A Terrible Man

[Verse 1]

A terrible man

A desperate attempt to make amends

Wrote a song for a girl

He could not, but just imagine

About something he read once

About static and distance

Somehow he simply could not

Without feeling terribly static and incredibly distant

About recent encounters

About love and affliction

Ziplocks and plastic containers

The gentleness of her kisses

About the possible cancer

Which has manifested in the mirror far right of his forehead

About a world that can never be kind

[Chorus 1]

Never be kind (x3)

Never be kind (x5)

[Verse 2]

What if I vanished

Dematerialized

Into the great miscellaneous

Into your craterous eyes

About the taste of tree sap

Something recently tasted

About growing old

About his fear of the cold, and the darkness

At age twenty-seven

How foolish does that make him

Bundled up in the cold

Afraid of the dark at age twenty-seven

A song for a girl

He knew he'd never quite finish

In the drunk breath of autumn

In all its glory and strangeness

[Chorus 2]

We can hide (x3)

We can hide (x4)

[Outro]

You are mine (x5)