Posts Tagged ‘SAVES THE DAY’

HOUSES & BILLBOARDS

Remember that last friday before we left for mexico?
we kissed and nothing seemed to matter like billie holiday might sing
and it rained and everything was going to be just fine-
it was like music-
and it makes me sad to know i had gotten into something
that i could not deal with
and i will sit in my room and sleep all day
and think up dreams like i am the cutest kid in school
or i could be crazy and sing about memories-
hey i remember when i sat on those steps watching the moon
chase the sky back until the world seemed like it would explode
and i could picture going up with it
it’d be just how i’d like to go and i’d sing.

JUKEBOX BREAKDOWN

If you’ve got a quarter you can stick in my neck

and I’ll sing whatever song you want for whatever mood you’re in.

Isn’t that what you expect? I can sing you to sleep.

I’ve got a mouth full of blood.

Well I’ll carry this casket if it’s what I have to do.

So bring on the dark sky and let it cover me entirely.

Isn’t that what you expect? I can sing you to sleep.

And all you want from me is a broken heart.

And I’ll run down to the river and grab five buckets of water.

Wait right where you are and I will serve you at your table.

I hope you like my restaurant and the lighting is right.

The jukebox is in the corner. My mouth is the speaker.

It plays your favorite songs and you know where the coin slot is.

Isn’t that what you expect? I can sing you to sleep.

And all you want from me is a broken heart.

ANYWHERE WITH YOU

I know i can’t come near you
every time i do
i get shaking inside and the sun in my eyes
so i’ll stay away
I’d rather be here
than anywhere with you
I’ve been dancing with your ghost
toasting note to note
so here’s to the passing of all that could be
between you and me
I’d rather be here
than anywhere with you
I know i cannot see you
even if i wanted to
because your light is the light of ten sunsets
circled by eyes burned blue and open wide
I’d rather be here
than anywhere with you
I’d rather be here
than anywhere with you

SOUND THE ALARM

I don’t know where to go

Ain’t no light along the road

stumbling under the stars above

Somehow feel someone’s stare

turn around nobody there

never knowing if I’m all alone

cause paranoia is the only friend that I know

and everybody else is gone

their eyes are burning into my heart

fall and feeling fear I can’t go on

and nobody will sound the alarm

Sit around late at night

sitting by the fireside

planning out to bury me alive

and when I’m done they all will laugh about how I died.

Cause everybody else is gone

their eyes are burning into my heart

we’ll fall and feeling fear I can’t go on

and nobody will sound the alarm

In the darkness of my mind

I hear a voice that seems to sigh

I’m going to die before I save myself

And everybody else is gone

Their eyes are burning into my heart

we’ll fall and feeling fear I can’t go on

and nobody will sound the alarm

we’ll fall and fearing fear I can’t go on

and nobody will sound the alarm

SHE

She is a dying dandelion floating on the breeze

Swirling sweetly in the evening

She is the stars glowing gorgeously

She is the sloping clouds

Forever scrolling

Unfolding

She is the sun burned blue and shadows on the moon

She is the morning dew

Dangling on leaves leaking into streams

Forever flowing

Unfolding

No one can say her name

Now she sits and sings something about my dreams

Hours go by before she looks at me

She breaks my heart

As I open my eyes to drink the melon sky

FREAKISH

As i’m talking my words slip to the floor
and they crawl through your legs and slide under the back door
rendering me freakish and dazed.
well here i am. i don’t know how to say this.
the only thing i know is awkward silence.
your eyelids close when you’re around me to shut me out.
so i’ll go walking through the streets until my heels bleed
and i’ll sing out my song in case the birds wish to sing along.
and i’ll dig a tunnel to the center of the universe.
well here i am. i don’t know how to say this.
the only thing i know is awkward silence.
your eyelids close when you’re around me to shut me out.
i’ll make my way across the frozen sea, beyond the blank horizon,
when i can forget "you and me" and get a decent night’s sleep.
well here i am. i don’t know how to say this.
the only thing i know is awkward silence.
your eyelids close when you’re around me to shut me out.
don’t shut me out.

JESSE AND MY WHETSTONE

To me, the only thing left after a while was that night
we watched documentaries up through morning and then you kicked me out.
you opened up your screen door and threw me off the porch.
it was summer then and i drove home whistling muddy waters down the pike.
and that was that: our one sweet night together.
under highway signs
I watched our love start fluttering and dissipating.
i counted all the headlights to make sure i was all right.
Now i’m wondering is it me or is it me that can’t see silver linings?
so i fucked it up. i watched you go.
i saw my hand not dialing the phone.
all i’m left to do is remember the dull room
We sat in blue stream light watching the strike of ’59.
i dreamed of wrecking my underwear.
oh can’t i touch your cheeks somewhere
under dirt filled rainy nights with my socks stuck in the mud?
please come dive in puddles with me.

AS YOUR GHOST TAKES FLIGHT

The last time that I saw you, August of ’99,

I should’ve had my hammer and a few rusty spikes

to nail you on a wall and use bottles to catch your blood

and display you for the neighbors so they know your time had come.

And I’d drink your blood and feel it dripping down my throat

as it heads for my heart.

And as your body sags and the stench rises in vain,

the people on the street are collecting in dismay.

Before your eyes your head lifts towards the sky

and that’s the last thing they’ll remember of you.

And I’d drink your blood and feel it dripping down my throat

as it heads for my heart.

You’ve become a ghost.

You’re floating somewhere in between

the waking world and a landscape of dreams.

Well it’s nothing but dying.

You’ve got a grenade stuck in your teeth and you’re pulling at the pin.

You’re an illusion, just a shadow flickering underneath the sun.

And I’d drink your blood and feel it dripping down my throat

as it heads for my heart.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE THE MOST?

Do you know what I love the most?

Even suburbs would be o.k.

With you between my sheets

And the breeze in the window

‘Cause we will go there and ignore all our neighbors

I think I’ll bring you breakfast and play Johnny Cash on the stereo

I’ll sit in the lazy chair all day remembering the things you do

So when you come home

I’ll jump up to kiss you and it will knock you back

You’ll fall over our TV set

I’ll pick you up and dust you off

Oh, Baby let’s give it a go

I’ll kiss your thighs to make you feel all right

And then I’ll get closer to taste a little sweat

Oh I think I’m rearing to go

You’re gonna get knocked out and tied up in my trunk

In ten years we’ll go to Ohio and steal Cadillac’s for a living.