Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) piosenki

There is a picture of Jeff, me, and you Standing on the docks of Long Beach Harbor Like we had discovered it or conquered it on our own As though we were spanish explorers claiming it for the queen My hair was longer then It was right before the Fourth O...

When I was eight or nine I took a trip up north With my brother, my father and my uncle We woke up early and packed bagged lunches And cans of pop into a cooler And drove to a canoe rental in Mesick We split up in two canoes I imagined us as Lewis and C...

I watched your cheeks flush, colored by an air from a calgary cold front Your breath made ghosts spill into the night And gather as if they might not disappear I had heard a rumor you were moving back home! But even if it was true, i did not expect to hear...

Will the same mistakes haunt you like they used to do? Or are you afraid that your body won't let you choose? You are your father's son, and the same disease that holds you held him once! And i know if you push this hard it will still take hold You cannot...

We have been watching you for weeks, getting weaker This time next month you'll be gone How do you say goodbye? How do you spend time waiting for... I should be home with you 

I wrote it down, in case i might forget how tall you make me feel- Like i was towering over trees and buildings (and you made it sound so easy) Then, i would wear your strength like a bright badge pinned to my chest Right there, you made me swear i would n...

I was wrong, you were not bigger than this And long before i was baltimore bound You had changed- your heart was not in it And the fewer words that tied your hands to this, the better Cut all ties off, and retreat to your father’s house! But i think it’...

On a late spring day, when summer began to take shape You lowered your head to bear an uneven compromise How your voice held steel, make sharp by the sound of it aloud! You were drunk on each syllable; you could not even hear what it sang When you were yo...

I remember when you thought you found god Painted a cross on your forehead And wandered around my backyard like a saint Or a shepherd tending to his flock The irony was not lost on me And for all your newfound love You still seemed like a bastard The...

Summer, Linden County Park Half the population beach-bound Children doggedly swim The maybe four-feet deep out the barrier allowed But we haunt just a mile away Tracing the faded white pant from a cross country track meet When we come into an open field...

I became an atheist the Junior year of my spring semester in college My friend from back home moved into our already crowded two-bedroom apartment That now housed four And five when Cathy would move in later that year He was unyielding and used logic Li...

City lights grace the interstates, The way you moved your hands through your hair when you feel alone. Remember the flowers you picked when we crossed over Madison? You were so sure you found yourself that you branded it into an oak - the one you swore...

You had made plans for the colder months ahead And braced yourself for disappointment Michigan winters have such a way of isolating breath from your body But they were such strong traits that your father passed down to you And when they wore you out, they...

He long days piled into weeks before you'd speak, as the storm crawled to meet the shoreline. and it began to rain at once! I tried (i tried, i tried, i tried) to keep the awful things at bay from you But it was on the air and useless I might as well have...

You bobby-pinned your auburn hair back As we crossed over the washington state line in my grandfather's car We were fleeing the scene of a california coast line Where we buried our dreams among the gridlock and concrete Barefoot, we pulled off the road,...

I almost died at twenty-one In January, driving northbound on Abbott Road The car in front of us slammed their brakes down hard And slid off onto the right-hand shoulder We were probably following too close But I honestly can't remember We swerved int...

You carry all your weight- Tightly stretched across your face Like evidence or proof that everything aged you I measured steady breaths (afraid of truth, or of being rebuked) "what horrible things cling to you?" I did not expect to get an answer at all...

Will i ever understand how anything gets done? I tied a knot in my heart for you, thinking that's what you wanted I tried to make my voice sincere (tell everyone how hard it was!) And anyway, i could never reach your ears Like the weight of it's wings were...

My three best friends and I planned a week-long trip For our spring break during our senior year of high school We were untethered and free and grown We left before the sun rose and began the first leg To Virginia Beach for a couple of days Before headi...

All the streets had emptied, spilling forth like a parade, and you Were eighteen and i was eighteen. then, all of east lansing was Littered with collegiate speak and irony that slurred new beginnings With tired speech. now, it serves as a constant reminder...