How could you think your work is done? My skull is soft My mouth a gun I gambled my youth And gathered my pride To launch in a lantern on the river where
I heard a dynasty fall (you heard a cocoon) I'm financing walls over walls (you live in one room) I'm unearthing stucco and jade I'm a broken door Looking
Please excuse the mess I've finished breaking things shattered lights will wash you home and when you come home, bring novocaine when you come home,
Let's not fight again I'm leaving soon I'm on the plane 10,000 feet above everything I'm taking flight from you. I know my debt I'm made of you I borrowed
While the Islanders run savage from the sticky coffee sun my seeds are at a closing - we see different heavens and I'm a traveler in this place - my
I wade out in the high tide on a gold beach over-loved it's the safest way to care drenched in permanent goodwill I wade out while she sleeps with
Life after high school was a canyon ten miles wide and 20 songs long I trekked the whole thing in a troop some starved some bled none ever recouped when
Set to the soundtrack of cotton and down Tucked into town like lilacs In a tent In my room With you Held in blue like so much bundled carbon All my
Hard to believe seven years went by this fast hard to believe all my friends are gone at last. hard to believe I built myself a lousy home a pirate ship
