The Reasons Lyrics

February always finds you folding Local papers open to the faces "Passed away" to wonder what they're holding In those hands we're never shown, the places Formal photographs refus...Read Full Lyrics

Well I'm lost, I'm afraid Rope tying down a leaky boat To the roof of a car on the road in the dark And it's snowing If I'm more, then it means less Last call for happiness I'm you...Read Full Lyrics

Let the waitress put the chairs up Let the glasses that you broke Form a picture of our leader With a halo made of smoke Let the golden oldies station crackle and come through Wit...Read Full Lyrics

Why don't you ever want to play? I'm tired of this piece of string You sleep as much as I do now And you don't eat much of anything I don't know who you're talking to I made a sear...Read Full Lyrics

So you watch the sunrise sinking and she's talking in her sleep A dream of how alone she was tomorrow when you keep All those promises to someone in a mirror you will find At your ...Read Full Lyrics

Doctors played your dosage like a card trick Scrabbled down the hallways yelling "Yahtzee!" I brought books on Hopper, and the Arctic Something called "The Politics of Lonely" A t...Read Full Lyrics

The mirrors and the unacknowledged nods Dial tones and license plates The words you didn't choose Everything the day's too small to hold Spills on to the dusk And shorts the eveni...Read Full Lyrics

When the bus-shelter windows and napkin-dispensers surpriseWith distorted reflections, it's never the someone you're hoping to recognize.And the rent is too high living here betwee...Read Full Lyrics

So you don't get to be a saint Martyrs never last this long Guess I'll never be the one To defeat desire in song Here's a marker Here's my naked skin Our exhibit A Put a small X w...Read Full Lyrics

The sirens woke me up again I know they're coming for me someday, just a matter of when Count to 25 and yawn Touch the clock and turn my back against the dawn And hope for that on...Read Full Lyrics