Marfa Lights

We stood out in the field all night
 But we never saw the Marfa lights
 Stared up at the stars all night
 We couldn't see the Marfa lights.
 Bath salts under basalt pillars
 In the darkness outside town
 Where the feed store was half fallen down
 Red paint flaked off, red leaves gone brown
 And the sap had all been boiled down.
 Feed the paw
 Eat the garlic raw
 Defend the truth of what you saw
 Stay above the law.
 We stood out in the field all night
 But we never saw the Marfa lights.
 Stared up at the stars all night
 But we couldn't see the Marfa lights.
 We're gonna have to sit through our lives twice
 First a tragedy, then a heist
 First a comedy and then a farce
 First the film and then the theatre arts.
 A rat ate my t-shirt while I slept
 That's fine, I got too many black t-shirts
 A white rat can have one
 And play like he's Chaplin for his rat friends.
 To the girl in short skirt
 Black tights and the Converse
 Toes turned in, hugging herself with one hand
 A drink in the other, like it's a burden
 Well, everybody's hurting, I know
 Everybody's thwarted, I know
 Everybody's working toward a bigger kind of love
 Everybody's cursing their lot
 Everybody's full to bursting, and gonna pop
 Ready for the breaking & burning
 And certain of a bigger kind of love.