Lucky Stars Like Bugs in the Screen Door
Paper Moons
i don't mind
but i'm past the point where memory
is better than just being snowblind
i'll never wash out all the stains
and you'll have to find another jury to hang
if i don't count all the walls
i'm never anywhere at all
wouldn't you give anything to be
just like me
easily deceived
free of mind
under static sea and paper moons
every hello becomes a goodbye
if i spill my brain in notes
they might be worth enough to overdose
if i don’t count all the walls
i’m never anywhere at all
wouldn’t you give anything to be
just like me?
easily deceived
if i keep my mouth real shut
there might be someone to pick me up
but i would give anything to breathe
if i don’t count all the scars
i’m never anything at all
wouldn’t you give everything to be
just like me?
easily deceived
i don’t know how to be me and only me
Loitering Ain't Even A Crime
weave through michigan streets
and all weighs on the curtain of lines on your sleeves
and our limbs bend impossible shapes
and all of the songs that i know aren't about me
are just salt, sweat, severed lines on the interstate
blackout/curtains at home
it always takes a light on to leave me alone
and if the pavement made any more sense
it'd lead me away and i'd give up the space
calling lost time, severed lines on the telephone
leaving is never your fault
and i make way for the bums on the sidewalk
and i'd ask them why they're still in this town
but i guess they're just hanging around
count your lucky stars
Catherine Sky Wheel
back to the front, we're just going away
nothing better to do than hang on all that you say
but it's so light the salt just hangs in the air
watch the whole thing like you're somebody there
"well i better go, but i wanna say
i'd like to hear you someday"
scratched through the paper, left marks on the wall
just makes you wish you'd stop trying at all
just so sick and so tired telling me what i'm not
so put your spokes to the pavement and show me what you've got
cus i'm already on my way out
but i'd like to hear you someday
but as the train rolls away
i feel stronger inside thinking i'm the one who got away
right through your ribs through the glass
we'll just tell it the way that we heard when we were listening last
of all the things that you found so crushing
you would think you'd at least write something
but it's like you said
Misc.
Spokes to the Pavement
i'm waking up, i'm waking up
i hear their voices on the radio, they're luring me back to sleep again
oregon is catching up
my window leads to grey hands
to lips to cherry red
blood shed
i'm already far getting farther away
i'm no stranger to the way i'm led like mice into a trap
but i'm not gonna play along
please cancel the attack
you know it's bets off
it's a lost cause
you're all that can be said
just reduced to tangles of empty veins on a bathroom floor
getting farther away
far away
fall light lands on the window silk strands on the window