- A Hush
There was a hush inside the air
When you were lying on the stairs
Feeling the world had scattered there
Like little feathers on the air
And as the people filed away
The men in suits of black and gray
Each with his hands inside his coat
- Animal Life
Born inside the gates of the family
Hardened by a Roman machinery
Cast among the building sights
The calling wives, the shards collected.
Called out in the wake of the lottery
Hurled inside the family gathering
Mirrored beams and doglike stretch
- Black Eyes
Come down from the lion's back
Call down to the endless sleepers
Give life to the dimming days
That run in an endless stream now
In the black of the eye
In the heat of the act
Is a crack in the ice
- Breaking The Yearlings
Change
The river is blocked
The road is hot
The sky is blazing
Black smoke on the rise
The weather holds
Until it's on you
And then suddenly breaks
- Dread Sovereign
Maybe I'm lost
Maybe I'm not ready
Maybe I was not properly socialized
But when you drag me under
When you pull me over the line
That's when you really reach me
No
- Hidden Lakes
Gone from the house
to the snows
like a wandering light
you send a last balloon
to the solemn light
of the moon's eye
Over the fields
- Home Life
when you were a child,
you were a tomboy
and your mother laughed at the serious way
that you looked at her
and from your window at night
there were the star's little fires
and the armory lights
- Johnny Viola
If you could ring the sky like a bell
Even such a sound would never suffice
If you could bang the world like a drum
It would only show it was hollow inside
And your love, it slips behind a little cloud
And your eyes are veiled
Is there a medical term for a heart thats been removed?
- La Dame Et La Licorne
Something is breathing in the air
Something is moving in the water
And the winds in you are blowing
Bring back my boy
I loved him
I loved him
- Missing Islands
Effortless gulls in the wake
silver and white on the bow
as the island is broken away
from the world
Bandages pulled from the eyes
the violent surging of life
in the bloodstream of heaven and earth
- My Only Boy
My only boy, be not so blind.
Open your eyelids wide. In through your mouth, breathe soft, light…
There are no words, no hands, no eyes,
to show where a door stands wide.
In through your mouth, breathe soft, light…
Let your heart stand open,
when silence trickles down, bright,
- Near a Garden
Near a little garden flowers wild grasses
A body's in the casket
Milk is in the carton
Coffee's on the brew
And cars quietly pass
As people hear from last respects
Collective view
- Nobody
His little hook, your little eyelid
The iris dilates while the heart implodes
And when he comes in your dreaming
His mouth still denies
What your heart just knows
Oh no
Nobody would ever have known
- Palo Santo
The wind that lifts the leaves against the night
The reeds that bow and bend beneath its weight
The holy sap, its smoky light
I will not hide
The fish that swim inside the murky deep
The island shores that loom above the sea
The holy, holy melody
- Rooks
Intro : Gm - Cm - Gm - Cm - Gm - D
Gm
when the rooks were laid in piles
by the sides of the road
Cm
- Sealed
Feel the hooks in my skin
I set every one myself
And if you pull them all taut
I will turn to someone else
Was that what you asked?
Pour the wax in my mouth
And seal the place inside
- Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five
Got no reason for coming to me
and the rain running down.
There's no reason
And the same voice coming to me
like it's all slowin' down
and believe me
I was the one who let you know
I was your sorry-ever after '74-'75
- The Hunter's Star
The hunter's star
Burns brighter than all
Of the suns of the firmament
As through the sky he raged
With his hook and blade
And the world unmade
As forests bow
- The Kind
Baby, hands in your lap
You touch your wounds so much they'll never heal
I fear you'll turn your back
On just the kind of love you really need
It's just the kind
It's just the kind you need to feel
- The Snow Leopard
"the way is to climb
the way is to lie still
and let the moon do its work on your body
and then to rise
through forests and oceans of lives
and through the way of the black rocks, splitting, wide,
and flow
- Whipping Boy
If I told you once, then I told you twice
That I would have paid just about any price
Just to see him jump, just to see him laugh
I would have washed in the blood of an innocent man
Let the whipping boy ride
The boy says to the wolf, "You're gonna be my dog"
- White Waves
I won't go traveling tonight
I won't go back to the wolves, now
There's something singing in the ice
In the deepest part of the world
And a film across my eyes
As I'm watching all the waves turn white
He took me out on the tide