Swamp Ophelia lyrics

Now the parking lot is empty
Everyone's gone someplace
I pick you up and in the trunk I've packed
A cooler and a two-day suitcase
Cause there's a place we like to drive
Way out in the country
Five miles out of the city limit we're singing
And your hand's upon my knee

So we're okay, we're fine
Baby I'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head

The thin horizon of a plan is almost clear
My friends and I have had a tough time
Bruising our brains hard up against change
All the old dogs and the magician
Now I see we're in the boat in two by twos
Only the heart that we have for a tool we could use
And the very close quarters are hard to get used to
Love weighs the hull down with its weight

We were down at Dead Man's Hill
Smoking vines like cigarettes
Looking through the trashy mags
Trying to feel what's coming next
You told me of crashing cars,
Older brothers and late night bars
I told you what I feel most
And you kept it like a ghost
Forever

Don't you write it down
Remember this in your head
Don't take a picture
Remember this in your heart
Don't leave a message

It's a fish white belly
A lump in the throat
Razor on the wire
Skin and bone
Piss and blood
In a railroad car
One hundred people
Gypsies, queers, and David's Stars

This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train

Measure the bones
Count the face
Pull out the teeth
Do you belong to the human race
Doctor doctor

I'm waking from a dream
The neighborhood is green
All the sounds I've missed all the years
Come down to wedding, death, and fear
All I've heard has been in vain
Like water on a stain

Touch me I'm so beautiful
Rub your hands across my head just like this
Come with me now
It's not worth it if you don't
Are you hiding
I am hiding

Cypress moon I'm bald in June

Each time you'd pull down the driveway
I wasn't sure when I would see you again
Cause yours was a twisted blind sided highway
No matter which road you took then
Oh you set up your place in my thoughts
Moved in and made my thinking crowded
Now we're out in the back with the barking dogs
My heart the red sun, your heart the moon clouded

I could go crazy on a night like tonight

Fare thee well my bright star
I watched your tailights blaze into nothingness
But you were long gone before I ever got to you
Before you blazed past this address

And now I think of having loved and having lost
But never know what it feel like to never love
Who can say what's better when my heart's become the cost
A mere token of a brighter jewel sent from above

I'm harboring a fugitive a defector of a kind
And she lives in my soul and drinks of my wine
And I'd give my last breath to keep us alive

Are they coming for us with cameras or guns
We don't know which, but we gotta run
And you say this is not what I bargained for

So hide yourself for me
All for me

We swore to ourselves we'd go to the end of the world

I don't know if it was real or in a dream
Lately waking up I'm not sure where I've been
There was a table set for six and five were there
I stood outside and kept my eyes upon that empty chair
And there was steam on the windows from the kitchen
Laughter like a language I once spoke with ease
But I'm made mute by the virtue of decision
And I choose most of your life goes on without me

I sit two stories above the street
It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep
There's life down below me though the kids are walking home from school

So long ago when we were taught
That for whatever kind of puzzle you got
You just stick the right formula in a solution for every fool

I remember the time when I came so close to you
Sent me skipping my class and running from school

A LOVESTRUCK ROMEO
SINGS THE STREET A SERENADE
HE'S LAYING EVERBODY LOW
HE'S GOT A LOVESONG THAT HE MADE
FINDS A CONVIENANT STREETLIGHT AND HE SAYS SOMETHIN' LIKE
YOU AND ME BABE, HOW ABOUT IT?
JULIET SAYS HEY, ITS ROMEO.
HE NEARLY GAVE ME A HEARTATTACK. YEAH WELL
HE'S UNDER NEATH MY WINDOW
NOW SHE'S SINGIN
HE LA ,MY BOYFRIENDS BACK
SHOULND'T COME AROUND HERE