Black Flies

[Verse 1]

Humid wood, you felt good

And you shook your tangled hair down

With the sweat in your eyes

And all the black flies under lidded skies

You lie down there in the grasses

On the clifftop, you remember salt stinging in your lashes

Straight line of horizon and the ocean painful wide

Every time you come back here, you feel nothing

And then you cry out all the strangeness you have carried all year

Every crooked word spoken still ringing in your ears

Like the whine of mosquitoes

[Chorus]

Oh, who are you alone?

With your cheek against the stone

What do you think you know?

[Verse 2]

Under lidded skies

Under the rising clouds of black flies

Under tangled branches way up

High glinting in the last light

You left, you got into the car

Sink down into the fabric

And you close the heavy metal door

With your hands upon the plastic

And drive on into the cold

So calm, like it don't matter

Like slipping into a pond

All the little waves roll and scatter