Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Magnetized Slain By your zirconium smile I was slain By your olivine eyes Slain I was lying in piles Hoping shovels would cast me Furnaces burn everlasting Black tattoos of you onto me Furnaces burn everlasting Black tattoos Burn Brand my

Lake swimming Shucking free our deadened selves Like snakes and corn do Our bodies tore off swimming suits And all the old notions The cold ocean far away Enter the sun Marching like a matador Flashing her velvet yellow suit Throwing a red cape on th

Bird of prey Gonna float away To a feather cloud formation I'm gonna dig For pretty and strange Gonna open me up A black gold vein Arrow on fire Flash the night Gonna fade away To the trees and caves Salt-salt lamp Romance the spark And you'll shine

LAURA VEIRS Rialto Check out the skylark Riding and singing alongside Salt cool breeze coming from the West Ships and their lawlessness Running wild and the waves Wearing their bright blue summer best Here come the sailors Marching two by two by two

LAURA VEIRS Parisian Dream Your painting Scratched lines of blue and gold You open me up Was folding into myself A deck of cards Face down empty on the shelf Your song with Emphasis on one and two Then I couldn't keep time You took me into a dream Ex

LAURA VEIRS Through the Glow Flat stone skipping the surface sink Into the golden deep Crawl inside like a honeybee Creep into the heart Give me snow and give me salt Troubles cracks and creaks Watch 'em tumble to the sea Come back 'round you see Can

When you sing, when you sing The stars fill up my eyes Galaxies pour down my cheeks Galaxies-they flood the street Galaxies When we dance, when we dance Eels and sea grass float on by I'm 10,000 leagues beneath the sea 10,000 leagues-beneath the gree