Van Stanley

Van Stanley - Like Feathers


LYRICS:

Sorry, dear, to disappoint you, dear, if I’m
brought alive by the same sun-light that touches yr nose
on the tip when it hits yr wrist like the
pinnacle of a pure thing — c’mon let’s
get off our asses & roll in the grass like two
hot dogs gone to leather in a case at the corner store.
What to do, now? You’ll start anew, now & then
we’ll make like a hair & we’ll split, again.
Just another one thing that’s stuck in yr head.

Calm me, dear. There’s a comet, dear, somewhere
dippin’ a handful of glimmering sand into the river of
deep space. Ain’t most people & places so…
just-so? Oh, & tiny, too — altogether a
field of tongues where we’ll go running &
fall among all the wet tickles — hey, is this love?
What to do, now? You’ll start anew, now & then.
Ain’t it one thing about life: it starts even as soon as you go to bed?
Ain’t it just another one thing stuck in yr head?

How would you start anew? How would you start anew?
I would only have you clothed in glitters.
How would you start anew? How would you start anew?
I would only have you open a door.
Oh, rattle-rattling like some change of mind.

I’ve got a fickle little face & a feather on my shoulder, it’s true.
I’ve got it complicated, every thing’s fleeting — you pick the thing that means something to you.
I’ve got a gut feeling that yr heart’s not meant to mend.
I’ve got a gut feeling that a heart’s not meant to do anything.
Lord knows where to go, go from here…

but surely it’s the pain of love that we are after?
Yeah, surely it’s the pain after all, the pain after all.