Hum--You'd Prefer an Astronaut

LITTLE DIPPER

If we both stand with absent eyes 
and think about the oceans, watch them dry 
We can see far to the other side 
It's you and i forever, we don't have to hide 
If we ignore the signals that mission control will send 
It's one big ship ride anyway, this hell will never end 
We gaze out on what they left of the stars 
All we see now we can take as ours 
You two've got just moments left to give 
Come back now and we will let you live 
Stay inside our blue protective eye 
We won't let them take you, we won't let you die 
My baby spins propellants, my systems set to blow 
She sent the milky way now, exploding into snow 
and she's constructed flashpoints to cover up the sun 
I sleep under glass, i know that she will wake me when she's done 


THE POD

Morning scatters in and i am steady like a drug feeling out this one 
She wakes up smashed as hell and steadies her ass against the rail 
and bends before the pounding rain 
She had the widest bright ideas all along about my love 
and i need this fucking fix and i beg her 
to pick from one of a billion ways to feel no pain 
The morning after bends reflected and i can hardly stand the way this 
whole thing makes me seem 
She climbs out from a dream with lungs hardly as she screams stereo scream 
and bends before astounding rain 
She's got a system made of metal and magnet lips inside a brain 
She opens her box of tricks and begs me 
to pick from one of a billion ways to feel no pain 
She had the widest bright ideas 
that all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends 
Everyone is on wait, wait on the end, hold me uptight, let me breathe now 
She had the widest bright ideas 
that all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends 
Everyone is on wait, wait on the end, hold me up right, let me breathe now 


STARS

She thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars 
She's not at work, she's not at school 
She's not in bed, i think i finally broke her 
I bring her home everything i want, nothing that she needs 
I thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me 
She thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars 
I found her out back sitting naked looking up and looking dead 
a crumpled yellow piece of paper, seven nines and tens 
I thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me 
She thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars 
I thought you'd be there holding daisy, you always wait for me 
She thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars 


SUICIDE MACHINES

Sleep comes to everyone while we wait for the sunday afternoons 
Sleep comes to everyone, everyone baby, yeah, but you 
Sleep comes to everyone while we wait, wide awake and blue 
Sleep comes to everyone, everyone baby, yeah, but me and you 
and so i give myself away to everybody everyday 
and so i give myself to you and you need it more than i do 
Sleep comes to everyone while we wait for the sunday afternoons 
Sleep comes to everyone, everyone baby, yeah, but you 
and i have this one figured out, 
That's why the suicide machine is built for two 
A simple sick device devised to overload on love 
to bring us colored dreams and soundtracked waves of fun 
and so i give myself away to everybody everyday 
and so i give myself to you and you need it more than i do 
Sleep comes to no one else like we have falling through the ground 
Fulfilling promises of endless summer nights 
I'm losing ground, you're losing sound 
Somewhere through a thousand years a dragonfly descends with just a whisper 
I'm lonelier than god, and all my wishes spin the fishes in the air 
and everyone a different shade of you 
and to the left where up is down 
Now stands a zebra made of shapes of me and silver and the sun 
So bring no guilt with you up above the flatline 
Let's just hit the sky exploding into one 


THE VERY OLD MAN

It's eerie and it's awesome how all connected 
Two pods scattered on the surface can become lazy in to one 
He knows lightning kills the other 
She can't stand to watch his petals fall 
It's better when cascades become like us all 
after their golden disengagement leaves a woman with a household left to fill 
sit and be still 
I send the voltage cross his ticker 
Watch the stars they start to flicker 
and one by one levels fall 
Another drink, my love, and make it tall enough so i can stand on it and see 
all you've done for me 
a world of curves and lines electric 
remember how you strung the colored lights from christmas tree to me 


WHY I LIKE THE ROBINS

The distance outside of view comes into focus, collapses away lovingly 
and hands to the glass and eyes to sky and glued to the south she waits to see 
She's looking for birds she met last fall, 
Who said they would come back different than all 
She's waiting for six who know about sound, 
Who'd promised to come back upside down 
and i like your raindrop collector, 
Splash in my eyes and makes everything else look like you 
So hand me the glasses and teach me to use them, 
Show me the window, i want to look too 
I'll take the glasses and cover for you, 
You get some sleep and i'll stay til two. 
I'm looking for six who know about sound, 
Who promised to come back upside down 
She's got colors to spare and i don't care what they choose 
and i've got nothing to do and nothing like you left to lose 


I'D LIKE YOUR HAIR LONG

I'd like your hair long and ladeled to the ground 
You'd prefer an astronaut 
Someone to relate to and someone to command 
and i would be a simple man 
I could hardly wait for my stars to fall in line 
and synchronize and shine 
a wasted string of years, and a wasted string of lies 
It's still the same to me 
It's a waste of a song 
You're a waste of my lungs 
It's a waste of a song 
I'd like your face gone and in its place the sun 
and i would be an astronaut 
For i have come to surface to catch some light and feed 
and i have everything i need 
and i could hardly wait for my stars to fall in line 
and synchronize and shine 
a wasted string of years, and a wasted string of lies 
You're still the same to me 
You're a waste of a song 
You're a waste of my lung 
It's a waste of a song 


I HATE IT TOO

Morning gray ignites a twisted mess of foreign shapes and sounds 
I wish the ceiling was the ground 
I'll send you flowers made of silent tiny pieces of the sun 
to help me make up for this one 
While you send me tidal waves of love when you're alone 
and i can't remember what you do 
to find a way to turn the signal back to heaven sounding blue 
and bring me faithful back to you 
and she don't hold me right, she's never going to get me there 
not tonight 
If we break off gently in slow motion, spinning outward into space 
My hand always floating gently at the wheel while you sweetly hold my face 
and i need you to give it meaning, i need you to share the view 
or it becomes a time for me to love myself like every other thing i do 



SONGS OF FAREWELL AND DEPARTURE

Before we steam and descend, steady to the sun 
A simple tale of woe, your hearts won't be undone 
A love song to everyone i know 
Arms wide open, here we go 
She weaves a trail of petals through the embryonic ice 
Her hair was warm to the touch and flowers twice as nice 
and if he stands on the moon he can barely catch her eyes 
Always open to the sky 
and so we land only to find we never left the ground 
Please leave the walls and the floors exactly as you found 
A love song to everyone i know 
Arms wide open, here we go