Fish, they say, "Breathing is weird Why would you live somewhere but here Underneath these waves Hermit crabs may go outside But they're never far from inside So hooked on spaying Our spawn the herons won't carry away" That's why I don't look at faces That's why I never go places That's why I never leave Screens, they say, "Spend all of your life One righteous click the trigger by which You'll erase your pain Muzzles shoot your memory Much farther than the stars we see Your name cascades In infamy forevermore you're framed" That's why I don't look at faces That's why I never go places That's why I never leave Friends, they say, "Come out of your room You're twenty years out of the womb Pull back your thick shades Lamp posts, bulbs and windowlights Long to embrace discovered hides Don't drench your flame In gasoline and quickly burn away" But I'd rather fade into obscurity Than burn out in a sizzling scream Of gunpowder and debris Yes I want to become part of my landscape Weeping willow cherry tree Maybe in two thousand years some kids will take an axe to me And no one will remember my name And nobody will ever find my grave

Hey, Mr. Cool Tuxedo, yeah the way that you dig down deeper in the coals with your hands so steady's getting old. We've had enough already, and the glow of your eyes unsettles and the cold in your smile gets better when you know that your hand is winning. Why cheat when the cards are well hidden? Yeah, yeah, you don't cheat. It's still not fair Woah, no, you better let me go. I'm not a private show. And I'll set this house on fire, cause how's it fair that you're the only one with a lighter but the smoke gets in my lungs? And I can't forget, the words you whispered when everybody said that you had only kissed her. You said, it's better said than done, that I'm the lucky one. I'm the lucky one. Burn all the bridges, broken, and turn, cause there's no use choking on the words sugar sweet and cheep like the girls (who look too good to eat) And I'm gone, cause there's no use staying. Write a song, cause there's no use praying to the gods who look down from above and all along you swore it was for love. Love, grow up. That's enough Cause I tried, oh I tried. Where to confide, when your hands are tied? And I'll set this house on fire, cause how's it fair that you're the only one with a lighter but the smoke gets in my lungs? And I can't forget, the words you whispered when everybody said that you had only kissed her. You said, it's better said than done, that I'm the lucky one. I'm the lucky one. Woah, the dice are loaded. You, you call it chance. I ain't no sinner, but I've seen the devil dance.

I know that you're out there somewhere waiting for me to come back home. I know your bed is warm, but I'd rather sleep alone. I know I ran away from you. I know I never said goodbye. Feels like I never told the truth to you though I never told a lie. I got your drugs in my system and your love was a high, but you said nothing about the comedown. Your kiss was a chemical; nothing short of what they sell, and I am falling. You said you'd never hurt me but now I've got you stuck in my bones. And there was no one to alert me when you wouldn't pick up the phone. But I never actually called you. It was only in my dreams. I know I ran away from you. It's not as easy as it seems. I got your drugs in my system and your love was a high, but you said nothing about the comedown. Your kiss was a chemical; nothing short of what they sell, and I am falling.

Shoo wop wop Shoo wop wop Oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh I had no sense of time or direction I was Bacchus' son I was blurry fun Was handed a flask, and it smashed my perception Now the sky looks down on us with broken glasses I courted the clouds and they counseled rejection That a mist would come That my flesh would run Adopted their vapor avoiding discretion No I never cried once No I never cried once Ooh walls tell me your secrets You're just points in space So ordered and polite I could be perfectly still and your family Would kiss me on the cheek Say that I'm one of them Tell me I'm one of them Washed up my face and I checked my prescription For a regime change But I still remained Tore out my eyes in a fit of conniption Now the sky and I are not so different Shoo wop wop Shoo wop wop Oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh My ambiguous pillow Taking my voice and my shape Could you be more than a lingering tenderness Beyond this pale erratic state of bliss Until you have lost all distinction Your body has not felt true joy Down with the borders and boundaries of selfhood Who cares if you're caught between man and boy Ooh walls tell me your secrets You're just points in space So ordered and polite I could be perfectly still and your family Would kiss me on the cheek Say that I'm one of them Tell me I'm one of them

Saw you at the show last night, and I caught you eye, and I lost my sight. If you say that you love me then I'll say goodbye like I say there's a God above me, But I know it's a lie. Even my brothers don't know that I love them so so it's time to say goodbye. Felt you in my heart as I slept so I called it heartburn; burned all the letters I kept. You could say your sorry. I could say: "Forget about the times you called me! It's better off this way!" I don't know how to speak anymore. You left me on the floor dancing alone. Now I wait every moment for another call on the phone another call on the phone another call Even my brothers don't know that I love them so, but it's never time to say goodbye

All surrounded he's alone Even when the sun shines in his home Yes he's taken many wives But he's still a baby in the darkness of the night You're not safe in your bed Even when the sheets are flying Whatever she asked of you Hurt more than solitude Which you know never hurt no one who wasn't already guilty He once knew her in the mud Before lambs clamored up to him with their sacrificial blood Now she's ignored by his side Because nonchalance has not a seeing eye You're not safe in your bed Even when the sheets are flying Whatever she asked of you Hurt more than solitude Which you know never hurt no one who wasn't already guilty She said you have immersed yourselves in lovers everywhere So why'd you have to go and take another I could not recall if he or I replied But the syllables were spat in spurts of spite: Oh goodness, let conscience ride me raw until I die Stop my heartbeat, collapse my body, if I ever told a lie And I don't want to sleep alone But I don't want you in my home It's just something that I feel in my bones Don't ask me how I know And I don't want to hold your hand And I don't want to understand And I can't bear to see your face And you will never You will never You will never You're not safe in your bed Even when the sheets are flying Whatever she asked of you Hurt more than solitude Which you know never hurt no one who wasn't already guilty

The sun she hangs her heavy head. The water purple sky of red. My hands are empty but I can't let go. That look your eyes my chest caves in the never weres and could have beens they'll tear you up I swear they'll eat you whole Don't you ask how I've been cause I'm not saying it's your fault, but it's like a fifth of gin and poison in your heart. Don't you ask how I am when you're fingertips away because you don't give a damn. Is that all you have to say? I look at you and we both know we're fools to stay we're fools to go. It's golden now the lights on the trees. You take a step to bridge the gap just please don't cry and please don't laugh. I don't suppose it help if I said please Don't you ask how I've been cause I'm not saying it's your fault, but it's like a fifth of gin and poison in your heart. Don't you ask how I am when you're fingertips away because you don't give a damn. Is that all you have to say? You grab me pull me hold me close. This isn't fair. I can't let go. I trace your lips the sunset burning red. You Twine your fingers in my hair. My lungs are screaming where's the air. Do you still remember when you said That I can't get lost and I won't go far. Because you are just a map of stars. You trace Orion on my skin. Can you believe the shape we're in?

Did she wake up beside you Or is that just her smell Does she linger can you tell Can you reach outstretched and find her in your grasp Could this moment ever last Rise up brothers Rise up sisters Lift your groggy heads We are clinging To each other's shells In a world half dead Do you remember the night Out on the grass We whispered words and dreaded the dawn For a minute we had stopped the running hands Then the next they all had gone Rise up brothers Rise up sisters Lift your groggy heads We are clinging To each other's shells In a world half dead Stay in the sky My silvery confessor Why do you bear the chariot's yoke He takes you and her away together Leaving me down in the cold Rise up brothers Rise up sisters Lift your groggy heads We are clinging To each other's shells In a world half dead

Can't believe you said those things to her in your head; wait for Monday to clear away the air from your bed; you promised Sunday you'd fall in love with her instead, but that was not your only promise. You said a million times before, "I wanted nothing more than you and I and a blanket and the floor." Hello Friday, you're not the girl that I knew before. You promised that if you'd left you'd leave a note on the door. I never thought that you'd end up being such a bore/boor. But you're not that perfect lover I dreamt up all those years ago Now I want is you to know that you're on my mind as I enter the covers that have never felt so cold. I wanted nothing more than you to hold. But you had to go Dear Friday night, This is a break-up song. I made Saturday wait too long for me to great her at the door with a melody and a box of chocolates and an apology. Dear Friday night, you left me alone, and I can't say that I am sorry for all the times you called me on the phone. I didn't answer cause you never apologized. Dear Friday night, I first met you in the discomfort of my own bed, and Saturday morning my limbs, my limbs seemed made of led. Dear Friday night, I first met you when you were flowing through my veins, and Saturday morning I grew up in my own memories' stains. Dear Friday night, I first met you when the smoke got in my lungs, and Saturday morning I found out the devil may dance, but he speaks in tongues But I'll keep coming back to you weekend and week out, let you write love songs on my liver for every chorus that I shout, and I'll sketch my Sundays on my skin, but Friday, I'll keep letting you in.

So what if your heart's just a cavity in your chest and no one could be the man who loves you best I never saw your beach house blossom in the snow no seeds that were planted could grow So what if your youth's not the prelude to a life you started opening flowers in the shadows of closing night the curtain cleaves you in two Everything grows on what used to be fields will lie fallow and so must we the river is shallower than it seems to be Everything grows on what used to be fields will lie fallow and so must we the river is shallower than it seems to be So what if you can't be the libertine you invent your kisses are worn out trinkets on the napes of their necks your sentences in the pendant, in patent they hung cons tricked in the breadth and width of the flowing of blood your lying begot admission So what if your gut's just a hollow in your skin enfeebled by the thirsty spirits you let in year's sliver, they drink the week there is no meant to be So what if your heart's So what if your heart's just So what if your heart's just a cavity So what if your heart's just