Bird Balloons

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