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Kevin Devine
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She Stayed As Steam
All that music in your mouth Rivers rushing at your teeth Cresting waves through wading valleys Flooded language tributaries Collecting cover over me Your tensing jaw and corkscrew eyelids As if you couldn't bear to see All that water pouring from you Collecting clouds inside the ballroom Over people who don't know you
But darling I do
You trance yourself back from the city And I'm moving to your feet Your foot falls tentative and muffled Automatic listless shuffle Sidewalk scatterbrain cry uncle Paint yourself back in your corner And look for her on your TV It's Friday night and I am hungry For a hand, a mouth, a body Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com A love I wouldn't have to carry A stitch in my mouth, that I'm untying now A concrete canal, and a bomb bordertown An echo in the rafters reminding you there was a sound
But you killed her in waves So she stayed as steam To hiss at you now
You killed her in waves But that's not today So you breathe through your mouth Try to calm yourself down And keep what you found And Shout it out loud She can harbor in hurt, or dissolve to dirt Some prayer in your mouth Or she might stay as steam Soak into the beam Let you figure her out
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