There was a flash of light
Followed by chaos
On the night
The moon struck my backyard

There was a flash of light
Followed by silence
And a deep desire to dust my chin with a finer ash
And the air got cold and the sky got dark
And I kissed your lips with the safe

This is a story of a stormy old road that I know
A sad cantilever a bottle that held up its notes
A prayer for the country, the concrete that held up your skull
Mutter and melody meet silence and truth be troth

It's a casual thing on an evening of microphone crow
So fill me

Ada, Ada why'd you kill your love?
Did he cause you pain, did he cause you harm?

Ada, Ada why'd you kill your love?
Did you find him in another's arms?

Well, Jonah, that man was not my love,
My heart belongs to another one.

Jonah can't you see?
I killed that man

The sun set on New York before his feet found Frisco
You opened your last chance and beelined for Greensborough
and all of my friends that remain they smile crooked
and everyone else that I knew moved to Brooklyn
and I know the reason I buried my week was New York

The moon

Who's that clatter in the hall
Who's that rattling my door
Who's that numbing up my name
Who's that creeping towards my frame

Love has a way of saving you

Who's that pounding on my chest
Who's that salting up my neck
Who's that shattering my breath
With a scre

You know the sun it swings
Across my borders
And the day it hangs
Upon my shoulders
And worse then that
Is how they react
As if cornered, as if cornered

Well I don’t get by
On a happy tune
And I don’t get sun
In the afternoon
And when the evening fea

You saw the sank in a fiery fault (?)
'Tween your nose and the wind on the bridge that night
Oh it's a cold one
Quiet
Waiting for starlight

A fog rolled in and choked my eyes
And you and every other thing in sight
Was a pleasant
Convent (?)
To find

So

You saw the sank in a fiery fault 'Tween your nose and the wind on the bridge that night Oh it's a cold one Quiet Waiting for starlight A fog rolled in and choked my eyes And you and every other thi

Sometimes i see you through a camera
And you are standing alone on a stage
And you are lit and powdered and ready
And i am squinting trying to focus my lens

Sometimes i hear you
I hear you singing
In front of thousands in carnegie hall
And i am accompanying you on p

Save your breath cause i'm running out
I'm tearing down every wall i find
So i will fumble through
These things i do
If i was deaf or mute would i paint your eyes?
Your eyes

And we are all walls and we don't take cover
And we all love sounds we love sounds
See y

Lend me your ears for
A whispery cinder
And I lay on your lap how
I left love limber
A drip from a kiss that was
Sucked from a lover
With a swish and a spit now
Condemned to the gutter

Well I shook and I shook
'Til it splintered the bone
It was held in t

Every choke I choose
Caught a case of the true love blues
tie me down or I will run
tie me down and I will run

and each inept embrace
spirals into a sick raw frame
when two hearts are in tune
when two hearts are a tomb

and in your side it glow
you're not t

Your cheeks are warm, it's wet
And my spine so dry it cracked
And within a tiny home
The tornado of drugs I own

I know that you never sleep
Cold fusion seen combat
And oh how the sun will leak
When I race cars in New England
And I saw you on the street in
Tw

I quit my shoes for a big boat baby
now I have my hands on a cold press rail
I cut my shape out of plastic and nylon
now I have a cage made of rosewood and steel
I have a knife for a cuff that can capture
and I have a cuff for a collar that hails
I have my states you have

Cane came and he weighed
My name against the sun
With cold coalescent moon
For each deed I've done
Ive scratched and choked
(The dawn) against the wall
For each tree and rock and verb
I swallowed whole
And what you need is a fading
Phrase to frame your cheek

Last night I had a dream about all the things that you said to me.
About a bad night, wrong scene, button shirt and blue jeans.
About coffee and cigarettes, there ain't much more to me I guess.
About all I've lost, including you, and how none of that is coming through.
Now every

Do what's easy
Steal every red cent out
Of the wishing well
Smoke cigarettes 'til your
Chest rattles like hell
Just do what's easy

Waste every evening
Don't ever read and
Don't ever write
Never leave home and
Get drunk every night
Just do what's easy

Say your prayers before
Your eyelids roll
On every single lie you've told

Let the name of
Your love be known
On every single wall you own

Raise your wrist and caw and claw
With every single breath you draw

Everything, the skin contains
no matter, how hard I sing
it still remains

Everything, I sing these days
no matter how hard it stings
it still remains

Every day, my heart has saved
it withers no matter
how sad or strange

Every love I’ve pushed away
no

It's the last lighted seam of a dreamy week
forgive your solemn day
I twiddle my thumbs at the rag I've become
and wait for the world within

cause all I need is the night as me steed and a kiss to serve as my shield
cause it's comfort and ease on evenings like these that tu