For the Captain

[Verse 1]
Relax, no song is written
It is nothing you thought of yourself
It's just a ghost, came unbidden
To this house

[Chorus]
This infection gets stronger every year
This seed in the water of your tear
There's no escaping it

[Verse 2]
This seed in the water of your tear
The way an unborn baby's ear
Unfolds in your belly

[Chorus]
This infection gets stronger every year
This direction of a tear rolling down your cheek
And there is no escaping it

[Bridge]
There is no escaping
The thing that is making
It is home in your radio

[Verse 3]
Bless this tiny alley
We have fallen from tall buildings
We have fallen, bless the birth of him
The chapel he was killed in

All your tiny flowers
They have sat under the sidewalk
They have waited for the pieces
Of the summer sun to show us

All that is your beauty
All and all that is your treasure
I could smell your skin beside me
Say I hope I'm here forever

For the captain with your lovers
With your list of sacred pillows
With your sacred list of children
And the wall where you drew windows

Overlooking tiny gardens
Cut in half by jagged mountains
And the secret, sacred sharing
That went on beside the fountain

Where the water waits forever
For a tiny, tiny treasure
That will rise up and recover
That will leave this tiny alley

When you meet me in the garden
With your wings all dipped in cedar
All those spirits brushing past me
Brushing past me in the ether

Say all this is window dressing
All you are is tiny curtains
They will flame up, they will flame up
You would not know that you are burning
Burning
Burning
Burning