Da Porch. - Lace The Hands

We sang porch songs like we were rock stars We drank cheap beer and tried to make it last Then it was back in the car The coast to the cornfields Maybe we were just looking for something else to call ourselves Rest stop coffee, yeah postcards back home Back seat scenes of strange towns Keep driving on, driving on In the middle of the night, we took a wrong turn Ended up on a mountain in the pine trees and the moonlit earth Oh the scattered light, a photograph in mind Of a summer day, squinting at the sun It's a warm stone, that I carry along You know I, you know that I I've been saving quarters, for the toll roads We can pack the car tonight, we can leave town tomorrow Put me on a porch swing out in Portland Put me on an F train, roll me back into Brooklyn Well we closed the bars, like we were cowboys And then we wrote our names in the dirt by the side of the road And October came and the winter drew near With the cold fingers digging in under the ribs But we were campfire girls and we were kicking up the leaves And we returned to our jobs with our clothes smelling of wood-smoke Oh the scattered light, a photograph in mind Of a summer day, squinting at the sun It's a warm stone, that I carry along You know I, you know that I I've been saving quarters, for the toll roads We can pack the car tonight, we can leave town tomorrow Put me on a porch swing out in Portland Put me on an F train, roll me back into Brooklyn We sang porch songs like we were rock stars We drank cheap beer and tried to make it last

One, two, three, four What the fuck is this world Running to, you didn't Leave a message, at least I Could have heard your voice one last time Daily minefield, this could Be my time by you Would you hit me? Would you hit me? Oh Oh, ow All the bills go by, and Initiatives are taken up By the middle There ain't gonna be any middle any more And the cross I'm bearing home Ain't indicative of my place Left the porch Left the porch, oh, oh Hear my name Take a good look This could be the day Hold my hand Lie beside me I just need to say Hear my name Take a good look This could be the day Hold my hand Walk beside me I just need to say I could not take Uh, just one day I know that I would not ever touch you, Hold you, feel you in my arms ever again Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Mmmh

Follow me down My love, so far far away Let's give it a shot My love, we'll run run away Don't fake it, love 'Cause if you don't than we can make it, love This road was made for me and you Bus for two So please, love Hands in our hands With courage making demands On all of our dreams They run like melting the streets Don't fake it, love 'Cause if you don't than we can make it, love This road was made for me and you Bus for two So please, love La, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Fiendish wonder in a carnival's wake Dull caresses once again irritate Tread softly, stranger Move over toward the danger that you seek You think excitement has receded then the mirror distracts The logic of the trends quickly reaches and grasps Handsome and faceless And weightless, your imagination runs And now it's no one's fault but yours At the foot of the house of cards You thought you'd never get obsessed You thought the wolves would be impressed And you're a sinking stone But you know what it's like to hold the jeweller's hands That procession of pioneers All drowned In the moonlight they're more thrilling Those things that he knows As he leads you through the grinning Bubble blowers in the snow Watching his exit Is like falling off the ferry in the night The inevitable's gather to push you around Any other voice makes such a punishing sound He became laughter's assassin Shortly after he showed you what it was And now it's no one's fault but yours At the foot of the house of cards You thought you'd never get obsessed You thought the wolves would be impressed And you're a sinking stone But you know what it's like to hold the jeweller's hands That procession of pioneers All drowned If you've a lesson to teach me I'm listening, ready to learn There's no one here to police me I'm sinking in until you return If you've a lesson to teach me Don't deviate, don't be afraid Without the last corner piece I can't calibrate Let's get it ingrained If you've a lesson to teach me I'm listening, ready to learn There's no one here to police me I'm sinking in until you return If you've a lesson to teach me Don't deviate, don't be afraid Without the last corner piece, I can't calibrate Let's get it ingrained If you've a lesson to teach me I'm listening, ready to learn There's no one here to police me I'm sinking in until you return (If you've a lesson to teach me) (Don't deviate, don't be afraid) (Without the last corner piece, I can't calibrate) (Let's get it ingrained)

She was delivered by the grace of his hands Kindness, relentless, wired to be shared People stood awkwardly and gazed across the room She walked with such elegance in the places that she knew Flawlessness, contagious, compassionate, engagement In these hands I belong, in these hands you belong Foolish, segregation, scars deep beneath the skin Of the black man and the white man and everyone in between Forever sacred was the feminine, right down to the final hour When every baby to be taken was to be poisoned to be soured Bodies turning in their graves and spirits waiting to go home Disconnected from their holy place When the museum stole their bones Cry freedom, still bleeding, still waiting for a reason Throw these arms around the world Throw these arms around the world Through the eye of a needle we tried to move the stone So heavy from its history of shame and blood and bone Gather the hands to move the stone Gather the hands to move the stone Sing it up to the heavens Let it rain down on us all Gather the hands to move the stone Gather the hands to move the stone Sing it up to the heavens Let it rain down on us all Gather the hands to move the stone Gather the hands to move the stone Sing it up to the heavens Let it rain down on us all Gather the hands to move the stone Gather the hands to move the stone Sing it up to the heavens Let it rain down on us all Gather the hands to move the stone Gather the hands to move the stone Sing it up to the heavens Let it rain down on us all Gather the hands to move the stone Gather the hands to move the stone Sing it up to the heavens Let it rain down on us all Through the eye of a needle We tried to move the stone So heavy from its history Of shame and blood and bone