Second Blow Lyrics

Up in your tower, away from the worldfoundationed by fears of being on your owncemented by trenches between ‘you’ and ‘they’ -Your sanctuary - or so you say…Cos you put t...Read Full Lyrics

The teeth of your black ditch are sweet like the restOf the thin-lipped, sharp-hippedFierce things that animals showWhite like the laughter of smoke in the chestLong afterThe brigh...Read Full Lyrics

My family does own some land where the river is wideAt night I see my memories dimly dying on the other sideI know that I am now all bitterness and tartAnatomy to me is a homesick ...Read Full Lyrics

You are growing cold and lonelyIf only you knew what you areOur grandfather was a soldierNow I am older, I know what homes are forWorried homes have wallsThey absorb old phone call...Read Full Lyrics

Anne, let's die in some dim townMy brown eyes wait to weigh us downThe candles 'round the tub will drown in our afternoonsMusic from our evening parlorDarker than the autumn hourGa...Read Full Lyrics

Mount Marcy is growing sparse She is the farce that I would like to tell From the bottom of your well Feel the bushes, brambles rambling Ample sapling, suckling all the air And the...Read Full 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