Bones Lyrics

Mama, your little boy's dying at the gates With a mace and a longbow arrow Lodged firm in his breastplate Isn't there something we should do? Won't it be a shock to the coroner's ...Read Full Lyrics

Between the wars they come to hox us in the stable So why am I holding this guitar neck Like it’s a bone broken through the skin? These paragraphs aren’t up for auction Where y...Read Full Lyrics

It’s like some overbearing tax on praxis How I’m supposed to feel bad for this When all I’ve sworn to do Is hold soul like a cold in haunted bronchial tubes And my love for y...Read Full Lyrics

Like a block party with smoke Little god spittle Showers the hair on our arms And my hair still smells like Burning church I know folks brought under the grace of some fog there An...Read Full Lyrics

I’ve got this f-f-frozen virus in my blood Like my words are the warmest I could ever touch I’ll limp west with the sun And sleep the days under wide-eyed illusion That beacon ...Read Full Lyrics

Blue smoke and cider sounds Curled above our heads Like tongues of fire under wires in a big City Hall stands tall and every pregnant pause Is giving birth to answers I can’t und...Read Full Lyrics

Hitting and missing (Mostly missing) I sit kissing where your face was an hour before Both spell disaster With some kind of far-off capital L But I’ll never say it, dear Like tos...Read Full Lyrics

So we built Burning cities at the top of our notes Now we doubt our commitment To God and Country or Job and Comp’ny Though no one wants to break their arm To reach for what they...Read Full Lyrics

October and over There's never enough words for my throat So cold in the root cellar suburbs Low in the lowlight And high on tender sparks Water comes through wood Over my head Sam...Read Full Lyrics

I keep Names and emotions in my teeth When I can't take The blistering heat On my tongue Often it seems they never cool Often, it seems, they never do But I must stop starving myse...Read Full Lyrics