If I Knew Lyrics

I’ve been incommunicado for going on three days And the silence stings staccato around my ears and face And my hands are cold and shaking From my latest fall from grace And I...Read Full Lyrics

Oh Michelle, I’m coming down to see you Tonight is bruise-black swelling golden green I was in bed but I had the dream again Where I drive us off the cliff to the ravine And ...Read Full Lyrics

If one of us is the ocean And if one of us is the moon We haven’t found a pattern yet Figured out who is pulling who Turn the telescope back around With these troubles out...Read Full Lyrics

Illinois, where the tracks get wide Hiawatha and the sun is shining Little Seven Up poured on stomach lining It will settle down in time Took the change jar from the entryway ...Read Full Lyrics

There’s a pale horse outside my door In my dream, where my Dream Horse usually goes It told me its name; it’s the same as yours I’ve been so worried about you Because the...Read Full Lyrics

Elizabeth said last night the lake roared like the ocean I was landlocked under the orange-white solstice moon Imagine: imagining a place meant to conjure up another Three degre...Read Full Lyrics

She said "Why don't you try summertime songs? Gold and warm, soft like the setting sun Not hot and sharp like a hornet swarm Or the warning blast from the tornado horn Or june ...Read Full Lyrics

Over the water outside of Mobile Allowing the sunset to take her time I’ve been putting off the knowing in a Pink and orange haze while the Oil rigs are feeding me lines And...Read Full Lyrics

Hollow as a bird bone in a broken wing Weighted to the earth with nothing left to sing Just rasping for your mother, coughing up gravel Waiting on a brother who was cleared for ...Read Full Lyrics

In the year of the Get You Alone I got you alone I showed you that I’d been drinking in a handful of words The lecture landed all kinds of places- places with vistas of bucktho...Read Full Lyrics