My brother finds in calculators He assigns every number a He believes that they add up to And he's upset with the fractions that
So I examine these maps with my And at best, I can trace my finger all the way To town where she went an attempt to forget The cracks and the of my face
So cleaned out the closets for me And she piled the in the hall Tomorrow when she wakes she'll come take them And they will haunt me again
But it is still hard to sleep with the moon's heavy I run to the backyard Just to freeze in my place by the iron gate Too afraid and to advance
Today I walked through the And a field of headstones were in rows like the weeks on calendars Where each box is a day that you can escape
Without pills for poisonous sleep These memories leak these faucets that weep Hot tears splash the shower floor And I stand in the steam as if a dream
I can see her by the sink behind the bathroom mirror she pulls a thermometer And it underneath my tongue She said, You are as pale as a sheet, you awful my sweet Lay and wait for the sun
So I stayed in that bed, she brought me And each night from a volume out loud She soft poetry Her was 'Annabel Lee'
And those words, like drugs, comforted me But the clocks kept their hands And she could not Why my temperature would never
And although she promised tears That she would be here I heard truth like the sea
I said, My Arienette, oh, how soon you house will never be your home And you leave in the fall when the trees become graves And their colors lie in the grass
Gold and green torture me the lies I believe so easily Oh my Jetsabel, look at this that I have made If you want maybe drop by Put some on my grave So I will look beautiful in my silent sepulcher
Yeah, that's fine, throw dresses away I don't want anything of For the moon never shines and the stars rise Without bringing me Haunted by the ghosts of those eyes