Arizona - Lady Lamb

Ran through moonlit fields, having only sleep to lose

Bought too many plums, all but one began to bruise

The good one I ate and put the pit in my pocket

I think it fell out in a laundromat parking lot

The mountains were a thick molasses pouring slowly down the glass

Anna read a book in the last row

It looked good based on the back

And I left this earth for a split second but I don’t know

Where the hell I went

Once I was eating a candy necklace

Through plastic vampire teeth

And climbing the shelf in the closet to hide

All my little secret things

Now the Aerostar seems so much smaller to me

When I was five I just wanted my feet to reach the floor like Lacey’s

It was all so lovely

It was all so lovely

It was all so lovely

It wasn’t all bad

Was it now, looking back?

Now everything around me is connected with string

All the things in my place and all the thoughts in my brain

And the string is taut and it’s pulling on me

When I just want to be licking the batter over my childhood sink

The string is tangling me in

Still time is kindly turning over

I feel her drying my eyes

Time is kindly turning over

I feel her drying my eyes

While I wander the path backwards in the clean morning light

Trying to take my time

I never wanna be a bird collapsing beneath its own feather, I

Never wanna be a bird collapsing beneath its own feather, I

Never wanna be a bird collapsing beneath its own feather, I

Never wanna be a bird collapsing beneath its own feather, I —

And I never wanna be a bird collapsing beneath its own feather