Shaming Of The Sun

I am sorry that i set my sights
On the things i read
Something meant for your husband
Maybe you left it under the bed

Once upon a love those words blew free and secret
The pages lay around
Drifted to the hands of the publisher
And the greedy generations on down

Burn all the letters
(someone is always watching)
The government's on the phone
(whether openly or secretly)
Burn all the letters
(now breathe life)
Send them on
(into your story)
To a safer home
(i said burn it to secrecy)
Burn all the letters
Brand them in you before you go
Soldiers are coming to plunder
But there are some things they will never know

We made our love out of dignity
Dug our nails in the dirt
(hung our towel soaked souls out on the line)
Hung our towel soaked souls out on the line
We loved so hard that it hurt

To ease my pain i took a pen and paper
Incarnate came the bleeding
Send it back before the public eye
Perverts it in the reading

And burn all the letters
(someone is always watching)
Ah the government's on the phone
(whether openly or secretly)
Burn all the letters
(now breathe life)
Send them on back
(into your story)
To a safer home
(i said burn it to secrecy)
Burn all the letters
Brand them in you before you go
The soldiers coming to plunder
But there are some things they will never know

Burn all the letters
Ah the government's on the phone
On the phone
Burn all the letters
(all the letters)
Send them on to a safer home
(send them on to a safer home)
Burn all the letters
To you
And you to
To me
Coming to take what they can
They cannot read
What they cannot see

Mmm

It's dark at 4 pm in leeds
The steeples pierce the skylight till the last of it bleeds
The absent sound of another day as it recedes
Into the shadows
Until it's nothing

Fax papers slipped under the hotel room door
Like food for the prisoner or the prospect to the whore
Well fed and halfway drunk i ache myself for more
Until i'm shadows of myself
Until i'm nothing

Sixteen black churches burning on the tv
All the way from texas to tennessee
And a politician locks my eye and says to me
There is no crisis here
There's no conspiracy

I crave inertia every move made so i can stop
Whatever this madness is in me spinning like a top
On a bed of anxiety over a deep dark drop
Down into nothingness
Into withoutyouness

Was it ever so the evil creep like ivy
A toe hold on the stronger half of nature's dichotomy
I'm beating back a path through nothing more than pure insistence
Until here becomes
The distance

Hold my head love i'm sick tonight
Find the open hole and press your fingers there with all your might
Before the last ounce of my spirit bleeds
Onto the pristine sheets
Of the hotel bed in leeds

Scooter boys and argentineans
Europe shed the blood of the indians
Here i sit in the land of plenty
Crying about my own virginity

Hey blue blood you're nothing new
See i come from priviledge too
A chapter in the book on the americas
And your just another colonial terrorist

Scooter boys and argentineans
Europe shed the blood of the indians
Here i sit in the land of plenty
Crying about my own virginity

Yeah
Yeah

Yeah
Yeah

Way down south where the maya reign
Zapata reading poety in his grave
They say we're stealing from the best
To feed the poor
Well they need more

Scooter boys and argentineans
Europe shed the blood of the indians
Here i sit in the land of plenty
Crying about my own virginity

Yeah
Yeah

Oh

Yeah
Yeah

Sitting in darwins theory
And you're down in the 48
I'm practicing politics
Your practicing guitar and staying out late
How'd we get so turned around
Why did we make it so hard
Why can't we cut it out tender
Give us something good to remember

Hey my my my my rock star
Saw your feet leave the ground
You said all i wanted to be is loud
I was ushering your friends in
I was i was
I was trying to clear the aisles
How'd you get so turned around
Why did you make it so hard
Why can't you cut it out i'm tender
Give me something good to remember

I said
Cut it out
Cut it all out

So it's alaska in the summertime
In the wintertime i'm free
The days are short cold and wasted
Nowhere is warm enough for me
Baby you tell me what happened
Why did i make it so hard
Can't i cut it our you're tender
Give you something good to remember

Baby you tell me what happened
(why did we make it so hard)
How did i make it so hard
(can you tell me what happened)
I wonder
Oh cut it out i'm tender
(why did we make it so hard)
Give me something
Give me something good to remember
(why did we make it so hard)
(why did we make it so hard)
(can you tell me what happened)
(why did we make it so hard)
(can you tell me what happened)
(why did you make it so hard)
(can you tell me what happened)
(why did we make it so hard)
(can you tell me what happened)

I said
Cut it out
Cut it all out
Cut it out
Cut it all out

Hey my my my rock star
Cut it out
How did we get so turned around
Cut is all out
Hey my my my rock star
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Hey my my my rock star
How did we get so turned around
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Hey my my my rock star
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Hey my my my rock star
How did we get so turned around
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Hey my my my
Cut it all out

Out

My friends they wash the windows
And they shine in the sun
They tell me wake up early in the morning sometime
See what a beautiful job we've done

I say let's put on some tunes
Sing a long and dolittle all day
Go down to the riverside take off our shoes
And wash these sins away

And the river said
La la la it said shame on you
And the river said
La la la it said shame on you

I go down to chicano city park
Cause it makes me feel so fine
And when the weeds go down you can see up close
In the dead of the winter time

But when the summer comes everythings in bloom
And you wouldn't know it's there
And the white folks like to pretend it's not
But their music's in the air

And you can hear em singing
La la la they said shame on you
You can feel em dancing
La la la they said shame on you

My friend tanner she says you know
Me and jesus we're of the same heart
The only thing that keeps us distant
Is that i keep fuckin up

I said come on down to chicano city park
And wash your blues away
The beautiful ladies walk right by
You know i never know what to say

And they'll be singing
Oo la la la la la la la la shame on you
And they'll be dancing
Ooo la la la they said shame on you
Shame on you

Let's go road block trippin in the middle of the night
Up in gainesville town
There'll be blue lights flashin down the long dirt road
When they ask me to step out

They say we've been looking for illegal immigrants
Can we check your car
I say you know it's funny
I think we were on the same boat back in 1694

And i said
Oo la la la la la la la la shame on you
They'll be dancing
La la la i said shame on you
I said
Oo la la la la la la la la la la shame on you
Shame on you la la
La la la la la shame on you
I said
I said
La la la shame on you
I'll be dancing
And they'll be singing
La la la i said shame on you
Shame on you

Road block trippin in the middle of the night
Gainesville town
Blue lights flashin down the long dirt road

Remember everything i told you
Keep it in your heart like a stone
And when the winds have blown things round and back again
What was once your pain will be your home

All around the table the white haired men have gathered
Spilling their sons' blood like table wine
(spilling their sons' blood)
Remember everything i told you
Everything in its own time

The music whispers you in urgency
Hold fast to that languageless connection
A thread of known that was unknown and unseen seen
Dangling from inside the fifth direction
(dangling from inside the fifth direction)

Boys around the table are mapping out their strategies
Kings all of mountains one day dust
A lesson learned a loving god and things in their own time
In nothing more do i trust

We own nothing
Nothing is ours
Not even love so fierce it burns like baby stars
But this poverty is our greatest gift
(nothing is ours)
The weightlessness of us as things around begin to shift
(the weightlessness as things begin to shift)

Remember everything i told you
(remember everything i told you)
Keep it in your heart like a stone
(keep it in your heart like a stone)
And when the winds have blown things round and back again
(when the winds have blown things round)
What was once your pain will be your home

Everything in its own time
Everything in its own time

Oh
Oh

Oh
Oh