Eras come again sweetly
The night is but a frame
This tiger is now tame

Purpose, a month without language
Violets in the rain
Our state is on the wane

There's rain in the house, I cut myself
There's rain in the house on March twelfth
There's rain in the house, I wish you were
There's rain in the house, I'm quite sure

Water will ever pursue us
This evening is bewitched
The trailer slept unhitched

Songs about a song
There's magic in this wire
To eat and to perspire

Cascade: it's green, I have seen it
The night is but a frame
This tiger is now tame

Lamplight: the neighbors are silent
Violets in the rain
Our state is on the wane.

High, Low, fresh snow
Nights spent on the highway refrained in my driveway
And in sequence
I won all your secrets, you couldn't keep its
Name straight, too late
Curfew's in effect now, I cannot suspect now
Clean swept, bereft
Of all old traces, you kept your spaces

All this time, rewind
Calendar inured
Autumn Grounds
It felt true
California seemed important
Oh home, home home

I think I'm getting the knack
Of running like a train on a circular track
Returning to the places I'd wished I forgot
And leaving my reflection to carry the thought

Three coasts and five years
I can't keep my memory clear and it's a shame
Coffee shops, corduroy
My backyard and summer joys won't come to naught
L.A. was all I knew
Couldn't seem to follow through because of you
Hubcaps and klezmer blues
Tilted floors were all we knew, and this cannot simply end.

Thanks for coming
Now let's see you
Find your way through

Well-made decisions, knew you could
Gentle revisions, yours and mine
Layered gone outside, cold at night
In case of romance, chandeliers

We're lost on the highway And too shy to stop and ask for help So turn on your headlights, and we'll find our way home by ourselves

Beneath the surface of our Persephone There lies a false sense of insecurity An observation of ancient sympathy Is what comprises our dear Persephone.

I really had an awful scare
The moment I went up the stairs
The ribbons looping through your hair, tied with so much grace
I stood there while you found your purse
Then we ran out of universe
An unexpected sounding burst left me naked

Waiting in the sideways rain
For somebody to say my name, and nobody does
Waiting in the sideways rain as anyone would

I'm living in the by and by
I can't remember how to lie
The clothes I wore that won't come dry hang around my room
They're waiting for a glimpse of sun
Or someone with a loaded gun
I guess we had ourselves some fun but now it's over

Believe in what you see, believe in what you hear
While you remain unfazed, the fabric disappears
I should have taken notes
I wish I'd kept my head
I wish I hadn't seen the image fade to red.

I don't want you to Know where it is that I have been Come back to my room lai dai dai dai dai dai dai

Can you hear the rain Or can you see it on my face I can't leave this place lai dai dai dai dai dai dai

Still the breeze that moves the sunlit leaves Warm the grass and wet the earth beneath

I can't feel your skin But I can still recall its shape When you're far away lai dai dai dai dai dai dai When you're far away

From the beginning, silence has slept
This is the summer of promises kept
Let it stay just this way
A thousand years and nothing's changed

It's OK, I see the sun
The winds will blow where the freeways run, and grace all the beaches and canyons
In the name of what we've done
We call upon almost everyone to remember fallen companions; it's understood

This is a prayer for what can't be said
For all that we've hoped for and done instead
Going back to what I knew
My oldest hopes come back to me

And I lay my head down and leave this book unread
And I lay my head down and put this dream to bed
And it's all right now.

Every morning people in the city climb out of bed
Unaware of other people watching from overhead
Nothing in this world is ever truly quite what it seems
Once upon a time I woke up from uncomfortable dreams

If nothing else then smile
For we may be here awhile
Time will tell and then the tide fell
I've been waiting long for that bell

All I can see is what may have been the sun
The ribbons we bowed, the pillows we sewed have come undone
Fireflies and gilded skies issue through
The window I left open after you

Collections I've culled from places I've known
I'm sorry to have left you alone
I try and try and try but I always win
I've always been ready to begin

It's a long way down
This landscape we've found
And it's ten miles through the ground
No wonder you're so tightly wound
So I will trust my feet
Feel the sand and feel the heat
It's the sound of expanse
A last and unknown

Revolution never came
I don't feel that I'm to blame
The sound of travel is what I mean
Sunflower valleys I've seen

Songs are sung and jaws are dropped and tongues are raised
You left me broke with faerie folk I'd led astray
Excising this cyst you found the gist of my true wants
Someday we'll return smiling to our former haunts.

I don't believe you're the only
I don't believe you're so lonely

I am the Starman I bring you my treasures I am the Starman I come from the Sky I am the Staman and I am the Starman

I'll be back some day Back in my spaceplane

I am the Starman I land in your backyard I bring you the secrets To unlock your mind With this new wisdom You could be famous

I am the Starman I bring you protection From all of the landmines 'Tween here and your car Electric power To open up cans with

My hands are on backwards My face is inside out But when on my planet I'm pretty as god I am the Starman and I am the Starman