maybe everything that falls down eventually rises

when i close my eyes all i see are dried up flowers and cold crashing waves
every sound is amplified and leaves echos ringing in my ears in my ears in my ears

you were laughing with me earlier and i wanted to write you a song or a poem or a story about dying our hair in a motel bathroom with shoplifted colors

and about five dollar lipstick

and your 1 am cigarettes

and drunken kisses that are sweeter than the purest hit, the purest hit, the purest...

but you aren't here now, and i'm trying to recall the way your eyes look in the murky morning light

and the way you cut your own hair with the kitchen scissors

and the curve of your hips as they shook along to the radio

and words keep bubbling up, but i can't put them in order

battery acid, midnight, corporeal, shimmering, laughter, lonely, longing, looking, star light, star bright, first star i see tonight tonight tonight tonight

wishes for kisses for wishes for something

and i'm trying to make a mixtape just to keep my thoughts in order

but it isn't coming out right because i don't have that song from that movie that i love

the one by Blondie or the Nerves or Flowers Forever forever forever forever

don't leave me hangin' on the telephone

don't leave me hangin' on the telephone