Jets To Brazil

air traffic control it's me coach-class row thirteen i've got that sinking feeling is everything allright? stare at the wing and think it's later than i think look at these passengers if there's babies i'll survive it's hard to be a passenger for me...

I love my mother for all the things she's not But mostly for who she is I love my father for all the things he's thought But really for the things he did I love my piano though I wasn't ever taught Still I think I'm gonna live All things to those who wa...

Hello, old friend. It's been a while. How you been? All things must end, but did you know what that meant? The birds fly south. The summer sets. The lights go out. Leaves on the ground. Autumn walker, you just walked out. And I see it now. That it's so m...

In the dream that awakened me, You had come and taken me to a sea of stars. The cat stood in the flowers, two ears above. And the ground that was under me Was holding me so wonderfully on a bed of leaves And you were there with me and we were free. Ever...

candle is blue could see me through but I'm color blind they tell me it's blue and I'm a believer that's why I'm blind live on the freeway listen to signs and we drive by feel be a believer believe everything you'll be right half the time candle is waxing...

a hound's tooth coat pockets are bulging with nebutal bought from some doctor who also was bought to keep those pockets full the face was lost but partly recovered so half asleep and half in a frenzy one side tries to smile enough for two pictures remain...

we are the high street service trays coming to take you away pasadena 1968 with speed on your breakfast plate aunt cancer calls them happy pills they keep her calm and cool until he leaves the moccasin skin obsession leather thigh white tennis skirt so...

When you drive a nail through all that's good, The carpenter becomes the wood. If my concentration sounds like wreckage, It's 'cause I got a new feeling every thirty seconds. We put a monkey up in space and I know exactly how he felt. Looking at the latti...

i just found the frame where i took your picture away and in my wallet like a saint from some other place that picture repays my eyes as they glaze a thousand lashes from a love long gone away i'll know that you're gone for good when the dawn kicks...

The road tonight is cold with ice and no cars pass by. Thank god for no phone call. Just snow and a fire. December endings and since you sent me things, I just feel further north. This year took ten years to tell me that I'm alone again. Everything here's...

I live in a hotel must keep writing if I'm to be better than everyone else like figure skating like asphyxiating on your own seeping fumes you're just waiting living in a hotel but I'm not traveling between two points, in mid air, I'm levitating abo...

Rose, can I come down for a drink? It's happened again I've got a story I'm sure will end poorly I'll begin at the end Rose, you must know I couldn't find the words That it takes to say "stay" Now she's gone away Rose, can I come down to your...

In the tall grass of a long sun a quiet repast and I'm sweet nothings Come hell I'm your lover your man your friend your fair weather It's a world stopped afternoon passion legs your wordless All blue routes to your birth place chalk white wincing pretty in...

know that you'll soon go crazy just like a whittling stick hit by the coming daylight cut up in a quick succession a pointed confession really stripped of all your armor down to your very nature beneath the haze and vapor gaze you're such a willing stick t...

Do you know what would be good right here? some yellow A touch of humility, an original sin or two Half the math double the myth they told you to No aftertaste no residue chop chop you're through Our good order taker has what it takes to make it It's up...

there's a sign up ahead says no signs for a while and a line in my mind from a song we both like it sounds like me and you and all we're going through flip the tape hit rewind it's my turn to drive little light tonight i just saw our whole life you'r...

How long will you wait for me to come around? And wouldn't it be great if everything worked out? I wouldn't come home late after hiding out. I'd tell you everything. How I couldn't life without you now. How long will it take before I wake up unafraid to t...

what will you do to turn this around so many behind you so many before you ticket in one hand gun in the other what will you do which hand will you use? came on the run and you will leave running there's always someone to keep you from thinking loving h...

now she's milk and she's apples you're scotch and segregation lips like molasses you're smiling saccharine sidewalks crashing the car just to make a connection each week greasing the palm of the grease monkey keep it discreet while she types and she an...

morning new disease charcoal in bed boansoaked anemic listen in horror to the scraping of flatware and china and saran wrap to stifle libido air shaft a chasm their lives flung open sickness is a time for hating your neighbors in their milk flats with fi...

kid i held you with these arms that felt so hard you kept your chin up and i held my guard made a prison bed from a life i never led let me correct these mistakes you delight in God i hope i get it right I've been practicing tonight kid i hope it holds s...

words in my head atom splitting up the twins rocks inside my head again keeps me from your bed sends me errand boy at swim to drag my lake for scars do the stars conspire to kill us off with loneliness am i so inspired that i could save the both of u...

sickly surrender to cola remember machines shaky somnambulist shiver out all your screams go to the room with the chair and wait for your life scared that the voices i hear may never be mine seven december a paper back letter recalls you knew such happin...

I'm a long list with no time, sunset panic on the street. Sugar and light bulbs, The milk of kindness is behind us now with all those stones in your coat. Did you think they wouldn't know? The tea leaves of trashed sheets, dirty needles and sweets. Zero...

Oh hair of dread, the time is here. Thirty-three, the sheep draw near with eyes so keen They cannot hear all the lies that buy their ears. Oh, horsepants, tobacco chest. Oh, sex ghost. Oh, nape of neck. The tears are crashing on her breasts. The burning...

there's glass in this rug tiny splinters pass all just missiles to bloodstream the lead in water collects in liver all just signals inside me pass me the remedy get this chip out of my head subjects wants to come down - refuses lead there's gas in one l...

Headlights and red eyes, a warm beer between your thighs. Mess of pills, Hollywood hills, the red lights. Read me my rights. Going in a circle, getting tighter every turn. Think you're getting better but you're never quite sure. Say it's all ahead of you....

the curtain's a sea anemone in the way it sways to the slow breeze I lie spread out on the floor looking at these things and most of them are yours and it's so nice sitting very still without those old shoes I could never fill starfish with its arms...

starry configurations am just a receiver divine recombinations am just a recordist receptionist - unhappy medium receptionist - unhappy medium excellent accommodations am just a bellboy beautiful surroundings am just some gravel or peat moss, what have y...

tasting you in rain I walk down to the train try not to look down this day could some day be an anniversary everything is light and sound facing forwards going slowly wait for you to show me where this train wants to go living by the hour I stop for ever...

The terror of the view, the emptiness of this room, always writing against this truth in the way that a painter must have a surface to hit. The paint is flying now, breaking the silence at the speed of sound. Hitting the frequency. She's reaching back at me wa...

Caught making conversation to your teeth. Kite high in Tuesday ether. Been gone all week. People live for such a long time. Eighty years to get one right. Jet white like all day paper comes back blank. No time for conversation, too much to say. We think...

Mom and dad can't remember if I told you how glad I am I finally got to know you. Years from when we met, after I left home. Let me sing you sweet and distant fictions. On lonely nights you will lay and listen. If you don't like it, wait until I fix it....

when you become a stranger again how closed your eyes will be narrowing me to three short feet across a room of drunken revelry you're having the time of my life and i love you much too late there are things id like when you say my name to me like so...

Blooming black flower wine, slashed arms and new cut smiles. Taller for the falling down, stronger now without you 'round. The prophecies were realized when we gave them proper time. All truths come to light after lies have had their right. You've g...

Maybe some day we'll meet again When our two roads hit the same dead end And o-oh i'm counting the days 'cause you've got something that i've never since seen A willing heart and a part that's clean We're both good at counting days With an ounce o...