The Nepotist

When I worry, I never worry for you
You might think it's because I think you're strong
You think that if you want you will be wrong
I don't worry because I don't care, it's true

Dear I hope your hearing goes
and I hope your hair falls out
Love I hope your marriage fails
'cause that will give me something to laugh about

When I woke up, I didn't wonder what for
I will leave the building while you sleep
wonder if the wound is getting deep
It is dark still when I'm out your door

Dear I hope your hearing goes
and I hope your hair falls out
Love I hope you drink too much
'cause that will give me something to laugh about

In the morning, in the evening, all night
I hope the phone continues not to ring
As long as we're not speaking I can sing
La la, you're wrong, I'm right
La la, you're wrong, I'm right
La la la la la la

Meet me in back of a battle
Meet me in a heavy rain
Put me on my back and straddle
Feel no pain, feel no

I live just left of the middle
over a motorway
Though the rooms are few and little
You can stay, you can

Look me up, look me down
Look me over and over
'til your worries all drown
Stay the night
Stay the year
Stay over and over
'til the river runs clear

Meet me in an empty city
Meet me on a subway train
Meet me when you're pure and pretty
Feel no pain, feel no

I sleep eight hours each evening
because I am Serious Man
May I stay awake for weeks with you?
Because I can, 'cause I

Look me up, look me down
Look me over and over
'til your worries all drown
Stay the night
Stay the year
Stay over and over
'til the river runs clear

Like the first rays of the rising sun
Like the bit of God in everyone
My love is just for you

Like the music on the radio
Like a rerun of a TV show
Our love is original and new

I'm gonna love you til the sun comes up
Until the sun comes up
And when the sun
comes up I will be lost
and I'll be lost until I love someone

Like my favorite year of middle school
Like a goldfish in a swimming pool
Our love is gonna last

From my history of running out
to the problems we don't know about
yes our love is gonna last

I'm gonna love you til the sun comes up
Until the sun comes up
And when the sun
comes up I will be lost
and I'll be lost until I love someone

In the pages of a magazine
In a celebrated move scene
Our love is gonna last

From my history of giving up
to what's about to be an empty cup
my heart beats a little fast

I'm gonna love you til the sun comes up
Until the sun comes up
And when the sun
comes up I will be lost
and I'll be lost until I love someone

You think you know the place
Surprise, six months, lies, your fists, my face
Just when you hold something
Oh no, look there goes, love is setting in

I will tell you that I love you
Maybe most days I don't
I'll love you forever
unless I won't

Tied up and tongue tied
for no one, for no one, for you
Speechless and wide-eyed
for no one, for no one, for you

I will tell you that I love you
Maybe most days I don't
I'll love you forever
unless I won't

Tell me how does a good man do what he does?
And why, when nothing is serious, this was?

I will tell you that I love you
Maybe most days I don't
I'll love you forever
unless I won't

Some love is holy, some love is hot
More often than not my love is a show

All love is risky, yeah, risky and rough
I have risked enough, been high, been low

Why you gonna act like you don't know when you do?
I will leave you early one morning
This is your warning

The words are old ones. I speak to you
more tested than true, in secondhand sounds

Some words just roll well, right off the tongue
It's hang or be hung for hanging around

Why you gonna act like you don't know when you do?
I will leave you early one morning
This is your warning

one sheet of glass to the river
guess who got a window seat?
nobody swims in the river
everybody's saving heat

strange birds sit still
right on the power line
they make no sound
just an arrival sign

and mornings are mostly for breakfast
and I brought nothing to eat
I do not buy any breakfast, hey
I bought a window seat

strange birds sit still
right on the power line
they make no sound
just an arrival sign

I remember what you said to me:
"the water is drawn from wells."
though I don't see what you, sir, must see
this morning I hear you well

strange birds sit still
right on the power line
they make no sound
just an arrival sign

"Who wants to go to sleep?
who wants to go to rome?"
That's really all he says, so
maybe somebody take him home?

And we sleepers, in shifts get…
we sleep with anyone we can
That's not what he said but
that is what I understand

Nobody's holding me yet, please get
your hands back to where they came from
We are just speakers and this just a room
There are millions of us, I've seen some

Who wants to read ahead?
All of the good stuff's at the end
That's not what he said but
that is what I understand

Listen, she's singing sharai sharai
listen, she's living in the walls
There are no words to know her by
but you will know her when she calls
Soon, I would love to believe
If not soon, though, somewhen
Waiting again we will walk until then
left foot right, left foot right

Somebody set the weights
He tore a book in two
We only speak in shapes
and somebody's shaped like you

I carry so many weights in my head
you can move we with levers and string
Waiting to move me with words won't move much
I can read into everything

Listen, she's singing sharai sharai
listen, she's living in the walls
There are no words to know her by
but you will know her when she calls
Soon, I would love to believe
If not soon, though, somewhen
Waiting again we will walk until then
left foot right, left foot right

With wings on our backs
we wouldn't have to wear such silly clothes
we wouldn't have to walk everywhere we go

Every time an angel sings, I look up
Everything she looks like looks so
left, the left eye left of the nose

Write for me
I like names and sentences
And if we take apart
take me one by one
one by one
one by one
one by one

The kind of tired that you get
long long run
by the time the point had hit home
there wasn't so much home to hit

I would get like that I think if I
I hit home
even if there's just one thing to know
we'll see it if we take a little bit

Write for me
I like names and sentences
And if we take apart,
take me one by one
one by one
one by one
one by one
one by one
one by one
one by one
one by one

like a lightbulb
off and on
I do one thing well

I took the money
money's gone
we met at a friend's hotel

we stay all night
we stay all night when we can

she has to happen
I have to be
that was the work to be done

we opened the curtains
drew the blinds
we worked for everyone

we stay all night
we stay all night
we stay all night when we can
we stay all night

we came for the weekend and
just for the weekend and
then the weekend was gone
that word is the same
in every language
that word goes on and on

I wrote a letter
full of untranslatable things
I sent nothing, not today
today some memory sings

in color and seasons
the letter "I"
rules of grammar and games

a couple of lessons
mostly wrong
a couple of numbers and names

we stay all night
we stay all night
we stay all night
we stay all night

we came for the weekend and
just for the weekend and
then the weekend was gone
that word is the same
in every language
that word goes on and on