Funeral Singers
Califone
4:10The words avoid my tongue And wish to awake pictureless To lean your fever up against mine Trees are growing from our graves Roots are tangled in our bones Polish girls in ruins tease The Chinese letters left undone On a black walled invitation Say goodnight before you go Cut lips on frozen words Cracked teeth on hollow syllables Wolf's milk and painted pegs Opium years of dreaming Polish girls in silent tears Ruined and undone When the moon decides to show Riding spider count your teeth Something broke in you before Your heart stopped ticking Little one died Cold and quiet ocean lines appear And wither away Time and distance Black walled invitation Colored lost The brightness of the hour The black walled invitation Say goodnight Baptize this over me Before we turn black