let me through
paper and fist
jessica numbers tell me if
we're clear
write me a storm
just tape the letter to the door
this thing is your mission
the lone wish and condition
brave another road
jessica numbers to the wall
slip through
ever the thief
is posed to hero but we'll see
this thing is your mission
the lone wish and condition
push me through
counting the lies
measuring all our shadows by
old star
shift into red
just stick the numbers to the bed
hairchipping up
the sadness as it passes
as word across
the window frosting out
starting to feel the kicking here at last yeah
something worth keeping around
let me through
paper and fist
jessica numbers give me this
let's fall
look where we land
just write the answer on my hand
this thing is your mission
the lone wish and condition
jessica numbers how we do
jessica numbers how we do
jessica numbers how we do
First with your hands, then with your mouth
A downpour of sweat, damp cotton clouds
I was a fool, you were my friend
We made it happen
You took off your clothes, left on the light
You stood there so brave
You used to be shy
Each feature improved, each movement refined and eyes like a showroom
Now they're spreading out the blankets on the beach
That weatherman's a liar
He said it'd be raining
but it's clear and blue as far as I can see
Left by the lamp, right next to the bed
on a cartoon cat pad she scratched with a pen
"Everything is as it's always been
This never happened
Don't take it too bad it's nothing you did
Just once something dies you can't make it live
You're a beautiful boy
You're a sweet little kid
but I am a woman"
So I laid back down wrapped myself up in a sheet
And I must have looked like a ghost 'cause something frightened me
and since then I've been so good at vanishing
Now I do as I please and I lie through my teeth
Someone might get hurt, but it won't be me
I should probably feel cheap but I just feel free
and a little bit empty
No it isn't so hard to get close to me
There'll be no arguments
We will always agree
And I'll try and be kind when I ask you to leave
We'll both take it easy
But if you stay too long inside my memory
I will trap you in a song tied to a melody
and I'll keep you there so you can't bother me
We must talk in every telephone, get eaten off the web
We must rip out all the epilogues from the books that we have read
Into the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare
We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
Into the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing
And it'll go like this, all right:
While my mother waters plants my father loads his gun
He says, "Death will give us back to God,
Just like the setting sun
Is returned to the lonesome ocean"
And then they splashed into the deep blue sea
Oh, it was a wonderful splash
We must blend into the choir, sing ecstatic with the whole
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
Into this endless race for property and privilege to be won
We must run, we must run, we must run
We must hang up in the belfry where the bats and moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
Into the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge
And then we'll get down there,
Way down to the very bottom of everything
And then we'll see it, oh, we'll see it!, we'll see it!, we’ll see it!
Oh, my morning's coming back,
The whole world’s waking up
All the city busses swimming past,
I'm happy just because
I found out I am really no one