- Brand New Love
Restless eyes close
Maybe it'll go away
Please rest tomorrow
Bring a satisfied day
The restless urge in love
That's worth burning for
Surely it's that one consuming
- First Part
So this is the first part
We're drunk and the selfless relentless caresses
How long must the first part last
Before we make our respective messes?
Well all the clocks wound down
Well all the clocks wound down
And all the doors thrown open
- Foolish
It would be nice to breathe
[it would be] nice to breathe
[it would be] be nice to [leave] sometimes
Nail the windows shut
Leave on the [heat]
We have bowls to burn up and back
It would be nice to breathe
It would be nice to leave sometimes
- Highly Suspect
Washing out again
Keeping my elbow bent
An angle i pretend it’s casual
Oh i’m just pouring water from my shoes
And drinking through the news
Spinning out so hard it’s radical
You’ve been highly suspect
- Home At Dawn
Incidental Music LP, Merge Records / 1995
Turned over and spun around,
Take me back where you've got it down.
Reciting lines out of a book.
Who wrote it? I forgot to look
I tried to grab a bunch, but there was only one.
- Invitation
the way i told you
i never thought you'd believe me
and you took my offer
and doubled it back [above me]
and now it
[hold on
expect you
decision
- Learned To Surf
Leaves In The Gutter EP, Merge Records / 2009
If I seem out of it,
I've just gone to find you, Ill be back in a bit.
Circles close up, but circles are wide.
We'll be wearing wigs and costumes, won't need any hole to hide.
When I learned to walk, humans roamed the earth.
- Like A Fool
Foolish LP, Merge Records / 1994
I dreamt you chased down the car,
Waving a sign that made no sense.
I drifted in and out,
I read the sign out loud.
Like a fool.
- Package Thief
Running with both hands outstretched
Accepting the package
Only a son understands
He's in the basement
The kids around are scared
They keep their distance
Room after room stolen goods
- Rainy Streets
As two lanes slicken
And the clouds they hug that ridge just stickin'
When the wind that whistles knocks the panes from old windows
Down rainy streets
There's a light that meets the ground
In the warm rush of blood to the head fights the sick that's been around
- Seed Toss
i put a stake in your spokes
and you better laugh at my jokes
you better memorize this face
you better stay in my good graces
chorus
cause (and) here you come on your broom
your mood ring's turning brown
- Sidewalk
If you want to get out, get out
I'm not sure what you're crying about
There's no buried electric wire
There is no lock on this town
Well you say you feel trapped
Yeah I bought you a map
And I think you'll find
- Silver leaf and Snowy Tears
Silverleaf and snowy tears
Wish I could have frozen time this year
You know nothing grows up here
It's all silver leaf and snowy tears
You know nothing grows up here
I'm digging in the permafrost
- This Night
take me out tonight
i still remember your tail lights
they were red
all the way to the highway
and uptown was alive until
uptown up and died
here we are dancing
- This Summer
Oh, this summer
We won't regret what we cannot know
Oh, they can lift the roof right off of this house
Yeah they can cancel all our shows
We'll make a break for the bridge after raiding the fridge
Pick up your friends in Baltimore
My parade of ships and a tape full of hiss
and we'll forget what came before