Lady Lamb - Up in the Rafters / Bird Balloons lyrics

I want to love you like
The monster loves a flower
Disarming as a bird flying backwards
And my heart is a pomegranate
And how long have I ached for
Your hands on my stomach?
I want to love you like
The monster loves the flower tenderly
I want to know you like
The clock knows the hour
I want to see you with both my eyes forward
In the fields of rye and up in the rafters
Hungrily
And oh, to know the nape of your neck:
It would be the length of my whole self
To swoon if for to stretch
Beneath a fleshy ground peacefully

Into a blood-red sea in the wax of a whale
Oh, meet me down there, deep down
Where I am dark and pale

This longing I inherit
How it makes me shameful
This armor how I wear it
'till I can no longer
And all the while in your blue so sallow
As bitter as the snake that craftily crallows
On the cracked tongue of the
Quake in the shadows silently

I am a ribcage, I'm a sailor, I'm an arrow
I am a monster with the
Wings of a blind sparrow
And I want to touch you like
The sea touches the soil
I want to hold you like
The milk holds the spoil sing to me
Cling to me

And what of this cacophonous
- these broken strings?
And what of this, the blood red kiss
The beast in the sea?
I'll hush it now and I will sing
It songs to put it to sleep
And leave it there without a care
That it might know a dream

I'm a ghost, and you all know it
I'm singing songs, and I ain't slowing
It was a fragile thing
And I goddamn dropped it
I picked the pieces up and
Put them in my pocket

And I ain't gonna try to
Win your heart this time
I've had space to think
And I think that I've grown a little wiser
I'm looking for a new muse
You have only made me tired

Call your bluff up on the
Telephone and jam-jar my blood
This is my loss of limb, my loss of love
Call your bluff up on the
Telephone and jam-jar my blood
This is my loss of limb, my loss of love

It was so cold you could see both
Sets of ribs almost escaping your skin
To fly south, south until the springtime
Your hips stood out like confidence
You were naked as a newborn in the snow
And you wanted it so
That's precisely how you wanted it

And now your love is writing words on the
Wall with the meat of a nectarine
That she picked earlier that
Morning in the orchard
And you are on the street
A chest of drawers, free
While the skeleton parade marches past you
Carrying bird balloons
They fly backwards and forwards
The streets can be eerie
Streets can be dreary

It's as if leprosy, it landed on the moon
And it cast a filthy glow in
The world and in my room
It's as if leprosy, it landed on the moon
And it cast a filthy glow in
The world and in my room
It's as if leprosy, it landed on the moon
And it cast a filthy glow in
The world and in my room
It's as if leprosy, it landed on the moon
And it cast a filthy glow in
The world and in my room

So how about I play the harp
And you play that piano
Pull the curtains shut and
Nest like little sparrows
My limbs, my love, are lost on you
My limbs, my love, belong to you

I remember that night in the woods
On the hidden balance beam
Made of a long wooden board
With a barrel underneath
We laid on either end
And we couldn't quite knack it
After many attempts and many
Minutes of silence until we did
And our breath caught, and we looked up
And the stars, they were so still
And the stars, they were so still
Both our hearts, they were revealed
Our hearts, they were revealed
And you were my friend

You were my friend you were my friend
This is my loss of love, my loss of limb
You were my friend
This is my loss of love, my loss of limb
You were my friend you were my friend
This is my loss of love, my loss of limb
You were my friend you were my friend
But now

I'm a ghost, and you all know it
I'm singing songs, and I ain't stopping
My hair grew long, so I fucking cut it
And when you looked away
I snuck those trimmings in your locket
Ha ha ha ha ha