Incomprehensible, incomprehensible

Incomprehensible, let me be

Highway 17 

Cotton candy rain

Driving with my lover

We missed our plane

So we added on the hours

To see the lupine flowers

Way up past the border 

We blew through Thunder Bay

The pine trees are narrow 

A billion broken arrows

The ravens and the crows 

Robins and the sparrows

All across Ontario, static on the stereo 

Went swimming in the lake–Old Woman Bay

Traveling with some stuff I left when I was a kid

Mr. Bear and the wooden box I hid

Full of broken gadgets that mean nothing now

The only thing I’ll keep are the letters

And the photographs 

In two days it's my birthday and I’ll be 33 

That doesn’t really matter next to eternity

But I like a double number, and I like an odd one too

And everything I see from now on will be something new

I’m afraid of getting older, that’s what I’ve learned to say

Society has given me the words to think that way

The message spirals, don’t get saggy, don’t get gray

But the soft and lovely silvers are now falling on my shoulder 

My mother and my grandma, my great-grandmother too

Wrinkle like the river, sweeten like the dew

And as silver as the rainbow scales that shimmer purple blue

How can beauty that is living be anything but true? 

So let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair

Let me dance in front of people without a care

Let me be naked alone, with nobody there

With mis-matched socks and shoes and stuff stuffed in my underwear

Incomprehensible, let me be

Incomprehensible, let me be

Incomprehensible, let me be

At night when I’m sleeping

I feel you breathing 

It’s subconscious 

Subconscious 

Only ever half home, I’m 

Only ever half alone

With my subconscious 

Subconscious 

It takes so much time 

To find a line

Now I’m higher than I’ve ever been

Fire’s taking oxygen

Words are tired and tense

Words don’t make sense

Words are feathered and light

Words won’t make it 

Right 

I’m walking down the street,

humming this melody on repeat

It’s subconscious 

Subconscious

I find you in a cafe

We proceed to only half-say

So self-conscious

So self-conscious

It takes so much time 

To feel alive 

Now I’m higher than I’ve ever been

Fire’s taking oxygen

Words are tired and tense

Words don’t make sense

Words are feathered and light

Words won’t make it 

Right

Los Angeles 3:33 nothing on the stereo

Dirty tea you’re like the Mona Lisa, smiling in the half-light

Mysteriously, but seriously 

I’d follow you forever

Even without looking

You call we come together 

Even without speaking

You sang for me

You sang for me

The picture box is full and we are kissing in a fistful

Of fragments falling down

I throw them up and I watch them hit the ground like snow

Amputated dimension of the physical

Melting image without sound 

Park avenue 838 waving to my best friend

Like a soldier at the gate in tears 

Feels like it’s been ten years, has it only been two years?

Two years feels like forever

But I know you without looking

You call we come together 

Even without speaking 

You sang for me

You sang for me 

The ocean is bright and blue and it opens to you every day

It took you in when I pushed you away

It was your lover, it was your mother

And there is so much that I wish I could’ve been for you somehow

But we don’t need to talk about that now 

We’re finally in a good place meeting face to face

On an airplane, 27D 

Crossing the Grand Canyon, but I can’t see

I’m heading home from somewhere that I can’t be 

Remembering everything

I’ll follow you forever 

Even without looking 

You call we come together 

Even without speaking

I can tell what you are thinking

Even without saying

We dream our dreams together

Even without laying in the same bed

And you sang for me

You sang for me

All night all day I could go down on you

Hear you sing your pleasure

God is good

Or whatever made the mouth 

To drink the treasure

Swallow poison swallow sugar

Sometimes they taste the same

But I know your love is neither

And love is just a name

It's a thing we say for what pulls through

Till we come together 

You scratch my skin to help me feel

Cause I ask you to

We see the blood returning

Reaching through the veil

Teach me, it's you I’m learning 

Swallow poison swallow sugar

Sometimes they taste the same

But I know your love is neither

And love is just a name

It's a thing we say for what pulls through

Till we come together 

No beauty, shackle or shame 

Is banished here

In this room, your temple

Let patience reign 

And thank you for being gentle 

Swallow poison swallow sugar

Sometimes they taste the same

But I know your love is neither

And love is just a name

It's a thing we say for what pulls through

Till we come together

In the arms of the one I love

Still seeing pictures of 

Another from the future or the past

What’s lost or waiting 

Troubled mind let me rest 

My life is full, my heart is blessed

And still you put me to the test

Of losing and of gaining 

Angel come, take my hand

Hold me close, let me land

On my feet in the sand 

With the winds around me raging

I’ve been too long behind these walls

Inside this house ignoring calls

And time moves like the water falls 

Unrelenting, cascading

The trees on fire, the rivers flood

And all the banks are soaked in blood 

A mirror makes a portrait draws the shadow

And the shading 

The butterflies on the summer breeze

The wildflowers sway with ease

At the bridge of two infinities 

What’s been lost and what lies waiting

Beauty speak to me

Let me know you, let me see

Myself inside your mystery

Through the crystal cage of aging

Longing to go back again

To be someone I’ve never been

I echo and I seek to win

Mourning and celebrating 

Fastening so desperately to

Vision and to memory 

At the bridge of two infinities 

What is forming, what is fading

Deep within the center of the picture

Is the One I love

The eye behind the essence 

Still, unmovable, unchanging

There is no fear

Mind so clear mind so free

There is no time 

Round like a lime  

Destiny

There is nowhere

No table no chair 

No country

There is no face that isn’t in your face

There to see

Grandmother, my mother

Tell me about the lake again 

It’s been strange dancing at the bar, kissing in our car

Standing in the stadium

Knowing soon there’ll be no bar, no car, no stadium 

Grandmother, sleep tight

Sleep loose 

It’s alright, everything that happened, happened

So what’s the use of holding? It’s unfolding

We’re all insane

We are made of love

We are also made of pain 

Gonna turn it all in into rock and roll

My lover, I just wanna say 

I’m sorry for the way I’ve been 

Today I was lazy, I felt crazy and drained 

But on my way home, the sky broke  

It started to rain 

I saw sun through the clouds 

I saw love through the pain 

I saw sun through the clouds 

I saw love through the pain 

Gonna turn it all in into rock and roll

I’m happy with you

Why do I need to explain 

myself? poison shame

How could I have known

In that moment

What we’d turn into?

I was alone in that moment 

When I first met you

You reminded me of the river

With your eyes both green and blue

You reminded me of everything

Beautiful and true

Today I walked to the Eiffel Tower

And I stood out in the rain

It was some empty power

I could not explain

As I stood along that river

Where the lovers left their chains

It reminded me of everyone 

I had ever tried to claim 

And they say time’s the fourth dimension

They say everything lives and dies

But our love will live forever

Though today we said goodbye 

How could I have known

In that moment

What we’d turn into?

I was alone in that moment 

When I first met you