One Great City! Lyrics

In the stick count for the song with knowing you're gone Glancing up at where you lived when you lived here I see you suddenly alive and nearly smiling Stop and hold my breath and ...Read Full Lyrics

I want to call requests through heating-vents, And hear them answered with a whispered, "no." To crack the code of muscle, slacken, tense. Let every second step in boots on snow Co...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, all the words I should not know those doctors wrote on me Swell up and from their syllable won't let me get to sleep. The sun will start later, clock out early And I'll drive a...Read Full Lyrics

Had one of those days When you wanna try heroin, Drunk driving, Some form of soft suicide Sitting in silence and Staring at ceilings Or peeling the paint off Of things to confide ...Read Full Lyrics

Morning bright, rise. Go over your lines. Iron your carefully crafted disguise. We'd all like to sing. It's easy to sigh; to sprinkle a handful of plausible lies. Our buildings wil...Read Full Lyrics

There's blood in the sink, and he's plunging his wrists in. A hangover halo is washing away. Mechanic-school dropout stares into the mirror, Stands up in his derelict daydreams. Al...Read Full 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