"The Kind Of Song That Ignites The Airwaves"

It was the only woman you ever loved

That got burnt by the sun too often when she was young

And the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood

And there’s nothing you can do about it now 

So if we could just pretend that I went to college

And traveled abroad

And did something different

Anything but just sitting at home

For three and a half years

Writing song after song after song

And tell me, why’d you have to have such a damn good taste in music?

Yeah, if all my favorite songs make me think of you

I’m gonna lose it

You in the living room, legs bent at forty-five degrees

I write AB AB, try to find your rhyme scheme

I look for objects on the desk with which to sculpt your image best

What would I name this; could I paint it: “Woman (reading)?”, “Girl (at rest)?”

I hate myself

For putting up with all your pointless fights

And I would not be surprised to find

You’d forgotten my name by now

No, I could not see as time went by

My shadow fading out

It don’t matter to me, cause all I wanted to be

Was a million miles from here, somewhere more familiar

He was the sun and she, the earth


Yeah, they were light years, two worlds apart again

Well, he was here and she was there


And they were nowhere, and the days were young again

Even if the your heart stops

I’ll be there to hold you up

Even as the world turns

I’ll be there to watch the fire burn

Burn us both alive

Because right now, all you have is time, time, time

But someday that time will run out

That is the only thing you can absolutely certain about

You've stripped me down, the layers fall like rain

It's over now, just innocence and instinct still remain

You watched me while I slowly disappeared

I reached for you to save me; you were frozen in your fear

You can’t just disappear

It doesn’t happen like it does in the story books

Hit me so hard

That the bruise gets dark

Oh, my babe

You put me in a shallow grave

And of places in between houses Where the redwoods could swallow you whole Swollen appendages catch in the knots of radiance collapsing inwards 

Singing, everybody wake up, wake up, everybody

Everybody wake up, it’s time to get down

Peel your skin back to show what you’re made of

Too bad, you never did have the guts to know where your heart should go