- Before I Left, After I Got Back
I squint at the clouds and wait for the next bus.
If I had a dime, okay maybe a quarter,
for every awful thought, I’d buy us a house somewhere in the South.
I’d tell off your boss, maybe get you fired.
We’d never look back.
I’ve never felt better; you’ve never felt worse.
Well, so what?
I never feel better, you never feel bad.
- Birthday Cake
Let's go out tonight. I feel like picking a fight.
I feel like starting a brawl and then slipping out the back door.
Do you think that's funny? I don't think it's funny.
But our backs have been broken too many times. We've seen all their tricks and we know all their lines and it's not free, but it should be.
So we risk our necks and reputations. When we hit the ground, the needle skips.
I put a file in your birthday cake because a cheap cliche and a half-hearted
gesture is what you asked for this year. I spent a day on that damned mix tape.
I should have known that you'd have Nick Drake.
- Black and Gold
describing the view
from the center of gravity.
drunk and debauched.
you were raised on depravity.
oh, it's great, dear.
hold your face near.
you belong here.
- Middle Harbor Road
This isn’t life.
This isn’t ok.
This isn’t much more than survival.
I know the kids next door bother you.
I’ve seen you flinch at the screams and the abuse.
I know the cars at night honk at you.
I’ve seen the rings around your eyes in the morning.
- Silver Sparkler
It Comes Back To Me Like Pieces In A Dream I Cant Remember
and I Dont Think You Took A Breath Much Until September
when They Sat Me Down And Upped The Dose Of Sun
tell Us What To Do
this Isnt Only Killing You
this Isnt Only Killing You
- Sleeping In Crawlspace
No time like the past to relive.
So much I can't bring myself to forgive.
So much I can't bring myself not to feel.
I've been so stuck in this it seems real.
Hey-
Hey you.
Just a simple note to let you know where I am.
Hey-