Plainclothes Lyrics

Up over the queasy glossed acre of scrub pine ‘hind your house Through the glass of the sliding door it passes now without sound Leave my clothes in a heap on the floor Collapse ...Read Full Lyrics

Shot through the head I'm coming up on an overpass Rifle Eyesight was lying low in the high grass The empty skull lolls Milky cataracts peel Limpid limitless swimming out...Read Full Lyrics

If I should return like I once did Animals will mark me with brown infant eyes The same eyes whose lids I kissed the high grass in which they sit Is shoulder length and hanging on ...Read Full Lyrics

Genius senses capture overlapping smeared and dazzling grids Some trails expanding Juarez oceanic from Horizon City Tasted incipient sickness in the mucus produced by a cough On...Read Full Lyrics

I know it's October Let's go to Ocean Grove today Bench on the boardwalk Glance back at old Victorians The present fills and empties The past alive around me I've got a wor...Read Full Lyrics

And now a road connects the cul-de-sac To the adjacent development But there used to be trees stretching back And there was no way through And I was thankful for the mystery ...Read Full Lyrics

I'm pretty sick of that dolphin smile Coney Island is a film between the guardrails Angels spread in the sky like ink in water Upper level I am feeling fine with the Arrow of t...Read Full Lyrics

Crying in our cars A thousand trillion ghost lives Humming names of places swallowed Sub-god's withered hand A cool pillow-faced smiler A private loss that settles on us ...Read Full Lyrics

I woke up in the late afternoon From a dream in which I left you And the ceiling teemed with gold surface tension Skipping off my neighbor's pool A hiker's ghost, a halo You...Read Full Lyrics

This contusion-colored evening Maybe you paint the silhouette Of the gaunt tree line singed in '97 When wildfires threatened my development And the swallowed towns the Klan...Read Full Lyrics