Phosphorescent Blues

by Brazos

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released 10 November 2009

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Track Name: My Buddy
My Buddy
my buddy, out on the train tracks
he is a friend somehow
I don't know how
we used to spend
(we used to spend) our time together
that is a reason to be friends
we used to spend our time together

the women of the street bring their carts to the center of town
the clatter, the mouth
the bark of an old market
bare fruit
my friend he strolls about for the ripest one
the taste on his tongue
all the pleasures of the earth

stop and ask him what he wants
he can't tell you, but
he can hold you like a scale

the station is an empty hall is an empty ride
I call it mine
the nose remembers
the smell of old graffiti
the end of conversations
the waiting in silence
and my buddy, out on the train tracks
he is smiling back
through the window of an old passing subway car
I beckon him and he tips his brow
as if to say somehow he remembers too

stop and ask him what he wants
he can't tell you, but
I see the ribbon on his sleave
and we look the same
so we're going round again

we are laughing upset
we are moving the halls with colorful figures
and stray dogs
and movie light flickers
Track Name: The Observer
The Observer (by Adrienne Rich)

Completely protected on all sides by volcanoes
a woman, darkhaired, in stained jeans
sleeps in central Africa.
In her dreams, her notebooks, still
private as maiden diaries,
the mountain gorillas move through their life term;
their gentleness survives
observation. Six bands of them
inhabit, with her, the wooded highland.
When I lay me down to sleep
unsheltered by an natural guardians
from the panicky life-cycle of my tribe
I wake in the old cellblock
observing the daily executions,
rehearsing the laws
I cannot subscribe to,
envying the pale gorilla-scented dawn
she wakes into, the stream where she washes her hair,
the camera-flash of her quiet
eye.
Track Name: We Understand Each Other
We Understand Each Other
all the plants are growing in much faster than last year
with our windblown faces, tan cow hides
discarded laws by our side
we wander on the river
the seeds stick to our jeans
we point to objects
we give them names
we understand each other
we understand each other
we understand

our brains are small and brittle
like wild animals
we save each other food
today we will see god
standing at a booth
leaving money for a tip
our eyes have adjusted
we're just as careless now
but we notice what we can
we understand each other
we understand each other
we understand

this is our test
the palm trees
the white cement
the traffic at the school
airliners fly over
we are at a meeting
dressed in pink t-shirts
I ask you why we came here
you look at me, quiet
and run a finger on my forehead
we understand each other
we understand each other
we understand
Track Name: Downtown Boys
Downtown Boys
this is some kind of a vacation
we behave nicely
and sit together like alligators on the beach
like alligators lay on each other
but it means nothing. like that

and there's a commotion in our lungs
arriving sometime
but we don't have the schedule
I think it arrives when it does

the downtown boys have gone
the streets are quiet at night
no more yelling in the parking garages
or revving up old classics
no no no more of that

I ate my first meal this morning
it woke me up
I had been sleeping for days
carried away under the canopy shade
I grabbed my sunglasses and my felt hat
and rose seven stories
and i rolled my cufflinks back

the downtown boys have gone
the streets are quiet at night
no more yelling in the parking garages
or revving up old classics
no no no more of that
Track Name: For So Long Now
For So Long Now
for so long now I've been eating from your mouth that my insides are sore and stuffed
for so long now god i know I don't know
I listen i leave, I break like the twigs on a tree
I know but I don't know
you make me so sure like nothing matters
you make me so sure

we're dwarfs, tables crush us under this blanket in the storm
it's warm and the tin roof above us fills with summer hail
the jungle all covered in ice our words are there too
they dangle above us, like dusty chandeliers in a colonial house
there must not be too many hours left here for us now

midnight arrives and we remember the day we met

riding the steamer away from port
passing mines and bear back workers on the shore
every night we return to walk the black tunnel
and pick diamonds from the wall
sabotage and since then every moment with you i claw
this world has been a dream
like gently running fingernails along our front porch screen
what have we done but live here naturally
our fortunes are made
tomorrow we carry them home
across that great blue body with fingers tied
in knots and bows and little monsters in our throats
we take them home
for so long now
I know I don't know