Shearwater

"Hurts so bad that you know it's not sinning. The funny thing is it's just beginning to feel good."

"If you stay sober, I'll put the kettle on. And you can come over, drink tea, and watch the lawn."

"It's like a dream I had: this girl I went to see (and I can't sing her name, she might be listening to me), in a room of missing tiles we felt ourselves entwine, and she bit my tongue and shouted as I crawled into her mind."

"People got no respect for the dead; they roll new plans out neatly."

"Everybody makes mistakes - some do most of all. "I just don’t have what it takes," they’re singing as they fall."

"If I told you once, then I told you twice That I would have paid just about any price Just to see him jump, just to see him laugh I would have washed in the blood of an innocent man."

"You're like a convert who goes back to work When he can't retrieve how the clarity actually felt When his co-workers ask him, the words won't come out And after three weeks, his new leaf has blown away And it feels just like an average day Facing walls, talking into the phone Sitting dumbly in church all alone Picking back up the magazines he'd thrown away."

"Claire lives up on Saint Mary's walk, with her mother. And I live down on Philomel, by the harbor And I hate the ocean."

"And I'll clasp my hands And I'll make demands At the clouds, they're asking "What's wrong with him now?""

"God, take that sound away If you've got something to say Say it now. It's fake, and I need you not to be fake And don't care how you make me feel Just so you're real."

"We will stand in the waves while the colors all run, and our minds fill with light until we start to go numb."