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B i o g r a p h y Eliciting
adjectives like raw, volatile, vulnerable, and intimate, the folk-tinged indie
rock of Brooklyn's Big Thief is shaped by the very personal songwriting of
singer/guitarist Adrianne Lenker. She began releasing solo material as a teen in
the mid-2000s before partnering with eventual bandmate Buck Meek on a pair of
duo EPs in 2014. After forming the four-piece Big Thief, they released their
first album, Masterpiece, in 2016. The following year's Capacity marked their
debut on several charts, including the Independent Albums and Americana/Folk
charts. In between Lenker solo albums, 2019 brought two Billboard 200-charting
Big Thief LPs; U.F.O.F. and Two Hands earned considerable praise in year-end
polls, plus a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album (for U.F.O.F.). An
ambitious double LP, 2022's Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, returned
them to the Billboard 200. |
MASTERPIECE
Little Arrow
Go little arrow
Shoot like a wave through the tongue of the taro
Bloom every morning
The water, the pepper
The egg warming
Still play that old reel
From every angle
Pushing the baby
The blood, the tangle
Old light leaking
Is it, could it, was it dreaming
Still play that old reel
Still play that old reel
Masterpiece
Years, days, makes no difference to me, babe
You look exactly the same to me
Ain't no time, crossing your legs inside the diner
Raising your coffee to your lips, the steam
You saw the masterpiece, she looks a lot like you
Wrapping her left arm around your right
Ready to walk you through the night
You whisper to a restless ear, "Can you get me out of here
This place smells like piss and beer, can you get me out"
You were asking me, how to get you free
I only know the recipe to roam
You saw the masterpiece, she looks a lot like you
Wrapping her left arm around your right
Ready to walk you through the night
Old stars, filling up my throat
You gave ethm to me when I was born, now they're coming out
Laying there on the hospital bed, your eyes were narrow, blue and red
You took a draw of breath and said to me
You saw the masterpiece, she looks a lot like me
Wrapping my left arm around your right
Ready to walk you through the night
Old friends, old mothers, dogs and brothers
There's only so much letting go you can ask someone to do
So I keep you by my side, I will not give you to the tide
I'll even walk you in my stride, Marie
'Cause I saw the masterpiece, she looks a lot like you
Wrapping your left arm around my right
Ready to walk me through the night
Vegas
Holed up in Vegas for only one week
And I caught you tongue and cheek by the side of the road
Of an automobile expo
Turned up the volume and you started to weep
And I thought you a lamb
Even in the sigh of the headlight sea
Your tears were salty ocean
You opened up the engine and listened to it sing
And I called you a lamb
You knew your daddy until you were thirteen
And then he took his leave for the likes of the land
And the far off salty ocean
We shook our bodies and we started to scream
And I asked you again
Tell me when we grow up, do we ever go home
You said home becomes the highway
We ordered movies on a motel screen
Until you needed me warm inside of your mouth
And my skin was salty ocean
And then you recommended I'm a woman to keep
And I called you a man
Real Love
Having a bad week
Let me touch your cheek
I will always love you
Having your face hit
Having your lip split
By the one who loves you
Real love, real love
Real love makes your lungs black
Real love is a heart attack
Showing your mother
To any other, letting them touch her
Looking up to her, watching her do her makeup and hair
Real love, real love
Real love makes your lungs black
Real love is a heart attack
Cry like a bird, fly like a baby
Mamma got drunk and daddy went crazy
If your speech slurs, if you feel shaky, meet me out back
I'll be there waiting
Riding in the back seat
Watching the spit fly and the hummingbird cry
Oh mamma, oh papa
Oh mamma, oh papa
How much blood is worth the draw
How much blood is worth the draw
Real love, real love
Real love makes your lungs black
Hummingbird watching
Watching her young thing
Grow up so fast
Looking up to her
Watching her do her makeup and hair
Interstate
Though you let her down
You don't need to carry
What's far from here is not so scary
Though you cannot see her
You don't have to worry
She needs your hand though your eyes are blurry
She is getting thin
You are growing gray and white
And you don't know how to tell her as you say goodnight
Interstate, poison freeway
Takes you down the line
You could go back in time
Time
Time
Time
You could hold her close
At night in your slumber
Dream her as a child when you loved her mother
Now you're in her house
She is smiling in a dress
She is now a woman
You are just a guest
Interstate, poison freeway
Takes you down the line
You could go back in time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Lorraine
When I saw the first time, the thunder came crashing
Your new blue eyeliner caught my distraction
And like we were two lovers forming from fiction
Your mouth caught my ear with such perfect diction
There I let you tie my hands back and take me
Oh Lorraine on a Saturday morning
Oh Lorraine with your soft, burning hands
We fell asleep in the back of the warehouse
I woke to you kneading and covering my mouth
And like we were hummingbirds screaming at ravens
You started to move me from fact into fable
There I let you take me under the table
Oh Lorraine on a Saturday morning
Oh Lorraine with your soft, burning hands
Paul
Oh the last time I saw Paul
I was horrible and almost let him in
But I stopped and caught the wall
And my mouth got dry, so all I did was take him for a spin
Yeah we hopped inside my car
And I drove in circles 'round the freight train yard
And he turned the headlights off
Then he pulled the bottle out
Then he showed me what was love
I'll be your morning bright goodnight shadow machine
I'll be your record player, baby, if you know what I mean
I'll be your real tough cookie with the whiskey breath
I'll be a killer and a thriller and the cause of our death
In the blossom of the months
I was sure that I'd get driven off with thought
So I swallowed all of it
As I realized there was no one who could kiss away my shit
I'll be your morning bright goodnight shadow machine
I'll be your record player, baby, if you know what I mean
I'll be your real tough cookie with the whiskey breath
I'll be a killer and a thriller and the cause of our death
Paul, I know you said that you'd take me any way I came or went
But I'll push you from my brain
See, you're gentle, baby
I couldn't stay, I'd only bring you pain
I was your starry-eyed lover and the one that you saw
I was your hurricane rider and the woman you'd call
We were just two moonshiners on the cusp of a breath
And I've been burning for you, baby, since the minute I left
Humans
Humans in the honest light
Love is a cold infection alright
Why in the morn of one bad night
Do I fight your touch like a fever
Human man, you loosen my mind
Loosen my hand from the beckoning knife
How in the fortress of your eye
Do you lay me down a believer
I can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
Humans in the honest light
Love is a cold infection alright
Why in the morn of one bad night
Do I fight your touch like a fever
I can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
I'm fooling my heart
Fooling my heart
I'm fooling my heart
Fooling my heart
Humans in the honest light
Love is a cold infection alright
Why in the morn of one bad night
Do I fight your touch like a fever
I can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
You can't see me, I can't see
Velvet Ring
One, two, three, four
Shoved in the kitchen of a city tomb
The light would flicker like a violent womb
The night was thicker than a smokey fume
Liza waited in the room
Benny loved her like he loved no one
The way she'd laugh and hold a smoking gun
The way she always said, "What's done is done"
And he was not the only one
Love is a gentle thing
Yours is thicker than a velvet ring
Yours is thicker than a velvet ring
A victim healer with a sharp, sharp blade
Benny knew how she was getting paid
Her water broke and they would have to wade
When he knew that she was fooling
He faced the mirror to avoid the thing
We're out of money and we sold the bling
And I just want to take you home
I just want to take you home
Love is a gentle thing
Yours is thicker than a velvet ring
Yours is thicker than a velvet ring
And I am wandering
And I am wandering
Animals
The animals are wonderful
Such a vision in the sun, how they rail
I catch my breath and count my dough
And I only live to run and I'll need to go
You and I were born and I'll make you make your mind up
Hold me
She always knew
She'll always know
That I love to run so well, but I need to go
You and I were born and I'll make you make your mind up
Hold me
You and I were born with the same design
Nothing in the world that will make you make your mind up
If I had a choice, I'll wait to find
Nothing in your eyes will tell me where you'll lie
Hold me
Randy
Oh Randy, leave it up to me
I'll pour the water if you bring the tree
Nothing looks that real to me
I only see two or three colors
What's it like to breathe in
Find a friend and gather with him
I'm a wolf in a city of women
You only know the light is on
Will you plant that sycamore, baby
I'll watch it grow from the second floor
I haven't left the house much lately
And you don't come around here anymore
And all those lovers in their velvet gowns
I wanna take that trip uptown
Will you tell them to let me out
When you can see the light is on
I found a horse hair in my food
There's a raccoon in my room
There are bluejays all in bloom
All along the cement floor
Randy, they say I've gone insane
So could you take me dancing in the pouring rain
You don't know me, but you know my name
Will you say it till the light is gone
Parallels
Don't I make you feel alive
Don't I give you a good home
In a way I know you're always by my side
But today I think I've always been a long way
One hand to keep me warm
One hand to hold my chin
To be inside your arms
It's all I'm asking
Caterpillar on the floor
Can you teach me to transform
I'll step right in and cocoon 'til I'm born
And I can't say I miss my human form much
One hand to keep me warm
One hand to hold my chin
To be inside your arms
It's all I'm asking
I see all the parallels...
CAPACITY
Pretty Things
Matthew, please do not regret
With your silk in my hand
And your heart in my sweat
As you're lighting the end of my last cigarette
I will warm you
Warm you
These things that lonely ones do
Baby, that's what I'm here for
I'll take care and make all your
Wishes come true if you want to
Do you want to
Don't take me for a fool
There's a woman inside of me
There's one inside of you too
There is an meeting in my thighs
Where in thunder and lightning, men are baptized
In their anger and fighting, their deceit and lies
I've got lips like sugar
Lips like sugar
Holding my wrist to the bed
He was thrusting and moaning and pressing his head to my temple
His head was a temple, I said
"You've got lips like sugar, daddy"
Lips like sugar
Don't take me for a fool
There's a woman inside of me
There's one inside of you too
And she don't always do pretty things
Shark Smile
She was a shark smile in a yellow van
She came around and I stole her glance in my youth, a vampire
Evelyn shown quiet as roses sting
It came over me at a bad time, but who wouldn't ride on a moonlight line
I had her in my eye, eighty-five down the road of a dead end gleam
And she said woo
Baby, take me
And I said woo
Baby, take me too
It came over her at a bad time, riding through Winona down the dotted line
Held us gunning out ninety miles down the road of a dead end dream
She looked over with a part smile
Caught up in the twinkle, it could take awhile
And the money pile on the dashboard fluttering
As she said woo
Baby, take me
And I said woo
Baby, take me too
Evelyn's kiss was oxygen
I leaned over to take it in as we went howling
Through the edge of south Des Moines
It came over me at a bad time, she burned over the double line
And she impaled as I reached my hand for the guardrail
The guardrail
The guardrail
She said woo
Baby, take me
And I said woo
Baby, take me too
She said woo
Baby, take me
And I said woo
Baby, take me too
Capacity
Flight is a beautiful word
Flowered with consonance
That's what I'll follow
Forever
I am a beautiful bird
Fluttered and floating
Swollen and hollowed
For heaven
Do what you want with me
Lost in your captivity
Learning capacity
For make-believing everything
Is really hanging on
Slipping away from the party
Totally vacant
Everyone gone from their bodies
You were outside kissing another
She was a friend of mine
I was surprised to discover
I wrapped my arms around her
She was a beautiful figure
There are no enemies
We're make-believing everything
Is really hanging on
There is a castle that stands
High in the canyon
The blue knights are crying together
A child is holding my hand
She is directing the red crystal pine with a feather
Do what you want with me
Lost in your captivity
Learning capacity
For make-believing everything
Is really hanging on
Really hanging on
Really hanging on
Watering
He followed me home again
And his eyes were watering
His eyes were watering
Like a child
I made-believe for him
That my blood was dripping
My blood was dripping
Into his mouth
Screaming
Screaming
He cut off my oxygen
And my eyes were watering
As he tore into my skin
Like a lion
I knew it was poison
As he filled me to the brim
And my blood was dripping
Like a lamb
Screaming
Screaming
Screaming
Leave your bedroom light on
I live to watch you undress
And you know that I'm there
As you soak in my stare with your right arm
Come
To me
Come
To me
Come
Come
To me
Coma
He brought her in to get out, to get out
He kissed her skin to get off, to get off, off
You can wake up now, momma
From your protective coma
When you wake up, you wake up
You won't recognize your house
You won't recognize your house
Will you recognize the
Iris of the body
Iris of the body
You won't recognize your house
You won't recognize your house
Will you recognize the
Iris of the body
Iris of the body
You won't recognize your house
You won't recognize your house
Will you recognize the
Iris of the body
Iris of the body
You won't recognize your house
You won't recognize your house
You won't recognize your house
You won't recognize your house
You won't recognize your
Great White Shark
Mercury, creeping on the sea
How she wails, flails her arms and weeps
Accumulation of debris
Lips apart flapping as a lark
For in the dark there is release
Every familiarity scarce as the great white shark
Oh to build walls with golden gills
Spike in hand, high above the sand
To kill the sanctuary
Every mile that is owned only stands still by the grace of the stone
Every familiarity scarce as the great white shark
Look, daughter and owl
Listen to her howl
I howled when you were born to me
And you're alive with a breath you can't see
All by the grace of this dream
Mythological Beauty
You have a mythological beauty
You have the eye of someone I have seen
Outside of ordinary situations
Even outside of dreams
You lie in bed at night and watch the lines of headlights
Through your screen
There is a child inside you who is trying
To raise a child in me
If you want to leave
You just have to say
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
You cut the flesh of your left thumb
Using your boyfriend's knife
Seventeen, you took his cum
And you gave birth to your first life
You gave Andrew a family who
You thought would love and take better care
I have an older brother I don't know
He could be anywhere
If you want to leave
You just have to say
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
Rented a house in Nisswa, Minnesota
Shrapnel and oil cans, rhubarb in the yard
I built a ladder out of metal pieces
Father was working hard
Standing beneath the oak tree by the front door
You were inside baking bread
Sister came out and put her arms around me
Blood gushing from my head
You held me in the backseat with a dishrag
Soaking up blood with your eye
I was just five and you were twenty-seven
Praying, "Don't let my baby die"
If you want to leave
You just have to say
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
So much more
To live your life
To walk the floor
To say goodnight
Do you leave your light on
Do you leave your light on
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
Objects
Old volcanoes melting
Love is overwhelming
Letting your insides out
Blind altercation
Open invitation
Breaking your guard down
Leaving the familiar
Air is getting chillier
Stepping outside your skin
No ordinary measurement
You turn your own light on
You turn your own light on inside of me
Closer, the farther you've gone
Stronger, the harder you fall in front of me
Walking through your garden
Pulling up the garlic
Getting our hands dirty
Kissing on the vampire
Kissing on the werewolf
We have no enemies
No ordinary measurement
You turn your own light on
You turn your own light on inside of me
Closer, the farther you've gone
Stronger, the harder you fall in front of me
You turn your own light on
You turn your own light on inside of me
Closer, the farther you've gone
Stronger, the harder you fall in front of me
You turn your own light on
You turn your own light on inside of me
Closer, the farther you've gone
Stronger, the harder you fall in front of me
Haley
Just like that, she is
I mean
We are, we are gone for good
For closing my eye
Too soon
Missed the room
Old magpie
It just passed me through
Oh and oh when it gets you down
When you get that notion
Any way you walk around
Anywhere that you are going
If you ever want to come back
You know my arms are always open
Just like how it used to be, Hayley
Kicking around, burying the letters we wrote
Wondering what yours might've said to me
Mine went
There are the geese
Over the trail
We have the open road
Oh and oh when it gets you down
When you get that notion
Any way you walk around
Anywhere that you are going
If you ever want to come back
You know my arms are always open
Just like that, he's holding my hand
Redirect, rearrange, bringing the moon to land
Oh and oh when it gets you down
When you get that notion
Any way you walk around
Anywhere that you are going
If you ever want to come back
You know my arms are always open
Mary
Burn up with the water
The floods are on the plains
The planets in a rose
Who knows what they contain
And my brain is like an orchestra
Playing on insane
Will you love me like you loved me
In the January rain
Mom and dad and violins
Somber country silence
The needle stopped the kicking
The clothes pins on the floor
And my heart is playing hide-and-seek
Wait and count to four
Will you love me like you loved me
And I'll never ask for more
What did you tell me, Mary
When you were there so sweet and very
Full of field and stars, you carried all of time
Oh and heavens, when you looked at me
Your eyes were like machinery, your hands
Were making artifacts in the corner of my mind
Monastery, monochrome, boom, balloon, machine and oh
Diamond rings and gutter bones marching up the mountain with our
Aching planning, high and smiling, cheap drink, dark and violent
Full of butterflies, the violent tenderness, the sweet asylum
The clay you find is fortified, we felt unfocused, fade the line
The sugar rush, the constant hush, the pushing of the water gush
The marching band, when April ran, May, June, bugs fly and push
Your old gin Jacob with the tired weary brandy look
Here we go round, Mary, in your famous story book
We overcome the sirens
We look both left and right
And I can feel the numbness
Accompany my plight
And I know that someday soon I'll see you
But now you're out of sight
And you'll kiss me like you used to
In the January night
What did you tell me, Mary, when you were there so sweet and very
Full of field and stars, you carried all of time
Oh and heavens, when you looked at me
Your eyes were like machinery, your hands
Were making artifacts in the corner of my mind
Monastery, monochrome, boom, balloon machine and oh
Diamond rings and gutter bones, marching up the mountain with our
Aching planning, high and smiling, cheap drink, dark and violent
Full of butterflies, the violent tenderness, the sweet asylum
The clay you find is fortified, we felt unfocused, fade the line
The sugar rush, the constant hush, the pushing of the water gush
The marching band, when April ran, May, June, bugs fly and push
Your old gin Jacob with the tired weary brandy look
Here we go round, Mary, in your famous story book
Black Diamonds
So much coming in
I do not know where to begin
I just follow the lead you're pulling
And I get lost in your trail
So much more to tell
You just ask me if I'm doing well
But I do not know, what the hell
I just swallow hard
In your eyes
Black diamonds
I could die
Black diamonds
In your eyes
Black diamonds
I could die
Black diamonds
And I wake up in a cold sweat on your ceiling
Terrified of what your love's revealing
So much you can see
Should I let you make a woman of me
Should I let you take the mystery from me
See the inside of my room at night
Sometimes you will find
Things I do not know how to leave behind
I've been grappling with my own mind
I've been stuck inside a jail
In your eyes
Black diamonds
I could die
Black diamonds
In your eyes
Black diamonds
I could die
Black diamonds
And I wake up in a cold sweat on your ceiling
Terrified of what your love's revealing
The cold of winter warms my blood
And he's hot like a bed of steel
He finds his peace of mind in the rivers and the whippoorwill
I could follow close behind and then slowly disappear
But I can never leave him
I can never leave him
I can never leave him
I can never leave him
I can never leave him
I can never leave him
In his eyes
Black diamonds
I could die
And I wake up in a cold sweat on your ceiling
So much more to do
Come on, let me make a man out of you
I could gather you and you'd tell the truth
You could cry inside my arms
You could cry inside my arms like a child
You could cry
You could cry
U.F.O.F.
Contact
Jodi
Please, turn the pages for me
You seem so free
You know I'm barely
Barely
Wrap me in silk
I want to drink your milk
You hold the key
You know I'm barely
Barely
Parker Lake Beach
All of the sunny's swimming
I want to see
To feel my body sinking
Sinking
She gives me gills
Helps me forgive the pills
She makes me sing
She is both dreamer
And dream
And dream
And dream
And dream
UFOF
To my UFO friend
Goodbye, goodbye
Like a seed in the wind
She's taking up root in the sky
See her flickering
Her system won't even try
To defend and ripen
In the radio action
She'll never return again
Polarize, polarize
The seasons will bend
There will soon be proof
That there is no alien
Just a system of truth and lies
The reason, the language
And the law of attraction
Just like a bad dream
You'll disappear
Another map turns blue
Mirror on mirror
And I imagine you
Taking me out of here
To deepen our love
It isn't even a fraction
Switch to another lens
the last sunlight
I don't need any other friends
The best kiss I ever had
Is the flickering
Of the water so clear and bright
To leap in, my skin
And I could feel the reaction
Just like a bad dream
You'll disappear
Another map turns blue
Mirror on mirror
And I imagine you
Taking me out of here
To deepen our love
It isn't even a fraction
Just like a bad dream
You'll disappear
Another map turns blue
Mirror on mirror
And I imagine you
Taking me out of here
To deepen our love
It isn't even a fraction
Cattails
Caroline, Caroline
I never could leave you to struggle
Hold the line, hold the line
I'll be there on the double
In time, in time
Everyone does see trouble
And you don't need to know why
When you cry
You don't need to know why
You don't need to know why
When you cry
Violet's eyes, Violet plays
Going back home to the Great Lakes
Where the cattail sways
With the lonesome loon
Riding that train in late June
With the windows wide by my side
With the windows wide
With the windows wide by my side
And the clusters fell
Like an empty bell
Meteor shower at the motel
Where the empty space
Is a saving grace
Making good time and doing well
Still the question sings
Like Saturn's rings
Maybe she knows and she won't tell
But you don't need to know why
When you cry
You don't need to know why
You don't need to know why
When you cry
And I find you there
In your country flair
Middle of the river in a lawn chair
With your wrinkled hands
And your silver hair
Leaving here soon and you know where
To where the cattail sways
With the lonesome loon
You'll be riding that train in late June
With the windows wide by your side
With the windows wide
With the windows wide by your side
You don't need to know why
You don't need to know why
When you cry
From
No one can
Be my man, be my man
Be my man, be my man
Be my man, be my man
No one can
Be my woman, be my woman
Be my woman
One ear to the ground
One dog at my neck
One tongue to my tongue
Wanting to protect me from
From
No one can
Be my man, be my man
Be my man, be my man
Be my man, be my man
No one can
Be my woman, be my woman
Be my woman
One ear to the floor
My dog barking loud
Couldn't tell for sure
Where the screaming sound
Was coming from
From
One ear to your womb
Puppy on the floor
Baby's coming soon
Wonder if she'll know
Where she's come from
From
From
From
From
From
Open Desert
Vacant angel
Crimson light
Darkened eyelash
Darkened eye
The white light of the living room
Leaking through the crack in the door
There was never need for more
Things we're meant to
Understand
Crawling closer
To your hand
To the poison image
Brave surrender
Kiss the water
After all my teeth are gone
After all the blood is drawn
The white light of the waiting room
Leaking through the crack in the door
Through the poison image
Brave surrender
Kiss the water
Through the mirror
Mountain view
She has one green
One eye blue
I can see her smiling through
The white light of the living room
Leaking through the crack in the door
Orange
Orange is the color of my love
Fragile orange wind in the garden
Fragile means that I can hear her flesh
Crying little rivers in her forearm
Fragile is that I mourn her death
As our limbs are twisting in her bedroom
Lies, lies, lies
Lies in her eyes
Lies, lies, lies
Lies in her eyes
She tells me to close and count to ten
As she wanders freely through the forest
Can I close and open once again
The question that I seek for reassurance
Lies, lies, lies
Lies in her eyes
Lies, lies, lies
Lies in her eyes
Hound dogs crowing at the stars above
Pigeons fall like snowflakes at the border
She kneels down and holds the frozen dove
The moon drips like water from her shoulder
Flies, flies, flies
Flies from her eyes
Flies, flies, flies
Flies from her eyes
Orange is the color of my love
Fragile orange wind in the garden
Fragile means that I can hear her flesh
Crying little rivers in her forearm
Fragile is that I mourn her death
As our limbs are twisting in her bedroom
Century
Dogs eyes
In the headlights of the driveway
Cool autumn rain
Bugs died
On your windshield on the freeway
Wonder if you'll be the same
Centuries flower
And we have the same power
We have the same power
We have the same power
We have the same power
Moth flies
In the window of the kitchen
Hang up your coat
Cold lips and gold eyes listen
There's something that I want
You to know
Turn on the shower
'Cause we have the same power
We have the same power
We have the same power
We have the same power
No resolution
No circling dove
Still caught
In The Jaw Of Confusion
Don't know what I'd do
For love
But stay another hour
'Cause we have the same power
We have the same power
We have the same power
We have the same power
Strange
Doesn't it seem strange
Searching for a hidden page
The fairy's cage
Coming of true age
Leave the costume on the stage
The silkworm's rage
Iridescent thread
Beautiful and dead
Billions of worms were boiled
To make the bed
Strange
See the luna moth cry
Lime green tears
Through the fruit bat's eyes
Scatter and destroy
Every power you enjoy
To lay with the void
Twirling of the dime
Splitting of the mind
Drawing constellations
Till the stars align
Strange
See the luna moth cry (cry)
Lime green tears
Through the fruit bat's eyes (eyes)
You have wings of gold
You will never grow old
And turquoise lungs
You have never been young
You have wings of gold
You will never grow old
And turquoise lungs
You have never been
Betsy
Driving through the night
Rings of crystal, crystal light
Every gulp of the warm suburb air
Betsy's auburn, auburn hair
Drive into New York with me
How she keeps me calm
Street lights, boys and
Poison palms
Drive into New York with me
Big lights in the city
Terminal Paradise
Warm
So warm
Screaming in the field
As I was born
Worm
Will you return me
To the robin's beak
I'll be a bird
Terminal
We both know
Let the rest of me go
See my death become a trail
And the trail leads to a flower
I will blossom in your sail
Every dream and waking hour
Woman
Woman
Hold me in your heat
Till I re-, don't let me
Till I re-, don't let me
Till I remember
Terminal
We both know
Let me rest, let me go
See my death become a trail
And the trail leads to a flower
I will blossom in your sail
Every dream and waking hour
Jenni
Too hot to breathe
Too hot to breathe
Too hot to breathe
Jenni's in my room
Jenni's in my room
Jenni's in my room
Her skin so bare
The fragrant air
Her vacant eye
Jenni's in my room
Jenni's in my room
Jenni's in my room
The signal swarms
The portal forms
She calls me through
Jenni's in my room
Jenni's in my room
Jenni's in my room
Jenni's in my room
Jenni's in my room
Jenni
Jenni's in my room
Magic Dealer
Starve, magic mirror
I thought the crumbs
Of your life wouldn't dry
It hurts to see clearer
Falling like needles
The passage of time
Would it hurt, would it hurt
To be nearer
Heaven is stitching across me
My chest is the crossing
The blood is parting all the time
But I don't mind
Carve, magic dealer
Bring me the company
I couldn't buy
As I go cleaner
Falling like needles
The passage of time
Would it help, would it help
To go deeper
I am the photograph in you
The photograph in you
Still as the moment
We're lying in right now
TWO HANDS
Rock And Sing
Without his body
Naked and bare
Quiet and obviously not there
I am that naked thing swimming in air
Why does that mean anything
Why do you stare
Lean on your table
Ask what you want of me
I am unable
Cry with me, cry with me
Within this body
Confuse
Confuse my home for a refuge
I don't want to be scared of
(I don't want to be scared of)
Anybody coming in
(Anybody coming in)
I don't want to lock my door anymore
Hand me that cable
Plug into anything
I am unstable
Rock and sing‚ rock and sing
Forgotten Eyes
Forgotten eyes
Are the ones which we lose
Forgotten hands
Are the ones which we choose
To let go of
But it is no less a bruise
On the collective arm
Keeping us high and gone
Forgotten dance is the one left at birth
Forgotten plants in the fossils of earth
And they've long passed, but they are no less the dirt
Of the common soil keeping us dry and warm
The wound has no direction
Everybody needs a home
And deserves protection
Hollow-eyed on Eddie street
No sirens to hear
Just trash and soiled needles
Clawing the veneer
And no crying
But it is no less a tear
On the common cheek
With which we smile
Hollow-eyed on Eddie
Is it they or is it I
Is it me who is more hollow
As I'm quickly passing by
And the poison is killing them
But then so am I
As I turn away
The wound has no direction
Everybody needs a home
And deserves protection
Forgotten tongue
Is the language of love
Forgotten tongue
Is the language of love
Forgotten tongue
Is the language of love
Forgotten tongue
The Toy
What a fool, familiar dream
I wake up laughing and running
From the boy, crying and calling
'Cause the toy in my hand is real
What a tomb we're building here
In the sphere, that's where we all die
In the eye, that's where I'm living
The toy in my hand is real
In the room, her warm hands play
On my breast, what is she singing
The form ringing and ringing
'Cause the toy in my hand is real
The toy in my hand is real
Charcoal womb, the jet planes purr
And the croon, distant as paper
Children burn, faceless vapor
'Cause the toy in my hand is real
Yes, the toy in my hand is real
Two Hands
You somehow let me down
Both hands and a gentleman
You could not take me through
New plans or tell me who
New friends, I can make some too
I know
You somehow took me in
Both arms, my marked up skin
Two hands, places you had been
I needed
And the more that we try
To figure through the answers
To repeat ourselves
To deny, deny
Now you call my bluff a cliff
And it gets so rough
Stone-faced in the light, the air
And the jagged bite
Cold air, the wisdom of the night
Between us
And the more that we try
To figure through the answers
To repeat ourselves
To deny, deny
To deny, deny, deny
Somehow we exist
In the folds and now we'll kiss
Both hands, the mystery before us
She's reaching
But I could not take you through
New plans or tell you who
New friends, you can make some too
I know
Those Girls
Dropped call
Mid fall
Only you can know for now
Island
Demons
Only you can hold them down
Those girls might hear me crying
The one, the only
Jealousy I have is dying
With all along, your arms around me
Try
Island
Demons
Zoë, you come over now
'Cause those girls
Keep telling me things
And only you can hold them down
Those girls might hear me crying
The one, the only
Jealousy I have is dying
With all along, your arms around me
Try
Those girls might hear me cry
The one, the only
Jealousy I have is dying
With all along, your arms around me
Try
Shoulders
One, two, three
Please, wake up
Please, wake up
Touch my skin and
Tell me where you've been
You brought me in
You brought me in
So touch my skin and
Tell me where you've been
You showed me how
To keep myself from burning out
They found you in the morning
The blood was on your shoulders
They found you at the corner
Your head was doubled over
And the blood of the man
Who killed my mother with his hands
Is in me, it's in me, in my veins
Please, wake up
Please, wake up
Touch my skin and
Tell me where you've been
You brought me in
My best friend
So touch my skin and
Tell me where you've been
You showed me how
To hold my sin
And kiss the bad ways I have been
They found you in the morning
The blood was on your shoulders
They found you at the corner
Your head was doubled over
And the blood of the man
Who's killing our mother with his hands
Is in me, it's in me, in my veins
It's in me, it's in me, in my veins
Not
It's not the energy reeling
Nor the lines in your face
Nor the clouds on the ceiling
Nor the clouds in space
It's not the phone on the table
Nor the bed in the earth
Nor the bed in the stable
Nor your stable words
It's not the formless being
Nor the cry in the air
Nor the boy I'm seeing
With her long black hair
It's not the open weaving
Nor the furnace glow
Nor the blood of you bleeding
As you try to let go
It's not the room, not beginning
Not the crowd, not winning
Not the planet, not spinning
Not a rouse, not heat
Not the fire lapping up the creek
Not food, not to eat
Not the meat of your thigh
Nor your spine tattoo
Nor your shimmery eye
Nor the wet of the dew
It's not the warm illusion
Nor the crack in the plate
Nor the breath of confusion
Nor the starkness of slate
It's not the room, not beginning
Not the crowd, not winning
Not the planet, not spinning
Not a rouse, not heat
Not the fire lapping up the creek
Not food, not to eat
Not what you really wanted
Nor the mess in your purse
Nor the bed that is haunted
with a blanket of thirst
It's not the hunger revealing
Nor the ricochet in the cave
Nor the hand that is healing
Nor the nameless grave
It's not the room, not beginning
Not the crowd, not winning
Not the planet, not spinning
Not a rouse, not heat
Not the fire lapping up the creek
Not food, not to eat
Not to die, not dying
Not to laugh, not lying
Not the vacant wilderness vying
Not the room, not beginning
Not the crowd, not winning
Not the planet, not spinning
Wolf
Hello to the morning moon
Woke up as you left the room
Pillow still warm
Scent like meadow grass
Has the feeling come to pass
Has the feeling come to stay
What can we say
Wishing you would hang around
Living on the waterfront
Witnessing the gameless hunt
Mermaids don't kill
That's the way they sing so fine
Now your lips are on the line
Now there is a broken tongue
Met you so young
Felt so frozen
How you seem to follow through
On everything you yearn for
Steps so fair
So much certainty
Now as far as we can see
The water's getting deeper
My safekeeper
The wolf is howling for me
When she holds me in her jaw
All my blood dripping
Will I be free
To cease gripping
Finally laying on the ground
Open hands empty
I'll return back again
If she'll let me
Replaced
Move along through Santa Fe
And make a new beginning
What's that you were starting to say
Or have you forgotten
Because the unlit moon
Would rather hide
Be replaced by the mystery
Of the stars
Because in your room, we gather
To be replaced by the mystery
Of the heart
Pull on your new wool coat
Try to remember the words
You once wrote
The canyons that catch in your throat
The fault lines that carry and cradle
The river
Because the unlit moon
Would rather hide
And be replaced by the mystery
Of the stars
Because in your room, we gather
To be replaced by the mystery
Of the heart
Go on now
Because the unlit moon
Would rather hide
Be replaced by the mystery
Of the stars
Because in your room, we gather
To be replaced by the mystery
Of the heart
To be replaced by the mystery
Cut My Hair
Please, cut my hair
Take me to the kitchen
What are the chances
You have a scissor
Maybe a pair
It's longer than I can even bear
You want to be alone
Use your ammunition to empty your arm
You ask me to leave you
I won't
Not while the knife is at your throat
Annie reminds me
The diamond mines are burning
I push her around
But she keeps returning
Teeth drool and bared
Make a clean incision
Hold me for ransom
Tell me I'm pretty
Tell me I'm rare
Talk to the boy in me
He's there
We-do-si-do
Swaying in the kitchen
Rocking slowly
Tell him to sound
The alarm
Is he gonna keep me safe from harm
Annie reminds me
The diamond mines are burning
I push her around
But she keeps returning
DRAGON NEW WARM MOUNTAIN I BELIEVE IN YOU
Change
Change
Like the wind
Like the water
Like skin
Change
Like the sky
Like the leaves
Like a butterfly
Would you live forever, never die
While everything around passes
Would you smile forever, never cry
While everything you know passes
Death
Like a door
To a place
We've never been before
Death
Like space
The deep sea
A suitcase
Would you stare forever at the sun
Never watch the moon rising
Would you walk forever in the the light
To never learn the secret of the quiet night
Still
Like a stone
Like a hill
Like home
Still
What I find
Is you are always
On my mind
Could I feel happy for you
When I hear you talk with her like we used to
Could I set everything free
When I watch you holding her the way you once held me
Change like the sky
Like the leaves
Like a butterfly
Death like a door
To a place
We've never been before
Would you live forever, never die
While everything around passes
Would you smile forever, never cry
Time Escaping
Electric waves, a rush of energy
Silent river pouring backward eternally
Through the phase and touch of entropy
Old age in the beginner
To hit the stage and blush wild, laughingly
Crush the rage and rush time tappingly
Call the name so much so vapidly
Dissolving into thin air
Turning the two-fork taped up television
Into tunnel vision
Taking the new fork tactile as revision
Working the revision
Time escaping
Time escaping
There is no reason to go down alone
Through distortion's secret telephone
Separate, contact, separate
Poison in the ether
Swinging still incessant pendulum
Lavender, nettle, calendula
Separate, contact, concentrate
Drawing out the fever
Time escaping
Time escaping
Ether
Time
It's music
It's music
Only the winter wind survives
After the heat rush feeds and thrives
After the bushfire burns and dies
Frozen and bitter
Desert ground so cold and clean
Spreading out like a magazine
Reading the dirt like gossip
What do the weeds say, they say
"Everything, everything, everything falls through
Each dimension breaks in two
Like the two hands clapping
Like the two wings flapping
Everything, everything, everything for free
As it all eventually turns to dust and petal
Molten rock and meadow"
Time escaping
Time escaping
Spud Infinity
What's it gonna take
What's it gonna take
What's it gonna take
To free the celestial body
From way up there, it looks so small
From way down here, it looks so small
One peculiar organism, aren't we all together
Everybody steps on ants
Everybody eats the plants
Everybody knows to dance even with
Just one finger
What's it gonna take
What's it gonna take
What's it gonna take
To free the celestial body
When I took another look
The past was not a history book
That was just some linear perception
Ash to ask and dust to dusk, a dime a dozen, aren't we just
But a dozen dimes will buy a crust of garlic bread
What's it gonna take
What's it gonna take
What's it gonna take
To free the celestial body
When I say celestial
I mean extra-terrestrial
I mean accepting the alien you've rejected in your own heart
When I say heart, I mean finish
The last one there is a potato kinish
Baking too long in the sun of spud infinity
When I say infinity, I mean now
Kiss the one you are right now
Kiss your body up and down other than your elbows
'Cause as for your elbows, they're on their own
Wandering like a rolling stone
Rubbing up against the edges of experience
What's it gonna take
What's it gonna take
What's it gonna take
What's it gonna take
To free the celestial body
Certainty
Name on the line
Last request
Pull the car over
To find some rest
Saying, "I love you"
Need to lie here
Need to leave
Living in the debt of make-believe
Saying, "I owe you"
Crooked as a crow gnawing on dawn
Shadow from the grass in the dirt on the lawn
Why do I string you along
My certainty is wild, weaving
For you I am a child, believing
You lay beside me sleeping on a plain
In the future
Sit on the phone
Watch TV
Romance, action, mystery
Wanted to show you
Sine wave is a particle ride
Bring your light out then in on the tide
Maybe I love you
Maybe I love you is a river so high
Maybe I love you is a river so low
I love you, still don't know
My certainty is wild, weaving
For you I am a child, believing
You lay beside me sleeping on a plane
In the future
My certainty is wild, weaving
For you I am a child, believing
You lay beside me sleeping on a plain
In the future
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
It's a little bit magic
Like a river of morning geese
In the new warm mountain
Where the storm face forms and speaks
I believe in you
Even when you need to
Recoil
When the topsoil
Is kicking up into the storm
Where the dust goes dancing
And a billion planets are born
I believe in you
Even when you need to
Recoil
Just like that
The moon goes flat
Big lights in the city shine
Crying out
Take me to the limits of your love
There's a dragon in the phone line
Coughing up a mighty flame
With a tongue of silver
Calling on my oldest name
She says, "Hey you
Do you remember me too"
We were coiling
It's a little bit magic
Magic
A little bit magic
Magic
Sparrow
Wrapped in the wings of a sparrow
Beak is as sharp as an arrow
Sings in a whispering whistle
Sleeps in the ivy and thistle
Owls out swooping and howling
Deep in the midnight a-prowling
Mama, the scream of the eagle
Threading my heart through the needle
Threading the blood through the apple
Sucking the juice from the apple
Eating the seeds of the apple
Bearing the tree of the apple
Trapped in the weeds like a scarecrow
Stuck to the wind like velcro
Distantly hearing the bell toll
Warbling chime through the meadow
Mama, the scream of the eagle
Threading my heart through the needle
Threading the blood through the apple
Eve sucked the juice from the apple
Nakedly running I saw her
Boy chasing after to stall her
I wish I'd have spoken to call her
Before she found fabric to shawl her
Breasts bound and burdened with fiber
Adam came trembling beside her
And he said
And he said
"She has the poison inside her
She talks to snakes and they guide her
She has the poison inside her
She talks to snakes and they guide her
She has the poison inside her
She talks to snakes and they guide her
She has the poison inside her
She talks to snakes and they guide her"
Little Things
The little things I like about you
How you say when you say what you do
When your feeling is a little gold and blue
When your feeling is a little strung out
Everything we talk about
Living in the city is a crowded place
I still lose sight of every other face
Turn in your direction
Feeling like I need attention
Told you this once or twice
Won't you hear
I see you in the yard drinking a beer
Leaving me undressed
Like some cheap classic movie
Maybe I'm a little obsessed
Maybe you do use me
One step behind you
Following you down
I was inside of you
Kissing your mouth
You were inside of me
Kissing my mouth
Seeing out that needle eye
Seeing out that needle eye
Seeing out that needle eye
The little things I like about you
How you say when you say what you do
When your feeling is a little gold and blue
When you're feeling a little strung out
Everything we talk about
New York City is a crowded place
I still lose sight of every other face
One step behind you
Following you down
I was inside of you
Where are you now
Where are you now
The things I love
The things, the things I like
Will you stay
Will you feel
You'll feel
Heavy Bend
Came to light on a very hot day
The grass was sweating
You were sleeping in
With the window open
The blanket breathing
Cigarette on a golden ash tray
Your golden hair lay in the swollen sunray
The withered roses hanging in the doorway
Don't want to be right
Don't want to be let down
Don't want to fight
Don't want to pretend
Formless secret
Heavy bend
Heavy bend
Second sight and the clouds above you
As the wilderness grew thicker and the crow flew
Tossing and turning, your forehead burning
Don't want to be right
Don't want to be let down
Don't want to fight
Don't want to defend
Formless secret
Heavy bend
From the empty height
Flies on the ceiling now
Want to hold you tight
Don't want to pretend
Formless secret
Heavy bend
Heavy bend
heavy bend
Flower Of Blood
Give me some time on earth to know you
Help me unearth the map and show you
Thinking of her, thinking of him, want to
When you touch me
Mirror in the sky
Making me cry again
Roll up the sheets, suddenly frozen
Like a knife carving through my thick skin
When you touch me
When you touch me
Hearing you sigh soft and heavy
Holding mine 'til you feel ready
Flower of blood bloom on my tongue, steady
When you touch me
When you touch me
Flower of blood
Flower of blood bloom on my tongue
When you find the lonely tower
Climb inside the darkest room
Feel afraid, surrender your power
When you touch me
When you touch me
When you touch me
Feel afraid, surrender your power
Blurred View
I am the magazine
The blue screen
The big hand moving past the last thing
I turn for you, turn for you, turn for you
Turn for you
I am the private room
The quiet croon
The grey eye blinking on the new moon
I burn for you, burn for you, burn for you
Burn for you
Within the last kiss
I am the genesis while the earth rolls
Bleeding from its axis
Return to you, turn to you, turn to
Turn to
I am the water rise
The waterfall
Filling up your eyes and when you give the call
I run for you, run for you, run for you
Run for you, run for you, run for you
Run for you
I am the sweaty sheets
The wet bed
The things she'll do
And the things she said
I'll come for you, come for you, come for you
Come for you
I am the right brain
The paper crane
The bright gold moving past the night train
A blurred view, blurred view, blurred view
Blurred view
I am the new disease
I am the new disease
The light breeze
The yellow stars glowing through the white trees
I pine for you, pine for you, shine for you
Pine for you
I am the teeth sharp
The lips read
What is unfeared and what is unfed
I'll feed for you, feed for you, feed for you
Feed for you
One step closer and I'm real
Tell me everything you feel
And I will sing for you, sing for you
Sing for you, sing for you
Sing for you
One step closer and I'm real
Tell me everything you feel
One step closer and I'm real
Tell me everything you feel
And I will sing for you, sing for you
Sing for you, sing for you
Sing for you
Red Moon
Red moon rising like a fire in me
So many questions, she asks them all to me
I have to answer most curiously
Scarlet angel
I am too small to see
Earn, earn, shuffle round the big city
Burning the rubber down
Crossing the hot concrete
I'm gonna leave town, there is someone to meet
She turns her head around a full three-sixty
Bedroom rising from an old growth tree
Bring out the sawmill
Cutting the twelve inch beams
Building a pattern, a reservoir to fill with dreams
Rings like Saturn, telling their old stories
Windmill turn and turn eternally
What do you yearn for
Where do you long to be
I've been here before, looking at the wild country
Opening the screen door, talking with Diane Lee
That's my grandma
Radio singing from the corner of the kitchen
I've got the oven on
I got the onions wishing they hadn't made me cry
Filling the sink with dishes
Letting 'em air dry
Waiting for the wind's permission
Too many movies got me shivering and shy
Turning the lights out, glistening in the owl's eye
Glimmer like lightning
Under the violet sky, shimmer like diamonds
Watching the red moon rise
Dried Roses
Leave the bed unmade
Draw the light green shade
Start the microwave
Dried roses
Cradle, yeah she does
Lights the fire because
Window frost
Heat loss
Dried roses
Steep the black coffee
Set the plates
Pour the tea
Three for her, three for me
Dried roses
Sleepily she walks
Gradually she talks
With the geese she flocks
Dried roses
Afternoon, midnight
Morning's what she likes
Fly the broom, see the moon
Dried roses
Here I go, there I am
All alone in the pan
In the silence again
Dried roses
Half dead
Half awake
Make a pie, bake a cake
Which road will you take
Dried roses
Goodness her, goodness me
Goodness eternity
Out you go in ya be
Dried roses
So leave the bed unmade
Draw the light green shade
Start the microwave
Dried roses
Dried roses
No Reason
Been pulling through
Since the last time I touched you
Making due with an internet signal
Calling for the delivery to the front door
There is no reason to believe
No reason at all
Come together for a moment, look around and dissolve
Like a feeling, like a flash
Like a fallen eyelash
On your sweater, threading future through the past
City of salt, bone and bell tower
Country of ice, rain and wildflower
Picking out the wreath for the funeral and
There is no reason to believe
No reason at all
Come together for a moment, look around and dissolve
Like a feeling, like a flash
Like a fallen eyelash
On your sweater, threading future through the past
There is no reason to believe
No reason at all
Come together for a moment, look around and dissolve
Like a feeling, like a flash
Like a fallen eyelash
On your sweater, threading future through the past
There is no reason to believe
Come together
Like a feeling, like a flash
Come together
Wake Me Up To Drive
Exit on a whim
Hopefully we find it again
Tired of turning back
Let's keep on moving down the track
And if the horse lies down
There's a push just a mile uptown
If the horse lies down
Wake me up to drive, wake me up to drive
Even if I'm tired, I don't want to miss the ride
Wake me up to drive, wake me up to drive
Even if I'm tired, I don't want to miss the ride
Hand upon my skin
Warm me up and calm me down
I like to watch your chin
Tracing the familiar sound
Of the famous song
Put one on, let's sing along
To the famous song
Wake me up to drive, wake me up to drive
Even if I'm tired, I don't want to miss the ride
Wake me up to drive, wake me up to drive
Even if I'm tired, I don't want to miss the ride
Vacancy is none
The same idea from everyone
We never plan ahead
We take the gamble on instead
And if they turn us down
Find a warm bed in the next town
If they turn us down
Wake me up to drive, wake me up to drive
Even if I'm tired, I don't want to miss the ride
Wake me up to drive, wake me up to drive
Even if I'm tired, I don't want to miss the ride
Wake me up to drive, wake me up to drive
Even if I'm tired, I don't want to miss the ride
Wake me up to drive, wake me up to drive
Even if I'm tired, I don't want to miss the ride
Promise Is A Pendulum
I could never build the ether
Or the grass overgrown
I could never build the river
With a mouthful of foam
I could never build the winter
With her cold tears of glitter
I've been listening to the red oak
And the acorn she cries
Listening to the white birch
And the paper she dries
I've been listening to the frogs joke
Listening to the fire smoke
I can never tell you now
What I had often said before
Because promise is a pendulum
Just swinging at the door
And I'm not saying I'm not jealous
Or scared anymore
I'm just saying
I could never build a rainbow
Or any kind of flower
I could never make a sparrow
Or a meteor shower
I could never build an earthworm
Never make the earth turn
I've been listening to the laughing
Of the fox down the trail
And I'm clasping to the listening of the moss to the snail
The shimmer of the beech leaves
As the wind does a big sneeze
I could never tell you now
What I had often said before
Because promise is a pendulum
Just swinging at the door
And I'm not saying I'm not jealous
Or scared anymore
I'm just saying
I could never build the shadow
Between your cheek and your eye
I could never make a freckle
Or the warm breath you sigh
And the canopy of lashes
With the softness of ashes
I've been listening to the memory
The way that it was
Listening to the echo of why's and because
Listening to the echo
Telling me to let go
I could never tell you now
What I had often said before
Because promise is a pendulum
Just hanging at the door
And I'm not saying I'm not jealous
Or scared anymore
I'm just saying
Saying
12,000 Lines
Cross twelve thousand lines
Looking for your face
Only to find not a trace
Even the memory of your mouth
Tries to disappear
Little lights turn into spheres
Blue mountain
In the rear view
Some nights barely breathing at all
Waiting for my woman to call
Cross twelve letters down
Found the longest word
This morning I'd heard
Somebody said they saw you 'round
First and twenty-third
Blue feathers in your hairdo
Some nights barely breathing at all
Waiting for my woman to call
Maple, cherry leaves start to fall
Waiting for my woman to call
Sweet honey stirring in my tea, stirring me
Forgiveness, all the money in the world
Won't buy it
Some nights barely breathing at all
Waiting for my woman to call
Simulation Swarm
I tried to tell you
I didn't know how to stay
You believe she can see through
Cutting at the silent clay
A relief, beckon deep blue
Fettered in the magnet sun
Eat the gun as it feeds you
Spitting up the oxygen
Once again
Once again
Once again
Empty horses
Gallop through the violet door
Follow red, crooked courses
Shadows on the moonlit floor
Oh my stars
Winged creatures gathering in silken height
Like the last human teachers
Once again
We must bleed new
Even as the hours shake
Crystal blood like a dream true
A ripple in the wound and wake
You believe, I believe too
That you are the river of light
Who I love that I cling to
In the belly of the empty night
From the thirty-first floor
Of the simulation swarm
With the drone of fluorescence
Flicker, fever, fill the form
With a warm gush
Now I want to touch
Like we never could before
I'd fly to you tomorrow
I'm not fighting in this war
I want to drop my arms and take your arms
And walk you to the shore
I remember building an energy shield
In your room, like a temple
Swallows in the windless field
Very thin, with your mother
Tall as a pale green tree
Very wild, bright as winter
Rising with a prism key
And a child to deliver
Tangled in the blood and vine
The first little angel
Little Andy, soft in your newborn skin
Only one, little Andy, will you return again
I believe we can renew
And you could be my brother
Once again, fall asleep with our backs against each other
You believe, I believe too
That you are the river of light who I love
That I sing to in the belly of the empty night
From the thirty-first floor
Of the simulation swarm
With the drone of fluorescence
Flicker, fever, fill the form
With a warm gush
Now I want to touch
Like we never could before
I'd fly to you tomorrow
I'm not fighting in this war
I want to drop my arms and take your arms
And walk you to the shore
I'd fly to you tomorrow
I'm no fighting in this war
I want to drop my arms and take your arms
Love Love Love
I already died
I'm singing from the other side
Underneath love
Avoidance and pride
I look you in the face and lie
I tell you I want your love
You're the cigarette in my fist
You are so hard to resist
I can't help but breathe your love
When I'm scared to die alone
That's when I call you on the phone
Tell you that I need your love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love, love
Love, love, love
Frailty and fragile words
You tell me a lot of words
You tell me all about your love
And I feel whatI hear you say
I don't talk the same way
'Cause that don't feel like love
As the dog opens his eyes
As the blue crow flies
I'm going to meet my love
I already died
I'm calling from the otherside
Underneath love
There's a bottle out in the sea
With a message inside from me
Saying, "Release my love"
Release my love, my love
I'm dreaming of release, my love
Release my love, my love
Release my love
Release my love
It's a moving operation
I'm getting off at this station
I'm leaving your love
I'm scared to die alone
I call you on the phone
Watch me bleed your love
Love, love, love...
Release my love, my love...
The Only Place
What if all the worlds in space
Would melt into one single place
And intertwine the human race
With other kinds
The atom is an empty vase
A vehicle to know embrace
The way you feel
The way you taste
It multiplies
So much to share
So much to share
When all material scatters
And ashes amplify
The only place that matters
Is by your side
What if all the time between
The words we say and what we mean
Would roll as softly as a stream
That we could ride
We'd ride the bend from source to mouth
I want a friend from north to south
To build that question as a house
Where we'd reside
So much to share
So much to share
When all material scatters
And ashes amplify
The only place that matters
Is by your side
When all material scatters
And ashes amplify
The only place that matters
Is by your side
Blue Lightning
One
One, two
One, two
Blue lightning was an autograph
Signing up the sky
To the question I had to ask
She only answered, "Why"
Angelia took a photograph
The moment had to die
Years later like an epitaph
We read it and we cry
This morning I went to have a bath
The water ran dry
Clear warning has it come at last
The time to say goodbye
Can we make love, can we hold fast
I really want to try
Two-eyed lie
Is it fight or fly
I want to be the shoelace that you tie
Until the end, will you be my friend
I want to be the wrinkle in your eye
Yeah I want to be the vapor gets you high
Blue heron, now you're scaring me
You circle and dive
Blue angel, yeah you're in my dreams
Swearing every night
And a spider just beside her, larger than a hill
And it's plain to see if she don't comfort me
The rattlesnake will
Two-eyed lie
Is it fight or fly
I want to be the wrinkle in your eye
Until the end, will you be my friend
I want to be the shoelace that you tie
Yeah I want to be the vapor gets you high
Two-eyed lie
Is it fight or fly
I want to be the shoelace that you tie
Until the end, will you be my friend
I want to be the mountain kiss the sky
Yeah I want to be the vapor gets you high
Yeah I want to feel so happy that I cry
Yeah I want to be the shoelace that you tie
Yeah I want to live forever till I die
Yeah I want to live forever till I die
Yeah I
One hundred percent, okay
What should we do now
Old Folks Of
Farmersville
Old timers, gold miners
Witches and midwives
Mothers who'd never seen their faces in a mirror
There was a Jack of all Trades and Sister Sam
The Moonshine Monkeys and the Mystery Man
Who'd ride in on a tall black horse then disappear
They had some good things to say
Those old folks from Farmersville
Father to father
Right down the line
It had nothing to do with Jesus
Or gossip on the grapevine
It was the holiest of religions
Striving to abide
And if you do a good deed
To a stranger in need
Forget it, forget it right away
And if a stranger does you a good turn
Love it and live it
And never forget it until your dying day
And then there was grandma
"Silence is golden"
And "The more I learn
The less I know, it seems"
Canned peaches, bedtime speeches
Bedtime stories and old-time songs
Her patchwork quilts are filled with dreams
They had some good things to say
Those old folks from Farmersville
Mother to mother
Right down the line
It had nothing to do with Jesus
Or gossip on the grapevine
It was the holiest of religions
Striving to abide
Idiot's Maze
(Tucker Zimmerman feat. Big Thief, Iji and Twain / Dance Of
Love LP)
Dress me up in an automobile
Drive me around like a car
Take me out to the barbecue pit
Smoke me like an old cigar
I'll take you out to the forest fire
Nail you to the moon with the beaks of doves
Lay you down with the Camptown Ladies
Do da do da dance of love
Hold me down with a paperweight lifter
Roll me over in the clover
Paint me black with an undertaker's suit
Play me flat on a tuba flute
I'll ride you high on a horse latitude
Pump you up with a breathing tube
Pick you up and remind you why
I remind you of a bottlenecktie
Poke me a joke in the hole of my shoe
Give me a taste of the Jumpin' Jack juice
Swat me a mosquito
'Cause a rumble in the jungle when you turn him loose
I'll take you away like a Chinese pizza
Take you out to the old ball game
Bring you back with a roundhouse punch
Teach you how to say my name
Shake me like a microphone stand
Play me like a marching band
Pick me a rose from the left hand of Moses
Kick out the jokers and the jams
I'll dust your broom and cork you a river
Milk your cows with a bubble gum machine
Brush you down like a strawberry field
Decorate your face with cold ice cream
Deal me a stack of rubber band pancakes
Dig me a tunnel to the center of the brain
Take me back to when I started crying
Take me to the belly of the hurricane
I'll medicate you with a dose of clam chowder
Stun you with a paradoxical pun
Get you in line with the crossroad dream
Meditate you with a Dalai Lama hum
Hit me with your local anesthetic
Tie me down with your licorice whips
Spin me around on the tips of your fingers
Toss me a kiss from your corn chip lips
I'll turn you on with a shot of Burma Shave
A sniff of Wildroot and a toke of tumbleweed
I'll wake you up when they rob the bank
Sneak you out the back before they start to bleed
Scratch my back with a stained-glass window
Teach me the art of the lullaby rhyme
Sing me to sleep with a drop of dragon rum
Yo ho ho and a bottle of wine
I'll drop you like a hot shot potato
Way down yonder in the purple haze
Lift you up until you touch the light
Deliver you from the idiot's maze
Lorelei
One, two, three
Late at night when the moon is full
I sit upon the river shore
Full moon in my eyes
Water flowing by my open door
Oh it flows by
Folks along the river
Call me Lorelei
Hard times have come again
Folks looking for relief
Looking for the silver lining
In the clouds of disbelief
Falling from the sky
They pray to the river
Pray to Lorelei
Someday I will move away
To the city on the hill
Leave behind the waterfall
Leavе behind the water wheel
Bring along my silvеr harp
Bring along my golden psalms
Sing them into peaceful dreams
Sing my siren songs
But only as a guiding light
To better times and safer shores
I'll sing away their trembling fears
Take away their tears and so much more
And then I'll cry
And folks will say
"Where has she gone"
Lorelei
Folks will say
"Where has she gone"
Lorelei
The Season
It's the season
When the leaves are dancing 'round like butterflies
And it's timeless
The clocks are going crazy telling lies
And the sun is closing his eyes
There's a crossroad moon on the rise
And the sky has turned electric blue
And it's the season
When all the dreams of your dreams come true
And there's no reason
I've given up on that one long ago
We just float around
Changes are the only things we know
There's a dream about a field of dreams
Another one about a midsummer's night
But you know any old dream will do
'Cause it's the season
When all the dreams of your dreams come true
And memories
They come and go like water in a well
When they run dry
Then I'll have nothing worthwhile left to tell
And I know you're feeling the same
So bring around a tip jar and we'll collect the rain
And we'll mix the old drops with the new
'Cause it's the season
When all the dreams of your dreams come true
And I'm amazed when
I come awake each day and see the light
I'm so grateful
I made it through another night
I can't believe I'm still hanging around
I can't believe I'm not hanging upside down
And yes, I'm so lucky to be alive (and kicking too)
Yeah, it's the season
When all the dreams of your dreams come true
Yes, it's the season
When all the dreams of your dreams come true
Burial At Sea
Take me out to the edge of the sky
Fill me with laughter and a lopsided smile
Roll back the waves that cloud my eyes
I want to dance with the whales for a while
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
There's a message in a bottle
From fourteen hundred and ninety-two
Shipwrecked sailors on a rock
A stone's throw away from the village they plundered
Our time is up, no more shall we count
The clicks of the clock
Oh yeah
Oh yеah
Oh yeah
Beware, bеware with seaweed in her hair
A mermaid strums a haunted mandolin
She'll take you deeper into the maze
Past the point where you'll survive
By doing tricks with your chin
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh the sleepers of the deep sweep from shore to floor
Chances are slim you'll come back the same
And if you wish to return to the shore
I'll teach the gentle vikings to remember your name
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
So drain me away to the far-flung sea
Measure me with mystery, weigh me with wonder
Slip me away between the sheets
Over the top and all the way under
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
They Don't
Say (But It's True)
They don't say it
But it's true
A precious thread of light
Is cut and lost forever
With the death of everyone
They don't say it
But it's true
These threads of light
Tie our lives together
Make us glow in the dark
And keep us connected
They don't say it
But it's true
If you could be inside of me
And me inside of you
We'd both go insane
In a minute or two
They don't say it
But it's true
Stark raving mad
You and me, me and you
Stick around long enough
And you'll see what I'm saying
We're a me-you
Shocking bluе
Witches' brew
On a back burner
Simmеring
They don't say it
But it's true
We never get past
The wall of light
Blazing in our eyes
We're dazzled, we're delighted
We can't make a move
They don't say it
But it's true
We're frozen glue
Ice cubes have a better chance
We climb the wall, we melt
Back into liquid molecules
They don't say it
But it's true
We're a me-you
Shocking blue
Witches' brew
On a back burner
Simmering
We don't talk about it
But it's true
The love we feel
Touches other people too
We can't control it
It's just something we do
Your love for me
My love for you
We don't talk about it
But it's true
Leave It On The
Porch Outside
Well, I guess we'll have to see about that
Just leave it on the porch outside
It's ready to eat, it's hot and it's fat
Just leave it on the porch outside
I, I think I got my history mixed up
Just leave it on the porch outside
I don't have a bucket, so I guess I'll leave a cup
Just leave it on the porch outside
Sounds like a story I once heard
And I remember that story's every word
Tell me, please, where I can lеave the mail
Just leavе it on the porch outside
There is a real fancy ad for the big summer sale
Just leave it on the porch outside
I found a cat climbing in a tree
Leave it on the, on the porch outside
He's already got a name, it's Jack or Jane
Just leave it on the porch outside
Sounds like a story I once heard
And I remember that story's every word
I took off my boots, so where do I put my hat
Just leave it on the porch outside
Well, I guess we'll have to see about that
Just leave it on the porch outside
Porch outside
Porch outside
And leave it on the porch outside
Porch outside
Porch outside, porch outside
Porch outside
And leave it on the porch outside
Porch outside...
One, two, three, four
The
Ram-A-Lama-Ding-Dong Song
Does anybody have a kazoo
Who put the ding in the ding-a-dong-dang in the blue moon
Must've been some kind of weird goon
Who put the ding-a-dong-dang in the blue moon
Bet it was that Beep-Beep guy from the cartoon
Well, who put the ram in the ram-a-lama-ding-dong song
It might have been Tarzan, might have been King Kong
Who put the ram in the ram-a-lama-ding-dong song
He made my baby fall in love with the wrong man
Don't
Go Crazy (Go In Peace)
Don't go crazy
Go slow, release
Go with the flow
Go in peace
Don't go crazy
Go slow, release
Go with the flow
Go in peace
Don't go crazy
Go slow, release
Go with the flow
Go in peace
Don't go crazy
Go slow, release
Go with the flow
Go in peace
Don't go crazy
Go slow, release
Go with the flow
Go in peace
Nobody Knows
It might be the first time
It might be the last time
It might be a straight line
It might be a stop sign
It might be a brick wall
Or no surprise at all
Well, someone might take your shirt
And run it up the flagpole
Someone might take your shoes
And turn 'em in a black hole
And you might get lost
When you're caught between the rock and the roll
Oh nobody knows what's gonna happen
Nobody knows what's gonna happen
What's gonna happen next
After you've wound up your clocks
And your time has been told
Well, it might be "yes, ma'am"
It might be "no, sir"
It might be a place
Where you can't go, sir
Except on the afternoon
When the moon turns blue
And the earth stands still
And you keep on shaking
It's the wildest ride
You've ever taken
And the sky turns green
And you don't know what to do
Oh nobody knows what's gonna happen
Nobody knows what's gonna happen
Nobody knows what's gonna happen next
When your prayers and your backsliding curses all come true
You know the outside
Has a way of getting in
And it can drive you crazy
Make your head spin
On the back door
Shouting for more
Like a natural-born sinner
In a house of sin
You can't trust a mirror
As far as you can throw it
So your face might be
A gargoyle the next time you show it
The next time you show it
It might be a gargoyle
Gargoyle, gargoyle
But your eyes will be the same
Until they disappear into tears
And the sun might explode
The clouds might fall out
Fill the land with thunder
You hear a voice call out
April the first will follow
October the first this year
Oh nobody knows what's gonna happen
Nobody knows what's gonna happen
Nobody knows what's gonna happen next
When you drive into Heaven without a rear-view mirror
Oh no
Nobody knows what's gonna happen
Nobody knows what's gonna happen
What's gonna happen next
Drink a little "drink me"
Get your head unlocked
Smoke a little smoke
Feel the laughter of the aftershock
Go bend the frames
Go all the way to Hades
Kiss the flames
Then come back and kiss the ladies
Spin the bottle, spin the bottle
Pin the tail on a goat boy
Spit out your name, say that it's Kilroy
Get rounded up with the usual suspects
Nobody knows what's gonna happen next
Oh nobody knows what's gonna happen
Nobody knows what's gonna happen
What's gonna happen next
Nobody knows what's gonna happen
Nobody knows what's gonna happen
What's gonna happen next
NON ALBUMS TRACKS
Abysskiss
(Adrianne Lenker / Topanga Demo / Demos Vol. 1, Topanga
Canyon, CA, Feb 2018 EP)
Try and get some rest
I'll do the rest
Think to what the roses find
With the arms of passion
This is how we fashion
Wars remind
In the hour I loved you
Like a dream, it was true
In the base of my pine
Wilderness
Vast abyss
Will we
Ever kiss
In her mother's fortress
She was brushing horses
Manes and tails, flicking flies
Naked as the window
Baby, if it's real so
No need to apologize
Wilderness
Vast abyss
Will we
Ever kiss
Love is on her shoulder
Love is on the boulder
In the eyes, in the eyes
Love never leaves
Love is the leaves
In the sky, in the sky
Blue And Red Horses
(Adrianne Lenker / Topanga Demo / Demos Vol. 1, Topanga
Canyon, CA,Feb 2018 EP)
Blue and red horses on the run
I think the angel is jumping the gun
Little red lantern watching the sun
Maybe the angel is jumping the gun
I'm a lot of boy with a lot of nerve
Do you want to toy with me
I'm a lot of boy with a lot of nerve
Do you want to toy with me
Little red flower on your wrist
Maybe the angel fired and missed
Little red flowers on your wrist
I think the angel fired and missed
I'm a lot of boy with a lot of nerve
Do you want to toy with me
I'm a lot of boy with a lot of nerve
Do you want to toy with me
Little red forest in your room
I hope the angel is getting here soon
Little red forest in your room
I hope the angel is getting here soon
I'm a lot of boy with a lot of nerve
Do you want to toy with me
I'm a lot of boy with a lot of nerve
Do you want to toy with me
Little red flower, blue and red horses
Little red flower, blue and red horses
Little red forest, little red horses
Little red flower, little red horses
Little red forest
Little red forest
Little red forest
Little red forest
With a lot of nerve
Born For Loving You
After the first stars formed, after the dinos fell
After the first light flickered out of this motel
1991, momma pushing like hell
Tangled in blood and vine
From my first steps to my first words
To waddling around looking at birds
To the teenage nightmare, mine and yours
Thank God we made it through
'Cause I was born for loving you
Just something I was made to do
Doesn't matter what dreams come true
I was born for loving you
Now we're here, but where is here
Sometimes we both disappear
Into that shadow box of fear
That tiny old abyss
From the first kiss to the first fuck
I don't think it's just good luck
Take me to the back of your pick-up truck
Show me a thing or two
'Cause I was born for loving you
That's just something I was made to do
Doesn't matter what dreams come true
I was born for loving you
When the hard times come and the hard times stay
When they stick around and won't go away
When it seems there's nothing you can do or say
Nowhere you can turn
From the last breath of my first death
To this lifetime and lifetimes left
Congratulations, no regrets
It's true
I was born for loving you
That's just something I was made to do
Doesn't matter what dreams come true
I was born for loving you
Just something I was made to do
Doesn't matter what dreams come true
I was born for loving you
Breathe In My Lungs
(Mythological Beauty EP)
Lifting the edge of her bed
Walking a girl to the altar
No love is like this, no sacrifices
My only child, my only daughter
How will I leave your body
Breathe in my lungs and I'll leave in your arms
Breathe in my lungs and I'll leave in your arms
Breathe in my lungs and I'll leave in your arms
Breathe in my lungs and I'll leave in your arms
I have the love of her father
He has the eyes of our daughter
Her eyes are like his, shining sapphires
I see holy light, I trusted you to fight
Holy light, I trust in you to fight
How will I leave her body
Breathe in my lungs and I'll leave in your arms...
Dandelion
(Dandelion EP)
He's old like the raspberry cold
Coming in the window, his gloom room
Flowers blooming out like armadillos
He looks to the left at the yellow lines
Moving with the traffic
His veins have turned to plastic blinds
He was new like the violet dew
Water looking at him through
The telescopic mountain view
Where the stars were still laughing
He lept into the northern sky
Filled his lungs with peace and
Never even wondered why
Go with the yellow light
Your mind is a dandelion
The weight of your crooked spine
Is returning to snow
They know you were mostly our machines
Not electrical in dreams
He's old like the raspberry cold
Coming in the window, his gloom room
Flowers then blooming out like armadillos
He walks with the owls and the yellow moon
Walks like a river lapping
His blood is thick and tacky
He was new like the violet dew
Water looking at him through
The telescopic mountain view
The stars were still laughing
He lept into the northern sky
Filled his lungs with peace and
Never even wondered why
Go with the yellow light
Your mind is a dandelion
The weight of your crooked spine
Is returning to snow
They know you were mostly our machines
Not electrical in dreams
He looks to the left
He looks to the left
He looks to the left
He looks to the left
Live Young
(Topanga Demo / Demos Vol. 1, Topanga Canyon, CA, Feb 2018
EP)
Pretty grey zombie
Feeding upon me
Please, turn around
Show me your weary green eyes
Her heart is mangled
She's got me in a fable
Please, follow through, please
Stay with me awhile
Morning comes
To divide the dreamer from the dream
To live young
To survive the one you can't outrun
To live young
Him galloping ?
I stumble and trot
I'm going to learn whether you teach me or not
I'm going past her
I forgot to guard
Warm light
Fall tooth
Learning to fall
Ending comes
To divide the dreamer from the dream
To live young
To survive the one you can't outrun
To live young
Morning comes
To divide the dreamer from the dream
Love In Mine
Put your love in mine
Let your body sing
When your words won't
Tell me everything
When I ramble on
And I often do
Remind me
To travel home to you
Whatever comes
When it calls
Whatever leaves
What we leave behind
Like cicada shells
We'll be hollowed
And eaten by the hills
Whatever comes
(Whatever comes)
When it calls
(When it calls)
Whatever leaves
(Whatever leaves)
Whatever comes
When it calls
Whatever leaves
Mermaid
(Topanga Demo / Demos Vol. 1, Topanga Canyon, CA, Feb 2018
EP)
Only a matter of time
Before we lose our mind
Only a matter of days left
Only a couple of ways down
You know it don't feel so small
When you're holding, I seem to call
Just reaching for her hand
Only a matter of aches
Before the body breaks
Only a matter of timing
Only a matter of ways down going
You know it don't feel so small
When you're holding, I seem to call
Just reaching for her hand
Her psyche must be wild
'Cause just today I smiled
And I saw the number of letters
From the debt collectors that I left
You know it don't feel so small
Don't they know I owe nothing at all
Just reaching for her hand
The mermaids gather around
In the blood of New York Island
It's only a matter of time now, before
Before this land and your land, before
Before this land is my land, before
Before this land is her land, you know
That she's going to gather a song
Give me guilt with nowhere to call
Just reaching for her hand
Mother
She wears flowers around her neck
She cooks that egg so perfect
To eat it warm
To eat it warm, warm
And you sleep under her arm
Where spells fly
To the high white noise
To the highway dime
She looks that bird in the eye
Cuts his throat and bleeds him dry
To eat him warm
To eat him warm, warm
And you sleep under her arm
Where the spells fly
To the high white noise
To the highway dime
She makes milk inside her breast
She dove down to find what's left
And eat it warm
And eat it warm, warm
And you sleep under her arm
Where the spells fly
To the high white noise
To the highway dime
Off You
(The Breeders cover / Bills & Aches & Blues LP)
I've laid this island sun a thousand times
I'm on it, but I'm going strange
This island's chills and shell cover me
With winded rock
And skies I've yet to see
I tried
I even sent in friends
They did it as a favor 'cause I'm not that way
I am the autumn in the scarlet
I am the make-up on your eyes
I land to sail
I land to sail
Yeah we're moving
Yeah we're moving
This island's sun, I've laid a thousand times
Fortune me, fortune me
Of all my mistakes, I think I lent you late
Now every set pеrcent seems to come my way
But I've never seen a starlet
Or a riot or the violence of you
I am the autumn in the scarlet
I am the make-up on your eyes
I land to sail
I land to sail
Yeah we're moving
Yeah we're moving
I land to sail
I land to sail
Yeah we're moving
Yeah we're moving
Over
(Topanga Demo / Demos Vol. 1, Topanga Canyon, CA,
Feb 2018 EP)
On your tongue
You yearn so young
The fragrant night
It's over, but it's alright
It's over, but it's alright
Thread so bare
The silk worn yarn
Her rapid tight
It's over, but it's alright
It's over, but it's alright
It's over, but it's alright
What went wrong
Your words were strong
Oh true light
It's over, but it's alright
It's over, but I'm true
It's over, but it's alright
It's over, but it's alright
Vampire Empire
Watching TV tired, bleeding on the bed
The milk has just expired, all the leaves are dead
I'm not quiet, you've been quiet, just receiving what you said
Reeling, feeding, feeling filled by everything you fed
I see you as you see yourself through all the books you read
Overwhelmed with guilt and realizing the disease
You give me chills
I've had it with the drills
I am nothing, you are nothing, we are nothing with the pills
I'm empty 'til she fills
Alive until she kills
In her vampire empire I am
Falling yeah
Falling yeah
I see you there rejecting all your earthly power
Protecting and dissecting 'til you've emptied every hour
We jump into the pond then we come under the shower
You lay upon my pillow and you open like a flower
I wanted to see you naked, I wanted to hear you scream
Wanted to kiss your skin and your everything
I wanted to be your woman, I wanted to be your man
I wanted to be the one that you could understand
You give me chills
I've had it with the drills
I am nothing, you are nothing, we are nothing with the pills
I'm empty 'til she fills
Alive until she kills
In her vampire empire I am
Falling yeah
Falling yeah
Well, I walked into your dagger for the last time
It's like trying to start a fire with matches in the snow
Where you can't seem to hold me, can't seem to let me go
So I can't find surrender and I can't keep control
You turn me inside out and then you want the outside in
You spin me all around and then you ask me not to spin
You say you want to be alone and you want children
You want to be with me, you want to be with him
You give me chills
I've had it with the drills
I am nothing, you are nothing, we are nothing with the pills
I'm empty 'til she fills
Alive until she kills
In her vampire empire I am
Falling yeah
Falling yeah
Falling yeah
Falling yeah
Falling yeah
Falling yeah
