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

On New Year's Eve last December I was out on tour playing a show at the Fire in Philadelphia While you were all alone at home The only body occupying our lonely apartment I watched the TV through the window from outside the bar And counted down the seco...

It was almost like snow Elsie counted the number of flakes Before they came to a rest on the soft summer grass She lost count at fifty-four Her mother lay draped across the lawn Like she hadn't slept in days and days But how could one possibly sleep Whe...

Your hands were broken But you wouldn't cry out As we tore your heart apart Should i thought of you with sadness? Or a small, small, price to pay... But you should have known better Oh, i admit to no wrong! You should have understood I had no choice, n...

After graduating from college I moved back home to my parents' house in Fenton It would be the first of three more separate stints My brother helped get me a part-time job Peddling paint at Sherwin-Williams The idea was to stay for a year and save up...

Though I know it’s not true I still believe that I have the body of my late teens Or early twenties And that my legs could still lead off The four by one team that would have made state If we hadn't dropped the baton during a mangled hand-off Age has a v...

Last night, i dreamt the old, sea foam green paint In the room my brother and i once shared Was swallowing up the walls again (a forest of latex reclaiming acres of land) You were there too! Swimming in your father's army jacket and sprawled across my fl...

In the infancy of our relationship When we were almost exclusively hanging out Together with friends Cathy and I went to St. John's Applefest It was held every fall in the parking lot of the Catholic church I had attended as a youth Converting the quart...

Our apartment was breathing Like each groan was its last will and testament Or as if every single secret it heard was a weight on its chest It just had to get off And the marching band that follows my upstairs neighbor around Is keeping feverish time dur...

I have not done in my five years what you did in yours Your twenty-two versus my twenty-nine I know it does no good comparing lives But I am such a slow, slow learner And at times, not at all Should I stop writing now? I could give me life to better thi...

A borrowed prayer died before it filled your lips Your grandfather was the one who taught you it To speak in troubled times, to carry you to port Now mechanical, it seems so meaningless And what do I think Death is death is death And no amount of prayer...

You settled into uneasy sleep, a subtle hint that things were changing And every breath of labored rest brought new designs of old regrets And how they aged you! How they took your strength away! (when they entered your body and pinned fear to weight) Pu...

My parents offered me one hundred and fifty dollars or a Varsity Jacket To be adorned by my track and band Letters In the form of a big, bright, orange "F" It would have been a keepsake at best Never worn or dressing my tiny high school frame Like a unif...

We slept by the ottoman Autumn rushing to our ears (a symphony of leaves kissing leaves kissing leaves) This time last year, you were a ghost Trapped in your room and spanning the length of your bed to your door Like it was the atlantic What a differen...

The week before summer ended Danny and I were swimming in Runyan Lake It was the beginning of the end of all things And we both felt change coming like The passing of seasons was a banner or a tide Danny was on the verge of dropping out of high school A...

You wore a hand-me-down dress that never fit quite right Your mother's frame did not favor you The summer she passed you were born, and you father lost his job He could not handle it (or you) You wore the saddest smile that never fit quite right Your mo...

Don't say goodnight. Is this your life, or are you Holding on? Dear it's alright to say enough! To let your body break down And they will never know what broke your heart. If only I could say how sorry I felt Don't turn your head- it's hard enough to know...

I spent one week every summer at Camp Tapico For every year I was a Boy Scout The camp felt like an entire separate country Or as if the rest of the world had disappeared And we were the only ones left alive We traveled in packs We rode our bikes every...

Oh sure, you can look for reasons And try to be them, for a while But you know you can't be her answer She was never after truth Will your mother still blame you If she knew all the words that she said Drove you here A half a world away Destroying your...

You always wear neutral colors You are a forest of gray and brown And your bed is always empty Elizabeth was right You keep your guard up higher than a castle wall And your hands are always buried in your pockets I know what happened On the grounds of...