Subject: The Handsome Family - Twilight Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:42:41 +0100 From: "Gunnar Hedlund" To: "Hans Settler" @ARTIST: The Handsome Family @ALBUM: Twilight 01. The Snow White Diner 02. Passenger Pigeons 03. A Dark Eye 04. There Is A Sound 05. All The TV:s In Town 06. Gravity 07. Cold, Cold, Cold 08. No One Fell Asleep Alone 09. I Know You Are There 10. Birds You Cannot See 11. The White Dog 12. So Long 13. Peace In The Valley Once Again @SONG: The Snow White Diner I am eating hashbrowns in the Snow White Diner outside cars are honking, flashing lights on the bridge they're pulling a car up from the bottom of the frozen lake a woman drove her Saturn into the black water killed herself and her two kids, strapped in the backseat she'd lost her job and didn't want her kids to be poor the diner is noisy, black coffee and sugar baskets of dinner rolls, outside the crowd is growing waiting by the drawbridge hoping to see the dead womans face in the booth next to me there are two old women eating liver and onions they're laughing too loud and banging the tabletop but then I see that they're deaf I don't know why they're laughing maybe the world's much nicer if you can't hear the cars they make me feel better, like I'm drunk on a plane and have forgotten I'm afraid to fly @SONG: Passenger Pigeons ever since you moved out I've been living in the park I'd rather talk to the wind then an empty apartment and I wish I could forget how a billion birds flew in my hollow dying heart the first time I touched your arm once there were a billion passenger pigeons so many flew by, they darkened the sky but when they were clubbed and shot netted, gassed and burned until there was nothing left but miles of empty nests I can't believe how easily a billion birds can disappear the park is empty now it's so cold out and all the paddle boats are covered up with snow once again it's dark the electric lights snap on but I'm still sitting here drinking frozen beer and throwing potato chips into the white snow drifts just in case a bird decides to fly through here tonight I can't believe how easily a billion birds can disappear ooh, I can't believe how easily a billion birds can disappear @SONG: A Dark Eye in the parking lot where I waited alone a white bird sat sleeping on a broken payphone and there came a black beetle dragging off a green fly underneath a parked car and then out of sight and I felt a dark eye turn its gaze upon me as if the earth, the earth could see a dark eye, a dark eye, a dark eye fell on me in that parking lot where a prairie once grew and through the tall grass the buffalo flew I heard something crying way down below where the sewer lines snake around indian bones in that parking lot cars bake in the sun and somewhere down the road, the pop of a gun I watched a red ant crawl up my shin and I felt so sad until it bit my skin a dark eye, a dark eye, a dark eye fell on me @SONG: There Is A Sound there is a sound like breaking glass when water falls on dying grass there is a sound sung by the sea and plastic bags caught in trees there is a sound old buildings cry right before the morning light the quiet sound that's that's left behind when airplants fall from the sky it sleeps inside fluorescent lights in waiting rooms painted white and late at night when you're asleep it follows you in your dreams @SONG: All The TV:s In Town you can't see the stars above the city skyline but sometimes the air shines like gold under the yellow street lights the psychotics in the park howling up at the sky and the silent airplanes slowly drifting by sometimes it all seems to glow as bright as the light from all the TV:s in town sometimes it all seems to glow as bright as the light from all the TV:s in town but when I wake up scared in those still summer nights when the air hangs like snakes around flashing neon signs it seems like there's nothing along these broken roads but blinking lights on creaking metal poles like a thousand cryig eyes dropping tears in the light from all the TV:s in town tears in the light from all the TV:s in town @SONG: Gravity there's a blind man who hears angels he hears them whispering inside potatoes and from the curling leaves of blooming plants and in the winding tracks of crawling ants he stands outside under the sky listening to the starlight drifting by because gravity is not the only force at work in this world just like gypsy moths and flying bugs circle around a shining bulb the blind man dreams of drifting away into the darkness of outer space and when he walks the city streets he sprinkles the sidewalks with apple-seeds because gravity is not the only force at work in this world @SONG: Cold, Cold, Cold cold, cold, cold as the cold wind blows ... out on highway five there's a field where sometimes at night people disappear that's the only road that takes me home across the open prairie and the drifting snow cold, cold, cold as the cold wind blows ... I was halfway there one frozen dawn when she appered at the side of the road a woman weeping in the frozen snow her mack bair flying across the empty road cold, cold, cold as the cold wind blows .. I pulled to the shoulder and she fell to the snow but when I stepped from my car in the cold wind's blow she drifted away in the swirling cold down through the fields and their frozen rows cold, cold, cold as the cold wind blows ... but I heard her howl, I heard her moan and she called my name in the swirling snow when I turned to run back to my car there was nothing waiting but her frozen arms cold, cold, cold as the cold wind blows ... @SONG: No One Fell Asleep Alone I saw a deer limp across a supermarket parking lot last night as I drove home from work old men sleeping in the dirt abandoned buildings full of smoke children jumping from the roof cars in ditches leaking blood rivers full of drowning bugs but as the sun fell between the leaning buildings and the street a moment came between day and night painted soft in golden light the crooked streets shining gold and no one fell asleep alone no one fell asleep alone ... SONG: I Know You Are There when the rope of death strangles and dark waters roar and foam when fear and trembling hold me and the slimy pit pulls down I know you are there when the pale starlight is fading and sorrow fills my heart when dew drops fall so sweetly on the green, green grass at dawn I know you are there ... when black fish glide ponds of silver where jade water lilies grow when devils dance around me and the flames of madness glow I know you are there when the softly calling blue birds drift through the lazy clouds when white owls circle screaming and gravel fills my mouth I know you are there ... @SONG: Birds You Cannot See there are birds in the darkness who douse electrical fires flaring up in nursing homes and the bedrooms of blind men birds you cannot see there are birds in the darkness who nest in wooden crutches eye patches and bandages, broken spinal columns and pots of withered plants birds you cannot see, filling every tree falling out of closets and perched on the hands of dying men there are birds in the darkness who lead lost dogs off highways steer boats past icebergs save children stuck in wells birds you cannot see there are birds in the darkness seen by those with tumors circling common light bulbs with blue feathered halos and the sound of rain birds you cannot see, filling every tree falling out of closets and perched on the hands of dying men @SONG: The White Dog last night my window opened in the cold winter breeze and from the dark forest a white dog stared in at me he sat in the branches with his glowing yellow eyes and softly he growled in the shaking black pines white dog, white dog tell me where's the door across the lake of fire to the silver shore I fell from my window in the swirling black breeze into the dark forest and the ice-covered leaves down, down through the branches through the white, waving trees down, down I fell into the mouth of the sea white dog, white dog tell me where's the door across the lake of fire to the silver shore @SONG: So Long so long to my dog Snickers who ate Christmas tinsel so long to Mr. Whiskers who jumped out of a window and to the family of gerbils who chewed out of their cage and the little brown rabbit I ran over by mistake so long, so long, I'll see you on the other side so long, so long, I'll see you on the other side so long to the gold fish who ate each other's tails so long to the chipmunk trapped under the stairs so long to the rose-bush I never watered and to whatever was inside that hole that I bricked over so long, so long, I'll see you on the other side so long, so long, I'll see you on the other side so long to the seagull I hit with a rock so long to the squirrel I accidentally shot and to everything I burned with a magnifying lens that long, lonely summer when I was only ten so long, so long, I'll see you on the other side so long, so long, I'll see you on the other side @SONG: Peace In The Valley Once Again when they closed the last shopping mall crickets sang in crumbling walls termites ate through the doors and rabbits hopped along the floors the empty shelves swarmed with bees cash machines sprouted weeds lizards crawled the parking lot swallows flew the empty shops and there was peace in the valley once again plants grew up the mannequins painting them with leafy skin their plastic eyes fell to the floor and were carried off by wild boars all the mirrors cracked in half when wild horses galloped past and mourning doves built their nests on the escalator steps and there was peace in the valley once again and there was peace in the valley once again