From his masterpiece, "Devotion + Doubt":
Lil Wallet Picture:
underspent
and too young too
i stumbled onto a picture of you
you wild bitter tale
all cherry oak and tears
as the branches looked in
the summer is done
and we are too, dear
pull back the drape
and let the silent light in
soon i'll be on that highway
and damn this stretch of 99
that takes so many lives
one of them was mine
hand me that lil wallet picture
1985
one more time
the lights of the street
where i'd walk to you at night
were so blindly lit
yeah, there were four little flames
his, mine, and yours,
and the torch in the attic
i woke up late
and kissed you awake
and as you packed up your load,
there was one last look
and then the uhaul broke free
now the ditches are flooded over the backroads
and damn this stretch of 99 that takes so many lives
one of them was mine
hand me that lil wallet picture
1985
one more time
underspent
and too young too
i stumbled onto a picture of you....
4AM:
It’s a bruised and a fallen sky
Pressed all up against us
And it’s just as true so far away
But I can be there by breakfast
If just drive on through to you
So as the past goes breaking by
Where are you tonight?
It’s 4 AM, and I’m awake again
And not quite high enough
I’ll be back, you know when
Should I lie a little and dream away
I’m just lying here anyway
With a chill a little heat
Could kill on sight
But where are you tonight?
Wasted and well spent
Taken and once wrecked
Oh, you’re better than this and that
I thought I was cured of any last chance
Unfastened and floored
And now all I want is just a little
Nothing more
I looked inside the ring we wear
And I read myself to sleep
I caught myself so captured there
Deep inside those cavern eyes
Oh my one, my one,
You’ve broken me
At the vow below the vine
But where are you tonight?
Where are you tonight?
Where are you tonight?
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