The For Carnation, some lyrics

The For Carnationsome lyrics

on the swing - we fall through the trees / arriving in the kitchen / too late for the stew / plucked clean feathers beside / hands joined at the table / i tuck them away / recline for the evening with papers so thin / offering explanations / i know they're not true / take hold cause I'm near the loose one / when the wind blows / our time has come

lymr, marshmallow - i love you tonight / and the dawn soon will come / there are no stars that bear your name / the witches brew / the dog licks its wounds / beneath the ground we worship you / within the fight / that i wage in the night / i covet the cold blade that is you / destroy the past / i have no debts / except to you / but are you well / how do you feel / held up each night against the pain / is this place / one that you would ask for / are these hallways yours or mine

get and stay get match - measure each step / look straight ahead / and dont forget to breathe / the rail tonight is quiet / the tides are (...) / is the (...) / birds are nesting in a close peep / the city's glows across the garden / and the silence whispered below / of course they do not care for you / they do not sense your (...) / and the breeze strolls (?) your deity-height / when to the distance you strain / what is it that you seek? / 'cos destination missplaced does not afford / you are cast as shadow / by the light of the heaven / moving out across the water / measure each step look straight ahead and dont forget to breathe / the rail tonight is quiet and now move out across the water...
grace beneath the pines - when i got there front room was full / the little boys staring down at formal shoes / expectations burning their faces red / as they waited for dinner / at a party in your honor / in protest at your beck and call / July 4th and a faint-hearted kiss / two months as seals /each night a silver moon / in the morning the sun came up / and you were there / with biscuits and sweet breath / and knowing and desire still / don't go, what's so great about there? / it's all damn tunnels, newspapers and skin / and meanwhile, you know, i'll be here / and you there / with crack heads and assassins and burn victims / and millionaires' sons

moonbeams - scatter the roots of our passage tonight / discard the memories we chose to survive / all of our sense overshadowed by a song / pining for strength and deprive from the strong /when she was five years old there's cake and brightlightsand / when she was ten she became the maid's bride / with temperance and beauty and salvation unknown / a life isolated, heinous and young / stand up and face it although you're half dead / try to remember though they've taken your head / why we sleep fully dressed and rise only from bed / who did this to us? / who did this to us? / so partial to memory the pearls of our dead / but where do we keep them? put them here by the steps / while i climb to the top and i find where i am


fight songs, 1995 matador
marshmallows, 1996 matador
the for carnation, 2000 touch and go
promised works, 2007 touch and go