Moth Song

What’s on the dashboard, Heide

What are you watching, Heide

My windows shake

As you close the door

The pressure in the room has changed

What are you hearing, Gracie

Are there words that can take it away

Train carriage filled up with moths

That form a halo round the head

Of a woman with her knitting in her lap

Why’d I have to see that?

I’m checking every curb

With the corner of my shoe

So I don’t fall into an abyss

When I reach the end of you

I know that it’s half crazy

That’s why I want it more

And I just will not be told

I know what I saw

Open doors and out they pour

A thousand paper bag Coloured

Anti gravity pieces of confetti fill my sky

I see twin birds when I think of you most times

And opals fill my eyes,

I guess I wanted more

from what I saw

Hear as your head hits the floor

Little one follows me down the hall

Too little just to see the pool of blood

That forms a halo round the head

Of the woman that we love most

In the world

That makes two little girls

I’ve checked the morning paper

I’ve watched the evening news

I know that I’m alone

When it comes to loving you

I know that it’s half crazy

That’s why I want it more

And i just will not be told

I know what I saw

Open doors and out they pour

A thousand paper bag

Coloured anti gravity

Pieces of confetti fill my sky

I see twin birds when I think of you most times

And opals fill my eyes, I guess

I wanted more from

What I saw