edith sings for us sing for me now edith come go make it easy i guess you’d know it’s been hard and i’ve been speaking only a day for what i’ve done don’t tell me cancer it’s just a curse word all this pale light has gone to heaven with the dust but this would feel just more like having time to yourself sing for the time leading lightly from the window into white it’s all the same as you’ll be louder steroids and all and then i’ll remember that when it comes it comes hard all this pale light has gone to heaven with the dust but this would feel just more like having time to yourself as you feel it don’t forget where you came from as you need it don’t forget where you stand as i speak it it’s old advice oh i’ve been trying to change my ways but they won’t bend or break oh i’ve been trying to change my frame of mind but it doesn’t work sometimes all this pale light has gone to heaven with the dust but this would feel just more like having time to yourself is this the sound of the body betraying or just aging death it does not exist we will dance it does not exist don’t believe in death it does not exist

dressing up for death on her last holiday from the porch winter snow we could see i used to hear her softly singing through the leaves never amounted to anything and in the morning light hear the words and the wolves at my side oh i know if i do nothing i might regret it all someday i don’t want to live my life based on lies now i’m dressing up for death now i’m dealing with the way that it is oh we both heard as she was laid to rest don’t you cry pretend you don’t care when the procession sings when the frost has melted out from the leaves of wind and weather i’ve no thoughts on that to think never meant too much of anything i don’t want to live my life based on lies oh delta rose the dress you wore to that funeral was red and gold laced in your bows two hands tightly pressed against the eyes as you it was all i could do to keep myself here i’d tie the world to you it was all i could say just hold tight dear the clouds recede and everything will fade away i don’t want to live my life in this modern quiet city

Shackleton, I'm Solid shackleton, i’m solid only bored out of my skull and these two big wandering eyes they lie i’ve no one here at all make me out to be the one i wanted to be strong and sturdy for you not what you’ll never need sister i fear i feel i have taken it too light casting a shade from where you came those toes straight aligned i’ll be running off again on how i do care no one here can hear you over the scratching sound the string of falling leaves so why not go straight by my door now that’s all we are your arms were open shackleton, i’m spoiled oh its tainted my mind with thoughts overwhelming tapping tracks derail why would i i’ll be speaking on again oh how i do care lazy lungs i’ve gotten too tired to turn it into something so why not go straight by my door lost it long before your arms were open cautious and calm again it’s you oh it’s you carved in the palms again it’s you oh it’s you what am I to do with all this time i’ve to waste

Lady lady the ocean’s eroding the rocks and the starfish a breeze on the boat and we’ll be lost at sea lately of all my friends who better start suffering who feel real proud of the sting the blistering they’d cause an important passing as to say oh what a let down surely this upholstery would make me dream all night of the things to come when spring goes away is everything on fire i’d slur and hold my throat all to watch the whole of it burn away to ashes and a dull flickering spotlight as to say oh what a let down we’ve dissolved lady the ocean’s eroding the rocks and the starfish a breeze on the boats we’ll be lost at sea lately of all my friends who pay no mind to the passing time the troubled eyes or the trigger pulled and no difference it made as for change oh what a let down

I'm a Stone the spokes revolved i was leaning toward your side and i tumbled over i scraped off the skin from my palms and i tried to disguise all the harm done because you oh no, you don’t need to know i am a stone and all these things i will over see like what you do for me but when it’s gone it’s gone my arms are crossed my hope is lost all it turned to dust that lines the hallways of these walls divine in five mile radii from all the points of our interaction but you oh no, you don’t need to know i am a stone leave it at God speed recite how i don’t need those now twisting me so severely all things align caustic thoughts define my fiber as something callous for this machine what is there to think how in between the shapes you let your guard down but you oh no, you’ll come by my door like you did before head in hands you know the fact of it what there is and how we might still call for it this sparked stretch of ours - don’t be sad it’s over

From the City to the Sea oh daylight brought with it hard times a temperate climate and a fallen bird my sparrow my sparked fire my little sunshine gone for good curse these pretty memories i do keep inside the reddened bird’s beak how i wrote a eulogy and whispered quiet God speed be well oh misery i took a taxi fled from the city to the sea at nighttime merciful twilight my bleeding heart for a fallen bird january and i can’t quite agree how you told me everything was alright lies God must have loved you then it’s all in

how you take it and oh you take it well it’s all in how you hear it and oh you hear it clearly it’s all in how you shake it and carry along in spite though it’s hard to bear it it ends well it ends well well of course it does it ends well it ends well of course it does of course it does

Eventually you have to grow up oh sigh the future’s hard to take to add myself to the old big nothing hide and seek in memory how it hurts head on my shirt counting 1 2 3 i can feel it coming for me howard applies the razor to the tree and carves in cursive then some late advice dull inspired the words on how it works head in my shirt counting 1 2 3 i can feel this coming where do you think you’d rather be when this is all you know sully fights bring your arms the time has come sully falls shield your eyes as i shield mine oh i can feel it coming where do you think you’d rather be eventually you have to grow up

Mother Yes mother yes i’ll be your friend you came in with the morning sun somber and freezing waiting for the time yet to come but this won’t quite happen right just like the way we planned it let’s hear it telomeric utility april paid its attention mostly to the morning sun when sweet birds start singing on sadness and sorrow in sound but this won’t quite happen right just like the way we planned it the flash flood i won’t let go of you tied to me but this won’t quite happen right just like the way we planned it otherwise bear away oh i can keep it secret oh tight rope there’s trouble there’s trouble ahead our ankles around the maypole there are hard times ahead but that’s not now

A Few Things I've Learned boy your words are disparaging maybe for the miles and miles of snow comfortably calling stalling these fists are for fighting and you don’t know the things i’ve learned sell it off there is a girl you’d like to meet shy as hell and awkward in speech feeling lost on bird wings in the bleak silent stare that you give to me shouting scared i’m somewhat half asleep thinking of the time that i have burned capillaries clotting boiling these words aren’t for talking but you don’t know the things i’ve learned you’re making mistakes only you could say you’re just playing around no harm can happen no but oh you’ll know in a few years or so we’re telling lies and oh you will know that no one likes you for your personality just that you’re pretty and don’t talk much and you’ll do fine with no personality if you stay pretty and bite your tongue

Rabbits i’ve come to know i’ve got something of an infatuation with harry and this town’s spotless suburban sprawl pristine and perfectly over thought now new no more closer to desensitized in mourning of the days gone by and nighttime’s sodium lights come to find they’re here all the time tarpaulin cloths on covered walls now isolated crease marks over separation for those who know we are confined to it oh hope for all good things to come because we’ve good things to come for us rabbits to catch every one by one then sail me off even now they are still too small, still too small

Enduring a Mugging somebody loves you have you got the time for me a crashing arrival the dream that i do dream somewhere outside there waltzing the avenue and you worry worry such disdain for the day how we should have you got the time for me the dream that i do dream somebody needs you have you got the time for me and now carry your things and mine to the riverside enduring not speeding and eager for everything the flood the drowning water it might serve to set thee free how we should have you got the time for me the dream that I do dream here stand the ever enduring feet take it all take it all before you leave

Stolen Pony so long to my former life the image of ghosts we were the shape of science machines that shine it won’t be hard it won’t be hard the timing is right for change so with love i leave woe is me at the sight of sparks the saddest sounds raise your guns the war is won and in my heart oh in my heart i know it will be alright i see your eyes as you close them tight and hold two plastic leaves and become the tree but the day was mine on this stolen pony i ride