Lit By Your Phone † The Sea Won't Take Long † Light in the Aisles

Lit By Your Phone

ride you home † devil's shoes † god made cars † green plastic soldiers † montana † snow day † the hole in me † snack † dashboard † not enough † fireflies † what have you done to the moon?

ride you home

hey you lost old barn owl on my hospital TV

don't worry about the nurses now they don't know what they can't see

I'm gonna ride you home, over the sucker's lawn, I'm gonna ride you home

dirty little angel band underneath my bed

I can feel their winter hands trying to steal my cigarettes

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nurse from the night shift staring at an empty bed

hands from comfort care waving to us overhead

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devil's shoes

sam was a big man, he came around the corner with $47 in his hand

they found him last night, starting to rot, down by the pathmark parking lot

I know that's not the name that your parents gave you

it's better to go barefoot than to wear the devil's shoes

rollerbag joe underneath the bridge counting up the quarters left to go

and where he is now no one notices the rain

slumped like a businessman sleeping on a train

(chorus)

well I followed him through the wires down to the broken glass playground

we were almost there when he turned around talking to someone from long ago

his eyes were shaking and as dirty as his coat

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god made cars

O I don't need the napking map you drew for me

cause I can see where your eyes are

bright as supermarkets, wide as highways

and the summer spilled her nail polish all over my steering wheel

"you know you'll never get that off , but there you are"

that's why god made cars

so get a light up globe and plug it in the dashboard lighter

and fill the windshield with glow tape stars

that's why god made cars

there's a billboard for every broken heart

and a shoulder to pull off and cry on

cause no one can see you there when you're in your car

that's what you told me, and I believed you

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green plastic soldiers

green plastic soldiers melt in an ashtray

I drank a hole in your birthday

came by to see you, I saw your mother's car

so I just kept driving to the bar

there's nothing left to do but go crazy for you

they sent you home in your uniform

I shot your picture off the tire in the backyard

I'll keep the pills and the military discount

I'll let your sister pack the house

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montana

god made montana an adult-sized portion

he made the roads wide, and soft as Samantha Morton

he watches from the sky with his big billboard eyes

sometimes the hardest thing is the easiest to do

she stood there waving like the flag they left on the moon

there's no where to go, so you're always wherever you are

and you can turn off your lights and drive for hours by the stars

I never know what I'll find

In my thrift-store mind

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snow day

darling promise me you'll kill me in my sleep

if I'm still waiting tables this time next year

I saw the summer breathe on my window

wrote something there and watched it disappear

and I waited for the rain to change your mind

but it changed mine, it changed mine

I put away my worries

they're just birds bouncing off of buildings

tomorrow morning I'm gonna wake up beautiful

go chasing december for a snow day

and when her heart got too full she carved a little room

turning good news into bad in the Telephone bar bathroom

and I waited for the wind to bring her back

now she's just a thumbtack on my map

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hole in me

he t-shirt said "justtin I'm legal"

she was a sugarbowl in the door to an empty hall

tiny commandments fell from her eyelids

her skullmask mascara was black as a bible

and when she looked up the night was wet as the sea

she raised her hand and slipped in to the hole in me

there's nothing longer than indiana

and no place better to get lost

four hundred miles of one word answers

the windows up, the radio off

the officepark parking lot still knows my card

and no one hears the steps behind mine

new jersey sunset still wakes with my computer

but in the screen I see another pair of eyes

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snack

he had georgia dirt and wolves on his shirt

stars on his road-tan arm

he came in when you were a convenient blue

in a convenient greenpoint bar

you cried your way through the kitchen, cried over all the magazines

you cried until your eyes had drained all their green

i know you say he was a moon landing for you

blonde-on-blonde times back in black

you say you don't understand, no you don't understand

you were just a snack

you're up in that window crying "nobody cares for me"

calm down, come down someone does

you never thought to see

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dashboard

the dashboard is covered with spent conversations

she's a summer girl and it's fall

magic marker sundays and soft considerations

are stacked up like boxes on the sidewalk

and I'm only crying cause the floor is dirty

I only wrote your name there cause I might forget it someday

we could make a sunset of this river of brakelights

please stop crying now you know this coffee's bad enough

I could wear a tie for you but it would never hang right

I can't do your daylight hours, I wouldn't recognize you in makeup

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not enough

you roll the world on its side and everything is bruised

you still come over and leave the night with nothing to do

your clothes they are no match for the rain

the message you left was only a stain

the walls they cannot hold the room

I'm not waiting for you I'm not waiting for you

you balanced your weekend on the fire escape

spent sunday knocking it off

everyone tells you you're too much

but you're not enough, you're not enough

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fireflies

I could tell that she was raised by firefiles

by the light coming off the spokes in her greenpoint eyes

the summer dropped us off at a wild blue address

with november waiting for us already halfway out of her dress

and she said let's have a parade for the cosmonauts

that the Russians shot off into space, lost and forgot

we'll park a trailer on the roof and build a nest of radios

so they can have a place if there ever get home

the last time I saw her she was standing on the edge

lit by her phone with her hand over her head

saying "everything lasts forever and it's all already gone

so you can let go, or you can hold on....

but how can you wait? how can you wait?

how can you wait? how can you wait?

how can you wait? how can you wait?

how can you wait? how can you wait?

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what have you done to the moon?

what have you done to the moon?

it crawls in my window and lies there breathing like you used to

what have you done to the moon?

what have you done to the rain?

it fills your best suit to dance at the end of the driveway again

what have you done to the rain?

I saw your car on my street. That's all I need.

what have you done to the time?

an hour ago I was a wild-haired child

what have you done to the time

what have you done to the rain?

What have you done to the moon?

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