Mount Eerie

There were 2 lakes: One where everyone goes Was found on maps and was covered in boats Was so shallow so, in it, things grow And at one of its edges, the black cliffs rose And down the rock, the lake's new water did pour The second lake just beyond the...

There are 2 moons The one that everyone knows Is a reflection in a bucket wearing clothes We see reflections The second moon is actually the moon 

There are 2 mountains: One that everyone knows Our eyes pass by it, it is so well known I know its shape while I travel. It waits In photos and songs of picturesque living it waits But Bright Mountain, all day, trails a growing shadow And the second pe...

From your head grew two braids Gold and long Golden long hair, golden long hair One braid on one side of your face hung Cabled and calm It seemed to say, as it swayed That it hung there hoping to charm me (Or somebody) "Can you imagine me in your bed a...

When was the last time you drew a picture? When was the last time you touched a leaf? When was the last time you tasted raindrops? Your tongue, on your big long tongue When was the last time you bought a hotdog? When was the last time you swam in a pond?...

"What do you love?" I love it so much! "What do you love so much?" I love it so much! "What do you love?" I love it so much! It takes withholding "What do you hide?" Just look at my face and know that I won't tell "What do you love?" Know that I can'...

Was it a dream Where I wandered off the trail Aimlessly drawn And came to a clearing On the hill of town Still hearing calls And a circle of stone Surrounded a pool of black water and sky Where I reached in and pulled out a song Ceremoniously young...

Deep in a dream on the ground Ancient times Deep grass 

A satiated bear Sitting back on the chair I'm full So now how am I aware? Our bones will blow away But what do I care? Mountain shape Towns people's offerings Are you still standing there? My delicate contentedness I'm unkind And soon will be hungry...

I've seen summons buried in more air, buried in space. And I just lied down in the snow, buried in space. I've seen moss covered stumps in dying light, taking on shapes. Black wooden mythologies, I know a place. Layer after layer of comprehension, Wellin...

Having washed my face in a frozen stream And having lived in guest rooms for the last 7 years And having just doubled in size, admitting animal loving I still must find a way How, how do I live with the romance of the world? How do I live with the romanc...

Your love Swells and pounds me I know nothing now that I know you My face goes blank My eyes go open gates And the world can go (in them) And the world can stay and make us wealthy And take away So, I hold nothing Now that I hold nothing (now that I...

Knowing no one understands these songs I try to sing them clearer Even though no one has ever asked: "What does Mount Eerie mean?" I have tried to repeatedly explain In complicated songs But tonight we will find out I know no one And no one knows me 

As the black bird above you [the bat] Disappears into the night, [and the song of the bat] The cave beyond the foothills, [the bat] In the night, is overflowing [and in the bat's mouth] In song 

And when I talked to my friends And found out that you're having fun That you're swallowing life That you're in the sun That you're fucking around You're growing a new one I bellow out my voice I yell out loud I have my shirt off in front of a crowd I...

I am a container of stories about you And I bring you up repeatedly, uninvited to Do the people around me want to keep hearing about my dead wife? Or does the room go silent when I mention you? Shining alive, I live with your absence And it's been two mon...

I can only love those dark hills because I live in the day I can only see the mountain because I am in town I only love night because I have only smelled it Actually living in the night means no talking I can only say "no flashlight" because once I forgot...

("MOUNT EERIE" means: Song in parking lot/sounds in the night) "NO FLASHLIGHT" means "There's another world and it's inside this one." The moon is in the lake "NO FLASHLIGHT" means The lake at night, At the cold bottom There's no pool of light, no moon...

Because the pupil of my eye is a hole There's no inside and there's no out The world is in me And I am in the world Because my teeth are the visible bones In my mouth of invisible songs A cave in the night is overflowing There's no inside, there's no...

In October 2015, I was out in the yard I just finished splitting up the scrap two-by-fours into kindling I glanced up at the half moon pink chill refinery cloud light Two big blackbirds flew over, their wings whooshing and low Two ravens, but only two Th...

[Verse 1] Death is real Someone's there and then they're not And it's not for singing about It's not for making into art When real death enters the house, all poetry is dumb When I walk into the room where you were And look into the emptiness instead A...

The possibility that if I stopped clapping My hands in the void I would notice that I can't hold on to things And the possibility that if I stopped bellowing my voice in the void I would notice songs that all around me sing Looms in weather Lives buried...

The air in the morning (and the way that Halloween is always approaching) Will enter the room It will find my cheek and will wake me up roaring With the rains come Halloween And with the night comes the air in the morning My costume will be myself with t...

The only reason I'm moved seeing clouds and hills mingle Is because the intimacy of the world otherwise stays hidden Even though I know it's there (In animals calling In the cave overflowing In the food I've built on In the song of the bat And in rottin...

In the night After the bats come out I hear your howling I know no one and I hold nothing (now that I know you) This is how we howl In the dark night on the unlit trail there's no way Through but to crawl Perplexed by the world around me there's no w...

This is the same ocean where blue whales dive This is the same ocean that fell on white mountains (This is the same ocean as tomorrow's good coffee) 

There is no way you will get out of it And, in this way, the universe is shown "But I wasn't even looking for it!" It doesn't matter. The Universe is shown "But I had some other plans for the night!" You are done. The Universe is shown "But my life is lo...

Misunderstood And disillusioned I go on describing this place And the way it feels to live and die The “natural world” And whatever else it’s called I drive in and out of town Seeing no edge, breathing sky And it’s hard to describe Without seeming a...

In my most hopeless days Lost in pitch black caves There's waterfalls And dripping stone walls It's so perfect and amazing So you may only naively believe There's waterfalls and all perspectives And when you see the light Or go for walks at night Ther...

When I was sturdier I'd talk about how "certainly we'll die Eat shadows, bury candles Die." When I was sturdier I thought "So what? I am forever mountainous!" I bravely said, "No death of any kind could Ever matter to my mountain mind Come years, com...

Where is Mount Eerie and how do I get there? And how long's the walk and what should I bring?" Mount Eerie is nowhere Mount Eerie is playing tonight "Where is the concert and will it be all ages? And what time are doors? And how much does it cost?" The...