Lyrics to Ghostwork

hour hero yes, had showed you there'd be days like this...



and you find yourself longing for a certain drastic context

a dreadful circumstance that will tack great lengths onto

your dictionary definition



to soothe your leaden understanding of bread, water, and money

now arriving by an alternate route at where the absence

of such things might leave you

mind you, this is not more rich confession of a child actor

and as you would agree completely with a gift cyst as it appeared in your throat

the decision to further limit the pain registrar

and delight your tiny heart a moment with uncontested omnipresence will...



you've had the wind knocked out of you by something life size

and you're afraid to say to your face

you stretch the pen and cheat the sleep



this sort of evening you want to say something your words cannot



note: which leaves your ghost blowing up globes

tying them off with an x axis c-clamp

and setting them down



for 7 days and 7 nights

you've sewn a cloth copy of your nervous system

to a turtle neck and pair tuxedo pants

outside the city's dry all covered in primer

you have lost control of your hair

yesterday you were shot for a magazine cover

fatigue swapped your body build with all urge and by the door

you heard demo's creaking squeezing a squeal from your guilt

against the clinging teeth of their cd-tray

all beneath the inner half of the door knob

hissing at its other head

hung in the sun



you're staring at a quill as the lump sum of its parts

and it's begun to look brutal



4 walls of day: and that alone

no empty hallway for you bearing the

100 bright light blocking doors of luck

and here in the favor of life i will

contrive no device against expectation, only announce

i have learned to respect the color yellow

for one reason or another.



and in the insurmountable non strength of one's weight



"you're afraid to say to your face

you stretch the pen and cheat the sleep"



since you all alone

has always been such the long audience

you spring forth, full with overconfidence

as if to say...superman.