- Capable Of Cruelty
my love, what have you done
with all the time i thought i had?
come back, don't desert me,
cut from a cataleptic past
you're still the most ...
i was bent on making you believe you were wrong
and baby, you've played ...
- Easier
we were never meant to be apart
every step we take is getting harder
for all your promises pinned like ribbons to your bed
tell me
why’s the ice so thin around you
you say it gets easier to fall right through
suddenly we felt the night go numb
- frozen to the floor we believed everything
from every room hearts spoke through walls too thin to hold
the weight of what they heard
so fires crept through spaces long left soft and blurred
notes pushed under the doors
- Hail of Arrows
Sleep and forget until the names we knew are
Bodies walled in a doorless room
And we won’t turn back
Clouds of sparrows are startled into flight
As a hail of arrows is unleashed at the sky
And we won’t turn back
So here we go
- How Do These Hearts Unfold
when strangers meet
they seem more real to me
wide open spaces and consciences clean
and to what end must i protect
the boy i used to be
who thought a home where only silence falls
no clock inside its walls
could dodge a wrecking ball
- i know it's real
some distant part of me remembers
where the missile silos are concealed
the place all endings are imagined
i know it’s real
i know it’s real
but there must be time left
to confuse the coordinates
- Imagined Life
Lately you've been gathering fragments
Pictures, anecdotes
All in the hopes of substance quieting echoes
Ghosts who've kissed your hand then
Cut your throat
'Cause maybe then her love could sleep
In autumn starlight
Cold and deep
- Longer Shadows, Shorter Days
left behind when summer’s over
in quiet lineups by the lake
cheating hearts descend like clouds of falling leaves
to lie and rot and wait for rain
summer heat will you drain your blood from me
into lawns and limpid pools where your kiss was young and cruel
cut by cut and play by play it will always be this way
- Night Fighter
look down upon the coastline
the airstrip strange and bare
just let the instruments slide
the radio dead air
back when you were young you knew the words
now they’re just a distant hum
the sun was bright behind her
- Old Fires
no shadow beneath my feet
no trace left on the ground
i used to think that our hearts could beat
the speed of sound
we’d soar past the crowd like angels
hardly visible
and back to the times we’d time to kill
- Pale Blue Black Holes
rows of small squares on
folded sea charts
remote trapdoors
marking sinking hearts
shades of palest blue where
we climbed the masts
and kicked black holes
through the one-way glass
- Pseudo-drowning Victim
you swear that you'll never get away from this town
if it's weakness that keeps you then your dreams have been killed
your dreams have been killed
i don't have lost
i've lost my time
but i walk away from you
from you
- Relentless
your voice had me so hard
and so fast, and so far.
i've been drawn in by your eyes
i'm helpless, i'm helpless
and do you feel me too?
i'm fading
i'm rarely used up
- Scent
by the end of the summer
you were so alive
and your essence seductive as hope
before it died
so we fell into winter
what a senseless fall
it was all i could do to feel the cold at all
- Secret Garden
my love buried its young with
just one question
it broke the spell
i’ve bitten my tongue but
- Still Inside You
I'm still inside you,
Your supernova intravenous,
Sliding serpentine through miles,
of empty hallways
I am always needing something
I'm still inside you,
Your glowing ocean phosphorescent,
- The moment that i will miss
Nothing is changing
I know, I know, I know, I know
Just rearranging words
I know, I know, I know, I know
Been to trying to convince ourselves of this eclipse
and shed some sign, it's all wrong
maybe I've been lost too long
- The Past Is The Prey
love
you promised me
then you led us deeper into the trees
and looped the trail where it traced the thin air
when you track the old days
remember the game
the past’s not always the prey
- The Waiting's Over
no more oceans left
reserves have all been tapped and spent
so raise the floodlights
shipwrecks on the snow
they seem so small against the glow
we struck the night blind
- There's hope yet
The mornings you stole away
I kept my eyes low
Let you break my heart
You break my heart
Her ceilings and sandbars
Locations unknown
We’ve gone way too far
- trains we both missed
long good-byes like
magic tricks
left us transfixed
from separate crumbling platforms
waiting for
trains we’d both missed
i watched the meteor’s tail flash
- Unrequited, Stolen Lakes
i can imagine you
spreading your wings out in the snow
and as the morphine drips
the scenery shifts
to somewhere i've never known
i'm thinking this could be real
that maybe my dreaming wasn't in vain
but as i approach your side
- Violet Light
i don't feel it
i don't feel it anymore
the city drowns itself
heard the sirens from the shore
i won't suffer this
i won't suffer this for you
fields of orchids burn
- We Were Never Young
From every room hearts spoke through walls too thin to hold
the weight of what they heard
So fires crept through spaces long left soft and blurred
Notes slipped under the doors
frozen to the floor we believed everything
leaves blown beneath the eaves
whirring like a nest of wound-up starlings