Chris Bathgate - Creak, Cure, Dawn lyrics

Cane came and he weighed my name against the sun With cold coalescent moon for each deed I've done I've scratched and choked (the dawn) against the wall For each tree and rock and verb I swallowed whole And what you need is a fading phrase to frame your cheek And what you'll see are the sorry sounds and they way they sink So I put my knees on the sidewalk where the swallow sleeps And I learned to sing Yes I learned to sing from the gallows' creak Swing (love) with a common tongue in a mortal star Place bets when you (climb a brain) We'll cut the knots In the dusky dark they come the sun is warm And I scratched and resuscitate Now the day is done And what you heard were the sorry sounds And they way they were meant to walk the hollow cross from craw to dirge And you sold it off Yeah you sold it off for a sin occurred You know it's worth when the sins are cured Press dropped cause you eyelids lie at this height There's a place where the trees all die and let the light Of the sun burn each one into a grim Put its lips where the brick had rot Are quivering' Cause what was gone was the simple shapes your breath had drawn And you stared in awe at the weeks you'd only filled with hum And your lungs they sunk the last plum wisp of a dropping sun And your red light's on Yeah your red light screams like a buzzing dawn Creak, cure, dawn