My heart became a drunken runt On the day I sunk in this shunt To tap me clean Of all the wonder And the sorrow I have seen Since I left my home My home
We picked our way Down to the beach Watching the waves Dragging out of our reach Tangling tails Like a sodden sheet Dangling entrails From the gut of
Allelu, allelu I have died happy And lived to tell the tale to you I have slept for forty years And woke to find me gone I woke safe and warm in your
This is the song for Baby Birch Oh I will never know you And at the back of what we've done There is the knowledge of you Well I wish we could take every
I was tired of being drunk My face cracked like a joke So I swung through here Like a brace of jackrabbits With their necks all broke I stumbled at the
I found a little plot of land In the garden of Eden It was dirt, and dirt is all the same I tilled it with my two hands And I called it my very own There
When you ate i saw your eyelashes Saw them shake like wind on rushes In the corn field when she called me Moths surround me - thought they'd drown me
We sailed away on a winter's day With fate as malleable as clay But ships are fallible, i say And the nautical, like all things, fades And i can recall
Easy, easy My man and me We could rest and remain here, easily We are tested and pained by What's beyond our bed We are blessed and sustained By what
Svetlana sucks lemons across from me And i am progressing abominably And i do not know my own way to the sea But the saltiest sea knows its own way to
This place is damp and ghostly, i am already gone And the halls were lined with the disembodied And dustly wings which fell from flesh Gasplessly And
Feel the mattress tense beneath me Like the muscle of non-sleepy Feathers flexing will defeat me And it vexes me complet-e-ly And the hexes heat covertly
If you wanna come on down Down with your bones so white And watch the freight trains pound Into the wild wild night How i would love to gnaw Gnaw on
We speak in the store I'm a sensitive bore And you're markedly more And i'm oozing suprise But it's late in the day And you're well on your way What
Mes amis, we are restless things Little seaweed are swaddling And you call upon the dusk Of the musk of the squid Shot full of ink, until you sink Into
Erin, erin, erin! Erin across america Do now cheer me on Can't you hear the song for you? Quick, now - caramel dip Give it up to the runaway ship Hail
The tadpole boy in [tas?] Basalt The seashorse horsing in the salt The owlet in his greenery The narwhal in his cup of sea They all believe milkymoon
Bottom of the ninth inning Out which i stray through the crowd First it was what i call quiet Then it was biblic'ly loud You should have seen how they