Kevin Devine Album

One, two, three, four, one

I could be with anyone
Just while the honeymoon burns bright
No electricity that keeps things light
I'm not saying that it's right
I'm not saying that it's always right
I'm just saying that it's not a lie.

'Cause I can talk to anyone
Care just enough about our wounded pride
A ballerina dreams a lead foot life
A sugar daddy and his clueless wife
And I know that it's not right
I just don't always know how or why

So I can stick to anyone
At least for a little while
A caffeinated stream of cartoon smiles
And conversations sharp and deep
A tempting sample of who I could be
Without the broken glasses waiting underneath

So I'd walk soft if I were you
You could cut up your feet
For now it's just what I am
But it's not what I'll be, oh hopefully.

See I'm in love with everyone
Every sweetheart on the scene
Each set of cheekbones that'll flare past me
I'm not saying that it's right
And I'm not saying it's a life
I'm just saying it's where I'm at tonight.

And I could be with anyone...

I feel the fog float on, and my heart wants what it wants
But my heart wants blood, so I bare my fangs and I hunt
I see a girl at the corner with a ring through her lip
And a purposeful dare in her eyes
So I zone you out, stalk over, and say hi

I'm on the tree-lined road that encircles Berlin zoo
I got my wolf hat on and I'm howling about you
So I'm steak to a tiger & grain to a gull
And scraps to the one that I love
And when they all want more I will never enough

At the sideshow tent the weather's wonderful today
Above the water tank, I taunt couples on first dates
Well I hung on the boardwalk and I hoped for your face
And I wince as the platform's released
I come up for air and you're waiting in line for me

All that music in your mouth
Rivers rushing to your teeth
Surging streams through wading valleys
Flooded language tributaries
Connect and cover over me
Tensing jaw & cork screw eyelids
As if you couldn't bare to see
All that water roaring from you
Collecting clouds inside the ballroom
Over people who don't know you
But darling i do

You trance yourself back towards the city
Blood not moving to your feet
Automatic listless shuffle
Your foot falls tentative and muffled
Your sidewalk scatter brain, cry uncle
You settle back into your corner
And look for her on your tv
It's friday night and i am hungry
For a hand, a mouth, a body
A love i wouldn't have to carry

Some stitch in my mouth
And i'm untying now
A concrete canal
In a bomb border town
An echo in the rafters
Reminding you there was a sound
But you killed her in waves
She stayed a steam to hiss at you now

Cause he killed her in waves
But that's not today
So you breathe through your mouth
You calm yourself down
And hold what you found
So sweet and profound

She can hover and hurt or dissolve to dirt
Some prayer in you mouth
Or she might stay a steam
Soak into the beams
Let you figure her out

Now you're in the mirror.
Sketched over me
My curve of my smile
And the cut of my teeth
Gave me a mouth back.
With heat in my blood.
Courage to carry it
I hope you gave me enough.
I learned from my mother
Her heart is shattered but wide
After all that shes been through
She keeps yourself open
To peace in your life
She gave me her guts
And the red in my hair
The song spilling off my tongue
Leaving me everywhere
A framed family portrait
Kids crouched in front
They laugh loose and easy.
Faces open with love
That's what we got now
That's what's keeping us young
Fighting off gravity
Before it takes everyone