Dance Music.
i’m in the living room
watching the watergate hearings
while my stepfather yells at my mother
launches a glass across the room
straight at her head
and i dash upstairs to take cover
lean in close to my little record player on the floor
so this is what the volume knob’s for
i listen to dance music
dance music
**
Up The Wolves**
there’s bound to be a ghost
at the back of your closet
no matter where you live
there’ll all ways be a few things
maybe several things
that your gonna find really difficult to forgive
there’s gonna come a day
when you’ll feel better
you’ll rise up easy on that day
and float from branch to branch
lighter than the air
just when that day is comming
who can say
who can say
our mothers have been absent
ever since we founded Rome
but there’s gonna be a party
when the wolf comes home
New Monster Avenue
Shadows on the broad lawn canopy of trees
Sometime after midnight the ground is gonna freeze
Birds in the frosty air
What are they doing there?
Greenhouse full of butchers brooms
Breezes at my back
Sometime before the sun comes up
The earth is gonna crack
I look down at my hands
Like they were mirrors
Fresh coffee at sunrise
Warm my lips against the cup
Been waiting such a long time now
My number’s finally coming up
All the neighbors come on out to their front porches
Waving torches