Bird Balloons

I'm a ghost and you all know it.
 I'm singing songs and I ain't slowing.
 It was a fragile thing and I goddamn dropped it
 I picked the pieces up and put them in my pocket.
 And I ain't gonna try to win your heart this time
 I've had space to think and I think that I've grown a little wiser
 I'm looking for a new muse, you have only made me tired.
 Oh oh ohh
 Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my blood
 This is my loss of limb, my loss of love
 Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my blood
 This is my loss of limb, my loss of love
 It was so cold you could see both sets of ribs
 almost escaping your skin
 To fly south, south until the springtime.
 Your hips stood out like confidence,
 you were naked
 as a newborn in the snow
 but you wanted it so.
 That's precisely how you wanted it
 And now your love is writing words on the wall
 with the meat of a nectarine
 That she picked earlier that morning in the orchard
 And you are on the street, a chest of drawers free
 While the skeleton parade marches past you
 Carrying bird balloons
 They fly backwards and forwards
 The streets can be eerie, streets can be dreary
 It's as if leprosy, it landed on the moon
 So how about I play the harp and you play that piano
 pull the curtains shut and nest like little sparrows
 My limbs, my love are lost on you
 My limbs, my love belong to you.
 I remember that night in the woods
 on the human balance beam
 Made of a long wooden board
 with a barrel underneath
 We laid on either end
 and we couldn't quite knack it
 after many attempts
 And minutes of silence
 Until we did
 And our breath caught
 and we looked up
 and the stars, they were so still
 and the stars, they were so still
 And both our hearts, they were revealed
 Our hearts, they were revealed
 And you were my friend
 You were my friend
 You were my friend
 This is my loss of love, my loss of limb
 You were my friend
 This is my loss of love, my loss of limb
 You were my friend
 You were my friend, you friend
 (This is my loss of love, my loss of limb
 You were my friend)
 You were my friend, you were my friend.
 And now
 I'm a ghost and you all know it
 I'm singing songs and I ain't stopping
 My hair grew long so I fucking cut it
 and when you looked away
 I snuck those trimmings in your locket
 Ha ha ha ha ha.