Shape of a Bird in Transit
Into the Summer
We broke lines, cut through whatever
To hand out a leaflet in passing
Road signs are lined up before you
And hindsight is taking forever
And if you took a picture
Of backyards and made that the story
Answers are what i'll remember always
But when more than ever?
Here today, gone for tomorrow
Hot jailhouse tonight, into the summer
I found your heart in a lineup
And those walls that surround it
Old things I hope you remember
I won't lie if they ask about it
Here today, gone for tomorrow
Hot jailhouse tonight, into the summer
Hot jailhouse tonight!
Hot jailhouse tonight!
Regression/Antenna
I’ve seen the ocean you call yours
It’s all the same with different shores
I spotted your house from the air
And seized control and crashed it there
Regression
A house up in the hills, not much noise
Antenna
You must wish I had
If people live on watercress
Of this I’m fairly sure
And anarchists in those museums
Will steal our teeth in case lines blur
Regression
A house up in the hills, not much noise
Antenna
You must wish I had
When I said i would meet you
I didn’t mean today or any day
Your restless legs are wandering the low country, returning
Make animals mechanical
And charge them at the gates
A typical reaction time
This water mark, my ladder gone
Regression
A house up in the hills, not much noise
Antenna
You must wish I had
Coastline
The sun comes through the tiger trees
Your mouth feels like a radiator
And yeah sure I love you,
But if I watch this on TV one more time.
And now I'm all hands and you've
Dropped me to my knees
All scars and all immunity
A death in the woods,
And you seem hard-pressed to care at all
Isolationistic
If ever you build something
That's worth singing protest songs around
At night I can't accept these
Straight shot tower lights landing planes
And now I'm all hands and you've
Dropped my to my knees
All scars and all immunity
A death in the woods,
And you seem hard-pressed to care at all
Isolationistic
World’s Fair 1904
Chemical burned
You’re learning from an Indian world fair postcard
I won’t talk and you won’t listen cause I believe the photo finish
And your legs start burning
And your eyes are turning into salt water
Mountainside house, a furnace burning
Giving myself away so earnestly,
As if to emphasize your decency
In your eyes the power’s shifting
A hornet’s nest is drifting out of strange countries
I dreamt insurgencies of gasoline and maples
And I held my breath
Sleep in a Burning Town
Build up a following
Keep it back at one or two
Make it like anything
I need a receipt for the summer too
Sleep in a burning town
Won't come in a century
Downstairs in a wedding gown
Until you're lost again
War isn't everything.
We got sentimental on the grass
Captions that let you down
Tea leaves that tell you what is past
Sleep in a burning town
Won't come in a century
Downstairs in a wedding gown
Until you're lost again
Weather is changing
A chainsaw denial it's autumn soon
Join with a cavalcade
Think up, yell something you could use
Sleep in a burning town
Won't come in a century
Downstairs in a wedding gown
You say you've lost your head
Sleep in a burning town
Captain Coherent
It's your fire
I am not to blame
All fall silent in a modern way
Language knocked your teeth out from behind
Nothing short of "I agree"
And I'm calling
Captain Coherent
You're never at a loss for words
You ask if I've seen it
I've been up close and laid down inside
Caught between the headache and the head
Call out soldiers lying in your bed
"Innocent but true" the ranger said
"Nothing but machinery"
And I'm calling
Captain Coherent
You're never at a loss for words
You ask if I've seen it
I've been up close and laid down inside
It's your fire
I am not to blame
All fall silent in a modern way
Language knocked your teeth out from behind
Nothing short of "I agree"
And I'm calling
Captain Coherent
You're never at a loss for words
You ask if I've seen it
I've been up close and laid down inside
In Transit
Line-drawn
Shape of a bird in transit, until it flies
Arrive, walk with electric patience
You believe in all these things.
Eye-blind
Can't see the constellation towards which to drive, divide
Face on a shirt in Kansas
You confused it with the sun
Night time in a town like a power line
Your heartbeat is set to Mountain Time
Banging your head against the sky
Worn down, teeth of a silent actor
Deaf, dumb & blind, combined
Turning away an era
The piano and the lines
Hometown, lost on your own vacation
You wonder why you cry
At all the parades and payloads
Night time in a town like a power line
Your heartbeat is set to Mountain Time
Voted Out of the Solar System
You're expendable, a sad dog in a space capsule
Well goddamnit another one
I hate dying, I know you won't.
I was a window you put me through it,
Happy to say I hope you do it again
We're so sorry
You've been voted out of the solar system
Back to the gravity you knew
Back through the solar system
Back to the globe that looks for you
You're expendable
The same dog in a space capsule
Or maybe another one
I hate dying, I know you won't.
I was a window you put me through it,
Happy to say I hope you do it again
We're so sorry
You've been voted out of the solar system
Back to the gravity you knew
Back through the solar system
Back to the globe that looks for you
How Many Mornings
Started out, we were singing about elections
Lost in love, and tearing apart ignitions
I was free, you said you were mostly free
Lying there, nobody could convince you it was
Lost on me, lost on me
Sunny day, and you with a sad condition
Corner store is keeping me down, has all my money
Without days, how many mornings have you seen?
Lying there, all of the old skyscrapers were so
Far from me, far from me
We are free
Just you see
We are free
Instrumental
Just not like anything
Unlikely
Started out, we were caught underneath the ocean
Lost in love, and tearing apart ignitions
I was free, you said you were mostly free
Lying there, nobody could convince you it was
Lost on me, lost on me
Instrumental
Just not like anything
Unlikely
The Dharma Bomb
Thrown from so many cars
I’ve known a few
By the roads and in the capitals
I've written you
No one indicated that it was time to go
You're hesitating
Like I don't want to go
On and on
You hope it wasn't wrong
Into the sun
Hope is gone, but all the stars are on
Small comfort now
No one indicated that it was time to go
You're elevated to something I'm below
Gone for an easy time
Ear to the ground
What were you deliberating now
When you were found?
No one indicated that it was time to go
You're hesitating like i don't want to know
Like I don’t want to know