I found a bottle in a pile of bones and popped it open
It held a big ol’ scroll that just kept on un-a-rollling
Til it rolled off where I’d seen quite not
To the corners of my dreams and
All the places I forgot
I read the words on the big ol’ scroll
But didn’t know them
They looked dark like blood 
I had to find someone and show em
So I started winding up the scroll
And man it took a year to roll
I was singing like a magpie
And tunneling like a mole

I had to go to where the dragons go
It started snowing
There was fire all along that road
Where I was going
But I hiked and hiked
Til my feet did stop
Til my lungs did fail
And my body did drop
But I made it on up that road
And started showing 
All the people that very scroll 
That kept unrolling
But the scroll just kept on going
And my head felt like exploding
So I said fuck it and I cut it 
But then it’s demons started showing

The scroll started sensing
Its other half had gone missing 
I could feel it start to tense up 
(It got tense so tense!)
Then it started to wrap around me
Closed my eyes up then it bound me
Heard the townsfolk shout like
There was fire in their hair
But by the time my legs were kicking
The whole town had gone a missing
All was silent save the sound
Of the scroll a laying twitching
Like a scratch that ain’t for itching
I hooked the scroll like I was fishing
Picked it up right where it lay 
And continued on my mission

I found the forest mouth 
And traced its cliffs of green
I scaled the crystal peaks
Rode their surrounding seas
I found the pine tree king
Oh how he loved to sing 
His deep voice spreading
Out across the verdant sea

For years I trekked 
Looking for secrets kept
Trying to find a soul who knew the scroll
But no wizard witch nor hiding hole
Time crept like an ice cube left
And I grew tired of the asking
I wanted peace and sun to bask in
Found a whole in the hill top 
Deep inside the trees
Met a pretty little wood elf
Got down on my knee
I remember every blessed thing
And I remember hearing the sound of wings

The night they took you away from me
Broke me in a hundred ways
The night they took you away from me
I became death
Certain and absolute

They came in like lightning
They came in full force
Took the roof off the house 
And stole you in the course of it
Before I opened my eyes you were gone
I was surrounded by men
And bedeviled by haunts
I could hear you screaming
From up above where the Crow Queen flew
I’m sorry love
What else could I do

There was gnashing of teeth
And breaking of bones
I was one against fifty 
A will cast in stone
I became devil 
And I became night
I became vengeance
The passing of light
I could hear their hearts pounding 
Like big Dwarven drums
And I sought them out and
I silenced the thrum
I moved through their bodies
Like water through snow
My blade leaking blood
And my head leaking smoke

Well I left the next morning
Grabbed the scroll and my sword 
It would be my last journey

I arrived at the city gates
Stone giants on either side
I asked what to make of your fate
Gate guard told me come inside

I was taken through town on neat stone roads
Past merchants and homes and watchful souls
They brought me to an elder in a dark black cloak
In a house up the hill back away from folk
He told me of a girl lost long ago
Offered by her village to the forest’s hold
And how that little girl did preen and grow
Later only seen as great clouds of crows
And when the crowing crows swooped down so low
Villages were razed leaving only smoke
Aho aho aho 

He said son you’re gonna wait 
Til the rising sun done come
And be off and up and running 
When the cock cries once
You got to make your way 
Past Giant's Mouth and keep making
Til you find yourself in forests south
There’s a tall wind going
where you’re blowing
There’s a tall wind blowing 
where I’m going

I never wanted anything 
As much as I wanted you
Back in my arms
I was obsessive at best
Trying to come to your rescue
It’s the type of thing that breaks you
If you fail when it tests you 
I’d already taken too long
But I’m still writing the song
I’d already taken too long
But I’m still writing the song
I’d already taken too long
But I’m still writing the song
I’d already taken too long
But I’m still writing the song

I was quick like light as I moved from the city
How my horse did fly just 
Running towards an ending
Birds lined the trees my whole way
Black feathers like a light rain
A well lit path of corvidae
We went down through the valleys 
And up through the peaks
I cast a spell to keep us moving
As the days became weeks and then
Soon after I started hearing things
There was a voice in the back of my mind
Just saying open me

Open Me!

I couldn’t take it for long though
The voice made it hard so 
My bag developed a soft glow
I took the clasp off the scroll 

And I just let it roll

There is  a pressure in my head 
Its getting so big
I swore I wouldn’t but it’s different 
Baby you went
I don’t know how to fight 
A kingdom with just two hands
(I’ll track you by blood scent
And bay in our private tongue)
The scroll was different
I was different 
I was desperate
I couldn’t read it 
I just spoke it 
Voice a low pitch
My vision swirled 
Like an algae bloom unfocused
(I can hear your heart sounds
Beating like a giant drum)
I was like light inside a bottle
That got broken
I split refracted 80 ways
I was awoken
New power coursing through me
Each breath an explosion
(You shine like a beacon 
Through layers of shielded earth)
When I came to 
There was a crater formed around me
The scroll was gone 
I had its words all up and down me
My head felt strange
But I could feel its power pounding
(There’s no way to stop this
I’m rabid for you my love)

Ain’t no way ain’t no way
That didn’t happen just now
By the gods did I just say?
All those words? Was that me?
I can remember things that I’ve never seen
It’s like I’ve lived a life of dreams
And they all were me

There was an old oak tree
Barely holding it leaves
Then a hot hot wind
Did away with its skin
And to its a left a smoking crater
Where I lay enroute to save her
So it went

And it went on I lay there
Reeling til the light of early dawn
Then got the feeling if I'm alive
Then well I might as well go on
And I had power running through me
I was sizzling with song
I named the witch

And said 

You cant hide you cant run

Oh no I think you lost this one

Oh no I think you lost this one

Oh no I think you lost this one

You cant hide you cant run

Oh no I think you lost this one
Oh no I think you lost this one
Oh no I think you lost this one

She hid her face with pretty lace

From all the wretched crows

Who sought to pluck her like a plumb

If only crows could know

That tempered in that heart was also

Quite a wretched girl

She’d pluck the feathers from their bones

And leave their beaks to soil

Fucking at the Costco

I had to lay you down

On tall flats of La Croix 

Essence of lemon

You were so cold 

Your body radiated heat

But not heat

Just an opposite extreme

Moving in and out 

The haze we made 

Looked like a DJs floor

Blaring blasts of skin and lemon 

You were so cold 

But your body was your body and 

I’m only anybody

When I’m fucking your body

I went down on you in bulk

Fucked you in and out of every 

Giant shirt they sold 

In beds of produce 

Filled the rafters with our moans

I changed your tires

And I tightly screwed your bolts

The aisles are avenues

And so are bodies

I find that when I’m in you

I hate my life less

I’ll be your free sample

Just please take me whole

We’ll make such a mess

That the store has to close

It was a palace of lights

Fluorescent whites

Against a metal sky 

We stumbled towards their gaze

Oh we had climbed so high!

From the top of our high pallet rack

I fucked you while you fucked me back

And fucking we dislodged the stacks

Like dominoes all falling flat

In came the thunder

The sprinklers laid a heavy rain 

There were fires in electronics

Burning televisions

Smoke blackened the air but in that moment

All I wanted was you 

We lost our sure footing

And spiraled through the air

You always had your way with 

These intrepid sort of things

I never felt an ounce of fear

Unless I was without you dear

Say I’ll never be I’ll never be 

I’ll never be without you

A tumbling ball of human flesh

We hurtle where our motion’s led

And graceful as we go 

Like a comet arcing slow   

And in the madness of the moment 

A seam had split and started growing

In the center of the air 

Our trajectory locked unaware 

The winds grew and they gathered

A black hole consuming matter 

We could feel its pulsing thrum 

Rattle through our bones

Our comet come

To an all consuming eye

Nothing now but to slip inside

Like we could even stop it

Out of time into the pocket   

We shot through like a missile darling

(Passing through the portal)

Starlings in a slipstream 

(Our whole bodies sang a chorus )

It’s hard to find words that can truly explain

Oh the lights and color lights and color

Such a cavalcade!

Ohhhhh I was still fucking you!

Ohhhhh you were still fucking me!

The nest of our bodies

Just writhed on its way

Til it cut through a blue sky 

Shot over a bay

We shot with force and no way of knowing

Tunneled straight in through a cavernous mountain 

We burrowed in deep

Til  the mountain held us still

It was black all around 

And the only sound 

Was the shifting of the rocks 

As we were going to town 

We fucked for years at a time 

Trying to break our way

Through the earth and stratum

Through the rocks and slate

One day the rocks started tumbling

Felt like the earth was having fits

We saw the sunlight start to creep in

Through the gaps in the rocks

So I gave it to you harder

And we added a twist

We were a grain mill grinding flour

We were an imminent risk

We kept constant building friction

Causing tremors and waves

Til we were fucking in the rubble

And  now no mountain exists

I was a man of solid features

Til I walked into that cloud

And then my eyes and nose dispersed

I was the idea of me running around

I couldn’t quite assemble

But you know, by god, I tried

And I tried, oh how I tried, oh how I tried, oh god I tried

I tried to bring it all together

I tried to draw myself some lines

But every stroke that I put down

Was just another long waste of time

There were eyes up in the rafters

They were watching me disperse

I tried to call them but my voice was just

Another lost lonely verse

You can put me out in the outfield

And I’ll play that field just fine

Ain’t no catcher’s mitt can catch

Another lost and wandering mind

Neither can my simple hands

Neither can my wandering eyes

I’m more aura than orangutan

Less solid

More a vibe

I don’t know if I want to get well

Climb inside me like a tauntaun

Wear me like your favorite dress 

Ill color you in white in red 

Keep you warm when you’re sleeping 

Even though my body’s a mess 

You got your head resting on my chest 

Climb inside me like a tauntaun

Wear me like your favorite dress 

Ill color you in white in red 

Keep you warm when you’re sleeping 

Even though my body’s a mess 

You got your head resting on my chest 

When the night gets cold

Let me be the one to hold you

Warm you 

Keep you in this world

I adore you 

I know you’ve been hurting

And I hurt too

Just praying that we’ll make it

And we’ll find our way through

Climb inside me like a tauntaun 

Wear me like your favorite dress 

Ill color you in white in red 

Keep you warm when you’re sleeping 

Even though my body’s a mess 

You got your head resting on my chest 

Climb inside me like a tauntaun 

Wear me like your favorite dress 

Ill color you in white in red 

Keep you warm when you’re sleeping 

Even though my body’s a mess 

You got your head resting on my chest 

Wear me like ghost when you’re lonely

I’ll haunt you any day that you need a friend

I want to be your true and your only

The ground under your feet as you condescend

Climb inside me like a tauntaun 

Wear me like your favorite dress 

Ill color you in white in red 

Keep you warm when you’re sleeping 

Even though my body’s a mess 

You got your head resting on my chest Climb inside me like a tauntaun 

Wear me like your favorite dress 

Ill color you in white in red 

Keep you warm when you’re sleeping 

Even though my body’s a mess 

You got your head resting on my chest 

Climb inside me like a tauntaun 

Wear me like your favorite dress 

Ill color you in white in red 

Keep you warm when you’re sleeping 

Even though my body’s a mess 

You got your head resting on my chest 

Give me your days 

Give me your sun and sky 

Give me the birds that fill 

Your hair with all their heart strings 

Then shake them all out 

Cast your cares aside

I’ll collect so you can have them If you need to sing 

Give me a song

I’ll sing for you always 

Give me the words to say I love you In twenty different ways 

And all of those words 

Let them gather like strays 

And fall like rain with you a flower 

Thirsty for days

Give me a dance 

I love to make you move 

Give me a playful waltz 

With you standing on my feet babe 

You move with me 

And oh I move with you 

Two strings that vibrate 

Sympathetic and sustaining 

Give me your time 

Give me your present state 

Give me a moment just to stare into your eyes (hey) 

And If I get lost 

Then I’m moving on 

There’s no coming back 

Once you dive into those dark bays

Give me your nights 

Give me your broken down 

Give me your ceaseless apprehension 

And your bad days 

Give me your cold 

Give me your aching bones 

Give me the subtle things that nag you 

In the worst ways 

Give me your heart 

Give me your bloody lungs 

Give me the pain that wracks your body 

I’ll hold you safe 

Give me your wants 

I can fill each one 

Whatever I can give

You have it 

As you need babe

I was alone

The blood was my own

I overflowed

Nowhere left to go

Sometimes you feel like a dog at the rescue

Just waiting to get found

Days go by and seem the same

Yet no one wants the hound

You try to make yourself look better

Try to find yourself a friend

But every time you talk to them 

You’re  a mess of thread with no bobbin

All loose and spent

Just waiting for the day

When you’ll come around again