Dirty Projectors

Last night all my attention Squinting westward at the sunset With a map and a compass When a man reached up said something There Against the sky A point of light Too Invisible To give itself To the naked eye On the shore people yellin' In their eyes

If there is ever the impregnable question Of why what did or didn't pass It would help to seek Comfort in destiny But I really don't We don't see eye to eye But I need you And you're always on my mind Whether there is or isn't any position You care i

I ran across cyanide plains Mind like a prison cell But feet untethered and sane I wandered out hopeless and sad No thought of where I'd go Or how I'd ever get back There is an answer I haven't found it But I will keep dancing till I do I boogied dow

If you had looked, you might have just seen them Stretched in the background You'd see the oceans swell And the mountains shook You'd see a million colors If you really looked Now quick the night draws near Her curtain spreads quicker The safety's of

Beautiful mother up ahead of us Can you see us play inside the waves Beautiful moment on the ridge at dusk Can you see us play among the waves We are swimming in a simple rhythm We are swimming in a rhythm as the same voice We are listening into how

when the child was just a child it did not know what it was like a child it had no habits no opinion about anything maybe i will get a job get a job as a waitress maybe waiting tables in a diner in some remote city down the highway after all that we'

The renegade feeling satisfied You blinked and closed your eyes You like the feeling of Saturday You love the danger in the night The restless corpse is collapsed wind The breath is daffodil What not become what is lapsing Into the universal fill Or

Geranium kisser Skin like silk and face like glass Don't confront me with my failures Kiss me with your mouth open For your love, better than wine For your cologne is really fragrant Call on me, call on me, call on me Your hair is like an eagle Your

Look around at everyone Everyone looks alive and waiting The wind is up, the stars out The sun is calm, the light is fading But we are Still counting on cannibal resource Ok, open your eyes I think you're more than a terrified witness Behind the arbi

There was a single one, then there were ten With time made a hundred and a hundred million You came and spoke to me; I saw your face Your words were like raindrops from a storm in a vase Each generation different He was made to love her She was made

If a search has been long and futile and brutal And if you squint trying to recollect the bosom of your grown love You reach out and into the absence and gasping The vastness grasps you like an alien embrace Your face to its face No end and neither b