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My feet pull on
From light to dawn
My empty belly in my body aches
Ain't hard to take
Next to the weight I carry in my chest
A pound of flesh
Could never tip the scale that I've made
I should have stayed but I was never was

It's hard to keep the rainclouds out
When the windows never close
The house feels like a graveyard now
Like the floorboards hide the bones

And I have lost your face
It slips between my fingers now
And all the world is gray

We were tight-knit boys,
Brothers in more than name
You would kill for me
And knew I'd do the same
And it cut me sharp hearing you'd gone away
But everything goes away
Yeah, everything goes away
But I'm gonna be here till I'm nothing but bones in the ground

The hole in the floor boards
The cot near the front door
The moon was gone from sight; the world was dark as nightmares
You took all my fears and,
You wrapped them in wonders
But there's no magic inside the moon
It's just a rock you can't reach

Baptisms
Back when I used to wander, I was always out looking for signs
But they were never there, so I'd pull 'em from the air
We all believed in something, but like you I can't say why
It's just a whisper in our ear, or a bottle for our fears

Hold me to light, let me shine
Come hold me to the floor and say it's alright

When you last left me my blood was in a jar
And you kept it on your mantelpiece
I couldn’t count on anyone to stand there behind me
And keep the dogs from dragging me off with them
While I slept you crept in and pulled the rug right out from under me
[?] you stole away and took the parts that kept me functioning

My heart will be blacker than your eyes when I’m through with you

Lately there's a bug in my head
He's singing 'bout the way that I should never have to leave my bed
My bone don't, never act their age
My back is on its way to a cast and then an early grave
But I do what I can
But I may not know the difference
'cause I grew up in a sardine can
Mmhmm

My voice never made it in time
And they hung me out to dry
My words never bother to rhyme
And I always wonder why
So now I've taken to chewing bottles
To see if I still bleed

The king has to beg for his meals

when i was just a boy still owl-eyed
i liked to drink the rain to taste the sky
i tried to count the stars while in my bed
to keep the thoughts of monsters from my head

and i believed the stars were wishes
i believed the world was good
i believed things hid in the dark

Father was drunk on the porch.
Quiet he's cleaning his guns
While we sat and watched the sun set
From the roof, drinking stolen beer,
The day I turned twelve.
Mama was losing her mind,
So we build a home in the woods
And I carved our names in the side

So we start with my father as a boy barely spoke a word of english
fell in love from a distance
he watched her working from the back fence
He learned some words and some clever turns of phrase from his father's book of poets,
she wasn't taken in that instant,
but grew impressed with his persistence.

They met each other out by moonlight,

Well, hold me against the floor
Find something to bind my hands
'cause I don't know where I have been
And I don't know what I have seen
But the puzzle is carved into me

And I know that I miss you
But I don't even know your name

I've got no need for open roads
'Cause all I own fits on my back
I see the world from rusted trains
And always know I won't be back

'Cause all my life is wrapped up in today
No past or future here
If I find my name's no good

I can hear the car
As it rumbles up the driveway
But I'm too scared to look,
So I curl up beneath the window
And I pray they won't find me
And I pray that I'll keep still

I see your face in the glass

Holy Branches

When you were young
you'd bite your tongue
calm, always did what you were told
never ran your mouth
lived life on tiptoes
only felt peace if by yourself

Well, I left my home on hollow bones
While you were curled and sleeping
And I wandered far beneath a concrete star
And slept along the highways

But even though I am lost all the time
I've got hooks in my sides that you left there
But you're not the same, you died along the way

grandma's singing in the bedroom
it's a near forgotten lullaby
that she used to sing when I wasn't well
father's outside chopping firewood
like he did when he'd been drinking
or when he and mom were at it again

grandpa's rocking chair is rocking

You, beneath the bed, I know all your tricks
I've seen you watching
I've seen you drifting away
Seen you falling along
I've seen you disappear

There ain't a cloud in sight
Look through the snow and the branches

So it starts with some blood and a picture frame
You got our teeths, got our mouths
Got our hearts, got our backbones
"Broken legs never wander" is what I heard you say
Smash the knees, break the feet
Break the feet, smash the toes in

String 'em up, cut 'em down, oh, it's all the same

I was just a boy
My father seemed a mountain then
With a voice that could shake the seas
My mother's ghost hung across his shoulders
And he said she was still watching over me

My brother was home
Just returned on army leave

I wanna write some music
I wanna write a book
I wanna make some movies
I wanna learn to cook

I wanna fall in love
I want a lot of kids
I wanna see the stars at night

As the warmth of the sun leaves my back
And these bruise colored skies turn to black
None of these faces look the same
And not a one knows my name

Oh, I am a long way from home

This road is now my only friend

As Mother Nature sings Her requiem
The machines all gather around and sing along
We hang from kites until the tide comes in
It'll be another week before we know what's wrong

We watch the trees turn into skeletons
As the leaves float to the ground and fill the cracks
They'll try to show us the improvements then

I've got a little animal inside me.
(I wake up in the minute to minute.)
I'm dancing on a world that's made of plastic.
(Strike a match on my spine and I don't get it.)
The buckets full of bones and the skin is made of plastic
But I painted it silver so they can look like all the others.
The birds are smoking cigarettes, their aim is in reverse.
My perpetual head is screwed on wrong and never does it's job.

The rain clouds chased me down
And now I hang from a thread
Could you put down the scissors?

It's time I pull the plug
But I never learn
And I never listen

I wish I had more nice things to say
But I was raised not to lie
I'm either honest, or I'm an optimist
But never both at the same time

And everyone knows the deal
Gotta take what you can
'cause anything I don't steal

The thieves are relentless
Drop your cards and pay the price
Pay the price
Pay the price

The toll is too demanding
So kill the lights, and say goodnight
Say goodnight

all the trees stood like skeletons
silhouettes of spilled ink
and the snows fell in sheets and got wrapped around our feet
we built the fire evermore with winter beating at the door

brother's eyes were getting heavier
his bony hands cold and white
and I could hear his ragged breathing like the wind along a knife

I tied your shoes while you
Sat and watched the rain
Hands folded across your lap and the dull
Look of peace across your face
Mom down the hall, Bible pressed to her chest
When she swore the Devil hides in everything
And her room was the only safe haven left

I fell asleep in the chair by the fireplace
And I woke up in the kitchen sink
With an umbrella full of holes overtop my head and
I fell asleep on the table with your picture in hand
And I woke up in the cupboard
With some scrapes on my arms and a mouthful of hell

Chains are rattling in the attic again

Well, the world might cut you down again
But you know the way back home
And your best might not be good enough
But just know you're not alone
And if you slip and lose your way again
Well, I'll know that you will be all right
You still gotta try

We were sun-burned and shoeless kids
It was the dead of July
We were skippin' stones in the failing light
I smelled the fire place
Although we were miles away
We were infinite
There was no time in those days

I watched the sun across the furniture,
And I didn’t flinch when it all got burned away
And while in the middle of those fires,
I always find myself with nothing much to say
And I used to wish my boy would travel,
Then my genetic line, it wouldn’t end with me
But in the light of all that’s built me,
I see that some dead ends are probably for the best

I heard you tellin' lies
I heard you say you weren't born of our blood
I know we're the crooked kind
But you're crooked too, boy, and it shows

Some get dealt simple hands
Some walk the common paths, all nice and worn
But all folks are damaged goods

I saw your daughter yesterday
As I was idle on the porch
She slept-walked from your house down the walkway
As though she'd done it all before
And the moon was out

And in her gown beside the riverbed
She got down on her knees

Open eyes adjusting to the dark
The growlin' of machinery
Can't say if it's night or day
And you know, somewhere in there you know
There will be a price to pay 'til all this goes away

So we walk the empty halls, the dirty walls
We smear our names in them

There ain't no moon tonight
It's hard for me to see
But if I can catch a glimpse of you
It helps me feel at ease
It helps me sleep

All my life I've watched you dance along
To music that I can't hear

Well, as a child I mostly spoke inside my head
I had conversations with the clouds, the dogs, the dead
And they thought my broken, that my tongue was coated lead
But I just couldn't make my words make sense to them
If you only listen with your ears... I can't get in

And I spent my evenings pullin' stars out of the sky
And I'd arrange them on the lawn where I would lie

My wisdom teeth still stab my cheek
And I'm always sucking aspirin
The life I stole is full of holes
And my pants don't fit me right
My dreams are old and faded and
My head feels thick and uselessWe're on the road to nowhere
But we won't arrive tonight
so let's go home

the ghost, inside my head, it never sleeps
it just rearranges thoughts and leaves me numb for weeks
but I'm okay; yeah, I feel fine
because I know there's more than one way to lose my mind
to lose my mind
to lose my mind
to lose my mind
the crows are at the fence

I fall asleep in a comforting mess
The room is yellow and the windows the deadest white
I smell the ghost of your dinner
And the space heater is glowing like a miniature gate to hell
I hear the dogs as I dress myself
Open a letter on the back of a paper plate
It tells me that I'm gone now
And I'm sorry if I don't make it back

Show your hands
If you need a new coat of paint
If your bones are now heavy things
Like anchors hidden somewhere 'neath your skin

Or if your head's just an empty box
If your heart has become spare parts
If your days are now just something you must bear

Покинул сон, поэтому я поперхнулся солнцем
И все дни смазались в один.
А всё то, чего я не сделал, теребит мне душу.

Простыни треплются на старой бельевой верёвке,
Подобно ряду пленных приведений над высохшей травой.
Не много было сделано, но всё же мы сделали всё, что могли.
Добро пожаловать домой! (до-о-мо-ой, до-о-мо-ой, до-о-мо-ой...)

Welcome Home* (оригинал Radical Face)
Добро пожаловать домой!

Sleep don't visit, so I choke on sun
Покинул сон, поэтому я поперхнулся солнцем
And the days blur into one
И все дни смазались в один.
And the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done

Sleep don't visit, so I choke on sun
And the days blur into one
And the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done

Sheets are swaying from an old clothesline
Like a row of captured ghosts over old dead grass
Was never much but we made the most
Welcome home (ho-o-ome, ho-o-ome, ho-o-ome...)

Familiar ground's a distant thing
When you travel vague and crooked roads
And the sun's a scab on vacant skies
Now we always hope we're still alone

There's too much time for idle minds
Imagination's armed with hooks and knives
We count our fears to pass the time

I see the winter, she's crawling up the lawn
I feel her breathing beneath my palms

She tears the trees down while curses roll from her tongue
Got eyes like anvils and storms for lungs

Hiding in our house, sunburn in his mouth,
Summer's in our basement now

Sleep don't visit, so I choke on sun, and the days blur into one
And the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done

Sheets are swaying from an old clothesline
Like a row of captured ghosts over old dead grass
Was never much, but we've made the most
Welcome home