Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass Lyrics

[Stanza 1]I saw you in the mirroryou were wearing your hair differentlycarrying the air differentlyYou said you wear your hair long parted in the middleLong in solidarity j...Read Full Lyrics

Get out of my blood, salamander!I can’t seem to blow off enough steam to get you out of my headSoul cycle you to death, run you out of my blood to San PedroAnd yet, every...Read Full Lyrics

May my eyes always stay level to the horizonmay they never gaze as high as heaven, to ask whyMay I never go where angels fear to treadso as to have to ask for answers in the skyThe...Read Full Lyrics

I took a flying lesson on my 33rd birthday, instead of calling youOr parking on the block where our old place used to beGenesee, genesee, geneseePathetic, I know - but some...Read Full Lyrics

No one ever touched me without wanting to kill meExcept for a healer on 6th street in RidgelyTessa DiPietro,recommended casually by a medium I no longer knowShe said my num...Read Full Lyrics

[Stanza 1]You move like water sweet baby sweet waitermaking the night smile to no one you catersilent wood worker from midnight till latermy lover my laughter my armor my makerThe ...Read Full Lyrics

[Stanza 1]Perfect petals punctuate the fabrics yellow bluesilver platters with strawberries strewn across the room[Stanza 2]In Zimmerman with sandals on one summer dress to choose[...Read Full Lyrics

You thought i was richAnd i am but not how you thinkI live in a tudor houseUnder the freeway in Mar Vista by the beachwhen you call i take my phone to the picnic tablethat i bought...Read Full Lyrics

Last year, when I wrote you my last letterthe beginning of my future poetryI acknowledged who you really were for the first timeI didn’t call you by any other nameI let y...Read Full Lyrics

Paradise is very fragile,and it seems like it's only getting worseDown here in FloridaWe’re fighting red toxic tidesMass of fish killsNot to mention hurricanes and rising...Read Full Lyrics