The Clouds Lyrics

You thought you could free the slaves By filling out the proper paperwork 'Till you turned out all your pockets And realized they never were You pulled your kids out of the p...Read Full Lyrics

They kept their heads in books to drown it out The clinking glasses of an inlet's open mouth The straits were shaking us in circles now I faked a faster death but knew that time...Read Full Lyrics

I've been clearing the air Of every connection we had lost What a criminal thought That you gave so much room to multiply And it left you to soak in conversations With a door ...Read Full Lyrics

So we played our games In the dug-out graves Shouting curses at the dirt 'til the Messiah showed his face With his soap-stone eyes And his seaweed beard And he scolded us so ...Read Full Lyrics

I clawed through the print and found you Living between parentheses Venturing out in springtime To make sure the phone was off the hook You said "I guess it's all prefigured ...Read Full Lyrics

Our home is a jagged mouth Streaming out pleas to the dead We are misshapen teeth Uprooting ourselves But we could have spent our time Burying strangers instead We would've...Read Full Lyrics

Dead weight under my feet Peeling up my honesty Somehow I forgot what it was worth But I'll follow his notes To the edges of the earth Creatures of the deep Keeper of my memo...Read Full Lyrics

Forget the pain you once held dear It cannot help you here Did it ever help you anywhere? You're kneeling on a memory Some Pyrrhic victory But could you ever be that young a...Read Full Lyrics

I had a lot to say Before they sewed my mouth shut Out on a rosy field Between a cross and crescent I had a love so pure I had to leave her behind I never told her why Did...Read Full Lyrics

There's no path you couldn't choose Honey don't be fooled Yeah that's something you knew in your stomach But it still never rang true There's some eyes that never close Ther...Read Full Lyrics