Chernobyl, 1985 Lyrics

Let’s retire to our knees With our books as our gracious And kindly machines Of concern take our places Grow motorized trees Build robotic faces Who smile on command Who c...Read Full Lyrics

PHARAOH SONG: Is there a balm in Gilead To heal the sin-sick soul And make the wounded whole? Thirty sons’ thirty towns’ Mournful sounds Formed beneath the sword and crow...Read Full Lyrics

There's a cemetery deep below the sea Theres a space reserved for a fool like me It's the last thing that I'll do I will tell them I'm with you In the arms of grace when we f...Read Full Lyrics

A borrowed fern with a cigarette burn And a pawn shop ring in her hand At the Idaho courts to affirm our divorce Before the marriage began In a celery boat singing triangle not...Read Full Lyrics

Something in the vein of the cities on the plain Containing decades knitted into single thought Before your empty hearse contributed a verse It drove in figure 8’s of endless ...Read Full Lyrics

The other night I dreamt I was back in college There were boys in robes and sandals They were singing songs to Krishna Burning candles they would trade for money You agreed to ...Read Full Lyrics

Call me outside I'll come running down. When I satisfied each need invented by my eye I was a nest by a fox's hole or dirt underneath your boots soles When I satisfied each need in...Read Full Lyrics

[Brighter days, whiter painted graves Under Idaho sky set to roadside attraction prayer] SANSEVIERIA: Traveling where the trains will? BURNING BOOKS: To Gainesville [one turnin...Read Full Lyrics

I have my pictures of you, you don't look back at me A smile I'd almost forgotten, bruises I don't see Never forgive you for a sky turned from gray to black Come out and kiss me, d...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse] We met by chance on the Roe River side Our song-fires danced as our tea leaves dried She hatched our plans in the atmospheric tides Said, "Let's give up sacrifice next ...Read Full Lyrics