Jack Frost

Every Hour God Sends

[rev. Aug. 27, 2015]

So you fly, then you fall
Why'd you learn to walk, when you can crawl

Every hour god sends some wings
Every hour god sends some stones

You steal, and you scheme
You think therefore you are, and you seem
You seem a little nervous, just relax
Just give them all your innocence, you've got stacks

Every hour god sends some wings
Every hour god sends some stones

Now cool out and don't push
Sooner or later they'll give you an ambush
An ambush unexpected, from the blue
I like a little circus, don't you?

Every hour god sends some wings
Every hour god sends some stones
Every hour god sends some eyes
Every hour god sends some nerves (so you fly)
Every hour god sends (and you fall) some luck (and you're big)
Every hour god sends (and you're small) some love (and you steal)
Every hour god sends (and you scream) some light (and you flatter)
Every hour god sends (and you scream) some prize (and you cut)
Every hour god sends (and you, what?) you home (and you follow)
Every hour god sends (and you change) some hard? (weee'rrreee)
Every hour god sends (g-g-gonna have a jihad) some crack (...?...)
Every hour god sends (and you faint) some hole (and you colour)
Every hour god sends (and you paint) some low (and you...whooo!)
Every hour god sends (pay the price) some price (price, price...)
Every hour...

Birdowner (as seen on t.v.)

[rev. Aug. 27, 2015]

These are weird times
There's this widow in my street
Turns her husbands into birds
They've got claws instead of feet
A cage is in the garden
There's feathers in my phone box
Screeching, squawking, it sounds like talking
Damn noise never stops

Birdowner
Birdowner

See her at the market
She's buying up all the seed
I walk right up and ask her
"Is there anything you need?"
I go "coo coo coo"
What else can I do
I go "coo coo coo coo coo"
What else can I do

Birdowner
Birdowner

I go "coo coo coo"
What else can I do
Every night she brings me in
And I fly around the room
There's a parrot that was a doctor
There's a finch that was a clerk
Two black starlings, former darlings
Changed the milkman just for a lark
The cops arrived at dawn
Things were getting out of hand
It seems she had her eyes on
Every single man
Fumbling with their handcuffs
They wanted her to fry
She was waiting in a garden
Watched them piggies fly

Birdowner
Birdowner

Civil War Lament

[rev. Aug. 27, 2015]

They packed us up in boxes, wooden boxes
And sent us home
Underneath the willow, near the river
By my headstone

And all you do is carry on
And all you do is carry on

It's snowing now it's winter, river's frozen
And still you come
I can almost see you, and touch you
My pretty one

When all you do is carry on
When all you do is carry on

And all you do is carry on
And all you do is carry on

Geneva 4 a.m.

[rev. Aug. 27, 2015]

Air hostesses are dreaming at the bar
I thought I heard somebody say "I wish I was in America"
There's been no surprises here, well, not since the crash
There's been no survivors since the missus was blinded by the flash

I can't see you anywhere
But I look for you everywhere

Arms dealer up in arms at the prices of the drinks
A divorcee keeps telling me that this whole picture stinks
And all the co-pilots who just wanna fly
The architect tips his glass and says "Well, here's mud in your eye"

I can't see you anywhere
But I look for you everywhere

Trapeze Boy

I hadn't thought about Mrs. Morgan for years, until I read in the paper
that she had died. When I was a boy, Mrs. Morgan played solo with my
mother every Tuesday afternoon. There were two other women there, but
I can't remember their names anymore. Monkey, Magda, something like that.

Mrs. Morgan collected opals. Her husband Ted owned a circus, which kept
him away and out of the picture most of the time. I'd come home from
school and the women would be hard at the cards. I liked Mrs. Morgan, she
always had a little chip of opal for me, and said that I should save it
for a sweetheart. I came home one day and Mrs. Morgan was crying in our kitchen.
My mother told me to leave them alone. I learned later that a boy from the
circus had fallen and died. He used to ride the trapeze. Mr. Morgan went out
of business and they moved away. I've still got the opals.

It's funny how someone you've never met manages to stay with you.

Providence

[rev. Apr. 22, 2018]

Remember when I told you
You were pretty lost
It seemed you had it up to here
You just paid the cost

All I have, all I need, all you got is providence

You're looking pretty tired
Seems you lost some weight
You made it through, I don't know how
That's what you can do

All I have, all I need, all you got is providence

The pines smell sweet in the frozen air
And their silhouettes just fading there
The wolves crouch close against the snow
But where we're running I don't know
In villages and soft sad towns
The candles sway as night comes down
Cold boats creak and strange beasts cry
Watching shadows in the sky

All I have, all I need, all I got is providence
All I have, all I need, all I got is providence

Remember when we were lovers
The things we used to do
The way the wind came through the door
The way you pulled me through
It was over before we knew it (all I have, all I need, all I got)
Gone from both our minds
If you get the inclination (all I have, all I need, all I got)
Just think of me sometime

All I have (all I have), all I need (all I need) All you've got (all you've got) is providence
All I have (all I have), all I need (all I need) All you've got (all you've got) is providence

Just providence
Just providence
Just providence
Just providence

Thought That I Was Over You

[rev. Aug. 27, 2015]

Well I saw you at the opening
Somebody's hand was up your dress
You were showing off everything
Except your finesse