LYRICS > Fish Pond Fish (2020)

• Woolgathering/Crystal Caving

  Woolgathering in the garden
  Cicada song in the summer
  Tomato vines grow honey high
  The stars alight in the garden
  
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  Dial a light for a natural fade
  Seasons can change
  Menus scroll and the needs are met
  All I’ve got left
  
  Feed a family and we’re all grown up, yet we’re all still
  Here nothing growing, crystal caving in the atmosphere
  Everything’s golden
  
  Natural and the disasters
  And everything after
  On the hour, every hour, yes
  At your convenience
  
  One of many, and the many make the garden grow
  Here nothing growing, but the trees erupt in black light and gold
  Everything’s golden
  

• Ocean Bed

  Ghost dog running down the rocky edges
  To the churned up under of the ocean bed
  No, I’m not running and I never have been
  To the true blue bottom where the light ends
  
  Old growth forest and the sun in your veins
  At the daily dawning of a green new age
  No, no one changes with a snap in the air
  And you can’t repurpose what was never there
  
  Restart in the old familiar dark we’re swimming through
  Long view into the blue
  
  It’s day I think, but we might be underwater
  In a sea creature’s dream, in a dreaming drink
  No, there’s no time for the end over end
  And everything to do before dying again
  
  Long view into the blue
  
  Ghost dog running
  To the churned up under of the ocean bed
  No, I’m not running
  To the true blue bottom where the light ends
  
  Restart in the old familiar dark we’re swimming through
  Long view into the blue

• Keep Coming Home

  I got lost on endless land
  On endless land I’m lost again
  Keep coming home
  
  I remember seeing you
  The flat end of a bottle through
  Keep coming home
  
  Comb the stairs, make us a drink
  The sun is set and in the sink
  I keep coming home
  
  Every little thing and large
  Is off its track and banking hard
  Fever trees against the headlights
  Starlings spiral out of sight
  I keep coming home
  
  I get caught in my own web
  And love you to the gills again
  

• Green + Evergreen

  Through the oak and poison ivy
  As the lemon light was alkalining
  I was growing, I was dying
  Growing I was dying
  
  Bright and brighter through the trees
  Looking up at green and evergreen
  Free and looking to be free
  Looking to be free
  
  Bright and brighter through the trees
  Looking to be free
  
  Tipping scales and tablespoons
  I’m alive and in the living room
  It’s dark and getting darker soon
  And darker soon
  
  Diving into shallow waves
  Where the margins and the measures fade
  The path is closed but a way remains
  A way remains
  
  Diving into shallow waves
  A way remains
  
  With time to kill and space to roam
  The hedges grew till they were overgrown
  Over everything I knew and know
  Everything I know
  
  Villains now and heroes then
  Where the boundary bends, begins and ends
  Things will change and change again
  And change again
  

• Time Will Be

  Time will be the life of me
  And time will be the death of me
  In my loose head, my state July
  My mind a room of ruby light
  I find you there in the empty road
  That flickers by the almond grove
  
  Time will be the life of me
  And time will be the death of me
  
  We mountain through the mountains to the point of return
  The ridges rose and rose for who knows how long
  And on and on with you beyond and there’s no return
  
  I lost it there, I ran aground
  And I between the windows down
  Was a whistling bottle in the wind
  In my seat I hyperventilated
  Nothing goes only to heaven or hell
  Or ever did, or ever will
  
  Time will be the life of me
  And time will be the death of me
  
  We mountained through the mountains to the point of return
  The ridges rose and rose for who knows how long
  And on and on with you beyond and there’s no return
  

• February/Stars

  February, here we are again
  Tired of chasing, running, following
  All of the dust and dirt and light explode into the dawn
  
  If arms and legs have anything to say
  Of missing hours on boardwalks out to the middle of the sky
  There is an earthly myth we took to get here by
  
  February, here we are again
  Tired of chasing, running into the weather and wind
  There is an ochre morning star above
  There is a place to stop and rest and finally be done
  
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  Galaxy
  Ever-shiningly
  Looking back into the depths of me
  
  Empty sea
  It’s just you and me
  And we stretch out to infinity
  
  Gravitate
  Collapse under the weight
  I’ve been running up and down a dark staircase
  
  And suddenly
  Stars are under me
  All the dust and dirt and light are circling
  
  Time will see
  Every tide recede
  And I’m no one if ever I was me
  
  End scene
  It’s just you and me
  Only waves and insects in the breeze
  

• Denver

  Take me back to south of Denver
  That’s the place where I was me
  Feels like I've been dead forever
  And forever I will be
  
  Take me back to Colorado
  Now that time is all I have
  And I will be a ghost to other ghosts
  And maybe I can live with that
  
  Chalk me up on some old sidewalk
  Pin me down in Silver Plume
  These days I circle like a sparrowhawk
  Around the ones I’ve yet to lose
  
  I can squeeze a lime with one hand
  But I’m still dead as the Delaware
  Now every day I dream of Denver
  And all of the living I left there
  

• Mountain+Sea

  We’re mountain and sea
  See your back to me
  Cold as a creek
  Bed with no bedsheet
  
  As it may be
  We’re mountain and sea
  Be as it may
  Fly in the breezeway
  
  We’re day into night
  Night owl in flight
  As far as we know
  Nowhere else to go
  
  We’re night into day
  Daydream us away
  A way to escape
  Hatch and take shape
  
  We’re high into low
  Low tide undertow
  Untied, overdue
  Do-over, undo
  
  We’re low into high
  High tide will be true
  True dovetail of two
  Two cities me and you
  
  We’re Tennessee moons
  Shining at noon
  Set us down slow
  Slow down and let go
  
  We’re water to vapor
  You my equator
  Turn back to me
  Sure-footed daisy
  
  Mountain and sea
  As it may be
  

• See You Change

  I picked the fruit
  It was right
  In my hand
  And it came to life
  
  So I looked at you
  To see you change
  Change into
  Something true
  But when I reached
  For the truth
  I reached right through
  
  Outside the house, the morning glory’s coming to
  Contrailing light is buzzing through you
  Take me into the orchard row
  Where you go through, I follow
  
  I look at you
  To see you change
  Change into
  Into something true
  But when I reach
  For the truth
  I reach right through
  
  Take me over overboard
  Before the dusk is gone and night
  Has taken us under us
  After the beat of overtime
  
  And we’ll sleep beneath the dunes
  Beside the books in all their piles
  The epilogues and old machines
  The fog of wasps is buzzing through
  I reach right through
  
  Take me into to the orchard row
  Where you go through, I follow
  

• A Light on in The Dark

  Are you swimming with the fish pond fish
  Looking for oceans in the saltlessness?
  Are you spinning in and out of true
  Pink Moon playing in the dead of noon?
  
  And here you are
  As nowhere as a northern star
  You're a light, a light on in the dark
  
  Goodbye, goodbye it's time to go
  Time is a figment on a fig tree road
  Open the door and let the flood back in
  Drift out of yourself and let the day begin
  Rollercoast into the aster bloom
  Fly to the sun in your suburban shoes
  
  And here you are
  As nowhere as a northern star
  You're a light, a light on in the dark
  
  Under the unfolding angle of the sun
  Setting is a rising soon to come
  
  Come into bloom
  Blue asters in the afternoon
  You're a light, a light on in the dark