The Ghost Of Silver Snow Little Clay Bears

The Ghost Of Silver Snow

01	The Blizzard	× The Blizzard The snow blew into town It piled up high and it buried me under the ground While fires were raging and swelling across the city Candles in windows and heads all aglow I couldn’t breathe out So I laid there With a chest full of air And I inhaled still The sea breathed in with me The moon went down and circled around My hands were numb but I heard a sound With one small push My lungs breathed out Fire from my mouth My watery prison Spilled out on the ground By night the flames had reached me and ravaged me slow In smoke I left looking for somewhere to go Somewhere less harsh Somewhere less cold
02	Aggelein Eyes	× Aggelein Eyes I had a rug made from a polar bear His name was silver snow He had eyes of aggelein I sure did hate to see him go Every time I lay my face across his silvery skin Oh I cry like a baby once again I had a friend named filip Kyoto He melted in the sun His eyes were always aggelein Until his heart was done On snowy nights I listen for his heartbeat at the door But when I look outside it’s just the winters mighty roar Aggelein eyes always staring up from underneath Aggelein eyes I will meet you when I finally get to sleep I met a woman selling icicles Out in the western heat Her eyes would shine like aggelein And fester with deceit She’d cut you for a nickel And she’d leave you there to bleed Her heart was cold so when she cried her tears would start to freeze I knew a man who ran from New Orleans To texas just to teach A group of teenage lunatics to draw stuff how they see His eyes were leaking aggelein Just like his blood soaked sleeves He grew tired of the torture and ran back to New Orleans Aggelein eyes always staring up from underneath Aggelein eyes I will meet you when I finally get to sleep Aggelein eyes never looked so pure Aggelein eyes you’ll be back to see me soon I’m sure
03	Lighthouse	× Lighthouse I live inside of myself And I’m lonesome I swear I can’t breathe when I’m here There’s a memory here and its presence is tearing away I shine a light from my skin it’s painful and bright It shouts to the waves all around me and says If you’re out there please come on home I’ve set you a place at the table The water is black in the storm I made up your bed in the lighthouse Because the sun never comes up anymore When all of the stars are chewed up And the planets are piles of spiraling rocks I’ll climb up the stairs and I’ll follow the fate of my son My son My son I’ll follow the fate of my son
04	Blue Star Cadet	× Blue Star Cadet Blue star cadet You're now floating In the Polar Deep 1000 Meters 3000 Meters 5000 Meters Approaching the Hadal zone 6500 Meters I see snow 8000 Meters There's nothing down here 9500 Meters There's a small crack in the port-side window 10,000 Meters It really is beautiful down here 11,000 Meters There's water spilling in everywhere I'm not gonna make it back up Goodnight
05	Golden Womb	× Golden Womb You like to drive fast And you like to be cold You like to hold on to the things you were told You spent all your years and your time growing old On draining your skin and puncturing holes You often feel empty and you often feel rolled up in people who said you were colder than cold You wrap up your scars on your arms with your poems In paper so golden it’s golder than gold With shimmering arms and shimmering eyes You sped down the highway in utero disguise You found yourself stuck Beneath a gas truck The baby is dead now your insides feel heavy You’ve bled through your poems and your heart is already gone The baby is dead and his blood flows golden The baby is dead but your womb’s still golden
06	Here Lies Cedar Waxwing	× Here Lies Cedar Waxwing Pines stand tall and cold Underneath the hill Sitting oh so calm On top of the windmill shouting laughing About the joy I’ve found Such a lucky sight For me I’m only human Split the world in two Find me chrysanthemum Here lies cedar waxwing Such a pretty color bird Theres an empty naked branch on the skyline You’re a black dot in the mighty hazel cloud I know the way the old life haunts the new Just as well as I know how cedar waxwing flew
07	Winter, 1904	× Winter, 1904 The air was cold and Smokey You were beautiful in black and white You put on your plastic smile To pretend like you enjoyed the night But you never lost the plot so away you run Through the kitchen With a knife and a mission And it’s cold to remember All those warm and lonesome winters You were younger when it happened But you grew old inside your heart It’s a shame to hear your story As it’s a story you can not restart You stood outside the mansion A silhouette in the snow The frozen streams can’t flow Until you crumble And away you blow Through the winter Ride the rails until December You’ll die on the back of a train They’ll burn your body with the coal and they’ll give you a name of winter
08	River Was Blue	× River Was Blue Well down by the river where the waters loud And the wind calls out like an old grey owl Where My heart beats slow and my face sits still as stone With Her hair spread out on the cold dead grass I could tell she was thinking about the past I said look up at the trees and you’ll be fine Well the waters turned grey and so have you The sun ain’t shine today and the sky’s not blue I long to see the River sing to me Realize that you’re trapped and you’ll be free On that gentle morning when the highway noise rang out of tune You sprawled out on the bed and screamed I wanna be someone new The skin around our hands grew loose and my sunken eyes called out for you Gone are the days when you’d sing and the river was Blue
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