Late one night when you were sleeping
we stayed up and watched the X-Files
Safe and sound just you and me tonight
we forgot out language like a fawn
pulling on the skin of something new
One more time
for the floor
cue up the disco shine
can't leave em wanting more
we party in the streets
to catch a cider glow
check in to chainsaw life
come on and take me home.
Our skin will be flush in moonlight
and covered in the sun
we can make it if we try
we can make it out alive
tonight
Drawn and vineyard,
ink and bone.
Etched in neon cuneiform,
every word paints the world
in figures, a silent vow.
Teeth and leather,
bending palms,
ivory fire like semaphore in the sun,
it's the one.
The secret.
Surrender now.
Death.
I felt it in my hand,
I taste it on my breath,
when we open every door.
After years of patient days,
when the perfect moment waits,
in a movement without sound.
When we grind the madder root,
and we dip raw cloth into...
it's an endless summer red.
Emery fields,
motion blur,
etched in silver avenues in the sun, when we run.
A striking, so captured, waits.
Every moment,
spinning in fields of garden marigolds
in downtown, all around.
We wait for the final day.
Death.
I felt it in my hand,
I taste it on my breath,
when we open every door.
After years of patient days,
when the perfect moment waits,
in a movement without sound.
When we grind the madder root,
and we dip raw cloth into...
it's an endless summer red.
I used to live like I was running from a fire
Turnt up and burning in the moments of desire.
Fleeting emotions hit me in the / static of the daylight
and I’d crash and burn like I was living on the wire.
Some days it feels like maybe
I’d crack like the concrete
Still, I keep searching for the hooks in the world.
Deeper commitments than the price of pretty pearls.
‘Cause I crave the anchor of this / nightly survival
And I’m reaching out for the thrill of it tonight
Is it the end of the world?
is it the end of the world?
Have I forgotten who I am?
Deep in the heat of the night
Deep in the heat of the night
This is where I make my stand.
Let’s say we give it everything that we have
Full throttle foreword to the infinite expanse.
Blazing horizons begging / just to be tasted
And we’d take it all in if we only got the chance.
Crush in the blue of midaugust
we keep these axles on the grind
We scan from station to station to station to station...
and we take our time… just take our time.
Decades of static survival
dry hills and windmills in a line
This highway stretches forever
so take your time… Just take your time.
If you’re out there,
I will cover my face in flames.
and, etched in reverse,
this plate will detail
the day we elided our names
And Oh, I’ll be the presence in your estuary
strike for the kill when the battle begins
And Oh, whatever paperwork is necessary
strike for the kill when the battle begins
I've slept out under fig tree
I’ve pulled a blossom from the vine
I’ve heard the crack of the lightning
And I take my time… yes I take my time.
If you’re out there,
I will cover my face in flames.
and, etched in reverse,
this plate will detail
the day we elided our names
And Oh, I’ll be the presence in your estuary
strike for the kill when the battle begins
And Oh, whatever paperwork is necessary
strike for the kill when the battle begins
You're like an answering machine
dropping names after the beep
it's a phone that everybody calls
was it the moment of a life?
slow motion stepping to the stage
somebody handing you the gold...
Were you the king of the world?
Oh yeah....
Just like the right of the Spring?
Not quite
But you took it all of the way?
Hell yeah
It's from the calendar to now
the birds have taken to the ground
we got a bullet from an all-nighter
we're drinking water from a cave
nobody take it for a find
and now the lights are going out
I'm on
You're off
I'm on
You're off
on and off again
only lines against the white sky
lines against the desert roadside
and they vanish into thin air
fall into the horizon out there
and they carry waves
carry signals
carry words
carry figures
but we faded into sunlight
faces nothing more than dull white
in the comma of a slow year
we danced along the dry earth out there
on the cherry waves
the amber ceilings
on the dashboard grain
on the silent heatwaves
Joanna don't fade in the dark
Joanna don't break on the call
Joanna stay here on the line
Joanna don't brace for the fall
Joanna don't sink on the tide
Joanna don't flicker away
The scent of orange blossom at night
The chill of salt wind on the bay
Somewhere beyond the empty hours… I feel it
Where color fades to bending light
When all the silent rhythms of the evening come to life
Give me a sign if you’re out there
I’d burn the negative to speak your name
Give me a sign if you’re out there
Speak if you're out there...
Out there...
In endless fields of tempered brass and satin
Out there…
bathed in the glow of amber light
Out there…
we move in secret ceremonies
beyond this life
Give me a sign if you’re out there
I’d burn the negative to speak your name
Give me a sign if you’re out there
Speak if you’re out there...
Turn up the lights
Adjust the aperture
I’m ready
I was adrift for days
I was a wanderer
But if I return, will the air still rise?
If I reach for it one more time?
Feel it all rushing back like a dream
These seconds burn to the edge of the scene
Hit like the break in the waterfall
Lowercase v
Hit like the light to the celluloid
Lowercase v
my finest hours
trimmed off and cast aside
in echoes
This languid pause,
The inhale before the lines.
If these moments fall to the wind, to the flames...
If we’re left with nothing but titles and names...
Feel it all rushing back like a dream
These seconds burn at the edge of the scene
Hit like the break in the waterfall
Lowercase v
Hit like the light to the celluloid
Lowercase v
I was a ghost
A Double exposure
At the edge of the frame
And every word was erased for the sake of the trades
Only a touch
Only a witness
Only an army of eyes
Only a slow quarter turn in the glow of the arclight
I lived the dream of a lost youth
I lived the dream of a lost youth
I lived a life tearing off pearls
I lived a life burning in frames
With each and every close of the shutter
I leave it all behind me
deep in the heat of the night
I savor this pain
I lived a life tearing off pearls
I lived a life burning in frames
Trust…
every desire
in the flavor within
In the cold silver light, I can feel it begin.
With every turn,
every direction
We bring a desert to life
And every word a mirage in the hush of the moonlight
I lived the dream of a lost youth
I lived the dream of a lost youth
I lived a life tearing off pearls
I lived a life burning in frames
With each and every close of the shutter
I leave it all behind me
deep in the heat of the night
I savor this pain
I lived a life tearing off pearls
I lived a life burning in frames
Fire… every photo that you leave behind
well it burns like a neon light
Drive… desert chrome is all you need to survive
For this life on the borderline
When you you just can’t hold it in, hold it back, hold it down
& You fall away from everything and everyone in every town
I know you’re looking for something
I know you’re waiting for the night to come
It’s like you’re praying for winter
Cold to the touch, you’re the only one
Ghost... every whisper, every word you speak...
to the dawn, will it fade away?
And this fate, overflowing pages of florid lines...
but you can’t find the words to explain, no.
When you you just can’t hold it in, hold it back, hold it down
& You fall away from everything and everyone in every town
I know you’re looking for something
I know you’re waiting for the night to come
It’s like you’re praying for winter
Cold to the touch, you’re the only one
Into the hush where you hesitate
under the seams of a foreign bridge
fade into the night
don't forget this
When every tongue felt the scarlet itch
and every word was a velvet touch
pinfeathers alight
can you feel it?
I take the time get my body right
won't see the day when I see the light now
I'm a strange absolute in this world
I'm a witness
reach out a hand if you're feelin right
reach out a hand if you feel it right now
I'm awake
I'm alive
I'm alone
I'm a witness
To be the break in the fevered now
silent and still on the funeral pyre
Saffire and gold
bathed in regalia
To be the breath of the running dog
each step a leap off the burning ground
Teeth, echo, and fade
straight into silence
I take the time get my body right
won't see the day when I see the light now
I'm a strange absolute in this world
I'm a witness
reach out a hand if you're feelin right
reach out a hand if you feel it right now
I'm awake
I'm alive
I'm alone
I'm a witness