Mount Marcy Lyrics

The black figure of my body above your window as you're dreamin'I came to wake you and take you up northThe yard was wet, the heavens forget the way things are seemin'For us who mu...Read Full Lyrics

Bethlehem is my kind of townNo matter what is born thereMost men find their knees on the groundMost men find their knees on the groundAnd Bethany's a pilgrimShe's there by daylight...Read Full Lyrics

The holes of highway bones are filledBut the tolls of highway loans are billedTo the board of directors of boredom, hereSo I slept outside the worried exitAnd hurried to avoid the ...Read Full Lyrics

I'm going home, I'm smoking my last cigaretteThe muffler shop's shouting that she's in the cityThe North Frozen Landfill I just can't forget'Cause it marks the town of my pityOrion...Read Full Lyrics

I still crackleLike a motelFrontier spackle/ summer backyardShopping cartIn our shadowsLate-day echoesWeeds/ radios/ Jesus Christ knows yourFreckled heartTo walk North as sun is se...Read Full Lyrics

Oh I know everybody here's been dying to get back to Rosemont StreetBut that road was made of flesh and now it's dead and now it's beatThe sun burnt past every rock across the stre...Read Full Lyrics

Smoking Turkish cigarettes inThe thumb of the midwest whenThe sulfur fills the treesOn the fourth of JulyYou and IWe travel the gravel goin' homeHome sweet home, home my brotherNot...Read Full Lyrics

So I am the eyesThat my father cried outIn our swamp sunk with doubtIn the darkyards of North Country aging unclesCaught in the summer horridEndless and fluttered torridBut all of ...Read Full Lyrics

Most of my dreams are robberiesThe fam'ly dies the child fleesThrough backyards filled with enemies andFences fleshed by panicked knees andFreedom is the deep-night thereThe hurrie...Read Full Lyrics

All the vegetation in the settled world is stirringI'm blurring into sun-burnt and heartbroken worryingabout how the day took such a long time to diewhen it was reeking of women I ...Read Full Lyrics