Though to believe any of that, I thought, you have to accept the premise that she woke me up at all.

Sleeping is the only love

Grass grows in the icebox

Sometimes I wish we'd never came here Seeing as I'm held in such disdain here

But we are real, real I know we are real

Four dogs in the distance Each stands for a kindness

Where's the paper bag that holds the liquor? Just in case I feel the need to puke

One has lived life carelessly If he or she has failed to see That the truth is not alive or dead The truth is struggling to be said So how do we get out of this? Family shadows all of this Through what is not but could be if With all associated risk

Like any strong young poet would, he packed his bags for Region Ten I guess now I know him less than I ever knew him then Yes, I guess I know him even less than I ever knew him then

Since her dad, a local barber, had been beaten to death She had become a vocal martyr in the vegan press The cops had failed, they couldn't catch a bus They were looking for a male with a bad hair cut Enter tumbleweed, exit love And our affaire d'amour was set on self-destruct

We've been raised on replicas Of fake and winding roads

They don't cream And they don't dream in Kansas City

Every single game was a blowout And the NASCAR blurred into porn Scenic this, scenic that, don't fall for the traps Of a man who was never born A man who was never born

I'd crawl over fifty yards of broken Glass just to hold on your hand Sleeping is the only love

We're just drinking margaritas at the mall That's what this stuff adds up to after all Magenta, orange, acid green Peacock blue and burgundy Drinking margaritas at the mall

Conditions I'm wishing weren't taking control

I wasn't done being my mother's son Only now am I seeing that being's done

Now I've put an ocean Between myself and Goshen To get away from the Farmer's Hotel Things so unclean Are better left unseen Keep away from the Farmer's Hotel

Hand in hand down a waterslide in Chattanooga They did not hide from love, you see A winter's plane flight to Aruba Where he threw a boombox into the sea

And death is a black camel that kneels down so we can ride

Behind the walls of medication, I'm free

I guess over time we became ducks I never seemed to see you much Then the world turned, time got away We fell out of touch I've been working at the airport bar It's like Christmas in a submarine Wings and brandy on a winter's night I guess you wouldn't call it a scene

When you're running for the door in the rain Read the metro section Read the metro section Read the metro section See my name

I suspect we could be losing now Please guard my bed Please guard my bed Please guard my bed Please guard my bed

Go contemplate the evidence and I guarantee you'll find The dead know what they're doing when they leave this world behind

They walk the alleys in duct tape shoes

And like a brown bird nesting in a Texaco sign I got a point of view

And when I couldn't count my friends on a single thumb I loved her to the maximum

Sleep on your back and ash in your shoes And always use the old sense of the words Your third drink will lead you astray Wandering down the backstreets of the world On the last day of your life, don't forget to die The things that you do will always make your mama cry

The morning will find us with a smile on our face And we'll be together in a lovers' embrace

They don't cry And they don't die in South Dakota, just like a seagull They don't mash They don't hatch in South Dakota In South Dakota Here comes the coda

They don't walk They don't talk in Malibu They don't vote They don't even smoke, I know you're blue I know you're blue I know you're blue They don't cream And they don't dream in Kansas City They don't cry They don't, they never act, I know you're ready

I am trying to get at something so simple that I have to talk plainly so the words don’t disfigure it.

Yeah, you look like someone Yeah, you look like someone who up and left me low Boy, you look like someone I used to know

Got a comb over cut circa Abscam sting Make a better Larry than Lizard King But you got to find a way to make it work 'Cause defeat is where your demons lurk

There is a house in New Orleans Not the one you've heard about, I'm talking about another house They spoke of gold in the cellar that a Spanish gentleman had left I broke in one hundred years ago with a dagger tucked in my vest

When you're seller and commodity You gotta sell yourself immodestly Turn your pedestal into a carving board If that's what the audience is starving for

The robot shifted uncomfortably in his chair.

I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness

Open field with a window Open field with a window Open field with no child Open field with no child Open field Open field

Have no doubt about it, hon, the dead will do alright

Four dogs in the distance Each stands for a silence, yeah Bluebirds lodged in an evergreen altar I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness And hold the world to its word

Moments can be monuments to you If your life is interesting and true It's just the same for a man or a girl The meaning of the world lies outside the world

Only one for me Only one for me Only one for me I'll put my dreams high on a shelf I'll have to learn to like myself Yeah, maybe I'm the only one for me

Ghosts are just old houses dreaming people in the night Have no doubt about it, hon, the dead will do alright Go contemplate the evidence and I guarantee you'll find The dead know what they're doing when they leave this world behind

Up the hill past 694, at the stone wall make a left And I will see you soon, my friend If these old directions still direct

Poor as a mouse every morning Rich as a cat every night

They don't vote They don't even smoke, I know you're blue

Of all of the people I knew I always looked up to you And after millions of years of crime The sun still shines and shines Look, a horse, of course Gallops through the desert light I make such good time through sub-space When I dream all day and write all night

I'm gonna shine out in the wild silence