• LYRICS
GREEN MANSIONS (One-Sided LP)
No label, Feb 2007
Glowering Gaze (Every Other)
Glowering gaze of the bright dismay
Of every other one
Think for a while as you turn and smile
The night has just begun
Couldn’t you see that you sleep in me
And everyone you know?
Couldn’t you feel how the lights
Reveal an ever-present glow?
And I was the last of a line
Surpassed by every other one
And mine was the name
That would come to flame
Stopped in the night
Where the endless bright
Was where you did belong
Drunk on the gleam
Of some brightened beam
Some useless trivial song
And I was the last of a line
That passed up every other one
And mine was the name
That would come to blame.
 Green Mansions
Green houses up and down the sides of the mountain
Green houses all on fire up and down the mountain
That’s how I’ll remember now
I sound like everyone else
But only when I talk to you
I sink into the side of the room
And every other day
Is how I’ll remember now.
Icicle Hands
instrumental
Peg
(see also: Fill Up The Room)
Right now I can barely tell if I’m sleeping or awake
In a little while it’ll be the morning
You’re lost in the after-hours
Take my number down
Write it on your hand, call me in the morning
And which of these worlds is going to find you?
Is going to remind you what you’ve got to do?
And why do you feel like you’re being lied to now
And why don’t it feel like anything new?
Peg, it’s almost winter time
Is it snowing where you are?
Wait another hour and it’ll be the morning
It’ll be the morning then.
Third Part Of The Night
Made of stone, made up of mercury
Fossils fragmentaly
Pieces of bones
In the snow, indecipherably
Messages left to be left all alone
Let them go
Let them be forgotten
Buried low under layers of light
In the snow
All alone in the third part of the night
Made of stone
Made up of remnants of some sort of angry love
Something you knew
On your own with all your windows wide open
And your songs surrounding the world.
Leave Home
instrumental
Leave It Alone
Push those buttons and dial my number
Seven and the area code
All the clouds you’ve been dreaming under
Rolling out until the sky leaves you alone
They say “Maybe we should leave her alone.”
But all the people you grew up with now
They’re all living in the same zone
You come back and you’re automatically
Thrown into the only world they’ve ever known
But maybe you should leave them alone
From the tops of houses
I’m yelling to the people below
That when I see you know
It feels unlike anything that I’ve ever known
But maybe we should leave it alone
I’ve no idea what you’re going through
And I’ve no idea where you’re going
But when I’m in the same room as you
I can feel it in the center of my bones
Do you think we’ll leave it alone?
From the tops of the houses
I’m telling everybody I know
That when I feel this out
I could never leave it alone
And when I see you now well,
A shock keeps coming through in the weight
Of the road that I’m on
And from the tops of the houses
I’m yelling to the people below
That when I see you now
It feels unlike anything that I have ever known
But maybe we should leave it alone.
Yelling
instrumental
Spelling
instrumental
How We Souund
Striking the porch
When you drew your daydreams like cities underneath you?
Come back out of the dark with the contact paper
Surrounding your soundtracks firing
How entirely?
After everything’s gone and the chapters turn into songs
And the songs turn into tines and tissues
Somehow you still sing along
With some sleepless, forgotten summer song
Made up memories are still pretending
You were the first to get out
And nobody asked you about how we sound
How entirely forced
was the lightening striking the porch...
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