1.The Ghost You Are
Let's paint her chalk white
See if she reacts
To the colors I admire
All the details
She flirts out freely
All the details
Die completely
Scream
Bury a whisper inside your room
Caught in a spin towards you
When things could be different
If your hands adapted me
For some southern reason
I don't see us happening
Let's paint him jet black
See if he jumps back
And loosens up the colors in his skin
All the details
She flirts out freely
All the details
Die completely
Scream
Bury a whisper inside your room
Caught in a spin towards you
When things could be different
If your hands adapted me
For some southern reason
I don't see us happening
Lean into me
And I'll lean back into you
Bury a whisper inside your room
Caught in a spin towards you
It's easy to operate
It's easy to understand
It's easy to be that way
When you've got the upper hand
Stay right where I think you are
Running out of step
Running towards your car
Walking through walls like the ghost you are
As conscious as a mistake
As simple just to
Simple just to fake
2.Trivet
In sight of close calls
beat the plaster off the wall.
Claustrophobic area;
waking up to nothing.
Remember one name.
Catch the corner of the page.
Close the book and never look
back again
Crawl out from the walls;
break your fall.
Redesign the shadows
Underneath it all
we stay calm
and overprotective.
Last night I was up again till three...
watching tv.
And using both hands
draw a breath as best you can.
Catch the ring before it slips
out of reach.
Remember anything;
red wine split to shards;
Cut the corners off the project
and let me sleep
Last night I was up again till three...
watching tv.
3.S Is For Susan
The look in your eyes
is barely recognizable;
or so it seems to be
attracted to
everything
within reach of a whisper.
Srain your ears,
just to hear them speak.
Seconds slip by,
words turn into wounds;
Flling into
every piece of you
Two times at night
and double that on the weekends.
I could tear my hands across your back and still hear you
scream...
Goodbye Susan.
Hope you had fun.
I never intended any of this to happen.
Yet I still recall the smell of your car last fall
and how it felt to be close to you.
The slant of your smile
is only noticed by the line;
or so it seems to be
attracted to
anything
between here and there.
I might not redraw
the fragile lines of Seattle
Minutes pass by
settling the wounds.
Tripping into
every inch of you.
Goodbye Susan
4.At Breakneck Speed
Prop me up
and keep just one hand talking
while the other slips underneath.
Steals inches from me.
All the lights
seem to dim on command,
lifting oxygen from eyelids.
Calm yourself
Deep breaths
Quarter rest
Fill the lungs up in your chest.
Careful not to strain.
The sound waves you'll save
just might be that
of your own voice breaking.
Sounding out the words
slipping over teeth and out through tongue.
Slip down
White knuckle the chair
Bring your eyes back to earth
or whichever one comes first.
Don't leave yourself
hanging back.
Right now
feels as if it never happened.
Why is my face all red？
Why are my clothes all wet？
All the attractions
All the rejection...and I still feel dumb.
Blink me in
or blink me out.
You got such a great disguise
You hide yourself
on the inside
clinging to the side of my mind,
where they'll never look to find you;
never look to see
just what's inside of me.
(Running out towards the giant lime light streat light,
bending your knees, just to see...
seaching, searching.
Can you hear me when I say these things？
Cuz you act like thats what to ignore.
Or stay hidden underneath or out of reach.
Like your bright blue eyes talking in and out.
or like Katherine grazing your lips
Katherine grazing your lips...
just shut up and kiss me)
Slip down
White knuckle the chair
Bring your eyes back to earth
or whichever one comes first.
Don't leave yourself
hanging back.
Right now
feels as if it never happened.
Why is my face all red？
Why are my clothes all wet？
All the attractions
All the rejection...and I still feel dumb.
Running out east of here,
quoting non but fools.
Quoting out every breath
seeping in from somwhere.
East of here...
East of everywhere.
The silence is unbareable.
We hold our breath and sink our ships.
5.Swell
Try and define
the energy it takes to write these lines.
that I find
useless all the time.
Everyday
I try not to stay awake.
But instead asleep
A safety net I keep.
Get up
and over
don't cave in.
Get off
and under
tell me again.
Capsized.
Leave those in betweens
for someone else.
Sure as a headache comes and goes
so will you.
Use your failed sense of worst hue red
Down and into
every piece of all of you.
Its more of a thought I think
than anything.
Everyday
I try not to say your name.
But end up failing
in the worst of ways.
Such a beautiful thing to waste,
and just as easy to replace.
Tell me again
and this time I'll be sure to listen.
6.Know Your Enemy
As useless as I am
I have little left to give.
Take me out tonight
don't forget your jacket.
Bring it with the rest of you.
I'll be the one on the left,
coughing up any at best.
Waiting for your signal.
A sound that's like
your broken eyes
keeps following me.
For hours on end
I try to pretend
this never happened.
Like the blind
feeling for lines;
Both hands caught up in your hair again.
And I fell out
and you picked me up;
Broke in two...
right where I left off.
We're just enough alike
to make it worth your while.
That should keep you smiling.
I'll be the boy in the bed
hoping you'll just pass me up.
Move on to the next one
A night that's like your
broken sigh keeps
following me.
For days on end
I stretch and bend.
How did I let this happen？
7.Clue Me In
Two cigarettes
Lying close together
Trying their best to forget
The heaving in their chest
One says I'm sorry
If I made you sad
I just wanted to kiss you
To say that I had
Nights like this
It's you I miss
Is this the effect you expected to get
So caught up and clueless
And all these conclusions
Sorry I let you down
Just being myself
Clue me in
Exercise caution but tell me again
Clue me in
Exercise caution but tell me again
Nights like this
I catch up with
This camera's eye
And you're so shy
And it's you I miss
Wide eyed angled release
Smoke me down to the filter
Clue me in
Exercise caution but tell me again
Clue me in
Exercise caution but tell me again
One says I'm sorry
If I made you sad
I just wanted to break you
To say that I had
8.Wreck Simple
Are you
upset over all of this？
Or are you
just playing dead？
Adding up the math.
I can blink my eyes
in a sad sadistic fashion
in the hopes it'd make you move.
In the hopes it'd make you breathe.
It's how disaster
makes me feel.
All I can think to do
is stare and say,
'It's OK.'
Just one more day
spent tending ruins,
cuz of you.
One more connection
cut off by affection.
One more useless night
spent in this life.
Lick your lips wet,
try to forget.
Jump in headfirst,
who cares if it hurts？
One light flashing,
over guessing.
If not for the life in you,
I don't know what I'd do.
It's how disaster
makes me smile.
The thought strikes as nice
once in a while.
One more connection
cut off by affection.
One tank short on gas,
one bullet built to crash.
These broken lungs
have little air left, if some.
The cause and effect
is as simple as a car wreck.
If not for the life, then this thought of you.
It's a stupid thing to think that I won't lose,
when all I want is this：
To be more of the friends that sometimes kiss.
9.Here On And Out
Screen play
written for the obvious in mind.
You rise and analyze
secret little kneeshakes
that keep you up all the time.
We surround in circles,
try to get up.
One more false move;
One more action
I can't forget anything else.
In the event that I might slip up
I'm telling you now...
Open your eyes and memorize
here on and out.
Take your eyes out
you play the part so well.
Cut off screened in
tracklessly dreaming.
Always
a combination of one or the other：
Girl keeps screaming...
Boy keeps feeling
far------------- away
Isolated and just stained blood red
Isolated and just stained...
Right now
she must be thinking
there's too much on his mind
and not enough of mine.
10.Cover Up
Lost yourself
in the couch
swimming with all the change again...
waking up indifferent.
Day after day,
just one constant slap
in the face
keeps you awake.
Waking up inside
bleeding through the eyes
caught up confused
All the anchors sigh,
strapped to the floor;
Nothing left to lose.
Now that you've got a trail to cover up,
why are you whispering to me？
And deep inside my room
there's no such thing as light
passing through these bars.
Talk out loud.
So I can hear your voice scattered clearly,
lungs breathing evenly.
Often I sleep
and often you'll leave.
Just one more reminder
keeps you wandering.
Wax candles selling out the room.
While the eyes have theirs
is not to be confused.
Change your own name
Change your own name.
11.Silence
12.Untitled
So breathless
the night carves her airwaves out of leaves.
I am up against
tattoos of scars and skin
So cold
So deep
I'm twenty feet and sinking
faster than the ship I'm in;
Useless to jump or swim
I could hold my breath till I blow up
and make this all seem real.
No matter how hard I try,
I cant seem to win
this stupid game.
I apologize
for keeping you up.
Wasting all your time.
So I'm stuck with
the image you walking me to my car.
And how nice it felt to be alive in someone's arms.
Last night
felt like
the only time that we made sense.
And every moment after which
Chalk it up...
to coincidence.
I could hold my breath until I blow up
and make this all seem real.
There's nothing like waking up
after all the sadness
has been slapped off.
And its just me and you,
looking at all these things.
How am I supposed to breath？
Lucky for me
we were lying down.
Just from kissing you
I could of passed right out.
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