It seems there's a darkness in things The moon, the sea, the early light And I abide, by the darkness of things The moon, the seed, the early light And I abide, I do abide Faith has kept our stomachs dry Now ride on this blind horse Carry you home Your clothes they are soiled Your eyes raw from weeping Now how can they wash their hands so...Learn More

Called on a Sunday Oh, how he wept, he's not to blame I'm not the one who told you lies, Claudine I'm not the one who told you lies And the nights, they know how to fill it In the cold room holding scents of his I'm not the one who told you lies, Claudine I'm not the one who told you lies I'm not the one who told you lies, Claudine I'm not the...Learn More

In the summer days, it's fine to be long Reinvent your ways, fade into folk songs Just play me some of that old music Something from the hits you can't go wrong And smoke it back all my weed and hash With Neil Young But the bed's been made and the kids are head strong Back from whence you came You're cruel a year long But there's something in the...Learn More

Wolves in my cellar Wolves in my cellar For my apples have blackened and rottened And they've taken more than they have given And my animals frightened and sickened Soon your crops They will rot This dark season Wolves at my altar Wolves at my altar For these beasts are not cleansed for the slaughter And they've taken more than they have given And...Learn More

In the eve of my spring I came upon a changeling Who settled as a clear blue stream Flowing like a fountain And I knew of not detail But its spell was unforseen And my roots, they aren't growing And the water cool and clean So I consume her late And I knew at once the curse it would bring Night, sweet lord, sweet Azriel I cry and I wail These...Learn More

Break the key Light the leaves Pour the salt Underneath So the dark doesn't leak Past the doorway But the heart Is ready for a coming out Let's feast the day and Drunk the wine 'Till serpents lie on all four sides of us Smoke their skins Milk their eyes All the beasts Will moan All the beasts Will moan Devourer I feel your breath Teeth are...Learn More

Hey hey la, where is my lover, where is my love? Hey, hey la he do what he want-a He do what he wanna And I hate that I don't know where the song begins and ends In the corner The pressure from the fool slowly bends But you came to me as sun solace You were dressed in black and red Hey hey la, where is my lover, where is my love? Hey, hey la he...Learn More

Go to sleep, my little pink-eyed daughter Hush now All is sewn My daughter All that bleeds is wind and reeds My daughter Dreams of clouds opening clean Drifting forth in fearless flight Songs and sweet on you can hear them now We pray for forgiveness I only reap what my father sowed Brother, sisters, we bowed Every little bump under his...Learn More

Dear Ashkelon In the month I will be by and leaving you Prophets and philistines were soaking in the sea brine While I grew lean and dry and loved you When hope was made of bureaucrats Sitting fat and fluffed with fury Over this, and over that And though we can't rely on that We could have been so much better So much better than the past Pray,...Learn More

When you go Can I only breathe again? Words unspoke Fester slowly in the skin Demons come to harm Paralyze the spine Weighing on the chest Demons come to harm When you go Can I only breathe again? Words un-spoke Fester slowly in the skin Shadows in the pines Demons come to harm Poisoning the wine Demons come to harm...Learn More

St. Eustace With his head held high Whipped by man And whipped by lion O with his head held high Whipped by man And whipped by lion Whipped by lions, O A tongue to greet the boat Whipped by lions, O The wind will greet if you When he walked into the room All is lost All is lost When he walked into the room All is lost All is lost When he walked...Learn More

When I wake I fear the night Coming forth with violence, I Coursing the homes with horns and hides Soft feet skipping to the hum of thy knife Howl Howl Howl Howl Howl Howl Howl And the chorus said to me Don't be unwise Soft feet skipping to the hum of a knife And the poet said to me Don't be unkind Parts of her face are glistening white...Learn More