Curare On Your Lips 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

Throw open the floodgates, We want to feel Your love! But haven't I been waiting? Haven't I been getting up from falling dreams And slipping on the frozen streams I build my tower...Read Full Lyrics

I have been both lover and beloved, unrequited Dispassionate and quiet around you. And when I am old, when the skin under my eyes Stretches to wrap around the things I've seen, Wh...Read Full Lyrics