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Dialogue 48​​​.​​​2

by Calvin University Dialogue

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The town Civil War statue Over petty crime and merchandise Seems an unlikely hero Like a soldier from a sci-fi serial Redesigned by a team Of caffeinated pacifists Thrown like a lance By racist historians Loved or hated No more Where I come from They carve Confederate generals Into the mountains Are they worried we forgot? My heritage is perpetually holding me Over an open flame Whispering sweet nothings And in my dreams I'm a bird-like hominid But I'm encaged By idolatrous biologists And all I want to do is fly
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Mountain goats and the silver Jews At 2am With a new friend Who feels like an old friend Falling asleep at the wheel I half-dream my memories Euclid Heights Boulevard The night I turned eighteen Too broke to rebel State Road in mid-september Windows down MewithoutYou Pearl Road at the end of a day The death of a season The last bit of descending night Psalm of those who go forth before the daylight 28th Street In the greyscale Ohio morning Last night Is already a foregone conclusion And I'm feeling This might be the last time
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I just want to see your body parts It's okay, it's okay, it's okay We can talk about it later I kept my silence but I hate love I kept my silence but I love hate I kept my silence but I'm lonely And so fucking knowledgeable Where are all your shovels? We buried them in the Grand Haven Pier Under the quarry after the storm Black, all black and white Gentrify me silly Black and white colors of beauty And all the ferns shoot up in radio radioactive activity.
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My chest starts pounding when I see you coming I look away fast when I see your face amongst the crowd It’s been a long time Strong feelings are hard to find in stranger’s eyes I hope that you see What I’m trying to be, and if so that’s fine Whatever you decide I got your hand in mine, all I want is to lock eyes We see a bridge in sight, the colors shift as we walk by Let you be my eyes, cause all I see is outside Do the X-rays look right? My help comes from you, but she blocks my view Push it aside Are you signaling me? Should I move in or should I retreat Cause my heart won’t stop speeding And my mind won’t stop racing When I’m with you Just tell me now, just tell me now Cause coffee is short, long term, will this work out? Are you signaling me? Should I move in or should I retreat Cause my heart won’t stop speeding And my mind won’t stop racing When I’m with you
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The bitter cold that stays inside your bones The wind that blows straight through your soul Lungs are filled with air like ice I can’t see past this unforgiving voice The winter winds wreak havoc on the heart And from the storm you can’t seem to depart We pray that the clouds will start to break To warm all of the frozen things at stake That winter song, it never seems to end It’s just too cold to try to pretend Everything is thrown into the fire To warm ourselves and all of our desire I’m losing all the feeling in my hands I think it’s time to leave this bitter land To live in a place that warms the soul And regain everything lost to the cold Just take me from the cold Into a place of gold To a place of gold Where my trembling hands Can sift through the sand Sifting through the sand
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And when you train a lane-boy Promise me no one was harmed Show me his dark blue mornings Show me his capital relay Juvenile lifers under the hot lights Chased by their fathers' eyes Isn't the burnout a beautiful Glistening And when you save a lane-boy Promise him something you can't Something like chains and vapor I know this time is over Energy that passes under all time Pent-up and alkaline Pocket-fulls of edibles And joyous shrieking Something like chains and vapor
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I know this feeling will fade Every morning I feel silly for what yesterday praised And I know it makes you dissolve So let's not be measured, not be careful at all But now that there's icicles as big as our wrists and The trees in my back woods look like nervous systems And after dinner I lie down in the carpet 'Cause it's 5 in the evening but it's already dark And I hear you say I can see right through you like sunshine in winter trees And if it's okay I will come and rest in you like sunshine in winter trees I know it's hard to explain Can't wait to see what will distract me today I know it gets in your head You think most clearly when you're drowning in dread But now that we're dancing just to keep our own feet warm I wanna tell you driving back in the snowstorm And after dinner I might take a long shower 'Cause it's 6 in the evening, getting darker each hour And I hear you say I can see right through you like sunshine in winter trees And if it's okay I will come and rest in you like sunshine in winter trees

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released May 11, 2016

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Calvin University Dialogue Grand Rapids, Michigan

Dialogue is an arts and writing magazine of Calvin College undergraduate creative work that is submitted, curated, and published by students. This is a catalog of original student music.

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