- Arithmetic On The Frontier
We all have come close
But do we ever die?
The ones who seem to get so far
Don't say that word
So it's second-hand
It's an inference
It's arithmetic
- Done Haunting Houses
Death is the devil's work
Love is a cheap card trick
Truth is a poor man's dream
Thought is a quicksand maze
And all my years spent cursing up the stairs
Good morning god get up, forget those bad dreams
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- Frozen Feet
There's a flock that I must tend
Where each looks the same as the next
But there's some that don't belong
And I'm smoking them out
Still I'm afraid that it might hurt
'Cause they've all been with me since birth
An assignment that I wish I had declined
- Greenville, MO
For once I think I'll try
To leave the truth untied
I know that you'll realize
This is all we have
And there's nowhere worthwhile now
If there's a cause for every window
That I jump through
- Keep Clean
We're all holding onto banisters
'Cause it's a long way
It's a long way down
And the enemy of common sense
Is a loose grip in a steep stairwell
So toss me to and fro
'Till I condemn the very scent
- Mirage
Mirage
I once met a man
With spotted skin and leopard hands
He said you were not far from here.
The edges were close,
I saw the wake a golden coast
- Orange Empire
I never knew it 'till it passed
Was always covered in a cast
I was constructed of a cloth
That couldn't last
So now I'm barely blood and flesh
Just an anatomic sketch
Coming to find this may be as solid as we get
- Pioneers
How did it get away from me?
How did it get away from me?
What did it say when I lost my way
Just to make sure that I had something to say?
Enough with the ceremony
Our hands have looked like that for years
There's nothing new about it
- Spare Key
I'm shrugging off the cold
Just to be polite
I'm living like a prophet
With stage fright
I'm falling into place
But still the timing's not right
Yeah that's a fire
- The Clouds
I’ve been waiting on a response for days.
There’s been a complication
It seems your heart needed a break
From pumping the blood through your veins,
and keeping the oxygen okay.
I still see your face in the day.
And I see your eyes in the bottle that was way too tall
I finished it just to see if we could talk.
- Through Empty Vessels
I've been clearing the air
Of every connection we had lost
What a criminal thought
That you gave so much room to multiply
And it left you to soak in conversations
With a door you could not close
And I was intertwined for the first time
- Turning Lane
You thought you could free the slaves
By filling out the proper paperwork
'Till you turned out all your pockets
And realized they never were
You pulled your kids out of the public school
And resigned to your irreverence
And you set a torch to the old duck blind
- Varuna
Our home is a jagged mouth,
streaming out pleas to the dead
We are misshapen teeth
uprooting ourselves
But we could have spent our time
burying strangers instead
We would've settled in
- vinedresser
I clawed through the print and found you
Living between parentheses
Venturing out in springtime
To make sure the phone was off the hook
You said "I guess it's all prefigured
We're living out some old typology"
Like ribbons of rolling water