Swell surging forwards Eroding the land A test of your patience A test of your hands The presence of angels A pall of thick smoke On this table spill
On my relative blank memory All photographs leave scars Of your insect inspiration In the ice forms on my windows My memories here are conjured up Still
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I said to the fortune teller Won't you please read me my cards She laid out the deck and asked me How I'd ever gotten this far? I was born by the sea
Paint a picture, let it dry Check your thoughts and speak now of us Look how you worry, pacing all around the place Feel now the intuition in the air [
I was cross-eyed, stoned and painless My pulse was up my eyes were red My visions, situations, feelings Hung on my lips and burned me up And 18 hours
Lost in a paperback rain Picking through books that you won't read again Keeping your promises vague Lost in the crowd in the circus parade Keeping your
Into the vigil from hiding His exile was now almost up Pockets were teeming with spare change And his mind was eating it up He'd savored the peace that
When your final last exit comes home to haunt you I'm feeling like I never felt before I've surrounded myself with loose poets and creatures And I feel
When your radar tower's on the ground And the dots on the screen have no meaning at all Try to guide myself by sight and sound But my location seems wrong
Everything about this party's gone out I'm out, you're out, she's out, they're out Oh, everyone is out I'm out, you're out Let's split I'm telling you
Underneath the riverbed Bury my bones in a bucket of lead Underneath the riverbed Bury my bones in a bucket of lead Took my love to the riverside, took
Laughter on his breath The smell of fish clandestine hits The thief he will aspire To take the piece that he desires Contempt for the rest Know his past
The vivian girls are the chosen ones The vivian girls are the chosen ones The vivian girls are the chosen ones The vivian girls are the chosen ones The