Tall Heights - Rafters Lyrics
Ceiling tiles are falling downSelling secrets between nowAnd defeated pasts on last defenseThe walls can’t keep the warm in hereThis busted house of cans of beerAluminum, some plaster and some fearThere are her bones, there are the fossilsThere near the sewer pipeThere, between floors, between warsThere on a two-by-fourHarmonic notes still humming from her lyreJust set my little soul on fireIn the shape of my latest sinIn the wake of soon moving onThough this house is crumbling downShe’s whispering her last words nowDid he love her there on the floor?When he pressed his mark in that knotted board, pressed an oath in that knotted boardJust two names, one shape, tangled minor chordsA heart around their sweet accord, wrapped around their love and storedThe first day, got away, then so many moreA decade past, and then a scoreNow winter falls, decay and dark creating art showing the world just where you really areOh sweet LouiseSince eighty-threeWhile paneling and pyramids fall downOh, sweet LouiseNow I believeIn rafters in this beat-up, blue-neck town,In turning tides, in me,In hidden vows.There are her bones, there are the fossilsThere near the sewer pipeThere are her bones, there are the fossilsUnfinished song I completeThere on his throne, here in their castleMy Pygmalion ivoryHere on my own, like this homeThe landlord collects his feeI’m growing old, I'm so alone,These ceiling tiles are falling downI’m seeing what I’ve got to seeOh sweet LouiseSince ‘83While paneling and pyramids fall downOh, sweet LouiseNow I believeIn rafters in a rugged Worcester townIn turning tides, in me,In hidden vows.
