The Glass Kingdom

So I woke to sound of my will breaking down

And I didn’t know where or when

After all, how it’s been

Does anyone know how far we went

And I called you up

You said “ease off your paranoid ghosts”

And neither of us knew where

To go from the next note

I forget which part comes next

Then it strikes again

So if you’re still asleep

Let’s fall apart in this one piece

And when you’re away

We’ll run around in revealing shapes

And I’ll give you everything

Anything you’d love to

But I’m not giving up what’s best

Just giving up the rest

You’re the type of guy I can see

Worldly and looking for truth to believe in

Just believe in the truth

You and Me and She and We and every single thing in between

But when you strain your tongue

On barbs and bars and barbarous lungs

I’ll be the one to play along

It’s a tentative hand, gripping my soul

Running down through my chest and into my bones

And we’ll laugh like children, crying tears of wine

‘Cause we’re young and lost and longing for signs

That what we’re doing is fine

This is how to live our lives

And when you’re away

We’ll run around in revealing shapes

And I’ll give you everything

Anything you’d love to

But I’m not giving up what’s best

Just giving up the rest

If time is a stream

Come splash through it with me

We’ll fight it and ride it and tie it

In loops, over and over again

My heart is a spring

Sprouting ignorant dreams

Blessed all the same it seems

And my legs, pounding hard

Pushing, pulling, pounding on and on and on

And I know if I run far and wide

Through the fields and dream scape sights

Rolling up and out and far beyond

What’s left of unsaid silence still lying between us all

And when you’re away

We’ll run around in revealing shapes

And I’ll give you everything

Anything you’d love to

But I’m not giving up what’s best

Just giving up the rest

Two bodies pushed together

In orbit, their hands pulling through

Their feet to your freckled face

How I kept you all close

In that moment we’d gravitate

Too tangled to think it straight

But you left her all snug in the arms

Of a white linen chair

Where she talks with her eyes

Brushes thoughts with her hair

She had a long trip

She’s already left

Her mind it still stares

My heart, pulsating and pausing

To beat in your place

To stand in your harrowing space

To leave this town with you and

Return to memory lane

Where I can see your tongue and your teeth

As we lay with my head on your sleeve

And in my haze I woke to her

Lingering gaze

As I trembled and sweat out

These salivate hunger pains

I barely could know you

But drank in your fuzz phrasing games

And I feel I will miss the air of a stranger

Who was eager to meet

Can’t we start it all over again?

And I never will kiss

Those still beating lips I could taste

But then, where are my years left to waste