- Creep
When you were here before,
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so fuckin' special
- Junior Dad
Would you come to me
If I was half drowning
An arm above the last wave
Would you come to me
Would you pull me up
Would the effort really hurt you
The window broke the silence of the matches
The smoke effortlessly floating
- Plainsong
"I think it's dark and it looks like rain," you said
"And the wind is blowing like it's the end of the world," you said "And it's so cold it's like the cold if you were dead," and then you smiled for a second.
"I think I'm old and I'm feeling the pain," you said,
"And it's all running out like it's the end of the world," you said "And it's so cold it's like the cold if you were dead," and then you smiled for a second.
Sometimes you make me feel like I'm living at the edge of the world, "It's just the way I smile," you said
- Postcard
found you casting deep blue shadows. you said you lost the baby. you showed me your hands. you left the car on the side of the road after the radiator hose was shot. we were 3,000 miles away from home. i found you sitting in a stranger's house. you told me about the first time your mother's boyfriend raped you and then you told me about all of the times after. you said you needed to go see your father but your father was dead. you said the pills weren't working. you still hated me no matter how many you took.
- Under God's Heaven
not addiction but the bliss of denial. dream of needles and teenage pussy. dream of waking up. dream of being alive. there are the reasons we make promises and then there's the joy that comes with breaking them. i know about this from my first marriage. how can you not believe in progress? didn't it cure your father's cancer? didn't it stop his drinking? his suicide was unexpected but these things happen. you sit there wishing it was warmer or that it was cooler. that there was sunlight or rain. the truth escapes you. we're too much alike in the end.