matthew please do not regret 

with your silk in my hand

and your heart in my sweat

as you’re lighting the end of my last cigarette

i will warm you

warm you


these things that lonely ones do 

baby that's what i’m here for i’ll take care and make all your 

wishes come true, if you want to

Do you want to?


don’t take me for a fool

there’s a woman inside of me

there’s one inside of you too


there is a meeting in my thighs

where in thunder and lightning, men are baptized

In their anger and fighting, their deceit and lies

i’ve got lips like sugar

lips like sugar


holding my wrists to the bed

he was thrusting and moaning, and pressing his head to my temple 

his head was a temple i said

you’ve got lips like sugar

lips like sugar


don’t take me for a fool

there’s a woman inside of me

there’s one inside of you too

and she don’t always do pretty things


she was a shark smile in a yellow van

she came around and i stole her glance in my youth, a vampire

evelyn shown quiet as roses sting


it came over me at a bad time, but who wouldn’t ride on a moonlight line?

i had her in my eye, 85 down the road of a dead end gleam


she said woo

baby take me

i said woo 

baby take me too


it came over her at a bad time, riding through Winona down the dotted line

she held us, gunning out 90 miles down the road of a dead end dream

she looked over with her part smile, caught up in the twinkle it could take awhile

and the money pile on the dashboard, fluttering


as she said woo

baby take me

i said woo

baby take me too


evelyn’s kiss was oxygen, 

i leaned over to take it in as we went howling through the edge of south des moines 

it came over me at a bad time, she burned over the double line and she impaled as i reached my hand for the guard rail, the guard rail, the guard rail 


she said woo

baby, take me

i said woo

baby take me too

flight is a beautiful word

flowered with consonance

that’s what i'll followed 

forever


i am a beautiful bird

fluttered and floating

swollen and hollowed

for heaven


do what you want with me

lost in your captivity

learning capacity

for make believing everything

is really hanging on 


slipping away from the party

totally vacant

everyone gone from their bodies


you were outside kissing another

she was a friend of mine

i was surprised to discover


i wrapped my arms around her

she was a beautiful figure

there are no enemies

we’re make believing everything

is really hanging on


there is a castle that stands 

high in the canyon

the blue knights are crying together


a Child is holding my hand

she is directing, the red crystal pine with a feather


do what you want with me

lost in your captivity

learning capacity

for make believing everything

is really hanging on

really hanging on

really hanging on

He followed me home again

and his eyes were watering

his eyes were watering like a child


i made believe for him

that my blood was dripping, 

my blood was dripping into his mouth


screaming

screaming


he cut off my oxygen

and my eyes were watering 

as he tore into my skin 

like a lion


i knew it was poison

as he filled me to the brim 

my blood was dripping

like a lamb


screaming

screaming

screaming


leave your bedroom light on

i live to watch you undress

and you know that i’m there

as you soak in my stare with your right arm


come to me

come to me

come

come 

to me


he brought her in to get out to get out

he kissed her skin to get off to get off


you can wake up now momma 

from your protective coma

when you wake up you wake up


you won’t recognize your house

you won’t recognize your house

will you recognize the

iris of the body?

you won’t recognize your house

you won’t recognize your house

will you recognize the

iris of the body?

you won’t recognize your house

you won’t recognize your house

will you recognize the

iris of the body?


Mercury, creeping on the sea

how she wails, flails her arms and weeps

accumulation of debris


lips apart flapping as a lark

for in the dark there is release


every familiarity scarce as the great white shark


O to build walls with golden gills

spike in hand high above the sand

to kill the sanctuary

every mile that is owned only stands still by the grace of the stone


(break)


look daughter and owl

listen to her howl

i howled when you were born through me

and you’re alive with a breath you can’t see all by the grace of this dream


you have a mythological beauty

you have the eye of someone i have seen

outside of ordinary situations

even outside of dreams


you lie in bed at night and watch the lines of headlights through your screen

there is a child inside you who is trying

to raise the child in me


if you wanna leave

you just have to say

you’re all caught up inside

but you know the way


you cut the flesh of your left thumb

using your boyfriend's knife

seventeen you took his come

and you gave birth to your first life


you gave andrew a family who

you thought could love and take better care

i have an older brother i don't know

he could be anywhere


if you wanna leave

you just have to say

you’re all caught up inside

but you know the way

you’re all caught up inside

but you know the way


rented a house in niswah, minnesota,

shrapnel, and oil cans, rhubarb in the yard

i built a ladder out of metal pieces 

father was working hard


standing beneath the oak tree by the front door

you were inside baking bread

sister came out and put her arms around me

blood gushing from my head

you held me in the backseat with a dishrag

soaking up blood with your eye

I was just 5 and you were 27 praying don't let my baby die


if you wanna leave

you just have to say

you’re all caught up inside

but you know the way

you’re all caught up inside

but you know the way


so much more

to live your life

to walk the floor

to say goodnight 

to leave your light on

do you leave you light on?


you’re all caught up inside

but you know the way 

(in the mirror are closer than they appear)


old volcanoes melting

love is overwhelming 

letting your insides out


blind altercation

open invitation

breaking your guard down


no ordinary measurement


you turn your own light on

you turn your own light on inside of me

closer the farther you’ve gone

stronger the harder you fall in front of me


walking through your garden 

pulling up the garlic

getting our hands dirty


kissing on the vampires

kissing on the werewolves

we have no enemies


no ordinary measurement


you turn your own light on

you turn your own light on inside of me

closer the farther you’ve gone

stronger the harder you fall in front of me

just like that she is

i mean

we are, we are gone for good

for closing my eye

too soon

missed the room

old magpie

it just passed me through


oh when it gets you down

when you get that notion

any way you walk around

anywhere that you are going

if you ever wanna come back

you know my arms are always open 


just like how it used to be

haley

kicking around burying letters we wrote

wondering what yours might have said to me

mine went

there are the geese

over the trail

we have the open road


oh when it gets you down

when you get that notion

any way you walk around

anywhere that you are going

if you ever wanna come back

you know my arms are always open 


just like that he’s holding my hand

redirect, rearrange, bringing the moon to land

oh when it gets you down

when you get that notion

if you ever wanna come back

you know my arms are always open 

burn up with the water 

floods around the plains

the planets in a rose

who knows what they contain

and my brain is like an orchestra

playing on insane

will you love me like you loved me

in the january rain


mom and dad and violins

somber country silence

the needle stopped the kicking

the clothes pins on the floor

and my heart is playing hide and seek

wait and count to four

will you love me like you loved me

and i’ll never ask for more


what did you tell me mary when you were there so sweet and very 

full of field and stars you carried all of time

oh and heavens when you looked at me your eyes were like machinery your hands

were making artifacts in the corner of my mind

monastery monochrome boom balloon machine and oh

diamond rings and gutter bones marching up the mountain with our 

aching planning high and smiling cheap drink dark and violent full of butterflies the violent 

tenderness the sweet asylum the clay you find is fortified we felt unfocused fade the line

the sugar rush the constant hush the pushing of the water gush

the marching band when april ran may june bugs fly and push

your old gin jacob with the tired wirey brandy look

here we go round mary in your famous story book


we overcome the sirens

we look both left and right

i can feel the numbness

accompany my plight

and i know that someday soon i’ll see you

Though now you’re out of sight

and you’ll kiss me like you used to

in the january night


what did you tell me mary when you were there so sweet and very 

full of field and stars you carried all of time

oh and heavens when you looked at me your eyes were like machinery your hands

were making artifacts in the corner of my mind

monastery monochrome boom balloon machine and oh

diamond rings and gutter bones marching up the mountain with our 

aching planning high and smiling cheap drink dark and violent full of butterflies the violent 

tenderness the sweet asylum the clay you find is fortified we felt unfocused fade the line

the sugar rush the constant hush the pushing of the water gush

the marching band when april ran may june bugs fly and push

your old gin jacob with the tired wirey brandy look

here we go round mary in your famous story book


so much coming in 

I do not know where to begin

i just follow the lead you're pulling 

and i get lost in your trail


so much more to tell

you just ask me if i’m doing well

i do not know, what the hell

i just swallow hard


in your eyes

(black diamonds)

i could die

(black diamonds)

in your eyes

(black diamonds)

i could die

i wake up in a cold sweat on the ceiling

terrified of what your love’s revealing 


so much you can see 

should i let you make a woman of me

should i let you take the mystery from me

see the inside of my room at night


sometimes you will find

things i did not know how to leave behind

i’ve been grappling with my own mind

stuck inside a jail


in your eyes

(black diamonds)

i could die

(black diamonds)

in your eyes

(black diamonds)

i could die

i wake up in a cold sweat on the ceiling

terrified of what your love’s revealing 


the cold of winter warms my blood 

and he’s hot like a bed of steel

finds his peace of mind in the rivers and the whippoorwill

i could follow close behind and then slowly disappear

but i could never leave him

i could never leave him

i could never leave him

i could never leave him


in your eyes

(black diamonds)

i could die

(black diamonds)

in your eyes

(black diamonds)

i could die

i wake up in a cold sweat on the ceiling


so much more to do

come on let me make a man out of you

i can gather you and you tell the truth

you can cry inside my arms like a baby

you can cry inside my arms like a child

you can cry 

you can cry 

cry

cry