Creak, Cure, Dawn

Cane came and he weighed

My name against the sun

With cold coalescent moon

For each deed I've done

Ive scratched and choked

(The dawn) against the wall

For each tree and rock and verb

I swallowed whole

And what you need is a fading

Phrase to frame your cheek

And what you'll see are the sorry

Sounds and they way they sink

So I put my knees on the sidewalk

Where the swallow sleeps

And I learned to sing

Yes I learned to sing

From the gallows' creak

Swing (love) with a common

Tongue in a mortal star

Place bets when you

(Climb a brain)

We'll cut the knots

In the dusky dark they

Come the sun is warm

And I scratched and resuscitate

Now the day is done

And what you heard

Were the sorry sounds

And they way they were meant to walk

The hollow cross from craw to dirge

And you sold it off

Yeah you sold it off for a sin occurred

You know it's worth

When the sins are cured

Press dropped cause

You eyelids lie at this height

There's a place where

The trees all die and let the light

Of the sun burn each one into a grim

Put its lips where the brick had rot

Are quivering

Cause what was gone was

The simple shapes your breath had drawn

And you stared in awe at the weeks

You'd only filled with hum

And your lungs they sunk the last

Plum wisp of a dropping sun

And your red light's on

Yeah your red light screams

Like a buzzing dawn

Creak, cure, dawn