Briefly, only

I'm posting the lyrics to one of my new favorite songs, "Weightless Again" by The Handsome Family: (because I want to show you all how much I love you)


"We stopped for coffee in the redwood forest
Giant dripping leaves
spoons of powdered cream

I wanted to kiss you
but I wasn't sure how

Like those indians lost in the rainforest
Forced to drag burning wood wherever they went
They had all forgotten how to start a fire

This is why people OD on pills
And jump from the Golden Gate Bridge
Anything to feel weightless again

Those poor lost indians
when the white man found them
most died of TB, the rest went insane

In our motel room you're drinking Slice and gin
reading Moby Dick on the other bed

Remember the first time we slept together?
You said it felt like when you learned to float

This is why people OD on pills
And jump from the Golden Gate Bridge
Anything to feel weightless again."

I like this one, too:

"The giant of Illinois died from a blister on his toe
After walking all day through the first winter snow
throwing bits of stale bread to the last speckled doves
He never even felt his shoe full of blood

Delerious with pain his bedroom walls began to glow
And he felt himself soaring up through falling snow
And the sky was a woman's arms
The sky was a woman's arms

A boy with a club foot has sat next to him at school
Once upon a summer's day they went wandering through the woods
They spotted a sleeping swan
On the banks of a muddy stream
And they stormed it with rocks until it collapsed in the reeds

They laid out on the green lawn full of chocolate and lemonade
But under the blue bowl the giant was afraid
Because the sky was a woman's arms
The sky was a woman's arms."