Butterflies Lyrics

Up some steps blocked by a folding chair, he sits slouched as he feigns that he does not care. His throat inflects to all his people who are waiting in a line. They should ignore h...Read Full Lyrics

My decision was headlong when I wrote the world off with a swipe, making clear my judgement through a permanent red marker's swipe. All I am expressing is an opinion, mine and mine...Read Full Lyrics

Last night at Anastacia's party, muffled through a deer head mask, you tried to get my short attention (as you pocketed your flask) to tell me of the one you'd spotted who had gone...Read Full Lyrics

Your breath of sweet and sour, I can smell it in the air. It serves as a substitute for perfume you don't wear. There are geraniums in a child-size stadium on my block, and from th...Read Full Lyrics

Frank's molars are covered in cake. He's eating enough for ten and coming right back again. Tables are cleared in his wake. "How does he do it?" they ask with a laugh. Skinny as co...Read Full Lyrics

Hank could never bear to hear it when I'd admit some broken feeling. I imagined him alone in his room, posters from floor to ceiling, but his voice was all that I could hear, his l...Read Full Lyrics

I reach for the elm tree branch. I'm floating away and I'm wishing for gravity to reassert its strong hold, to demand my descent, to return me to the cement. I glide above fallow f...Read Full Lyrics

Grassy cliff a'callin', green, it's kept up by some people brave and wily both. Apparently no fear of fallin' halts them when they are clearing off the overgrowth. In summer it is ...Read Full Lyrics

Hey Abraham, do you remember when I'd count you all out, put Scotch tape on the ends, then stack you in piles which trickled up in tiny triangles? I had a whole pile of penny rolls...Read Full Lyrics

Hopeless eyes, focusing one deck a day after thirty tries at acing the trick for display. It'll take an evening to land that kickflip down by the Cleveland Zoo, but in the meantime...Read Full Lyrics