WRITTEN ON YOUR WALL
Talk to me
Alueeyualuah
It’s not too clear
Alueeyualuah
I need you you know
Alueeyualuah
What’s going on in there?
Alueeyualuah
The feeling’s mutual
It’s the same the other way
Play it backwards if you want
If it’s games you want to play
Now I ask myself
Alueeyualuah
When your ice starts to thaw
What is written on your wall?
You never know nobody quite
You let me see
Come again
What I want to see
What’d you say?
You let me write
Alueeyualuah
What I want to read
Come again
Now I ask myself
Alueeyualuah
When your ice starts to thaw
What is written on your wall?
When your ice starts to thaw
What is written on your wall?
When your ice starts to thaw
What is written on your wall?
You never know nobody quite
I sail tonight
Where strangers know me best
Really really now?
A simple life
On modest bread
Is it what you want?
I’m sailing back
I’ve changed my mind
Really really now?
Because I want to know
I really need to know
Really now?
Now I ask myself
When your ice starts to thaw
What is written on your wall?
When your ice starts to thaw
What is written on your wall?
When your ice starts to thaw
What is written on your wall?
You never know nobody quite
Your eyes are drawn (on)
And your lips are drawn (on)
Nothing else is drawn (on)
From memory
Our words are gone
My peace of mind gone
And your body’s drawn (on)
From memory
Alueeyooaluah
Alueeyooaluah
Alueeyooaluah
Alueeyooaluah
THE COMPANY
You're a three piece cipher
On the tower of sin
Called a company
When the sun disappears
Your loved ones clock in
To keep you company
That little voice win your head that tells you wrong from right
It's yelling from the bottom of a canyon tonight
You can't make it out when the rocks start to slide
You wake up inside the company
There's no time to argue the master plan
It's simple, keep it company.
Go on a cozy up with the law of the land
keep it company
All memory fades inside your box of sand
You follow the leader from an unmarked sedan.
You're driven to the point
You can't call yourself a man
Welcome to the company
Your point of view is everything
Are you looking for a bright eye?
A bright idea?
Keep it company
They turn the rare exception
Into daily events
At the company
It's a capital crime to connect the accidents.
Keep it company
They pulled the devil out of his pit
Sold it back to him plus fifty percent
You'll want for nothing
That's how their story went
There's no ending at the company
Welcome to the company
Your point of view means everything
Is it a window, just a window, just a window through your soul?
Is it a window, just a window, just a window through your soul?
Are you looking for a bright eye?
A bright idea?
Keep it company.
There' s a kind of fear that doesn't pound on the door.
You already keep it company.
It telegraphs from below the noise floor
Everybody keeps it company.
The great armies on the planet guard the emptiest cell.
You'll get a key to go inside
Just when you think to rebel
You're wanted at the cliff's edge
Here's something for a dizzy spell…well?
Welcome to the company
Welcome to the company
Welcome to the company
It's the hand you had in it
The role you played in it
Are you looking for a bright eye?
A bright idea?
Keep it company
Hmmm.... Keep it company
Keep it company
Keep it company
THE DEFECTOR
You’re my enemy
I’m here to stomp out your kind
But that won’t do
No I’ve got a thing for you
You and I’ve got a secret
We’re sworn to opposite sides
What does it mean to feel?
Is it safe to confide?
We speak in codes
To conceal our lies
I just want to defect to you
I want to cut and run
I promise to kiss you again
When the war is done
Now you’ve found out my weakness
What will you make me confess to tonight?
My torn minds, fraught with dreams
You’re fleeing my rifle’s sights
How could I shoot out the world’s last light?
I just want to defect to you
I want to cut and run
I promise to kiss you again
When the war is done
Want to break the pattern here
I was trained to be clear
To cloak myself in your things
But did I go a stitch too far?
I want to pull you close
But the static might pick up
If I sleep with you
I might not wake up
Now all I want to protect is you
You and your barbed wire skin
Though you promise me everything
I have to wonder, did you just come to win?
I just want to defect to you
I want to cut and run
And when the moon scars the sky, I promise to kiss you again
When they blink their eyes
ROSE
Rose, Rose
Crooked smile, so vain
Fashionably late
On the lips of men
On the lips of men
See her
Black and white on film
On a bridge between two mists
She dropped out of frame
Into the rippled mirror Seine
Waited for a wave of strings
To spin me through the star machine
And when the star flew off the bridge
Over the rails of the Pont de Sully
I wanted to save her life
But I was glued to my seat
And when Rose flew off the bridge
They filmed it day for night at the Pont de Sully
And you wanted to savor her life
Eyes glued to the screen
Rose, Rose
For a locket off its chain
His picture petal flew
She broke the fourth wall
Never seeing me at all
My eyes betray me
My lips mum
In this velvet curtained tomb
Till the first reel begins
And she comes back again
And when the star flew off the bridge
Over the rails of the Pont de Sully
I wanted to save her life
But I was glued to my seat
And when Rose flew off the bridge
They filmed it day for night at the Pont de Sully
And you wanted to savor her life
You were glued to the screen
BOOKKEEPING FOR THE WORLD WAR
They need someone with an eye for details
Who doesn't get the picture very well
Is that what I'm here for?
To forget what I'm here for?
Counting drops in a downpour?
Bookkeeping for the world war?
If you're the one with too much to lose
With your hand over the centrifuge
And that's what you're cleared for
Just forget about the top floor
No one knows the words they sing
As they watch the expanding ring
An explosion from the war wing
You carry out the exercise
You do not moralize
That's not what you're here for
That's not what you're cleared for
Keep your eye on the short term
In so many words from the law firm
They're calling it a perfect storm
You call it soaked in a uniform
This just in through the out door
Yeah you've seen this before
You're one sale on the futures floor
Ghost notes in a symphony score
Bookkeeping for the world war
Everything you're aiming for
Happens out of the blue
No, no, no, you saw it coming a mile away.
Now the woman with the hookbone nose
Now the woman with book in her hand
Carved in stone
Now the woman with the hookbone nose
Now the woman with the book in her hand
Carved in stone
She's got news
She's got news
She's got news
She said if you want your future back
You've got to know where you came from
The thing you're not forgiven for
Happens out of the blue
Can't you see it coming a mile away?
TELLTALE HEART
Hear you knocking at my door
Waking up the neighborhood
Telltale heart, telltale heart
Charge right in with the fire you stole
From the hand of Lady Liberty
Telltale heart, telltale heart
The locks are there to deny you
To keep things in their place
So leave me now
To my skipping records and dinner trays
You think the world should revolve
Around your sweet tooth
But it leaves me with the taste
Of the mud on your boots
Telltale heart, telltale heart
When you’ve burned these walls down
What will this match-up prove?
How you’ve gotten strong,
Or me impossible to move?
Telltale heart, telltale heart
For so long I’ve exiled you
To your fabled city of gold
Your outlaw love
Tells of a fountain to cleanse my soul
The lengths I've gone to play it safe
Have all blown up in my face
Let's dive through the blaze
And dare to love what we can't contain
THIS IS KNEELING
Tell me are you braced for this?
This is kneeling
I wonder, were you raised for this?
This is kneeling
A simple thing
Can be profound
I’m going to put my lips to the ground
I’m ready, are you up to this?
This is kneeling
Have you ever seen a wound disappear?
This is healing
Have you ever prayed to stars
Through a crack in the ceiling?
This is the place
You’re standing on
Where grass still grows
Still grace might dawn
This could be an opening, a revealing
And this is a story bending
Your will into faith
An invitation
It’s time to dress this cut
Before it scars
Can you go there?
You are here
Have you stood to fight
What you cannot change?
Does the thought remain--
Just let go the reins, can you?
Sometimes you’re granted more
Than you’d dream of stealing
Sometimes you’re born on the hook
Then released in the reeling
Lay down your guard
And take it in
You’ll find the meaning
On your skin
Maybe we were made for this
This is kneeling
OPEN TO A LIGHT
You love the cruel world
You don’t hesitate
You’ve seen the underworld
And all kinds of suffering
Within its stone walls
You corner a runaway dream
And you cut yourself to pieces
And then you are all renewed
You are open to a light flooding the tomb
You know that poetry is sweetest by the light of the shattering moon
It’s not mercy you’re begging for
You’d rather take the pain
With your pie in sky
Tasting sweeter than the pie on your spoon
You are a hero in this life
You will, you will, you will have a taste for wounds
You love the cruel world
The one that makes you late
That breaks open your heart
And pours a stream for refugees
You give the ghosts back their names
Each tear its birthright claim
And when grief traps us like pictures
You pull us right out of our frames
You are open to a light flooding the tomb
You know that poetry is sweetest by the light of the shattering moon
It’s not mercy you’re begging for
You’d rather take the pain
With your pie in the sky
Tasting sweeter than the pie on your spoon
You are a hero in this life
A hero in this life
You will, you will, you will have a taste for wounds