The Microphones

my roots are strong and deep/i'm swaying in your breeze my limbs stretch out to meet you/you've got me on my knees i stand tall/my feet are on the ground you're wrapped around the earth/you circle it with air you're trapped inside the core/with hot l

there's no end, there's no glory, there's a slow resounding story there's no place to feel certain, there's nobody waiting for me there's no stand of trees, no morning, there's a curve without a warning there is weird and lasting sadness, there's no

I got hit hard, I'm on the ground And if you swing again I'll duck And I wish you best of luck You deserve yourself And I return from my trip to hell As a headless horseman 'Cause oh what a loss I went back to get my stuff And it was tangled up and t

The foggy air around us was blinding, The foggy sea was loud behind it. It's foggy breath breathed it's water into our lungs, And we curled up around it, And we were deafened by the sound Of foggy waves crash, It's still ringing in my ears. But my ea

You tore a hole so deep my leak poured out torrentially But now I'm bored My bloody flow is slowed so I can be bored near you Oh, what a loss It didn't show its head until mine was torn and thrown at you And back it grew With glassy eyes walked and c

you'll be in the air in some hours you'll be over the sea lost in the other passengers on the plane but if you just moved your arms then you could tell that you are in the air you'd feel the yawning gulf grow wider and you'd feel the dwindling fuel f

The thunder clouds broke up, And the rain dried up, The lightning let up, The clacking shutters just shut up. There's no black or white, No change in the light, No night, no golden sun. The sound of cars, The smell of bars, The awful feeling of elect

I thought I felt your shape but I was wrong Really all I felt was falsely strong I held on tight and closed my eyes It was dumb I had no sense of your size It was dumb to hold so tight But last night On the birthday in the kitchen My grip was loose m

i'd like to believe/in one thing that you say to me would you like to leave?/when i try to talk at all, it all just turns out to be turn on the stove/in the little tiny rooms that our friends call a home my head fills with heat/from the knife in your

I drove up to the city at night and found the place where you grew up and then where you stayed and then we walked around and stayed up late under city lights and I spent the night next to you in the house where you grew up. next to you I miraculousl

i took my shirt off in the yard no one saw that the skin on my shoulders was golden now it's not my shirt's back on i forgot my songs the glow is gone my gliding body stopped i could not get through september without a battle i faced death i went in