Candlelit Dinners And First-Degree Burns Lyrics

My fingers are white like whispers And the lips that consume them are flames For lack of better things to set on fire. My knees are red like rumors From this gossip with the floor...Read Full Lyrics

Welcome to the last time That You can buy my answer with less than a question. I would sell the hands off my wrists if they weren't so preoccupied With taking the bread from Your f...Read Full Lyrics

Show me a light that doesn't go out When the people tire of tending it, When they go to sleep content. Show me gold that we can wear On the inside of our wrists So it can't be tak...Read Full Lyrics

I thought of writing you a song In a tired repetition Of the words I meant to sing you all along But never did. I have some great appreciation For lunar tides and roses And my hea...Read Full Lyrics

When I wake up on fire And get caught in the sheets, My dreams of safety hit the floor. I've heard the air raid too many times before To be bothered by the bombs. And you ask me w...Read Full Lyrics

I can't be expected To hold this up. You're spinning tops And when they drop, Am I responsible? Is what you're telling me? Well I'll give my money If they ask me, But I won't give...Read Full Lyrics

And even after we all collapse in laughter And all the perfume passes from hands to tapered glasses, We're still stuck in suits and dresses -- Loosened ties and glassy eyes and I d...Read Full Lyrics

I'm tired of seeing you boxed up In cardboard and army fatigue, threadbare in 20 degrees. And I'll be walking around you so lightly, Hoping that you won't disturb me From making my...Read Full Lyrics

Come home! I am so temporary, Tell me I can sing to You With my mouth so full of blood. I am so fragile, Tell me I can run to You When I can hardly stand on my own. And how long ...Read Full Lyrics

How vaguely we eschew complicity with You, It's always run-arounds, excuses And words we bind to nooses Just to sullenly let swing The best of arbitrary things, Like, do we care ab...Read Full Lyrics