The Ruby Sea

The Ruby Sea

Tina and Glen

Puppet Dog

Bartender's Rag

Dinosaur

The Lady Vanishes

Up to Midnight

Hunter's Moon

Christmas Skies

The Fish Song

The Clown Song

The Ruby Sea

I've been trying to travel down
Through the false surface of the ground
Down to where I maybe sleep
And she sees me floating past
My face is flat against the glass

One time when she was looking down
I floated by under the ground
Down where I try to sleep
And she had reason to step back
A floater's hands can't help attack
Even if he thinks he knows
He was meant to travel so

She was naked squatting down
On the shore of the ground
Current sweeps me out of sleep
But I'm not thinking of that loss
But only of the fact of lass
And the distance between me
And the bed of the ruby sea

Tina and Glen

When worlds collide I'll see you again
When worlds collide, Tina and Glen

Puppet Dog

Puppet dog, whoever made you
Years ago
Knew how bad I'd need a friend
Puppet dog, your felt red mouth
And bells for eyes
Scare the devils off again

Puppet dog, come bite your master
And in the morning after
Sprinkle rain across the sands
Puppet dog, I return the bite, you
Reveal the fist inside you
Leaving me nothing but my hand

Bartender's Rag

Wring out that bartender's rag
And let it wipe away my blues
You ain't got a lot of call to use it
And it will help me more than it will you

Wring it over ice cubes with a cherry
Red as lips that told me we were through
Limes and lemons, words that came between us
Sour as that bartender's rag brew

Wring out that bartender's rag
And let it wipe away my blues
You ain't got a lot of call to use it
And it will help me more than it will you

No one could have told me I'd be singing out the strains
Of what any man with sense would be pouring down the drain

Wring out that bartender's rag
And let it wipe away my blues
You ain't got a lot of call to use it
And it will help me more than it will you

Midwest Flower

You're only seen through yellow windows
Stealing the sunlight off the street
Trees throw confetti to restrain you
Grass bows and dust swirls past your feet

Midwest flower
Midwest flower

Do weeds and wrappers chase behind you
Do you focus objects like a lens
Does the shimmering vacancy before you
Draw the air and everything around you

Midwest flower
Midwest flower

Dinosaur

I was watching TV
The announcer said they'd found your bones
I'm too sad to be horrified
But I'm glad you're coming home

The Lady Vanishes

I swear I had a matchbox
With an irreplaceable name
Or maybe written on my wrist
And it's been washed away

Or maybe on a napkins somewhere
Blurred by a ring
Or maybe on a dollar bill
I'll never see again

Up to Midnight

I leave the lights on all night when you're gone and
I roll up the shades and I see
My old companion who goes when the sun comes and
Takes my reflection from me

	Sliding along
	The whole world waiting for me
	Can you belong to me
	To any reflection but me

We're playing cards and have just the same hand
I'm not losing and neither is he
Isn't it sad that so thoughtless and flat is
A perfect reflection of me
	
	Are we alone
	With kings and jokers and queens
	Jacks are alone
	With black and red colored dreams
	
Every day is long climb up to midnight
And from there a roll and tumble into sleep

Somewhere the sky turns to grey and the world
Turns to paper between night and day
Just like me heart caught between light and dark
Like my friend who is going away

	Why don't you see
	Reflections mean what they say
	Are you complete
	Without my face in your way
	
Every day is long climb up to midnight
And from there a roll and tumble into sleep

Hunter's Moon

It must be the hunter's moon
And I'm searching the hills for you
Underneath the hunter's moon
Sticks and rivers lead to you
Rocks and mountains turning blue
In the light of the hunter's moon
Going to find my way to you
With the help of the hunter's moon

Christmas Skies

When Christmas skies are clear and the stars come down
And prowl on the rooftops of the town
They sparkle in the heart of Willy Joe
And take him to the boy he was many years ago

Tonight he walks through starlight
To his cabin on the hill
Weighing thoughts of Christmas
Against some lonesome time to kill

When Christmas skies are clear the stars come down
Like the snow that's never rested on this forsaken ground
They travel to the heart of Willy Joe
And take him to the boy he was many years ago

Tonight he walks through starlight
To his cabin in the sky
Singing songs for Christmas
And for the folks he left behind

The Fish Song

You should of seen the one that got away
It must of weighed about a hundred and ten
It pulled away so fast it burned my hand
It cut the line so hard I could not stand

I gave it some play, gave it slack
Like you do when the big one attacks
Now a part of me is roaming the deep
Stuck on the big one I could not keep

The Clown Song

Seems I have been a clown more than a friend
A clockwork response to tokens you spend
And when you stop and when I run down
I'm frozen and cannot escape from the clown