All eyes on the calendaranother year I claim of total indifferenceTo hear the days pile upWith decisions to be madeI’m sure all of them were wrongInto this song, I send myselfAnd with these drinksI plan to collapse and forgetThis wasted yearThese wasted yearsDevoted friends, they disappearAnd, I’m sorry about the phone callAnd needing youSome decisions […]
Now and again it seems worse than it is,but mostly the view is accurate.You see your breath in the airas you climb up the stairsto that coffin you call your apartment. And you sink in your chair,brush the snow from your hairand drink the cold away.You’re not really surewhat you’re doing this forbut you need […]
I had a brother onceHe drowned in a bathtubbefore he’d ever learned how to talkAnd I don’t know what his name wasbut my mother doesI heard her say it oncePadraic my prince, I have all but diedFrom the sheer weight of my shameYou cried but no one cameAnd the water filled your tiny lungsAppear, my […]
Sitting around, no work today.Try pacing to keep awake.Laying around, no school today.Just drink until the clock has circled all the way. It’s late afternoon, as you walk through the roomsof a house that is quietexcept for unanswered telephones.You stand near the sink,you mix up a drink.You think you don’t want to pass outwhere your […]
I had a girl I knew, She grew, became a woman nowI think that she teaches atone of the schools downtownWe used to roll the windows down and play the music loudSmoking out in her carLost in west OmahaAnd we’d get drunk and kiss, our bodies twist like shoelacesAnd we never came untiedI guess you […]
I spent a week drinking the sunlight of Winnetka, CaliforniaWhere they understand the weight of human heartsYou see, sorrow gets too heavy and joy it tends to hold youWith the fear that it eventually departsAnd the truth is I’ve been dreaming of some tired tranquil placeWhere the weather won’t get trapped inside my bonesAnd if […]
One Straw (Please)And, if it’s trueBaby, I’m the one in love with youAnd I guess that I’ve been all my lifeAnd I know, and I’ll tryAnd I love you more than those other guysCause you mean the world to meYou’re exactly what I needBaby, I’m waiting for you to stop shaking and come closer to […]
Meaning is sometimes hard to spotIt begins with the flickering of cigarettesIn the darkness of a dorm roomSsomewhere in the suffocated mid-westBut if this is real then I was mistakenAnd if there is truth then why can’t we find it?But beauty comes to those who have been waitingFor something that is bigger than themselvesBut this […]
Emily, sing something sweet for meI want to feel the warmth inside your heartEmily, sing something sweet for meI need to feel those words out of your mouthEmily, sing something, pleaseI want to face the life behind your eyesEmily, sing something… something… something sweet
You contrast and compareBetween the busy ones and the ones who don’t careUntil there is no oneThat you really knowSo I drift through these daysOf appointments and promises madeThey will all end up brokenAnd quickly replacedWeeks are slow, days drag onEven practice and parties seem longbut I find myself goingI guess there’s nothing to do, […]