Rodan

After last night it's hard to shine
After last night I'm surprised the day even came
But it came
A train of obscene images
Moving through the black hedge
Aching and thick with rust
All showing as soon as the sun comes up
It takes light to the paper
It burns its head and throat
Spreading a rash of arsenic, magnolias and crushed coal
A fire in its heart
Will not let it die
It roars and fumes and cries all day
Shoot me out the sky
Pop pop! Down goes the enemy
The shade came under the roses finally
Us on our backs in the back yard
Under the trees
Attempting to breathe
Attempting to see
Attempting to feel anything
The rain that claimed the sky as it shined
Pulled the shutters down on light
We sigh and sit and worship it as it ends.

The rain had a sound

It's blinded everything

Coming down, coming down

The rain had a sound

It flattened its face on the window pane

And I thought we were safe, so safe

My soul sank down

Down in the bed

Your hair spread out on the pillow

In the black fan

I buried my face

I (something) you

Let's be quiet a while

Pull down the shades

Take off your jeans

Lay on the bed

Please, it's easy, it's easy

You don't have to do anything

I'll get a towel

Close your eyes

This is my sound

This is your sound

Open your mouth

Please

Cover your eyes

Cover your body

You can trust it, you can trust it

Put away your money under your shirt

You can trust it

Jesus

You don't have to do anything

You can trust it

This is your sound

The train had a sound

On the edge of town

Moving around

It never rusts

It never sleeps

It's rusted, rusted

It's rusted, coming

Incoming, incoming

Everything changes

Everything changes

Outside it's loud

It rattles the windows

Bus shakes the bed

The clock's unwound

Stripped, stripped down

Darker in here, darker

Cover your ears

I give you my hands

Cover my body

You don't have to say anything

You don't have to make this anything

I'm nothing

I'm poison

Everything changes

I'm nothing

Just make the sound

Beg for something better

Everything changes

Pray for something better

Everything changes

I'll give you my hands

I'll cover my body

I'll give you my poison

I'll open my body for you to

Come on come on come

Come on come on come

Come on come on

When you fly you'll fall into me

Fall into me, fall

Open, uncovered

Too drowned to speak

Too brilliant to see

Do you see it

Do you hear it

It's lifeless

This is your sound

This is my shame

On our knees

You were lying, lying

We were laying against the door

Under the lights, the lights

You were lying on the bathroom floor

You were sick, so sick

Sick, so sick, so sick, so sick

The bodies

Sleeping somewhere

Mouths upturned into the air

Turning over another page each night

We wait, wait for something better

Wait for something better

Wait for something better to come

Come on come on come

Come on come on come

Come on come on

When you fly you'll fall into me

Fall into me, fall into me, fall into me, fall

Everything, everything

You're on everything

(something)

The window is open

The bed is empty

The drawer is half open

The clock's unwound

We make the sound

We make the sound of air escaping

Escaping something, everything

Everything's undone

Your shirt

My body is undone

Everything changes

Bus shakes the bed

The shakes make the sound

Through the crack in the door

Through the holes in the floor

Shakes make the sound

Bus shakes the bed

Through the hole in the floor

Through the crack in the door

The shutters are down

The light is a threat

With every breath you take

We're safe and I'm undone

And I'm undone

Closer

I will be there, I will be there

I swear

I will be there

Swear

(something) more of what's been taken for you

Swear.