Good lovers will always rise With the sun in their eyes Slowly adjust to the light And noise in the street It’s what makes us alive Stumble into hallways blind The wreckage of sleep in our eyes Wipe off the dust and the lies There are some infections that keep us alive All songs are cliches I’m aware of the price Of borrowing words And white noise [...]
January 1, 2009
They come in under the radar, following tall orders To the roof on wires from wicked wire birds They’re examining my file in a hallowed house of cards In distant governmental huddles And I’ve seen them shine their weapons, but I refuse to change I’ve seen them shine their weapons, but I refuse to change They come in under the radar, [...]
January 1, 2009
We stand in the warm shade Long after the fall of man and the Berlin wall We should speak in morse code of course Still, how can we be sure? That all secrets will remain In haunted gardens and in painted caves Now that I am head of church and state All excavations simply have to wait We stand in the warm shade Long [...]
January 1, 2009
Jumped in to swim with morning tea leaves They whispered steam Climbed out to dry on your magazine Your glossy altarpiece Everyone is selling something Don’t believe me, don’t believe me Never spending, never lending out Their spare change, their spare change Tunneled and bored deep into your handbag The smallest thief Nail files and armies of indentured keys Sharper than sharks teeth Chorus I don’t mind all [...]
January 1, 2009