Slips And Tangles Lyrics

Garage sale, Saturday I need to pay My heart's outstanding bills A cracked-up compass and a pocket watch Some plastic daffodils The cutlery and coffee cups I stole from all-night...Read Full Lyrics

They're tearing up streets again, they're building a new hotel The mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down And me and my anger sit folding a paper bird Letting the curtains tur...Read Full Lyrics

I'm standing on this corner, can't get their attention Facing rush hour faces turned around I clutch my stack of paper, press one to a chest Then watch it swoop and stutter to the ...Read Full Lyrics

Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room And half illuminate a face before they disappear You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling I breathe out smo...Read Full Lyrics

A soft breeze With the slippery concrete black and full of muddy slush Contrasting with the hoarfrost, clean and hung On a tunnel of silent shivering trees The ones you said you'd ...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 s...Read Full Lyrics

So the fields are stubble, the garden's done Where the scary scarecrow stands Sees her holding up horizons with her hands She's so tired of reading daddy's lips That essay on a fr...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 Always ...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 paycheck, stuck on empty Her blue eyes frozen green...Read Full Lyrics