Be Still Child Lyrics

Aug. 6th, carved in desks with old knives: “Back when our common cause was alive, and--let’s say--the hyacinth fields were in bloom, children watched as the soldiers marched...Read Full Lyrics

Barren rocks and sand, Our wooden sculpture hands Held like a timber hitch, held candles to the sun Both faint and fading fast, they walked on, windward, kept time with a pocketm...Read Full Lyrics

All dark effects I'd long withstood Upon my room advanced The moving shade of Birnam Wood Disguised by broken branch I struck firm the hollow of your thigh Withheld my name,...Read Full Lyrics

Have I established a pattern Perhaps a bi-annual mental collapse? And is every day a thousand years For anyone with ears to hear? Someday I’ll find me Can you really mak...Read Full Lyrics

To which shepherd’s field did which angels descend? & what’s this about eternal non-existence at the end? A stranger’s face appeared--they say he lost his mind (or too muc...Read Full Lyrics

Fires of the lighthouse burning in the bay Waters of the sound sleeping through the day Ostrich of the night half buried in the sand Nearer comes the man, sickle in hand Battle...Read Full Lyrics

Every thing I thought I'd learned Ambition and illusion turned To drawings on a loose leaf sheet Of tarts and cakes I couldn't eat What in her do I require? The face of gratified ...Read Full Lyrics

Our house wrapped in disrepair, A small mouse peeked out from a hole beneth the stairs Nearby to where my dad sat in his favorite chair, Thinking about the gov't and muttering a pr...Read Full Lyrics

Let us die, Let us die Then dying we reply, Oh don't you tell us About your suffering, Now look in our eyes- Look in our eyes. Let us be, Let us be Our closeness is such that Where...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1] Ragged-Robins for the curtain call Wrapped in ribbons on the trailer door Carved initials in a concrete footstall On the imitation marble floor We’re the boxtop ad...Read Full Lyrics