april, 2001 (lyrics)

I don't want anything
to change
except this blind spot at my
window pane

I can't imagine spring time
on your face

the winter breeze being
killed by
beauty replaced

Everyone knows we
need a break
the free spirit in you that
no one can tame

Boots full of mud September
you take
the road less travelled just so

you can save

yourself

The time of the year when you
can't find
a reason in the world to be
unsatisfied
Your mind breathes deep, though
your heart still may cry,
and it's easy

It's easy.
april 7, 2001
I listen to you outside
my window, which is
hardly a window at all

Sometimes I want to
crawl into, as though
you are the safest place,
lightning and thunder
cradling every woe of
a young woman

I feel you, like
an army taking away the
enemy
A sheet of something that
leaves everything so clear,

and then leaves everything

as
nothing at all
april 14, 2001

when you come around
spreading good humour
of your other life,
like Superman
in a phone booth:

changing,

I feel a sort of sickness,

like the one in first grade
when all I really wanted

was to get away from
the teacher
who said
I spelled
my name

completely wrong
april 15, 2001

I'll hunt you down
and tell you which pain
it is in me
that loves and adores you

I'll carry it all on my back
down the one way streets
near the beach

Then you'll dance around it,
fallen and broken,
pretending what you need,
one hundred percent of you
needing,
is buried deep inside of
twisted rubble

twisted flesh

You see I love you.
Clearly

And clearly see
nothing more
april 23, 2001

My year has been the bottom of a
fish pond

Everlongingly a pirate over the surface
of water, trying to see someone
other than myself reflecting back

trying to see a prize

A you.
Or A You.
Or the mouthpiece of your
saxaphone.

or melted pots, stuck to the
floor, full of
boiling seaweed and
years of continuous longing

My life, repeatedly stuck between
a lonely ghost's undertoe and
grandma's favourite
rowboat, all sunken and soaked
with wreck
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