Screw Up Your Courage - A Weather

I can’t

Begin

To explain

What went

Down, and if

I did, would you

Understand?

Half of

All my eyes

Don’t know how

To wink

Hey, my heart

It’s not a race;

All the same

A good head start helps

-simultaneously-

It would scare

You shitless, unless

You’re dead;

Already put down

Like a horse with a broken leg/

Scarecrow waits

For crows to scare

My friend paces

Twists his hair tips

So my hands

Will be red again

(i'm caught canary in a mine)

And oh, your legs

Will mend again

(i'll charge the gate and gleam)

Oh

Be

Firm, and

Ask me again

-simultaneously-

I hope someone

Will unpack this crate

Will unwrap this cape cos it’s

Choking me/

I hope someone will

Pack it up

Wrap me up

In holy cloth

And store me in

Pyramids

You could bring

Me juice, or

Saltines when

I’m under

The weather, and

Over you

All our songs

In unison

(here's where you bled, and here’s where i did)

Get your courage

To sick in place

(fight off the doubt that sings like silence)

-simultaneously-

Oh

Be

Firm, and/

Oh

Just

Speak

Up, and

Ask me again