A blimp flew over Milwaukee It cast a shadow That just blinded in A blimp flew over Milwaukee It called out for my name So i hid A blimp flew over Milwaukee It cast a shadow That just blinded in

I've seen the red flashing lights, that light up the block I've seen the men in black, their never off the clock And i've seen all people pass through this town And even after all of them you're the best around The clouds expand in shape to fill the gaps That the steel towers leave in their tracks I've seen the blimp cast a shadow on the year And i saw the freight train you hitched out of here And though i can't blame you for that,I'll miss you so And though there is more to say, that's all she wrote I've seen the men you have carry blocks up the hills I've seen the sarcophagus tied to the wheels Looking upon your neck as it was sliced in two I wringed out all of the blood just to make room for you I saw the man with “loser” tapped on his chest I watched as he fumbled to gain any respect We fell a little deeper into this life long curse If i was a vampire, you'd quench my thirst I took the bus line as for north as it would go Dropped me off in springtime and i waited till it snowed And stuck my tongue out when january hit The flakes taste the best when they’re new and mint And so with that set in stone, i'll make my close The soaring blimp casts a deep black shadow It can take apart my body when i finally croak But i'll be up here waiting for that's all she wrote

I sat out in the attic with the wind across my nose It rang a haunting message “if lost please return” My guitar was rudely outspoken By a wind that so suddenly accrued I'm just a guy with no room to spare And a strum to chord But i saw a man with purple hair One year ago And i never let go of his face I never forgot his shadow, now i'm here You can't talk on work hours And I think that's for the best I can still feel my eye I remember the holes in my chest Chatter from the gondola Rings out against the wood Walls of the attic It saw me as i stood Well it's nice to dream about Life simpler than it currently is All the people i've wronged I get that life moves on I get that what's done is done I know they're long gone But i can't shake a feeling I've lost all control My wills been adjourned So if lost please return

Large whales Jump out of the cloud river Your bug bites fall off And the temperature is cooler You lie down in Knee high grass walk And the wind machines make has stopped

Where did everybody go I'm leaving and i wanted to say goodbye The creaky wooden brown panel floor Was left undisturbed I'm not looking for pity I'm not begging for change But then again maybe so So it's just all the same My heroes traced in magazines All blown up into smithereens And oh my god again Another winter overstayed its welcome Sleeping while holding onto your pillow My cat will sit out in the hall Waiting for someone to give him attention I won't be here in a month to give him that I'm tired of being mad At everything i have I just want to be happy For more than an hour at a time The leaves look different but it's still the same tree I'm sorry to go I don't know if i'm ready to leave

My sweater and jeans are left behind My figure cracks open leaving shards It turns the basin into a ravine And vines grow out of my arms Only my shoes and clothing Are left behind You won't find me in the Morning time A centipede slithers up And out from the ravine Cuts lavender chains Finds the will to eat He Wanders into town With holes in his brain The rain pours in and floods The entire container Does he look pretty In a silk black skirt His mandibles cut through And sink into the soft dirt The large whole in the ground That Molds over the top The cave days are over The scale aren't sharp In dusty night parking lots That he calls home Slowly collecting demons Just like real boys that roam Waiting to cash them out With there's no soul to sell He listens to the breaker sing Like the ring of a bell ohh The blimp makes large circles Like vultures in the sky But he is happy to be chosen He didn't know he qualified He wears a business suit on top To fit in with his other peers But finds that it gets to be to much And dreams of cabins in the trees Sick of all the yelling and constant noise Round and round all day long Tinnitus yelling as loud as it can Like a constant kicking of a drum And human connections just a scam Hold two coffee cups so they don't think your alone The big city was built on lies Clouds will shoot me, i've blown away But life itself trips you up You never knew were stuck Rain becomes good days While bad times are far away The centipede is fed up He rips his tie, calls it corrupt Human lifes not what he wanted Saying that makes him sound despondent But he just doesn't want to care About the offices cold blank stare In your mind but not in your body The ravine sings so softly And i can't make out the words She says something, im disturbed Do you speak in old tongue I remember when i was young Money and people aren't cracked Your sapling days aren't coming back And all you can do is work for Days that don't knock on the door His soft scales are now rough He says “i've had enough” Vanish into the brush And wanders until it sucks The stone of the cities crack The blimp looks for the next The office works wonder Where did the centipede head? He’s left town To find the pass overgrown He’ll climbs back into the ravine So all that's left is his shadow

Ann woke in an cold white bed Margaret touched her warm forehead Both sat in a silent air Satisfied they both were there Snow fell from the clouds “You'll be home any day now” Anne gazed into her eyes “Sing me the Gargoyles Lullaby” And two months pass like two months will The city swam like it was still The apartment, cold and alone Margaret never left the telephone Singing over phone calls Ending cards with “love from all” This was our favorite song The snow never stops to long Oh Love is a dog from hell “One day when this all pans out well We can hold and floating high And we’ll all be singing the Gargoyles Lullaby” So bye bye

We all still have black eyes And knowledge of all each other's secrets And in the silky smoke fog of night We watch them go, home But we all still have black eyes Oh The golden lamps reflecting Off the glass cups on your window sill Stacked on poetry books About frosty cabins Written and performed by Older, Whiter Men That we steal ideas from (like this one) We still have black eyes And loose coats from past winters 60s band posters on the walls In the harsh windy gusts of the rainy night The blimp and its crew will throw its tattered ropes on me Showing me photos of old friends The misty basin full of dried leaves And While at a meteorite created lake I watched white seagulls fight over bread And i hold an extra loaf in my hands Tonight there will be clouds And bruises will surround, my eyes We still have black eyes I'll wake up mid day after everyone Listening to my dad do the laundry With my own swell eyes While Christmas reefs scrape the windows And last nights ice for water melted Watching the ceiling fan spin Around, Around, Around Again With my own two swell black eyes

The Cars roar from under your feet Your stained shoes blocking the view of the street Huffing out the in of a cigarette As the rain hits your upper lip Watching the cement gain a new shade As it turns to a dark deep gray Sleeping through the waning dark Wake up in back bay park On the anti homeless spikes City board members incentivized In this cul de sac of a town Where no one turns their life around Drunk drivers running down the street You wanna kill every single person you meet And you'll misinterpret the calls over the radio An S.O.S message cant be a demo And maybe there's someone out trying to reach you Or maybe this cars finally breaking in two Gutterball of a person you write On post it notes left for you to find Saving all the bad stuff for you alone Saying “My horns pierced my halo” Dangling your legs off the overpass Drinkings lost all of its effect Taking your showers at trucker stops “God am i really that lost” Your bootleg car seat headrest CD Has fallen in with all clutter up to your knees Deaf without some music to block it out In this cul de sac town And with a bus ticket in your hand the clouds will blow Into a billion pieces while you dodge the loose gallows And the cops will chase after you cigarette girl And this town won't be waiting when you lift off the world Once my black eyes fade, i'll become the clouds and high planes So Sky boats can take my away, ill be higher than the blimp will make Once my black eyes fade, i'll become the clouds and high planes And i'll shape around a mountain and become mere hearsay Once my eyes

Im stopping by ambers garden What a place to be She rounds the corner To have a talk with me Ambers gardens got the things That would truly make me hole Some extra marks to give me Some tablets to clear my soul Ambers someone to admire Her long brown hair and crooked smile The stains she doesn't mind existing her imperfections that i'd like to borrow for a while I've been dead a long long time Long enough but i've grown in size Amber doesn't seem so insecure I'd like to see life through her eyes So I'll share some albums and some hair And When this is done I'll feel alright And I'll shed this ugly wrapping paper Because Amber’s going home in my clothes tonight

Watch me unfold Into a billion pieces of shrapnel Watch me unfold In the gallows of the envelope there's fresh blood under the table From where the dogs dragged them under I know we all slept through it And i know this nights not over Mushrooms infected our brains To dream mirages of sunshine The blimp hides its form In the cold steel of moonlight I want to live in a fruit tree, and eat the fruit as it grows I want to get out of milwaukee And avoid the gallows Watch me unfold Vivid vague memories Going from flesh to nails To strike the past tense into me I moved away last night , I didn't know I was asleep. I roared my terrible roars, and gnashed my terrible teeth. Watch the house get small, and blend in with all the other traffic. I'll let it go someday, but right now I'm not past it. Watch me unfold Gone gone greatly I feel the blimps cold shadow Casted over me All chatter from it has ceased If these walls could talk they'd say something by now And if the clouds could eat Id ask them to devour Watch me unfold The blimp stalks the land Blood falls through the gaps in my teeth And my ears will seep the clouds i speak The wind will interrupt When the breeze takes me up I don't have much to take I hope that i'm enough I hope that i'm enough No I hope that i'm enough I don't want to grow up I don't want to grow up I don't want to grow up anymore I don't want to change I don't want to unfold Im stopping by ambers garden What a place to be She's not around these corners She up and left on leave So dear Mr big black blimp I know one day i'll bored you and begin To unfold into my storehouse Of thoughts and interests And i'll watch it unfold When it hits the powerlines I think i'll hear knocking at the door I hope amber makes her way home tonight

Oh, here you are And you’re all you wished to be You’re alive and you’re Not alone Not alone in this So close your eyes Hear the whole world Call your name And you answer Please don’t go Please don’t go away All I know is here and now And right away Call me here, I will appear Like light of day All of the words Of the songs We all will sing Mean the same thing And it’s not goodbye No, it’s not “go away” Mom, bye Dad, bye Call my name, behold the strength Of my embrace All I sing to hear my prayer Don’t go away All of your life You’ve been holding on To just one thing And it calls you Please don’t go Please don’t go away