- I ainʼt living in the dark no more/it's not a promise, Iʼm just gonna call it
- god, my god, my god, where have you been?
- so its stormy on the lake/little waves our bodies break/there's a fire going out/really nothing to the south/swollen orange and light let through/your one piece swimmer stuck to you
- i was unafraid/i was a boy/ it was a tender age/hurdle all the waitings up/know it wasn't wedded love
- aiming and it sunk and we were drunk and we fleshed it out
- There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave/ You were what I wanted/ I gave what I gave/ I'm not sorry I met you/ I'm not sorry it's over/I'm not sorry there's nothing to save/ I'm not sorry/ There's nothing to save.
- and if the old guards still offend/ they've got nothing left on which you depend/ so enlist every ounce/ of your bright blood/ and off with their heads
- and at once i knew, i was not magnificant/ ice off the highway aisle/ jagged vacance, slick with ice
- christmas night/ it clutched the light/ the hollow bright/ above my brother, i/ we entangled spines/ we smoked the screen to make it what it was to be/ now to know it in my memory
- and you- you knew the hand of the devil/ and you, kept us awake with wolfs teeth, sharing different heartbeats in one night
- my apprehension got the best of me
- this is the first day of my life/glad i didn't die before i met you/ with these things there's no telling, we'll just have to wait and see/ but i'd rather be working for a paycheck/ than waiting to win the lottery / besides maybe this time it's different/ i mean i really think you like me/
- dark blue dark blue/ have you ever been alone in a crowded room?/ well i'm here with you/ see the world could be burning and/ burning down
- well maybe this time i can follow through/ feel complete, stop paying dues/ stop my rain from falling keep my ocean calm/ this time i know nothings wrong/
- while you were sleeping, i figured out everything/ i was constructed for you and you were molded for me/ now i feel your name coursing through my veins/ you shine so bright its insane/ you put the sun to shame
- and now all your love was wasted/ well then who the hell was i?/ and now i'm breaking at the britches/ and at the end of all your lines/ who will love you? who will fight? who will fall, far behind?
- well i met you at the bloodbank/ we were looking at the bags/ wondering if any of the colors/ matched any of the names we knew on the tags
- you seem so out of context/ in this gaudy apartment complex/ the district sleeps alone tonight, after the bars turn out their lights/ the scent of autumn swerving/ into the loneliest evening/
- that secret that you know/ that you don't know how to tell/ it fucks with your honour/ and it teases your head/ but you know that its good, girl/ cause its running you with red
- then the snow started falling/ we were stuck out in your car/ you were rubbing both my hands/ chewing on a candy bar/ you said 'aint this just like the present? to be showing up like this?'/ and the moon waned a crescent/ and we started to kiss/
- i'm coming up only to hold you under/ i'm coming up only to show you wrong /to know me as hardly golden/ is to know me all wrong, they were/ to the outside, the dead leaves, they all blow/ before they died/ had trees/ to hang their hope/
- i woke up with the power out/ not really something to shout about/ i went out into the night/ i went out to pick a fight!/ kids are swinging from the power lines/ nobodies home so nobody minds/
- so watch the hospital that's just across the street from your apartment balcony/
- you were one inch from the edge of this bed/ i dragged you back, you sleepyhead
- we found a house, with a yard, and moved all of your things in/ and most of your things in/ and honey, i was proud of it/ honey, i was proud of you
- and i realized then you were perfect/ with the teeth ripping out of my head
- The last defender of the sprawl/ Said "Well, where do you kids live?"/ Well, sir, if you only knew what the answer's worth/ Been searching every corner of the earth...
- a cabinet record player with nothing but james taylor/tore the carpets from the corners to put in the hardware floor/i'd be a fool to have asked for more
- and the smoke came out our mouths on all those hooded sweatshirt walks/we were a stroke of luck/we were a goldmine, they gutted us
- so you split, said you had to get out/headed back to the south/ where everything's gentle/ so i stayed, for a couple weeks more/all the weather reports/ said it would be snow for sure
- i need time/clocks keep waving their hands/doing all that they can/ trying to get our attention/ and the days fly away down a clean interstate/ staring drunk at a map
dec 11 2011 ∞
may 18 2012 +