"Hands In The Estuary,
Torso In The Lake" CD / LP



Info :
Released in 2001
Lookout! Records #LK269
Available

"Probably Will" only available on the vinyl version.
Hidden untitled instrumental only available on the CD version.

"Hell ain't half-full"
(Etching on the A-Side of the vinyl)

"Take me with you"
(Etching on the B-Side of the vinyl)

The Valentine

Another long and lonesome day
Another set of eight the hard way
Hang it up on a hook near the front door
She wants all the bright and shiny things, you know
You can't possibly afford
Well of course
You feel appropriate remorse
For waking up again today
You're getting frantic in your seaside town
If it sounds romantic
It's just the sound of you
On your way crashing down
Of fall into the East river and drown
Like she wants you to
Give it up and walk away

The Chain-Snatcher

Darting eyes scour the crowded train
Racing mind and empty veins
I'd get it all for you
You know it's all for you
Your expression an apostrophe
Your arms and neck a fleur-de-lis
Our bodies fit like gears

Hands in the Estuary, Torso in the Lake

They found you
Just as the air is coldest at dawn
It was colder still for all the weeks that you were gone
My arms with marigold
There was one secret that even your sister never knew
Throughout the forty-six day mystery of you
The better part of a bottle of gin
Blue tarp and parts of you within
Banging down the frontage road
Haute Couture had a kingdom
And you were its crown
You're going down in history
Was it your golden smile they'd remember?
Tall bones and bright eyes, no
It was the six weeks' mystery of you
You're going down in history

Most Perfect Day, Ever

Settle into certainly evermore
It was a heart attack at the age of twenty-four
Smiling and blue on the hardwood floor
Locked bedroom door
The last thing that I remember
Was you walking away
You long black hair that set fire to the air
Your empty eyes
Sometimes the weight of the world comes crashing down on you
Just find the place where she's marked in the snow
On the other side of town
Before the sun goes down
Nyack with the sky in flames
Rushing to block out the sun
Everything had come undone
You said that you could save everything
I promise you that you are wrong

The Cipher in the Snow

Push on with no regard
Stone dead of a broken heart
That's where they'll find us
Face-down, face-down
Blood flowers scarlet in white snow
As far as the eye can see
We came to rest on the banks of Coal creek
I guess we won't be joining the others
All your friends and your sisters and brothers
After all, after all
You were fast asleep in a soft warm bed
We were all black and blue and blood red
"If we die out here alone,
I just wanted you to know
It was all still worth it,
And besides,
The rest of the world died on the day that we met"

Williamsburg Bridge Song

I've come back to take what's mine
Don't mess around with the G Train, son
Get yourself on the B-61
Get off at Greenport Avenue
Stand at the spot where I used to sit and wait for you
In Greenport
Delancey all day, rain
You were coming to take me away
To increase your gains
To kill your pains
It's time you knew, my friend
I'll never wait for anyone again
You can't knock down Mickey Brown

The Princess Dress

Pink dress at the bottom of the river
With just a few month left on a gone liver
You got prettier everyday
Until the cold day when you floated away
All dressed up under spinning lights
It's you and all of your friends' night
You'd address the vast distress
With a pink fluffy candy dress
Beautiful river-bottom mess
We danced the night away
The next week they crossed the ridge
Slept underneath your bridge

The Dirty Penny

The Perfect crime, everytime
Penny is that your blood or mine?
We've overstayed the last three days
And it's time we walked away
Passed the promise in its prime
We tried to do the right thing every time
I'm starting over and I'm leaving you behind
Just this one time - wait for me
As I've always waited for you
Alone we got up when we fell
Together we poisoned the well
You said you'd show me what you were made of
And you cut yourself
Turns out you're red inside like everybody else
Some day we'll get it right
Right now we lose a little something every night
Rise, Penny, rise
Wipe your weeping eyes
There's one black pill in a vial around your neck

It's the Same Cold Rain that Falls
on You and Me and Everyone

We're making love and we are doomed
Spring blood in bloom promises ruin
If I would write the songs
And you would right the wrongs
Which one of use would get the world to sing along
Somewhere far away from here
My dear, we're dying on the vine
And the distance falls the hardest of all
Clean as clear water and waiting
Only to collapse again
How long will it be
How long has it been

At the End of All Things Good and Pure

Rolling around on the motel bed
Eyes rolling back in our heads
No I've never had anything like this
I had a lover with small strong hands
The best intentioned, well-laid plans
But I've never met anyone like you
The Diamond ring at dawn
And I woke to find
That the rest of my things were gone
The Diamond ring at dawn
These days you take your hits so big
The things hardly fit into the rig
You swallow the spider
You lost the fly

Probably Will
(originally by Concrete Blonde)

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