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Well, a wagon was rambling over rocky ground
with a rope on the back, that drug on the ground,
and I held on to that rope, though it was hurtin like hell,
though I was bleeding and broke, though it was hurtin like hell.
But today I let go and just lay on the ground,
And I stared at the sky; let the flies circle round.
And I was bleeding to death, but I just couldn’t care,
Cause the earth was just dirt, and the sky was just air.
So you can take this world away from me now,
Let my blood trickle out, it don’t mean nothing somehow.
The things that I wanted, I don’t care anymore;
There ain’t nothing here, babe, that means nothing no more.
And if there’s life after death, I guess I’ll see you around,
And if not, then take care, I guess I’ll see you around.
I ain’t sure what to wish you; I don’t know what’s worthwhile.
I never found it I guess; I just don’t know what’s worthwhile.
A billion opinions swirling around,
like winds in the sky they just blew me around.
That it’s good to be good, and bad to be bad,
That it’s good to be happy, and sad to be sad,
That I should fight to live, but believe that I’ll die,
Believe that life is worthwhile, and we just don’t know why.
Try to stay young, but believe I’ll grow old;
Fight against fear, and live upon hope.
But you can take this world, I’m through with it now;
Everything that I wanted, it just turned empty somehow.
If you’re happy to win, I’ll be happy to lose;
You can take what I have, cause baby I’m through.
Now I know if I stayed that my feelings would change,
Cause feelings is just winds, and they don’t stay the same.
The blue that I’m feeling would turn into cheer, and then
I’d start to feel hope, and I’d start to feel fear.
And around the next corner, the future would look real bright,
At least that’s what I’m told, and they’re probably right.
I might fall in love; I probably would.
I’d probably eat lots of food that tastes good.
I’d probably laugh and I’d probably smile, and
I’d start to make money, after a while.
I could be famous and travel the world,
Have a funeral attended by a billion or more.
But still the earth is just earth, and the sky is just air,
Friends are just people who feel that they care.
Hope is just hope, and fear is just fear.
The past is collapsed, and the future ain’t real.
The earth is just dirt, and the sky is just space.
Joy’s just a feeling, and sweet’s just a taste.
Blue’s just a color; a tree’s just a tree,
And none of these things don’t mean nothing to me.
So please take this world; I’m through with it now.
All the men that I wanted, they don’t mean nothing somehow.
I can tell them goodbye with no pain on my face;
There ain’t nothing I want anymore in this place.
So you can take this world; I’m through with it now,
Every feeling and thing it can belong to you now.
You can stay and be king, I’ll let go and be free;
There ain’t nothing here, babe, that means nothing to me.
You can just have everything I was once living for;
There ain’t nothing here, babe, that means nothing no more.
Tap tap upon my arm, I know you’re there-
I feel you breathing on my hand.
Please go away, although I know you care-
things that people cannot understand.
I dug the ditch.
I rolled them in.
I saw their purple eyes
Begin to dim.
This air does not exist for me to breath;
friendship fly away, I’m not the one who will believe.
I saw them die,
Covered in dirt.
At night I cry
and I cannot release the hurt.
Nobody knows the way to turn back time
but I could swear this time that I would sacrifice my life.
Nobody knows the secret things that fill the air,
it’s no one’s job to care; it’s no one’s place to fight.
Dig dig, they stood in black around me in a circle and they stared;
I dug a wide and shallow grave.
They stood and watched; they don’t fear anyone anywhere-
They know that wholesome people never try to save.
Too good to dig.
Nothing is ever found.
Although it lies
Only an inch below the ground.
Nobody knows the way to turn back time
but I could swear this time that I would sacrifice my life.
Yet living means to look away, that’s what they say,
another day of sun, another chance to lie.
Tap tap upon my arm, I know you’re there.
Please go away; too many things I’ll never share.
I must remain.
I must not rise.
Must not forget
Their begging eyes.
I know you must have drowned at sea
I know I’ll never see a man again!
Or can you hear me call to you
a tiny voice that glides upon
the huge expanse of ocean & the wind?
Bowed-down men, acquit this place
Leave my mother alone
Waiting on a man who will never come home
And what about me, in suspension,
Neither yet a lady or a man?
The velvet of the afternoon the waterfall of curtains
Cuts the shrieking black of ocean from the land
Shall I bow my head like a copper wire?
Sit & cry like a lamb?
Shall I sit sit sit until my ashes blow with shame upon the land?
I will craft a boat from birch trees
Fit it with twenty men
On the wild wild seas we will search for you
For one brief year my friend
Odysseus my father
On the surging breast of the sea
Are you pale-faced & drifting
or crushed like a man upon the floor of the sea?
My ship will wear a lavender flag
I’ll be a soldier too
Because I want to make love but I can’t make love
Want to make love but I can’t make love
Want to make love but I can’t make love
In the in the wandering shade of you.
Through the languid veil of time
I guess the time has come to rise again
So let the ladies run & hide
We’re leaving with the thunder & the wind
And if we come back empty handed
If our hopes have crumbled too
Then I will splice my ship and build a fire for you.
Councilmen, I must address you
With my baby arms & paper-doll knees
Wave a baby-blue flag before you
Odysseus is lost at sea.
There’s no one here on earth to protect me
Tinier am I than a man
Seeking protection from mis-use & abusion.
Seeking protection of my land.
You got me on my back like a baby
You got me like a lady on my knees
Would you make love to Baby Telemachus, please
They tap their craven ashes on my table
Run their greasy fingers through my hair
Teach me to be hazy and drugged and lazy
Pick me like a flower & touch me everywhere
I’ve come before you looking for some council.
I’ve come before you looking for a man
To come upon the weeds that encroach me
To bind me firmly like a child again
You got me on my back like a baby!
You got me like a lady on my knees!!
Would you make love to Baby Telemachus, Please!!!
“Little Baby Blue Telemachus
Why your own dear mother is to blame
She slides her feathers like a peacock.
She holds a thousand men upon a chain
She knows how to treat a man like a noodle
She knows we have no will of our own
She builds her fame on a mountain of hearts
She’s the one who needs to leave your home.”
Men, men, men, men, men,
do you really wanna see me walk away?
To curl like a tail between your legs?
Fall like a pin into your hay?
Are you hungry for the anger of my father?
Are you hungry for the flavor of your blood?
Do you wanna see the shaming of a baby?
Is that the kind of thing that turns you on?
My boat will wear a lavender flag.
I will stock it with candy & wine
Follow a heart that is pinned to the sky
Like a star like a moon like a little one.
You got me on my back like a baby
You got me like a lady on my knees
Now would you make love to baby Telemachus please?
You want to be such a rock hard daddy but you didn’t want to be it today
With all the roses well you just gotta wonder if I’m getting it in some other way
You were surprised when the devil in disguise when he dipped back down onto me
At the sacrificial feast, the king & his men, you know they couldn’t keep their eyes off of me
They got nothing to say to me– they know it, they know it
They got no reason to sit beside my fire
They got nothing to give to me– they know it, they know it
They got nothing to place inside my fire
The king he owned one thousand horses but he couldn’t take his hands off of me
He said that I looked quite like a king in my beauty and my regency
I said “hell no, I’m a rock hard prophet” and I dug my feet in the sand
It took him by surprise when the devil in disguise bent down like a leaf beneath my hand
Come on eagles, come on down from the sky
and rub your soft, soft feathers all over me.
Come on king, come on men, prepare a golden bed for me
Let me sit by the golden fire just a wondering who I am
What sort of beauty must I be that kings and gods bend down to kiss my hand?
You’ve got nothing to give to me– you know it, you know it
You’ve got nothing to set beside my fire.
You got nothing to say to me– you know it, you know it
You’ve got no reason to sit beside my fire
You’ve got nothing to touch me with– you know it, you know it
You’ve got no reason to sit beside my fire
You’ve got nothing to fuck me with– you know it, you know it
You’ve got nothing to place inside my fire.
One man feels so weak when he’s alone out in the cold;
he can’t tell if he’s young and strong, or if he’s getting old.
Rolls a stone across the ground, it’s rolling like a ball,
and if he had ten thousand, he could build himself a wall.
Daddy, you’re a kind man, but you can’t understand.
Me, I need an army, need ten thousand men.
You don’t got too much money, and you don’t got too much blood;
you’ve only got one cloak that you can lay across the mud.
Take your ears and listen to my reasons and my needs,
cause the sun will bring more fire than any single man can bleed.
Maybe you don’t like it, man, and maybe it feels rough,
but the angels are all waiting, and you can’t run fast enough.
Daddy, you’re a kind man, but you can’t understand.
Me, I need an army, need ten thousand men.
You will hear me coming; you will recognize my stride.
You’ll feel the bells start ringing, and the roads start getting wide.
You’ll cut your finger gently, and you’ll hold it up to me.
I’ll touch it to my heart, and then blood brothers we will be.
You’ll recognize my horse, and you will recognize my flag,
you’ll recognize the weapons that I stuffed into my bag.
Daddy, you’re a kind man, but you can’t understand.
Me, I need an army, need ten thousand men.
When the fire starts coming, man, remember what I said.
Fill your tea with iron nails, stuff nettles in your bed.
Wear a ring of hematite, put rubies in your ears,
peppers to your ladies, and then head out to the fields.
Daddy, you’re a kind man, but you can’t understand.
Me, I need an army, need ten thousand men.
I see you smiling in your gold frame, baby, but I always turn away my eye.
I see the chief out with his gold star shining, but he knows I’ll never testify.
I won’t testify.
People ask me all the time now how are you doing when they know I’m never gonna say.
They all heard me screaming on that black night, baby, but they only turned and walked away.
I won’t testify.
You can’t go waiting too long little baby or you know the fingerprints will rust.
You can’t go waiting too long little baby or the bones are gonna turn to dust
I won’t testify.
I walk outside of your apartment building, baby, and the gall starts to fill my throat.
I pray that God will burn it down to the ground, but as for me I’ll never rock the boat.
I won’t testify.
I keep my eyes down on the sidewalk, baby, because everybody makes me cry.
Every sweet smile is just another fucking person who will stand there as they watch me die.
I won’t testify.
I see their little fingers lifting up the blinds and their eyes peering eagerly.
I know they’ll stand there, they’ll never lift a hand when they see the man come for me.
I won’t testify.
Anybody who stands up to the man is gonna be the one to take the blame.
I lay your gun out on my living room mantle right next to your picture frame.
I won’t testify.
I walk at night out with a big stick, baby, but I know it won’t keep bad away.
You always said that when the man’s out to get you he can always find another way.
I won’t testify.
I asked the officer now how can I help you, when you know I can’t recall a thing.
I only saw a hand swing out of the darkness and the flash of a diamond ring.
I won’t testify.
I got some secrets that I wouldn’t mind sharing, but there ain’t nobody I can trust.
They talk so sweet with all their big eyes smiling, but it’s evil covered up in crust.
I won’t testify.
I try to tell myself to myself to go to California and to rearrange my style of hair.
It used to seem like such a big world, baby, till I found out that nobody cares.
I won’t testify.
I cry at night over them white bones, baby, but I always let them to turn to dust.
I lay your gun out on my bedside table, then I only sit and watch it rust.
I won’t testify.
bells ring, people sing
nobody cries about anything
they just let go, follow the flow
this is the wisdom that people know
but i dream in stone- i know this world of air
it can’t be the world that’s really there
through my fingers the tears keep falling down
they’ll fall and fall until they reach a solid ground
aye aye bye bye
theodore has left us and we’ll never know why
try not to cry when people die
ok, but where do they go?
they go to the light
that’s what you say, but it doesn’t seem right
to have to stay in a world so slight
change is life, life is change
these are the things you can’t rearrange
nothing in this world lasts forever
this brings value to the time we spend together
but I dream of bodies that God won’t take away
with limbs that never fall off and decay
through fingers my tears keep falling down
they’ll fall and fall until they reach the solid ground
aye aye bye bye
theodore has left us and we’ll never know why
try not to cry when people die
ok, but where do they go?
they go to the light
that’s what you say, but it doesn’t seem right
to have to stay in a world so slight
we won’t cry, this is a celebration
theodore made his life into a joyous creation
he was smart, fun, hardworking and modest
now he’s invisible and made of air just like God is
but i dream of gods with bodies of their own
who walk this world decked out in flesh and bone
just like angels, my tears keep falling down
they’ll fall and fall until we reach the solid ground
aye aye bye bye
theodore has left us and we’ll never know why
try not to cry when people die
ok, but where do they go?
they go to the light
that’s what you say, but it doesn’t seem right
to have to stay in a world so slight
don’t despair, he’s still sort of there
living in your heart like a puff of warm air
We were sitting together on the front porch swing
You started talking about everything
Like how the white man stole your land away
And I felt in my heart like I was to blame
Like it was my fault, and I felt this shame
And then I felt your feathers tickle me
We were sitting on the porch drinking lemonade
Both wearing sneakers that were Nike made
When I first felt your feathers tickle me
Well I thought it must have been the wind on my shoe
Till I first caught sight of your big canoe
Moving slowly through those waters towards me
And though I aint been good, I could start tomorrow
Won’t cause nobody no more sorrow
Just please sir, take your feathers off of me
Just take that green feather off my thigh
That red feather off my eye
Just pull your yellow feather out of me
It felt like running through the woods at night
I could feel your breath but their was nothing in sight
I could feel my soul just running away to die
Your skin was sticky but it wasn’t red
Your three feathers lined up in my head
As three feather man came slowly over me
Like curdled milk in a broken vase
A dead white man without a face
I could see that crooked finger point to me
Put that green feather on my thigh
That red feather on my eye
Put that yellow feather into me
It don’t mean nothing that you spared my life
Cause it ain’t worth nothing now since that night
Cause Jesus saw your feathers touching me
Yeah God was watching from his starlit sky
Staring me down with that humongous eye
And I know God wont be forgiving me
And I know I’ m deserving of all this and more
Dirtier than dirt more down than a floor
But Three Feather Man I’m begging you for mercy
Just take your green feather off my thigh
That red feather off my eye
Just pull that yellow feather out of me
Three stacked stones don’t lie
Hush hush Brother sleeps in the valley below
Tick tack toe: don’t cry
There’s a rainbow world only dead men know
Last winter, that was a lonely load
Your brother’s hand carried over the falling snow
Wrapped tight in a blanket of bright red plaid
The final piece of the very best friend you had
Too white when there’s nothing but ice for days
Hold tight as the mountain around you sways
Misty faces forming in front of you
fade fade into an ocean of frozen blue
Three stacked stones don’t lie
Hush hush Brother sleeps in the valley below
Tick tack toe: don’t cry
There’s a rainbow world only dead men know
Do you remember the summer of bleeding knees
Eating strawberries under the willow trees
Fingers open to show you a ruby stone
blink blink now you’re walking this world alone
Green carpet spread under a sky of blue
a magic world filled with animals and just 2
little boys, running away from from dad
Splash splash slipping under the lily pads
Three stacked stones don’t lie
Hush hush Brother sleeps in the valley below
Tick tack toe: don’t cry
There’s a rainbow world only dead men know
5 fingers laid under the frozen ground
draw an x and circle it all around
the x stands for the memories that will stay
the circle keeps the snow and the ice away
Sun falls, the mountains are turning blue
Beautiful, once, but no more for you
to bend down and worship the shining crags
ice kings drip dripping with frozen fangs
Three stacked stones don’t lie
Hush hush Brother sleeps in the valley below
Tick tack toe: don’t cry
There’s a rainbow world only dead men know
You used to think that god was an angel choir
But all along he was only the warming fire
The wool blanket that kept out the black of space
The strawberry stained smile on your brother’s face.
Hold me by the wrist.
Hold me to the ground.
Watch the world it flies
Spinning round and round.
Tell me what you know.
Tell me everything.
Pressed into a box.
Pressed into a ring.
See clouds that fly.
See them flying free.
That third one is I-
Do you recognize me now?
Their reflections fly
Flowing down the stream
Round my ankles I
Need you to release me now.
In the mirror there,
I saw you again
Like a foggy man
Close behind me then
Pressing into me
Your two hands were tied.
We’re in this world now
Like the square it binds.
Catch a bird that flies
Slice him into three.
Like a man he dies-
Do you understand me now?
Capture any bird
Capture anything
The relentless claw-
Do you understand me now?
When I heard your words
They were only sounds
Tying up my brain
Filling it with brown.
And my heart was tied
Like an animal too.
Our words weren’t the same
How could I explain to you?
Something isn’t right.
Something spinning wrong.
Shapes are scratching now.
Not where I belong.
Every cloud that flies
Breaking up in threes
Meaning something dies
Do you recognize me now?
Throne of ice, throne of snow
When you go out
Nobody knows where you go
On your evening stroll.
Cobblestones and autumn lights
Fantasy takes purple flights
Nobody knows the beauty you bring
There is a world where you are king.
Your eyes are cruel
With signs of incipient insanity
Butterflies fly fly
Through the air you breathe.
Your mouth is water logged
Your tongue it swims and swirls in a
Purple flood to subsume your love
With blood, with blood.
You would wear lace if it weren’t out of place
Ruffles and bows, powder on your face
Necklaces and stacks of rings
There is a world where you are king.
Pain and ice, blood and blade
Nobody knows the choices you made
They weren’t there when the angel flew
To lay his visions over you.
Your eyes are cruel
With signs of incipient insanity
Butterflies fly fly
Through the air you breathe.
Your mouth is water logged
Your tongue it swims and swirls in a
Purple flood to subsume your love
With blood, with blood.
A purple scream, a careful slice
Lesser people pay the price
But you remember your moment of need
The whole world stood to watch you bleed.
They stood and watched on that autumn day
When you grew wings and you flew away
Away from the sounds of your own screams
You found a world where you are king.
Your eyes are cruel
With signs of incipient insanity
Butterflies fly fly
Through the air you breathe.
Your mouth is water logged
Your tongue it swims and swirls in a
Purple flood to subsume your love
With blood, with blood.
Follow me through the Christmas tree
inside a silver ring
and I’ll stay with you, my whole life through
I’ll never ask for anything
Seasons go, we’ll watch them flow
through windows of ice
see the people die; they always cry
so surprised to pay the price
Snowflakes fall, they form a wall
that cradles us inside
where we’ll drink our tea, you’ll stay with me,
couldn’t we be satisfied
Snowflakes fall, they form a wall
but that’s the price we pay
to be hard and strong and never wrong
to never falter never fade
When the white man comes you can know he will not leave you dry-eyed
(fly away when you have the chance)
Gold or silver, only you can decide
(better not to join his dance)
Shaky wrists, glassy eyes
your mind starts to slide
filled with fantasies, christmas trees,
dreaming of the world outside
Tall and proud, men say out loud
that pain is divine
but I’ve seen it slice, a blade of ice
they clench their teeth; they change their mind
When the white man comes you can know he will not leave you dry-eyed
(fly away when you have the chance)
Gold or silver, only you can decide
(better not to join his dance)
Distant dreams of earthly things
take on a golden glow
how the valleys shine; they fill with wine
they draw you to the world below
Where I once found you red, almost dead
stripped of all your rings
lying weak and poor upon my floor
you who wanted everything
I’m cold. I’ve been told
you are the one who can make me feel bold
Tongues of fire nobody can escape from you.
Warm wood, golden sand,
so much power in the palm of my hand
watch them run watch them all run away from you,
Who said the past is dead?
You get the shovel and you find it, find it
It’s only bones, but bones hold
the truth for us where we can find it find it.
Your fingers read the bones like braille
the facts pile up until they fill the jail
Tongues of fire nobody can escape from you.
A lick for a lick, a lie for a lie
You’ll stand as my stick when I testify.
Watch them run watch them all run away from you.
A powdered form of confidence, I hold it in my hand
Sometimes lies will break like glass and crumble into sand
Well I don’t know, but I’ve been told
You are the man who can make me feel bold
Fill the skies with gold and drive away the blue.
Your fire it comes from down below
You keep shady friends who are in the know now
Watch them run watch them all run away from you.
You follow crumbling pavement to the baddest parts of down
Your hand it holds a notebook where you write each rumor down
You take the stand. You shine like fire.
Speaking truth or lies as the moment requires.
Golden angels bow their heads in awe of you.
20 years to life, no that’s not enough
Thought they’d never see a good man who was tough.
Tongues of fire nobody can escape from you.
I still remember that first moment when we met,
You turned to smile at me, I shot back with a frown.
And after that, we’d just ignore each other’s gaze,
but something in your eyes had gone and changed this lonely town.
You were tall and thin, you always dressed in black,
and you’d wear shades at night inside a dusty bar.
But I once saw your eyes and they were brown and sweet.
I haven’t seen you yet today, I wonder where you are.
CHORUS:
Wouldn’t make me no town widow if you leave,
I wouldn’t have to change my frown.
But Dusty Stables I’ll be grieving if you leave,
I never said hello, just thought you’d always be around.
You used to walk these streets with earphones on your head,
but I don’t see you here today.
And I’m afraid you heard some lady call your name,
and pull you from our silent love, this stranger love, this orphan love,
my coward love, my only love, a thousand miles away.
CHORUS
You can’t leave before I even know your name
or the feel of your brown hair.
You can’t leave with my heart fastened to your arm.
You can’t leave me alone in love with a stranger who ain’t there.
CHORUS
Placing the helm on my head
I see the clouds up ahead
Please let me ride.
Please let me ride.
Holding an egg in my hand
I fear the battle at hand
Don’t let me die.
Don’t let me die.
Raise your flags, men
On toy horses we ride
Life, like a dream
Stretched forever into the blue sky.
Twenty-one days to the shore
A trip to the well will add seven days mores
Time to cry.
A time to cry.
Dipping my head in the well
I hear their pink voices clanging like bells
If you want to be forgiven
You must leave us a pink ribbon.
Why do I need to be forgiven? you ask of me
Twelve years ago I deserted my company
This led to the death of three men who depended on me.
But my life overwhelmed me
It seemed so absurd
To die when the meaning of
Life was still blurred.
But now I can see that survival is vain
When death is the trophy of gold that all souls seek to gain!
Now we will ride to shore
Mermaids and seashells will witness our war
We are high
For tomorrow we die.
Horses scratch their hoofs on the checkerboard grass
War frees the soul from its vessel of glass
We are high
For tomorrow we die.
Pink and green, all alone
Guess you never really had a home.
Circles form, fires shine
You alone stand behind
To learn the ways
To burn the pain away
To find the gold
For you alone are truly old.
Chicken leg, gnaw the bone
Make your bed curled against a stone.
Circles form, fires shine
You alone are left behind
To see through things
To learn from bearded kings
To find the gold
For you alone are truly old.
Morning gold, wake in dew
Little bugs fly all over you.
Tiny bugs, tiny wings
In the end, you are a friend to things.
To feel
To know what’s really real
To touch the shine
Another world is left behind.
Fires shine, do not go
Never circle round their glow.
Fires shine in the night
Independent of their light
You alone are truly old.
You alone are truly old
You alone are truly old
You alone are truly old.
Take my hand but take it slowly
Let it grow just like a lowly
Bean towards a grain of light
Let it be so small and hidden
Mixed into the air, forbidden
With my mind alone I might
Fallen in the green where you wait around for me
Fallen in between with your hand upon my knee
Kidneys shrink inside the darkness
I know I must stay regardless
Gonna do the best I can
Lay my hand down when he makes me
I alone must save or break me
This I swear I understand
Still I feel a cold like a shadow in my ear
It’s that sound again and I wonder if you’re near
No nothing’s wrong, I told myself
I would be strong but I let it slip away.
Hey did you say the only way to get there is to fall
Tumble to the day?
Hands go limp just like a baby
Sun breaks through the glass and maybe
You alone could make me smile
Life moves on then like a train
To crash and clatter in my brain, but please
Could you stay with me awhile?
Its that gold again, something warm against my ear
Sun is pouring in and it feels as though you’re near
No nothing’s wrong, I told myself
I would be strong but I let it slip away
Hey would you say the only way to get there is to fall
Tumble to the day?
Feel you breathing, how could I?
There’s no one here but I
Feel your hands upon my face
Feel you standing square and solid
Heavy arms upon me I…
Now I feel a sense of place
If you found me there, if there was a way to meet me
Could I follow you, no I could never take your hand completely
No nothing’s wrong, I told myself
I would be strong but I let it slip away.
Hey did you say the only way to get there is to fall
Tumble to the day?
Getting through these tween time days is getting kinda low;
The fiery flames you fanned in me have faded to a glow.
Now I got to find a real life of my own;
Gotta find a way to entertain my mind just being all alone.
Used to be such pain to me just seeing you around;
Dreaming of your brown eyes could always bring me down.
And its hard to face when these feelings start to fade,
Cause these feelings were all I had of you,
and if the feelings gone then I don’t got a thing.
CHORUS:
My ship is going down, but my body starts to float,
Rising like the living dead in a long forgotten moat.
I was prepared to die in the piercing fires of hell,
But not to live in this numbing kind of shell.
I don’t want this spell to lift, cause I’ll be a dry ole bone.
I can’t keep this wound alive, my feelings almost gone.
Dusty, there’s a timer on this crack upon my heart;
And if you don’t come and hurt me soon,
then my heart will mend and this dream world fall apart.
CHORUS
Melancholy gently falls upon me like a shroud;
Don’t know I could feel your love if you gave it to me now.
Thought I’d be your martyr with the most dramatic fall, but
Dusty Stables, now I’ll live feeling nothing at all.
CHORUS
His eyes were blue, his eyes were pale
The absence of a fire.
Where the wind blew, there they went
The absence of desire.
Peppermint, a hint of life
Something pure and true.
All around you like a kite
There his blue eyes flew.
A piece of lace, a secret place
No one knows where it ends.
But all along he held your hand
Just like a pair of twins.
His fingers were so thin and yet
He held your little hand.
He walked with you upon the beach
A heart drawn in the sand.
The sky was flying like a flag
Had you seen that flag before?
A gust of wind opening a door.
A piece of lace, a secret place
No one knows where it ends.
But all along he held your hand
Just like a pair of twins.
You stood upon the beach with him
the gavel was put down.
With rings upon your finger now
The absence of a sound.
A piece of lace blew in the wind
It was tied to a pole.
The wind was blowing to the east
The place where fairies go.
A piece of lace, a secret place
No one knows where it ends.
But all along he held your hand
Just like a pair of twins.