-mm a little longer here with You. (I'm thinking about buying a car. A fast, steel, motorcar. I want it to have my name on the tires so that it cannot be seen when I drive it.)

All my friends like hangin' out. They go to clubs and parties. I know a guy who almost died Stifling a scream. They call him James the elder, Cuz we don't ever wanna be like him. He gets me so down whenever I lose my faith in a bottle of gin. Give me anything that doesn't have An American label Take your body anywhere Close your eyes Keep your mind in the North. My brother, he says, Will drink anything that makes him sick But I feed it back to him When the money's passed the nation's lips. Careless All of us Careless. Careless All of us Careless. My brother, he says, Will drink anything that makes him sick But I feed it back to him When the money's passed the nation's lips. Eventually you'll stop caring about Your teeth and the anxiety Dims and then it disappears Touch your tongue To the molars at the back of your mouth. They slope into your gums As a river bank erodes and falls. You will come to accept this Checking a watch wound for a lifetime. Endless All of us Endless. Hopeless All of us Careless. They slope into your gums As a river bank erodes and falls. You will come to accept this Checking a watch wound for a lifetime. James the elder, Cuz we don't ever wanna be like him. He gets me so down whenever I lose my faith in a bottle of gin.

Tell me that I slept forever I don't wanna know if I've Come and gone. Right about now or never There's a place beyond. Tele-pain refrain but don't strain Your plastic brain it goes Up in flames. Keep the fire in the fire Place where it belongs. Tell me that I've gone to flower And that every part is being used Of the body that we cared for You me I you. I don't know if you have noticed this But the billboards that speak to us Are becoming more judgemental With every year. And it's all about where The line breaks slowly Down and bleeds As the time washes over me. People call and they ask me why I saw you there I saw you there. Anyway for a better time I been there too I been there too. When I left my house I was six feet tall Now I'm just below five-nine. Must be the weight of the world Cuz I lost my head And I'm fractured by the skyline. Now though the moments Go so slow You're already left behind. They poured the pavement In the womb And there's nothing left inside. A token of age Spent by the youth Comes at the cost of pride. The light and the chorus Leaves your voice And enters the broken line. Watching a while Slipping away, Dare you become unknown? The horizon's eyes Are teaching you That that's where the fever grows. See how the noise I have Has lingered the night away The moments they can't unbleed I save. The dwelling on the baseball diamond At the middle edge of left field Is small and bound in places with pieces Of cloth and rope. It does not have a covering But it does have something there. It will probably be destroyed When the game begins. (scream)

The carpet was sharp In Vic's old room. Well I never quite made it Out of there. It's a tail growing From me, an ingrown Scream a tumor made of Empty noise. If this is the day When I rejoice Give me just a little Of my voice. Then there are those days when You look so good and the drugs Are just ooh babe. Far be it from me to say that I'm livin' life in a dead way. Every morning goes so slow and Every night is a mile away. As the stars will come out in the Dark, I chart my life in such a way. Took you like a river Takes a blind child Spitting flora grinning Rose gardens. But this was a white room At noon on Thursday You walked a high-wire with the Strength of fame. Give me a reason Give me a voice Give me anything that Smells like choice. Then there are those days when You look so good and the drugs Are just ooh babe. Far be it from me to say that I'm livin' life in a dead way. Every morning goes so slow and Every night is a mile away. As the stars will come out in the Dark, I chart my life in such a way.

O, Tiny Sailor, Born triumphant Where is the noise to Reveal you? Since we've been dreaming Of your passage Write me a wave I'll Smile for you. When you take things over Bright as light can be. A red lamp in a green field The moods that come to me. Even as the old ways are Sacrificed they all Stay with me forever Like fungus on a toe. (Captain, my captain...what do you see?) Look out over the horizon. Look. Beyond it's eyes and into the sun. Stare at the space between sea and sky And into the eyes Of God. Daylight Breaks so slowly. I am gone and I am on my way. Searching For adventure Out here on these super groovy waves. When I was a boy I saw my name Chalk dust white breathin' turpentine. Something lost in the coming waves Raise your sails past the given time. When it's gone it's gone and When it's gone you're gone. Two months later knee-deep in the brine. When it's gone it's gone and When it's gone you're gone. Shave my hair into a thinner line. O, Tiny Sailor, Born triumphant I've got the noise to Reveal you! Since we've been dreaming Of your passage Write me a wave I'll Smile for you.

Fold up your hand youngest one The dough is yet to rise. How dare you think that your strength Comes from inside? Just like these lowlands I love You are not your own. I'll sing your praises with my Fingers. Admire the plastic bags that We keep in a vase. Grown in the community Garden down the block. When bloom I watch these Plastic lungs take in the air. Given life only to Collapse against the stair. Become my voice and I swear I'll never say a word. I'll bring the view into my head So you can take us there. God, let a crack move through me And tear up every seam. Maybe someday you'll speak through me And you'll say everything. Admire the plastic bags that We keep in a vase. Grown in the community Garden down the block. When bloom I watch these Plastic lungs take in the air. Given life only to Collapse against the stair. Where have my weaknesses gone, How is it that I stand With weight that's all my own And so much in my hand? All of those pretty plastic bags Carried home filled with air Something deflated enfolds me And then it sets me free.

You, you're invited To shed everything that marks You as unclean. Like something close to nothing You'll be touched by only those who can believe. Welcome to the distance that's between us Bow your head drop to your knee Send forth your love. Enter and become the light above me Needing nothing among everything reside. So die away Inside of me. You're not everything I've Wanted you to be. Full of grace You've chosen woe And it hurts that you're not Wanting anymore. Yeah, It hurts that you're not Wanting anymore. You, you've decided To feed styrofoam to gasoline all night. Wake up feeling sticky, Ain't no thing that can't be Burnt away alright. Bigger make it bigger make it easy To ingest the space that All things occupy. Me happy me home and Me like water. Me be drinkin up the dawn like every night. So die away Inside of me. You're not everything I've Wanted you to be. Full of grace You've chosen woe And it hurts that you're not Wanting anymore. Yeah, It hurts that you're not Wanting anymore. But lord I've never lived that way So how can I still believe you? I know of a child Who saw Christ the Lord In line at a deli Ordering some soup. He seemed so familiar To all who were there Cut him and beat him And do it on a dare. Late to the matinee The lobby entertained me fine. I stumbled when I walked away From a love that is Earth's time. I struck a bit of gold one day As the day was losing time And held it in the dying rays So something of mine could shine. Silence Silence on everything. Silence in one heel Wears out the ankle Of Lady Rage. Who stands Right in her scattered place. Sucks in a breath And buttons her eyes With the foul taste. So come in come in Come alive Wake me up and cut me off. I'll blue the doorknob with my rain And let no one else inside. Then lay me down to rest one day As the day is losing time Hold me in the dying rays Tell me I'm not but a lie. Silence And here comes the everything. Walk on the feet of eight billion hands And finger nails. Shaking The warmth out of every face. Tie down your floorboard Up your good neighbour And scream away your name. And when there was no child to bare you Picked up and ran away With a little porcelain egg You were told would never break Summoned like a chorus angel But for the open road Maybe I'd be white as all hell And stories will be told. My baby Threw my hightops In the ocean. Guess I'll be exactly Where I am. Some people they don't change But they break so easily Like something close to nothing Close to death. And even when the light that held you Slipped where the awful go And there was a noise around you You held your beauty on Maybe I'll be cold forever Or old for just one day Stand alone beside me Let me hear you say My baby Threw my hightops In the ocean. Guess I'll be exactly Where I am. Some people they don't change But they break so easily Like something close to nothing Close to death. Fetal on the floor Outside my apartment The most pathetic thing I've ever seen. I love you so I'll let you hold me Underwater Till I become what you wanna see. Am I really gonna have to Strangle Myself to survive. Some people they don't change But they break so easily Like something close to nothing Close to death. And even when the light that held you Slipped where the awful go And there was a noise around you You held your beauty on Maybe I'll be cold forever Or old for just one day Stand alone beside me Let me hear you say Anything. Say anything. Say anything. Say anything. Say anything.