Coal in the ground has been burning for years
it doesn't     matter        how long
you pour the water we will just be breathing
choking on dust and smoke        your fire
                      centralia
i am the ground and i am on fire
   i call to the hall
you have to pour down
whale from sky to know the nature of the mind
I am on fire           I am on fire
I stand burnt foot upon the sand       see if you'll
stand look back instead of lying crying being ground
You know what this sounds like?
the stream dissolving me from beneath
I haven't lived in this world for forever
my mind entrenched in silence
calling back to see if my copy is still on hold 

      I am and           you are everything
and most of the time I can't bear to look
                        you in the eyes

pull your body down to absolute zero
pull the body to separate cell
(when I didn't have voice to speak with
you sang to me and told me 
      what miracles could be)
(I didn't know anyone could hear me
so deep in here)
                   (I didn't ask for a hero
                      I asked for a miracle
and there
you
were)
(your voice shattering force 
inside this forever sleep)
      (IstillshudderwhenIhearthemusicbehindme)
(istillshudderwhenIthinkthereissomeonetryingto
                                  imprisionme)
(beautiful dark haired child
I was the ghost behind your most beautiful

I sat watching you play with the fireflies
on those warm summer nights    wanting
waiting
in this place
where this touch is as real as dream)
create a wave from ball in darkness
destroying the body to stop still light


 I was           and               you were
and you said that I was finally allowed to smile
            and I held my heart in silence.
I am nothing again and you are forever again
                              we have a secret pact
where we remind each other every night
that blame and separation
                             are just an illusion
we tell ourselves is real.

is it really night or 
    has the darkness reached up, aurora
I live to walk down to street
breathe in deep
all the ghosts you hide back in
it permeates the peak
you can feel how particular each place sounds
in the emptiness of the night
the winter orange glow
forgets we have eyes
empty streets you walk down
see your golden form
     shuffling its feet in the snow
shrouded         caress its perfection
behind my eyes
I live in fire places
i know what you're doing
(milk begets milk)
(ocean sucks up into milk cloud)
   (rains milk rain)
(heavy cream white)
native pierce me with lead bow
(rain milk rivers again)
shoot out from that moment
live forever

I was alive and you were dead
and you were trying to convince me
that death made you stronger
when you watched me in the shower
and I said
      oh yeah
     I don't believe you

there wasn't any water
I wasn't in the shower
you were never there.