Is the passion all gone?Or is it still newly-wed?If all this heat’s doingIs making us stick to the bedThen there’s no life to reviveBut if the hunger’s still thereBurried somewhere insideCovered up by the boredomWe’ve been trying to hideThen dig it upAnd devourAnd it’ll seem more like a songAnd less like it’s mathWhen you pull […]

The phone slips from a loose gripWords were missed then, some apologyI didn’t want to tell you thisNo, it’s just some guy she’s been hanging out withI don’t know, the past couple weeks I guessWell, thank you and hang up the phoneLet the funeral startHear the casket closeLet’s pin split-black ribbon to your overcoatWell, laughter […]

Tell me what you wanted to hearLet me do the right thingLet me do the wrong thingAnd if it’s ever this clearI will only say it onceJust let me turn the amps way upSo you can hear nothingAnd if I die tonightThen I guess I die tonightLet me go onJust say what you wanted to […]

I had a beautiful, beautiful timeThe drives and the talks were amazingThe kind of friend I thought I’d never findI had a beautiful, beautiful timeYou have a beautiful, beautiful smileThe way it curls and collapses on your lipsWhen you touch me I shake like a childIt’s late, I’m afraid you might leaveCause sometimes it seems […]

I was cold in a dreamsomewhere close to the surfaceBetween the ice and the streamthere is three inches of airSo I swam towards the lightI let my breath get there firstWhen I opened my eyesI saw myself in the mirrorAnd I knew I would do like my father has doneYes, we will never break from […]

Close your eyesThe dark outside can’t hurt youAnd I will never desert your bedsideSo close them tightThe stars are so glad that they’ve found youAnd on the blankets that surround youThey shine their lightThey shine their lightSo rest your headAnd I will be watching from the doorwayAs you slip into a perfect, peaceful sleepAnd morning […]

You turn on a spindleYou’re so much looser nowBut you’re not explaining howYou gained such new reposeI touch the clasp of your locketWith its picture heldSome secret you wouldn’t tellBut let it choke your neckSo imagine a darknessWhere all shapes divideSolids changing into lightWith a burst of heat so brightWell fine, don’t you do what […]

There’s a middle-aged woman, she’s dragging her feetShe carries baskets of clothes to a laundromatWhile the Mexican children, kick rocks into the streetAnd they laugh in a language I don’t understandBut I love them, why do I love them?So the neighborhood’s dimming, I smoke on the porchWatch the people as they pass enclosed inside their […]