Lyric-a-Day.fm • Page 27

My ills are reticulate
My woes are granular
The ants weigh more than the elephants
Nothing, nothing is manageable
So, couldn't we skip the valedictories,
I can see a door there:
shut it and forget my number
'cause I'm hard, too hard to know
I don't cry when I'm sad anymore
Tears calcify in my tummy
Fears coincide with the tow
How can I ask anyone to love me
when all I do is beg to be left alone?

 

There comes a redeemer
and he slowly too fades away
There follows a wagon behind him
that's loaded with clay
and the seeds that were silent
all burst into bloom and decay
The night comes so quiet
and it's close on the heels of the day

 

ive been lying wide awake paralyzed
by the buzzing of the television

 

Mr. Serotonin Man, lend me a gram
You call yourself a friend?
I got two left feet and I'm starting to cheat
On my girlfriend again
I caught her picking her nose
As the crowd cheered for an overdose
And I don't suppose you know where this train goes
There was a party that she had to miss
Because her friend kept cutting her wrists
Hyperpoliticized sexual trysts
"Oh, I think my boyfriend's a nihilist"
I said, "Hey kids, we're all just the same
What a shame"

 

I'm sick of staying up late cause you're not here and I'm not there; no, I'm not afraid to watch you change me anymore.

 

When I was a kid I saw a light
Floating high above the trees one night
Thought it was an alien
Turned out to be just god

 

In this young night's sky there are pinhole lights.
Find the shape of a harp and an arrowhead.
Do I hear your tunes or acknowledge wounds
that I got from rubbing elbows with a sharpened edge?
But if I choose this too does it count as my move?
I can't drop my history just to become new.
Now swimming through the nothingness and the absolute
but I couldn't ask this of you.

 

So it's another day
I'll take it back
I always do

 

i too shall die of grief

 

All I ever say now is goodbye

 

But will the morning come?
For all I know we’ll never see the sun
But together we’ll fight the long defeat

 

Even a bird would want a taste of dirt from abyssal dark
The prick of a feather could make a kingdom burn and the bloodshed start
The falling apart
Made me a shadow in the shape of wonder
The waves of black
If she's going under I can hold my breath till the sky comes back
Or drown like a rat
He's a rat

 

we wait for love and its getting so late

 

Mama here comes midnight with the dead moon in its jaws
Must be the big star about to fall

 

It feels like 1929 and I'm on the verge of a great collapse today

 

if you need me
I can always be found

 

Everybody hates me now so fuck it
Blood's on my face and my hands, and I don't know why
I'm not afraid to cry
But that is none of your business
Whose life is it, give it, see it, feel it, eat it?
Spin it around so I can spit in its face
I wanna leave without a trace
'Cause I don't want to die in this place

 

Passing white daisies
Taking turns
All those evenings on the back deck of our first apartment
They meant everything
But, the wind just carried them off
And you can't go back now
Just a passing moment gone

Please, slow it down
There's a secret magic past world
That you only notice when you're looking back at it
And, all I wanna do is turn around
I'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the ocean
‘cause I couldn't let go
And the water hit the setting sun

 

I imagine you at home, in your room, all alone
You open your eyes into mine
And everything is better.

 

going to florida
watching the temperature rise
my pretty baby
is waiting at the end of the line
oh, since she left me
cried an ocean wide
and if she doesn’t take me back
i’ll go down in it & die

 

I have a friend I call
When I've bored myself to tears
And we talk until we think we might just kill ourselves
But then we laugh until it disappears

And last night I blacked out in my car
And I woke up in my childhood bed
Wishing I was someone else, feeling sorry for myself
When I remembered someone's kid is dead

 

Everything is terminal.
We're all a set of finite points.
We all exist in finite time.
We're all finite points.
We're all finite.
But everything is permanent,
especially when you're rioting, especially when your dreams are armed.
We're all trembling strings.
We're all world lines.
We're all worlds.

 

You cut your ties
Felt better off
Salutations to your son
Awoke to find you heading out
With your white collar undone

 

Truman will always be remembered for dropping the bomb, I'll always be remembered for my fuck ups.

 

Talking myself down gets so hard
All I know is
I don't wanna die in my car