The hook. We learned all the pleasures of the tongue before we knew each other's names, long after all the pain had come. Imagine the shock of a fish when a hook finds its mouth and pierces it roof then the sigh it heaves when it shakes it loose. Our first kiss was like this. I used to swim in open waters like a lazy cod without a thought of your...Learn More

Evening slips into my room Echoes in the corridor Street lamps turn a shade of blue Lovers whisper in the dark Evening when I miss you most of all My heaven in this world A silent raindrop falls To the earth Evening knows my every move Your finger running through my hair Crimson lips a crimson kiss In the strange electric air Evening when I miss...Learn More

Love has ignited the edges of my life Mandarin oranges, love apples, honey in a jar Last year's rose petals, dried [?] Whose pungency lingers in the air And a shroud of brown [?] burned at the edges With her secret name upon it [?] pencil my name too Love has ignited the edges of my life And the honey [?] name At the bottom of the round clear...Learn More

Your beauty needs no rose from me In your slumber your skin is hot Against the sheets, you burn like umber Only I can see you, only I can sing you Only I can see you, only I can save you I painted my walls red for you It's like I said, I don't play dead Yes, you're a sexy gun I'll take the pain over none Only I can see you, only I can sing...Learn More

[Intro] Electric bolts [?] Living lights, the city [?] on fire At the end of the Summer shadows [?] [?] blonde hair Grasping [?] And all [?] [?] [Verse 1] I hear you calling in the tick of my clock It's you that I open when I pull my shirts up In the milk I am pouring in my cereal bowl In the wet of my purple bath with my glistening...Learn More

[Verse 1] July sixty-seven 'round a quarter to three The sun is high in the summer heat Money changing house in the street Afternoon's steaming on the hot concrete [Chorus] While the [?] We'll hide in the stash The train just passed Oh, the train just passed While we're young and free We're having a blast The train just passed Oh, the train just...Learn More

Hurricanes. Soon life’s knowing will come, it will dust the mind like talcum. Meanwhile, everyone will dream at least once of times they tried to run but their legs got stuck in the ambivalence of love’s mud, in the imagination’s straining. Our days are drenched by hurricanes entering sideways in our minds with no warning. It’s gray where the...Learn More

Running away from things that don't hypnotize you Spinning in circles when you cry, cry, cry Something inside you always turns against yourself While everyone out there knows how to be the hero Can't you save, can't you save, can't you save yourself Just like everybody else? Forever's a state of mind you like to put yourself in So you go to the...Learn More

Love child loves American style In her own sweet way Love child will drive you wild With the game she plays Watch out or trouble's gonna find you Watch out her beauty's gonna blind you She's gonna break your heart She's gonna make you love her And you'll be torn apart She's gonna make you love her, yeah Love child, she came and changed your...Learn More

[Verse 1] Back to the world Back to my home Back to the Earth Back where I belong [Chorus] I'm on the edge, I'm on the edge I'm on the edge of forever [Verse 2] Back to the light Back to see my sun Back to fly Back where I come from [Chorus] I'm on the edge, I'm on the edge I'm on the edge of forever [Verse 3] Back to the start Back to the...Learn More

I let you touch my skin I opened up my tangled web And then you crept right in I let you dig my deepest depth Words have wings And they will fly at the slightest breath Oh yes, Juliette You're every classic girl (every classic girl) You're every precious pearl ([?]) Cause butterflies have wings (and they will ride the wind) And they will ride the...Learn More

Hush now, don't explain Just say you remain I'm glad you're back Don't explain, don't explain Quiet, don't explain What is that you did Skip that lipstick Don't explain, don't explain You know that I love you And what love endures All my thoughts are of you I'm so completely yours Crying [?] turning And I know you teach Right and wrong don't...Learn More