O, Porcupine Lyrics

In a sweater poorly knit, and an unsuspecting smileLittle Moses drifts downstream in the NileA fumbling reply -- an awkward, rigid laughAnd I'm carried helpless by my floating bask...Read Full Lyrics

You were a song I couldn't singcaught like a bear by the bees with its hand in the hivewho complains of the pain of the stingwhen I'm lucky I got out alive!a life at best left half...Read Full Lyrics

We took the twine we used to useto tie up tight our tattered shoestwisted twigs and crooked crossa necklace for the deeply lostBuilder with the broken bricksMother to the baby chic...Read Full Lyrics

everything i'd thought i'd learnedthe ambition and delusion turnedinto drawings on a loose leaf sheetof figs and fruits i couldn't eatwhat in her do i requirethe face of gratified ...Read Full Lyrics

"I do not exist," we faithfully insistsailing in our separate ships,and in each tiny caravel -tiring of trying, there's a necessary dyinglike the horseshoe crab in its proper seaso...Read Full Lyrics

A note we wrote the other dayto any mice who pass this dayon crumbed and sugared counter topswe must consist your traffic stopin their defense they don't refusenonetheless, we've c...Read Full Lyrics

Our house wrapped in disrepairsA small mouse peeked out from a hole beneath the stairsnearby to where my dad sat in his favorite chair,thinking about the government and, muttering ...Read Full Lyrics

It's the smell of hot summertime trashIt's the city noise of a busy streetIt's a train derailed and two car head-on freeway crash each time we meet"And if it comes as some sort of ...Read Full Lyrics

Daniel broke the king's decree,Peter stepped from the ship to the seathere was hope for Job like a cut down tree,I hope that there's such hope for medust be on my mind's conception...Read Full Lyrics

the bird that plucked the Olive Leafhas been circling like a record around the spindle of my mindwhere the needle's worn the grooves too deep,and scratched the wax that's blistered...Read Full Lyrics