Silver Jews - Blue Arrangements lyrics

I see you gracefully swimming with the country club women In the Greenwood southside society pool I love your amethyst eyes and your protestant thighs You're a shimmering socialite j**el From the Carbon Dioxide Riding Academy To the children's crusade marching through the downtown Well, I think I'd die, see, if you just said hi to me When something breaks it makes a beautiful sound Sometimes I feel like I'm watching the world And the world isn't watching me back But when I see you, I'm in it too The waves come in and the waves go back And the kids in the corner all covered in dirt Caught trespa**ing under the moon My father came in from wherever he'd been And kicked my sh** all over the room All over the room All over the room The room is dark and heavy with what I want to say I see murals in the radio static and on your blue blue jeans What would you say if I asked you to run away? It's been done so many times I hardly know what it means I took these blue arrangements and threw them in the sea When older waves from older caves brought them back to me I took these blue arrangements and stored them on a shelf With coins on the mantle and time in a candle, in the end a boy raises himself