I’ve been myself for as long as I can remember.
The sweet mess of us reminds me of that from time to time.
The faster this train sped, babe, the slower we climbed.
I’d sure love it though, if maybe, someday, you’d be mine.
Somedays It gets hard To talk To you
Somedays it gets hard To talk At all
The highway haybales stretched for days and days,
dinosaurs in tourist towns were made of papier mache.
The camera caught us looking bad so we didn’t stay
I see it now, the photos of the furrows, the bridges and the boroughs, don’t get changed.
The old man’s stone stew had tons of food to eat, or so we heard.
Wax dripped off the cylinders, frogs chirped like birds.
The archive dust got windexed off by archive nerds,
but still we turned, we croak hiss & sputtered into words (things we said, there they were)
Somedays It gets hard to explain what I mean To you
Somedays It gets hard to explain anything At all
Sailor talk and sea salt don’t always fit in.
The stories we got told as little kids don’t make metaphors for everything,
and spools of time like fishing line don’t always get reeled in
but still we turn, we croak hiss and sputter into words
Somedays It gets hard to explain what I mean To you
Somedays It gets hard to explain anything At all
I’ve been myself for as long as I can remember.
The sweet mess of us reminds me of that from time to time.
The faster this train sped, the slower we climbed.
I’d sure love it though, if maybe, someday, you’d be mine
credits
from The Birth and Death of Meaning,
released March 21, 2010
guest musicians: Joe Exley - tuba; Ben Holmes - trumpet; Brian Viglione - drums.
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