Without his body

Naked and bare

Quiet and obviously not there

I am that naked thing swimming in air

Why does that mean anything?

Why do you stare?

Lean on your table

Ask what you want of me

I am unable

Cry with me cry with me

Within this body

Confuse

Confuse my home for a refuge

I don’t wanna be scared of

Anybody coming in

I don’t wanna lock my door anymore

Hand me that cable

Plug into anything

I am unstable

Rock and sing rock and sing

Forgotten eyes are the ones which we lose

Forgotten hands are the ones which we choose

To let go of, but it is no less a bruise

On the collective arm keeping us high and gone

Forgotten dance is the one left at birth

Forgotten plants in the fossils of earth

And they’ve long passed but they are no less the dirt

Of the common soil keeping us dry and warm

The wound has no direction

Everybody needs a home and deserves protection

Hollow-eyed on Eddie street no sirens to hear

Just trash and soiled needles clawing the veneer

And no crying but it is no less a tear

On the common cheek with which we smile 

Hollow-eyed on Eddie, is it they or is it I

Is it me who is more hollow as I’m quickly passing by?

And the poison is killing them, but then so am I

As I turn away

The wound has no direction

Everybody needs a home and deserves protection

Forgotten tongue is the language of love

Forgotten tongue is the language of love

Forgotten tongue is the language of love

Forgotten tongue

What a fool familiar dream

I wake up laughing and running

From the boy, crying and coming

Cause the toy in my hand is real

What a tomb we’re building here

In the sphere, that’s where we all die

In the eye, that’s where I’m living

The toy in my hand is real

In the room her warm hands play

On my breast, what is she singing

The form ringing and ringing

Cause the toy in my hand is real

The toy in my hand is real

Charcoal womb, the jet planes purr

And the croon, distant as paper

Children burn, faceless vapor

Cause the toy

In my hand is real, yes the toy

In my hand is real

You somehow let me down

Both hands and a gentle mouth

You could not take me through

New plans or tell me who

New friends, I can make some too

I know

You somehow took me in

Both arms, my marked up skin

Two hands, the places you had been

I needed

And the more that we try

To figure through the answers

To repeat ourselves

To deny, deny

Now you call my bluff a cliff

And it gets so rough

Stoneface in the light, the air 

And the jagged fight

Cold air, the wisdom of the night

Between us

And the more that we try

To figure through the answers

To repeat ourselves

To deny, deny

To deny, deny, deny

Somehow we exist

in the folds, and I will kiss

both hands, the mystery before us

she is reaching

but I could not take you through new plans

or tell you who, new friends

you can make some too

I know

Dropped call

Mid fall

Only you can know for now

Island

Demons

Only you can hold them down

Those girls might hear me crying

The one, the only jealousy I have is dying 

With all along your arms around me

Try

Island

Demons

Zoë you come over now

Cause those girls

keep telling me things

and only you can hold them down

Those girls might hear me crying

The one, the only jealousy I have is dying 

With all along your arms around me

Try

Those girls might hear me cry

The one, the only jealousy I have is dying

With all along your arms around me

Try

Please wake up

Please wake up

Touch my skin and

tell me where you’ve been

you brought me in

you brought me in

so touch my skin and

tell me where you’ve been

you showed me how

to keep myself from burning out

they found you in the morning

the blood was on your shoulders

they found you at the corner

your head was doubled over

and the blood of the man

who killed my mother with his hands

is in me, it’s in me in my veins

Please wake up

Please wake up

Touch my skin and

tell me where you’ve been

you brought me in

my best friend

so touch my skin and

tell me where you’ve been

you showed me how

to hold my sin

and kiss the bad ways I have been

they found you in the morning

the blood was on your shoulders

they found you at the corner

your head was doubled over

and the blood of the man

who’s killing our mother with his hands

is in me, it’s in me in my veins

it’s in me, it’s in me in my veins

It’s not the energy reeling

Nor the lines in your face

Nor the clouds on the ceiling

Nor the clouds in space

It’s not the phone on the table

Nor the bed in the earth

Nor the bed in the stable

Nor your stable words

It's not the formless being

Nor the cry in the air

Nor the boy I’m seeing

With her long black hair

It’s not the open weaving

Nor the furnace glow

Nor the blood of you bleeding

As you try to let go

It’s not the room

Not beginning

Not the crowd

Not winning

Not the planet

Not spinning

Not a rouse

Not heat

Not the fire lapping up the creek

Not food

Not to eat

Not the meat of your thigh

Nor your spine tattoo

Nor your shimmery eye

Nor the wet of the dew

It’s not the warm illusion

Nor the crack in the plate

Nor the breath of confusion

Nor the starkness of slate

It’s not the room

Not beginning

Not the crowd

Not winning

Not the planet

Not spinning

Not a rouse

Not heat

Not the fire lapping up the creek

Not food

Not to eat

Not what you really wanted

Nor the mess in your purse

Nor the bed that is haunted 

with a blanket of thirst

It’s not the hunger revealing

Nor the ricochet in the cave

Nor the hand that is healing

Nor the nameless grave

It’s not the room

Not beginning

Not the crowd

Not winning

Not the planet

Not spinning

Not a rouse

Not heat

Not the fire lapping up the creek

Not food

Not to eat

Not to die

Not dying

Not to laugh

Not lying

Not the vacant wilderness vying

Not the room

Not beginning

Not the crowd

Not winning

Not the planet

Not spinning

Hello to the morning moon

Woke up as you left the room

Pillow still warm

Scent like meadow grass

Has the feeling come to pass?

Has the feeling come to stay?

What can we say

Wishing you would hang around

Living on the water front

Witnessing the gameless hunt

Mermaids don’t kill

That’s the way they sing so fine

Now your lips are on the line

Now there is a broken tongue

Met you so young

Felt so frozen

How you seem to follow through

On everything you yearn for

Steps so fair

So much certainty

Now as far as we can see

The water’s getting deeper

My safe keeper

The wolf is howling for me

Oooooooooooooo

When she holds me in her jaw

All my blood dripping

Will I be free

To cease gripping?

Finally laying on the ground

Open hands empty

I’ll return back again

If she’ll let me

Oooooooooooooo

Move along through Santa Fe

And make a new beginning

What’s that you were starting to say

Or have you forgotten?

Because the unlit moon would rather hide

And be replaced by the mystery of the stars

Because in your room we gather

To be replaced by the mystery of the heart

Pull on your new wool coat

Try to remember the words you once wrote

The canyons that catch in your throat

The fault lines that carry and cradle the river

Because the unlit moon would rather hide

And be replaced by the mystery of the stars

Because in your room we gather

To be replaced by the mystery of the heart

Because the unlit moon would rather hide

And be replaced by the mystery of the stars

Because in your room we gather

To be replaced by the mystery of the heart

To be replaced by the mystery

Please cut my hair

Take me to the kitchen

What are the chances

You have a scissor

Maybe a pair?

It’s longer than I can even bare

You want to be alone

Use your ammunition to empty your arm

You ask me to leave you

I won’t

Not while the knife is at your throat

Annie reminds me the diamond mines are burning

I push her around, but she keeps returning

Teeth drool and bared

Make a clean incision

Hold me for ransom

Tell me I’m pretty

Tell me I’m rare

Talk to the boy in me

He’s there

We do-si-do

Swaying in the kitchen

Rocking slowly

Tell him to sound the alarm

Is he gonna keep me safe from harm?

Annie reminds me the diamond mines are burning

I push her around, but she keeps returning