No Ghost

The Acorn No Ghost Lyrics
1.Cobbled From Dust

Here it is against my belly
The sum of all your solid parts
I soak you up and let you fuel my follies
The same events were caused long ago

I watch you bite my legs off
I humbly dropped my gloves off to fight, that's sane
You can't understand the clouds above your head
But they stir your heart

Here again, a simple verse
It echoes love on through the wind and wires
Or the ring of the phone
We're destined to get swallowed whole

So I'd rather not stay home tonight
'Cause what we want is here
In the face of the fight
Yeah, what we want is here
In the fact of the fight


2.Restoration

Concentric circles signal dinner time
the tidal waves that skim the surface
we're split along the seams
we've all been gnawing at the bone
and your last breath left us
dangling from your spine,
and that was fine.
Yeah, your last breath left us hanging
on the line wondering why you never lose.

After all, the hair falls from your head
and a heart attack's been sleeping in your bed
but on with the restoration

I'm running on my feet
I never stumble as i'm falling
'cause the vultures love to have you in their claws
but you offered me my preservation

will all this time my fortune be?
and the stunts that brought me to my knees?
'Cause I can't wipe my collar on my own.
I'm split along the seams, my head is coming off.


3.Misplaced

Lyricist:Jeffrey Debutte, Patrick Johnson, Rolf Klausener, Thadius
Malecki, Howard Tsui

You're the late night tussle
You're the rumble in my room
It's the mix of muscle
And the wind on the dunes
That makes me want you

If you wanted a well
Through the break and bramble
I could get caught in it
And make the least of your day
In my own way

Oh, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know
I won't be misplaced
No, I know, I know, I know
I won't be misplaced

But if I leave the land a second too soon
Would you pull apart the dark and leave from the room
I called the wandering stars the wandering June
Later then around the dark I'd settle for moon

There's no serve for prefix
That binds to your name
It gets my tongue tied, twisted
Like a snow fall in May
There's just no way

Oh, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know
I won't be misplaced
No, I know, I know, I know
I won't be misplaced


4.I Made The Law

I made the law
from half the truth
and kept my mouth
from kissing you
I curse you all, I really do
'Cause all I know, I couldn't prove.

went drifting on
from thoughts of you
and making time
for ridicule
it's coming off:
the other shoe
I put my right foot first,
and left the room.

I cut my lip
sipping from the last glass.
I could feel myself
slipping and falling fast
'Cause I never stopped
thinking of you as a monument
and all the time
I could have just been moving in.


5.Crossed Wires

All you wanted was a way
to keep your head above the waves
and keep those bay street wolves at bay
oh, but you will never get to be
one of the unhunted.

and all they want is your good name
but you can't hide republic shame
and you can't graveyard shift the blame
oh, and it is coming like a dark bora
tearing up at the adriatic
I wonder what it's called
when nothings what you get
but you gave everything

so when there's nowhere left to hide
and time it isn't on your side
there is one thing you haven't tried...
oh, and it is coming on the slipstream,
it is coming on the changing tide
if you learn anything
you have to learn to walk the fire
you need to know to play both sides
you've got to try to cross the wires
spark's gonna rain on us.


6.On The Line

I can feel you on the line
two cents short of another dime
simply calling makes two wrongs a right

oh our city has a face
a bright reminder of a time and place
when we dabbled in the games of give and take

but the line seems to fall
with the weight of us all
and I know you won't be holding on too long


7.Bobcat Goldwraith

You could lead me home
on the road that we started on
where I found out, all I needed was you

Lay down on the fire, let the breeze blow
and the cobwebs cauterize

smoke on the water
as the day burns out on the waves
how long can I keep on walking the rails
with your engine running venom in my veins

let the rivers rise
let the old bones carbonize

lay down on the fire, let the breeze blow
and the cobwebs cauterize.


8.No Ghost

I can meet you by the road
where the spraypaint meets the grass
and your thirty second thoughts
melt into your time-lapse photographs

and the day, seems to float again
in the wake of your open arms

the needle skips along the wax
and the sun is solid gold
I sick my canines to the fat
'Cause a heavy vessel floats

and the day, seems to float again
in the wake of your open arms

your body's beached along the bay
I lit a bonfire and drowned it in your name
I split your film into the light
of the never ending day
and the cold collapsed my heart
so I buried it in the canyons of your claim


9.Slippery When Wet

Panda panda climb your tree
there's a life you live in spite of me
and for all the fruit that bore your seed
there's a wet worm waiting by your feet
by your feet, by your feet
there's another apple you don't need

and oh, I cursed the weight of me
the heavy purse drug by your feet
and the dead-straight line that pulled you in
got tangled in our spiral spin
in our spin, in our spin
the tangle that I left you in

and oh, the love I thought we had
a tire-tread that slips when wet
and I convinced myself of my belief
that behind each branch a fallen leaf
fallen leaves, fallen leaves
I count the colours at my feet.


10.Almanac

There's a season in your eyes
and a fever on your breath
you're anchored to the tide
and the rhythm in your chest

I read the rings and count the city lights
you sing a static sonnet on the dial
you could talk a walk, through the mines
or you could spend all your days
just waiting for the night

the stones that skip, the dust that turns to fire
I see it all reflected in your eyes


11.Kindling To Cremation

My ears are ringing
I wasn't sure if you had it in you
it's a flat sky, there's no shadows
I can hear the wrinkles whisper in your dress

Don't hear the ringing, just the wind kissing your ears

'Cause this is how you pass the time away
as the kindling to my cremation

we don't hear the ringing, just the wind kissing our ears
'Cause this is how you pass the time away