- a burning hill
Today I will wear my white button-down
I'm tired of wanting more
I think I'm finally worn
For you have a way of promising things
And I've been a forest fire
I am a forest fire
And I am the fire and I am the forest
And I am a witness watching it
- Abbey
I am hungry
I have been hungry
I was born hungry
What do I need?
I am something
I have been something
I was born something
What could I be?
- Bag of Bones
I'm all used up, pretty boy
Over and over again, my nail colors are wearing off
See my hands, pretty boy
What do they tell you?
'Cause I've looked down at them, not knowing why
And after everything's done and I'm all undone
You can hear my high heels walking on
Clickety-clacking through the night
- Because Dreaming Costs Money, My Dear
I can still smell the fire
Even though it’s long died out
The smoke still hangs in my hair
And on some quiet evenings it burns my eyes
So darling, play your violin
I know it’s what you live for
Darling, play your violin
- Brand New City
I think my brain is rotting in places
I think my heart is ready to die
I think my body is falling in pieces
I think my blood is passing me by
Honey, what'd you take, what'd you take?
Honey, look at me
Tell me what you took, what'd you take?
- Carry Me Out
At night
On the roof top
I untie my hair
And watch from my plastic chair
As my dark hair
Unleashes the night
The scent of flowers
- Circle
There's a lie that I told to you
That now I can't tell the truth
And it ate me inside, so one soft drunken night
I slept with a man you knew
Then in the morning I walked home alone
And the businessmen saw my bones
With my skirt in their eyes, they remembered the nights
- Come Into The Water
[Verse 1]
Come into the water!
Do you wanna be my baby?
Are you waiting to touch me?
You look so good, but I keep my hands
'Til you come into the water
[Verse 2]
- Crack Baby
Down empty streets sniffing glue me and you
Blank open eyes watch the moon flower bloom
It's been a long hard twenty year summer vacation
Both these twenty years trying to fill the void
Crack baby you don't know what you want
But you know that you had it once
And you know that you want it back
- Door
There is a door to me
I've never seen it
Sometimes I get closer to it
But I've never found it
At twilight, I almost had it
But then the night fell
I looked out at the dark and wondered
How could I have lost it?
- Drunk walk home
I will retire to the salton sea
At the age of 23
For I'm starting to learn I may never be free
But though I may never be free
Fuck you and your money
I'm tired of your money
And I sit on the curb cause it's the prettiest night
- Eric
You like control, well, I do too
Take off my clothes and watch me move
You can come closer, I'll let you hurt me
How you choose
Help me with the zipper on my skirt, it's stuck
As you kneel, I'll be watching you fix me
This view of you, of the top of your head makes me forgive you
- Fireworks
One morning this sadness will fossilize
And I will forget how to cry
I'll keep going to work and you won't see a change
Save perhaps a slight gray in my eye
I will go jogging routinely
Calmly and rhythmically run
And when I find that a knife's sticking out of my side
I'll pull it out without questioning why
- Francis Forever
I don't know what to do without you
I don't know where to put my hands
I've been trying to lay my head down
I'm writing this at 3am
I don't need the world to see
that I've been the best I can be, but
I don't think I could stand to be
- Geyser
You're my number one
You're the one I want
And you've turned down
Every hand that has beckoned me to come
You're my number one
You're the one I want
And I've turned down every hand
That has beckoned me to come
- Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart
There's nobody better than you
It took me a while till I knew
But you knew from the start it was us, didn't you?
It just took me a while till I knew
Now I lay as I study a blank wall
Would you spare me your voice if I call?
'Cause you waited and watered my heart till it grew
You just grew a little smarter too
- Happy
Happy came to visit me, he bought cookies on the way
I poured him tea and he told me it'll all be okay
Well I told him I'd do anything to have him stay with me
So he laid me down, and I felt Happy come inside of me
He laid me down, and I felt happy
Oh if you're going, take the train
So I can hear it rumble, one last rumble
And when you go, take this heart
- Humpty
I'll live in the bathtub
It's cool and clean
It's smooth and it's steady
It's all that I need
I broke our belongings
They're all on the floor
The room is now empty
- I Bet on Losing Dogs
My baby, my baby
You're my baby, say it to me
Baby, my baby
Tell your baby that I'm your baby
I bet on losing dogs
I know they're losing and I pay for my place
By the ring
Where I'll be looking in their eyes when they're down
- I Don't Smoke
I don't smoke
Except for when I'm missing you
To remember your mouth, how it
Tasted true
And I don't smoke
Except for after I've held you, baby
Being with you
Makes the flame burn good
- i want you
I want you
I hold one card
That I can't use
But I want you
You're coming back
And it's the end of the world
We're starting over
- I Will
I will take good care of you
I will take good care of you
Everything you feel is good
If you would only let you
I will wash your hair at night
And dry it off with care
I will see your body bare
And still I will live here
- Jobless Monday
It's a windy afternoon
Can't afford to buy my food
Or the drive I need to go
Further than they said I'd go
He only loves me when
There's a means he means to end
Oh I miss when we first met
He didn't know me yet
- Last Words of a Shooting Star
All of this turbulence wasn't forecasted
Apologies from the intercom
And I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy
They'll think of me kindly
When they come for my things
They'll never know how I'd stared at the dark in that room
With no thoughts
Like a blood-sniffing shark
- Liquid Smooth
I'm beautiful, I know cause it's the season
But what am I to do with all this beauty?
Biology, I am an organism, I'm chemical
That's all, that is all
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
And feel my skin is plump and full of life
I'm in my prime
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
- Nobody
My God, I'm so lonely
So I open the window
To hear sounds of people
To hear sounds of people
Venus, planet of love
Was destroyed by global warming
Did its people want too much, too?
Did its people want too much?
- Once More to See You
In the rearview mirror
I saw the setting sun on your neck
And felt the taste of you bubble up inside me
But with everybody watching us
Our every move
We do have reputations
We keep it secret
Won't let them have it
- Pearl Diver
Treasure hunter you are dead, the light of a world is fading
You cannot see the other end, your body's lost all feeling
Those creatures of your working mind, don't fear them or their hunger
Forgive the sea, follow the tide, with the monsters on your shoulder
Pearl diver
Dive, dive deeper
Pearl diver
- Real Men
Real men don't need other people
And real men suck it in
Real men don't flinch or bleed in public
Oh, I think I'm a real man.
Little boys cry and look around for comfort
And always get what they want
Little boys see toys and say, "I can take that!"
- Shame
It feels so good
It feels so good
And right outside the door nobody knows
They're right outside the door and they don't know how it
Feels so good
It feels so good
I never was very good
- Texas Reznikoff
t's beautiful out today
i wish you could take me upstate
to the little place you would tell me about
when you'd sense that I'd want to escape
texas is a land-locked state
it's a little bit far away
from the water, from the home that I've wanted to make
- Thursday Girl
Glory, glory, glory to the night that shows me what I am
As I go to the party on my knees
Saying take it all please
And tell me no
Tell me no, tell me no
Tell me no
Somebody please
Tell me no, tell me no
- Townie
There's a party and we're all going
And we're all growing up
Somebody's driving and he will be drinking
And no one's going back
Cause we've tried hungry and we've tried full and
Nothing seems enough
So tonight, tonight
The boys are gonna go for
- Washing Machine Heart
Toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart
Baby, bang it up inside
I'm not wearing my usual lipstick
I thought maybe we would kiss tonight
Baby will you kiss me already and
Toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart?
Baby, bang it up inside
- Wife
You're home, you're home, you're home to me
So leave me, leave me, leave me a map
I'm here at my cliff looking down
I cannot bear you a son
But I will try
For if I am not yours, what am I?
I daydream I'd give one a name of my own
- Your Best American Girl
If I could, I'd be a little spoon
And kiss your fingers forever more
But big spoon, you have so much to do
And I have nothing ahead of me
You're the sun, you've never seen the night
But you hear its song from the morning birds
But I'm not the moon, I'm not even a star