I’m reading letters in my father’s hand
The lines are broke, syntax be damned
I crawl and squirm with every line
At all the things that I am not
And everyone’s gone far away
Desires went but bodies stayed
We’d talk for hours in linen sheets
Anticipating every sea
Will you meet me in the water in Alameda
Hold your breath watch things grow shorter in Alameda
Blotting our candles out in dirty water
Keeping our brooms in time, we didn’t think they’d
Whittle away at our hours spent by the lake, we break
Ourselves in two to move with how we’re told to
Now jessie’s basement’s quiet and her mildew’s
Piling up as our boat sits dry by the lake, we wait
I’m writing letters in my father’s hand
I don’t expect you to understand
Is it in me to push away?
Will we remember our own names?
Will you meet me in the water in Alameda
Hold your breath watch things grow shorter in Alameda
Kids in the movies meet and drift away but
Our undercover hearts don’t make us able to
Turn on a dime and forget our time in the light
Call me out, call me in, call me something in my home tongue
I need it, the warmth and fire
Slick my blood, from Europe, on the floor
I don’t need it, or it me, we’ll find a way to
Go back to the lake and throw ourselves from the land
We’ll meet underwater, no sons and no daughters
Call me Al, call me fire, drive your body past the limbless trees
Blotting our candles out in dirty water
Keeping our brooms in time, we didn’t think they’d
Widdle away at our hours spent by the lake, we break
Ourselves in two to move with how we’re told to
Now jessie’s basement’s quiet and her mildew’s
Piling up as our boat sits dry by the lake, we wait
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