We were both in the mood to be x-rated
But the problem was that we both wanted to be dominated
My sisters call me by their husbands' names
I spent another hour yesterday with the bow tie you gave me
Let's spend an afternoon where our own names escape us
Far away from this dirty world

We both admitted we were in love
But the problem was that we both needed to be taken care of
I'm young I want to be old fashioned
When I'm old I'll want to be modern
Instead of drowning out tomorrow
We should address these problems
Plastic bags in the winter trees and the highway shadow of an eagle
Flying above this dirty world

We both wanted to play around a little
But the problem was that we both started to play
Two ends against the middle
Sometimes I’ll save a fly from a spider's web
Sometimes I’ll say, “Let him die. He’s better off dead”
My father promised me some orange Trident
But they're both gone from this world
From this dirty world

I always got a lot in December
The last thing he said to me was- I don't remember
Why couldn't he do the right thing? Pleasure is secondary
Why can't I find a spoon that won't crush my berries?
I see her walking in the night with just one eye open
And one foot out of this dirty world
This dirty world

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A different man sleeps in her bed every week
But all they do is go to sleep
I'm keeping track
I carve my trees with her initials
I'd sacrifice her to my volcano
But on nature she's turned her back
She used to answer it when it called

Her car won't start and her money's finished
Her new best friend is named Glen Livit
Sometimes she lets him steer
I feel her melting into me
Like an ice cube in a cup of tea
Soon she'll disappear like a comet in the sun
What do you do for a girl who's come undone?

She draws and crosses her own line
When she's gone I'm gonna pine away
For the crumbs that she dropped on the floor
Late that night, just before our only fight
Once it started I couldn't stop
She kept me thinking I could win
What do you do to the girl who's done you in?

Answer it when it calls
What do you do with a girl who's done it all?

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She's a long drink of water
Nine feet tall, well at least five nine
She can read her lovers' minds
Before you know it you've lost her

She guessed my sign but she didn't guess it right
I'm the same as the man she left behind
She gave him up to go live in the woods
Next time you take me back it's for good

Wingfoot High T's Watermill Blues
There's always more innocence left to lose
I'm the road from Belize to Peru

I can behave, behave myself
I can attendez ici pour elle
You can try to get her before she goes
You can settle for something else

But I won't give up this soon
There's always more innocence left to lose
You don't know what they'll take from you
Along the road from Belize to Peru

Now she's gone, gone for good
Now she's done, it's the end
A Sagittarian's nightmare
She's gonna bear another man's son

Wingfoot High T's Watermill Blues
There's always more innocence left to lose
You don't know what they'll take from you
Along the road from Belize

Wingfoot High T's Watermill Blues
There's always more innocence left in you
Don't give up it's much too soon
We're on the road from Belize to Peru

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My thoughts run away like you did from me
How many others have you touched since you were mine?
I'm blue and I'm yellow, I'm green and I see red
And it's an ugly and an awful design

What's awful, I know, is this painting of you
In front of the bridge on our way through New Hampshire
I changed your sweatshirt to a dress, you're holding it closed
In the photograph you smile, in the painting you don't

What have you done in the way of sin?
Who's come knocking and who have you let in?

I sing myself to sleep at night
I, lovesick, come in unannounced
Weighing your answers on a broken scale
Drawing harmony, harmony from flowers

I wake up thinking, Something bad's gone on
And now it's set in stone but whatever was was
I hope and pray you're still alive and well
Then I worry because it won't always be thus

G-d forbid, I bite my tongue
I take it back a million times
What have I done in the way of sin?
I'm not your comforter and surely you're not mine

I'm sorry for the letter, I'm sorry for what I said
I don't always feel that way but sometimes I do
I have moving parts, I try to win your heart
I love you and I want to show you

When I tell you things like this you smile to yourself
You tell me that your distance is the reason for my lust
You play the bigger person, you offer consolation
Like, “Don't worry it won't always be thus”

G-d forbid, bite your tongue
Take me back a thousandth time
What have we done in the way of sin?
I'm not your comforter and surely you're not mine
I’m not your comforter and surely you’re not mine

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Something is surfacing
It brings me light, it makes me light
I watch my whisky undress the ice
Undress the ice
I've done things wrong but I will make them right
I'll make them right

I'll come back slowly if you want me to
Want me to
I'll love you only
I'll give my name to you, my name to you
We'll make it holy
We'll make it through, make it through the night

Everything is naked and I'm feeling brave
I'm feeling brave
We'll make a list and we can pick a name, any name
We'll call our daughter Esther or maybe Jane
Maybe Jane's just fine

I'll come back slowly when I'm feeling brave
I'm feeling brave
I'll love you only
We can pick a name, any name
We'll make it holy or maybe Jane
Maybe Jane's just fine

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The last time I cried
Was when one of the stars in The Big Dipper disappeared
It was that bright one there in the handle
I wanted to disappear to when even the poor people wore suits
It wasn't their choice, though, it was just foisted upon them
Depression-age gentlemen on through Sinatra
Not a great actor when he wasn't singing I'm sorry
And it's hard to look tough buying ice cream for yourself

I'm still surprised whenever I see
Professional athletes younger than me
Sometimes a finger, sometimes a wrist
Could kill a career like theirs or like this
Would you still love me if I lost my fingers
And I couldn't hold you and touch you the way that you like me to?
I think I'll unravel, dissolve into nothing
Just my pure and blank soul, no thoughts and no feelings
What would you do?
Like this I'll test your love for me

You were upset when you saw yourself on that videotape
You said, "No wonder I've had all this trouble. Look how odd I am"
Just keep punching, eventually you'll knock someone out
I follow this grandfatherly advice
My father is dead and it's still strange to say that out loud
Last night I had that dream again

Where Job's wife is lying next to me and I'm reading her a psalm
She spits at my Bible, she spits at me,
"What a book to base your life on
Who cares about speaking out of a whirlwind?
How about saying something that makes sense to everyone?"
I say, "Where were you when G-d made the world?
Forgive Him and thank Him for what you lost it's time to move on"
She says, "How can I forgive and forget?
My children were killed because of some bet, some stupid bet
It was petty and proud--" Here there's thunderous clouds
And she screams and she cries and she fades into mist
As she wails out loud,
"He's my killer, He's my murderer, He's your G-d"

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I went walking where you walk every day
Where the men on the steps know your name
I was thinking, Her shoes touch this street
She smells this smell, there's the view that she sees

I still had your keys so I let myself in
I was looking for a place to begin
I loosened your faucet, I slept in your bed
I was dreaming you'd come home and love me again

I stayed up for days, I lay on a box
When I was dirty enough I drew near
I stood on your corner, I took off my watch
When I saw you coming I held out my hand

I dreamed you'd take the hand I held out
I dreamed you'd say it's the soul that counts
But you gave me a dollar and a pitying look
You gave me a dollar but there was something you took

I turned off my phone, I had nothing to say
I didn't touch myself for a week and a day
I turned into someone else, it didn't take much
I had that aura that comes from restraint

I offer you a warm place to sleep
I offer you a chance to think twice
I offer you your turn at the wheel
As it turns out I can sleep on my right side

I tried to buy a voodoo doll of you
A popular item, they were sold out
I had to make do
With some rubber masks and some tile grout

I sold you a stamp, just your name with red ink
I was the makeup man who painted your lips pink
I lay at your feet as the plumber for your sink
I was the waitress who served you your drinks

He ordered Chivas Regal on the rocks
I gave him Cutty Sark, a watered down shot
I charged him for Macallan, 18 years old
I had a center once but it wouldn't hold

I went walking where you walk everyday
Where the men on the steps know your name
I was thinking, Her shoes touch this street
She smells this smell, there's the view that she sees

I still had your keys so I let myself in
I looked through your things just to see where you'd been
I drank from your faucet, I slept in your bed
I was dreaming you'd come home and love me again
I was dreaming you'd come home and love me again

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Della, I'll love you better next time
We'll find your nightgown in Texas
Della, I'll leave you alone if you want to
Look at fences and take self-portraits

Della, I have a picture of you
That I drew while you were sleeping
I was scared of the earth lying under the sky
That's why I whispered about constellations changing

But I'm not scared anymore
I can say some things for certain
I'll never drop my bow
No, I know I could be something

Della, these words ride on my breath
But your name leads me to battle
And, Della, I'm not so easily led
But time is easy to travel

I remember a desperate night
How we kissed an hour in your doorway
And how I longed for you
Even as you stood before me

Della, I'm broken. My old dream is gone
I'm still here. It's almost evening
I look out my window first thing in the morning
The only dream I want to be in is yours

I'll bring you more than a rose
It's a long walk down the aisle
Della, you deserve
You deserve to be lifted by angels

The thirty second scream
The cruelty of numbers
Don't tell me anything
Let's pretend this year never happened

And, Della, I'll love you better this time
We'll find your nightgown in Texas
Della I'll leave you alone if you want to
Look at fences and take self-portraits

You deserve to be lifted by angels

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Oh, Letti
Misquoting Casablanca when you moved to Alaska
Left me such an opening

Oh, Letti
Go find your precious medals then meet me in the middle
Fly from your corner
At its most extreme it's a battle of nerves
The night moves out first
Then just like before it comes back for more

Oh, Letti
Remember my advances
How you took full advantage
I never had the time to turn back

Oh, Letti
May no night come to haunt you
May no night even want to anymore
You hold the center in this battle of nerves
The night moves out first
Then comes back for more just like before

Sometimes I'm lost in the middle
Sometimes I'm lost in the end
Oh, Letti. I'm ready to try again

Battle of nerves
The night moves out first
Then just like before
It comes back for more
Battle of nerves

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We were in the midst of a cold streak
You felt you weren't there
The parts of you you didn't use
You left in boxes under the basement stairs

When I came home I used to kiss you hello
Just to see if someone was on your breath
I tried to provoke you once and with your eyes you said
We'll never be close enough to fight

You used to have a rooftop garden filled with illegal plants
They seem like good old days to you now
But there were awful nights when you made drastic plans
And when you started taking her upstairs

Once you saw marks on her body
When you took off her shirt
But you didn't say a word

Next time she was just a wisp
Ten pounds lighter than before
Then she was a flicker
Then she was nothing
And you couldn't use her anymore

Now you're staring at the unpaid bill
You're a body in a chair
I never wavered in my loyalty to you
I always thought my vision had a prayer

It's not the end of the world
The world already ended
And the snow is melting on the back lawn

Let me leave you with this
Things left on the floor get wet in a flood
And you can't use them anymore
You can't use them anymore
You can't use me anymore

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