Seems like you are asking all the oxygen to leave the room inviting all the filthy stories in to sit here by the fire with you watch you burn your hands and all the pages from the book of Mormon that she gave to you just like all the other girls she's gone back home to be somebody's all in all fourth in a line I wonder how she'd feel about me really were she allowed to feel at all how is it that you came to pass my way and we would watch the world decay and smile about it briefly and you'd pray and shake my hand a little mountain made of clay with a cousin who was gay and you told me that's OK and I could see you really thought that that was true no matter what the prophets threw at you sounds like you are asking all the airoplanes to leave the sky at once everybody should stay home the heavy fog round every barking dog you ever heard is sinking low into the ground none of us have found a thing to say about the matter there's angels in the patter of her speech in every god damn word how is it that you came to pass my way and we would watch the world decay and smile about it briefly and you'd pray and shake my hand a little mountain made of clay with a cousin who was gay and you told me that's OK and I could see you really thought that that was true no matter what the prophets threw at you I could see you really thought that that was true no matter what the prophets threw at you Seems like you are asking all the oxygen to leave the room inviting all the filthy stories in to sit here by the fire with you watch you burn your hands and all the pages from the book of Mormon that she gave to you

He destroyed them before he knew their names and he could never remember a face he'd drive by every now and again for a peek and a touch and a touch it felt good it felt good by the banks of the green river another little girl lost somebodies innocent runaway somebodies shame she was our sister first before she was anyone's dog to be dragged from the street by man after man, after man, after man here's a picture of my boy see I never could hurt you I'm just an ordinary ordinary fool with no charm in this country of kings the green river it sings in this country of kings the green river it sings to us it feels good it feels good

When you're likely to call it a day won't you please call on me I can wrangle and the outcasts and all I am good at that shit when you feel all the outside is gone only inside remains bear as stone to the dust and the waves call me up on the phone when it matters to no one at all it still matters to me what she carried to bleach white the bones put the devils the sleep what she carried to bleach white the bones put those devils to sleep

Your friend says she just woke up it's seven o-clock I'm not impressed she says it like she's holding up an award like being hungover makes her something better than the rest of us I been working all day can you tell her to shut up nobody cares I don't wanna follow you like a shadow I don't wanna follow you like a shadow feels like something heavy, dark and alien is pushing me for answers got some papers in his pocket and a list of empty threats to rattle off the doctor swore that creature wasn't there but I seen him I seen him and it's too late it's too late I don't wanna follow you like a shadow I don't wanna follow you like a shadow security is eagle eyeing every tiny move I make incase I lose a limb, start foaming at the face two drinks in and everybody's lost their grace forgive nobody for anything she says I don't wanna follow you like a shadow I don't wanna follow you like a shadow seven says you gotta march on in and grab me scruff of the neck like a cat to a kitten though I feel more like a mouse being dragged in, half dead blood and mush and left under a table for somebody to find later on and kick yuou for I don't wanna follow you like a shadow I don't wanna follow you like a shadow I don't wanna follow you like a shadow I don't wanna follow you

Where is the joy you promised me? I have been faithful I have not let the ocean swallow me alive though it has tried where is the love you swore was mine? I have been faithful my faith is blind just like a child you said just like a child it is an awful lot like swimming in the dark so bury me I need no more the constant hammering alms for the poor I want you absolute I wanna put my hand in yours and see the holes and feel the shame and be alive I want to blame you it's you I want to blame it's you I want to blame it's you I want to blame

Delighting in the currency I find dear lord the lightning inbetween us surviving on the details in a day dear lord the laughter and the fearless way you tread in all our inconsistencies in all the perfect ruin in every tiny spark from every walled in heart not ready to let be but wanting it so bad so bad rising on a tide of blinding light dear lord I never did see coming was always ever told to wait and pray deep down down deeper did I go but you were never there no you were always here you were always here

I'd seen the bottom of the barrel or atleast I thought I had I watch a Russian boy take crocdil and rot a stranger sent me there to see because of you dear friend and brother liar, father, addict son they kicked your Ricky out for powders cursed and constant all he wants to do is fight never leave a brother never leave a brother behind I have no idea if what I did was all OK our counterfeit us friendly people pushing boulders up steep hills will always notice who is down and hang around never leave a brother never leave a brother behind I mean no harm, my head is loaded with stones and sharp things waging war on all the softer hands of people who have brighter things and look you up and down with scorn though you'd never leave a brother you'd never ever ever leave him behind the sun comes up while I am walking you are sleeping on a bench a brand new jacket and a mars bar in your pocket a sense of pride and crooked teeth we told him he was way too young you cursed and spat and cursed and sung I told him not to mind your foul words they bore a subtle kind of love I had to clean up after your mess I kneel and pray and beam apology she left us swifter than a seagull she had her drinks and flew away I don't blame you for your hatred I don't blame you for the sting I wish I could be your Jesus perhaps your mary magdalene my broken chains and sunken sigh my broken chains and sunken sigh my broken chains and sunken sigh my brother, addict, liar, son

Slow am I to recognise a parasite when silently he creeps into the light from the darkened edges of a room designed to hide in minutes gloom till some devout and subtle soul be found to share their plight I'm listening as closely as I can he will say don't you ever doubt that I'm your man he will say he'll say to you with hurricanes now brewing in his thinning veins the powder and the night he'll track you down and drown you out he'll tear you up and vomit you back out into the street and wipe his mouth with the back of his hand and say to you again don't you ever doubt that I'm your man don't you ever doubt that I'm your man He keeps a home officious grey and dull with paintings on the wall of harrowed faces warning me to leave he stabs his fingers at the solid forms that once a little boy could never disbeleive but now we know the both of us we know the weak are just a toy for evil men I cannot walk I cannot touch I cannot walk I cannot touch I cannot walk I cannot touch the weak are just a toy for evil men the weak are just a toy for evil men

Call your monster in from the balcony gotta keep him on your side tell him everything tell him everything but don't let him see the tide of amber Sundays broken Mondays such a miserable kid crawling glass first cigarette second cigarette feed him stories former glories it should hurt a little bit tender shadows wiping red from the corner of your lip may you suffer bundled underneath a bus just a little twitch in the night let him see that you're uneven no one ever did the math cause and effect gone to seed and you won't ever get them back say it's easy oh so easy to secretly forgive while the spinner keeps on winning in your place call your monster back from the boarded up and the battered front door back to hell with every stranger we don't need anymore say it's simple always simple to forget that you forgot call it Sunday amber Sunday everbody needs a dog everybody needs a dog