1. |
White Noise
04:47
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I took my place by the frozen lake
Fell into file and rank
The signal will stretch and eventually break
I scan the waves to find my voice
Hand on the dial poised
It's coming straight through but it's all white noise
Through all the mystery
Out here on the open sea
Dividing like and kind
You can rummage through a childhood
Tangled up in wires and why
Would you change it
When there's still enough time
I sit on the stoop and I watch my breath
I hear the numbers coming in
Listen as the map paints itself into red
Stop and start and interrupt
A quarter in a cup
It's coming straight through but my mind is made up
Through all the mystery
Out here on the open sea
Dividing like and kind
You can rummage through a childhood
Tangled up in wires and why
Would you change it
And make it all mine
Running out of time
I was on your side now I'm floating on my own
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2. |
Symbol and a Sign
04:59
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He kept a gun in the passenger seat
As he drove through the desert night
Retraced his steps for the things that he left
When he made the unexpected flight
The affliction burned as he returned
To where he hoped he would find the light
Was he out of his mind?
Taken in by the holy men
He cut himself into the cloth
Fingers point and heads shake
Maybe doctors could have staved it off
Somewhere between magic and divine
He was looking for a little relief
He bent and kissed my feet
Come back brother come on over
Give us some sort of sign
Deep into the eyes, a symbol and a sign
We bent the corners of the rules
But you put on the robes
Did it drive you out of your mind?
In a small brown cell
Secret threats and time to think
On heaven and hell
What's beyond the olive trees
Six years passed and the world grew strange
Before he came back to our world
He drifted off into strange new thoughts
Wandered in the dark alone
The monks shrugged off the things he lost
He said they were full of lies
He drove back into the night
The last moments of his life
Come on brother, come back over
Give us some sort of sign
Say you're doing fine, tell us you're alright
We watched the rules slide off the pages
And you took off the robes
Did they drive you out of your mind?
Words became a voice, and the voice was unknown
An unshakable noise, and it followed you home
Skull in a box, couldn't make your sins disappear
Nothing to forgive and you do not belong here
Did they drive you out of your mind?
Were you always out of your mind?
Goodbye brother, you crossed on over
and gave us all a sign
Whatever was inside, was it there the entire time?
We search the rules for what we should say
As they put on your final robes
Did they drive you out of your mind?
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3. |
Goodbye
04:53
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I slept on the side of the road
On the long drive home
I was not born to fly and sleep in hotels
To witness the mystery
The passing of history
I did my duty and I did it well
Scatter mind and body
Undecided as a pack of wolves
Should they keep the baby?
Or feed it to the modern world?
Please don’t leave me without saying goodbye
Without saying goodbye
It was a strange feeling outside
Gold dust drifts from the sky
Watching every last piece as it runs
Through the creek bed of suffering
Give us one last memory
Like a fish in the angle of the autumn sun
Bored up all your sadness
In a notebook on the hospital bed
The background hum of silence
The ashes of our friends
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Infielder Durham, North Carolina
Anthropocene hymnody
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