We’re Here to Listen [2002]

Lyrics

We've been talking all day And we've bathed and ate supper And now we pause for breath And we acknowledge certain death And the size and the possibility of living lustily I am standing with my microphone before you all You're looking right at me You could scoot yourself closer And why, why, why did we come here? Someone made posters We called for directions So, so we relax our muscles And I sing the same air as you These words are the air you breathe You are looking right at me And our bodies sit firmly On a ground that's still churning And there's a rumble so deafening And there's a roar from above The squealing of love And there's a crashing in the branches And there's bass drums at dances And there's a hissing on the freeway And a whistling crevasse The quiet hum of the moon We'll all hum like that soon We're here to listen We're here to listen We're here to listen