Shelf Life Lyrics

You've made it clear, your intentions nearly breaking every tooth that's rattled long in a grin that's gone and fallen out of use Short of making an arrow-straight escape below a c...Read Full Lyrics

The pastor stood at odds with every sermon read, and once he learned to speak in knots, he never had to wear his share of scarlet- what a shame they caught a word he said You shoul...Read Full Lyrics

You know I’m almost sure I saw them creep up through the floor with their hands around a waist that had graced my doors but it was you and me and nothing more A better fare for t...Read Full Lyrics

No need to raise a hand. I’ll sit as long as I can stand A pose is all I need to plan-- a pose is all I need If less is more, then pour to break. I’ll wait to sleep and sleep t...Read Full Lyrics

You spoke it plain and speak it still how once they moved across the sill and left it stripped and fit to crack, but now they’ve fallen further back You count yourself a fragile ...Read Full Lyrics

You should be scared And what’s a wife that’s never there? And I am one to share what I have come to bear Suffer what they will not speak and they want naught to do with me Qui...Read Full Lyrics

I've dropped a batch of seedlings, see they've set up shop upon the lawn I'll rake them into quiet piles and scratch the earth until they're gone Oh darling, it's not mine to know,...Read Full Lyrics

I've songs of promise for your tongue and ropes and ladders to the sun and heaven knows they'll come undone One day we'll drop our mourning clothes and build our fortunes on the sn...Read Full Lyrics

We will see, if they are who they say they are Aim, aim to please, if they are who they say they are Hands meet the knees, if you can't speak to save your heart from believing we'v...Read Full Lyrics

Did you labor to pay for the lace you wore? One day, they will stop and stare no more So careful, a guard for a gaping door Where no fable will scrape its way to shore Do you know ...Read Full Lyrics