Swamp ophelia

Now the parking lot is empty Everyone's gone someplace I pick you up and in the trunk I've packed A cooler and a two day suitcase 'Cause there's a place we like to drive Way out in the country And...

we were down at dead man's hill smoking vines like cigarettes looking through the trashy mags trying to feel what's coming next you told me of crashing cars older brothers and late night bars i told...

fare thee well my bright star i watched your taillights blaze into nothingness but you were long gone before i ever got to you before you blazed past this address and now i think of having loved and...

I had guards like watchdogs dogs in a manger I could feel the protection possession and anger and I drove out of there with no one behind me feeling funny and free all you pretty pretenders negligent...

Each time you'd pull down the driveway, i wasn't sure when i would see you again. yours was a twisted blind-sided highway, no matter which road you took then. oh you set up your place in my thoughts,...

It's a fish white belly A lump in the throat Razor on the wire Skin and bone Piss and blood In a railroad car One hundred people Gypsies, queers And David's star This train is bound for glory This...

I'm waking from a dream The neighborhood is green All the sounds I've missed all the years Come down to wedding death and fear And all I've heard has been in vain Like water on a stain Touch me I'm so...

I'm harboring a fugitive, a defector of a kind She lives in my soul drinks of my wine And I'd give my last breath to keep us alive Are they coming for us with cameras or guns? We don't know which but...

The thin horizon of a plan is almost clear My friends and I have had a tough time Bruising our brains, hard up against change All the old dogs and the magician Now I see we're in the boat in two by...

I sit two stories above the street It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep There's life down below me though Kids are walking home from school Some long ago when we were taught That for whatever...