Alejandro Escovedo

Dear Head on the wall

Look until you're too simple

And the softness of knowing hurts

And the softness of knowing hurts



Dear Head on the wall

Afraid to mention the deaths

That I can't stuff into my mouth

That I can't stuff into my mouth

All the longing that is

A pity pretty pin

A pity pretty pin

And the sadness will come

When there is no one



Dear Head on the wall

Forget what we already know

Hang a picture of your heart

Bandaged in surgeon's bowl

Opened up to it all

A pity pretty pin

A pity pretty pin

The interview where you spoke
To the bleach in the stone
You should have brought some tea
Outside where the light
Coats us in marzipan
In pools of breast milk
I had to bury my daughter today
And I can't think about it too much
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe

I am down to the beach
Smoke condensed from telling stories
Strolling through the neighborhood
Clanking steel and discolored
Because you made a truce of rubber
Because you made a truce of rubber
Because you made a truce of rubber
Because you made a truce of rubber
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe

Abiding in the unborn is symmetry
And that one is always the refugee
Abiding in the unborn is symmetry
And that one is always the refugee
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe

I believe all that you've written
I believe all that you know
Has somehow been mistaken
For the truth inside this show
We weren't looking for love
We weren't looking for love

Two strangers make a fire
Wrap themselves in heat
And feed off their desire
As they watch the desert sleep
They weren't looking for love
They weren't looking for love
One true love
One true love
One true love

They say the party's over
The sacrifice complete
I'm feeling so much older
Since we drank up all the heat
We weren't looking for love
We weren't looking for love
One true love
One true love
One true love
One true love

I'd climb a ladder just to see you
I have no eyes but I can feel
Two snakes entwine so I can be you
This ladder climbs from me to you

La Bufadora will explode soon
In liquid splendor sculptured trees
Amongst the oaks the shapes are shifting
A shift to meld you into me

Let's sleep away the pain we suffer
The medicine is in our dreams
Fly away like Caracaras
This ladder climbs from me to you

If you could see you
The way that I see you
The way I perceive you
No, I never came to deceive you
Or sit high above you
Or lock doors behind you
But only to love you
Inside the refrain

But I just might break this time

Mothers and fathers
They don't have all the answers
Can't see past the chain link
They laid on the line
So break another picture
Yeah, or better yet sit there
Inside the stillness
Yeah, this time

But I just might break this time
Yeah this time

Whoever told you
There'd be no danger
Nothing to fear here
Yeah in this house of pain
So speak to me softly
Yeah and tell me you love me
And we'll join together
Inside the refrain

But I just might break this time
Yeah I just might break this time
I just might break this time
Oh this time
Yeah this time
This time

As your last breath hung forever
Were you dancin' behind the beat?
Hold her close now
Don't let her go now
Take her with you where you sleep
Whisper tell her
What it feels like
To be empty, to be free
Where you sleep now
Where you sleep now
Where you sleep

There's no reason
To deny her
All the promises we have made
So take her with you
For she loves you
And her life is hidden in the wait
Where she sleeps now
Where she sleeps now
Where she sleeps

I died a little today

I put up a fight

A carved a simple hello

You can hold to the light

So no one will know

We died a little today



Gonna learn how to give

Not to simply get by

Or to barely hang on

For the sake of goodbye

Baby maybe you'll know

We died a little today

We died a little today

We died a little



It's a strange way we live

To have been her before

And leave nothing behind

As we move towards the door

No, there's no one to blame

We died a little today

We died a little today

We died a little

Here she comes
All she sees she keeps
No one gonna take it away
Her eyes are young and old
The kind that ancients sold
To celebrate a victory
The trail she leaves
Is dark, doubt and dread
And all the mouths she's ever fed
Round, round, round like the world she turns
It's a playback stuck inside your head

Yeah, I see you for the first time
And baby I just wanna leave
Yeah, I know you it's the last time
I'm all messed up
I got nothing to take your place

There's a past she keeps
In a depression jar
She opens like a secret cave
Who she was before
And what her life's become
Is built upon the love she craves
I'm going down down down
There's nothing here
And baby you can't
Hold me up
I'm going down down down
Even deeper still
'Cause this world has gotten so fucked up

Yeah, I see you for the first time
And baby I just wanna leave
Yeah, I know you it's the last time
I'm all messed up
I got nothing to take your place
Yeah take your place

Yeah, I see you for the first time
And baby I just wanna leave
Yeah, I know you it's the last time
I'm all messed up
I got nothing to take your place
Yeah take your place
Yeah take your place
Yeah take your place

Have another drink on me
I've been empty since Arizona
I turned my back on me
And I faced the face of who I thought I was

One kiss just led to another
One kiss just fades into love

Blow another smoke ring for me
I've been straight so straight since Arizona
You say I've lost my way
But it's all a dream
Since Arizona

One kiss just led to another
One kiss just fades into lover
Arizona

Have another drink on me
I've been empty since Arizona
I turned my back on me
And I faced the face of who I thought I was

One kiss just led to another
One kiss just fades into love

In Arizona
In Arizona
In Arizona