Standard Candle Lyrics

The engine mutters, a black dust hoversinto his lungs. (She's thirsty)Corner diner, lunch with ghosts,A drunken note skips the record.A casual glance by stuttered sips,a trace of l...Read Full Lyrics

darling engineer / how your monuments growtearing heaven’s frames / ‘til the firmaments showtell me how sound they standspacious absence, vistas painted bluethe workers break a...Read Full Lyrics

The toll sounded twelve(it had kept up with time ever since I was young)when the clock tower fell.(all the tourists were screaming and holding their mouths)The staircase heldwhile ...Read Full Lyrics

some say friends / should makes amendsbut my enemies / have paid for this giftmy body spent / from the pleasures that fitthis plan can't / be God senti'm soaring / but i'm standing...Read Full Lyrics

i saw this same contrived sceneon a motionless television screenthis story's played out until the endtill we all stand motionlessuntil we find this climatic moment is an epilogue o...Read Full Lyrics

spoken softly spoken standing still standing tallbright eyes illuminate conversationyour voice leads to connotation(she cries in a stained glass fashion. glass painted black. we le...Read Full Lyrics

not so long agoi passed out couldn't move and i hit the floori'm badly brokeni know that you will turn your back on me and then again i do the same thing over and over againthen it...Read Full Lyrics

Wrote your name in cement with a stick. You think it’s going to stick, but they’ll just sandblast it away eventually and you’ll be forgotten, like everyone else. Thick as a b...Read Full Lyrics

I'm sorry for the way we started yesterday I don't know how we lost controlInformation overflowThe world is a pretty placeIf you have a pretty faceReady made, you're all the same A...Read Full Lyrics

I...I...I have seen enough Yeah, I knew what I wantedI knew what I want, yeahI knew what I want, yeahI knew I couldn't have it allStumbling in the darkI knew you were watchingYou k...Read Full Lyrics