CUCKOO

It’s not him

Every single time

Their masks pulled back

None of them are mine

Tried to un-know this

Vast euphoria

Cornered in a corner low

Claustrophobia

I’m alone here all the time

Every songbird sings

Every creature wails for you

Every moonbeam wails for me

Is it simple for me

To sleep in silent homes?

Is it better for me

That I miss your bones?

Soon I will control myself

Solitude a salve

Soon I will be strong enough

To let the lightning from my mouth

Skinny hallways narrow minds

Paint a smile on good

That old girl is far behind

The new one’s understood

Hey hey, hollering for you

Hey hey, hollering cuckoo

Hey hey, hollering for you

Hey hey a hollering cuckoo

Lying on the bed alone

Further from the start

When you’re far I must recall

I hold both our hearts

A glossary of us

Claustrophobia

Our lovely small house

Claustrophobia

Lyrics

FIRST AND LAST KISS

 First kiss the first kiss is

Heavy-heavy 

And the the last kiss is murder 

The last kiss is too much teeth and

Wondering when to run to the long snow and dive to cool the heat 

The last kiss, it ended me

And the last kiss is a hunger

For another last kiss 

Was like gold hardening in the throat 

And wanting air

And new jewelry

The last kiss was known to be the last kiss by the other party

Last kiss was brutal and soft like shore break

The last kiss is always on a couch you can never lay on again

DEVASTATION’S BLISS

 ‘Nother ride round the razors of the sun

Wrote a verse in the devastators song

Try to sleep in the bed that we made-

Wide in the absence of a dream 

Now it snows in the summer and the spring

Some seasons keep falling out of swing

And I told you in twenty five new ways

How to circle back, circle back to me                                                       

And you’ll circle back, circle back clean

When I fall asleep to places that we built

I wake up to feel the dirt left on my skin

Hey, my love did you come back to rub it in?

Oh how I wait for you and you’re the weight for me

I’m the last girl imploding in the corner

And you thought I’d give up and get tired

But I’m the roar in the never learned lessons

Roaring since the age of eleven

I’m an envelope that tears into itself

I’m the face repeated in the crowd

And I know I’m unknown as your pain

And I don’t know how to fix it

Hoping you’ll come back to see the home I’ve made

Don’t you wanna circle back and try again?

You and me, we’ve got some wounds we can’t un-see

Baby how I wait for you and you the weight for me

Maybe we’re the sparks made for each other

Maybe there’s a bed where I no longer shudder

Maybe theres a way to circle back to our old selves

Maybe there’s a shore where I wait

Maybe there’s a shore where you wait

Maybe let the tide roll away

All lyrics written by: Derrick C. Brown & Larkk