Blue Arrangements - Silver Jews

I see you gracefully swimming with the country club women

In the Greenwood southside society pool

I love your amethyst eyes and your Protestant thighs

You’re a shimmering socialite jewel

From the Carbon Dioxide Riding Academy

To the children’s crusade marching through the downtown

Well, I think I’d die, see, if you just said hi to me

When something breaks, it makes a beautiful sound

Sometimes I feel like I’m watching the world

And the world isn’t watching me back

But when I see you, I’m in it too

The waves come in and the waves go back

And the kids in the corner all covered in dirt

Caught trespassing under the moon

My father came in from wherever he’d been

And kicked my shit all over the room

All over the room

All over the room

The room is dark and heavy with what I want to say

I see murals in the radio static and on your blue blue jeans

What would you say if I asked you to run away?

It’s been done so many times, I hardly know what it means

I took these blue arrangements and threw them in the sea

When older waves from older caves brought them back to me

I took these blue arrangements and stored them on a shelf

With coins on the mantle and time in a candle, in the end a boy raises himself