on a night back in 1998 at the 24 hour Happy Chef diner in Fort Dodge, Iowa when both of us were drunk and stoned
a leaf hoped that the branch would be strong but they were both born from an ol… and those dying roots could only h… until there was no choice
i can smell a clue about as well as a rock and if you’re waiting for me under a rock
time reduced to ash all the clocks were made of fire burning each second
we wait under a black umbrella beneath the branches of a silhouet… for clouds to be chased away by th… snarling jaws of light
and death is spreading through the… violets are blue and the zombie in the mirror is me when the bones start
our savings accounts cry out for m… but we only have so much to give coins jingling away in the pocket a few dirty fives in the wallet the shelves are in need of grocery
it is not just missing the good times slamdancing in a circle pit with your best buds at a rock show blacklit basement parties
dreams need their distance she learned from burnt fingertips do not touch the stars
i love music i know everyone does but i really do nothing can soothe me as much as
she loved him before when life was a game he played and she loves him still
when she doesn’t love you the guts are pulled out from insid… life spills from the bones and your heart forgets to beat you become a ghost
if you alone hold me as i battle for last breat… if you alone bear the burden of the body left b… if there is no one else in the roo…
seven years ago almost home coming over the bridge from a show in The Windy City we hit the ice
the next one in the holder on the… can barely contain itself one corner is already protruding hoping like hell that when she finishes her burrito
