Distant Mine - Lyrics

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Faces of the Damned / To Remember / Papillon / Government Land / We're Not Sleeping / Dark Road Window / Like An Ant Floating in Milk / Is That Blood / The River Shade / Show Yourself / Sometime, Awhile Ago / The Fish / Breathing Again

1. Faces of the Damned [top]

The sidewalk will take you down where
Women line roads so gaudily on bus stop benches
The sunlight, making sure of the hatred on their faces.

Your grove will take you down where
Bodies line roads so earthily in gunshot trenches
The lens light, making sure we never see their faces.

2. To Remember [top]

We'll communicate with crystal glasses
Through strings of silver pearls
And negotiate with sterling knives
So don't be a second late.

What's that you say?
You've been driven by the forces
That don't drive you anymore.
All those perfect days
Scattered in the past now
You just lie there on the floor
Watching all the rain
Wash all your windows
And everything's the same
I know you really don't think so
I know you'd rather hear the rain
While you watch the world from your window
Yeah, it's true
For everything stays the same.

So let a dozen words go
Let all the birds die away
And when you're by the rainy window
Just remember, to remember, to remember
Yeah remember, to remember, to remember.

3. Papillon [top]

Hello weak butterfly in my arms
You've traveled so far to die in my arms.

School's out today, and the spring air is still
You move like a riverboat through the thick brushy hills
Timed like a lung, you expand, you deflate
In the hot night, crows fight, beetles in the firelight.

Hello weak waterfall in my arms
You've traveled so long to die in my arms.

You land in the river, but the river is a river
No more, like an overturned ferry you sink to the floor
You're an apple in the weeds
You're a glowing green eye.

School's out today, and the fires won't go out
I'd love to come over, but the wind's blowing south
But while we've been sleeping, the bushes are burning
The hot night, crows fight, beetles in the firelight
The hot night, crows fight, beetles in the firelight

Hello weak butterfly in my arms
You've traveled so long to die in my arms.
Hello weak waterfall in my arms
You've traveled so far to die in my arms.

4. Government Land [top]

They say you've been lying around again
I see angels flying around your head
What a few words could do to your place in society
Lying around, you sit like a duck in park side park (?).

All the places you say you've been, my friend
You could only hope for government land
Over by the fence and the old oak tree and the shrubbery
Lying around, like a book on a park side loft (?).

All the fallen leaves fly away

5. We're Not Sleeping [top]

Rose bush in the trash
You turn my mind into stone
Your limbs into bone,
Sling(?) you, I have though
A name for every rose.

Blossom of the tree
You turn my feet in the clay
Your eyes unto me
A dark and fiery sea
Upon you I will lay.

And when they stop to look around
We'll be in the ground
And no, we're not sleeping.

And when they stop to look around
We'll be in the ground
And no, we're not sleeping.

Through the wall, into the yard
We will pass like little glowing stars of light
The moon is bright
Rotting blossoms in the night.

Halos from your face
Will bleed into the sea

Through the wall, into the yard
We will pass like little glowing stars of light
The moon is bright
Rotting blossoms in the night.

6. Dark Road Window [top]

By the way, you brought the light time on again
Another day to lay dark lines on again.

All the lies your beauty says
All the dark colors of the winter
And the nothingness you bring
Lay upon the road with me
Hold the hand that makes the sky go black
As wounded creatures see.

Once again, you sing the dark road song with me
It never ends, just lay down and sing with me

Golden creatures of the sea
Double back, pretty angels and their wings
Into nothingness we see
Lay upon the road with me
Join the dark colors of the winter sea
And the nothingness we bring.

7. Like an Ant Floating in Milk [top]

Slow is the evening
Breathe in the thick air
Fear's like a seasoning
Lays like a film to your hair.

And there, by the road
Like a fallen tree you lie

Like an ant floating in milk
You are our fallen angel again
Like a worm caught(?) in the dirt
You are a faded thought, my friend
So let the time pick up and say goodbye
In the sickly green glow of the cloudy nightlight.

8. Is That Blood [top]

Walk me through the orchard
With a smile, we will devour each other's kin
Send you all to sleep now
As the tide comes in again
Your dreams, washing through the trees

Hey, is that blood
washing through our feet again
Is that blood coming from me
And hey, are those tears
Washing through my fingers from you?

Kind and ordinary,
With a smile we will forgive the ones we kill
So we're all awake now
As the tide returns again
The end washes through our feet.

Hey, are those waves
crashing on our heads again
Are those waves burying me
And hey, are those tears
Flowing from the trees around me?

9. The River Shade [top]

Almond haze, conquering days like you
The winter slaves(?), days are long and few
And yeah, I'd really like to go back up that river with you
And find the things we never thought we'd lose
We never thought we'd lose
We never thought we'd lose.

The covering trees seem to make you blind
And how the shadows push the light and shame all over your face
To show us things we never thought we'd lose
We never thought we'd lose
We never thought we'd lose
We never thought we'd lose
We never thought we'd lose
We never thought we'd lose.

10. Show Yourself [top]

It's nice to see a knife in your back
And raging red sea, for which your mouth is a sack
You list(?) along the road, a smile on your face
As the world hits your feet
At your own lonely pace
And when you show yourself to all of us
All of us shall be free.

And when you show yourself, all of us shall be free
And when you show yourself, all of us shall be free.

When you (?) yourself, all of us shall be free.

Now's the time for your image to appear
In floating milky haze, above a sleepy lake
'Cause when you show yourself to all of us
All of us shall be free.

11. Sometime, Awhile Ago [top]

Sometime very soon, I'm gonna be thinking
You're gonna be laughing at me
Then when you laugh at the things I've been thinking
Maybe we can forget them and carry on our day.

Sometime very soon, I'm gonna be laughing
And you're gonna be thinking of me
Then when you think of the things I've been laughing at
Maybe we can forget them and carry on our day
Laughing and thinking, thinking and laughing
Watching all the ghosts go away.

Sometime awhile ago, I thought it was my vision
I saw you breaking windows in the rain
Then when we laughed at your lowly intentions
Then they were beside you, apparitions in the rain
Laughing and thinking, thinking and laughing
And thinking.

Sometime awhile ago
Sometime awhile ago.

12. The Fish [top]

I am the fish, you are the lure
I am the stable in which the ass has laid his manure
You are the car, I am the road
As every mile, you will erode.

I am a leaf, you are the sun
Wherein your shadow, I fall with many, many as one
Down to the Earth, only to be
Pushed in the ground, and the ground into me.

High road, like the sun die a line(?)
Up the steep hill, into the fine leafy trees
Knee(?) to the grave, there you will be.

You are the fish, I am the lure
And as the bird slowly relieves the worm from the earth
Everything moves, nothing remains
Maybe a name, maybe a name

High road, like the sun die a line(?)
Up the steep hill, into the fine leafy trees
Knee(?) to the grave, there you will be.

High road, the the sun die a line(?)
Up the steep hill, into the fine leafy trees
Knee(?) to the grave, there you will be.

13. Breathing Again [top]

Who am I to lead you
Who am I to lead you
Who am I to lead you
To lead you, anywhere.

Who am I to tell you
Who am I to tell you
Who am I to tell you
To tell you where to land.

Who am I to keep you
Who am I to keep you
Who am I to keep you
From breathing deadly(?) air again
Again
Again
Again and again
Again
Again.