Elvis Perkins

And now the night and the liquor wear off I see your sister more clear Now that the sun has warmed the

Stay if you want There is enough Sadness for the Both of us Follow the sound To the

O cruel other Mark my word I say In the a.m. I am long gone, an AM wave This is all you will know of my

I heard a sound When I was a child Someone was walking through the pillow that night The snow muted

Now when the famous anchor went up in tongues was laughing led out of studio one Oh he turned to wave

The tents go up As I go down Down to the flats and into the sound The closer I get to the city The

Oh to be somewhere Or somebody else Oh to have someone All to myself Say that you love me

Step from the dark bright ocean Cradled by the interior wave Under the song so long time gone Come

Last night was the science-fiction Movie with you and me You in your velvet space-helmet Me in my

I saw a woman out in the evening going her Mary way up a city block Stricken by a strange

My friends, the presidents I pass away Haunt all corners {& coroners} of my current state In no clearer

I ring into zero 'why you so long off darling? you're so right so right so right All

We walked the aisles aimlessly With our kills painlessly And we go all the night without love In the

While you were sleeping your babies grew The stars shined and the shadows moved Time flew the phone rang

I turn up like midnight Like the edge of town Of all the loose matches I'll move among the found