it's a heartbreak even situation. nothing lost and nothing gained. so i'm 10 years old again. standing in the backyard waving at a train. . i feel you make love to me slightly.
Life is a be movie. It's stupid and it's strange. A directionless story. And the dialogue is lame. But in the he said she said. Sometimes there's some poetry.
Hold me down. I am floating away. Into the overcast skies. Over my home town. On election day. . What is it about Birmingham?. What is it about Buffalo?.
I bet you're wondering. If you woke up today. Just to learn why the caged bird sings. I bet you're wondering if the goddesses are all crazy. Or just keeping it interesting.
Me and all the kids from the neighborhood. We'd play out in the street all summer long.. Rule was we had to go home at night,. When the street lights came on..
hour follows hour. like water follows water. everything is governed by the rule. of one thing leads to another. you can't really place blame. 'cause blame is much too messy.
You could always hear the rub squeaking. Of those two tree limbs. 'Til one day one of them came down. Taken down by the wind. But on the one that's still there.
two years ago. before we felt so familiar. and before I could remember your last name. I remember now. how our bright spring green deepened. with the heat as the seasons changed.
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night. Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall. She sees the bartender in a pool of blood. Cries out, "My God, they killed them all".
Rain falling around me. Lookin' down at a worm. With a long way to go. And the traffic was hissing by. And I was homesick. And I was high. . I was surrounded by a language.
I know this bar. With a jukebox full of medicine. And Christmas lights blinking. Around a clouded mirror. . It's not that far. From old voelkers bowling alley.
You think I wouldn't have him. Unless I could have him by the balls. You think I just dish it out. You don't think I take it at all. You think I am stronger.
It seems like you just started noticing. How noticeably bad things really are. And then you walk past this couple arguing. In a rolled up window parked car.
I'm invincible. So are you. We do all the things. They say we can't do. We walk around. In the middle of the night. And if it's too far to walk. We just hitch a ride.
Standing like John Wayne. She is full framed. She is center stage. And my imagination is. Rattling in its cage. I didn't really notice. When everything else disappeared.
[Repeat: x4]. If you're not. . If you're not getting happier, as you get older. Then you're fuckin' up.. . [Repeat: x4]. If you're not. . If you're not aware that what you put out.
imagine that i am onstage. under a watchtower of punishing light. and in the haze is your face bathed in shadow. and what's beyond you is hidden from sight.
from the depth of the pacific. to the height of everest. and still the world is smoother. than a shiny ball-bearing. so i take a few steps back. and put on a wider lens.
I'm imagining your frame. Every angle and every plane. I'm imagining your smell. The one that mingled with mine. . Once upon a time thoughts of you. Are picketing my brain.
I got pulled over in west Texes. So they could look inside my car. He said are you an American citizen. I said. Yes sir. So far. They made sure I wasn't smuggling.