Death is real, someone's there and then they're not
And it's not for singing about; it's not for making into art
When real death enters the house, all poetry is dumb
When I walk into the room where you were
And look into the emptiness instead
All fails
My knees fail
My brain fails
Words fail
Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw, I go downstairs and outside and you
still get mail
A week after you died, a package with your name on it came
And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret,
and collapsed there on the front steps I wailed
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now
You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would
not include you, though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down,
being swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and real
It's dumb, and I don't want to learn anything from this
I love you
Mount Eerie Songs Lyrics and Chords
- Belief Pt. 2
- Pink Light
- Widows
- Real Lost Wisdom
- Love Without Possession
- Enduring the Waves
- When I Walk out of the Museum
- Belief
- Crow, Pt. 2
- Two Paintings by Nikolai Astrup
- Earth
- Now Only
- Distortion
- Tintin in Tibet
- Crow
- Soria Moria
- Toothbrush / Trash
- Emptiness, Pt. 2
- When I Take out the Garbage at Night
- My Chasm
- Swims
- Forest Fire
- Ravens
- Seaweed
- Real Death