I always held on to your eyes as I believe
That somehow you'd always be next to me
This empty room reaches out to take away the best of me
There is no silence to describe what I feel inside

Walk with me, Talk with me
Imagine there is nothing that can harm you in the world
Stay with me and Look at me Just wait before you go
This life has done you wrong, Hold on

You're faithless, you don't believe in anything
Captured by life's sadness, You're all right

You're faithless, your head down in despair
Stuck there in the blackness, you're all right

Sort of love that out lasts time
My relative annihilistic thinking left behind
I'll cover you and keep you and your beautiful smile
Vanish from the physical into my mind

Walk with me, Talk with me
Imagine there is nothing that can harm you in the world
Stay with me and Look at me Just wait before you go
This life has done you wrong, Hold on

You're faithless, you don't believe in anything
Captured by life's sadness, You're all right

You're faithless, your head down in despair
Stuck there in the blackness, you're all right

You've got the best of me
You've got the best of me

For my wife to whom I comitt my soul

Cornerstone one has a finger
Buried under, pointing through
Dirt, slow low in the ground
North cannot be guessed,
And yet it is spirit-free

Cornerstone two has a tongue,
And even dust can be talkative,
Listen and you will see the love
The ancient libraries need

Cornerstone three has a bit of string,
Shaped like your favorite color,
A girl remembers who left it there
But she is afraid to dig it out,
And see what it is attached to

Cornerstone four has nine bones,
Removed carefully from a black cat,
Arranged in the fashion of this word,
Protecting us from our enemies

Your house is safe now
So why is it--
Your house is safe now
So why is it--

I AM OLDER THAN MUSIC

WHAT I BRING IS LIGHT

WHAT I BRING IS A STAR

WHAT I BRING IS

AN ANCIENT SEA

WHEN YOU SLEEP YOU SEE ME

DANCING AT THE CORE

IT IS NOT A BLIGHT

IT IS MY HOUSE

I PUT A STAR

INTO THE WORLD'S MOUTH

TO ****** IT

TEAR DOWN THE PYLONS

MY BLIND FISH

SWIM IN THE NEW

PHLOGISTON

TEAR DOWN THE PYLONS

MY DEAF MOONS

SING AND BURN

AND ORBIT ME

I AM OLDER THAN MUSIC

WHAT I BRING IS LIGHT

WHAT I BRING IS A STAR

WHAT I BRING IS

AN ANCIENT SEA

down here where the heat's so fine

i'll drink to your health
and you drink to mine

as we try to make the money we scored out in vegas
hold out for a while

we drink ***** from russia

we get our chocolates from belgium

we have our strawberries flown in from england

but none of the money we spend
seems to do us much good in the end

i got a cracked engine block
both of us do

yeah the house and the jewels, the italian race car
they don't make us feel better
about who we are

i got termites in the framework
but so do you

down here where the watermelon grows so sweet
where i worship the ground underneath of your feet

we are experts in the art of frivolous spending

well it's gone on like this for three years i guess

we're drunk all the time and our lives are a mess

and the deathless love we swore to protect with our bodies
is stumbling across its bleak ending

but none of the rage in our eyes
seems to finish it off where it lies

i got sugar in the fuel lines
both of us do

yeah, the fights and the lies that we both love to tell
fail to send our love to its reward down in hell

i got pudding for a backbone
but so do you

lob some spit at the window
watch it drop down the pane
it's only the guilty who concern themselves
with clearing their names

you bring tidings of hope,
false tidings
when you come here
there's two friends who did me wrong
that you're protecting

it's so clear
and when you speak
it's those two who speak through you
who'll speak for me
the burning and the electricity

sun goes down San Francisco
friends are hard to find
chew them up just as quick as I can find them
try to clear my mind

remember hours at the table
gauze flight light easing through
if there's one thing that I'm not going to do tonight
it's die for you

'cause when you speak
it's those two who speak through you
who'll speak for me
the burning and the electricity

crude little wooden idols and aviator shades
the trinkets and the treasures we brought back from the crusades
some guy in an impala shakes his head when he rides by
but i remember when we shared a vision you and i

worked hard to build this altar, we made it earn its keep
the cracks across its surface spiderweb while we're asleep
the sacrificial stains all spreading out and soaking through
but i remembered when we kept it pretty me and you

and high above the water, the eagle spots the fish
and every martyr in this jungle is gonna get his wish

stock shots, stupid stock shots from the pomona mall
set up like unloved icons gathering dust up on the wall
from films no one remembers, they call down silently
but i remember when their names were dear to you and me

pennies on the dollar, everything's gotta go
the things that we can't even give away, i don't wanna know
try to see if secrets burn when you hold them up into the light
i remember when we loved each other day and night

and high above the water, the eagle spots the fish
every martyr in this jungle is gonna get his wish

To you whom We have seen
Stalking at night by eyes keen
Transcendant of savages
Sating thirst sans avarice
Your coffers stay stuffed
By social graces robust
None know your nature;
save Us
None share your fate;
save Us
None welcome you as kin;
save Us.