I’m new to you but I’m used to distance

I know of lust and I know of interest

I know a detour is never kind

but toss your hair back for an instant

The nape of your neck is caught in vintage

lighting I have never sighted in my time

sepia’s a calling card

Something I recall in darkness

all your valleys and the arches

I will never be

rivers that consume and sunder  

you to shake the walls as thunder

we will never speak as lovers speak

we won’t be anything at all

but I would break my neck just to talk to you

I haven’t yet it’s getting

cold outside

and I’m losing light

losing time to ask some way to call you up

come out forthright

with what I mean to

as of now I never see you

never see you

It’s getting

cold outside

and I’m losing light

firmly in the dark on how I’m this caught up

but if I got it wrong this time

it’s not the ending I

just know I’ll never see you

never see you

I know she lurkin’ round from the middle of the house

olfactory as a means of proof

only sweeter smoke than the fires of youth

she make the keys unstick

follow jagged decent

she come to pick me up

cause I’m feeling down  

come to pick me up now

oh she pick a little bit this, little bit of that

pick me all apart now

but she gon’ tell me what it is

yes she gon’ tell me what I don’t know

she gon’ tell me what it is

Just a little longer dear you quit knocking on my door  

cause she gon’ tell me what it is

yes she gon’ tell me what I don’t know

Yes she gon’ tell me what it is

No she gon tell me how I

want her by the sound of lighters

why my mouth resemble river after rain

yes I’m Cherrapunji till I get the taste

I need the clouds come home

follow billowed ascent

she come to pick me up

drag me right back down

she throw me around now

oh I throw a little bit of fit

I get over it

she come calm me down now

cause she gon’ tell me what it is

(Just a little longer

Just a little longer)

yes she gon’ tell me what I don’t know

(Just a little longer

Told myself I wouldn’t do this past 25)

she gon’ tell me what it is

(It’s canonized)

Just a little longer dear you quit knocking on my door  

but she gon’ tell me what it is

yes she gon’ tell me what I don’t know

she gon’ tell me what it is

No she gon tell me how it is that she is

still lurkin round

oh she leave the light on for me  

and after all this time

I feel her climbing out the walls I built around her

know she’s too ingrained to lose

oh how many years have I been saying I’ll leave soon

She know damn well I won’t go now

she make a damn fool of me

yes she know I won’t go now

She woven underskin too deep

and I may not know why she

keep me in the dark

but oh she leave the light on for me

and after all this time?

You still hum her song as you walk

round the house

You’re an awfully hard line to shake

Figure outlined in a skirt

Fabric black as the words

Your sparring tongue still relays

April if you want her

Darlin’, go get her

There she go slipping away

She go slipping away again

I thought you solved yourself

Last summer

Must be not a typical dame

She got you back up inside your head

She gon give you new start

She gon tear you apart

She gon make it okay

April if you want her

Darlin’ go get her

She go slipping away

She go slipping away again

You got your taste of freedom

You’re long term is a goner

Good riddance, he’s a preacher

He sold you that you need him

And I told you watch the autumn

There’s danger in the season (singing)

why is there expectation when the leaves fall down

You asked me at the kitchen table

I’m not able to answer that

Drawn your smile on

See it curve above your mouth

See it cover, dash the frown from your face

Match, my walled endevors

You match, my careless ending

We act like last remaining is grave

Don’t putter ‘round now, smoke with me

April if you want her

Darlin’, go get her

There she go slipping away

She go slipping away again

I thought you solved yourself

Last summer

Must be not a typical dame

She got you back up inside your head

She gon give you new start

She gon tear you apart

She gon make it okay

April if you want her

Darlin’ go get her

She go slipping away

She go slipping away again

April that’s a long word

Forever is a long word

Don’t make a habit of tossing it around

She was momentary but we all were now

April if you want her

Darlin’, go get her

There she go slipping away

She go slipping away again

I thought you solved yourself

Last summer

Must be not a typical dame

She got you back up inside your head

She gon give you new start

She gon tear you apart

She gon make it okay

April if you want her

Darlin’ go get her

She go slipping away

She go slipping away again

I’m better without you

hope you’re better without me

hope that your rent stays below 750

hope you can still walk around Nantucket

and not feel alone more than you usually do

I’m better without you

hope your better without me

hope that New York state will give you a license

and every 2008 prius hybrid

seems a little bit duller than the first one you knew

Hope me reaching out now doesn’t seem like breaking some unspoken vow

I’m not looking for you to come around

We’re both moved on moving on now

I just wish the world would stop piling on you in creative and cruel ways

Hope your mom and the boy’s in a good place

Hope that Donald is pulling his own weight

hope that your hope isn’t counted in dollars

your winter is warm, and it’s mild in august

home is a kind place and laughter is constant

I hope you have people who know you as you

and now I’ve stopped counting days

oh now that’s alright now

that’s okay

good things end

and bad things change

I won’t see you again

It’s for the better I know

you had enough of me a lifetime ago

I won’t see you again

was it always harder getting older

You had enough of me a lifetime ago

You had enough of me a lifetime ago

you had enough of me if my

if my shoulder’s were not high enough for you I’d understand that too

but that was never it at all

These things are past tense

these things are through

You stand stronger now

I’ve seen you do it all

and you stand stronger now

you stand stronger now

a man as weak as I could never make you this tall

I waste time

as a matter of fact

I specialize

in vacancies of eyes and prose

but you don’t help me

no you don’t help me at all

I like it

taking up my time

taking up my floor with clothes

I own the television

loath the television

They told me television’s not true

I know this

I waste time  

in confusion of talk

With scripted lines

I wish I had a script for you

I’d hold a radio up in your front yard

I’d have a hipper bar to take you to

something with fire

you would walk in slow motion and I’d smoke lights

I wouldn’t drive a car that’s powder blue

it’s neither here nor there I  

Just think you that you could be my after school special

I could write you dumb love songs

I just think you could be my after school special

I could write you dumb love songs

of course the cause of coursing

in veins is often born of the

same thing that’ll take it away

Due course my colors bleed through

I’m sure they won’t deceive you

Of course I’m gon’ lead you astray  

but i’m combing my mind

trying to let you inside

it’s a cynical kind of place  

I need a day without rain sometimes

picture perfect in a frame outside

holding a

Radio up in your front yard

the start is all the end we’d have to view

Never expired

You would walk in slow motion

and I’d smoke lights

I wouldn’t start something I’m afraid to lose

It’s neither here nor there I

Just think you that you could be my after school special

I could write you dumb love songs

I just think you could be my after school special

I could write you dumb love songs

Manifold my cautery

Sans codifying any part of me

Crease and fold sold reverie

I'm edified their falser meanings

Pour the rye

On the beams outside

To set afire as you're leaving

I couldn't stand this place without you anyways

The past indwelled

yet expelled defeat

I'm modern failure

I am holocene

The darkest room hides

Darkest thieves

Even birds outside

Students to your breathing

Pour the rye

On the beams outside

To set afire as you're leaving

I couldn't stand this place without you anyways

But the light isn't something I've won

It defies me as tides sink a ship from its moorings

Standing outside in the dark

I'll be anything you want

I will try it all over come morning

Here in the dark I resign

I am not what you thought

I will try it all over come morning

You must believe me

You must believe me

You must believe me

I couldn't stand this place without you anyways