History To The Defeated Lyrics

Wait until the day says it's closing, and public is put away. Write by the light of a pay phone your list of "I meant to say". Like "Winter comes too soon", or "Radiators hum out o...Read Full Lyrics

Her body is a difficult sister, and she loves her, And hides her somewhere in herself safe from harm. She's barely coasting into a paycheque, stuck on empty. Her blue eyes frozen g...Read Full Lyrics

My city's still breathing (but barely it's true) Through buildings gone missing like teeth. The sidewalks are watching me think about you, Sparkled with broken glass. I'm back with...Read Full Lyrics

Doctors play your dosage like a card trick Scrabbled down the hallways yelling "Yatzee" I brought books on Harper in the Arctic Something called "The Politics of Lonely" A toothbru...Read Full Lyrics

Garage Sale. Saturday. I need to pay My heart's outstanding bills. A cracked-up compass and a pocket watch, Some plastic daffodils. The cutlery and coffee cups I stole from all-nig...Read Full Lyrics

So the fields are stubble, The garden is done where the scary scarecrow stands And sees her holding up horizons with her hands. She's so tired of reading Daddy's lips - -that essay...Read Full Lyrics

Held like water in you shaking hands are all the small defeats a day demands. 10-6 or 9-5 trying, dying to survive. Never knowing what survival means. Leave the apartment to buy al...Read Full Lyrics

He looked more like our fathers Not a goalie, player, athlete period Smoke, half-ash, stuck in that permanent smirk. Tugging jersey around the beer gut "I'm strictly a whiskey man...Read Full Lyrics

I have a headache. I have a sore back. I have a letter I can't send. I have desire, it falters and falls down, It calls you up drunk at three or four a.m. to wonder when...wonderf...Read Full Lyrics

I changed the oils and oiled the squeaks, Patched the holes and fluid leaks, Left dusk beneath a diabetic moon And way to take the tv crews across the creaking ice The news is how...Read Full Lyrics