Tar Beach the heat is killing me so we’ll go up to our tar beach on the roof there’s no water & there’s no sand but I read a book and we can pretend and it will do me and we’re getting away with it if only for a little bit you’re close to my heart.... c’mon c’mon c’mon the summer’s nearly gone and I declare: we’ve done less than nothing the days are long the nights are gone and I can’t tell between them I push you back against the fridge I can taste it on your lips you’re close to my heart.... the heat is killing me so we’ll go up to our tar beach on the roof there’s no water, and I’ve never seen the sand but I read a book and think we can pretend and it will do me beneath a sun that never sets chasing all we’ll never catch you’re close to my heart.... you’re getting close to my heart.

I Remember Crescent City A long white bridge, over and back again talking to God and the heat's turned off and it’s been like that for days and all we can do is wait a vacant lot and my voice is shot from screaming at the world at the top of my lungs it’s like a bomb went off in this place and all I can do is wait… waking up it was a strange bed a priest was holding my hand I raised my drink and collapsed at your feet you said you weren’t, but I know that you were ashamed, you were ashamed an somebody left then somebody came at the end of it all it’s always something else again always something else again remember staring into your face it could have been for 5 days I remember Crescent City! I couldn’t forget it if you let me… Say a prayer for Crescent City! I couldn’t forget it if you let me… and my footsteps fall on secrets and no one will believe them I remember Crescent City! I couldn’t forget it if you let me… Say a prayer for Crescent City! I couldn’t forget it if you let me… There’s a long white bridge over and back again God won’t talk and someone’s jumped off and it’s been like that for days and all we can do is wait an there’s an empty lot and my voice is shot from screaming at the world from the top of my lungs it’s like a bomb went off in this place and all we can do is wait…. remember staring into your face it could have been for 9 days I remember Crescent City! I couldn’t forget it if you let me… Say a prayer for Crescent City! I couldn’t forget it if you let me… I remember Crescent City.

Nothing Ever Happens, It Only Seems To flat tyres & prescription speed a thousand miles go by in a hour of cheap tv coz it don’t take much to lose my place when you’re sleeping or when you’re awake time doesn’t pass it stops & starts & stutters and I repeat myself when I get nervous conning me with a line of dirt I’ve done my best and now it’s worse it’s the same as it was before pretty tame and then we’re bored I see you clench your fists for whatever good it’s worth even the softest silks against my skin feels like 100,000 pins coz nothing ever happens, it only seems to... how many days with that same expression? washing our hair in a public restroom flat tyres and prescription speed a thousand hours go by in I smeared off all your make-up you did the same to me time doesn’t pass it stops and starts and stutters and I repeat myself when I get nervous coz nothing ever happens, it only seems to...

Little Communist You get your way talking loud enough talking long enough getting in the way you little communist just like they said you was I don’t know what to say so let’s take one quick huff then we shrug it off you’re getting in the way you little communist just like they said you was look at shadows long enough you start to think they’re real hanging out with the wrong crowd and that means you... murder me with love I’m not sure it can be done right on, write off c’mere, c’mon show me the way with your tarot cards and your horoscopes I don’t know what to say but it all seems rather dubious it doesn’t seem the same as it did in the words of the philosophers you’re getting in the way you little communist just like they said you was look at shadows long enough you start to think they’re real hanging out with the wrong crowd and that means you murder me with love I’m not sure it can be done right on, write off c’mere, c’mon