Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics

Almost home And I miss the bottom stair You were braiding your grey hair And it's grown so long Since I've been gone Now the perfect girls, By the pool, they would protest With cr...Read Full Lyrics

Love was a promise made of smoke In a frozen copse of trees A bone cold and older than our bodies Slowly floating in the sea Every morning there were planes The shiny blades of pa...Read Full Lyrics

In the failing light of the afternoon Lucy in the shade of the dogwood blooms Yesterday the solace of a poison fish Tomorrow I'll be kissing on her blood red lips No one is the sa...Read Full Lyrics

There is a house by the sea Two jealous sisters, they're waiting for me And one is laid on the floor And one is changing the locks on the doors And I've been buying the time on my ...Read Full Lyrics

Cain got a milk-eyed mule from the auction Abel got a telephone And even the last of the blue-eyed babies know That the burning man is the color of the end of day And how every ton...Read Full Lyrics

Said the plain clothes cop to the beauty queen "Ive seen nothing but a spoke in a wheel" So she gave up her crown to a kid with a crutch And they both felt cheated after closing th...Read Full Lyrics

Wolves by the road And a bike wheel spinning on a pawn shop wall She leaned on her colored hair Like a butterfly wing in a summer rainfall And the roll on the kitchen floor Some f...Read Full Lyrics

Dreamin' again of a train track ending at the edge of the sea Big black cloud was low and rolling our way Dog at the barbed wire barkin' at my buzz-cut friends Friend with a switch...Read Full Lyrics

Here's a prayer for the body buried by the interstate Murder of a soldier, a tree in a forest up in flames Black valley, peace beneath the city Where the women hear the washboard r...Read Full Lyrics

In our days we will live Like our ghosts will live Pitching glass at the cornfield crows And folding clothes Like stubborn boys across the room We'll keep everything Grandma's gun...Read Full Lyrics