I found you grieving in the grass Sky blood water color blue You seem so simple sure and sad So I sat down to grieve with you You raised your hand to shield you...

My friends are working on avoiding me So when we meet I keep my mouth real busy Talk out my nervous energy It never works I throw darts at the wall and get slop...

The afterparty's rickin' girl And everybody's dancing for you But you're just drinking all my ballantine And laughing while your lips turn blue Your friends ar...

This is the window where I watched the future start My pupils dilated The shock sped up my arms I shut my ambushed eyes And turned my face towards the heat I f...

It's a brushfire spreading, feeding as it moves It's a disappeared glacier; it's the airborne flu It's your disbelieving eyes logging concrete miles It's your y...

A good man doesn't drink And I've been drinking alone So what does that make me? My hands they always shake And no one's calling my phone So what does that mak...

I found you grieving in the grass Sky blood water color blue You seem so simple sure and sad So I sat down to grieve with you You raised your hand to shield you...

Brooklyn boy, born and raised Chopping lines, hey hey It's my birthday It's a toy I torch to tarpit flames A lockjaw night, hey hey It's my birthday And your d...

My brother's blood boils in my arms It balls my fingers into fists It bubbles blisters burns my palms It floods with fury, fights, and fits It's got the good gu...

I quit the carnival and moved next door Thought I'd had enough but I wanted more So now I'm sneaking out at night I clean my face and shine my shoes And go wher...

I'd give myself a hand if I were you The right words are never ones I say. Songs like these They carry little weight now. Cause they're about honesty They're ab...

The bricks get laid, And they get torn up, And laid again, But the bricks always get torn up again Your friends won't wait, So don't believe that shit, When th...

You carry the beach in your way-too-short hair That you shaved off last week cause you freaked and got scared That when it's longer, you remind me of her So yo...

You're hot fog I can feel you and you're not far off I can taste you and you're what I want But I can't know you even when you're in my arms You're burnt sky A...

i'm looking at you through a wine glass i'm watching the light play games with your face i'm tracing your mouth with my fingers i'm trying to pick up your taste...

The moralist on the mountaintop The cap gun cowboy caught playing dress up Patrols his cartoon beat with his costume clothes The damn fool with his ten-top chip...

you always wanna be told you're right maybe i got sick of lying all the time you always say you're taken for granted i'm just re-reprimanded ruined by your fath...

i saw your haircut in a storefront the choppy sides and perfect bangs i loved the way it framed the model's cheekbones the blank expression on her face so i wen...

In the hand of God there's a cattle prod That keeps shocking us along 'Til we're flung from roofs without parachutes To fill the patches on his lawn There's an...

A reporter in a jailroom, whispering her source to a dying bul While the prince is in a fable, peaceful in his cradle, convinced of the impossible: All those wi...

One, two, three, four, one I could be with anyone Just while the honeymoon burns bright No electricity that keeps things light I'm not saying that it's right I...

Do you know how ridiculous you sound When you say you might be in love with me Not cause I want you to Not cause I want you to I've got to stop coming around he...

You wrestle yourself to the ground You springboard and kick yourself in the mouth Cause all of that drama, that embarrassed charade Couldn't stop you or settle ...

I found my fickle friend out in the alley way He said "You don't look so good" I said "Hey, Doc, that's great" "You started practicing, I never got the note" So...

Less yesterday and more today I gotta get my head on straight The tree trunks rot and people get caught Buying bullshit we don't need or want Well full forests...

I think I thought so much about losing you That I never really had you You spend so much time You spend so much time When you think you've got all the time in t...

I saw your freckles on the shoulders of a stranger today And my heart lept, and my heart lept I saw the sickle of a dimple slash the side of her face And my hea...

The longer that I'm out here the better you sound You're scrunching up your face in this picture I found And I'm chasing after you, steadily losing ground I don...

sleep peacefully like the way you look this morning with faith in your eyes and me in your hands a whispered promise in your heart lullaby for a snow-faced girl...

Me and my friends, we don't encourage discipline Or really much of anything We do our drugs to wheel it up and tell ourselves that this is love But it's never a...

I cry at her bowl, dog's dying day A bone in her bowl, a watery grave See, I am a sailor, but I'm not so great I keep fishin' for roadkill, passin' out on the ...

Your skin's in my mouth, But I'm thinkin' about Thousands of things That don't got your name So, I'm distant and weird; We stop and you're all ears But how can...

A Cadillac drives down my street, A bead of sweat pouring slow down a palm line I see a bumper sticker: it's a bearded man with a wanted sign A myth we've made ...

You were always cute But goddamn! you got hot Hot enough to streak the streets white with sunspots when you walk And I'm still obsessed with cowboys and Indians...

Oh baby, baby please I feel an urgent need to apologize I did a terrible thing in a terrible dream And now I can't look you in the eye It started: We were out ...

you probably don't wear your glasses but you probably need them to read and you probably value your downtime and you probably don't get much sleep and you proba...

I stopped today to see myself in subway glass and I was scared of the way I look now I knew the only thought behind my eyes please don't believe in me I don't w...

So what if it's freezing, I'm awake and I'm happy The sun's steepling its shards on my floor I drag my feet to the shower and I hear someone singing I keep the ...

You get back here You do it slowly Do it calm, now Don't be so angry I got something I've been chasing Every day since I started walking It just sits there In...

I never knew things could be so slow I could wait so long Be so still and calm And get where I want, on your arm Thin streaks of tar spill off your right eye W...

40 million refugees with no place on this earth to call their home One for every aimless graduate with nothing else to show for it but loans And those of us who...

she's crossing out the details and dusting off the picture frames, it's saturday she's been waiting for the phone to ring she's been waiting all night but it do...

You drag your tiger's paw across Your chapped & cracking lips, And open up a crimson slur You spread each time you kiss The broken boy you bargain with To turn...

Trouble tracks me down It's been draggin me around Since my feet first touched the ground And I'm kickin like a kid Cause I can't get rid of it And it's never ...

We're a nation full of dumbbells Pulling nightshifts at the gym We're a nation full of bookworm girls Dumbing down to fall in love with them We're a nation ful...

I got a wolf's mouth And it suits me I chew the sides out With my sharp teeth I cut my tongue up I make my gums bleed I scare the people That pay to see me Whe...

I go to the places where you are I find you hanging out I paste my eyes wide open And I turn everything inside out I am turning into everything I hate And you a...

im running out of things to say to you 'this always takes so long' is what you said before you said so long this kind of wordplay gets you ostrisized but if you...

Tonight I'm posed and popping like a peacock I'm pressing flesh, I'm smiling big, my spinning head sings "Stop, just stop" Cause what used to calm me down Just ...

Your bearings are shot And your car'd only work like she used to Your friends don't call and they don't even bother With offering excuses The tv is on but it's ...

The sputter and blink of a streetlamp Makes you taller then shrinks you then splits you in half So you're trailing yourself On the walk to the pay phone Your p...

Your husband, He drinks like a writer, But he writes like a banker, I hope his pens all run dry You watch him from your cave in the corner, Full moon eyes flam...