Spring St. 12"

Sky Flowers

If you wanna lock me out

Feel it when it falls out of the farthest mouth

Are you ready to keep me out?

Leave that light on

The cemetery has to sing someone's song.

Poolside

I can't figure out how this works

I can't make it out in the murk

I want to know everything

I want to stop

I can't help me out

I don't work

No, I can't figure out.

Spring St.

All confound the fall from God

And all be slain

When the night comes down the street

It's in your street

It's in your bloodstream

How come you failed out on your well-intentioned decree?

Well, where is it now?

It's in your bloodstream.

How We Live

All the people and all the kids

Don't get worried about how you live

It's how you live

Everybody, when you get sick

It's not a problem

It's how you live.

Cops Don't Care 7"

Cops Don't Care
The cops are here and they don't care
They told me to tell you to do anything that you want to
The line at the Dairy Queen on the first day of spring
Why doesn't it feel good?
Your cigarettes don't understand you
So what dead kid will we hang out with now?
And whose severed hand is always scratching at your window?
It's finally done
We're gonna just let the whole thing flood
There's nowhere to go now
And now he wants to get to know you
Get out.

Heat Isn't The Word
I wanna walk down to where the street ends
To where there's nothing
No friends
And bury inside the deepness of a dead heart
I'm gonna walk out
You see me covered
But heat isn't the word.

New Song

Wash out all the regular faces from the aperature
Everyone smiles at the beautiful
With nothing to say
Long lights burn the afternoon
The past runs through the living room
And in a while time will talk to you
Or get in your way
Too cold for an early death
Zen kids in the accident
All of the flowers that the families left
Grew in their place
And if they fall
Cover them all with a blanket of love
So sick of the things I want
A scarecrow terrified by a distant caw
Morning is mocking night club parking lots in the new light of day
Raw lights burn the room to dust
Time passes notes illedgibley written and nebulous
And in a while time will talk to us
With nothing to say.

City Center LP

Killer Whale
The places we are are cold and slow
Everyone else is gone
Don't let me go
How do you feed the love you know?
Everyone else is gone
Don't let me go
I can't reach you
The waves rush to keep you
You know you don't get through the way like you used to
Landscape is littered with thoughtless flow
Everyone else is gone
Don't let me go
Trains never come
Stop the snow
Everyone else is gone
Don't let me go
I can't reach you
The waves come to eat you
You know you don't get through the way like you used to
I can't see you
Submerged in the see-through
Underwater killer whale

Open/House
Open up your window
Show me where you are
The light inside your house keeps everybody out
But there must be a reason for the way you are
The rabbit bit the cord
And everyone ignored him
Teenagers know that they're going crazy
They run from stage to stage to stage
Their broken bones are just another part of the play
Clenched jaw and always raw frustration
Subject to change and change and change
My heart, for now, is just another part of where you could stay
Hurt house with all the windows open
See out through layers of soft mistakes
My flash on you is just another part of the play.

Gladest
I couldn't stand to show you
But it's harder now
Love makes a sound like all things falling
Farther and farther down
What about the waiting end
What did you find out in that shining darkness
There with handfuls of wet money and breathing freedom
I didn't know how to show you
But it's harder now.

Bleed Blood
If you don't feed me anything
I'll be the last to bloom
In some summer-soft epiphany
Thinking about the humans
Tumors on top of tumors
On top of the reprimanding
Turn off your house
Tear up your heart
Turn down your hooves
And hand in your feelings
You're feeling all the time
You're breathing
Even when there's nothing on your mind
You and your friends all place your bets
Who'll be the first one erased?
I get off work at seven o clock
And then I get replaced
It seems so cold
And it seems so strange
To watch beautiful people when they kiss on the street
How do you feel when you aren't yourself?
You're trying to catch up with a feeling
And then you are bleeding blood again
We're bleeding from the same place
And we always try
If you don't feed me anything
I'll be the last to bloom
In some city-wide soft summary
Of someone else's beauty
Terror on top of terror
On top of the light that gets in
Don't get upset
And don't forget to listen to your feelings
Feel it all the time
You're bleeding
And love is wanting more.

Cloud Center
Drink up all the houses you lived in and then you threw away
Go with your friends cause you're going to anyway
"Hands in the poison" means
"I've spent so long pretending
When I start understanding I get scared."
Write down the address you left and turn in the keys
On your heels
Believe what you're going to believe
You know that when you add up all the places you've been
And when you sift through all the ceilings you've stayed with
And when you drink up all the houses
It won't ever be enough
Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough
They do what they want to do
And they'll ask you.

You Are A Force
When you are alone you are a force
And you have what you need
When you are alone you are a force
And you have what you want
Give back
Give some new love
When you are alone you are a force
An invisible force
At the depths of the sea
In the ocean of streets.

Summer School
I can't see you after class
Water wheel
Why a lifetime has to pass?
Did they lock you out again?
Someone said "No one's here to be your friend."
No one hears you when you cry alone
No one hears you when there's no one home
I can't talk to you no more
But I'm hiding in the pile of clothes on your floor
And I'm still shouting from the street
Can't hear, some song on repeat
When they locked you out
I was on the inside
When they locked you out my insides screamed
When they locked you out
I saw the future like you see a memory.


Young Diamond
You don't have to know right now
And you don't have to have everything figured out
We won't let you starve
We won't let you fail
The invisible arms of all your friends are there
If you drink too much and you throw up
We'll be there
We'll hold your hair
We'll take care
Baltimore can be a scary place when you're all alone
But please know you're not alone
We won't let you feel like everythings over
Won't let you feel like you're going to die
You're not going to die
You're not going to die
I know Baltimore can be a scary place and so can New York
So can everywhere outside
And you feel all alone
But you're not alone
This breaking is an opening
This end is a beginning.

Unfinished Hex
At night nothing gets better
Ready for you to come over me like failing rain
And I wonder what holds your hands down at your sides
And said an unfinished hex over me
And set an unfinished hex over me
At night
Nothing is ending
No one is the new one
The older one gives back to the way that you love me
The way that I love you
The way I will
And say an unfinished hex over me
And said an unfinished hex over me.

These two songs replace "Cloud Center" on the LP version:

Teen
I was them when I began
So don't pretend like you don't know
Listening
Are you listening?
With angry times and hands of teenage snow
We were them
When we began
So call your friends and let them know
Surfacing, always transmitting
With angry times
Hands marked teenage show
I was dead when I began
So every friend is someone I don't know
Listening while we're transmitting broken code
Teens ate snow.

Gold Girls
Show me all the things you love and I'll become them
Show me all the things you love and I'll become them
Show me all the things you love and I'll become them
With your gold girls and your gone girls
Show me all the things you love and I'll destroy them
Show me all the things you love and I'll destroy them
Show me all the things you love and I'll destroy them
With your gold girls and your gone girls
Can't win you over
Can't let you down
Any further now
Show me all the things you love and I'll destroy them
Put all of the things you love where I can't find them
Take all of the things you love, take them and hide them
With your gold girls and your gone girls.