Fourteen

Lyrics

Friday evening Streaming TV Almost drift off I shut the screen And try to sleep before your shift starts You said it's peaceful As you're breathing in your wristwatch We're finding meaning for all these rituals Their tick-tock (tick... tock) Our own religious rites and texts Sacred moments we've perfected Give direction Make a connection between This life and those mysteries That dare deny our death I float into snowdrifts Find it as if by precognition Every ghost turned frozen When the blizzard hit Like a mystic by some visit shown a vision Thrown on A pilgrimage And went there At home You inside the kitchen sitting Into midnight Mid-December With its sensors smoking And the streetlights Incense embers And each center glowing golden Woven in the filaments of silver Winter spilling from the firmament Beholden to my mission as I go Out to the store for wine Same route every time My path in winter pasture One fracture climbing up the bone And a cold wind blows into Michigan And a new skin slowly grows on the skeleton The slowly sentient Where I go Shuffling slowly And always penitently My mission heaven sent and And my charge old testament to roam With shoulders permanently yoked Inside an endless desert home I know you're sitting alone Where you're sitting alone While your professors lectures Play on that dictaphone cassette The tape his ever present Home Color-coding your notes Your written sacred scripture It's your cuneiform Your hieroglyphs Your Aramaic Home where I'm finally close Where I'm approaching In my old prints ghosting alone And I can see you through the window frame Pulling your hair and getting anxious Climb the steps of your porchlight Reach for the door and open Frozen Thaw out in the warmth Home Cradling wine Let all your worry and your burdens all be mine And be vanquished 'Cause I find Endless meaning in these Sacred rites and routines That have you awake with me each morning In the nighttime Fall asleep (And tick tock) (And tick tock) (And we drift off) (And we drift off) (And we wake up) (And we wake up)